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African Studies 9
Anthropology 6
Art History 8
Caregiving 1
for twenty years,
Children’s Literature 3
her mother maintained an unwavering goal:
Community Organizing 5
to commit suicide before age seventy.
Cultural Studies 8, 11
Death and Dying 1
Disaster Studies 5
Education 2, 3
Environmental Studies 4
Family Studies 1
“When?”
Gender Studies 5, 7
Gerontology 1
“Do you really want to know?” my mother
Global Health 9
Hispanic Studies 10, 11
would ask slowly. She would look at me with
History 2, 3, 4, 10 compassion. I could sense that some small part
Latin American Studies 10 of her knew that while this decision gave her
Law 4 a sense of ultimate peace, it inflicted upon me
Literature 3, 8, 10 intolerable pain.
Medical Anthropology 9
Nuclear Policy 4 “No,” I said softly. She was correct. “I don’t want
Psychology 1 to know exactly when. It’s before seventy, but not
Public Policy 2 any time soon, right? It’s not for years, right?”
Sociology 5, 7
Southern Studies 6
“No, Tina, not for years.”
Transatlantic Studies 11
My mother’s plan originated with her sense of
Urban Studies 11
the preciousness of life. But she was dragging me,
U.S. History 2, 3, 4
the unwilling participant, into a process about
which she did not want to engage in meaningful
cover illustration: dialogue. For her own reasons, she wanted me
From Fairy Tales, Monsters, to know of her plans but to stand as a detached
and the Genetic Imagination
observer, regarding her preparations as if looking
(see page 8).
through a window, untouched and uninvolved.
Patricia Piccinini.
The Long Awaited, 2008.
Silicone, fiberglass, human hair, This would prove impossible.
leather, plywood, clothing; —an excerpt from the book
59 7/8 x 31 1/2 x 36 1/4 in.
overall.
Collection of Penny Clive,
Australia.
Photo by Graham Baring.
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A tale of two parents’ very different end-of-life journeys

and the daughter who survived them

So Far Away
A Daughter’s Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love
c h r i s t i n e w. h a r t m a n n

C
hristine Hartmann’s mother valued
control above all else, yet one event
appeared beyond her command:
the timing of her own death. Not to be
denied there either, two decades in
advance Irmgard Hartmann chose the
date on which to end her life. And her
next step was to tell her daughter all about
it. For twenty years, Irmgard maintained
an unwavering goal: to commit suicide
before age seventy. She managed her
chronic hypertension, stayed healthy
and active, and lived life to the fullest.
Meanwhile, Christine fought desperately
against the decision. When Irmgard
wouldn’t listen, the only way for Christine
to remain part of her life was to swallow
her mother’s plans hook, line, and sinker.
Christine’s father, as it turned out,
prepared too slowly for old age. Before
he had made any decision, fate disabled
him through a series of strokes. He was
confined to a nursing home, severely
impaired by dementia, and frustrated
by his circumstances. His life epito-
mized the predicament her mother
wanted to avoid.
So Far Away gives us an intimate
view of a person interacting with
and reacting to her parents at the ends
of their lives. In a richly detailed,
poignant story of family members’
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separate yet interwoven journeys,
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“For me, part of the brilliance of So Far Away is that, wrapped up
in the exquisitely well-described uniqueness of Hartmann’s story
about her parents and herself, are substantial insights about
anticipatory grief, grief following a parent’s death or decline,
parent-child relationships at the end of life and after parents
die, the links of personal grief to marital relationships, what can
be accomplished by writing about parents and parent death,
depression, and much more. And although the book is only
about one family from one family member’s perspective, it offers
fascinating insights about families in many areas, including lies
and secrets in families, family communication, and what might
be called ‘relationship traps.’ Another part of the brilliance of the
book is that the author tunes in so well on her own thoughts and
feelings that it becomes a stimulating book about the psychology
Photo by Bart Smith

of fear, guilt, anger, love, duty, neediness, independence, memory,

and obliviousness.”
—Paul C. Rosenblatt, University of Minnesota, author of four books
on families and grief
Christine W. Hartmann, Research Health Scientist, ENR Memorial Veterans
Hospital, Bedford, Massachusetts, and Assistant Professor, School of Public “An emotionally powerful memoir that beautifully captures the
Health, Boston University, received her PhD at the Bryn Mawr Graduate School life-changing journeys of her parents’ final years.”
of Social Work and Social Research. She has published numerous articles on —Booth Gardner, former governor, State of Washington, and a leader
healthcare quality improvement, focusing particularly on long-term care. in the Death with Dignity movement

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Understanding the ideological underpinnings of education reform

in the past three decades

Excellence for All

How a New Breed of Reformers Is Transforming America’s Public Schools
J ac k s c h n e i d e r

December 2011
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“Do Americans disagree about how to improve their schools?
Of course. But as Jack Schneider shows in this smart little
book, they disagree much less than they used to. In an era
of sharp political polarization, we have developed a
remarkable consensus about educational reform. Schneider’s
brisk history will help us to understand the origins of our
contemporary moment—and, even better, to take account
of its costs. Too much harmony can be a very bad thing, if it
drowns out the dissonant chords that we all need to hear.”
—Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor of History and Education,
New York University, and President, History of Education Society
B
y the early twenty-first century, a star-
tling consensus had emerged about the
overall aim of American school reform.
In an era of political discord, and in a field
historically known for contentiousness,
the notion of promoting educational excel-
lence for all students was a distinct point of
bipartisan agreement. Shaped by a corps of
entrepreneurial reformers intent on finding
“what works” and taking it to scale, this
hybrid vision won over the nation’s most
ambitious and well-resourced policy leaders
at foundations and nonprofits, in state and
federal government, and in urban school
districts from coast to coast.
“Excellence for all” might, at first
glance, appear to be nothing more than a
rhetorical flourish. Who, after all, would
oppose the idea of a great education for
every student? Yet it is hardly a throwaway
phrase. Rather, it represents a surprising
fusion of educational policy approaches
that had been in tense opposition through-
out the twentieth century—those on the
right favoring social efficiency, and those on
the left supporting social justice.
This book seeks to understand why the
“excellence for all” vision took hold at the
time it did, unpacks the particular beliefs
and assumptions embedded in it, and
details the often informal coalition building
that produced this period of consensus.
Examining the nation’s largest urban school
districts (Los Angeles, Chicago, and New
York), the author details three major reform
efforts in chapters titled “The Right Space:
The Small Schools Movement”; “The Right
Teachers: Teach for America”; and “The
Right Curriculum: Expanding Advanced
Placement.”

“A lucid, balanced, and perceptive treatment of recent

education reforms by an able historian who both tells a
compelling story and draws valuable lessons from it.”
—Chester E. Finn Jr., Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, and
President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

“Jack Schneider’s Excellence for All provides a lucid and compelling survey of education
reform that underlines how hard it is to make separate schools for rich and poor work.
Heroic efforts to fix high-poverty schools by making them smaller, providing them
highly educated young teachers, and giving them access to a rigorous AP curriculum all
Jack Schneider is the Robert A. Oden Jr. Postdoctoral
ran up against the reality that economically isolated schools will never be equal.”
Fellow for Innovation in the Liberal Arts. He teaches
—Richard D. Kahlenberg, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation, and author of in the Educational Studies Department at Carleton
Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy
College.

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The classroom canon of young adult novels in historical context
Child-Sized History
Fictions of the Past in U.S. Classrooms
sara l. schwebel
F
or more than three decades, the same
children’s historical novels have been
taught across the United States. Honored
for their literary quality and appreciated
for their alignment with social studies cur-
ricula, the books have flourished as schools
moved from whole language to phonics and
from student-centered learning to stan-
dardized testing.
Books like Johnny Tremain, The Witch
of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue
Dolphins, and Roll of Thunder, Hear Me
Cry stimulate children’s imagination,
transporting them into the American past
and projecting them into an American
future. As works of historical interpreta-
tion, however, many are startlingly out of
step with current historiography and social
sensibilities, especially with regard to race.
Unlike textbooks, which are replaced on
regular cycles and subjected to public tugs-
of-war between the left and right, histori-
cal novels have simply—and quietly—
endured. Taken individually, many present
troubling interpretations of the American
past. But embraced collectively, this class-
room canon provides a rare pedagogical
opportunity: it captures a range of inter-
pretive voices across time and place, a
kind of “people’s history” far removed
from today’s state-sanctioned textbooks.
Teachers who employ historical novels
in the classroom can help students recog-
nize and interpret historical narrative as
the product of research, analytical perspec-
tive, and the politics of the time. In doing
so, they sensitize students to the ways in
which the past is put to moral and ideo-
logical uses in the present.
E D U C AT I O N / U. S . H I S TO R Y / C H I L D R E N ’ S L I T E R AT U R E
Featuring separate chapters on American
Indians, war, and slavery, Child-Sized History
tracks the changes in how young readers
are taught to conceptualize history and the
American nation.
November 2011
272 pages, 6 x 9 inches
10 b&w illus., bibliography, index, appendixes
Sara L. Schwebel is
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of English Language
and Literature at the
University of South “Book jackets are notorious for the
Carolina. She received superlatives that adorn them. But every
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her PhD in the History once in a while a work comes along—
of American Civilization so arresting in its freshness, originality,
from Harvard University and incandescent brilliance—that it
and has taught middle defines an entire field. You are holding
school English and history in Connecticut and such a book.”
Virginia. She is the co-author of The Student —Sam Wineburg, Margaret Jacks
Teacher’s Handbook, 4th Edition. Professor of Education and History,
Stanford University
“A brilliant investigation of the
intersections of curriculum,
“This study should be required reading for middle school teachers who use historiography, children’s literature
historical fiction in their classrooms. It’s also an important resource for critics studies, and book history. Sara
who take children’s books seriously as literature but may not give sufficient Schwebel has found ingenious ways
attention to the ways in which texts are actually employed by teachers, and not of determining which historical fiction
just for building literacy. Schwebel considers teacher training, school curricula, is most frequently taught, and she
provides astute textual and contextual
and classroom practices, and she also offers close and critical readings of literary
analyses of juvenile novels addressing
texts that are currently used in schools as supplements to or even substitutes for
history textbooks. Finally, instead of simply criticizing existing pedagogy, she American Indians, war, and African
offers practical guidelines for thinking about how to effectively use historical Americans.”
fiction—in conjunction with sources from both the period being portrayed and —Beverly Lyon Clark, Professor of
the period in which the book was written—to deepen historical understanding.” English, Wheaton College
—Julia L. Mickenberg, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Texas
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The origins of the current nuclear waste disposal crisis

and directions for future policy

Fuel Cycle to Nowhere

U.S. Law and Policy on Nuclear Waste
r i c h a r d b u r l e s o n s t e wa r t a n d j a n e b lo o m s t e wa r t

F
or twenty-five years, the Yucca Mountain
repository in Nevada was designated as
the sole destination for disposal of the
nation’s accumulated stockpiles of highly
radioactive nuclear power and weapons
wastes. Now the Obama administration has
abandoned Yucca, and Congress must pass
new laws to solve the resulting disposal
September 2011
crisis. Even as the federal government seeks
448 pages, 7 x 10 inches
to expand nuclear power, local communi-
figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index
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program for disposal of the wastes that
This book is a project of the Consortium we already have. The Blue Ribbon Com-
for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder mission on America’s Nuclear Future,
Participation (CRESP), a Vanderbilt appointed by the Obama administration
University-led, multi-university to develop a plan, is currently conducting
consortium supported as a cooperative hearings.
agreement by the U.S. Department The first comprehensive history and
of Energy, Office of Environmental overview of U.S. nuclear waste law and
Management to support safe, effective, regulation, Fuel Cycle to Nowhere traces
publicly credible, risk-informed sixty years of nuclear weapons programs,
management of existing and future
the growth of nuclear power and its
nuclear waste from government and
civilian sources through independent
strategic analysis, review, applied
research, and education.
waste legacies, the rise of environmental-
ism, and the responses of federal agencies.
Richard and Jane Stewart expertly analyze
the changing policies for storing low-level
waste, transuranic waste, spent nuclear fuel,
and high-level waste and for regulating their
transport by rail and by truck. They also
chronicle “a tale of two repositories”—one,
the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mex-
ico, known as WIPP, the world’s only oper-
ating deep geologic nuclear waste disposal
facility, which emerged from a contentious
but ultimately successful struggle between
federal and state interests; the other, Yucca
Mountain, mandated top down by Congress
and a failure.
Fuel Cycle to Nowhere provides the
critical information and analysis on the
waste disposal issues and solutions that the
commission, Congress, the administration,
journalists, policy makers, and the public so
urgently need.

Richard Burleson Stewart is University Professor at New York University, where

he directs the Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law.
The author and editor of many books on environmental law and policy and
administrative law and regulation, he has served as Assistant Attorney General
for Environment and Natural Resources in the U.S. Department of Justice and as
chairman of the Environmental Defense Fund.

Jane Bloom Stewart is an environmental lawyer who advises governments,

UN agencies, and NGOs on environmental law and policy reform. She directs the
International Environmental Legal Assistance Program at the Guarini Center.

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A powerful blend of firsthand accounts and original research
The Women of Katrina
How Gender, Race, and Class Matter in an American Disaster
e d i t e d by E m m a n u e l D av i d a n d E l a i n e E n a r s o n
T
he transformative event known as
“Katrina” exposed long-standing social
inequalities. While debates rage about
race and class relations in New Orleans
and the Katrina diaspora, gender remains
curiously absent from public discourse
and scholarly analysis. This volume draws
on original research and firsthand narra-
tives from women in diverse economic,
political, ethnic, and geographic contexts
contents
Foreword
William A. Anderson
Preface
Emmanuel David and Elaine Enarson
In Protest
INCITE! Statement on Hurricane Katrina
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Noticing Gender (or Not) in Disaster
Joni Seager
Women and Girls Last? Averting the Second
Post-Katrina Disaster
Elaine Enarson
A Feminist Response to Katrina
Loretta J. Ross
Women on the Front Lines: Testimonials
Surviving Hurricane Katrina
Mary Gehman
We Cannot Forget Them
Annette Marquis
“Help! A Little Girl Cries” : Women and Children
in Catastrophic Times
Denny Taylor
Unexpected Necessities: Inside Charity Hospital
Ruth Berggren
“We Like to Think Houma Women Are Very
Strong”
Brenda Dardar Robichaux, Ms. Foundation for
Women profile
Coastal Women for Change: Biloxi, Mississippi Critical Disjunctures: Disaster Research, Social
Sharon Hanshaw, Ms. Foundation for Women
profile
g e n d e r s t u d i e s / d i s a s t e r s t u d i e s / co m m u n i t y o r g a n i z i n g / s o c i o lo g y
to portray pre-Katrina vulnerabilities,
gender concerns in post-disaster housing
and assistance, and women’s collective
struggles to recover from this catastrophe.
Emmanuel Davis is Assistant Professor of
Sociology at Villanova University.
January 2012
Elaine Enarson is an independent scholar
272 pages, 7 x 10 inches
based in Colorado.
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“A remarkable and important collection
“Estaba Reclamando Mi Sudor” (“I was Against the Tide: Resisting, Reclaiming, of reports, essays, and analyses on an
demanding what I had earned with my sweat”) and Reimagining
“Antonia” understudied and overlooked issue.
Gender, Race, and Place Attachment: A Case of
Historic Neighborhood Recovery in Coastal David and Enarson have brought
In Deep Water: Displacement, Loss, and
Mississippi together pieces that are informative,
Care
Mia Charlene White
Setting the Stage for Disaster: Women in New eye-opening, rich, and diverse. This
Orleans Before and After Katrina Before and After Katrina: Gender and the compelling anthology is a must-read.
Beth Willinger and Janna Knight Landscape of Community Work
Pamela Jenkins I will keep The Women of Katrina at the
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Women’s Abilities and front of my bookshelf.”
Disabilities in Crisis Battered Women’s Shelters in New Orleans:
Elizabeth Davis and Kelly Rouba Recovery and Transformation —Alice Fothergill, author of Heads Above
Bethany L. Brown Water: Gender, Class, and Family in the
Factors Influencing Evacuation Decisions among
High-Risk Pregnant and Postpartum Women Listening for Gender in Katrina’s Jewish Voices Grand Forks Flood
Marianne E. Zotti, Van T. Tong, Lyn Kieltyka, and Judith Rosenbaum
Renee Brown-Bryant Building Coalitions and Rebuilding Versailles: “The power and diversity of the urban and
Mothering after a Disaster: The Experiences of Vietnamese American Women’s Environmental
Work after Hurricane Katrina rural women’s experiences in the Katrina/
Black Single Mothers Displaced by Hurricane
Katrina Gennie Thi Nguyen Rita catastrophe begged for this book to
Megan Reid Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Gendered be done. These scholars and activists who
State Policy and Disaster Assistance: Listening Collective Action: The Case of Women of the write here have committed their lives
to Women Storm after Hurricane Katrina
and careers to creating a lens to view the
Susan Sterett Emmanuel David
remarkable strengths that women have
The Katrina Difference: African American Grounded in Faith, Inspired to Action: Bayou
Women Own Their Own Recovery shown in normal times as well as crises.
Women’s Networks and Poverty in New Orleans
Kristina Peterson and Richard Krajeski They have used that lens very well in
after Katrina
Jacquelyn Litt, Althea Skinner, and Kelley Robinson The Women of Katrina.”
Gender in Disaster Theory, Practice, and
Doubly Displaced: Women, Public Housing, and Research —Shirley Laska, Professor Emerita
Spatial Access after Katrina Gendered Disaster Practice and Policy of Sociology and Founding Director Emerita,
Jane M. Henrici, Angela Carlberg, and Allison Brenda D. Phillips
Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and
Suppan Helmuth
Technology, University of New Orleans
Inequality, Gender, and Hurricane Katrina
Kathleen Tierney
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December 2011
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“A rich and informative window on Mid-South barbecue.”
—Andrew Warnes, author of Savage Barbecue
“The Slaw and the Slow Cooked has far wider relevance
than the Mid-South of its subtitle. Its contributors
examine many aspects of America’s oldest Slow Food,
from its primeval origins into the age of Twitter and
Facebook. They treat their savory subject seriously, but
not (thank the Lord) solemnly. You don’t have to be
a barbecue nut to enjoy this book, but if you are one,
you’ll be in hog heaven.”
—John Shelton Reed, co-author, Holy Smoke: The Big
Book of North Carolina Barbecue
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The world of barbecue in the Mid-South
The Slaw and the Slow Cooked
Culture and Barbecue in the Mid-South
e d i t e d by J a m e s R . V e t e to a n d E d wa r d M . M ac l i n
T
exas has its barbecue tradition, and a
library of books to go with it. Same
with the Carolinas. The Mid-South,
however, is a region with as many opinions
as styles of cooking. In The Slaw and the
Slow Cooked, editors James Veteto and
Edward Maclin explore an issue of grave
import—namely, a deeper understanding
of the larger experience of barbecue in this
legendary American culinary territory.
In developing the book, Veteto and
Maclin cast a wide net for divergent
approaches. Food writer John Edge
introduces us to Jones Bar-B-Q Diner
in Marianna, Arkansas, a possibly century-
old restaurant serving top-notch pork
and simultaneously challenging race and
class boundaries. Kristen Bradley-Shurtz
explores the 150-plus-year tradition of
the St. Patrick’s Irish Picnic in McEwen,
Tennessee. And no barbecue book would
be complete without an insider’s story,
contents
Foreword Identity, Authenticity, Persistence, and Loss in the
Gary Paul Nabhan
Introduction: Smoked Meat and the Anthropology of Food
James R. Veteto and Edward M. Maclin
A History of Barbecue in the Mid-South Region
Robert F. Moss
Patronage and the Pits: A Portrait, in Black and White,
of Jones Bar-B-Q Diner in Marianna, Arkansas
John T. Edge
Piney Woods Traditions at the Crossroads: Barbecue and
Regional Identity in South Arkansas and North Louisiana
Justin M. Nolan
Priests, Pork Shoulders, and Chicken Halves: Barbecue for a
Cause at St. Patrick’s Irish Picnic
Kristen Bradley-Shurtz
provided here by Jonathan Deutsch’s
“embedded” reporting inside a competitive
barbecue team. Veteto and Maclin conclude
with a glimpse into the future of barbecue
culture: online, in the smoker, and fresh
from the farm.
The Slaw and the Slow Cooked stands
as a challenge to barbecue aficionados and
a statement on the Mid-South’s important
place at the table. Intended for food lovers,
anthropologists, and sociologists alike,
The Slaw and the Slow Cooked demonstrates
barbecue’s status as a common language of
the South.
James R. Veteto is Assistant Professor of
Anthropology at the University of North Texas.
He is Director of the Southern Seed Legacy.
Edward M. Maclin is a PhD candidate at the
University of Georgia.
West Tennessee Whole-Hog Barbecue Tradition
Rien Fertel
The Changing Landscape of Mid-South Barbecue
Edward M. Maclin
Swine by Design: Inside a Competition Barbecue Team
Jonathan Deutsch
Barbecue as Slow Food
Angela Knipple and Paul Knipple
Southern Barbecue Sauce and Heirloom Tomatoes
James R. Veteto
Mid-South Barbecue in the Digital Age and Sustainable Future
Directions
Edward M. Maclin and James R. Veteto

Ethnographies about transgressing social expectations of the body
Embodied Resistance
Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules
E d i t e d by C h r i s B o b e l a n d S a m a n t h a K wa n
E
mbodied Resistance engages the rich
and complex range of society’s con-
temporary “body outlaws”—people
from many social locations who violate
norms about the private, the repellent, or
the forbidden. This collection ventures
beyond the conventional focus on the
“disciplined body” and instead examines
conformity from the perspective of resist-
ers. Balancing accessibly written original
ethnographic research with personal nar-
ratives, Embodied Resistance provides a
window into the everyday lives of those
who defy or violate socially constructed
body rules and conventions.
contents
Foreword Challenging Marginalization
Rose Weitz
Rewriting Gender Scripts
The Specter of Excess: Race, Class, and Gender in
Women’s Body Hair Narratives
Breanne Fahs and Denise A. Delgado
“Is That Any Way to Treat a Lady?”: The
Dominatrix’s Dungeon
Danielle J. Lindemann
“Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’”: Women’s Flat Track
Roller Derby
Natalie M. Peluso
Becoming a Female-to-Male Transgender (FTM)
in South Korea
Tari Youngjung Na and Hae Yeon Choo
Living Resistance: From Rapunzel to G.I. Jane
Samantha Binford
Living Resistance: Funnel as Phallus Living Resistance: The Pickup
Sara L. Crawley
g e n d e r s t u d i e s / s o c i o lo g y
Chris Bobel is Associate Professor in the
Department of Women’s Studies at the
University of Massachusetts at Boston.
She is the author of The Paradox of Natural
Mothering and New Blood: Third-Wave
Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation.
Samantha Kwan is Assistant Professor of
September 2011
Sociology at the University of Houston.
272 pages, 7 x 10 inches
She has published in Qualitative Health
17 illus., references, index, classroom resources
Research, Sociological Inquiry, and Teaching
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Defying Authoritative Knowledges and Negotiating Boundaries and Meanings
“Give Me a Boa and Some Bling!”: Red Hat Conventional Wisdom The Politics of the Stall: Transgender and
Society Members Commanding Visibility in the Anorexia as a Choice: Constructing a New Genderqueer Workers Negotiating “the Bathroom
Public Sphere Community of Health and Beauty through Question”
M. Elise Radina, Lydia K. Manning, Marybeth C. Pro-Ana Websites Catherine Connell
Stalp, and Annette Lynch Abigail Richardson and Elizabeth Cherry
The Everyday Resistance of Vegetarianism
Fat. Hairy. Sexy: Contesting Standards of Beauty Public Mothers and Private Practices: Samantha Kwan and Louise Marie Roth
and Sexuality in the Gay Community Breastfeeding as Transgression
Menopausal and Misbehaving: When Women
Nathaniel C. Pyle and Noa Logan Klein Jennifer A. Reich
“Flash” in Front of Others
Belly Dancing Mommas: Challenging Cultural “It’s Hard to Say”: Moving Beyond the Mystery Heather E. Dillaway
Discourses of Maternity of Female Genital Pain
The Transformation of Bodily Practices among
Angela M. Moe Christine Labuski
Religious Defectors
“It’s Important to Show Your Colors”: “What I Had to Do to Survive”: Self-Injurers’ Lynn Davidman
Counter-Heteronormativity in a Metropolitan Bodily Emotion Work
Living Resistance: Crossing the Menstrual Line
Community Church Margaret Leaf and Douglas P. Schrock
David Linton
J. Edward Sumerau and Douglas P. Schrock Living Resistance: Intersex? Not My Problem
Living Resistance: Myself, Covered
Living Resistance: An Accidental Education Esther Morris Leidolf
Beverly Yuen Thompson
Hanne Blank Living Resistance: Doula-Assisted Childbirth:
Helping Her Birth Her Way Afterword
Catherine Bergart Angela Horn Barbara Katz Rothman
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Hybrids, monsters, marvels, and their meanings
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the
Genetic Imagination
E d i t e d by M a r k W. S c a l a
T
his catalog explores the psycho-
logical and social implications
contained in the hybrid creatures
and fantastic scenarios created by
contemporary artists whose works will
appear in the exhibition Fairy Tales,
Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination,
which opens at Nashville’s Frist Center
February 2012 for the Visual Arts in February 2012.
160 pages, 9.5 x 11 inches
Curator Mark Scala’s introductory
65 color plates and 30 color and b&w illus.
essay focuses on anthropomorphism
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in the mythology, folklore, and art of
many cultures as it contrasts with the
dominant Western view of human
exceptionalism. Scala also provides
Mark W. Scala is Chief Curator at the Frist Center an art historical context, linking the
for the Visual Arts in Nashville. Exhibitions he has visual fabulists of today to artists of
organized include Paint Made Flesh, an international the Romantic, Symbolist, and Surreal-
survey of figure painting in the United States,
ist periods who sought to transcend
Germany, and Britain since World War II, and
oppositions such as rationality and
Whispering Wind: Recent Chinese Photography.
intuition, fear and desire, the physical
and the spiritual.
Discussing how artists adapt
traditional stories to give mythic form
to the very real dilemmas of contem-
porary life, Jack Zipes’s “Fairy-Tale
Collisions” centers on Paula Rego,
Kiki Smith, and Cindy Sherman.
From a generation of women who
have attained prominence since the
1980s, these artists alter fairy-tale
imagery to subvert or rewrite social
roles and codes.
In “Metamorphosis of the Mon-
strous,” Marina Warner discusses
works in the exhibition in the context
of historical conceptions of monsters
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as expressions of alterity, bestiality,
or sinfulness. Her reminder that
contemporary monster images offer
“a promise and a warning about the
variety, heterogeneity, and possible
combinations and recombinations in
the order of things” sets the stage for
Suzanne Anker’s essay, punningly
titled “The Extant Vamp (or the)
Ire of It All: Fairy Tales and Genetic
Engineering.” Considering represen-
tations of hybrid bodies by Patricia
Piccinini, Janaina Tschape, Saya
Woolfalk, and others, which evoke
imagined beings of the past as a way
to envision the recombinant creatures
that may lie in the future, Anker
shows how artists explore the social,
ethical, and future implications of
biological design and enhanced evo-
lution.
Accompanying an exhibition of
contemporary art in which depictions
of marvelous creatures and fantastic
narratives provide both chills and
delights, the essays in Fairy Tales,
Monsters, and the Genetic Imagina-
tion explore the meaning of this
fabulist revival through the lenses of
social and art history, literature, femi-
nism, animal studies, and science.

At the center of the battle between tradition and modern medicine
Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe
HIV/AIDS and Traditional Healers
D av i d S . S i m m o n s
A
s sub-Saharan Africa continues to
confront the runaway epidemic of
HIV/AIDS, traditional healers have
been tapped as collaborators in prevention
and education efforts. The terms of this
collaboration, however, are far from settled
and continually contested. As Modernizing
Medicine in Zimbabwe demonstrates, seri-
ous questions continue to linger in the
medical community since the explosion
of the disease nearly thirty years ago. Are
healers obstacles to health development?
Do their explanations for the disease dis-
regard biomedical science? Can the worlds
of traditional healing and modern medi-
cine coexist and cooperate?
Combining anthropological, historical,
and public health perspectives, Modern-
izing Medicine in Zimbabwe explores the
intersection of African healing traditions
and Western health development, empha-
sizing the role of this historical relation-
ship in current debates about HIV/AIDS.
Drawing on diverse sources including
g lo b a l h e a lt h / m e d i c a l a n t h r o p o lo g y / a f r i c a n s t u d i e s
colonial records, missionary correspon-
dence, international health policy reports,
and interviews with traditional healers,
anthropologist David S. Simmons demon-
strates the remarkable adaptive qualities of
these disparate communities as they try to
meet the urgent needs of the people.
Photo by Jessica Bichler
“Some of my undergraduate and graduate students
David S. Simmons is Associate Professor
of Anthropology and Health Promotion,
Education, and Behavior at the University of
South Carolina.
“Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe: HIV/AIDS and Traditional
Healers is an eye-opening book that details the historical
roots of the cultural and political response to the HIV/AIDS
pandemic in Zimbabwe. Simmons uses a variety of resources,
including colonial records and missionary correspondence
as well as interviews with traditional healers, to argue that
the work of healers goes beyond malevolent forces, and
that their vocation continues to be important in Zimbabwe
despite efforts to restrict their therapeutic practices.”
—Janis Hutchinson, University of Houston, author of Power,
Race, and Culture
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248 pages, 6 x 9 inches
3 b&w illus., references, index
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have worked with traditional healer organizations
in Uganda, and I have worked closely with
religiously motivated allopathic healers in rural
hospitals in Uganda. I found Simmons’s account of
the situation to be absolutely outstanding, and to
square completely with my experience in the field.
It provides exactly the kind of ethnographic detail
that I think is appropriate for a decent treatment of
the issue, and this detail is presented in the context
of a sophisticated analysis of the political, historical,
and infrastructural realities that I regard to be
germane to the ‘problem’ of traditional healers and
their roles in modern sub-Saharan Africa. Simmons’s
inclusion of his own personal contemplations,
and the way he locates himself as an outsider,
ethnographer, scholar, and caring human being, sets
the tone in a very engaging manner that I believe
will appeal to multiple audiences.”
—Kimber Haddix McKay, University of Montana
    
 l at i n a m e r i c a n s t u d i e s / h i s pa n i c s t u d i e s / h i s t o r y / l i t e r at u r e
November 2011
304 pages, 6 x 9 inches
68 b&w illus., bibliography, index
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“When nations become independent, what do their
citizens read? In this lively and consistently engaging
book, Billy Acree explores the connections among state-
building, citizenship, and everyday reading and writing.
Highly recommended!”
—George Reid Andrews, author of Afro-Latin America,
1800–2000
“This book makes a solid contribution to the cultural,
intellectual, and political history of the Río de la Plata.”
—Richard W. Slatta, author of Simón Bolívar’s Quest
for Glory
“Everyday Reading represents a new keystone in recent
research covering nineteenth-century Latin American
culture. Acree opens a new, important chapter on the
diverse forms and functions that writing and reading
practices held within the vast map of print culture.”
—Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephan, Rice University
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The power of literacy in revolution and daily life
Everyday Reading
Print Culture and Collective Identity in the Río de la Plata, 1780–1910
W i l l i a m G a r r e t t Ac r e e J r .
S
tarting in the late nineteenth century, role of reading in formal education, which
the region of South America known had grown exponentially by the early twen-
as the Río de la Plata (containing tieth century as schoolchildren were taught
modern-day Uruguay and Argentina) to fulfill traditional roles in society.
boasted the highest literacy rates in Latin Ultimately, Everyday Reading humanizes
America. In Everyday Reading, William literary culture, demonstrating its unrecog-
Acree explores the history, events, and nized and unexpected influence in everyday
culture that gave rise to the region’s lives.
remarkable progress. With a specific
focus on its print culture, in the form of
newspapers, political advertisements and
documents, schoolbooks, and even stamps
and currency, Acree creates a portrait of a
literary culture that permeated every aspect
of life.
Everyday Reading argues that the
introduction of the printing press into the
Río de la Plata in the 1780s hastened the
collapse of Spanish imperial control and
played a major role in the transition to
independence some thirty years later. After
independence, print culture nurtured a
new identity and helped sustain the region
through the tumult of civil war in the mid-
1800s. Acree concludes by examining the
William Garrett Acree Jr. is Assistant
Professor of Spanish at Washington
University in St. Louis. He is co-editor of
Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America.
 

Significant places and spaces, from Granada and Catalonia
to Buenos Aires and the Chicago Columbian Exposition
Spectacle and Topophilia
Reading Early Modern and Postmodern Hispanic Cultures
E d i t e d by D av i d R . C a s t i l lo a n d Br a d l e y J . Ne l s o n
T
 is volume explores the intersection
h
between theories of the modern spec-
tacle—from José Antonio Maravall’s
conceptualization of the spectacular
culture of the baroque to the Frankfurt
School’s theorization of mass culture, to
Baudrillard’s notion of the simulacrum, to
Guy Debord’s understanding of the society
of the spectacle—and the findings of the
emerging fields of urban studies, landscape
studies, and, generally speaking, studies of
space.
contents
Introduction: Modern Scenes/Modern Sceneries
David R. Castillo and Bradley J. Nelson
Foundational Landscapes
Monumental Landscapes in the Society of the
Spectacle: Fuenteovejuna to New York
David R. Castillo
“Granada”: Race and Place in Early Modern Spain
William Childers
Agi Morato’s Garden as Heterotopian Place in
Cervantes’s Los baños de Argel
Moisés R. Castillo
Signs of the Times: Emblems of Baroque
Science Fiction
Bradley J. Nelson
“The Knowledge of This People”: Mapping a Global
Consciousness in Catalonia (1375–2009)
Colleen P. Culleton
Modern(ist) Sceneries
Topofilia Porteña: Imaging Buenos Aires and
Modernity in (and around) the Journal Sur
Justin Read
Horacio Coppola: The Photographer’s Urban Fervor
David William Foster
h i s pa n i c s t u d i e s / u r b a n s t u d i e s / c u lt u r a l s t u d i e s / t r a n s at l a n t i c s t u d i e s
David R. Castillo is Professor and Chair of
the Department of Romance Languages
and Literatures at the University at Buffalo.
Bradley J. Nelson is Associate Professor
and Chair of Classics, Modern Languages,
and Linguistics at Concordia University in
November 2011
Montreal.
304 pages, 6 x 9 inches
references, index
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Seeing “Spain” at the 1893 Chicago
HISPANIC ISSUES SERIES
World (Columbian) Exhibition Nicholas Spadaccini,
Catherine Vallejo Editor-in-Chief
Exhausted Cosmopolitanism in
Zamacois’s Memorias de un vagón de
ferrocarril HISPANIC ISSUES ONLINE
Robert A. Davidson
hispanicissues.umn.edu/online_main.html
National Panoramas
Cultural Landscapes: Luis Cernuda’s
Poetry of Exile
Goretti Ramírez
Francoist Spaces: Un hombre va por el
camino (Manuel Mir Oti, 1948) and
Surcos (José Antonio Nieves Conde,
1951)
Luis Mariano González
The Spectacle of a National Trauma:
Gaze, Space, National Identity, and
Historical Memory in Democratic
Spain
Carmen Moreno-Nuño
Afterword
Tom Conley
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A Promise in Haiti
A Reporter’s Notes on
Families and Daily Lives
Mark curnutte
A detailed look at the daily lives of
three impoverished families living in a
slum of Gonaives, A Promise in Haiti
shows the great commonalities of all
people despite surface differences of
race, class and nationality.
“Mark Curnutte is the conscience of
Cincinnati. As a newspaper reporter,
he can be found in prisons with
immigrants facing deportation,
among the homeless in shelters and
the hungry in food pantries, and
in the houses of mothers with sons
on death row or those of still others
who’ve lost sons to street violence. He
doesn’t let readers forget the forgotten.
A Promise in Haiti finds Curnutte in
the city of Gonaives, where he has
lived among three poor families in
this hemisphere’s poorest country.
What emerges is a tender written and
photographic portrait of daily life,
absent of material trappings but rich
in faith. Curnutte documents in gritty
detail the resilience that allows people
to move forward—dignity intact—in
the face of crippling poverty that’s
complicated further by natural
disasters and epidemics. And like his
literary hero James Agee, Curnutte
reveals the great commonalities of
human life despite surface differences
of race, nationality and social class.”
—Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ
Mark Curnutte is a reporter with the
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Rethinking Violence in American Life
c h r i s to p h e r b. s t r a i n
“One of the most valuable pieces of scholarship on the
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Why We Watch: The Attractions of Violent Entertainment
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Toward Wiser Public Judgment
e d i t e d by d a n i e l ya n k e lo v i c h
and w i l l f r i e d m a n
foreword by sterling speirn
Sound solutions to the tough challenges facing our nation
require a solid foundation of public support. Toward Wiser
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They Came to Nashville
marshall chapman
foreword by peter guralnick
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. . . narratives into compelling portraits of musicians’ lives as
well as a tribute to Nashville.” —Library Journal
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A Life of Control
Stories of Living with Diabetes
Alan L. Graber, MD, Anne W. Brown,
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