Sciences Sociales / Sociologie

Ethical Wisdom: The Search for a Moral Life

de Mark Matousek

Since the days of the first primitive tribes, we have tried to determine why one man is good and another evil. Mark Matousek arrives at the answer in Ethical Wisdom.

Contrary to what we've been taught in our...

Talk Dirty to Me

de Sallie Tisdale

We live in a world in which almost every public image--every interaction--carries an element of sexual desire.  And yet it is nearly impossible for us to talk openly and honestly about sex.  Talk Dirty to...

Sister to Sister

de Patricia Foster

Sister to Sister includes essays and stories by:

Meena Alexander

Robin Behn

Louise DeSalvo

Erika Duncan

Maria Flook

Patricia Foster

Bonnie Friedman

Donna Gordon

Lucy Grealy

Joy Harjo

Bell Hooks

Pam Houston

Jesse Lee Kercheval...

A Miracle Every Day

de Marita Golden

A Miracle Everyday takes an illuminating and intimate look at flourishing single-mother families. Single motherhood and the children of single mothers have been the subject of overwhelmingly negative statistical...

Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race

de Marita Golden & Susan Shreve

Candid, poignant, provocative, and informative, the essays and stories in Skin Deep explore a wide spectrum of racial issues between black and white women, from self-identity and competition to childrearing...

Minding the Body

de Patricia Foster

A mulitcultural anthology of fiction and  non-fiction literary narratives which addresses the  psychological and political aspects of a woman's body in  today's culture. An important and much-needed  book...

Virtually Normal

de Andrew Sullivan

An unprecedented work from the brilliant young editor of The New Republic--who is celebrated also as an incisive defender of the equality of homosexuals--Virtually Normal is an impassioned, reasoned, subtle,...

Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926

de Adele Logan Alexander

This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author's own) from privation to the middle class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our...

Rebels in White Gloves: Coming of Age with Hillary's Class--Wellesley '69

de Miriam Horn

When the women of the Wellesley class of 1969 entered the ivory tower, they were initiated into a rarefied world. Many were daughters of privilege, many were going for their "MRS." But by the time they graduated...

The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony

de Pamela Paul

The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony is a pioneering study of first marriages lasting five years or less and ending without children, and of the changing face of matrimony in America.

According to...

Moving the Rock: Poverty and Faith in a Black Storefront Church

de Mary E. Abrums

Moving the Rock tells the stories of a group of African American women who belong to a small storefront church in central Seattle.

War Torn

de Tad Bartimus, Denby Fawcett & Jurate Kazickas

For the first time, nine women who made journalism history talk candidly about their professional and deeply personal experiences as young reporters who lived, worked, and loved surrounded by war. Their stories...

Embracing the Infidel

de Behzad Yaghmaian

An eye-opening personal account of an epic human drama, Embracing the Infidel takes us on an astounding journey along a modern-day underground railroad that stretches from Istanbul to Paris.  In this groundbreaking...

The New CEOs: Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies

de Richard L. Zweigenhaft

The New CEOs looks at the women and people of color leading Fortune 500 companies, exploring the factors that have helped them achieve success and their impact on the business world and society more broadly....

My Lie: A True Story of False Memory

de Meredith Maran

Meredith Maran lived a daughter's nightmare: she accused her father of sexual abuse, then realized, nearly too late, that he was innocent.

During the 1980s and 1990s, tens of thousands of Americans became convinced...

Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White

de David R. Roediger

In this thought-provoking volume, David R. Roediger has brought together some of the most important black writers throughout history to explore the question: What does it really mean to be white in America?

From...

The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave: Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape

de John Thompson & William Andrews

The unique narrative of a slave who fled to freedom and sailed aboard a whaling vessel.

John Thompson was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in 1812. Originally published in 1856, The Life of John...

I Feel Great About My Hands: And Other Unexpected Joys of Aging

de Shari Graydon

Nora Ephron struck a chord with I Feel Bad about My Neck. Women’s advocate and acclaimed writer Shari Graydon set out to counter the supposed downhill slide–inspired grief by inviting notable women from across...

Cinderella Story: A Scholarly Sketchbook about Race, Identity, Barack Obama, the Human Spirit, and Other Stuff that Matters

de Jr., James Haywood Rolling

Cinderella Story is an experimental autoethnography that explores critical racial issues in America through the media of language and images.

Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia

de Jeanette Covington

Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia critically examines how the film industry and criminologists have constructed African Americans in their...