Fighting Mad is a book about what "reproductive justice" means and what it looks like to fight for it. Editors Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger bring together many of the strongest, most resistant voices in the country to describe the impacts of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision on aborti
By Jennifer Hendricks, author of Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and MotherhoodWhen the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and abolished the right to abortion, the court trivialized pregnancy and its impact on women’s lives. Nowhere in its opinion did the
Award-winning author Danielle RaudenbushWe're proud to share that author Danielle Raudenbush has won the 2020 C. Wright Mills Award for her book, Health Care Off the Books! This honor, awarded annually by the Society for the Study of Social Problems, is one of the most prestigious book awards in
Anthropologist Rebecca Lester recently won the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing for her book, Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America. As part of #AnthroDay 2021, we reached out to Lester to ask about her advice for aspiring ethnographers. How do you write a successful
This blog post originally appeared on the USC Equity Research Institute blog, and it is reproduced here with permission.By Josh Seim, author of Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban SufferingSuffering seems to obey a kind of social gravity in the polarize
This post is part of our #RaisingOurVoices2020 blog series. Learn more at our American Anthropological Association virtual exhibit.UC Press author and anthropologist Rebecca Lester recently won the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing for her book Famished: Eating Disorders and F
Anirudh KrishnaAnirudh Krishna’s essay “The Poorest After the Pandemic” is featured in Current History’s November special issue on the pandemic’s global ramifications. Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. His research investigates
Answering the question "what do ambulance workers do?" might seem like a simple task — they are frontline healthcare workers who help save the lives of the critically injured. But this response doesn't give us the full picture. Josh Seim, sociologist and author of Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambu
