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High-Profile Crimes

When Legal Cases Become Social Causes

By: Lynn S. Chancer

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High-Profile Crimes

When Legal Cases Become Social Causes

By: Lynn S. Chancer

O. J. Simpson. The Central Park jogger. Bensonhurst. William Kennedy Smith. Rodney King. These are more than crimes and criminals, more than court cases. They are cultural events that, for better or worse, gave concrete expression to latent social conflicts in American society. In High-Profile Crimes, Lynn Chancer explores how these cases became conflated with larger social causes on a collective level and how this phenomenon has affected the law, the media, and social movements. An astute and incisive chronicle of some of the most polarizing cases of the 1980s and 1990s, High-Profile Crimes shows that their landmark status results from the overlapping interaction of diverse participants. The merging of legal cases and social causes, Chancer argues, has wrought ambivalent effects on both social movements and the law. On the one hand, high-profile crimes offer important opportunities for emotional expression and raise awareness of social issues. But on the other hand, social problems cannot be resolved through the either/or determinations that are the goals of the legal system, creating frustration for those who look to the outcome of these cases for social progress. Guilt or innocence through the lens of the media leads to either defeat or victory for a social cause-a confounding situation that made the O. J. Simpson case, for example, unable to resolve the issues of domestic violence and police racism that it had come to symbolize. Based on nearly two hundred interviews, Chancer's discussions of the infamous Central Park jogger and Bensonhurst cases-as well as the rape trials of William Kennedy Smith and Mike Tyson, the assault cases of Rodney King and Reginald Denny, and, finally, the O. J. Simpson murder trial-provide a convincing, multidimensional and innovative analysis of the most charged public dramas of the last two decades.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226101134

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9780226101132

Reconcilable Differences

Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism

By: Lynn S. Chancer

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Reconcilable Differences

Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism

By: Lynn S. Chancer

This volume examines controversial faultlines in contemporary feminism—pornography, the beauty myth, sadomasochism, prostitution, and the issue of rape—from an original and provocative perspective. Lynn Chancer focuses on how, among many feminists, the concepts of sex and sexism became fragmented and mutually exclusive. Exploring the dichotomy between sex and sexism as it has developed through five current feminist debates, Chancer seeks to forge positions that bridge oppositions between unnecessary (and sometimes unwitting) "either/or" binaries. Chancer's book attempts to incorporate both the need for sexual freedom and the depth of sexist subordination into feminist thought and politics. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998. This volume examines controversial faultlines in contemporary feminism—pornography, the beauty myth, sadomasochism, prostitution, and the issue of rape—from an original and provocative perspective. Lynn Chancer focuses on how, among many feminists, the co

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0520919289

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9780520919280

Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising

Poetry and the Problem of the Populace After 1381

By: Lynn Arner

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Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising

Poetry and the Problem of the Populace After 1381

By: Lynn Arner

Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising examines the transmission of Greco-Roman and European literature into English during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, while literacy was burgeoning among men and women from the nonruling classes. This dissemination offered a radically democratizing potential for accessing, interpreting, and deploying learned texts. Focusing primarily on an overlooked sector of Chaucer’s and Gower’s early readership, namely, the upper strata of nonruling urban classes, Lynn Arner argues that Chaucer’s and Gower’s writings engaged in elaborate processes of constructing cultural expertise. These writings helped define gradations of cultural authority, determining who could contribute to the production of legitimate knowledge and granting certain socioeconomic groups political leverage in the wake of the English Rising of 1381. Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising simultaneously examines Chaucer’s and Gower’s negotiations—often articulated at the site of gender—over poetics and over the roles that vernacular poetry should play in the late medieval English social formation. This study investigates how Chaucer’s and Gower’s texts positioned poetry to become a powerful participant in processes of social control.

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Penn State Press

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027106966X

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9780271069661

Lifespinners

By: Lynn Watson

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Lifespinners

By: Lynn Watson

In 2048, medical science has overcome all the diseases and limiting conditions of old age. In the exclusive community of Wellowfern, radical life extension has turned from distant dream to near reality and competing forces are lining up to impose their widely different visions of the future. Isabel is a loyal and influential resident who knows about corporate intrigue and the power of self-interest. She now has to figure out who is pulling the strings, which side she is on and how best to defend her safe haven and her eccentric, misfit friends, as the high-level infighting threatens to overwhelm them.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1805141066

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9781805141068

Elementary School Scheduling

Enhacing Instruction for Student Achievement

By: Michael D. Rettig,Robert Lynn Canady

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Elementary School Scheduling

Enhacing Instruction for Student Achievement

By: Michael D. Rettig,Robert Lynn Canady

This practical book and its accompanying downloadable resources include over 100 schedules to help elementary schools raise student achievement.

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690

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Routledge

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1317928008

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9781317928003

Julie Dundon and Barabbas

By: JD Lynn

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Julie Dundon and Barabbas

By: JD Lynn

This is a tale of love, lust, hatred, and revenge set in Australia, Hong Kong, Macau, and Ireland. Julie Dundon, orphaned at a vulnerable age, goes to live with her eccentric uncle and aunt in Bridgetown, Western Australia. Some years later, she meets a young man originally from Bridgetown, Wexford, in the Republic of Ireland. Stephen Doyle is charming, witty, and devastatingly handsome. However, beneath the surface, he is carrying baggage from his past with disastrous consequences. Murder, mayhem, the Provisional IRA, Hong Kong triads, and Barabbas, a two-year-old Australian thoroughbred, inhabit this story of broken hearts, broken necks, and broken promises.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1514461021

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9781514461020

The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis

Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial

By: Lynn Chancer,John Andrews

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The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis

Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial

By: Lynn Chancer,John Andrews

A collection of 18 contributions by well-known scholars in and outside the US, The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis shows how sociology has much to gain from incorporating rather than overlooking or marginalizing psychoanalysis and psychosocial approaches to a wide range of social topics.

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Springer

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1137304588

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High-Profile Crimes

When Legal Cases Become Social Causes

By: Lynn S. Chancer

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When Legal Cases Become Social Causes

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0226101126

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9780226101125

The Beat Generation

A Gale Critical Companion

By: Lynn Marie Zott

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The Beat Generation

A Gale Critical Companion

By: Lynn Marie Zott

This title in Gale's Literary Criticism Series presents comprehensive collections of criticism related to particular literary movements and themes throughout history. This set focuses on the Beat Generation, covering the major topics, authors and works of the period complete with reprinted full-text literary criticism. Volume 1, a topics volume, opens with an overview of the period followed by topical essays covering the Beat Generation and its relationship to publishing, visual and performing arts. Volumes 2 and 3 (authors A-H and authors I-Z) include entries on 28 major literary figures associated with the movement. Author entries include introductions, a representative list of major works, primary source documents, reprinted criticism and lists of further reading sources. Authors featured include:William S. BurroughsNeal CassadyGregory CorsoLawrence FerlinghettiAllen GinsbergJack KerouacKen KeseyKenneth RexrothAnd othersAdditional features include: Foreword written by Anne Waldman, noted Beat author, scholar, and educatorBlack and white photographs of authors, other notable people, places, and eventsChronology of key events in the history of the Beat GenerationComprehensive author, title, and subject indexes in each volume

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0787675695

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9780787675691

After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism

Taking Back a Revolution

By: Lynn S. Chancer

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After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism

Taking Back a Revolution

By: Lynn S. Chancer

With this book Chancer takes stock of the American feminist movement. She articulates four common causes ( advancing political and economic equality, allowing intimate and sexual freedom, ending violence against women and expanding the cultural representation of women ) considering each in turn to assess what has been gained (or not). It is around these shared concerns, Chancer argues, that we can continue to build a vibrant and expansive feminist movement and articulates a broad agenda developed through advancing intersectional concerns about class, race, and sexuality.

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0804774374

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High-Profile Crimes

By: Lynn S. Chancer

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High-Profile Crimes

By: Lynn S. Chancer

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145960573X

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9781459605732

Gender, Race, and Class

An Overview

By: Lynn S. Chancer,Beverly Xaviera Watkins

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Gender, Race, and Class

An Overview

By: Lynn S. Chancer,Beverly Xaviera Watkins

Gender, Race, and Class is a critical overview of these three well-known dimensions of the social world. The study of gender, race and class as a combined topic has evolved over the years, and this concise, accessible volume shows why the subject continues to resonate both in and outside the academy. Examines recent scholarship to how one’s gender, with the added dimension of race and class, can impact one’s experiences in society. Probes deeper under the surface of different biases to see whether common elements of discrimination may also be at work. Includes a conceptual “vocabulary” that describes how gender, race and class interrelate.

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0631220348

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9780631220343

Reconcilable Differences

Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism

By: Lynn S. Chancer

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Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism

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The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis

Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial

By: Lynn Chancer,John Andrews

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Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial

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To Dismiss with Prejudice

By: Teresa A. Lynn

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To Dismiss with Prejudice

By: Teresa A. Lynn

Eugenie Escousse is a thirty-nine year old married career woman and her biological clock is ticking. For the past year she has undergone monthly donor inseminations, fertility medications, lab tests, and surgery--all with negative pregnancy results. Tyler Tanner is the owner of the Shreveport Fertility Institute located in downtown Shreveport. She provides doctors with donor sperm for their patients. Tyler is proud of her fertility institute, but she is a woman haunted by her past. Her violent reaction to men lead to murder. Detective Bo Hache of the Shreveport Police Department is busy investigating drive-by shootings and drug dealers--until someone starts murdering pregnant women. Retired police chief Bubba Nelson, an old man born during the time of extreme racism, hires out to the elite as a private investigator, shadowing blackmailers and keeping safe family secrets. Bubba Nelson and Detective Hache butt heads as they become tangled in each other's investigations, which will lead to the murderer of the pregnant women.

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