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  Afterword

  Lisa Walker PhD

  Afterword in The Girls in 3-B.

  Annice, Pat, and Barby are best friends from Iowa, freshly arrived in booming 1950s Chicago to explore different paths toward independence, self-expression, and sexual freedom. From the hip-hang of a bohemian lifestyle to the sophisticated lure of romance with a handsome, wealthy, married boss to the happier security of a lesbian relationship, these three experience firsthand the dangers and limitations of women’s economic reliance on men. Lesbian pulp author Valerie Taylor skillfully paints a sociological portrait of the emotional and economic pitfalls of heterosexuality in 1950s America—and then offers a defiantly subversive alternative. A classic pulp tale showcasing predatory beatnik men, drug hallucinations, and secret lesbian trysts, The Girls in 3-B approaches the theme of sex from the stiffened vantage point of 1950s psychology.

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  Schleiermacher: Lectures on Philosophical Ethics

  Robert B. Louden PhD

  This is the first English translation of Friedrich Schleiermacher's mature ethical theory. Situated between the better-known positions of Kant and Hegel, Schleiermacher's ethics represent an under-explored option within the rich and creative tradition of German idealism. Although Schleiermacher is known to English readers primarily as a theologian and hermeneuticist, many German scholars have argued that his philosophical work in ethics constitutes his most outstanding intellectual achievement. This edition includes an historical and philosophical introduction and notes on further reading.

  • The first English translation of these texts
  • Schleiermacher is increasingly recognized as an important and distinctive figure in German idealism
  • Likely to appeal to theologians as well as historians of philosophy

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  Getting Ready for Benjamin: Preparing Teachers for Sexual Diversity in the Classroom

  Rita M. Kissen

  This book argues that issues of sexual diversity are inextricably interwoven into the basic concerns of pre-service teacher education. How do we make our students aware of assumptions regarding masculinity, femininity, and sexuality that arise from what is presented, represented, or omitted from curricula and classroom practice? What do we say about homophobia and heterosexism as we anticipate the administrative hierarchies, school cultures, parent and community politics they will encounter as teachers? What special challenges might face a teacher (straight or gay) who discusses sexual orientation in a high school classroom, or responds to a homophobic remark in the hallway or the cafeteria? How should we prepare a teacher for a parent conference with two moms or two dads? The essays in this volume range from an analysis of gay stereotypes in teacher education textbooks, to a discussion of queer multiculturalism, to personal accounts by lesbian and gay teacher educators and heterosexual allies who are challenging homophobia and heterosexism in their own classrooms and programs. All agree that education for sexual diversity is as important as education about all other forms of difference, and that future teachers need to know how to create safe spaces for lesbian and gay students, along with the children of gay families who are increasingly a part of the classroom landscape.

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  Russian Women, 1698-1917: Experience and Expression, an Anthology of Sources

  Robin Bisha, Jehanne M. Gheith, Christine Holden, and William G. Wagner

  This rich anthology of source materials makes available for the first time in any language a multitude of primary sources on the lives of Russian women from the reign of Peter the Great to the Bolshevik revolution. The selections are drawn from a wide variety of documents, published and unpublished, including memoirs, diaries, legal codes, correspondence, short fiction, poetry, ethnographic observations, and folklore. Primacy is given to sources produced by women and previously unavailable in English translation. Organized thematically, the documents focus on women’s family life, work and schooling, public activism, creative self-expression, and sexuality and spirituality, as well as on the cultural ideals and legal framework which constrained women of all social classes.

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  From Their Lives: A Manual on How to Conduct Focus Groups of Low-Income Parents

  Helen Ward and Julie Atkins

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  Groundwater Science

  Charlie Fitts

  Groundwater Science is a timely, current, and comprehensive presentation of groundwater hydrology that integrates chemistry, physics, geology and calculus. With the input of students and other hydrology instructors, the author has developed a text reference that will be appreciated by students and professors alike.

  2nd Edition now available: http://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/44/

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  A Framework for Quality Assurance in Child Welfare

  Mary O'Brien and Peter Watson

  This guide outlines a framework for implementing quality assurance programs for child welfare services. The components are based on federal requirements, national standards, and child welfare research. Five steps are described: select outcomes and standards, integrate quality assurance goals and procedures throughout the agency, collect data about outcomes, analyze data, and improve systems as indicated by evaluation findings. Specific topics include the role of the quality assurance system in the Child and Family Services Review process, communication of quality assurance practices, and staff participation in analysis. The manual describes each step of the quality assurance system and reviews the tasks.

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  The Family Support Act of 1988: A Case Study of Welfare Policy in the 1980s

  Luisa Stromer Deprez

  This study makes a contribution to understanding the politics of policy-making by exploring the relationship between political ideology, public opinion, and social welfare policy. It investigates this linkage through a case study of the Family Support Act of 1988. Findings are based on analysis of Congressional hearings and debates, news media editorials and commentaries (over three years), Congressional interviews, and documentary evidence obtained from the private legislative files of Senetor Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the legislative sponsor. The latter, exclusive access to the files, provides the study with the perspective of enabling a "policy story" to be told using "insiders" information. Prevailing notions about poverty, dependance and welfare, and the role of government are examined and placed within a theoretical framework grounded in individualistic and structuralist perspectives.

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  Performing Folklore: The Dilemmas of Zora Neale Hurston

  Kathleen M. Ashley PhD

  Chapter in Feminine Identities.

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  L'intervista narrative: Raccontare la storia di sé nella ricerca formativa, organizzativa e sociale

  Robert Atkinson

  Perché la ricerca basata sulle storie riscuote un crescente interesse? Che tipo di errori l'intervistatore deve evitare? Quali applicazioni risultano più promettenti nell'ambito delle organizzazioni e del lavoro? Coniugando accuratezza e pragmatismo Atkinson risponde a queste domande spesso eluse dagli addetti ai lavori: da un lato individua regole metodologiche capaci di guidare coloro che si avvicinano alla ricerca narrativa nelle attività di preparazione, negoziazione, conduzione, analisi e interpretazione delle interviste; dall'altro offre concreti esempi di utilizzo delle storie per la progettazione e la valutazione dei comportamenti organizzativi, delle competenze e dei percorsi di apprendimento e di formazione.

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  Whooping It Up for Rational Prosperity: Narratives of the East Asian Crisis

  Lorrayne Carroll PhD and Joseph Medley

  Chapter in World Bank Literature.

  A trailblazing interrogation of the cultural, political, and economic implications of World Bank hegemony.

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  Music Dear Solace to My Thoughts: Songs from The First Booke of Ayres and Lute Solos by Francis D. Pilkington

  Bruce Fithian and Olav Chris Henriksen

  Francis Pilkington: Songs from the First Booke of Ayres and Lute Solos. Music dear solace to my thoughts; Beauty sat bathing; Now peep, Bo Peep; Mrs. Elizabeth Murcott's delight; Whither so fast; You that pine in long desire; Pavane; Diaphenia like the daffdowndilly; The Lord Hastings' good morrow; Curranta for Mrs. Elizabeth Murcott; Curranta for Mrs. Elizabeth Murcott; Down a down, thus Phyllis sang; Go from my window; Underneath a cypress shade; Now let her change; Galliard; My choice is made; The Spanish pavane; Ay me, she frowns; Rest sweet nymphs; Bruce Scott Fithian, tenor; Olav Chris Henriksen, lute

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  Child Care, Money and Maine: Implications for Federal and State Policy

  William Hager, Allyson Dean, and Judy Reidt-Parker

  "Child Care, Money and Maine" was chosen as the title for this document because, as we enter into the new century, child day care services have become an essential component to a healthy economy in Maine and in the nation. The availability of good child care has a major impact on a family’s ability to find, train for, and sustain employment. Child care is also crucial to modern businesses being able to recruit, retain and sustain employees. Lack of dependable and appropriate child care will be a critical barrier to the movement of low-income families from welfare to work. The quality of the care being provided has a profound effect on the lives of our children, which in turn has major implications for state education, social services, juvenile justice and Medicaid budgets.

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  Assessment and Standards for Professional Improvement

  Walter Kimball PhD, Nancy Harriman, and Susie Hanley

  Chapter 3 in Rethinking Standards through Teacher Preparation Partnerships, edited by Gary A. Griffin.

  Book description:

  Explores a particular educational reform effort, teacher preparation partnerships, with special attention to standards and assessment. This book documents six exemplary teacher preparation programs participating in school-university partnerships in an effort to examine issues of standards in teacher education. It describes how attention to standards has played out in contrasting demographic, political, and intellectual contexts. The authors reveal the realities and consequences involved in the complex process of implementing standards in varied program contexts often having to reconcile external mandates with the needs of their students and their own program values. Working in pairs, teacher educators formed critical friend research partnerships focused on assessment, inquiry, equity, diversity, and technology. Institutional partnerships discussed include: The University of Louisville with University of Southern Maine; Teachers College, Columbia University with University of California, Santa Barbara; and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee with Wheelock College.

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  Getting Beyond the Talking and into the Doing

  Ann Larson, Phyllis Metcalf-Turner, Walter Kimball PhD, Nancy Harriman, and Susie Hanley

  Chapter 4 in Rethinking Standards through Teacher Preparation Partnerships, edited by Gary A. Griffin.

  Book description:

  Explores a particular educational reform effort, teacher preparation partnerships, with special attention to standards and assessment. This book documents six exemplary teacher preparation programs participating in school-university partnerships in an effort to examine issues of standards in teacher education. It describes how attention to standards has played out in contrasting demographic, political, and intellectual contexts. The authors reveal the realities and consequences involved in the complex process of implementing standards in varied program contexts often having to reconcile external mandates with the needs of their students and their own program values. Working in pairs, teacher educators formed critical friend research partnerships focused on assessment, inquiry, equity, diversity, and technology. Institutional partnerships discussed include: The University of Louisville with University of Southern Maine; Teachers College, Columbia University with University of California, Santa Barbara; and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee with Wheelock College.

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  Kant's Impure Ethics: From Rational Beings to Human Beings

  Robert B. Louden PhD

  This is the first book-length study in any language to examine in detail and critically assess the second part of Kant's ethics--an empirical, impure part, which determines how best to apply pure principles to the human situation. Drawing attention to Kant's under-explored impure ethics, this revealing investigation refutes the common and long-standing misperception that Kants ethics advocates empty formalism. Making detailed use of a variety of Kantian texts never before translated into English, author Robert B. Louden reassesses the strengths and weaknesses of Kantian ethics as a whole, once the second part is re-admitted to its rightful place within Kant's practical philosophy.

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  Sartre on American Racism [Book Chapter]

  Julien Murphy PhD

  Chapter from Philosophers on race : critical essays, edited by Julie K. Ward and Tommy L. Scott.

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  Philosophers on Race adds a new dimension to current research on race theory by examining the historical roots of the concept in the works of major Western philosophers.

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  Gender Struggles: Practical Approaches to Contemporary Feminism

  Julien Murphy PhD and Constance Mui PhD

  Contemporary feminist theory and postmodernism have left significant marks on how we think about practical matters, most notably the old and new forms of gender struggles that many women confront in their daily lives. The essays collected in Gender Struggles are designed to highlight those influences by addressing the following questions: What is practical feminism in a postmodern world? How does rethinking the nature and boundaries of philosophy affect the way we understand practical issues that we confront daily? What new forms of freedom, autonomy, subjectivity, social welfare, motherhood, public and private space, and political resistance have emerged from this new philosophical sense? Together, the sixteen essays in this volume represent many different voices of feminists who boldly take up familiar, everyday concerns from unorthodox vantage points within new conceptual and theoretical frameworks. The essays in Gender Struggles address a wide range of issues in gender struggles, from the more familiar ones that, for the last thirty years, have been the mainstay of feminist scholarship, such as motherhood, beauty, and sexual violence, to new topics inspired by post-industrialization and multiculturalism, such as the welfare state, cyberspace, hate speech, and queer politics, and finally to topics that traditionally have not been seen as appropriate subjects for philosophizing, such as adoption, care work, and the home. Incorporating the latest, most 'cutting-edge' material on feminism, this volume aims at reaching a broad spectrum of readers by connecting postmodern feminist theory with concrete issues that are practical and relevant to their daily lives and experiences.

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  What's Happening in Our Family?: Understanding Sexual Abuse Through Metaphors

  Constance M. Ostis

  In her book What's Happening in Our Family? Understanding Sexual Abuse Through Metaphors, author Connie Ostis, helps adults - parents, educators, counselors - understand how abuse occurs by using stories that expose the manipulative relationships established and maintained by abusers. The metaphors explain how sexual abuse begins in hidden ways and deepens in secrecy; clarify what harm is caused and how long it lasts; suggest how to cope with the "whirlpool" of emotions; help adults provide the support children need; and explain guidelines for keeping children safe. Using the non-threatening language of these stoires, adults can help children recognize when they are being manipulated and understand why they are not responsible for their abuse.

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  The Holocaust and History : the Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined

  Abraham J. Peck PhD and Michael Berenbaum

  Fifty-four chapters by the world's most eminent Holocaust researchers probe topics such as Nazi politics, racial ideology, leadership, and bureaucracy; the phases of the Holocaust from definition to expropriation, ghettoization, deportation, and the death camps; Jewish leadership and resistance; the role of the Allies, the Axis, and neutral countries; the deeds of the rescuers; and the impact of the Holocaust on survivors.

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  This Thread: For Mezzo, Solo Violin, and Chamber Orchestra: On a Poem by Toni Morrison

  J Mark Scearce

  Setting of Toni Morrison’s poem, “The Dead of September 11,” premiered by the Nashville Chamber Orchestra on September 11, 2004. For Mezzo, Solo Violin, and Chamber Orchestra

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  Best practices in evaluating interventions

  Mark W. Steege; Rachel Brown PhD, NCSP; and F C. Mace

  Chapter in Best Practices in School Psychology, 4th edition.

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  Postmodern Casinos

  Shelton Waldrep PhD

  Chapter in Productive Postmodernism: Consuming Histories and Cultural Studies.

  Investigates a broad range of contemporary fiction, film, and architecture to address the role of history in postmodern cultural productions. Productive Postmodernism addresses the differing accounts of postmodernism found in the work of Fredric Jameson and Linda Hutcheon, a debate that centers around the two theorists' senses of pastiche and parody. For Jameson, postmodern texts are ahistorical, playing with pastiched images and aesthetic forms, and are therefore unable to provide a critical purchase on culture and capital. For Hutcheon, postmodern fiction and architecture remain political, opening spaces for social critique through a parody that deconstructs official history. Thinking in the space between these two sharply different positions, the essays in this collection investigate a broad range of contemporary fiction, film, and architecture—from such narratives as Don DeLillo's Libra, Toni Morrison's Beloved, and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, to the vastly different spaces of Las Vegas casinos and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum—in order to ask what the cultural work of a postmodern aesthetic might be. “Although there are many books on postmodernism, I don't know of any that theorize Jameson and Hutcheon this way or that bring history-fiction-architecture together so provocatively. I like the way these essays, all of them, put theory into practice.” — Dawne McCance, author of Posts: Re Addressing the Ethical “The text articulates well the shift from postmodernism as a de(con)structive fragmenting theory/act (as it is so often in both popular and academic contexts) to a productive fragmenting theory/act. The book contributes to the field of postmodern theory as well as to the literary, architectural, historical, and aesthetic fields tapped into through the individual essays.” — Beth Martin Birky, Goshen College Contributors include Paul Budra, Thomas Carmichael, Kimberly Chabot Davis, John N. Duvall, W. Lawrence Hogue, Linda Hutcheon, Kevin R. McNamara, Stacey Olster, Nancy J. Peterson, Shelton Waldrep, and Michael Zeitlin.

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  Landscape With Figures: Nature & Culture New England (American Land & Life)

  Kent C. Ryden and Wayne Franklin

  Kent Ryden does not deny that the natural landscape of New England is shaped by many centuries of human manipulation, but he also takes the view that nature is everywhere, close to home as well as in more remote wilderness, in the city and in the countryside. In Landscape with Figures he dissolves the border between culture and nature to merge ideas about nature, experiences in nature, and material alterations of nature.

  Ryden takes his readers from the printed page directly to the field and back again-. He often bypasses books and goes to the trees from which they are made and the landscapes they evoke, then returns with a renewed appreciation for just what an interdisciplinary, historically informed approach can bring to our understanding of the natural world. By exploring McPhee's The Pine Barrens and Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces, the coastal fiction of New England, surveying and Thoreau's The Maine Woods, Maine's abandoned Cumberland and Oxford Canal, and the natural bases for New England's historical identity, Ryden demonstrates again and again that nature and history are kaleidoscopically linked.