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“marc wolinsky”

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  • Gays and the Military

    Joseph Steffan versus the United States

    Edited by Marc Wolinsky, Kenneth Sherrill ...
    In April 1987 Joseph C. Steffan, one of the ten highest ranking midshipmen in his class at the U.S. Naval Academy, and only six weeks from graduation, was denied his diploma and forced to resign his commission because he answered "Yes, sir" to the question, "I'd like your word, are you a homosexual?" Six years later his cause, and that of other gay men and lesbians seeking to serve their country ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

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  • The Second Sexism

    Discrimination Against Men and Boys

    by David Benatar ...
    Does sexism against men exist? What it looks like and why we need to take it seriouslyThis book draws attention to the "second sexism," where it exists, how it works and what it looks like, and responds to those who would deny that it exists. Challenging conventional ways of thinking, it examines controversial issues such as sex-based affirmative action, gender roles, and charges of anti-feminism. ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Identical Treatment in the Machine of the Law, The Quest for Transgender Civil Rights

    by Joanne Borden ...
    This book explains the transgender phenomenon in an easy to understand and simple way to explain it to others. Also included are over 50 different speeches that are loaded with arguments and ideas for lobbying for transgender civil rights at all levels of government and may be useful for lobbying for any civil rights cause. It combines two topics that are inseparable in achieving justice and ... Read more

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  • Going to Extremes

    How Like Minds Unite and Divide

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    Why do people become extremists? What makes people become so dismissive of opposing views? Why is political and cultural polarization so pervasive in America? In Going to Extremes, renowned legal scholar and best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein offers startling insights into why and when people gravitate toward extremism. Sunstein marshals a wealth of evidence that shows that when like-minded ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Raised to Rage

    The Politics of Anger and the Roots of Authoritarianism

    by Michael A. Milburn, Sheree D. Conrad ...
    An argument that voter anger and authoritarian political attitudes can be traced to the displacement of anger, fear, and helplessness.Politicians routinely amplify and misdirect voters' anger and resentment to win their support. Opportunistic candidates encourage supporters to direct their anger toward Mexicans, Muslims, women, protestors, and others, rather than the true socioeconomic causes of ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics

    Edited by Andrew I. Cohen, Christopher Heath Wellman ...
    Series series Contemporary Debates in Philosophy
    Now in an updated edition with fresh perspectives on high-profile ethical issues such as torture and same-sex marriage, this collection pairs cogently argued essays by leading philosophers with opposing views on fault-line public concerns.Revised and updated new edition with six new pairs of essays on prominent contemporary issues including torture and same-sex marriage, and a survey of theories ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Madness in International Relations

    Psychology, Security, and the Global Governance of Mental Health

    by Alison Howell ...
    Series series Interventions
    Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has become a means of securing various populations, often with questionable effects.Through the analysis of three key case studies Howell illustrates how such therapeutic interventions can at times be coercive and ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life

    by Majia Holmer Nadesan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life synthesizes and extends the disparate strands of scholarship on Foucault's notions of governmentality and biopower and grounds them in familiar social contexts including the private realm, the market, and the state/military. Topics include public health, genomics, behavioral genetics, neoliberal market logics and technologies, philanthropy, and the war ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Born This Way

    Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement

    by Dr. Joanna Wuest ...
    The story of how a biologically driven understanding of gender and sexuality became central to US LGBTQ+ political and legal advocacy.Across protests and courtrooms, LGBTQ+ advocates argue that sexual and gender identities are innate. Oppositely, conservatives incite panic over “groomers” and a contagious “gender ideology” that corrupts susceptible children. Yet, as this debate rages on, the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Sex, Sexuality, Law, and (In)justice

    Edited by Henry Fradella, Jennifer Sumner ...
    Sex, Sexuality, Law, and (In)Justice covers a wide range of legal issues associated with sexuality, gender, reproduction, and identity. These are critical and sensitive issues that law enforcement and other criminal justice professionals need to understand. The book synthesizes the literature across a wide breadth of perspectives, exposing students to law, psychology, criminal justice, sociology, ... Read more

    $157.99 CAD

  • Vulnerability Politics

    The Uses and Abuses of Precarity in Political Debate

    by Katie Oliviero ...
    A new understanding of vulnerability in contemporary political cultureProgressive thinkers have argued that placing the concept of vulnerability at the center of discussions about social justice would lead governments to more equitably distribute resources and create opportunities for precarious groups – especially women, children, people of color, queers, immigrants and the poor. At the same time ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • On War and Democracy

    by Christopher Kutz ...
    On War and Democracy provides a richly nuanced examination of the moral justifications democracies often invoke to wage war. In this compelling and provocative book, Christopher Kutz argues that democratic principles can be both fertile and toxic ground for the project of limiting war's violence. Only by learning to view war as limited by our democratic values—rather than as a tool for promoting ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD