Author: Nancy Tatom Ammerman
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: community, congregation
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1996-12-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813523354
ISBN-13: 9780813523354

Why do some religious institutions decline in the face of racial integration whilst others grow? How do congregations deal with economic distress? This study of congregations in the face of community transformation includes stories of over 20 congregations in nine communities across America.

Authors:Robyn Warhol-Down, Diane Price Herndl,
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: theory, criticism, literary, anthology, redux, feminisms
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2009-11-30
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0813546206
ISBN-13: 9780813546209

The 1991 landmark edition of Feminisms presented the most comprehensive collection of American and British feminist literary criticism ever published. In 1997, the volume was revised to include more than two dozen new essays. Now Robyn Warhol-Down and Diane Price Herndl revisit the canon of feminist literary criticism and theory once again and re-establish the measure for representing the latest developments in the field and offer an indispensable collection of essays representing the range of feminist literary criticism.

Author: Ina R. Hark
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: american, cinema, decades, culture, screen, themes, 1930s, variations
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-06-21
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813540828
ISBN-13: 9780813540825

Probably no decade saw as many changes in the Hollywood film industry and its product as the 1930s did. At the beginning of the decade, the industry was still struggling with the transition to talking pictures. Gangster films and naughty comedies starring Mae West were popular in urban areas, but aroused threats of censorship in the heartland. Whether the film business could survive the economic effects of the Crash was up in the air. By 1939, popularly called "Hollywood’s Greatest Year," films like Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz used both color and sound to specta

Author: Mark S. Kiselica
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: america, fatherhood, adolescent, parents, boys
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008-11-30
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0813543584
ISBN-13: 9780813543581

After school specials about teenage pregnancy abound. Whether in television or in society, the focus tends toward young girls coping with all of the emotional and physical burdens of pregnancy but rarely is the perspective of the teenage fathers portrayed.In this informative book, Mark S. Kiselica draws on his many years of counseling teenage fathers to offer a compassionate look at the difficult life circumstances and the complicated hardships these young men experience. He dispels many of the myths surrounding teenage fatherhood and shows that, contrary to popular belief, these young men are

Author: Nicole Sault
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: relations, social, image, mirrors
Number of Pages: 366
Published: 1994-09-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0813520800
ISBN-13: 9780813520803

Author: Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: cosmetic, culture, pathology, wellness, junkies, surgery
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-04-25
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0813540488
ISBN-13: 9780813540481

The ease of accessibility, improvements in safety and technology, media attention, growing acceptance by the public, or an increasingly superficial culture: whatever the reason, cosmetic surgery is more popular today than ever. In 2005, in the United States alone, there were nearly two million aesthetic operations--more than quadruple the number from 1984, along with more than eight million non-surgical procedures. Innovative surgical methods have also brought cosmetic improvements to new areas of the body, such as the ribs, buttocks, and genitalia. Despite the increasing n

Author: Joshua D. Zimmerman
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: holocaust, aftermath, jews, poles, memories, contested
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2003-01-10
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0813531586
ISBN-13: 9780813531588

Few issues have divided Poles and Jews more deeply than the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War and the subsequent slaughter of almost ninety percent of Polish Jewry. Many Jewish historians have argued that, during the occupation, Poles at best displayed indifference to the fate of the Jews and at worst were willing accomplices of the Nazis. Many Polish scholars, however, deny any connection between the prewar culture of antisemitism and the wartime situation. They emphasized that Poles were also victims of the Nazis and, for the most part, tried their best to protect