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Birth Control in America : The Career of Margaret Sanger
David M. Kennedy
Hardcover - $107.95
Combines biography of M. Sanger with social history of birth control movement. Winner of Bancroft Prize in American History 1971 and John Gilmary Shea Award of American Catholic Historical Association 1970.
From Slogans to Mantras : Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam Era
Stephen A. Kent
Paperback - $33.95
Certainly, religious strains were evident through postwar popular culture from the 1950s Beat generation into the 1960s drug counterculture, but the explosion of nontraditional religions during the early 1970s was unprecedented. This phenomenon took ...
Histories of Leisure
Rudy Koshar
Paperback - $80.95
In the wake of the American and French revolutions, European culture saw the evolution of a new 'leisure regime' never previously enjoyed. Now we speak of modern leisure societies, but the history of leisure, its experiences and expectations, its sco ...
Liberal Professions and Illiberal Politics : Hungary from the Habsburgs to the Holocaust
Maria M. Kovacs
Hardcover - $229.95
In this important new historical study, Maria Kovacs examines the struggle between liberal and anti-Semitic policies among professional groups--doctors, lawyers, engineers--in Hungary. Kovacs's main emphasis is on the interwar period when unemploymen ...
Blasphemy : Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie
Leonard Williams Levy
Paperback - $75.95
This book is about the suppression of freedom of expression in the religious belief and experience; it is also about an inchmeal progression in the scope of freedom of expression.
When Sex Goes to School : Warring Views on Sex--And Sex Education--Since the Sixties
Kristin Luker
Paperback - $29.95
Luker, a professor of sociology at the University of California-Berkeley and a professor at Boalt Law School, explores the ideas and values behind the fight over sex education through the lives of parents, its most passionate participants.
Citizenship and Social Class
T. H. Marshall
Paperback - $61.95
Over forty years after it first appeared, T.H. Marshall's seminal essay on citizenship and social class in postwar Britain has acquired the status of a classic. His lucid analysis of the principal elements of citizenship--namely the possession of civ ...