November 2008
4 posts
Top Ten Death Penality Myths
Top Ten Death Penality Myths: The Politics of Crime Control by Rudolph J. Gerber and John M. Johnson
Call Number: HV8699.U5 G47 2007
Unmarried Couples with Children
Unmarried Couples with Children edited by Paula England and Kathryn Edin
Call Number: HQ803.5 .U66 2007
The Lolita Effect
The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It by M. Gigi Durham
Call Number: HQ799.2.M35 D98 2008
The Responsibility to Protect
The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All by Gareth Evans
Call Number: HV6322.7 .E93 2008
October 2008
2 posts
Chronologies of Modern Terrorism
Chronologies of Modern Terrorism by Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin
Call Number: HV6431 .R84 2008
Escape from Freedom
Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
Call Number: HM271 .F74 1994
September 2008
4 posts
The Narcotic Farm
The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Prison for Drug Addicts by Nancy D. Campbell, JP Olsen and Luke Walden
Call Number: HV5279.U65 C36 2008
Abortion Politics in North America
Abortion Politics in North America by Melissa Haussman
Call Number: HQ767.5.U5 H4 2005
Table of Contents: 1. Exploring the Policy Paradox of Abortion 2. Establishing and Contesting Abortion Rights in the United States 3. Canada: Limited Access Despite Public Healthcare 4. Mexico: Contradictions Between Written Laws and Women's Lives 5. The Transnational Nature of Reproductive Choice Issues...
Interrogating Postfeminism
Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture by Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra
Call Number: HQ1190 .I58 2007
Children, Gender, Video Games
Children, Gender, Video Games: Towards a Relational Approach to Multimedia by Valerie Walkerdine
Call Number: HQ784.V53 W35 2007
August 2008
4 posts
Gender and Fatherhood in the Nineteenth Century
Gender and Fatherhood in the Nineteenth Century edited by Trev Lynn Broughton and Helen Rogers
Call Number: HQ756 .G386 2007
Opting Out?
Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home by Pamela Stone
Call Number: HQ759.46 .S86 2007
Why Youth is not Wasted on the Young
Why Youth is not Wasted on the Young: Immaturity in Human Development by David F. Bjorklund
Call Number: HQ772 .B4795 2007
Unsung Heroines
Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream by Ruth Sidel
Call Number: HQ759.915 .S159 2006
July 2008
4 posts
Drugs and Justice
Drugs and Justice: Seeking a Consistent, Coherent, Comprehensive View by Margaret P. Battin et al.
Call Number: HV5825 .D7793 2008
Sex at the Margins
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labor Markets and the Rescue Industry by Laura Maria Agustin
Call Number: HQ118 .A38 2007
Love for Sale
Love for Sale: A World History of Prostitution by Nils Johan Ringdal
Call Number: HQ111 .R5613 2004
Table of Contents
1. The whore of Babylon
2. Patriarchs and priestesses
3. Fallen angels
4. Greek liberalism
5. Hindu ambiguity
6. Rome’s daughters
7. Repentant sinners
8. Tang China’s pleasure women
9. Muhammad’s women
10. Guilds and cloisters, rogues and rapists
11. Celestial...
Listening to Battered Women
Listening to Battered Women: A Survivor-Centered Approach to Advocacy, Mental Health, and Justice by Lisa A Goodman and Deborah Epstein
Call Number: HV1444 .G66 2008
“Listening to Battered Women: A Survivor-Centered Approach to Advocacy. Mental Health, and Justice presents an in-depth, multidisciplinary look at society’s responses to domestic violence. Although substantial...
June 2008
4 posts
The Men's Bibliography
The Men’s Bibliography: A Comprehensive Bibliography of Writing on Men, Masculinities, Gender, and Sexualities by Michael Flood (Univ. of Wollongong, Australia)
Well reviewed by Choice, this website “… is a comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography of writing on men, masculinities, gender, and sexualities. The Men’s Bibliography lists about 19,600 books and articles, sorted into...
Rich and Poor in America: A Reference Handbook
Rich and Poor in America: A Reference Handbook by Geoffrey Gilbert
Call Number: Ref HC110.I5 G55 2008
Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights...
Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement by Sally G. McMillen
Call Number: HQ1418 .M36 2008
The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the...
The Women’s Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Maternalism, 1920-30 by Jan Doolittle Wilson
Call Number: HQ1236.5.U6 W56 2007
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The emergence of the WJCC
The lobby for the Sheppard-Towner Bill, 1921
Opposition to the state campaign for Sheppard-Towner, 1921-23
The crusade for the child labor amendment, 1922-24
Allies...
May 2008
6 posts
Sociology Confronts the Holocaust
Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas Call Number: D804.348 .S63 2007
Hooking Up
Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus by Kathleen A. Bogle Call Number: HQ35.2 .B65 2008
Bowling for Columbine
Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore Call Number: HV7436 .B69 2004
Children and Television
Children and Television by Brian Simpson Call Number: HQ784.T4 S525 2004 Table of Contents: Acknowledgementsix Introduction1Chapter 1Forces that Shape Children and Television Law: Market Versus Regulation6Chapter 2Legal Discourse and the Regulation of the Relationship between Children and Television31Chapter 3Regulating the Relationship between Children and Television52Chapter 4Images that...
Choices in Deafness
Choices in Deafness: A Parents’ Guide to Communication Options edited by Sue Schwartz. Call Number: HV2471 .C46 2007
Corporate Crime
Corporate Crime: A Reference Handbook by Richard D. Hartley Call Number: Ref HV 6768 .H37 2008
March 2008
5 posts
Paying the Tab
Paying the Tab: The Economics of Alcohol Policy by Philip J. Cook Call Number: HV5292 .C615 2007
The Impact of Guns on Women's Lives
The Impact of Guns on Women’s Lives an Amnesty International Report Call Number: HV6250.4.W65 I456 2005 You can also access this report online as a pdf file here.
The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment
The Women’s Movement Against Sexual Harassment by Carrie N. Baker Call Number: HQ1237.5.U6 B35 2008
The Trouble with Culture
The Trouble with Culture: How Computers are Calming the Culture Wars By F. Allan Hanson Call Number: HM851 .H35 2007 Summary from bookjacket: In this highly original book, anthropologist F. Allan Hanson reveals an entirely unanticipated but vital link between two of the most widely discussed features of contemporary American society: the computer revolution and the culture wars. Hanson...
DVD: The First 24 Hours 9.11.2001
The First 24 Hours 9.11.2001 produced by Etienne Sauret, David Carrara; camera & direction, Etienne Sauret Call Number: HV6432.7 .W83 2002 Summary: Shot by an independent filmmaker, this documents the first 24 hours at “ground zero” in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. It begins with the fall of the twin...
February 2008
14 posts
In the Shadow of Death
In the Shadow of Death: Restorative Justice and Death Row Families by Elizabeth Beck, Sarah Britto and Arlene Andrews Call Number: HV8699.U5 B393 2007
Dementia and Social Work Practice
Dementia and Social Work Practice: Research and Interventions edited by Carole B. Cox Call Number: RC521 .D45338 2007
Between Women
Between Women: Friendship, Desire and Marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus Call Number: HQ1599.E5 M37 2007
Urban Girls Revisited
Urban Girls Revisited: Building Strengths edited by Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater and Niobe Way Call Number: HV1431 .U734 2007 Summary from Book Jacket: Urban Girls Revisited explores the diversity of urban adolescent girls’ development and the sources of support and resilience that help them to build the foundations of strength that they need as they enter adulthood. Urban girls are...
Writing for their Lives
Writing for their Lives: Death Row U.S.A edited by Marie Mulvey-Roberts Call Number: HV8699.U5 W75 2007 Table of Contents Essays and speeches on the death penalty Accounts of life on death row Execution Poems Short stories Interviewing prisoners Correspondence, journals, and a prison report.
Sociology Books & Media on the Go!
You can now veiw the Sociology Books and Media @ STL Blog on your PDA or mobile phone from: http://sociologybooks.tumblr.com/mobile
Judging Juveniles
Judging Juveniles: Prosecuting Adolescentes in Adult and Juvenile Courts by Aaron Kupchik Call Number: HV9104 .K87 2006 Summary from Book Jacket: By comparing how adolescents are prosecuted and punished in juvenile and criminal (adult) courts, Aaron Kupchik finds that prosecuting adolescents in criminal court does not fit with our cultural understandings of youthfulness. As a result,...
Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice
Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family by Rosanna Hertz Call Number: HQ536 .H48 2006
Vault Career Guide to Social Work
Vault Career Guide to Social Work by Natalie Wright Call Number: HV10.5 .W75 2007
The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance...
The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Studies edited by Dympna Callaghan Call Number: HQ1148 .I46 2007
More Electronic Journals Available through Sage...
The Sojourner Truth Library has recently purchased a subscription to Sage Premier. The Sage Premier database is a collection of 452 peer reviewed journals that can be accessed in full text from 1999 onward. Some of the journals accessible through Sage Premier that may be of interest include: Criminal Justice and Behavior Criminal Justice Policy Review Criminal Justice Review Feminist...
It's Not the Media
It’s Not the Media: The Truth about Pop Culture Influence on Children by Karen Sternheimer Call number: HQ799.2.M35 S84 2003 From Book Jacket: “It’s Not the Media considers why media culture is a perennial target of both fascination and concern, and why we are so often encouraged to believe it is the root of many social problems. A look beyond the attention-grabbing...
Different Daughters
Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement by Marcia M. Gallo Call Number: HQ75.6.U5 G36 2006 From Book Jacket: “Nearly fifteen years before the Stonewall Rebellion and the birth of gay liberation came the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB). Like its predominantly gay male counterparts, the Mattachine Society and ONE, Inc., DOB was...
Correctional Officers in America
Correctional Officers in America: The Emergence of a New Profession by Stephen Walters and Tom Caywood Call Number: HV9470 .W35 2006 Table of Contents The world of correctional officers Selection and training Characteristics of correctional officers Correctional officers, inmates, & social control The social psychology of correctional officers The subculture of correctional...
January 2008
5 posts
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life by Annette Lareau Call Number: HQ767.9 .L37 2003
Trappings: Stories of Women Power and Clothing
Trappings: Stories of Women Power and Clothing/Two Girls Working: TiffanyLudwig + Renee Piechocki Call Number: HQ1421 .L83 2007
Predators: Who They are and How to Stop Them
Predators: Who They are and How to Stop Them by Gregory M. Cooper and Michael R. King with Thomas McHoes Call Number: HV6250.25 .C68 2007