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  • Elizabeth Detention Center

    A Social History of Immigration Detention in New Jersey and the United States

    by Ulla D. Berg, Carolina Sánchez Boe, Amy Gottlieb, Elizabeth Llorente, Penny Venetis, Fauziya Kassindja, Layli Miller Bashir, Will Coley0, Carolina Sanchez Boe2, Sarah Tosh3, Abdulai Bah4, Marguerite É Marty5, William Westerman6, Seth Kaper-Dale7, Edafe Okporo8, Kristyn Scorsone9, Pina N. Cirillo0, Kathy O'Leary1, Katherine M. Sastre2, Deirdre Conlon3, Nancy Hiemstra4, Julio Oseguera5, K. Sebastian León6, Xiomara Flores7, Mary Rizzo8, Whitney Strub9, Jessica Rofé0, Gloria d'Alessio1, Gabriela Viera2, Silky Shah3 ...
    The United States detains and deports several hundred thousand migrants every year. Many spend significant amounts of time in immigration detention as they await adjudication of their immigration cases. The Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey is located in a converted warehouse, managed by a private, for-profit prison company. Over three decades, migrants and asylum seekers have been brought ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Queer Newark

    Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community

    by Whitney Strub, Yamil Avivi, Jason Chernesky, LeiLani Dowell, Anna Lvovsky, Queer Newark Oral History Project, Mary Rizzo, Christina Strasburger, Dominique Rocker0, Peter Savastano1, Timothy Stewart-Winter2, Kristyn Scorsone3, Danielle M. Shields4, Carse Ramos5 ...
    NJSAA Edited Works Award Winner (2024)Histories of gay and lesbian urban life typically focus on major metropolitan areas like San Francisco and New York, opportunity-filled destinations for LGBTQ migrants from across the country. Yet there are many other queer communities in economically depressed cities with majority Black and Hispanic populations that receive far less attention. Though just a ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Porno Chic and the Sex Wars

    American Sexual Representation in the 1970s

    Edited by Carolyn Bronstein, Whitney Strub ...
    For many Americans, the emergence of a “porno chic” culture provided an opportunity to embrace the sexual revolution by attending a film like Deep Throat (1972) or leafing through an erotic magazine like Penthouse. By the 1980s, this pornographic moment was beaten back by the rise of Reagan-era political conservatism and feminist anti-pornography sentiment.This volume places pornography at the ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Obscenity Rules

    Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression

    by Whitney Strub ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    For some, he was “America’s leading smut king,” hauled into court repeatedly over thirty years for peddling obscene publications through the mail. But when Samuel Roth appealed a 1956 conviction, he forced the Supreme Court to finally come to grips with a problem that had plagued both American society and constitutional law for longer than he had been in business. For while the facts of Roth v. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Perversion for Profit

    The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right

    by Whitney Strub ...
    While America is not alone in its ambivalence toward sex and its depictions, the preferences of the nation swing sharply between toleration and censure. This pattern has grown even more pronounced since the 1960s, with the emergence of the New Right and its attack on the "floodtide of filth" that was supposedly sweeping the nation. Antipornography campaigns became the New Right's political capital ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Sex and Sexuality in Modern Southern Culture

    by Claire Strom, Stephanie Chalifoux, Francesca Gamber, Whitney Strub, Richard Hourigan, Riche Richardson, Jerry Watkins, Katherine Henninger, Abigail Parsons, Matt Miller, Krystal Humphreys ...
    In the American imagination, the South is a place both sexually open and closed, outwardly chaste and inwardly sultry. Sex and Sexuality in Modern Southern Culture demonstrates that there is no central theme that encompasses sex in the U.S. South, but rather a rich variety of manifestations and embodiments influenced by race, gender, history, and social and political forces.The twelve essays in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Out in All Directions

    A Treasury of Gay and Lesbian America

    Edited by Lynn Witt, Sherry Thomas, Eric Marcus ...
    "Fascinating..provocative and funny." -- Contax GuideThere has never been a better time to show the world - both gay and nongay - the depth and breadth of the people, the history, and the communities that have been created by gay men and lesbians.Out in All Directions presents a broad picture of the myriad cultures and achievements of gay people in society at large. Every chapter uncovers history, ... Read more

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  • Right Side of History

    100 Years of LGBTQ Activism

    by Adrian Brooks ...
    The Right Side of History tells the 100-year history of queer activism in a series of revealing close-ups, first-person accounts, and intimate snapshots of LGBT pioneers and radicals. This diverse cast stretches from the Edwardian period to today.Described by gay scholar Jonathan Katz as "willfully cacophonous, a chorus of voices untamed," The Right Side of History sets itself apart by starting ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Female Chauvinist Pigs

    Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

    by Ariel Levy ...
    A classic work on gender culture exploring how the women’s movement has evolved to Girls Gone Wild in a new, self-imposed chauvinism. In the tradition of Susan Faludi’s Backlash and Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth, New York Magazine writer Ariel Levy studies the effects of modern feminism on women today.Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig—the new brand of “empowered woman” who wears the Playboy bunny as a ... Read more

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  • Good and Mad

    The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

    by Rebecca Traister ...
    ***Updated with a new introduction*Journalist Rebecca Traister’s New York Times bestselling exploration of the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement is “a hopeful, maddening compendium of righteous feminine anger, and the good it can do when wielded efficiently—and collectively” (Vanity Fair).**Long before Pantsuit Nation, before the Women’s ... Read more

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  • Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

    by Gloria Steinem ...
    A bestselling first collection of humorous and insightful essays by a luminary of the women’s liberation movementThese essays from Gloria Steinem’s first three decades of work offer a portrait of a woman who was not only one of the savviest leaders of the women’s liberation movement, but also a profoundly humane thinker with a wide-ranging intellect and irresistible wit. In “If Men Could ... Read more

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  • Porn Generation

    How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future

    by Ben Shapiro ...
    Shapiro captures a generation through first-person reporting, interviews with refugees from the porn industry, conversations with psychologist, educators, and students, and a telling cultural critique. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD