As the public health crisis wrought by COVID-19 continues to upend the everyday life of communities, families, and individuals throughout the globe, not all of the challenges that lie before us are …
Read More >March is Women’s History Month, and we at UC Press are proud to share our rich record of publishing stories of women from throughout history, between disciplines, and across borders. Please enjoy …
Read More >Originally proposed during one of the first International Socialist Women’s Conferences in 1910, International Women’s Day was first celebrated on March 19th, 1911. Later moved to be celebrated on March 8th, International …
Read More >Excerpted from Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency by Andrew Lakoff Disease as a National Security Issue In the mid-1990s, a group of advocates for renewed biodefense measures began to …
Read More >In recent weeks, headlines and broadcasts have been dominated by news surrounding the outbreak of a dreadful new strain of coronavirus, officially designated as COVID-19. Originating in the Chinese city of Wuhan …
Read More >This post is published in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association conference in Vancouver, Canada. Check for other posts from the conference.#AAACASCA By Rebecca J. Lester, author of Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America …
Read More >Excerpted from Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America by Rebecca J. Lester I came dangerously close to dying from anorexia twice, once when I was eleven years old and again when I …
Read More >As California joins other states in seeking to end lunch shaming through legislation, the conversation turns importantly towards a national solution. Jennifer E. Gaddis’s timely new book, The Labor of Lunch: Why …
Read More >“I’ve always been interested as a sociologist and a researcher in trying to better understand how issues related to race, gender, and inequality persist in professional workplaces.” — Adia Harvey Wingfield, author …
Read More >By Adia Harvey Wingfield, author of Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy This guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American …
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