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The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace - American Religion In A Decade Of Conflict

by Robert S. Ellwood

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 This narrative interrogates the notion of the fifties as an era of normalcy. Ellwood explores the Catholic-Protestant tensions, the conflict between theology and popular faith, and the underground forms of religiosity, and argues that the decade was actually full of spiritual strife.
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Religion - North American Style

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 This third edition contains a selection of essays from religious studies scholars on a wide range of religious issues. Divided into six sections, each is accompanied by an introduction and suggestions for further reading. Topics include: the rise of new religions; and women in Orthodox Judaism.
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Holy Prayers In A Horse'S Ear - A Japanese American Memoir

by Kathleen Tamagawa

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 Originally published in 1932, Kathleen Tamagawa's pioneering Asian American memoir is a sensitive and thoughtful look at the personal and social complexities of growing up racially mixed during the early twentieth century. This edition also includes Tamagawa's short story, "A Fit in Japan" and a critical introduction.
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For Better Or For Worse - Vietnamese International Marriages In The New Global Economy

by Hung Cam Thai

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 Takes a look at marriage and migration, with a specific focus on the unions between Vietnamese men living in the United States and the women who marry them. This book underscores the ironies and challenges that these unions face. It includes the voices of working-class immigrant men dealing with marginalization in their adopted country.
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Exploring The Little Rivers Of New Jersey

by James S Cawley e Margaret Cawley

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 Offers canoeists and campers a guide to the waterways and historic sites of the Garden State.
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New Jersey Ferns And Fern-Allies

by David E Fairbrothers e James D. Montgomery

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 An essential field guide and reference for naturalists, botanists, hikers, gardeners, and conservationists in New Jersey and the mid-Atlantic states.
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The Narrow Bridge - Jewish Views On Multiculturalism

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 Through a collection of essays by scholars and activists, this text examines multiculturalism within and beyond the Jewish community. It looks at such issues as: what is multiculturalism to Jews? How have tensions between Jews and Blacks developed? How can synagogues reach gays and lesbians?
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Conjuring Science - Scientific Symbols And Cultural Meanings In American Life

by Christopher P Toumey

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 When actors who play doctors on TV endorse certain products, what are the implications for Americans? This book investigates the role of science in American culture, and examines the symbols of scientific authority in such areas as the fluoridation controversies and mad scientist fiction stories.
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Women'S Medicine - A Cross-Cultural Study Of Indigenous Fertility Regulation

by Newman

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 Asks why indigenous methods of fertility control, often of questionable effectiveness, remain in widespread use in underdeveloped and developing countries. The contributors concentrate on the cultural factors that affect women's decisions about their own fertility, especially in societies which offer both folk and modern methods.
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Edwardian Stories Of Divorce

by Janice H. Harris

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 Living under marriage laws far more restrictive than those of their Protestant neighbors, Edwardian women and men campaigned for reform with a barrage of compelling stories. Organizing her analysis around three major sources of narrative on divorce, Harris uncovers a war of words and a competition of tales.
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Nursing Wounds - Nurse Practitioners, Doctors, Women Patients, And The Negotiation Of Meaning

by Sue Fisher

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School Talk - Gender And Adolescent Culture

by Catherine Colleen Evans e Parker Stephen

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Sandino'S Daughters - Testimonies Of Nicaraguan Women In Struggle

by Margaret Randall

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 Sandino's Daughters, Margaret Randall's conversations with Nicaraguan women in their struggle against the dictator Somoza in 1979, brought the lives of a group of extraordinary female revolutionaries to the American and world public. The book remains a landmark. Now, a decade later, Randall returns to interview many of the same women and others.
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What Makes Women Sick - Gender And The Political Economy Of Health

by Lesley Doyal

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Power & Everyday Life - The Lives Of Working Women In Nineteenth-Century Brazil

by Dias

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 Presents a study of the everyday lives of the inhabitants of Sao Paulo in the nineteenth century. Full of vivid detail, the book concentrates on the lives of working women - black, white, Indian, mulatta, free, freed, and slaves, and their struggles to survive.
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The United States Occupation Of Haiti, 1915-1934

by Hans Schmidt

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Medicine And Western Civilization

by Stephanie Kiceluk

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 This fabulous anthology is sure to be a core text for history of medicine and social science classes in colleges across the country. In order to demonstrate how medical research has influenced Western cultural perspectives, the editors have collected original works from 61 different authors around nine major themes.
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American Childhood - Risks And Realities

by Dona Schneider

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 There is a mountain of statistics gathered about our children, but it is often hard to know what the numbers mean. Dona Schneider argues that "sound- bite statistics" on teenage pregnancy or child abuse can mislead us and create bad policy. A closer look at those same statistics can give us a window on tomorrow's public health and social problems.
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Televisuality - Style, Crisis, And Authority In American Television

by John Thornton Caldwell

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 The collision of auteurism and rap was actually rather commonplace by the early 1990s. Series, and even news broadcasts, regularly engineered their narratives around highly coded aesthetic and cultural fragments. Televisuality interrogates the nature of such performances as an historical phenomenon, an aesthetic and industrial practice, and as a socially symbolic act.
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Hives Of Sickness - Public Health And Epidemics In New York City

by David Rosner e Museum Of The City Of New York

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The 1937 Newark Bears - A Baseball Legend

by Ronald A. Mayer

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Future Perfect - American Science Fiction Of The Nineteenth Century: An Anthology

by H. Bruce Franklin

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 This selection of unusual stories challenges the commonly held belief that science fiction is a twentieth century phenomenon, or that it began with Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. Here are tales of marvellous inventions, automata, biological and psychological experiments, utopias, extra-sensory perception and time and space travel.
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"Tell Me A Riddle" - Tillie Olsen

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 Ã¯Â¿Â½Tell Me a RiddleÃ¯Â¿Â½ renders an unforgettable portrait of a working class couple when the gender determined differences in their experiences of poverty and familial life give rise to bitter conflict after almost four decades of marriage. As she dies from cancer, Eva, the protagonist, recollects a revolutionary past that both critiques and offers hope for the present.
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Babies In Bottles

by Susan M. Squier

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 There is a forgotten history to our current debates over reproductive technology - one interweaving literature and science, profoundly gendered, filled with choices and struggles. Babies in Bottles retrieves some of that history by analysing the literary and popular science writings of Julian Huxley, J.B.S. Haldane, Charlotte Haldane, Aldous Huxley, and Naomi Mitchison.
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