Do It Anyway,
Courtney Martin, September 2010, trade paperback, $16.00, 978-0-8070-0047-2
MS Magazine; recommends “Do it Anyway” in the Bookmarks
section of their forthcoming August 12th issue:
Where do we begin to “save the world”? Anywhere, answers Martin,
who profiles eight activists under 35, including a feminist film-maker,
an advocate for sexually abused soldiers and an environmentalist concerned
with the racial politics of pollution.
Early Spring,
Amy Seidl, paperback, March 2010, $15.00, 978-0-8070-8597-4
AAUP “Best of the Best” Award; the 2010 “Best of the Best”
program from ALA may now be seen on the C-Span website at the link below:
Boston Globe; author interview in the July 27th issue
The Shaping of Things
In her new book, Wheelock professor Gail Dines warns that the prevalence
of porn is twisting our attitudes about sex With just a few clicks of her
desktop computer’s keyboard in her home office here, Gail Dines travels
to a place she wishes did not exist: a pornographic website.
The images seem designed to maximize the women’s humiliation, a point
that is not lost on Dines. “If you really watch it carefully, you can
see that they’re in pain, exhausted, demoralized,’’ she says,
looking somberly at the screen.
A House for
Hope, John A. Buehrens and Rebecca Ann Parker, May 2010, cloth,
$25.95, 978-0-8070-7738-2
Washington Post; Rebecca Parker’s piece, “Oil Spill Spirituality,”
went live today on the ‘On Faith’ section
Parker’s timely piece on religion and the environment, hooks to the
BP oil spill:
“As a progressive person of faith, my heart sank. If we are going
to end our addiction to oil, a spiritual awakening is needed - as anyone
who has successfully recovered from a personal addiction through the 12-steps
knows. Our religious traditions must help not hinder the cause. We need
spiritual resources that can sustain us through the arduous task of re-orienting
our economic system and changing our way of life so we "live simply
that others may simply live."
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