Rainforest Warriors–Now in Paperback
02/09/2012
Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial Richard Price 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 41 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4300-0 | $55.00 | £36.00 Paper 2012 | ISBN… READ MORE
Category: Human Rights & Law
This Month’s Podcast: Shawn Leigh Alexander on the Civil Rights Struggle Before the NAACP
02/01/2012
In the February podcast Shawn Leigh Alexander, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and interim director of the Langston Hughes Center at the University of Kansas, talks about… READ MORE
Battling Miss Bolsheviki–Now Available
12/19/2011
Battling Miss Bolsheviki: The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States Kirsten Marie Delegard 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus. Cloth Jan 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4366-6… READ MORE
An Army of Lions–Now Available
An Army of Lions: The Civil Rights Struggle Before the NAACP Shawn Leigh Alexander 408 pages | 6 x 9 | 22 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4375-8 | $49.95… READ MORE
Immigration, Islam, and the Politics of Belonging in France — Now Available
Immigration, Islam, and the Politics of Belonging in France: A Comparative Framework Elaine R. Thomas 328 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4332-1 | $65.00 | £42.50… READ MORE
Paul’s Pick of the Month, a Free Article from the Journal Humanity
12/15/2011
Every month, Paul Chase in the Penn Press Journals department invites our beloved blog readers to download a complimentary article from one of our many scholarly journals. Paul's Pick for… READ MORE
Political Repression–Now Available
11/29/2011
Political Repression: Courts and the Law Linda Camp Keith 336 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4381-9 | $75.00 | £49.00 A volume in… READ MORE
From Human Trafficking to Human Rights–Now Available
From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Reframing Contemporary Slavery Edited by Alison Brysk and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4382-6… READ MORE
Virtuousity in Business — Now Available
11/01/2011
Virtuosity in Business: Invisible Law Guiding the Invisible Hand Kevin T. Jackson 376 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4376-5 | $79.95 | £52.00 Virtuosity in Business… READ MORE
Five Things Urban Planners Must Do to Foster Women’s Health
10/27/2011
What if your daughter couldn’t learn reading or math because it is unsafe to walk to school? What if your neighborhood had no clean running water, but it was your duty to serve healthy meals to your aging in-laws? What if the simple act of crossing the street in time to transfer from one bus to another put you and your children at risk because of poor transit system design? For many women in cities around the world, these “what ifs” are too real.
Women have first-hand knowledge of the particular ways that poorly lit streets, crowded subway cars, and bad or nonexistant infrastructure effect their well-being. And now there’s a growing body of research to back up what the proverbial grandmother could have told us.
