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A Muslim psychiatrist and a Jewish journalist join together to tell a story of genocide and healing

Wounded I Am More Awake Finding Meaning after Terror julia lieblich and esad boškailo

ounded I Am More Awake follows turned on friends. She documents his the story of Esad Boškailo, a doctor harrowing experiences in the camps, W who survives six concentration where the men he once joined for coffee camps in Bosnia and emerges with murder his best friend from childhood. powerful new lessons for healing in an But the story does not end there. age of genocide. Boškailo moves to the United States and This gripping account raises ques- decides to become a psychiatrist so he tions for healers, survivors, and readers can guide survivors through the long- striving to understand the reality of war term process of restoring hope. Today, and the aftermath of terror. Is it possible inspired by the late psychiatrist and to find meaning after enduring crimes Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, April 2012 against humanity? Can people heal after Boškailo uses his own experience to 192 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches trauma? help patients mourn their losses and index Human rights journalist Julia Lieblich find meaning in the aftermath of terror. cloth $39.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-1825-5 takes the reader through Boškailo’s early paper $19.95t ISBN 978-0-8265-1826-2 years under Tito to the wars when friends ebook $18.99 ISBN 978-0-8265-1827-9

“I have just turned the last page. I feel drained, enraged, despairing for humanity—but also enriched, confirmed, and, in a way, elated. This unlikely couple, a journalist who wrote the story and a psychiatrist who lived the story, have accomplished something that is remarkable and Julia Lieblich is necessary. They relived and recorded one man’s survival of genocide in a an award-winning narrative that conveys such well-chosen detail that you smell the stench human rights and sweat of bodies in a concentration camp, but you have just enough journalist whose air to breathe and distance to carry you through the darkness. work has appeared in the New York “We must acknowledge the extremes of human evil, and face the history

Times Magazine, the Agovic Nusret by Photo of collective atrocity. We must understand the impact of cruelty and loss Washington Post, Time, on those who escape and endure. And the only way to learn the hardest Life, and Ms. A former lessons of inhumanity is for the tale to be told so well that we permit religion writer for ourselves to take it in, to appreciate the dignity of those who have been Photo by Robert by Photo Potter the Chicago Tribune deliberately debased, but who act in small, decent ways. They share bread. and the Associated They restrain anger that could damage a fellow prisoner. They testify and Press, she is an risk the reprisal of others and, even worse, the reprisal of unforgiving assistant professor of Esad Boškailo is a Clinical Associate Professor in the memory. This is my world, the world of those who witness trauma and journalism at Loyola Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona terror and loss. These are my people, the victims who prevail, the therapists University Chicago. College of Medicine-Phoenix and Associate Director of who listen, the journalists who witness, perceive, and relate. Psychiatric Residency Training at the Maricopa Integrated Health System. Trained in family medicine in Bosnia, he “Read this book. It will take you where you would rather not go, but you works with survivors of trauma from domestic abuse to war. will be better for going there.” —Frank Ochberg, MD, founder of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

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How a two-year recovery community for women with histories of abuse, Magdalene House addiction, and involvement in street-based sex work can empower and heal

A PlAce About Mercy

Magdalene House A Place about Mercy

sarah vanhooser suiter

omen come to Magdalene House free to speak their truth—even to complain in Nashville when they are ready to sometimes about how their storytelling is W leave the streets. They live together— exploited “for the good of the community.” unsupervised and free of charge—for two Magdalene House is a participant- Sarah VanHooser Suiter years. During that time, the women are observation account of the history of this given time, space, and the resources they remarkable community founded in 1997, its need to heal from what have often been structure, its Thistle Farms beauty products lifelong experiences with suffering. (Of the operation, and Reverend Becca Stevens’s May 2012 twenty-two women now in residence, 80 communal and spiritual vision. The book is 200 pages, 6 x 9 inches percent have a diagnosed mental illness finally about what it means to walk the path references, index other than addiction, 40 percent are receiv- of healing with a group of unlikely women cloth $45.00s ISBN 978-0-8265-1837-8 paper $22.50s ISBN 978-0-8265-1838-5 ing treatment for hepatitis C, and one-third as guide. ebook $21.99 ISBN 978-0-8265-1839-2 are HIV positive.) However, the story of the Magdalene Magdalene House was the subject of community is not about these statistics, a multiple-part documentary “Sarah Suiter’s book documents a healing community but about the stories the women tell. They on National Public Radio. that creates a home for women who have used drugs say they thrive in the community because and sold sex and are desperate for a safe place, helping it is a place where they are free to be them- hands, and loving hearts to help them change their lives. selves, safe to give and receive love, and The ingredients for the development and evaluation of similar effective communities for women are well and passionately described in the book. Hopefully they will be heeded.” —Jean J. Schensul, Senior Scientist and Founding Director, Institute for Community Research, Hartford, and author, with Margaret LeCompte, of The Ethnographer’s Toolkit

Sarah VanHooser Suiter became Lead Program Evaluator at Centerstone Research Institute in Nashville after completing a postdoctoral fellowship in Religion, Spirituality, and Health at Duke University Medical Center.

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Feminist takes on depictions of violence against women and changing gender roles in Stieg Larsson’s thrillers

Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective

EDITED BY DONNA KING AND CARRIE LEE SMITH

tieg Larsson was an unabashed feminist secretive institutions. How do readers and in his personal and professional life and moviegoers react to these depictions, and S in the fictional world he created, but what do they make of the women who fight The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl back, the complex masculinities in the Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who trilogy, and the ambiguous gender of the Kicked the Hornet’s Nest are full of graphic elusive Lisbeth Salander? depictions of violence against women, These lively and accessible essays expand July 2012 including stalking, sexual harassment, the conversation in the blogosphere about 192 pages, 6 x 9 inches child abuse, rape, incest, serial murder, the novels and films by connecting the con- references, index sexual slavery, and sex trafficking, commit- troversies about gender roles to social trends cloth $44.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-1849-1 ted by vile individual men and by corrupt, in the real world. paper $24.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-1850-7 ebook $23.99 ISBN 978-0-8265-1851-4

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Introduction Hacker Republic: Cyberspace and the Feminist Appropriation Donna King is an Associate Professor of Donna King and Carrie Lee Smith of Technology Sociology at the University of North Carolina Sophie Statzel Bjork-James Misogyny and Mayhem Wilmington. Always Ambivalent: Why Media Is Never Just Entertainment Is This What Equality Looks Like? Working Women in the Abby Ferber Millennium Trilogy Carrie Lee Smith is an Associate Professor Diane Levy of Sociology at Millersville University of Kick-Ass Feminism: Violence, Resistance, and Feminist Avengers in Larsson’s Trilogy Swedish Perspectives Pennsylvania. Kris DeWelde Corporations, the Welfare State, and Covert Misogyny in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Lisbeth Salander as the “Final Girl” in the Swedish “Girl Who” Films Anna Westerståhl Stenport and Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm Karen Ritzenhoff Lisbeth Salander and Her Swedish Crime Fiction “Sisters”: Accounts of Violence against Women: The Potential of Realistic Fiction Stieg Larsson’s Hero in a Genre Context Roberta Villalón Kerstin Bergman State Complicity in Men’s Violence against Women Is Mikael Blomkvist the Man of the Millennium? Patricia Yancey Martin Sara Kärrholm Gender and Power in the New Millennium Readers’ Responses The Gender Ambiguity of Lisbeth Salander: Third-Wave Feminist Hero? An Open Letter to the Next Stieg Larsson Judith Lorber LeeAnn Kriegh Third-Wave Rebels in a Second-Wave World: Polyamory, Gender, and Pippi and Lisbeth: Fictional Heroes across Generations Power Meika Loe Mimi Schippers Feminist Bloggers Kick Larsson’s Ass: Reading Resistance Online Men Who Love Women: Pro-feminist Masculinities in the Millennium Jessie Daniels Trilogy Michael Kimmel Feminist Avenger or Male Fantasy? Reading the Reception of the Millennium Trilogy Tiny, Tattooed, and Tough as Nails: Representations of Lisbeth Caryn Murphy Salander’s Body Catherine (Kay) G. Valentine

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Life histories of women negotiating their identities between two worlds

Transnational Desires Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York

Suzana Maia

igrant sex workers are commonly sexuality. These stereotypes are the props cast as victims, moved by desperation that Brazilian women use to construct their M to flee poverty and hopelessness in performances in Manhattan and Queens their home country. The Brazilian erotic gentlemen’s bars and the language through dancers Suzana Maia presents in Transna- which they negotiate their relationships to tional Desires, however, are women from society at large. the Brazilian middle class—some of Transnational Desires focuses on the them well-educated professionals—who lives of nine Brazilian dancers with whom May 2012 migrated to the United States not just to the author, herself a middle-class Brazilian, 256 pages, 6 x 9 inches better themselves economically but also to developed close relationships over the years. references, index Maia examines their social relations both cloth $59.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-1822-4 realize their personal dreams. paper $24.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-1823-1 Their motivation to migrate and to in the bar scene and with family, friends, ebook $23.99 ISBN 978-0-8265-1824-8 work as erotic dancers can also be under- and lovers outside. She shows that for these stood in the context of a representational women erotic dancing is part of a life trajec- system, inaugurated in colonial times, tory that involves negotiating their social “An exceptional study based on long-term field research that emphasizes the exoticism of Brazilian position and life prospects in a fundamen- of the highest quality, Transnational Desires is especially women—their bodies, their skin tone, their tally transnational social universe. effective in situating the exotic (erotic dancing) within the mundane (the daily lives of the women who are its focus). Maia manages to contextualize the lives of her informants in their more complex existence not just as workers at the bars, but as people struggling to construct meaningful lives, building projects for the present and the future, trying to find happiness in often difficult circumstances. Her description of their emotional relationships, their struggles and searches, should make this an instant classic.” —Richard G. Parker, author of Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions: Sexual Culture in Contemporary Brazil

“This study of middle-class Brazilian women, their border-crossing migratory experiences as colored Suzana Maia is Professor of Anthropology at by their experiences of class, sexuality, gender, the Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia race/ethnicity, and nationality in New York City and (UFRB), Brazil. She received her PhD from the City Brazil, and their work choices (erotic dancing is better University of New York Graduate Center. than domestic work) is absolutely fascinating. It is also a ‘good read,’ full of unexpected twists, sensitive interpretation, rich ethnography, and insightful socioeconomic contextualization.” —Nicole Constable, Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh

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A collective biography of three New York City women who pushed boundaries, changed media, and advanced the cause of equality a n o n y m o u s in Their Own Names

Doris E. Fleischman, Ruth Hale, and Jane Grant

Anonymous in Their Own Names Doris E. Fleischman, Ruth Hale, and Jane Grant susan henry

nonymous in Their Own Names they founded the Lucy Stone League to recounts the lives of three women help other women keep their names, and A who, while working as their husbands’ Grant and Fleischman revived the league in uncredited professional partners, had a 1950. This was the same year Grant and her profound and enduring impact on the second husband, William Harris, founded s u s a n h e n ry media in the first half of the twentieth White Flower Farm, pioneering at that century. With her husband, Edward L. time and today one of the country’s most Bernays, Doris E. Fleischman helped celebrated commercial nurseries. July 2012 found and form the field of public rela- Despite strikingly different personalities, 304 pages, 7 x 10 inches tions. Ruth Hale helped her husband, the three women were friends and lived in 29 b&w photos, notes, bibliography, index Heywood Broun, become one of the overlapping, immensely stimulating New cloth $35.00s ISBN 978-0-8265-1846-0 most popular and influential newspaper York City circles. Susan Henry explores ebook $34.99 ISBN 978-0-8265-1848-4 columnists of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1925 their pivotal roles in their husbands’ Jane Grant and her husband, Harold Ross, extraordinary success and much more, started the New Yorker magazine. including their problematic marriages Yet these women’s achievements have and their strategies for been invisible to countless authors who overcoming barriers have written about their husbands. This that thwarted many of invisibility is especially ironic given that their contemporaries. all three were feminists who kept their birth names when they married as a sign of their equality with their husbands, then battled the government and societal norms to retain their names. Hale and Grant so believed in this cause that in 1921

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How the dissemination of Latin American The racial front in the global Deborah Cohn The literature in the U.S. was “caught between Cold War LaTin the desire to support the literary revolution american of the Boom writers and the fear of Race, Ethnicity, and LiTerary revolutionary politics.” * the Cold War Boom A Global Perspective

anD U.S. The Latin American Literary edited by philip e. muehlenbeck naTionaLiSm Boom and U.S. Nationalism DUrinG The during the Cold War white American woman is raped by a black Panamanian laborer in 1946 in coLD War DEBORAH COHN the Panama Canal Zone, and the after-

COEN LIT BOOM COMP 5.indd 1 10/15/11 8:33:54 AM A math affects labor relations in the Western uring the 1960s and 1970s, when writers such as hemisphere for the next two decades. And May 2012 Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García numerous nations use the African continent 280 pages, 6 x 9 inches Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa entered the to exercise their colonial muscle and postwar bibliography, index D international literary mainstream, Cold War cultural power, only to encounter the financial and cloth $69.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-1804-0 politics played an active role in disseminating their military burdens that will exhaust and alienate paper $34.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-1805-7 work in the United States. Deborah Cohn documents their own citizenry half a world away. As Race, ebook $33.99 ISBN 978-0-8265-1806-4 how U.S. universities, book and journal publishers, Ethnicity, and the Cold War reveals, during philanthropic organizations, cultural centers, and au- this dangerous era there were no longer any *“A splendid, engagingly written work, thors coordinated their efforts to bring Latin Ameri- “isolated incidents.” Like the butterfly flapping based on a wealth of hitherto unexplored can literature to a U.S. reading public during this its wings and changing the weather on the archival material. It offers a fascinating period, when interest in the region was heightened other side of the globe, an instance of racial or account of how the publication and by the Cuban Revolution. She also traces the connec- ethnic hostility had ripple effects across a Cold dissemination of Latin American literature tions between the endeavors of private organizations War world of brinksmanship between bitter in the U.S. were enmeshed in the and official foreign policy goals. national rivals and ideological opponents. contradictions of Cold War culture: caught The high level of interest in Latin America between the desire to support the literary paradoxically led the U.S. government to restrict revolution of the Boom writers and the “Race, Ethnicity, and the Cold War makes it clear that race, and these authors’ physical presence in the United States fear of revolutionary politics. Essential even racism, was not something uniquely afflicting the United reading for all scholars of the Americas.” through the McCarran-Walter Act’s immigration States, and that it can be studied in many other societies, and —John King, University of Warwick blacklist, even as cultural organizations cultivated the that it had an impact on the foreign policies of these countries.” exchange of ideas —Thomas Alan Schwartz, author of Lyndon Johnson and Europe “Deborah Cohn’s lucid, meticulous study with writers and is a model of historical inquiry and sought to market “By uncovering the transnational history of linkages between critical acumen. Unprecedented and translations of race, ethnicity, and global conflict, this volume makes clear groundbreaking, in a field still muddled their work for the that the challenge of grappling with, in Obama’s words, our by academics who have not moved U.S. market. ‘teeming, colliding, irksome diversity,’ marked not just the United beyond political agendas and the careless States, but many parts of the world. Perhaps recognizing the shortcuts of historical amnesia, is Cohn’s global nature of this challenge can serve as one step toward fair-minded retrospection of what was confronting the many boundaries that continue to divide human clearly a fiercely paradoxical era of intense beings from each other and from our shared history.” cultural productivity and conflict under Deborah Cohn, —Nico Slate, Carnegie Mellon University, from the introduction the deforming shadow of the Cold War.” Associate Professor Bowie Jocelyn by Photo —Suzanne Jill Levine, author of of Spanish and The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Studies at American Fiction Indiana University Bloomington, is the author of History Philip E. Muehlenbeck, Professorial Lecturer in and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and History at George Washington University, is the Spanish American Fiction (Vanderbilt University Press). author of Betting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy’s Courting of African Nationalist Leaders.

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The influence of faith in the conflicts that 3BDF defined the Cold War 3FMJHJPO &UIOJDJUZ Religion and the Cold War BOEUIF BOEUIF A Global Perspective $PME8BS $PME8BS edited by philip e. muehlenbeck

A GlobAl PersPective A GlobAl PersPective he lines of armed conflict, and the catastrophic perils

they portended, were shaped with shocking clarity in E d i t E d b y E d i t E d b y Philip E. Muehlenbeck T the immediate aftermath of World War II. Less clear Philip E. Muehlenbeck is the role religious ideology played in the conflicts that defined the Cold War era. All too often, beliefs held sacred by some became tools to motivate action or create friction. July 2012 In Religion and the Cold War, Philip Muehlenbeck assem- July 2012 344 pages, 7 x 10 inches bles an international team of specialists to explore how 288 pages, 7 x 10 inches 2 tables, bibliographies, notes, index religion informed the ideological and military clashes across bibliographies, notes, index cloth $69.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-1843-9 the globe in the second half of the twentieth century. cloth $69.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-1852-1 paper $27.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-1844-6 Students and scholars will find in this volume a level paper $27.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-1853-8 ebook $26.99 ISBN 978-0-8265-1845-3 of comprehensiveness rarely achieved in Cold War studies. ebook $26.99 ISBN 978-0-8265-1854-5 Each chapter reveals that the power and influence of ideas are just as important as military might in the struggles be- “Religion and the Cold War is a crucial tween superpowers—and that few ideas, then as now, carry reminder that religion shaped the contents as much force as religious ideology. As Muehlenbeck and his international context of the Cold War for both the United States and the Introduction Nico Slate contributors demonstrate, no area of the world, and no religious tenet, was safe from the manipulations of a powerful Soviet Union in the decades following Token Diplomacy: The United States, Race, and the World War II. A much-needed Cold War Michael L. Krenn set of players focused solely on their own sphere of influence. collection of essays, this volume A Wind of Change? White Redoubt and the demonstrates that nations who Postcolonial Moment, 1960–1963 Ryan Irwin Philip E. Muehlenbeck, Professorial Lecturer in History at George resisted the two superpowers often Washington University, is the author of Betting on the Africans: John F. Race, Labor, and Security in the Panama Canal Zone: did so through religious organizations Kennedy’s Courting of African Nationalist Leaders. The 1946 Greaves Rape Case, Local 713, and the and religious visions of their own Isthmian Cold War Crackdown Michael Donoghue national communities.” Race, Identity, and Diplomacy in the Papua contents —David Zietsma, Redeemer University Decolonization Struggle, 1949–1962 David Webster Introduction Andrew Preston Religion and Cold War Politics in Ethiopia College Wudu Tafete Kassu For a Better Guinea! Winning Hearts and Minds in An Early Attempt to Rip the Iron Curtain: Portuguese Guinea Luís Nuno Rodrigues The Pomak Question, 1945–1947 Soviet Policies toward Islam: Domestic “This is an ambitious and stimulating Argyris Mamarelis and International Considerations volume that reflects two of the most Testing the Limits of Soviet Internationalism: Eren Murat Tasar African Students in the Soviet Union The Western Allies, German Churches, important trends in the recent study Maxim Matusevich and the Emerging Cold War in Germany, Bosnian Muslims during the Cold War: of the Cold War: the role of religion in 1948–1952 JonDavid K. Wyneken Identity between Domestic and Foreign its development, and its global nature. Crimes against Humanity in the Congo: Nazi Policies Aydın Babuna Legacies and the German Cold War in Africa From Sermon to Strategy: Religious Bible-bearing balloons launched Katrina Hagen Influence on the Formation and Religion, Power, and Legitimacy in Ngo into the German wind, the surprising Implementation of US Foreign Policy in Dinh Diem’s Republic of Vietnam relationship between the Soviet state Race and the Cuban Revolution: The Impact of the Early Cold War Jonathan Herzog Jessica Chapman Cuba’s Intervention in Angola Henley Adams and its four Central Asian muftiates, Hewlett Johnson: Britain’s “Red Dean” Brazil: Nation and Church during the Cold tensions between South Vietnam’s Ethnic Nationalism in the Cold War Context: The and the Cold War David Ayers War Iain S. Maclean Cyprus Issue in the Greek and Greek American Public Catholic leadership and the majority Debate, 1954–1989 Rising to the Occasion: The Role of “I Will Be Devoted to Service with Buddhist opposition—these episodes, Zinovia Lialiouti and Philip Muehlenbeck American Missionaries and Korean My Body and Soul”: Institutionalized and many more, add an exciting Pastors in Resisting Communism Atheism of the Security Service Officers “God Bless Reagan” and “God Help Canada”: The throughout the Korean War in Communist Poland, 1944–1989 and essential new dimension to the Polish Canadian Action Group and Solidarność in Kai Yin Allison Haga Leszek Murat history of this vital era.” Toronto Eric L. Payseur The “Campaign of Truth” Program: U.S. Political Islam, Jamaat-e-Islami, and —Andrew J. Rotter, Colgate University, Ethnic Nationalism and the Collapse of Soviet Propaganda in Iraq during the Early Pakistan’s Role in the Afghan-Soviet War, author of Hiroshima: The World’s Bomb Communism Mark R. Beissinger 1950s Ahmed Khalid Al-Rawi 1979–1988 Zahid Shahab Ahmed

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Vivid ethnographies of reproductive risk and responsibility that speak to Risk, Reproduction, the conflicts between pregnant women and mothers and state-sanctioned and Narratives biomedicine of Experience

Risk, Reproduction, and Narratives of Experience edited by Lauren Fordyce and Amínata Maraesa Foreword by C arole Browner Afterword by Rayna Rapp

s Carole Browner explains in her women more docile subjects even as they foreword: “These chapters compellingly are impelled to actively engage with bio- A reveal that although we anthropolo- medicalized prenatal care regimes. . . . gists tend to speak of biomedicine in We also see that a consummate means by Edited by Lauren Fordyce and Amínata Maraesa hegemonic terms, in fact its penetration is which states seek to consolidate power in quite variable and often ambivalently met. the reproductive realm is through expan- . . . Risk, Reproduction, and Narratives of sion of the biomedical concept of risk. April 2012 Experience sheds new light on a troubling This critical observation emerges repeatedly 256 pages, 7 x 10 inches core aspect of medicalization processes, in this collection.” references, index which simultaneously render pregnant cloth $69.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-1819-4 paper $29.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-1820-0 ebook $28.99 ISBN 978-0-8265-1821-7 Lauren Fordyce is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bucknell University. contents Amínata Maraesa is a Lecturer in the Introduction: The Development of Discourses Surrounding Local Contours of Reproductive Risk and Responsibility in Department of Anthropology at Hunter College Reproductive Risks Rural Oaxaca of the City University of New York and the Lauren Fordyce and Amínata Maraesa Rebecca Howes-Mischel Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Complications in Measuring and Defining Risk New Countryside, New Family: The Discourses of Reproductive Studies at Lehman College of the City University Conceiving Risk in K’iche’ Maya Reproduction Risk in Postsocialist Rural China of New York. Matthew R. Dudgeon Qingyan Ma Failing to See the Danger: Conceptions of Pregnancy and Care Struggles over the Embodiment of Reproductive Risk Practices among Mexican Immigrant Women in New York City Negotiating Risk and the Politics of Responsibility: Mothers Alyshia Gálvez and Young Child Health among Datoga Pastoralists in Northern Tanzania The Vital Conjuncture of Methamphetamine-Involved Alyson G. Young Pregnancy: Objective Risks and Subjective Realities Alison B. Hamilton Shifting Maternal Responsibilities and the Trajectory of Blame in Northern Ghana Biopolitical Narratives of Risk and Responsibility Aaron R. Denham Birth and Blame: Guatemalan Midwives and Reproductive Imaging Maternal Responsibility: Prenatal Diagnosis and Risk Ultrasound among Haitians in South Florida Sheila Cosminsky Lauren Fordyce “They Don’t Know Anything”: How Medical Authority A Competition over Reproductive Authority: Prenatal Risk Constructs Perceptions of Reproductive Risk among Low- Assessment in Southern Belize Income Mothers in Mexico Amínata Maraesa Vania Smith-Oka

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The horror, deep in the mythical jungle JUNGLE FEVER Exploring Madness and Medicine in Twentieth-Century Tropical Narratives

Jungle Fever Exploring Madness and Medicine in Twentieth-Century Tropical Narratives charlotte rogers

he sinister “jungle”—that ill-defined maladies that afflict their characters evolved and amorphous place where civilization symbiotically with modern medicine. While T has no foothold and survival is always the wilderness challenges Conrad’s and Mal- in doubt—is the terrifying setting for raux’s European travelers to question their countless works of the imagination. Films civility and mental stability, Latin American CHARLOTTE ROGERS like Apocalypse Now, television shows like authors such as Alejo Carpentier deftly turn Lost, and of course stories like Heart of pseudoscientific theories into their greatest Darkness all pursue the essential question asset, as their characters transform madness June 2012 of why the unknown world terrifies adven- into an essential creative spark. 248 pages, 7 x 10 inches turer and spectator alike. In Jungle Fever, Ultimately, Jungle Fever suggests that the notes, bibliography, index Charlotte Rogers goes deep into five books greatest horror of the jungle is the unknown cloth $55.00s ISBN 978-0-8265-1831-6 that first defined the jungle as a violent and regions of the character’s own mind. ebook $54.99 ISBN 978-0-8265-1833-0 maddening place. The reader finds urban explorers venturing into the wilderness, encountering and living among the “native” inhabitants, and eventually losing their “Jungle Fever takes us on a fascinating excursion into minds. the colonial and postcolonial tropics where we find Conrad and Malraux in the company of Alejo Carpentier, The canonical works of authors such Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Luis Borges, and Wilson Harris as Joseph Conrad, André Malraux, José —with many surprises lurking along the way.” Eustasio Rivera, and others present jungles —Vera Kutzinski, author of Against the American Grain and wildernesses as fundamentally cor- rupting and dangerous. Rogers explores “Jungle Fever isolates, in the novelistic subgenre of the how the methods these authors use to com- jungle book, a deep strand involving disease, which is municate the physical and psychological at the source of its creative impulse, and where these adventure novels carry out a compelling critique of modern imperialism. Cutting across the English, Latin American, and French traditions this book is a model of

Photo by Richard Serton Richard by Photo the comparative approach.” —Roberto González Echevarría, Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature, Yale University, and Charlotte Rogers is Assistant Professor of author of Myth and Archive Latin American Culture at George Mason University.

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A fresh conception of women’s empowerment through education as a process of recognition, capacity development, and action in a community setting

Opening Minds, Improving Lives Education and Women’s Empowerment in Honduras

erin murphy-graham

uanita was seventeen years old and preg- research to examine the experiences of Juan- nant with her first child when she began ita and eighteen other women who partici- J an activity that would “open” her mind. pated in the SAT program. Their narratives Living in a remote Garifuna village in Hon- suggest the simple yet subtle ways education duras, Juanita had dropped out of school can spark the empowerment process, as well after the sixth grade. In 1996, a new edu- as the role of men and boys in promoting cational program, Sistema de Aprendizaje gender equality. Tutorial (Tutorial Learning System or SAT), Drawing on in-depth interviews and May 2012 was started in her community. The pro- classroom observation in Honduras and 240 pages, 6 x 9 inches gram helped her see the world differently Uganda, Murphy-Graham shows the poten- 9 b&w photos, appendix, references, index and open a small business. tial of the SAT program to empower women cloth $59.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-1828-6 Empowering women through education through expanded access and improved paper $29.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-1829-3 has become a top priority of international quality of secondary education in Latin ebook $28.99 ISBN 978-0-8265-1830-9 development efforts. Erin Murphy-Graham America and Africa. An appendix provides draws on more than a decade of qualitative samples of the classroom lessons. “Based on her years of intensive interviews, Murphy-Graham teaches us that the right kind of education promotes much more than economic opportunities. We learn about the remarkable ways that women changed: recognizing their own human worth, developing public voices, creating their own businesses, pursuing higher education, and negotiating more egalitarian marriages. This book should be read by everyone interested in the transformational power of education and in gender equality, and by all who seek hope for a better world.” —Francine Deutsch, Mt. Holyoke College

“A major contribution in helping us turn discussion of empowerment and education away from jargon and cynicism, enhancing our concern with women’s struggles for recognition, capabilities, and wider social change.” —Elaine Unterhalter, University of London Erin Murphy-Graham is Assistant “Erin Murphy-Graham shows how the complex process of Adjunct Professor of Education at the empowerment unfolds, and answers the question of how University of California, Berkeley. She it can take place within an educational program that also was formerly Assistant Professor of prepares students for traditional educational assessments. International Education at New York A valuable contribution to understanding gendered University. processes of empowerment at school and home.” —Karen Monkman, DePaul University

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Ceramic analysis supports the internal Poetic making from Cervantes warfare hypothesis for the Classic Maya and Góngora to Descartes and Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds collapse Locke Edited by Anthony J. Cascardi and Leah Middlebrook Ceramics, Production, and Poiesis and Modernity Exchange in the Petexbatun in the Old and New Region Worlds The Economic Parameters of the edited by anthony j. Casc ardi Classic Maya Collapse and Leah Middlebrook

antonia e. foias his broad-ranging exploration argues and ronald l. bishop that there was a special preoccupation T with the nature and limits of poetry in Available Now he Classic Maya collapse has engendered a great early modern Spain and Europe, as well as 344 pages, 6 x 9 inches deal of debate over the last decades. This collapse especially vigorous poetic activity in this references, index T was a highly variable phenomenon that did not period. Contrary to what one might read hardcover $79.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-1834-7 affect the whole Maya zone, so the specific events in Hegel, the “prosification” of the world paper $34.95s ISBN 978-0-8265-1835-4 and processes taking place in different regions af- has remained an unfinished affair. ebook $33.99 ISBN 978-0-8265-1836-1 fected by this “transition” need further exploration. This volume examines the economic parameters of HISPANIC ISSUES SERIES the collapse in the Petexbatun region from the eighth Anthony J. Cascardi is Ancker Professor of Nicholas Spadaccini, through the eleventh centuries A.D. through the lens Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish Editor-in-Chief at the University of California, Berkeley, and of ceramic manufacture, production, consumption, HISPANIC ISSUES ONLINE Dean of Arts and Humanities. He is the author and exchange. It explores this critical time period hispanicissues.umn.edu/ through ceramic analysis, including type: variety of Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age, online_main.html The Subject of Modernity, and Consequences of classification, standardization studies, and chemical Enlightenment. provenance research. These ceramic data are then used to reevaluate Leah Middlebrook is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance different models explaining the Classic Maya col- Languages at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Imperial Lyric: New Poetry and lapse—the foreign invasion theory, the commercial- New Subjects in Early Modern Spain. ization hypothesis, and the internal warfare model. The authors conclude that the internal warfare model contents has the most support. Introduction Scrutinizing Early Modern Warfare in Latin Hexameters: Anthony J. Cascardi and Leah Middlebrook The Austrias Carmen of Joannes Latinus (Juan Latino) July 2012 Elizabeth R. Wright 640 pages, 7 x 10 inches Poiesis on the Threshold of Modernity Ribera’s Sagradas poesías as Poiesis of Modernity in 76 tables, 159 figures, 58 color plates, references Poiesis and Modernity at the Turn of the Spanish Sixteenth Century: Luís Alfonso de Carvallo and the Colonial Potosí Leonardo García-Pabón cloth $125.00s ISBN 978-0-8265-1840-8 Cisne de Apolo (1602) Leah Middlebrook English and European Contexts “Orphic Fictions”: Poesía and Poiesis in Cervantes “A Super-Political Concernment”: Evolution and Anthony J. Cascardi Revolution of Inward Light from Juan de Valdés to John Locke Julian Jiménez Heffernan Spiders and Flies: Imagining “The World” in Early Antonia E. Foias is Professor of Anthropology at Modern European Natural Philosophy Failed New World Epics in Baroque Italy Williams College. Christopher Braider Nathalie Hester Encyclopedism, Poiesis, and Modernity How to Reconquer Poiesis? Florian’s Gonzalve de Ronald L. Bishop is Curator for Mexican and Central Marina S. Brownlee Cordoue, ou Grenade reconquise (1791) American Archaeology at the Smithsonian Institution. Fabienne Moore From the Bibliotheca to the Garden and the Graveyard: Origins of the Poiesis of the Fantastic in The Opacity of Language and the Transparency of Late Sixteenth-Century Miscellanea Being: On Góngora’s Poetics William Egginton #7 in the David R. Castillo Sense and Equivalence in Góngora and the Spanish Vanderbilt Institute Case Studies: Poesía and Poiesis Mystics: A Credit Crisis Julio Baena of Mesoamerican Writing Religion: Sacromonte and the Literary Afterword Archaeology Series Conventions of Orthodoxy Seth Kimmel Bradley J. Nelson Edited by Arthur A. Demarest

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