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“ruth sidel”

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  • Unsung Heroines

    Single Mothers and the American Dream

    by Ruth Sidel ...
    This compelling book destroys the derogatory images of single mothers that too often prevail in the media and in politics by creating a rich, moving, multidimensional picture of who these women really are. Ruth Sidel interviewed mothers from diverse races, ethnicities, religions, and social classes who became single through divorce, separation, widowhood, or who never married; none had planned to ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Comrades in Health

    U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home

    by Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Theodore M. Brown, Susan Gross Solomon, Walter J. Lear, Jane Pacht Brickman, H. Jack Geiger, Victor W. Sidel, Ruth Sidel, Bernard Lown0, Howard Waitzkin1, Paula Braveman2, Stephen Gloyd3, James Pfeiffer4, Wendy Johnson5, Mary Travis Bassett6, Michael Terry7, Laura Turiano8, Alicia Ely Yamin9, Seiji Yamada0, Lanny Smith1, Jennifer Kasper2, Timothy Holtz3, Razel Remen4, Brea Bondi-Boyd5, Vicente Navarro7 ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
    Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often with roots in social medicine, political activism, and international socialism, these doctors, nurses, and other health workers became comrades who joined forces with people struggling for social justice, equity, and ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Keeping Women and Children Last

    America's War on the Poor, Revised Edition

    by Ruth Sidel ...
    In Keeping Women and Children Last, Ruth Sidel shows how America, in its search for a post-Cold War enemy, has turned inward to target single mothers on welfare, and how politicians have scapegoated and stigmatized female-headed families both as a method of social control and to divert attention from the severe problems that Americans face. She reveals the real victims of poverty--the millions of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Battling Bias

    The Struggle for Identity and Community on College Campuses

    by Ruth Sidel ...
    Politicians, philosophers, and academics have spent countless hours debating the issues of greatest concern on college campuses today: multiculturalism, political correctness, race relations, sexual politics, and gender. But what has been noticeably missing from their discussions are the voices of the students themselves. Battling Bias is one of the first books to offer an analysis of their ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    And Other Conversations About Race

    by Beverly Daniel Tatum ...
    The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America.“An unusually sensitive work about the racial barriers that still divide us in so many areas of life.” ―Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing GraceWalk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own... ... Read more

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  • Going Solo

    The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone

    by Eric Klinenberg ...
    With eye-opening statistics, original data, and vivid portraits of people who live alone, renowned sociologist Eric Klinenberg upends conventional wisdom to deliver the definitive take on how the rise of going solo is transforming the American experience.Klinenberg shows that most single dwellers—whether in their twenties or eighties—are deeply engaged in social and civic life. There's even ... Read more

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  • The Way We Never Were

    American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

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    **The classic, myth-shattering history of the American family.“The Way We Never Were effectively demolishes the normal, traditional nuclear family as neither normal nor traditional, and not even nuclear.” ―Nation**Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man’s home has never been his castle, the “male breadwinner marriage” is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault ... Read more

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  • The War Against Boys

    How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men

    by Christina Hoff Sommers ...
    An updated and revised edition of the controversial classic—now more relevant than ever—argues that boys are the ones languishing socially and academically, resulting in staggering social and economic costs.Girls and women were once second-class citizens in the nation’s schools. Americans responded with concerted efforts to give girls and women the attention and assistance that was long overdue. ... Read more

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  • Is Marriage for White People?

    How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone

    by Ralph Richard Banks ...
    A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly incendiary-solution.Black women are three times as likely as white women to never marry.That sobering statistic reflects a broader reality: African Americans are the most unmarried people in our nation, and contrary to public perception the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Educating for Character

    How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

    by Thomas Lickona ...
    Calls for renewed moral education in America's schools, offering dozens of programs schools can adopt to teach students respect, responsibility, hard work, and other values that should not be left to parents to teach. ... Read more

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  • A Strange Stirring

    The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

    by Stephanie Coontz ...
    **A brilliant examination of how Betty Friedan’s revolutionary book The Feminine Mystique liberated women in the 1960s—and what it means to women today.“An illuminating analysis of the book that helped launch the movement that freed women to participate more fully in American society.” —Wall Street Journal**In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The ... Read more

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  • Perfect Madness

    Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety

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    A lively and provocative look at the modern culture of motherhood and at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped current ideas about parentingWhat is wrong with this picture? That's the question Judith Warner asks in this national bestseller after taking a good, hard look at the world of modern parenting--at anxious women at work and at home and in bed with unhappy husbands.When ... Read more

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