Vanderbilt University Press

Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family, and Community

by Rosalie G. Riegle & Dan Mckanan

In this compelling collection of oral histories, more than seventy-five peacemakers describe how they say no to war-making in the strongest way possible--by engaging in civil disobedience and paying the consequences...

Making Myself at Home in a Nursing Home: Vanderbilt University Press

by Sandra J. Gaffney

Sandra Gaffney entered her first nursing home for long-term care at the unusually young age of fifty. Fourteen years earlier she had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou...

Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Anti-Poverty Community Organizing Group

by John Atlas

"There is more value on a single page of Seeds of Change than in a year's worth of Rush Limbaugh screeds combined with a lifetime of Sarah Palin sneers at community organizers." --Todd Gitlin

Seeds of Change...

Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective

by Donna King & Carrie Lee Lee Smith

Stieg Larsson was an unabashed feminist in his personal and professional life and in the fictional world he created, but The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked...