A Companion to American Women's History

A Companion to American Women's History
Author: Nancy A. Hewitt
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 047099858X

This collection of twenty-four original essays by leading scholars in American women's history highlights the most recent important scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field. Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including the colonial family, marriage, health, sexuality, education, immigration, work, consumer culture, and feminism. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Includes expanded bibliography of titles to guide further research.

Choice and Coercion

Choice and Coercion
Author: Johanna Schoen
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2009-10-15
Genre:
ISBN: 145873157X

Abortion After Roe

Abortion After Roe
Author: Johanna Schoen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Abortion
ISBN: 9781469621180

This title chronicles and analyzes what the new legal status and changing political environment have meant for abortion providers and their patients. Johanna Schoen sheds light on the little-studied experience of performing and receiving abortion care from the 1970s to the rise of the antiabortion movement and the escalation of antiabortion tactics in the 1980s to the 1990s and beyond.

Concepts and Strategies for Combating Social Exclusion

Concepts and Strategies for Combating Social Exclusion
Author: Jordi Estivill
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9789221136521

Millions of human beings the world over survive in conditions of poverty and social exclusion, and this is unlikely to change in the years to come. This grave situation affects the whole of humanity, which cannot and must not shut its eyes to it. Social exclusion is spreading so much that it is becoming one of the keys to understanding the economic and social situation of the world today. This book attempts to deciper the concept of social exclusion. It aims to identify, analyse and measure exclusion and make it more visible. It also aims to provide a detailed overview of those involved and their initiatives.

Creating Choice

Creating Choice
Author: D. Cline
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2006-02-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1403982899

Before Roe v. Wade, somewhere between one and two million illegal abortions were performed every year in the United States. Illegal abortion affected millions of women and their families, yet their stories remain hidden. In Creating Choice , citizens of one community in Western Massachusetts' Pioneer Valley break that silence.

Nursing History Review, Volume 28

Nursing History Review, Volume 28
Author: Patricia D'Antonio, PhD, RN, FAAN
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2019-09-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0826143679

Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles, over a dozen book reviews of the best publications on nursing and health care history that have appeared in the past year, and a section abstracting new doctoral dissertations on nursing history. Historians, researchers, and individuals fascinated with the rich field of nursing will find this an important resource. Included in Volume 28... “Service is the Rent We Pay”: The Complexity of Nurses’ Claims to Their Place in Social Justice Movements The American Red Cross “Mercy Ship” in the First World War: A Pivotal Experiment in Nursing-Centered Clinical Humanitarianism The Nurses No-One Remembers: Looking for Spanish Nurses in Accounts of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) The Norwegian Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (NORMASH) in the Korean War (1951–1954): Military Hospital or Humanitarian “Sanctuary?” Matriarchs of the Operating Room: Nurses, Neurosurgery, and Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1920–1940

Choice & Coercion

Choice & Coercion
Author: Johanna Schoen
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2005
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807829196

In August 2003, North Carolina became the first U.S. state to offer restitution to victims of state-ordered sterilizations carried out by its eugenics program between 1929 and 1975. The decision was prompted by newspaper stories based on the research of J

Macho Men and Modern Women

Macho Men and Modern Women
Author: Claudia Roesch
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2015-10-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110399458

Claudia Roesch offers a study of Mexican American families and evolving notions of masculinity and motherhood in the context of American family history. The book focuses both on the negotiation of family norms in social expert studies and on measures taken by social workers and civil-rights activists for families. The work fills gaps in research regarding the history of the American family in the 20th century, the history of Mexican Americans, and the history of social sciences. Taking a long-term perspective from the first wave of Mexican mass immigration in the 1910s and 1920s until the new social movements of the 1970s, the study takes into account influences of the Americanization and eugenics movements, modernization theory, psychoanalysis, and the Chicano civil-rights movement. Thus, Claudia Roesch offers important new findings on the nexus between the scientization of social work and changing family values in the age of modernity.

Eugenic Nation

Eugenic Nation
Author: Alexandra Minna Stern
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520285069

"With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition includes shocking details that demonstrate that the story is far from over. Alexandra Minna Stern explores the unauthorized sterilization of female inmates in California state prisons and ongoing reparations for North Carolina victims of sterilization, as well as the topics of race-based intelligence tests, school segregation, the U.S. Border Patrol, tropical medicine, the environmental movement, and opposition to better breeding. Radically new and relevant, this edition draws from recently uncovered historical records to demonstrate patterns of racial bias in California's sterilization program and to recover personal experiences of reproductive injustice. Stern connects the eugenic past to the genomic present with attention to the ethical and social implications of emerging genetic technologies"--Provided by publisher.