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“This may be the most important political book written about our current political dysfunction because it lays bare a hidden truth. Mike Pertschuk describes an era when young, idealistic people came to Congress, learned its intricacies, became experts in their fields, became trusted friends with members of the opposite persuasion, and were motivated by their desire to solve big problems. It is what kept the special interest lobbyists in check and Congress dedicated to the common good. It is not the case today.” — Matt Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Adoption 4

African Studies 8

Caribbean Studies 7

Criminology 5

Economics 4

European History 3

Family Policy 4

Global Health 8

Hispanic Studies 3

Human Rights 2, 3

International Relations 2

Latin American History 7

Latin American Studies 7

Law 5

Medical Anthropology 8

Middle Eastern Studies 2

Peace Studies 2

Political Science 6

Politics 1, 5

Public Advocacy 1

Regional 6

Reproductive Health 8

Southern Studies 6

US History 1, 5, 6

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cover illustration:Spanish Civil War poster commissioned by Socorro Rojo de España (Spanish Red Aid) to encourage refugee aid. (Translation of ¡Acógela!: “Take her in!”) Ca. 1936–1939.

Artist: José Miguel López Padial

Archival image available at the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam.

“When I first came to Congress in 1969, to work on the Hill and write a PhD dissertation (on congressional staffs!), I quickly became aware of the reputations of senators who qualified as giants (we called them whales). Warren Magnuson was one. Mike Pertschuk was the first name on the lips of almost every insider when it came to the handful of Senate staffers who also were admired, revered—or detested—for the extraordinary role they played in shaping and passing key policies.

“The period from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s was a golden age in the Senate when it came to implementing the modern regulatory framework, in the environment, energy, and transportation realms, along with every other area of economic life in America. We have a lot of books giving us the history, some by Mike Pertschuk. But in this book, he adds an important dimension, the key role of the staff, in a witty and penetrating fashion. There is no bragging here, but the insights of someone retired from the fray, informing and perhaps energizing a new group of young, bright Americans to create their own policy advances by restoring the Senate to its rightful functional role.” — Norman J. Ornstein, contributing editor and columnist for National Journal and the Atlantic, and co-author of It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism and The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track

Taken on December 17, 1974, this rare photograph of a closed session of the Senate Commerce Committee captures Senator Norris Cotton at the last session he would attend before his retirement. Senator Warren Magnuson and six committee staff members were in attendance; three of them were "Bumblebees" whose stories appear in When the Senate Worked for Us: Tom Allison, Ed Merlis, and Fred Lorden. Standing together to the side are author Michael Pertschuk and Arthur Pankopf, the Democratic and Republican staff directors. Courtesy of the US Senate Historical Office.

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“This book is the story of a public servant— Mike Pertschuk—and his fellow activist staffers, whose valiant work on consumer protection has helped millions of Americans. As a major opponent of the tobacco industry, Pertschuk was advocate, publicist, datalyst, strategist, and exporter abroad of the drive to curb pernicious promotion by the cigarette companies and alert smokers to the dangers. His crusade against the tobacco industry—done with more wit and humor than is the custom in Washington—was just a warm-up. Pertschuk became the point man for a wave of consumer protection legislation such as this country has never before witnessed. Corporate lobbyists tried everything short of bribery to stop him. But their calculations and contrivances did not work.” — Ralph Nader

Michael Pertschuk served as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission from 1977 to 1981, and he cofounded the Advocacy Institute. He is the author of Smoke in Their Eyes: Lessons in Movement Leadership from the Tobacco Wars and The DeMarco Factor: Transforming Public Will into Political Power (both published by Vanderbilt University Press) and three other books.

very politically sentient American knows that Congress has been dominated by special interests, and many people do not remember a time when Congress legislated in the public interest. In the 1960s and ’70s, however, lobby ists were aggressive but were coun-tered by progressive senators and represen-tatives, as several books have documented.

What has remained untold is the major behind-the-scenes contribution of entre-preneurial congressional staff, who planted the seeds of public interest bills in their bosses’ minds and maneuvered to counter-act the influence of lobbyists to pass laws in consumer protection, public health, and other policy arenas crying out for effective

Inside stories of maneuvering by activist staffers fighting to enact laws in the public interest

When the Senate Worked for UsThe Invisible Role of Staffers in Countering Corporate LobbiesM I C H A E L P E R T S C H U K

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government regulation. They infuriated Nixon’s advisor, John Ehrlich man, who called them “bumblebees,” a name they wore as a badge of honor.

For his insider account, Pertschuk draws on many interviews and his fifteen years on the staff of the Senate Commerce Committee that Senator Warren Magnuson chaired and as Democratic Staff Director. That committee became, in Ralph Nader’s words, “the Grand Central Station for con-sumer protection advocates.”

September 2017

224 pages, 6 x 9 inches

2 b&w photographs, notes, index

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“Michael Pertschuk was a master strategist on Capitol Hill—putting into place some of the nation’s most important consumer regulations. He’s also a master storyteller—with a great gift for letting readers in on what actually happened and how. A wonderful read.” — Robert B. Reich, former US Secretary of Labor and author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

“Mike Pertschuk has written a lively and thought-provoking book about our democracy from an insider’s perspective. He is a widely respected former Senate committee staff director who has captured the way Congress worked during a time when it was a civilized and functioning institution. His detailed and often humorous stories about the Senate offer wisdom and in-depth lessons for our current polarized and dysfunctional Congress.” — James A. Thurber, Director, Center for Congress and Presidential Studies, American University

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A visionary road map out of the world’s oldest conflict by the initiator of the secret back channel between Israel and Hamas that led to the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit

ershon Baskin’s memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Israel with his family. Baskin joined Young Judaea back in the States, then later lived on a kibbutz in Israel, where he announced to his par-ents that he had decided to make aliya, immigrate to Israel. They persuaded him to return to study at NYU, after which he finally immigrated under the auspices of Interns for Peace. In Israel he spent a pivotal two years living with Arabs in the village of Kufr Qara. Despite the atmosphere of fear, Baskin found that he could talk with both Jews and Palestinians, and that very few others were engaged in efforts at mutual under-standing. At his initiative, the Ministry of Education and the office of right-wing Prime Minister Menachem Begin created the Institute for Education for Jewish-Arab Coexistence with Baskin himself as

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director. Eight years later he founded and codirected the only joint Israeli- Palestinian public policy think-and-do tank in the world, the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information. For decades he continued to cross borders, often with a kaffiyeh (Arab headdress) on his dashboard to protect his car in Palestinian neighbor-hoods. Airport passport control became Kafkaesque as Israeli agents routinely iden-tified him as a security threat. During the many cycles of peace negotiations, Baskin has served both as an outside agitator for peace and as an advisor on the inside of secret talks—for example, during the prime ministership of Yitzhak Rabin and during the initiative led by Secretary of State John Kerry. Baskin ends the book with his own proposal, which includes establishing a peace education program and cabinet-level Ministries of Peace in both countries, in order to foster a culture of peace.

November 2017

288 pages, 7 x 10 inches

notes, index

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“Gershon Baskin, whom I have known for many years, is one of the outstanding originators of peace initiatives in our era. This is based on a deep belief in the qualities of human affinity, human dignity, and selflessness. He is a pluralist and recognizes that social behavior is essential to building peace through participation from the bottom up. Gershon promotes the art of conversation and listening, which in my mind is a major contribution to waging peace.” — His Royal Highness Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan

“Gershon Baskin is among Israel’s most intrepid pursuers of peace. His book is not only a fascinating journey across the Jewish-Palestinian divide, it also provides that rarest commodity in these dark times: hope.” — Peter Beinart, author, The Crisis of Zionism

Gershon Baskin is the founder and current cochairman of Israel-Palestine: Creative Regional Initiatives (IPCRI, formerly Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information). He is a political and social entrepreneur focusing on renewable energy projects in the Middle East. He holds a PhD in International Affairs from the University of Greenwich.

From Chapter One

”I cross borders. I travel and meet people throughout Israel and throughout Palestine. With the exception of Gaza, which has been off-limits to Israelis since June 2007, I visit cities, towns, villages, and refugee camps throughout Palestine on a regular basis. Yes, I break the law in doing so. I am not afraid. I go and I listen and I talk, challenge, learn, and teach. I hear the same things from both sides: we want peace, but we have no partner on the other side.”

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he ability to forget the violent twentieth- century past was long seen as a virtue in Spain, even a duty. But the common wisdom has shifted as increasing numbers of Spaniards want to know what happened, who suffered, and who is to blame. Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War shows how historiography, fiction, and photography have shaped our views of the 1936–1939 war and its long, painful aftermath.

Faber traces the curious trajectories of iconic Spanish Civil War photographs by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and David Seymour; critically reads a dozen recent Spanish novels and essays; interrogates basic scholarly assumptions about history, memory, and literature; and interviews nine

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How historians, journalists, photographers, and filmmakers have dealt with the legacy of the Spanish Civil War, the Franco dictatorship, and the Transition

Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil WarHistory, Fiction, PhotographyS E B A S T I A A N FA B E R

November 2017

256 pages, 7 x 10 inches

21 illustrations, references, index

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scholars, activists, and documentarians who in the past decade and a half have helped redefine Spain’s relationship to its past. In this book, Faber argues that recent political developments in Spain—from the grassroots call for the recovery of historical memory to the indignados movement and the foundation of Podemos—provide an opportunity for scholars in the humanities to engage in a more activist, public, and democratic practice.

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“Faber’s collection of bracing, enjoyable, and provocative essays steps squarely into the middle of Spain’s ongoing (but, thankfully, bloodless) cultural civil war over the past. He plunges a finger into the country’s deepest and most durable sore with a series of sizzling critiques of how historians, writers, and intellectuals view Spain’s legacy of fratricide and a forty-year dictatorship that casts its long shadow over the present. Just how does (or should) Spain deal with the uncomfortable facts and emotions left behind by Francoism and the successful but imperfect transition to democracy that followed it? There is much to agree with, and much to disagree with, but the merit in Faber’s writing comes from the way it re-inspects and challenges many of the assumptions on which depictions of Spain’s recent past are based, obliging the reader to do the same.” — Giles Tremlett, author of Ghosts of Spain: Travels through Spain and Its Silent Past and Isabella of Castile: Europe’s First Great Queen

“Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War is a fascinating, judiciously blended mix of interviews and portraits, cultural criticism, meditations, and reportage, refreshingly unlike any other book in the field that I’ve read. Sebastiaan Faber wears his erudition lightly, but brings a deep knowledge of a country he loves and of its struggles to come to terms with a tragic and violent piece of its past. It’s worth reading alone to hear the voices of historians about what drew them to Spain in this era—why don’t more people pose that question to scholars?” — Adam Hochschild, author of Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

Sebastiaan Faber, Professor of Hispanic Studies, Oberlin College, is the author of several books, including Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico, 1939–1975 (also published by Vanderbilt University Press).

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Mark Montgomery and Irene Powell have taught economics at Grinnell

College for twenty-seven years. Their research publications range from higher

education and employment policy to child care and gender discrimination.

They have three grown children—a birth daughter, a son adopted domestically,

and a son from Sierra Leone.

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What if instead of being “too commercial,” international adoption is not commercial enough?

nternational adoption is in a state of virtual collapse, rates having fallen by more than half since 2004 and continuing to fall. Yet around the world millions of orphaned and vulnerable children need permanent homes, and thousands of American and European families are eager to take them in. Many government offi-cials, international bureaucrats, and social commentators claim these adoptions are not “in the best interests” of the child. They claim that adoption deprives children of their “birth culture,” threatens their racial identities, and even encourages widespread child trafficking. Celebrity adopters are publicly excoriated for stealing children from their birth families.

This book argues that opposition to adoption ostensibly based on the well- being of the child is often a smokescreen for protecting national pride. Concerns about the harm done by transracial adop-tion are largely inconsistent with empirical

Saving International AdoptionAn Argument from Economics and Personal ExperienceM A R K M O N T G O M E R Y a n d I R E N E P O W E L L

evidence. As for trafficking, opponents of international adoption want to shut it down because it is too much like a market for children. But this book offers a radical challenge to this view—that is, what if instead of trying to suppress market forces in international adoption, we embraced them so they could be properly regulated? What if the international system func-tioned more like open adoption in the United States, where birth and adoptive parents can meet and privately negoti-ate the exchange of parental rights? This arrangement, the authors argue, could eliminate the abuses that currently haunt international adoption.

January 2018

288 pages, 6.125 x 9.25 inches

3 tables, 2 figures, notes, references, index

hardcover $27.95t ISBN 978-0-8265-2172-9

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“Illuminating? Infuriating? It depends on your perspective when you open the book. Mark Montgomery and Irene Powell bring their experience as economists and adoptive parents to a subject where views have become both polarized and petrified. An informed, novel, and provocative contribution to the debate on international adoption, a subject desperately in need of new insights.” — Dana E. Johnson, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota

“This book takes a refreshingly candid and original look at issues in international adoption. With courage and insight, the authors apply the disciplinary lens of economics to examine the regulation of international adoption and the unintended consequences of that regulation for vulnerable children and families. Required reading for those who seek novel perspectives advocating for every child’s fundamental right to a family.” — Rebecca Compton, Professor of Psychology, Haverford College, and author of Adoption Beyond Borders: How International Adoption Benefits Children

“By daring to suggest that the market forces of supply and demand should be recognized, and even embraced, in international adoption, Montgomery and Powell are sure to provoke the many international adoption critics who hold sacrosanct the notion that money and profit-seeking have no place in adoption. Yet Saving International Adoption is a must-read for anyone concerned about the state of international adoption today. It weaves together top-notch economic analysis, sobering statistics, and personal narratives from adoptive children and families, birth parents, and adoption facilitators. Perhaps the book’s most important and memorable feature, however, is the emotional honesty with which Montgomery and Powell share their own family’s experience.” — Kimberly D. Krawiec, Kathrine Robinson Everett Professor of Law, Duke University

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egal precedents created during Prohibi- tion have lingered, leaving search-and- seizure law much better defined than limits on police use of force, interrogation practices, or eyewitness identification pro-tocols. An unlawful trunk search is thus guarded against more thoroughly than an unnecessary shooting or a wrongful con-viction. Intrusive searches for alcohol during Prohibition destroyed middle-class Ameri-cans’ faith in police and ushered in a new basis for controlling police conduct. State courts in the 1920s began to exclude perfectly reliable evidence obtained in an illegal search. Then, as Prohibition drew to a close, a presidential commission awakened the public to torture in interro-gation rooms, prompting courts to exclude coerced confessions irrespective of whether the technique had produced a reliable statement. Prohibition’s scheme lingered long past the Roaring Twenties. Racial tensions and police brutality were bigger concerns in

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A provocative history of criminal procedure, focusing on our perplexing overregulation of searches and seizures and underregulation of confessions and eyewitness accounts

The Prohibition Era and PolicingA Legacy of MisregulationW E S L E Y M . O L I V E R

January 2018

280 pages, 6.125 x 9.25 inches

notes, index

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the 1960s than illegal searches, yet when the Supreme Court imposed limits on officers’ conduct in 1961, searches alone were regulated. Interrogation law during the 1960s, fundamentally reshaped by the Miranda ruling, ensured that suspects who invoked their rights would not be subject to coercive tactics, but did nothing to en-sure reliable confessions by those who were questioned. Explicitly recognizing that its decisions excluding evidence had not been well- received, the Court in the 1970s refused to exclude identifications merely because they were made in suggestive lineups. Perhaps a larger project awaits—refocusing our rules of criminal procedure on those concerns from which Prohibition distracted us: conviction accuracy and the use of force by police.

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Wesley M. Oliver is Professor of Law at Duquesne University.

“Wes Oliver tells a fascinating story of criminal procedure in the early twentieth century, and he makes a novel, compelling argument for the centrality of the Prohibition Era in understanding the way the United States currently regulates the police. This is an important and provocative book.” — David Alan Sklansky, Stanley Morrison Professor of Law, Stanford University

“Wesley Oliver’s The Prohibition Era and Policing places him firmly within the wonderful new body of historical work that shows us how Prohibition continues to shape American law, governance, and society. Oliver does what historians do best—demonstrate how our present circumstances are profoundly shaped by our past, and how we might imagine a better future. Oliver believes that Americans deserve a more effective and more accountable criminal justice system, and uses history to help us see our present system as both contingent and changeable.” — Kenneth W. Mack, Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History, Harvard Law School

“There was a time when government was willing to act. Keel Hunt was a key player on one such occasion in Tennessee and tells the story with elegance and precision. This book tells about government doing what’s needed—quickly, without hand-wringing and without seeking partisan advantage. Every elected official in America should read it.” — Phil Bredesen, Governor of Tennessee, 2003–2011

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Expanded edition of an insider’s account of the secret bipartisan plot to oust a governor, with a newly discovered narrative from a key figure

n January 17, 1979, driven by new infor- mation uncovered during Governor Ray Blanton’s pardon scandal that some of the worst criminals in Tennessee’s peni-tentiaries were about to be released (and fears that James Earl Ray might be one of them), a small bipartisan group came together to save the state.

CoupThe Day the Democrats Ousted Their Governor, Put Republican Lamar Alexander in Office Early, and Stopped a Pardon ScandalK E E L H U N T

Wi t h a n ew l y d i s cove re d a cco u n t by S E N AT O R L A M A R A L E X A N D E R

Fo rewo rd by J O H N L . S E I G E N T H A L E R

Senior Democratic leaders, friends of the sitting governor, together with Republican governor-elect Lamar Alex-ander agreed to oust Blanton from office before night fell. It was a maneuver unique in American political history. Coup is the behind-the-scenes story of this unprece-dented moment.

August 2017

344 pages, 7 x 10 inches

40 b&w photos

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” In December 2015 something unexpected happened. Keel delivered to my Nashville office a brown three-ring binder. He had only recently discovered it in a box that had been in storage for thirty years.”

—Senator Lamar Alexander

This binder contained the forgotten typescript, written in 1985, of Alexander’s recollections of the events leading up to his early inauguration on January 17, 1979. In this expanded edition of Coup, the Senator’s 22,000-word text has been added as a lost footnote to Hunt’s definitive account.

In his early career, Keel Hunt was a reporter, editorial writer, Washington correspondent, and City Editor for the Nashville Tennessean. He left the newspaper to join Lamar Alexander’s successful campaign for Governor of Tennessee. Following the 1978 election, he was appointed Special Assistant to the Governor, serving as a speechwriter and coordinator of the Governor’s Policy Group. Since 1986 he has been a speechwriter and public affairs consultant.

“History can be opaque, but not this history: in Keel Hunt’s capable hands a critical but often-overlooked chapter in American politics comes to vivid life. In the last days of a Tennessee governorship, the Democratic incumbent, soon to depart, began selling pardons, fundamentally betraying the public trust. A dynamic young Republican governor-elect, Lamar Alexander, came into the breach as Democrats reached out to him to take office early and save the state further chaos and embarrassment. And so he did. Now, in this expanded edition of Hunt’s excellent narrative, we have, for the first time, Alexander’s own long-missing recollections of these tense days. The result is a brilliantly evocative story of crisis management—a story everyone interested in American politics and power should know.” — Jon Meacham, author of American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House and Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

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ollowing the 1808 French invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, an unprece- dented political crisis threw the Spanish monarchy into turmoil. On the Carib-bean coast of modern-day Colombia, the important port town of Cartagena rejected Spanish authority, finally declaring inde-pendence in 1811. With new leadership that included free people of color, Cartagena welcomed merchants, revolutionaries, and adventurers from Venezuela, the Antilles, the United States, and Europe. Most importantly, independent Cartagena opened its doors to privateers of color from the French Caribbean. Hired mercenaries of the sea, privateers defended Cartagena’s claim to sovereignty, attacking Spanish ships and seizing Spanish property, espe-cially near Cuba, and establishing vibrant maritime connections with Haiti.

Most of Cartagena’s privateers were people of color and descendants of slaves who benefited from the relative freedom

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A fresh perspective on a Revolutionary era, focusing on the role of Afro-Caribbean privateers in the struggle for Spanish American independence from Spain

No Limits to Their SwayCartagena’s Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of RevolutionsE D G A R D O P É R E Z M O R A L E S

January 2018

256 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches

8 halftones, notes, index

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and flexibility of life at sea, but also faced kidnapping, enslavement, and brutality. Many came from Haiti and Guadeloupe; some had been directly involved in the Haitian Revolution. While their manpower proved crucial in the early anti-Spanish struggles, Afro-Caribbean privateers were also perceived as a threat and suspected of holding questionable loyalties, disorderly tendencies, and too strong a commitment to political and social privileges for people of color. Based on handwritten and printed sources in Spanish, English, and French, this book tells the story of Cartagena’s multinational and multicultural seafarers, revealing the transatlantic and maritime dimensions of Spanish American indepen-dence.

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Edgardo Pérez Morales is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern California.

“A graceful account of the ‘masterless’ privateers during the Age of Revolutions that brings needed attention to Cartagena, an extremely important site in the Spanish Atlantic and an understudied one.” — Jane Landers, author of Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions

“The fearsome ‘Cartagena privateers’ have long haunted Atlantic history. Edgardo Pérez Morales brings them out of the dark shadows and gives them the rich, vivid, well-researched treatment they deserve. This exciting work adds an important new dimension to the Atlantic ‘Age of Revolution.’ ” — Marcus Rediker, author of Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail

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Wasted WombsNavigating Reproductive Interruptions in CameroonERICA VAN DER SIJPT

How women in Cameroon find pathways to their social aspirations in managing uncertain reproductive events

entral to the book are Gbigbil women’s experiences with different “reproductive interruptions”: miscarriages, stillbirths, child deaths, induced abortions, and infertility. Rather than consider these events as inherently dissimilar, as women do in Western countries, the Gbigbil women of eastern Cameroon see them all as instances of “wasted wombs” that leave their reproductive trajectories hanging in the balance. The women must navigate this uncertainty while negotiating their social positions, aspirations for the future, and the current workings of their bodies. Providing an intimate look into these pro-cesses, Wasted Wombs shows how Gbigbil women constantly shift their interpreta-tions of when a pregnancy starts, what it contains, and what is lost in case of a

reproductive interruption, in contrast to Western conceptions of fertility and loss. Depending on the context and on their life aspirations—be it marriage and mother-hood, or rather an educational trajectory, employment, or profitable sexual affairs with so-called “big fish”—women negotiate and manipulate the meanings and effects of reproductive interruptions. Paradoxically, they often do so while portraying them-selves as powerless. Wasted Wombs care-fully analyzes such tactics in relation to the various social predicaments that emerge around reproductive interruptions, as well as the capricious workings of women’s physical bodies.

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Erica van der Sijpt is a medical anthropologist at the University of Amsterdam.

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For further information: phone +44 (0) 20 7240 0856fax +44 (0) 20 7379 0609email info@eurospangroup.com

CANADA Scholarly Book Services, Inc.289 Bridgeland Ave., Unit 105Toronto, ON M6A 1Z6phone 800-847-9736fax 800-220-9895email orders@sbookscan.comwww.sbookscan.com

ASIA AND THE PACIFIC,INCLUDING AUSTRALIAAND NEW ZEALANDEast-West Export Books Royden Muranaka 2840 Kolowalu St. Honolulu, HI 96822 phone (808) 956-8830 fax (808) 988-6052 email eweb@hawaii.edu

Vanderbilt University Pressc/o OU Press Book Distribution Center2800 Venture DriveNorman, Oklahoma 73069-8216PHONE (800) 627-7377FAX (800) 735-0476

Direct orders from individuals are accepted at the above address and numbers, but prepayment, including shipping charges, must be provided in US funds by check, money order, or credit card (Visa, Mastercard) drawn on a US bank.

Shipping & Handling Charges:

■ Standard USA shipping: $5.00 1st book $1.50 each additional book

■ Priority USA shipping: $8.00 1st book $2.00 each additional book

■ International (including Canada): $15.00 1st book $10.00 each additional book

■ Established wholesale and retail accounts will be charged the actual cost of freight on all orders.

Source code: VF17

O R D E R F O R M

S H I P T O :

Name

Institution/Bookstore/Library

Address

City/State/ZIP

■ Payment enclosed (Please make checks payable to our distributor, University of Oklahoma Press.)

■ Purchase order attached ■ Charge to: ● MasterCard ● Visa

Card Number Expiration Date

Signature Daytime Phone

I would like to order copies of the following books:

ISBN Author/Title Price Quantity Total

Subtotal

Shipping and handling

Oklahoma residents add 8.25% sales tax

Total

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