Political Control & Freedoms

In 1973, the year the women's movement won an important symbolic victory with Roe v. Wade, reports surfaced that twelve-year-old Minnie Lee Relf an...

From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and difficult environments. While hu...

During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, insurgencies erupted in imperial states and colonies around t...

Beginning in the 1880s, the economic realities and class dynamics of popular northern resort towns unsettled prevailing assumptions about political...

Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum interrogates the polyvalent role that American exceptionalism continues to play after 9/11. Whereas American exc...

Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? Is democracy a necessary condition for the achievement of human rights in practice?...

A sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedom A sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedom throughout Americ...

Recent writing on the nature of freedom has served to underline a crucial gap in the academic experience. First--and most obviously--the concept of...

Colombia is home to the longest-running guerilla war in this hemisphere, a war that has evolved into a multisided conflict. Over forty years ago gu...

The Burmese army took political power in Burma in 1962 and has ruled the country ever since. The persistence of this government—even in the face of...

Finalist for 2010 LGBT Anthology Award from the Lambda Literary Awards Unwed teen mothers, abortion, masturbation, pornography, gay marriage, sex t...

Based on a study of 12,000 elementary school children in eight large and medium-sized American cities, this book presents the first large-scale stu...

"Transgender Rights packs a surprising amount of information into a small space. Offering spare, tightly executed essays, this slim volume nonethel...

The power and future role of nation states are a topic of increasing importance. The dispersion of authority both vertically to supranational and s...

Approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child affirms that children in a...

This fully revised and extended edition of James Nickel’s classic study explains and defends the contemporary conception of human rights. Combining...

A model of engaged scholarship, this book examines first-person testimonials by women who have survived abuse and atrocity in zones of conflict and...

The Argentine dictatorship of 1976 to 1983 set out to transform Argentine society. Employing every means at its disposal - including rampant violat...

Selling Intervention and War examines the competition among foreign policy elites in the executive branch and Congress in winning the hearts and mi...

"Nowhere did two understandings of U.S. identity—human rights and anticommunism—come more in conflict with each other than they did in Latin Americ...

For undergraduate courses in Constitutional Law, Civil Rights & Liberties, Introduction to American Government,Introduction to Law and Legal Pr...