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Babylost

Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z

By: Monica J. Casper

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Babylost

Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z

By: Monica J. Casper

The U.S. infant mortality rate is among the highest in the industrialized world, and Black babies are far more likely than white babies to die in their first year of life. Maternal mortality rates are also very high. Though the infant mortality rate overall has improved over the past century with public health interventions, racial disparities have not. Racism, poverty, lack of access to health care, and other causes of death have been identified, but not yet adequately addressed. The tragedy is twofold: it is undoubtedly tragic that babies die in their first year of life, and it is both tragic and unacceptable that most of these deaths are preventable. Despite the urgency of the problem, there has been little public discussion of infant loss. The question this book takes up is not why babies die; we already have many answers to this question. It is, rather, who cares that babies, mostly but not only Black and Native American babies, are dying before their first birthdays? More importantly, what are we willing to do about it? This book tracks social and cultural dimensions of infant death through 58 alphabetical entries, from Absence to ZIP Code. It centers women’s loss and grief, while also drawing attention to dimensions of infant death not often examined. It is simultaneously a sociological study of infant death, an archive of loss and grief, and a clarion call for social change.

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270

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Rutgers University Press

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197882596X

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9781978825963

Continuity and Change in the American Family

By: Lynne M. Casper,Suzanne M. Bianchi

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Continuity and Change in the American Family

By: Lynne M. Casper,Suzanne M. Bianchi

Continuity and Change in the American Family engages students with issues they see every day in the news, providing them with a comprehensive description of the social demography of the American family. Understanding ever-changing family systems and patterns requires taking the pulse of contemporary family life from time to time. This book paints a portrait of family continuity and change in the later half of the 20th century, with a focus on data from the 1970′s to present. The authors explore such topics as the growth in cohabitation, changes in childbearing, and how these trends affect family life. Other topics include the changing lives of single mothers, fathers, and grandparents and increasing economic disparities among families; child care and child well-being; and combining paid work and family. The authors are talented writers who bring considerable professional and scholarly background to bear in illuminating this topic in a thoughtful yet lively presentation.

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409

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SAGE Publications

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145226449X

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9781452264493

The Making of the Unborn Patient

A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery

By: Monica J. Casper

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The Making of the Unborn Patient

A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery

By: Monica J. Casper

It is now possible for physicians to recognize that a pregnant woman's fetus is facing life-threatening problems, perform surgery on the fetus, and if it survives, return it to the woman's uterus to finish gestation. Although fetal surgery has existed in various forms for three decades, it is only just beginning to capture the public's imagination. These still largely experimental procedures raise all types of medical, political and ethical questions. The Making of the Unborn Patient examines two important and connected events of the second half of the 20th century: the emergence of fetal surgery as a new medical specialty and the debut of the unborn patient.

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290

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Rutgers University Press

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ISBN 10

0813525160

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9780813525167

Against Anarchy

Political Alterity in British Modernism

By: Cord-Christian Casper

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Against Anarchy

Political Alterity in British Modernism

By: Cord-Christian Casper

Against Anarchy' investigates the function of Anarchism in Early Modernist political fiction. The study explains how political novels from 1886 to 1911 narrate and evaluate the function of Anarchists as embodiments of a radical space beyond politics. The literary prevalence of Anarchists has so far not been connected systematically to its literary and political functions. The study addresses this research gap in detailed analyses of a radical theme in narratives by Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and G.K. Chesterton. It shows that each novel presents strategies of demarcation that allow turn-of-the-century Britain to project its cultural anxieties upon an imagined other, the dreaded figure labelled ‘Anarchist’. The political radical is set up as the foil against which comforting self-descriptions can be maintained. Rather than merely reproducing this boundary work, however, the novels also evaluate its function, both for the respective political system and for their own narrative capabilities — and present the consequences incurred by the loss of an anarchist outside. 'Against Anarchy' is a thorough cultural historiography of the politically other and marginal. At the same time, the study demonstrates that close attention to the specific literary image of Anarchism allows for a re-evaluation of political thought beyond its immediate historical moment — a literary political theory in its own right.

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666

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110645874

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9783110645873

"The Government and Administration of Africa, 1880?939 Vol 4 "

By: Casper Anderson

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"The Government and Administration of Africa, 1880?939 Vol 4 "

By: Casper Anderson

This collection makes available rare sources on the aims, functions and effects of British administration in Africa. Topics examined include: land and urban administration, law and jurisprudence, taxation and administration of natural resources.

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383

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Routledge

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1351543814

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9781351543811

Constructing American Lives

Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America

By: Scott E. Casper

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Constructing American Lives

Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America

By: Scott E. Casper

Nineteenth-century American authors, critics, and readers believed that biography had the power to shape individuals' characters and to help define the nation's identity. In an age predating radio and television, biography was not simply a genre of writing, says Scott Casper; it was the medium that allowed people to learn about public figures and peer into the lives of strangers. In this pioneering study, Casper examines how Americans wrote, published, and read biographies and how their conceptions of the genre changed over the course of a century. Campaign biographies, memoirs of pious women, patriotic narratives of eminent statesmen, "mug books" that collected the lives of ordinary midwestern farmers--all were labeled "biography," however disparate their contents and the contexts of their creation, publication, and dissemination. Analyzing debates over how these diverse biographies should be written and read, Casper reveals larger disputes over the meaning of character, the definition of American history, and the place of American literary practices in a transatlantic world of letters. As much a personal experience as a literary genre, biography helped Americans imagine their own lives as well as the ones about which they wrote and read.

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462

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UNC Press Books

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1469649047

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9781469649047

The Government and Administration of Africa, 1880-1939 Vol 1

By: Casper Anderson

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The Government and Administration of Africa, 1880-1939 Vol 1

By: Casper Anderson

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407

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Routledge

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1351543911

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9781351543910

Jim and Casper Go to Church

Frank Conversation about Faith, Churches, and Well-Meaning Christians

By: Jim Henderson,Matt Casper

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Jim and Casper Go to Church

Frank Conversation about Faith, Churches, and Well-Meaning Christians

By: Jim Henderson,Matt Casper

What does an atheist think about church? Jim Henderson decided that the best way to find out was to ask! So he recruited an atheist—Matt Casper—to visit twelve leading churches with him and give the “first impression” perspective of a non-believer. Week after week, this spiritual odd couple attended services at churches all over the country and documented their experiences at and reactions to each one. Along the way, they found the real value of their journey in the open and authentic friendship that developed as they talked, questioned, joked, and—most important—listened. Follow along with Jim and Casper on their visits, and eavesdrop as they discuss what they found. Their articulate, sometimes humorous, and always insightful dialogue offers Christians a new view of an environment where we’ve become overly comfortable: the church.

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208

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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1414330901

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9781414330907

Hollywood Film 1963-1976

Years of Revolution and Reaction

By: Drew Casper

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Hollywood Film 1963-1976

Years of Revolution and Reaction

By: Drew Casper

Hollywood 1963-1976 chronicles the upheaval and innovation that took place in the American film industry during an era of pervasive cultural tumult. Exploring the many ideologies embraced by an increasingly diverse Hollywood, Casper offers a comprehensive canon, covering the period's classics as well as its brilliant but overlooked masterpieces. A broad overview and analysis of one of American film's most important and innovative periods Offers a new, more expansive take on the accepted canon of the era Includes films expressing ideologies contrary to the misremembered leftist slant Explores and fully contextualizes the dominant genres of the 60s and 70s

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691

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444395238

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9781444395235

Book's by Casper Graham

Babylost

Babylost

Continuity and Change in the American Family

Continuity and Change in the American Family

The Making of the Unborn Patient

The Making of the Unborn Patient

Against Anarchy

Against Anarchy

"The Government and Administration of Africa, 1880?939 Vol 4 "

"The Government and Administration of Africa, 1880?939 Vol 4 "

Constructing American Lives

Constructing American Lives

The Government and Administration of Africa, 1880-1939 Vol 1

The Government and Administration of Africa, 1880-1939 Vol 1

Jim and Casper Go to Church

Jim and Casper Go to Church

Hollywood Film 1963-1976

Hollywood Film 1963-1976

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