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Jody Keisner searches for the roots of the violence and fear that afflict women, starting with the working-class midwestern family she was adopted into and ending with her own experience of mothering daughters.

Writer and anthropologist C. Thomas Shay traces the key roles of plants since humans arrived in the northern plains at the end of the Ice Age and began to hunt the region’s woodlands, fish its waters, and gather its flora.

Historians and policy scholars offer insight into the ways the U.S. military manages the sexual behaviors, practices, and identities of its service members.

The Comic Book Western explores how the myth of the American West played out in popular comics from around the world.

In Sports and Aging a wide-ranging group of physically active people, including many scholar-athletes, discuss sports in the context of aging and their own athletic experiences.

Industrial agriculture is generally characterized as either the salvation of a growing, hungry, global population or as socially and environmentally irresponsible. Despite elements of truth in this polarization, it fails to focus on the particular vulnerabilities and potentials of industrial agriculture. Both representations obscure individual farmers, their families, their communities, and the risks they face from unpredictable local, national, and global conditions: fluctuating and often volatile production costs and crop prices; extreme weather exacerbated by climate change; complicated and changing farm policies; new production technologies and practices; water availability; inflation and debt; and rural community decline. Yet the future of industrial agriculture depends fundamentally on farmers’ decisions.In Defense of Farmers illuminates anew the critical role that farmers play in the future of agriculture and examines the social, economic, and environmental vulnerabilities of industrial agriculture, as well as its adaptations and evolution. Contextualizing the conversations about agriculture and rural societies within the disciplines of sociology, geography, economics, and anthropology, this volume addresses specific challenges farmers face in four countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, and the United States. By concentrating on countries with the most sophisticated production technologies capable of producing the largest quantities of grains, soybeans, and animal proteins in the world, this volume focuses attention on the farmers whose labors, decision-making, and risk-taking throw into relief the implications and limitations of our global industrial food system. The case studies here acknowledge the agency of farmers and offer ways forward in the direction of sustainable agriculture.

Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival is the first book to explore the trauma of the boarding school experience at Steward Indian School and the resilience of generations of students who persevered there under the most challenging of circumstances.

This volume examines the relationship between gender and form in early modern women's writing by exploring women's debts to and appropriations of different literary genres and offering practical suggestions for the teaching of women's texts.

Hatred of Sex draws on Jacques Ranciere's thesis in Hatred of Democracy to help explain the aversion to sex that is evident in numerous forms in the culture around us.

The poems in Produce Wagon explore the vast and varied circumstances of the human experience: the poet's love for his wife, his love of nature, his love for the family he grew up in, and his love of stories.

This short novel explores Willa Cather's friendship with journalist Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, tracing the aesthetic arguments that shaped much of their relationship: art versus politics and tradition versus innovation.

Part natural history, part travelogue, and part meditation on extinction and loss, Chasing the Ghost Bear is a journey into the giant short-faced bear’s enigmatic story—life, disappearance, and rediscovery—and those trying to piece it together today.

The first detailed account of the history of Fort Phil Kearny, including the dramatic Fetterman Fight of December 21, 1866, in which the U.S. Army suffered its worst defeat on the northern plains until Custer’s defeat at the Little Bighorn ten years later.

A laugh-out-loud memoir about a free-spirited, commitment-phobic Brooklyn girl who, after a whirlwind romance, finds herself living in a rickety farmhouse, pregnant, and faced with five months of doctor-prescribed bed rest because of unusually large fibroids.

Part memoir, part research-based journalism, Flock Together is a personal exploration of the decline of avian species throughout the world, its ramifications, and what it might mean for humanity.

Girl Archaeologist illuminates the life and trailblazing career of Alice Kehoe, a woman with a family who was always, also, an archaeologist.

Marco Caracciolo investigates how the experience of slowness in contemporary narrative practices can create a vision of interconnectedness between human communities and the nonhuman world in an era marked by dramatically shifting climate patterns.

Shadow Migration recounts Suzanne Ohlmann's boomerang travels away from her Nebraska home, until a haunted basement forces her to confront the truth of her biological past.

These poems delve into the complexity of modern health care, illness, and healing, teaching us what should be the human response to suffering: take a moment to stop and respond to the longing for compassion in each of us.

Without Destroying Ourselves is an intellectual history of Native activism seeking greater access to and control of higher education in the twentieth century.

Let Me Count the Ways is Tomas Q. Morin's memoir of a journey into obsessive-compulsive disorder, a mechanism to survive a childhood filled with pain, violence, and unpredictability that eventually became a prison he would struggle for decades to escape.

After being cyber-bullied, the founder of a successful social media platform leaves Southern California for Lincoln, Nebraska. With the help of her neighbors and Willa Cather's novels, she finds something she hadn't known she was searching for.

In the face of amnesia, how does one exist? In this poem, Hawad speaks directly to Azawad, a silent figure whose name designates a portion of Tuareg lands divided among five nation-states created in the 1960s.

This edited collection considers Black peoples and their history in France and the French Empire during the modern era, from the eighteenth century to the present.