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Samuel Lucas, Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice Temple U. Press, 2008

Diesel, A Bookstore

What's happened to race and gender prejudice in the US? Is discrimination what one person does to another? And which historical events have helped determine the course of race- and gender-based struggles? Samuel Lucas investigates race, gender and social policy, and critiques mainstream discussions of discrimination, in a new book.

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Hawkesworth & Alexander, eds., War & Terror: Feminist Perspectives U. of Chicago Press, 2008

Ferguson & Marso, eds., W Stands for Women Duke U. Press, 2007

Are the logics of war and neoliberalism compatible with the empowerment of women and the pursuit of feminist goals? Mary Hawkesworth describes what happens to women, social attitudes, and political structures both during war and after demobilization. She also cites processes of feminization that affect labor, patterns of poverty, and even men. (Encore presentation.)

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Ruth Rosen, "The Care Crisis" Longview Institute

Alameda Public Affairs Forum

You've got a job, and a family emergency. Do you drop everything to take care of it? Can you drop everything? What if you're a woman, and you are expected, by your family and by the larger society, to do the caregiving in addition to everything else? Ruth Rosen spoke at an Alameda Public Affairs Forum event about what she calls the care crisis.

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Hawkesworth & Alexander, eds., War & Terror: Feminist Perspectives U. of Chicago Press, 2008

Ferguson & Marso, eds., W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender Duke U. Press, 2007

Are the logics of war and neoliberalism compatible with the empowerment of women and the pursuit of feminist goals? Mary Hawkesworth describes what happens to women, social attitudes, and political structures both during war and after demobilization. She also cites processes of feminization that affect labor, patterns of poverty, and even men.