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“jess whatcott”

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  • Menace to the Future

    A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics

    by Jess Whatcott ...
    In Menace to the Future, Jess Whatcott traces the link between US disability institutions and early twentieth-century eugenicist ideology, demonstrating how the legacy of those ideas continues to shape incarceration and detention today. Whatcott focuses on California, examining records from state institutions and reform organizations, newspapers, and state hospital museum exhibits. They reveal ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Representations of Political Resistance and Emancipation in Science Fiction

    by Sean Parson, Libby Barringer, Matthew Cole, Caleb Gallemore, Chase Hobbs-Morgan, Claire Rasmussen, Emily Ray, Laurie Ringer, Debra Thompson, Michael Uhall0, Andrew Uzendoski1, Jess Whatcott2, Damian White3, Ira Allen4, Judith Grant5, Michael Lipscomb7 ...
    In a world in which political opportunity and liberation seem far away, the genre of science fiction grows in cultural importance and popularity. The contributors to this collection are political and social theorists from a range of disciplines who use science fiction as inspiration for new theories and examples of speculative politics. In dystopian governments, they find locations and forms of ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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    Why It Matters & Why You Should Care

    by Victor Ray ...
    **What exactly is critical race theory? This concise and accessible exploration demystifies a crucial framework for understanding and fighting racial injustice in the United States.“A clear-eyed, expert field guide.”—Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom, author of Thick**From renowned scholar Dr. Victor Ray, On Critical Race Theory explains the centrality of race in American history and politics, and how ... Read more

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  • Invitation to Law & Society

    An Introduction to the Study of Real Law

    by Kitty Calavita ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    Research and real-life examples that "lucidly connect some of the divisive social issues confronting us today to that thing we call 'the law'" ( Law and Politics Book Review).Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and ... Read more

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  • Law and Society

    Canadian Edition

    by Steven Vago, Adie Nelson, Veronica Nelson, Steven E. Barkan ...
    Law and Society provides a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the interplay between law and society using both Canadian and international examples. This clear and readable text is fi lled with interesting information, ideas and insights. All materials and supporting statistics have been carefully updated. This edition includes an expanded discussion of the law and First Nations people, recent ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • The Second Sexism

    Discrimination Against Men and Boys

    by David Benatar ...
    Does sexism against men exist? What it looks like and why we need to take it seriouslyThis book draws attention to the "second sexism," where it exists, how it works and what it looks like, and responds to those who would deny that it exists. Challenging conventional ways of thinking, it examines controversial issues such as sex-based affirmative action, gender roles, and charges of anti-feminism. ... Read more

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  • The Gender of Crime

    by Dana M. Britton, Shannon K. Jacobsen, Grace E. Howard ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    The Gender of Crime introduces readers to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime—from defining what crime is to governing how crime is punished. The second edition of this award-winning book maintains the accessible, reader-friendly narrative of the first edition with key updates and new material throughout, including increased focus on the intersections of race, class, ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Punishing the Poor

    The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

    by Loïc Wacquant, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction of the state wedding restrictive “workfare” and expansive “prisonfare” under a philosophy of moral ... Read more

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  • Shattered Bonds

    The Color Of Child Welfare

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children.Shattered Bonds tells this story as no other book has before -- from the perspective of a prominent black, female legal theoretician. The current state of the child-welfare system in America is a well-known tragedy ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • "When the Welfare People Come"

    Race and Class in the US Child Protection System

    by Don Lash ...
    "[An] excellent overview of the child welfare system . . . Most importantly, [the author] provides a discussion of how to create true change." —Tina Lee, author of Catching a Case: Inequality and Fear in New York City's Child Welfare SystemA groundbreaking look at the history and politics of the American child welfare system, "When the Welfare People Come" exposes the system in its totality, from ... Read more

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  • The Great Demographic Illusion

    Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream

    by Richard Alba ...
    Why the number of young Americans from mixed families is surging and what this means for the country’s futureAmericans are under the spell of a distorted and polarizing story about their country’s future—the majority-minority narrative—which contends that inevitable demographic changes will create a society with a majority made up of minorities for the first time in the United States’s history. ... Read more

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  • Transgender Rights

    Edited by Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, Shannon Price Minter ...
    "Transgender Rights packs a surprising amount of information into a small space. Offering spare, tightly executed essays, this slim volume nonetheless succeeds in creating a spectacular, well-researched compendium of the transgender movement." -Law Library JournalOver the past three decades, the transgender movement has gained visibility and achieved significant victories. Discrimination has been ... Read more

    $14.39 USD