Political Science

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Unsettling Activisms

Critical Interventions on Aging, Gender, and Social Change

May Chazan, Melissa Baldwin, Pat Evans

How and why do “ordinary” women and nonbinary people engage in various forms of social-change work at different times in their lives? What does it mean for these people to age as activists? Unsettling Activisms brings together insights from academics and activists in an interg... more
Immigration, Public Policy, and Health

Newcomer Experiences in Developed Nations

Dennis Raphael

A critical assessment of how public policy affects the health of immigrants, this interdisciplinary volume is an integral contribution to the study of immigration in modern developed nations. Authors employ a welfare state analysis to examine the political and economic systems... more
Politics and Sex

Exploring the Connections between Gender, Sexuality, and the State

Edna Keeble

Politics and Sex demonstrates how the “private” is also a site of power. The study of politics is traditionally founded on a fundamental distinction between the public and private spheres. Focusing on the particular challenges faced by women, author Edna Keeble interrogates t... more
Women and Genocide

Gendered Experiences of Violence, Survival, and Resistance

JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz, Donna Gosbee

Illuminating the unique experiences of women both during and after genocide, JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz and Donna Gosbee’s edited collection is a vital addition to genocide scholarship. The contributors revisit genocides of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from Armenia in 1... more