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The Politics of Food in the Early Twentieth-Century US
Traces how the calorie became America's way to quantify food, police bodies, and moralize behavior From packaged foods, to lifestyle magazines, and public health discussions, calories are deeply woven into the fabric of everyday life. Promoted as a neutral scientific unit of measurement, they have come to measure more than food energy: from food ......
An Unfinished Fight for Self-Determination in the Church
Charts the Black Catholic attempt to gain independence within the larger Catholic Church In 1971, a delegation of Black Catholics traveled to the Vatican seeking a meeting with Pope Paul VI. While they did not meet the pope, they informed Vatican officials of the plight of Black Catholics in the United States. They wished to form their own church ......
An Unfinished Fight for Self-Determination in the Church
Charts the Black Catholic attempt to gain independence within the larger Catholic Church In 1971, a delegation of Black Catholics traveled to the Vatican seeking a meeting with Pope Paul VI. While they did not meet the pope, they informed Vatican officials of the plight of Black Catholics in the United States. They wished to form their own church ......
Abortion, Citizenship, and the Politics of Reproduction
A powerful call to reconceive women's reproductive rights by arguing to move beyond Roe for a new feminist politics of abortion Following the Supreme Court's controversial decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, public debate over one's right to choose has dominated the landscape of American politics. In A Womb of One's Own, Claire McKinney provides sharp, ......
Abortion, Citizenship, and the Politics of Reproduction
A powerful call to reconceive women's reproductive rights by arguing to move beyond Roe for a new feminist politics of abortion Following the Supreme Court's controversial decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, public debate over one's right to choose has dominated the landscape of American politics. In A Womb of One's Own, Claire McKinney provides sharp, ......
The Politics of Food in the Early Twentieth-Century US
Traces how the calorie became America's way to quantify food, police bodies, and moralize behavior From packaged foods, to lifestyle magazines, and public health discussions, calories are deeply woven into the fabric of everyday life. Promoted as a neutral scientific unit of measurement, they have come to measure more than food energy: from food ......
White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US
With a New Preface A renowned expert on genocide argues that there is a real risk of violent atrocities happening in the United States If many people were shocked by Donald Trump's 2016 election, many more were stunned when, months later, white supremacists took to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting "Blood and Soil" and "Jews ......
Holes command attention. They make us giggle, squirm, and wonder. But what do they really mean to us and why are they so often surrounded by surprising discourses of power and control? For millennia, the figure of the hole stood as the cornerstone for idioms and expressions that denote emptiness, lack, absences, and voids. Approaching a hole ......
Holes command attention. They make us giggle, squirm, and wonder. But what do they really mean to us and why are they so often surrounded by surprising discourses of power and control? For millennia, the figure of the hole stood as the cornerstone for idioms and expressions that denote emptiness, lack, absences, and voids. Approaching a hole ......
