A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times
Faculties is a call to action, a sourcebook, and a "how to" guide for academic colleagues who want to contribute to the administrative and educational decisions being made about the future of our institutions. There is no going back to the version of US higher education that existed twenty, ten, or even one year ago. Cathy N. Davidson and Jody ......
A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times
Faculties is a call to action, a sourcebook, and a "how to" guide for academic colleagues who want to contribute to the administrative and educational decisions being made about the future of our institutions. There is no going back to the version of US higher education that existed twenty, ten, or even one year ago. Cathy N. Davidson and Jody ......
The Back-to-the-Land Movement and the Politics of Localism in Appalachia, 1968-2000
The late 1960s found young, middle-class, white Americans embracing localism to escape federal bureaucracies and an increasingly impersonal society. The "back-to-the-landers" took this one step further by moving to rural areas, including Appalachia, in pursuit of self-reliance, liberation, and community. They championed agrarian decentralization, ......
Katharine Bement Davis and America's First Sexual Revolution
Chronicles the pioneering reformer whose 1920s study of female sexuality ignited America's first sexual revolution Decades before Alfred Kinsey released his famous "Reports" on human sexuality, Katharine Bement Davis conducted a pioneering study of female sexuality. Published in 1929, Factors in the Sex Life of Twenty-Two Hundred Women was ......
Inside the Illinois showdown that derailed the Equal Rights Amendment In this gripping account of one of the most consequential political battles of the twentieth century, Mark R. DePue takes readers inside the fight that halted the Equal Rights Amendment. Drawing upon hundreds of hours of original oral history interviews, DePue reconstructs the ......
Inside the Illinois showdown that derailed the Equal Rights Amendment In this gripping account of one of the most consequential political battles of the twentieth century, Mark R. DePue takes readers inside the fight that halted the Equal Rights Amendment. Drawing upon hundreds of hours of original oral history interviews, DePue reconstructs the ......
Many people around the world feel resistant to their governments' actions yet do not know how to act; protest may feel out of reach, like something only seasoned activists can do. This accessible guide explores the creativity, joy, and accessibility of peaceful protest. Megan Hershey introduces readers to twenty-five specific and inspiring ......
Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea of "the beloved community" focused on the hoped-for new relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed after the success of a nonviolent movement. But the vision excluded, and sometimes still excludes, LGBTQIA people and Black women. The editors curate essays that see beloved community as a generous space that ......
Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea of "the beloved community" focused on the hoped-for new relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed after the success of a nonviolent movement. But the vision excluded, and sometimes still excludes, LGBTQIA people and Black women. The editors curate essays that see beloved community as a generous space that ......
