Contains interviews with nineteen prominent women analysts and writers. In this book, the author persuades them to speak freely on topics such as feminism, sexuality, love, gender differences, and sometimes their lives as analysts and analysands, political activists, wives, and mothers.
Surveys the history of civil rights in twentieth-century America. This book charts the principal course of civil rights against the dramatic backdrop of two world wars, the Great Depression, the affluent society of the postwar world, the cultural and social agitation of the 1960s, and the emergence of the new conservatism of the 1970s and 1980s.
This book compares contemporary racism in the US and the Netherlands through in-depth interviews with fifty-five black women. As an interdisciplinary analysis of gendered social constructions of racism, it breaks new ground. Essed problematizes and reinterprets many of the meanings and everyday practices that the majority of society has come to take for granted. She addresses crucial but largely neglected dimensions of racism: how it is experienced; how black women recognize its covert manifestations; how they acquire this knowledge; and how they challenge racism in everyday life. To answer these questions, over two thousand experiences of black women are analyzed within a theoretical framework that integrates the disciplines of macro- and micro-sociology, social psychology, discourse analysis, race relations theory and women's studies. The samples include only black women with higher education. Many of their experiences of racism involve the `elite' among the dominant group. The book seriously challenges both the notion of Dutch tolerance and the idea that US racism is a problem of the past. Understanding Everyday Racism is thus urgent reading.
Traces the economic, political and ideological developments that have characterized US/Eastern Europe relations since World War II and provides an examination of the complex evolution of events that led to the end of the Cold War and the emergence of the captive nations of Eastern Europe.
This volume examines how government and administration in America's largest cities have changed between 1960 and 1990. Each chapter traces demographic and economic changes over this vital, and at times turbulent, thirty year period explaining what those changes mean for politics, policies and the general quality of life. Analytic and comparative chapters extract patterns and variations which emerge from the city profiles. Each profile addresses common issues in socio-economic, coalitional, institutional, process, values and policy changes in the following American cities: Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.
Relationships with family and friends, community life, religion, work, racial identity, political attitudes and participation, and physical and mental health are among the topics explored in this volume on Black Americans. It reports the findings from a survey which collected and analyzed data on social, psychological, economic and political behaviours of Americans of African descent. This survey, the first to sample a truly representative cross-section of black people in America, was designed and conducted with a sensitivity to cultural influences never attempted before.
In this widely acclaimed landmark study, Joan Hoff illustrates how women remain second- class citizens under the current legal system and questions whether the continued pursuit of equality based on a one-size-fits-all vision of traditional individual rights is really what will most improve conditions for women in America as they prepare for the ......
Moral Reasoning, Religious Hope, and National Security
Revolutions and aborted revolutions and bitter civil and 'local' wars in the 1980s and since have raised questions about national security, its definition, and its implementation. This title asks the fundamental and perduring questions of pacifism, war, intervention, and political negotiation.
Moral Reasoning, Religious Hope, and National Security
Revolutions and aborted revolutions and bitter civil and 'local' wars in the 1980s and since have raised new questions about national security, its definition, and its implementation. This title asks the fundamental and perduring questions of pacifism, war, intervention, and political negotiation.
