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06
Aug

The Paradox of Sexual Freedom

by Leslie C. Bell, Ph.D., LCSW Excited yet embarrassed, Claudia, a twenty-eight-year-old I interviewed for my book, Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom, told me about a …

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05
Aug

Caste Away

by Susan Starr Sered  I first met Elizabeth at a drop-in center for poor and homeless women shortly after she was released from prison. Elizabeth’s father was a firefighter. Her mother worked …

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04
Aug

Cheap on Crime

by Hadar Aviram In 2009, for the first time in almost forty years, the total number of inmates in the United states declined—a trend that persists since then. Six states have recently …

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04
Aug

Good Intentions and Ironic Consequences

by Joel Best and Eric Best Last month brought the collapse of Corinthian Colleges, a large–but by no means the largest—for-profit college. The Department of Education struggled to engineer a soft landing …

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01
Aug

So How’s the Family and other Essays

by Arlie Russell Hochschild In So How’s the Family and other Essays, Arlie Russell Hochschild—author of the groundbreaking exploration of emotional labor, The Managed Heart, The Outsourced Self, The Second Shift and …

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01
Aug

The Stories behind Hard Times

At UC Press, we believe that scholarship can advance knowledge and drive change. That’s why we asked our authors to share stories from their research that reflect on this year’s American Sociological …

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