Books from Northeastern University Press
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American Women in the Nineties: Today's Critical Issues
By Sherri Marie MatteoA timely volume that focuses on women's health, education, and economic status.
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Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere
By Gwendolyn D. PoughIn this provocative study, Gwendolyn D. Pough explores the complex relationship between black women, hip-hop, and feminism.
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Domestic Violence: Methodologies in Dialogue
By Chitra Raghavan, Shuki J. Cohen... Battered Women, Their Children, and International Law: The Unintended Consequences of the Hague Child Abduction Convention Edward W. Gondolf, The Future of Batterer Programs: Reassessing Evidence-Based Practice Jessica P. Hodge, ...
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A Halfway House for Women: Oppression and Resistance
By Gail A. Caputolaw. Editor: Claire Renzetti For a complete list of books available in this series, please visit www.upne.com AHALFWAY ... Battered Women, Their Children, and International Law: The Unintended Consequences of the Hague Child Abduction ...
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Male Peer Support and Violence Against Women: The History and Verification of a Theory
By Martin D. Schwartz, Walter S. DeKeseredy... Battered Women, Their Children, and International Law: The Unintended Consequences of the Hague Child Abduction Convention Edward W. Gondolf, The Future of Batterer Programs: Reassessing Evidence-Based Practice Jessica P. Hodge, ...
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Caught in a Tornado: A Chinese American Woman Survives the Cultural Revolution
By James Rodman RossThis is a gripping account by James R. Ross of China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution as experienced by Wen Zengde, a Chinese American woman who returned to China in 1956...
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Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century
By Alison Piepmeier, Rory DickerOrganized in five sections that mirror the stages of consciousness-raising, this is an engaging, often edgy, look at a broad range of perspectives on the diversity, complexity, multiplicity, and playfulness of the third wave.
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Women's Voices Across Musical Worlds
By Jane A. BernsteinWritten by a distinguished group of musicologists and ethnomusicologists, the essays collected here provide a cross-cultural and cross-historical view of the roles women have played as creators and performers and...
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Rape on the Public Agenda: Feminism and the Politics of Sexual Assault
By Maria BevacquaWomen's responses to rape have taken many forms over the past three decades, from guerrilla actions targeting individual assailants to the founding of rape crisis centers. This timely book illuminates...
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City in the Woods: The Life and Design of an American Camp Meeting on Martha's Vineyard
By Ellen WeissA look at a once-flourishing religious phenomenon and its effects on an island community.
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By Monomoy Light: Nature and Healing in an Island Sanctuary
By North T. CairnIn this beautifully written book, North T. Cairn reflects on her three extended summer stays on Monomoy, an island wildlife sanctuary. Residing alone in an abandoned lighthouse-keeper's cottage, she lived...
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Children in the House: The Material Culture of Early Childhood, 1600-1900
By Karin Lee Fishbeck Calvert"By examining the clothing, furniture, and other objects used for childrearing over the course of three hundred years, Karin Calvert maps changes in the material culture of parenting to uncover...
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Reading the Water
By Charles Harper Webb"Charles Harper Webb has a wild inventive energy, a quirky at times even manic wit, and a deep sense of wonder at the world. His poems are filled with curiosities,...
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The Biblical Truth about America's Death Penalty
By Dale S. RecinellaEverett F. Harrison, Geoffrey W. Bromiley, and Carl F. Henry, eds., Wycliffe Dictionary of Theology (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 1960), s.v. ''Atonement,'' 71–78. 18. Wycliffe Dictionary of Theology, s.v. ''Atonement,'' 72.
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Stories
By Elizabeth StoddardMost widely-known today as the author of The Morgesons (1862), her first of three novels, Elizabeth Stoddard was also a prolific writer of short stories, children's tales, poems, essays, travel...
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Justice Denied: Clemency Appeals in Death Penalty Cases
By Cathleen BurnettSobered by Mounting Evidence of wrongful convictions in capital cases, both death penalty advocates and abolitionists are calling for a moratorium on executions in the United States. This timely book...
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One Boy's Boston, 1887-1901
By Samuel Eliot MorisonOne Boy's Boston, 1887-1901
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Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth -- A Life Beyond "Cheaper by the Dozen"
By Jane LancasterAF, 13. 31. Ibid., 55. Although Alcatraz was a federal penitentiary for less than thirty years (1934– 63), ... For Coolbrith see Edward T. James et al., eds., Notable American Women 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary, 3 vols.
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The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1887-1924, with Correspondence by Mary Berenson
By Bernard Berenson, Mary Berenson, Isabella Stewart GardnerThe correspondence between Berenson, an art critic, and Gardener, a wealthy art collector, documents the development of the Gardener Museum collection
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The Birth of the Bill of Rights, 1776-1791
By Robert Allen RutlandIncluding Two Appendices. Appendix A, The Virginia Declaration Of Rights; Appendix B, The Federal Bill Of Rights.