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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Women and Civil Society Leadership in Latin America -- 2. The Emergence of Civil Society in Argentina, Chile, and El Salvador -- 3. Argentina -- 4. Chile -- 5. El Salvador -- 6. Policy Implications of Women's Civil Society Leadership in Latin America -- Appendix: Organizations of Interviewees -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

This book proposes a resolution to the paradox of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's sexual politics-that he is the philosopher of freedom for men yet philosopher of servitude for women. Using Simone de Beauvoir's notions of liberty, the author proposes a way to use Rousseau's philosophies to overcome psychological oppression

This book discusses the conception 'partible paternity' within Amazonian Indian communities. The author argues that fellow anthropologists Beckerman and Valentine are completely wrong in labeling the Amazonian system as one of 'group marriages' in their book Cultures of Multiple Fathers; rather, he states individual marriage and family exist nearly everywhere.

"This book presents unique, critical, summaries of major works that the author proposes as the core classical sociological theory (Émile Durkheim's), as the three main supplementary classical sociological theories (Karl Marx's, Max Weber's, and Abdurahman Muhammad Ibn Khaldun's), and as two key precursor theories (Thomas Malthus's and Charles Darwin's)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Quinine and the Environment of Disease -- Chapter 2. Avian Malaria -- Chapter 3. New Drugs -- Chapter 4. Preparing for War -- Chapter 5. Cooperation and Coordination -- Chapter 6. Trust and Transition -- Chapter 7. Chloroquine, Wonder Drug -- Chapter 8. Lessons Learned -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

Preface; Introduction; 1. Hawaiian Health: A Casualty of History; 2. Managing Identity, Context, and Methods; 3. Complicating Health-Seeking Practices; 4. Variations in Definitions of Health; 5. Remembering Ancestors: Food and Land; 6. Constituting the Hawaiian Body: Resisting and Reinterpreting Health and Control; Conclusion; References; Index; About the Author.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Insurgents and Civilian-Targeted Violence -- 2. Rivals and the Logic of Insurgent Violence -- 3. "The Elephant Is Not Yet Dead" -- 4. From Jekyll to Hyde -- 5. Freedom Fighters or Terrorists? -- 6. The Theoretical and Practical Implications of Active Rivalry -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

Providing a unique insight into how gender is performed in contemporary high-tech work and introducing a creative and novel way of analyzing the fluidity and rigidity of gender at work through discourse analytic methods the author highlights how changes in the world of work interact with changes in gender relations.

This book describes the mental health treatment being provided by over 200,000 licensed clinical social workers in the United States and a summary of the fifty-one licensure laws and regulations which govern licensed clinical social work practice. The author seeks to standardize clinical social work licensure laws and regulations

Drawing on both Development Studies and post-Soviet literature, this study examines projects in Siberia since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Focusing on critical accounts of development projects in Siberia, managed by the author, this book provides a first-hand account of the successes and failures of development aid.

This book examines who is likely to have a baby as a teenager, the consequences of early motherhood and how teenage pregnancy is dealt with in the media. The author argues that society's negative attitude to young mothers marginalises an already excluded group and that efforts should be focused on support.

This study investigates the nature of the impact of globalization on the Indian state. It takes as its point of departure the thesis that globalization has resulted in the erosion of the economic and welfare roles of the state. The author argues in favour of the continued expansion of these roles.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Subaltern Worlds in Antebellum New York -- 2 The White Republic and "Workfare" -- 3 Not White, but Worthy -- 4 The Color of Juvenile Justice -- 5 Celtic Sisters, Saxon Keepers -- 6 Black Voluntarism and American Identities -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

Biographical note: Alan Watson, Earnest P. Rogers Professor of Law at the University of Georgia, is the author of many books in legal history, including Rome of the Twelve Tables; Roman Slave Law; and Sources of Law, Legal Change, and Ambiguity, the last published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Biographical note: Alan Watson, Earnest P. Rogers Professor of Law at the University of Georgia, is the author of many books in legal history, including Rome of the Twelve Tables; Roman Slave Law; and Sources of Law, Legal Change, and Ambiguity, the last published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.