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Embodying the Problem shows that the dominant narrative regarding teenage pregnancy perpetuates harmful discourses about women and sustains racialized gender ideologies that construct women's bodies as sites of national intervention and control. However, many women who embody the "problem" of teenage pregnancy actively resist this narrative by publishing their own stories.

Analyses the career stage challenges these faculty members must overcome, such as a lack of preparation for teaching, limited access to resources and mentors, and changing expectations for excellence in teaching, research, and service to become academic leaders in their discipline and at these distinctive institutions.

Residential and industrial sprawl changed more than the political landscape of postwar Los Angeles. It expanded the employment and living opportunities for millions of Angelinos into new suburbs. In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills examines the struggle for inclusion into this exclusive world and the impact that movement had on collective racial and class identity.

Unlike standard exhaustive text and reference titles, Essential Facts in Cardiovascular Medicine provides the most critical facts and clinical pearls of cardiovascular medicine, in a high-yield, concise, bulleted format that can fit in your pocket. It is the perfect guide to enhance your cardiovascular knowledge, prepare for examinations, and improve clinical practice.

Medical historian Michelle L. McClellan traces the story of the female alcoholic from the late-nineteenth through the twentieth century. She draws on a range of sources to demonstrate the persistence of the belief that alcohol use is antithetical to an idealized feminine role, particularly one that glorifies motherhood.

Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing to challenge racial, gender, and class discrimination through the courts. Featuring chapters on Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico, the contributors to Demanding Justice and Security include both leading researchers and community activists.

Focuses on the positionality of the Black woman's body, which serves as a springboard for helping us think through political and cultural representations. < em>Shadow Bodies does so by asking: How do discursive practices support and maintain hegemonic understandings of Black womanhood thereby rendering some Black women as shadow bodies, unseen and unremarked upon?

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, when HIV first entered the world's blood supply, more than half of the 17,000 hemophiliacs in the US became infected with the AIDS-causing virus. Eric Weinberg and Donna Shaw provide an insider's look at the legal battle fought over what has been called the worst medically induced epidemic in the history of modern medicine.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Frederick Novy was the leader among a new breed of full-time bacteriologists at American medical schools. Powel H. Kazanjian uses Novy's archived letters, laboratory notebooks, lecture notes, and published works to examine medical research and educational activities during a formative period in modern medical science.

Unpacks some of the complicated issues that comprise performance poetry spaces. Renowned slam poet Javon Johnson argues that the truly radical potential in slam and spoken word communities lies not just in proving literary worth, speaking back to power, or even in altering power structures, but instead in imagining and working towards altogether different social relationships.

The act of eating defines and redefines borders. What constitutes ""American"" in our cuisine has always depended on a liberal crossing of borders. The stories told in Food Across Borders highlight the contiguity between the intimate decisions we make as individuals concerning what we eat and the social and geopolitical processes we enact to secure nourishment, territory, and belonging.

The act of eating defines and redefines borders. What constitutes ""American"" in our cuisine has always depended on a liberal crossing of borders. The stories told in Food Across Borders highlight the contiguity between the intimate decisions we make as individuals concerning what we eat and the social and geopolitical processes we enact to secure nourishment, territory, and belonging.

Examines how Latina/o and Asian American writers provide important counter-narratives to the stories of racial encroachment that have come to characterize twenty-first century dominant discourses on race. Susan Thananopavarn contends that the Asian American and Latina/o presence in the United States is crucial to understanding how national identity has been constructed.

Diet books typically don't just tell readers what to eat: they offer complete philosophies about who we are and how we all should live. Diet and the Disease of Civilization interrupts the predictable debate about eating right to ask a hard question: what if it's not calories - but concepts - that should be counted?

Challenges popular beliefs about the importance of cross-racial interactions as an antidote to racism in the increasingly diverse US. W. Carson Byrd shows that it is the context and framing of such interactions on college campuses that plays an important role in shaping students' beliefs about race and inequality in everyday life for the future political and professional leaders of the nation.

Explores how to live with difference through the prism of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have long confronted the challenge of sharing space with the Other. Rather than exploring Istanbul as one place at one time, the contributors to this volume focus on the city's experience of migration and globalization over the last two centuries.

What unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Who are Americans, and can they strike a balance between an emphasis on divergent ethnic origins and what they have in common? Opening with a survey of American literature through the vantage point of ethnicity, Werner Sollors examines Americans evolving understanding of themselves and the key role writing has played in that process.

Demonstrates that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, this anthology challenges the fascination with Eastern women as passive, abject, or sexually exotic, but also resists focusing on the veil, geisha, or Muslim women's oppression without exploring Eastern women's sexuality beyond these contexts.

Demonstrates that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, this anthology challenges the fascination with Eastern women as passive, abject, or sexually exotic, but also resists focusing on the veil, geisha, or Muslim women's oppression without exploring Eastern women's sexuality beyond these contexts.

Medical anthropologist S.D. Gottlieb explores how the vaccine Gardasil - developed against the most common sexually-transmitted infection, human papillomavirus (HPV) - was marketed primarily as a cervical cancer vaccine. Gardasil quickly became implicated in two pre-existing debates - about adolescent sexuality and paediatric vaccinations more generally.

Focusing on current issues, including the NCAA, Title IX, recruitment of high school athletes, and the Penn State scandal, among others, Sport and the Neoliberal University shows the different ways institutions, individuals, and corporations are interacting with university athletics in ways that are profoundly shaped by neoliberal ideologies.

Presents a set of crucial case studies analysing the differential risk perceptions, socio-environmental impacts, and mobilization of citizen protest (or quiescence) surrounding unconventional energy development and hydraulic fracking. Fractured Communities reveals how this contested terrain is expanding, pushing the issue of fracking into the mainstream of the American political arena.

Takes readers into the everyday worlds of teacher training, and reveals the complexities and dilemmas they confront as they learn how to perform a job that many people assume anybody can do. Using rich qualitative data, Everitt analyzes how people make sense of their prospective jobs as teachers, and how their introduction to this profession is shaped by institutionalized rules and practices.

Starting in 1780, a fugitive slave, known as ""Three-Fingered Jack"", terrorized colonial Jamaica for almost two years. An outlaw, thief, and killer, he was also a freedom fighter. Frances R. Botkin has compiled and analysed the various plays and songs written about Three-Fingered Jack throughout the centuries in order to show how this story travelled from the Caribbean to England and the US.

This book explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. Lee highlights the "logics of transnationalism" that shape the relationships between these return migrants and their employers, co-workers, friends, family, and the South Korean state.

Explores how international migration re-shapes women's senses of themselves. Chien-Juh Gu uses life-history interviews and ethnographic observations to illustrate how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women, who, in turn, negotiate and resist the social and psychological effects of the processes of immigration and settlement.