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The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) is the most expansive federal legislation addressing intimate violence in the United States to date.

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This book offers a social movement perspective on family violence, framing the discovery of abuse toward women and men as a natural development flowing out of social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The problem of women's violence is one that has remained largely ignored compared to the mountain of research on men's violence toward women.

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Provides an assessment of feminist rejections of rationality and a reconstruction of the concept to meet feminist demands. This book represents a sustained argument for a feminist theory of rationality. It opens by asking the question: is reason inherently masculine

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Examines Chilean singer-songwriter, visual artist, poet and ethnographer Violeta Parra (19171967)

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This innovative book gives a historical and geographic perspective on visual cultures of childhood, looking at representation as well as media effects.

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What really hurts America's children and what we can do about it.

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Because women are more likely to seek professional help, and because they are more likely to be the victims of abuse by people in positions of power, women who do seek professional assistance may end up being victims of sexual exploitation by the very people from whom they seek help.

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"In his withering dissection of the origins and misuse of the term "underclass" to stereotype and stigmatize the poor, Herbert J. Gans shows how this ubiquitous label has relegated a wide variety of pe"

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This insightful analysis argues that the media should have done a better job of performing its traditional role of skeptic and watchdog, and it examines what went wrong.

There are, of course, many people whose support for going to war in Iraq was not contingent on the existence of WMD or a connection to al-Qaeda.

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Blows the lid on what has been described by the UN as a 'human catastrophe' the governments war on disabled people

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Here is the whole story of the world of drugs-from the infamous Opium Wars to the legal availability of narcotics in the United States during the past century; from the unexpected boost given to illicit drugs by Prohibition to the great success of the French Connection.

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In this clear-eyed and controversial book he sets himself to take the temperature of the nation at the end of the 20th century - to test its blood for health and heartiness, sample its imagination for largeness amd magnanimity, conduct examinations of its intelligence, judgement and moral sense.

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This collection of essays examines the question of how injustices of the past affect entire groups of people today and outlines the current beneficiaries of these injustices.

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We are used to the term "dreaming" being associated with the spirituality of the Aboriginal people. This work argues that there is also a "Western Dreaming", originating in the 16th century as part of a Third Reformation.

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The author offers many new insights for students of migration and ethnicity across several social science disciplines. Focusing on the ordinary immigrants who have often been ignored in the historical record, he demonstrates that German newcomers arrived with fewer resources than previously supposed but that they were remarkably successful in becom

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Especially pertinent for political sociologists and political scientists, this text examines key social and political issues surrounding the white collar working class.

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Examining works by black writers, this book constructs a typology of white images in the African American imagination. It argues that these images repeatedly occur in works by black writers. Stereotypes include the overt bigot, the hyocrite, the liberal, and the good-hearted weakling.

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This impassioned and informed book is the first to describe how government and industry have failed working families and what we can do to get beyond this critical impasse

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When Susan Maushart first decided to pull the plug on all electronic media at home, she realised her children would have sooner volunteered to go without food, water or hair products. Susan's experiment with her family was a major success and she found that having less to communicate with, her family is communicating more.

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