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Environmental Injustice and the Pursuit of a Post-Carbon World: The Unintended Consequences of the Clean Air Act as a Cautionary Tale for Solar Energy Development
(Brooklyn Law School, 2017-01-01)The combustion of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas) and, to a lesser extent, changes in land cover, have led to a rise in greenhouse gasses (GHG) in the atmosphere and an increase in global average surface temperatures.¹ ... -
Who Is Presidential? Women’s Political Representation, Deflection, and the 2016 Election
(Sage, 2018)In 2016, Hillary Clinton was the first woman to gain the presidential nomination from a major political party in the United States, yet she was unsuccessful. The current study explores barriers to being elected as president ... -
Victimization, Urbanicity, and the Relevance of Context: School Routines, Race and Ethnicity, and Adolescent Violence
(Hindawi, 2013-07-14)The United States is undergoing a historical racial and ethnic demographic shift. There is limited criminological research exploring if and how these changes influence variation in the relationship between routine activity ... -
Inter-American Encounters in the Travel and Migration Narratives of Mayra Montero and Cristina García: Toward a Decolonial Hemispheric Feminism
(University of Chicago Press, 2014)This essay merges scholarship on coloniality and hemispheric theories to elaborate a hemispheric decolonial feminism. I adopt this approach to illustrate how two Cuban exile writers, Mayra Montero and Cristina García, ... -
Narrative as a Resource for Feminist Practices of Socially Engaged Inquiry: Mayra Montero’s In the Palm of Darkness
(Wiley, 2013)Against the view that the physical sciences should be the privileged source of reliable knowledge within the academy in general, and in philosophy in particular, this essay argues that an interdisciplinary approach to ... -
Ageism and Feminism: From “Et Cetera” to Center
(Indiana University Press, 2006)Although women’s studies scholars and activists do not deny the reality of ageism, they have relegated it to secondary status, neglecting to theorize age relations or place old age at the center of analysis. After explaining ... -
Symbolic Politics of the State: The Case of In-state Tuition Bills for Undocumented Students
(Sage, 2016-05-18)A symbolic politics approach contends that the meanings policy proposals convey, and the audiences they attract, may matter more than whether they become law. Yet, we know little about the sociopolitical conditions prompting ... -
Self-rated health and interviewer-rated health: differentials in predictive power for mortality among subgroups of Chinese elders
(WHIOCE, 2017-01-04)Interviewer-rated health (IRH) and self-rated health (SRH) have strong and independent predictive power for mortality, but their relative predictive power has not been examined among sub-populations. Because individuals ... -
More Than "Getting Us Through:" A Case Study in Cultural Capital Enrichment of Underrepresented Minority Undergraduates.
(2011)Minority students continue to be underrepresented among those who seek graduate and professional degrees in the sciences. Much previous research has focused on academic preparation. Equally important, however, are the ... -
Grace
(2013)This short story involves the interaction of a beggar and a prostitute in the precincts of the Kalil temple in Kolkata, India. -
Making Visible Asians and Asian-Americans in Introductory Women's Studies Courses: the Personal Voice in Pedagogy, Making Feminist Connections
(2015)My paper examines the lack of material on Asians/Asian Americans in introductory Women's Studies textbooks, suggests books that can be used, and pedagogical methods to inform and educate students about this minority -
Education and Women's 'Autonomy': An NGO's Efforts in a Calcutta Basti
(2001)A community-based non-profit in a majority Muslim community in Kolkata, India, initiates several female education projects, Muslim girls' concepts of 'autonomy' -
The 'War on Terror' and Withdrawing American Charity: Some Consequences for Poor Muslim Women in Kolkata, India
(2004)My paper discusses the apparent consequences of the American "war on terror" for a private American donor agency working in a largely Muslim slum area in Kolkata, and for the women who live there. -
The 'Self-Animal' and Divine Digestion: Goat Sacrifice to the Goddess Kali in Bengal
(1994)My paper explores the cultural meaning and central logic of the gift-offering of goats, pathabali. I elicit this meaning from the incantations in the rite of bali itself, my own observations on ritual action that follows ... -
Immobility and 'Unfreedom': Dowry's Violence in the Lives of Poor Indian Women
(2009)The paper discusses the traditional Hindu custom of dowry in its modern manifestations, with a focus on case study in Calcutta. Dowry, once a custom of Hindu upper castes of India, has, especially since Independence (1947), ... -
Digital Empowerment: African Women and Creative Media
Drawing from seven years' research with women singers, dancers, emcees, and ritual practitioners in Senegal and beyond, Dr. Neff examines the ways in which ethnic traditions intersect with the possibility of digital futures. ... -
Unmet needs in long-term care and their associated factors among the oldest old in China
(2015-04-12)Background With a rapidly aging population and a decline in the availability of family caregivers, the number of elders in China who have unmet long-term care needs is increasing. Because unmet needs often have negative ...
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