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Fierce and Fearless

Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress

By: Judy Tzu-Chun Wu,Gwendolyn Mink

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Fierce and Fearless

Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress

By: Judy Tzu-Chun Wu,Gwendolyn Mink

The book explores the life and politics of Patsy Takemoto Mink (1927-2002), a third generation Japanese American from Hawai'i, the first woman of color in Congress and the legislative champion of Title IX. Co-authored by her daughter, political scientist Gwendolyn Mink, and historian Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, this work discusses Mink's decades-long work for women's equality, civil rights, environmental humanism, and peace. The book considers Mink's policy and political commitments and contributions and explores how Mink's Pacific World view shaped her politics as a feminist, a civil rights advocate, an environmentalist, and a critic of U.S. militarism. From the late 19th century immigration story of Mink's forbears through Mink's early 21st century advocacy for social justice, this book offers new insights regarding intersectional legislative feminism and Pacific feminism, makes visible one woman's policy activism in the mainstream of U.S. politics, and brings much needed attention to a woman of color who profoundly shaped the politics of race, class, and gender in the second half of the 20th century"--

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1479831921

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The Wages of Motherhood

Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917–1942

By: Gwendolyn Mink

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The Wages of Motherhood

Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917–1942

By: Gwendolyn Mink

Entering the vigorous debate about the nature of the American welfare state, The Wages of Motherhood illuminates ways in which a "maternalist" social policy emerged from the crucible of gender and racial politics between the world wars. Gwendolyn Mink here examines the cultural dynamics of maternalist social policy, which have often been overlooked by institutional and class analyses of the welfare state. Mink maintains that the movement for welfare provisions, while resulting in important gains, reinforced existing patterns of gender and racial inequality. She explores how AngloAmerican women reformers, as they gained increasing political recognition, promoted an ideology of domesticity that became the core of maternalist social policy. Focusing on reformers such as Jane Addams, Grace Abbott, Katherine Lenroot, and Frances Perkins, Mink shows how they helped shape a social policy premised on moral character and cultural conformity rather than universal entitlement. According to Mink, commitments to a gendered and racialized ideology of virtuous citizenship led women's reform organizations in the United States to support welfare policies that were designed to uplift and regulate motherhood and thus to reform the cultural character of citizens. The upshot was a welfare agenda that linked maternity with dependency, poverty with cultural weakness, and need with moral failing. Relegating poor women and racial minorities to dependent status, maternalist policy had the effect of stengthening ideological and institutional forms of subordination. In Mink's view, the legacy of this benevolent—and invidious—policy contimies to inflect thinking about welfare reform today.

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Cornell University Press

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1501728865

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9781501728860

Welfare's End

By: Gwendolyn Mink

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Welfare's End

By: Gwendolyn Mink

With her analysis of the thirty-year campaign to reform and ultimately to end welfare, Gwendolyn Mink levels a searing indictment of anti-welfare politicians' assault on poor mothers. Mink explores how and why we should cure the unique inequality of poor single mothers by reorienting the emphasis of welfare policy away from regulating mothers to rewarding the work they do. Showing how welfare reform harms women, Mink invites the design of policies to promote gender justice.

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Cornell University Press

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080148393X

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The Wages of Motherhood

Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917–1942

By: Gwendolyn Mink

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Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917–1942

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Welfare's End

By: Gwendolyn Mink

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Welfare's End

By: Gwendolyn Mink

With her analysis of the thirty-year campaign to reform and ultimately to end welfare, Gwendolyn Mink levels a searing indictment of anti-welfare politicians'assault on poor mothers. She charges that the basic elements of the new welfare policy subordinate poor single mothers in a separate system of law. Mink points to the racial, class, and gender biases of both liberals and conservatives to explain the odd but sturdy consensus behind welfare reforms that force the poor single mother to relinquish basic rights and compel her to find economic security in work outside the home. Mink explores how and why we should cure the unique inequality of poor single mothers by reorienting the emphasis of welfare policy away from regulating mothers to rewarding the work they do. Every mother is a working mother, the bumper sticker proclaims, but the work mothers do pays no wages. Mink argues that women's equality depends on economic support for caregivers'work. Welfare's End challenges the ways in which policymakers define the problem they seek to cure. While legislators assume that something is wrong with poor single mothers, Mink insists that something is wrong with a system that invades their rights and negates their work. Showing how welfare reform harms women, Mink invites the design of policies to promote gender justice.

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Cornell University Press

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1501728873

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Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development

Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920

By: Gwendolyn Mink

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Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development

Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920

By: Gwendolyn Mink

Why have American politics developed differently from politics in Europe? Generations of scholars and commentators have wondered why organized labor in the United States did not acquire a broad-based constituency or form an autonomous labor party. In this innovative and insightful book, Gwendolyn Mink finds new answers by approaching this question from a different angle: she asks what determined union labor's political interests and how those interests influenced the political role forged by the American Federation of Labor. At bottom, Mink argues, the demographic dynamics of industrialization produced a profound racial response to economic change among organized labor. This response shaped the AFL's political strategy and political choices. In her account of the unique role played by labor in politics prior to the New Deal, Mink focuses on the ways in which the organizational and political interests of the AFL were mediated by the national issue of immigration and links the AFL's response to immigration to its conservative stance in and toward politics. She investigates the political impact of a labor market split between union and nonunion, old and new immigrant workers; of dramatic demographic change; and of nativism and racism. Mink then elucidates the development of trade-union political interests, ideology, and strategy; the movement of the AFL into established state and party structures; and the consequent separation of the AFL from labor's social base.

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Cornell University Press

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1501742698

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Fierce and Fearless

Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress

By: Judy Tzu-Chun Wu,Gwendolyn Mink

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Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress

By: Judy Tzu-Chun Wu,Gwendolyn Mink

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Film Quotations

11,000 Lines Spoken on Screen, Arranged by Subject, and Indexed

By: Robert A. Nowlan,Gwendolyn W. Nowlan

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Film Quotations

11,000 Lines Spoken on Screen, Arranged by Subject, and Indexed

By: Robert A. Nowlan,Gwendolyn W. Nowlan

Certain lines define a movie. Marlene Dietrich in Morocco: “Anyone who has faith in me is a sucker.” Too, there are lines that fit actor and character. Mae West in I’m No Angel: “I’m very quick in a slow way.” Jane Fonda in California Suite: “Fit? You think I look fit? What an awful shit you are. I look gorgeous.” From the classics to the grade–B slasher movies, over 11,000 quotes are arranged by over 900 subjects, like accidents, double entendres, eyes (and other body parts!), ice cream, luggage, parasites, and ugliness. Each quote gives the movie title, production company, year of release, speaker of the line, and, when appropriate, a comment putting the quote in context.

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McFarland

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147662058X

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A Short History of Film, Third Edition

By: Wheeler Winston Dixon,Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

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A Short History of Film, Third Edition

By: Wheeler Winston Dixon,Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema—especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers—an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813595142

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9780813595146

Flirting with Finance

By: Gwendolyn Beck,Kathleen Pickering

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Flirting with Finance

By: Gwendolyn Beck,Kathleen Pickering

Flirting with Finance is the modern woman's guide to achieving financial freedom through smart investing. It explains the basics of finance with a sense of fun such as comparing what stocks to buy as being similar to choosing the right man (so that your eyes don't glaze over!). With a step-by-step guide it will give you the confidence to start investing.

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iUniverse

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0595510760

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Post-Soviet Secessionism

By: Daria Minakov, Mikhail Sasse, Gwendolyn Minakov, Mikhail Isachenko

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Post-Soviet Secessionism

By: Daria Minakov, Mikhail Sasse, Gwendolyn Minakov, Mikhail Isachenko

The USSR’s dissolution resulted in the creation of not only fifteen recognized states but also of four non-recognized statelets: Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Transnistria. Their polities comprise networks with state-like elements. Since the early 1990s, the four pseudo-states have been continously dependent on their sponsor countries (Russia, Armenia), and contesting the territorial integrity of their parental nation-states Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova. In 2014, the outburst of Russia-backed separatism in Eastern Ukraine led to the creation of two more para-states, the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) and the Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR), whose leaders used the experience of older de facto states. In 2020, this growing network of de facto states counted an overall population of more than 4 million people. The essays collected in this volume address such questions as: How do post-Soviet de facto states survive and continue to grow? Is there anything specific about the political ecology of Eastern Europe that provides secessionism with the possibility to launch state-making processes in spite of international sanctions and counteractions of their parental states? How do secessionist movements become embedded in wider networks of separatism in Eastern and Western Europe? What is the impact of secessionism and war on the parental states? The contributors are Jan Claas Behrends, Petra Colmorgen, Bruno Coppieters, Nataliia Kasianenko, Alice Lackner, Mikhail Minakov, and Gwendolyn Sasse.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3838215389

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9783838215389

A Short History of Film

By: Wheeler Winston Dixon,Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

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A Short History of Film

By: Wheeler Winston Dixon,Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

The history of international cinema is now available in a concise, conveniently sized, and affordable volume. Succinct yet comprehensive, A Short History of Film provides an accessible overview of the major movements, directors, studios, and genres from the 1880s to the present. More than 250 rare stills and illustrations accompany the text, bringing readers face to face with many of the key players and films that have marked the industry. Beginning with precursors of what we call moving pictures, Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster lead a fast-paced tour through the invention of the kinetoscope, the introduction of sound and color between the two world wars, and ultimately the computer generated imagery of the present day. They detail significant periods in world cinema, including the early major industries in Europe, the dominance of the Hollywood studio system in the 1930s and 1940s, and the French New Wave of the 1960s. Special attention is also given to small independent efforts in developing nations and the corresponding more personal independent film movement that briefly flourished in the United States, the significant filmmakers of all nations, censorship and regulation and how they have affected production everywhere, and a wide range of studios and genres. Along the way, the authors take great care to incorporate the stories of women and other minority filmmakers who have often been overlooked in other texts. Compact and easily readable, this is the best one-stop source for the history of world film available to students, teachers, and general audiences alike.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813544750

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9780813544755

Death as a Last Resort

By: Gwendolyn Southin

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Death as a Last Resort

By: Gwendolyn Southin

It is January 1961 and Margaret Spencer and Nat Southby are relaxing on a ski holiday when their vacation takes a bone-chilling turn. While cross-country skiing the couple comes across the frozen body of Maurice Dubois, a man who went missing from a fishing resort the month before. When Maurice’s wife is also found murdered, the two Vancouver detectives are hired by the victims’ children to investigate. An energetic hunt begins, as Maggie and Nat find themselves involved in clandestine visits to a clothing factory on East Hastings Street, encounters at horse-breeding stables in Langley, a car chase to Lulu Island and eventually a pilgrimage to the fishing resort at St. Clare’s Cove in Pender Harbour. In Death As a Last Resort, the fourth book in the popular Margaret Spencer Mystery series, our favourite Vancouver female sleuth Maggie Spencer and her partner Nat Southby continue their escapades as they track down the unlawful and dangerous.

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TouchWood Editions

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1926741579

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9781926741574

God's Spoken Word

A Habakkuk 2:3 Story

By: Prophetess Gwendolyn King

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God's Spoken Word

A Habakkuk 2:3 Story

By: Prophetess Gwendolyn King

This story is God's strategic plan for one of his endtime Prophets. The narrative chronicles her life; it is not the sugar coated dialogue you read in a lot of inspirational self help books. Its a straightforward insight into the process leading up to her prophetic walk Christ - of molestation, rape, drug addiction, abusive relationships, racial discrimination, hate crime, prison hustling and living a true thugs life - becoming a sought after drug dealer. Page after page, this book illustrates the redeeming power of Jesus as he supernaturally transforms his chosen vessel with his healing power and delivering love. How the Holy Ghost mold and shape her into one of its awesome weapons in the kingdom of God today and filled her with knowledge of his word which she applied to her walk with Him. God's word taught her how to forgive her molester, her rapist and the racist people who conspired against her. She has been transformed by the renewal of her mind and today her mind is the mind of Christ. Prophetess Gwendolyn has a compassion for the lost creations of God and has been gifted by God's Kingdom with a mantle, anointed and assigned to go and preach the life she lives. With a humble love for her brothers and sisters on prison lockdown because it couldve been her in prison today; she candidly spreads the gospel, focusing on healing the heart and mind and bringing the lost to Christ . If there is someone in your family today who is struggling or has struggled with drug addiction, sexual abuse, racial bias, or any adversity, this book illustrates that there is hope. Always remember Jesus is Lord! The Holy Ghost is always on his post as the deliverer of the world. He can do anything but fail.

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1450272908

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9781450272902

Berman's Pediatric Decision Making

Expert Consult - Online and Print

By: Lalit Bajaj,Simon Hambidge,Ann-Christine Nyquist,Gwendolyn Kerby

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Berman's Pediatric Decision Making

Expert Consult - Online and Print

By: Lalit Bajaj,Simon Hambidge,Ann-Christine Nyquist,Gwendolyn Kerby

Berman's Pediatric Decision Making uses an algorithmic, structured approach to lead you to the right diagnosis and treatment every time. Drs. Lalit Baja, Simon Hambidge, Ann-Christine Nyquist, and Gwendolyn Kerby use evidence-based research and flow charts for each presenting complaint or specific disorder to provide quick access to the information you need for effective decision making. With updated drug tables, revised algorithms, and full-text online access at www.expertconsult.com, this streamlined new edition makes it even easier for you to diagnose and manage common clinical problems from infancy through adolescence. Rapidly access guidance on diagnosis and management from algorithms for each clinical disorder. Treat the full range of diseases and disorders with comprehensive coverage of diagnosis, assessment of severity, and clinical management. Choose the best treatment for each case thanks to indications for surgical interventions as well as expensive diagnostic procedures Access the fully searchable contents online at www.expertconsult.com. Stay current on recent developments and make effective decisions for movement disorders, physical abuse in children, sexual abuse in children, eating disorders, ADHD, and other hot topics. Find answers quickly and easily with a new table of contents organized into two sections-Presenting Complaints and Specific Disorders-that reduces the need to flip between chapters. Tap into the diverse perspectives of expert authors from all over the country. Get only the information you need in the streamlined new edition with shorter, more user-friendly flow diagrams and fewer specialized chapters.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323054056

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9780323054058

They Shall Swoop: A Detective Swoop Mystery

By: Gwendolyn Cahill

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They Shall Swoop: A Detective Swoop Mystery

By: Gwendolyn Cahill

Being the owner of an African-American art gallery proves to be wrought with danger, espionage and a dance with an international cartel that threatens Susan Burton and Omari Thomas' growing empire. Upon return from a Governor's award ceremony, they brief encounter with a wayward cab driver sets the chase in motion. They are forced to flee the cab and are lost on the banks of the Hudson River. They hire Detective Ted Swoop to investigate the sudden onslaught of strange occurrences that threatens their livelihood.

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Lulu.com

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0359748732

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9780359748730

Newman and Carranza's Clinical Periodontology for the Dental Hygienist

By: Michael G. Newman,Gwendolyn Essex,Lory Laughter,Satheesh Elangovan

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Newman and Carranza's Clinical Periodontology for the Dental Hygienist

By: Michael G. Newman,Gwendolyn Essex,Lory Laughter,Satheesh Elangovan

**Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) Most Promising New Textbook Award Winner, 2024** The complete health-focused approach makes this a must-have instructional resource to support you throughout your Dental Hygiene educational program and beyond. Based on the trusted content in Newman and Carranza's Clinical Periodontology, the most widely used periodontal textbook in the world, this resource provides the most up-to-date, complete, and essential information. The broad range of content covers everything from the biology of the periodontium – how it's structured and the functions it serves, the new classification of periodontal disease, the link between periodontal disease and systemic health, and more. An extensive clinical section contains a complete guide to everything from procedure instrumentation to patient management at the point of care. Full color photos, illustrations, radiographs show how to perform periodontal procedures. Case based practice questions and skill evaluation checklists promote board-exam readiness. The clear instruction and health-focused approach provides support throughout the Dental Hygiene program and beyond. - Online student and educator support on Evolve. - Dental hygiene emphasis and relevance provides solid foundational content. - Comprehensive topic coverage focuses on the translation of the science to evidence-based practice and clinical decision making. - Extensive full-color photos and illustrations clearly demonstrate core concepts and reinforce important principles. - Case-based clinical scenarios incorporated throughout the book mimic the patient case format used in credentialing exams. - Many new and important chapters on periimplantitis, resolving inflammation, evidence-based decision making, and critical thinking. - Robust art program of clinical images, charts, graphs, and unique illustrations enhances engagement. - The most complete atlas of periodontal pathology ever offered for the dental hygienist. - Key information and highlights presented as call out boxes.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323708420

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9780323708425

Ensuring Poverty

Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective

By: Felicia Kornbluh,Gwendolyn Mink

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Ensuring Poverty

Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective

By: Felicia Kornbluh,Gwendolyn Mink

In Ensuring Poverty, Felicia Kornbluh and Gwendolyn Mink assess the gendered history of welfare reform. They foreground arguments advanced by feminists for a welfare policy that would respect single mothers' rights while advancing their opportunities and assuring economic security for their families. Kornbluh and Mink consider welfare policy in the broad intersectional context of gender, race, poverty, and inequality. They argue that the subject of welfare reform always has been single mothers, the animus always has been race, and the currency always has been inequality. Yet public conversations about poverty and welfare, even today, rarely acknowledge the nexus between racialized gender inequality and the economic vulnerability of single-mother families. Since passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) by a Republican Congress and the Clinton administration, the gendered dimensions of antipoverty policy have receded from debate. Mink and Kornbluh explore the narrowing of discussion that has occurred in recent decades and the path charted by social justice feminists in the 1990s and early 2000s, a course rejected by policy makers. They advocate a return to the social justice approach built on the equality of mothers, especially mothers of color, in policies aimed at poor families.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812295579

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9780812295573

Burton's Microbiology for the Health Sciences

By: Paul G. Engelkirk,Janet L. Duben-Engelkirk,Gwendolyn R. Wilson Burton

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Burton's Microbiology for the Health Sciences

By: Paul G. Engelkirk,Janet L. Duben-Engelkirk,Gwendolyn R. Wilson Burton

Written in a straightforward and engaging style, this premier textbook provides students with the foundation in microbiology that they need to perform their day-to-day duties in a safe and knowledgeable manner. Coverage includes the core themes and concepts outlined for an introductory course by the American Society for Microbiology. Developed for current and future healthcare professionals, the text offers vital coverage of antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents, epidemiology and public health, hospital-acquired infections, infection control, and the ways in which microorganisms cause disease. This comprehensive new Ninth Edition explores the major viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic human diseases, including patient care, and how the body protects itself from pathogens and infectious diseases. A bound-in CD-ROM and a companion Website include case studies, additional self-assessment exercises, plus animations and special features that provide additional insight and fun facts on selected topics.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1605476730

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9781605476735

Hostile Environment

The Political Betrayal of Sexually Harassed Women

By: Gwendolyn Mink

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Hostile Environment

The Political Betrayal of Sexually Harassed Women

By: Gwendolyn Mink

According to some of President Clinton's feminist supporters, his alleged behavior toward Paula Jones did not constitute sexual harassment because he had taken "no" for an answer. Others insisted that Jones could not have been harassed because the president did not punish her for refusing him. During the impeachment debate, many feminists defended the president on the grounds that his alleged lies in the Jones case were "just about sex" and therefore insignificant. In the most publicized sexual harassment case to date, longtime proponents of sexual harassment law raised the political and legal thresholds for taking sexual harassment seriously. In a passionate defense of the rights of sexually harassed women, Gwendolyn Mink warns that the president's supporters have undermined our sexual harassment laws. Hostile Environment is her provocative account of the harm being done to these laws and her warning that the laws themselves are worthless if few women dare to use them. Correcting many common misapprehensions, Mink explains sexual harassment as a legal concept and charts its judicial and legislative history. She shows the many important contributions feminists have made to the development of sexual harassment law. She also, however, develops a stringent critique of feminist responses to the president's lies in the Jones case. Sometimes scathing, Hostile Environment provides a fresh perspective on the recent politics of sexual harassment. It also provides a highly personal perspective. First-hand knowledge of the injuries caused by sexual harassment and its aftermath has left Mink with an abiding interest in this volatile issue and with a desire to safeguard the rights of sexually harassed women—especially the most economically vulnerable among them.

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