Nicholas Guittar draws on deeply personal interviews with young people to enhance our understanding of “coming out,” revealing the changing dynamics of sexual identity. Guittar explores how mainstream norms continue to assert their influence over those with nonnormative sexualities. He also highlights the wide spectrum of coming out experiences. His important work sheds light on why, even though fewer people may remain closeted today than in the past, coming out is not a one-time event, but a lifetime process.

Coming Out: The New Dynamics

Politics & Social Sciences

Guittar, Nicholas A.

Social Sciences

FirstForumPress

Jessica Pardee documents and examines the experiences of low-income African American women during Hurricane Katrina to uncover the ways that race, class, and gender shape the experiences of disasters. Drawing on intimate interviews to explore the complex challenges that these women faced in the course of the hurricane and its aftermath, Pardee reveals how, with so few material resources, they survived the storm and began the process of rebuilding their lives.

Surviving Katrina: The Experiences of Low-Income African American Women

Pardee, Jessica Warner

A half-century ago, women comprised only a tiny fraction of practicing attorneys. Today, nearly half of law school graduates are female. Phyllis Kitzerow explores the experiences of women in the legal profession over the past fifty years, charting the sometimes surprising impact of shifting social norms on pathways to professional and personal success. Kitzerow contrasts the experiences of women across generations, showing how the backgrounds and expectations of each cohort―from the pioneers of the 1960s to women starting out today―have played out in the evolving legal profession. Her analysis offers important lessons on a range of contentious work-related issues, on the meanings of success, and on the ways that individuals make the best of the options available to them.

Women Attorneys and the Changing Workplace: High Hopes, Mixed Outcomes

Kitzerow, Phyllis

Legal Education

Why has the United States continued to develop ballistic missile defenses in an era of irregular warfare and asymmetric terrorist threats? How does [...]

US Missile Defense Strategy: Engaging the Debate

Engineering & Transportation

MAYER

Engineering

During the presidency of Raúl Castro, Cuba has dramatically reformed its policies toward small private enterprises. Archibald Ritter and Ted Henken [...]

Entrepreneurial Cuba: The Changing Policy Landscape

Henken, Ted A.

Ritter, Archibald R.M.

Legal Theory & Systems

Recent US security policy toward Africa has adopted a multidimensional approach―including the use of military assets to promote economic development and good governance―that has raised questions and generated considerable debate. Can actors like the US military develop appropriate methods to address both US and African interests? What blend of civilian and military programs are most likely to produce the best outcomes? And more fundamentally, is the military the appropriate actor to undertake governance and development projects? The authors of The US Military in Africa explore these questions, providing an insightful combination of conceptual analysis and rich case studies.

The US Military in Africa: Enhancing Security and Development?

History

Military

The fragmentation of the former Somali Democratic Republic into three distinctive entities, together with the events that have ensued since then, make for a complex political puzzle that raises a plethora of questions. M.J. Fox explores some of the most fundamental of those questions: Have the "three Somalias" of today always been as disparate as they are now? How deeply rooted are those differences? Why has southern Somalia remained steeped in violence while Somaliland and Puntland are relatively peaceful and stable? And does political culture have any role to play in contemporary Somali politics? As she traces the compelling influences of political culture over time, Fox provides a unique comparative analysis of Somaliland, Puntland, and Somalia in the twenty-first century.

The Roots of Somali Political Culture

Fox, M. J.

Politics & Government

Tackling issues that range from disruptive street gangs to online illicit markets, the authors use the insights of network analysis―a sophisticated methodology for illuminating individual and group interconnections―to suggest practical, highly targeted ways to prevent criminal behavior.

Disrupting Criminal Networks: Network Analysis in Crime Prevention (Crime Prevention Studies, 28)

Raymond Suttner brings together the best of his recent work to offer both an in-depth engagement with the current challenges facing South Africa and a damning account of the politics of the Zuma era. Notably, despite his strongly argued criticism of the country’s present political order, he does not leave the reader with a sense of pessimism, but instead points to ways in which South Africans can recover and build on the promise of 1994.

Recovering Democracy in South Africa

Suttner, Raymond

Why have traditional views of national identity in South Korea―views that for years drove a demand for reunification―been challenged so dramatically in recent years? What explains the growing ambivalence and even antagonism of South Korean young people toward unification with North Korea? Emma Campbell addresses these related puzzles, exploring the emergence of a new kind of nationalism in South Korea and considering what this development means for the country’s future. CONTENTS: 
<ul>
<li>Nationalism in South Korea.</li>
<li>South Korea's Nationalist Student Movement.</li>
<li>Changing Attitudes to Unification.</li>
<li>New Nationalist Attitudes in Action.</li>
<li>Globalization and Nation Building.</li>
<li>The Impact of Globalization on National Identity.</li>
<li>The Demise of an Ethnic Identity.</li>
<li>Nationalism and Korea's Future.</li>
</ul>

South Korea’s New Nationalism: The End of “One Korea”?

Campbell, Emma

Asia

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