Winter 2014
Volume: 13 | Number: 1
C-Section Epidemic
How can we explain the exponential increase of the cesarean section in the U.S. in recent decades? Drawing from 130 in-depth interviews with women, obstetricians, midwives, and labor and delivery nurses, sociologist Theresa Morris explains the epidemic that affects the lives, health, and families of every woman in America. Read More
Allah In China
Sociologists Xi Chen and Keith Kerr explore Hui-Muslim double identities. Read More
Privatization and Racial Inequality
Sociologists Vincent J. Roscigno and George Wilson discuss workplace “reforms” that undermine public sector workers’ rights. Read More
Black Philly After The Philadelphia Negro
Beginning where W. E. B. Du Bois’s classic The Philadelphia Negro ends, sociologist Marcus Anthony Hunter considers the history of public housing in Philadelphia during the New Deal era. Focusing on black activism, black politics, and neighborhood change during the New Deal era, he shows that Black residents have long been citymakers, forces for progressive change. Read More
LGBTTSQQIAA…
Scholar Melissa M. Wilcox provides a historical overview of the development of self-chosen terminology among same-sex attracted and gender-nonconforming people in the twentieth and twenty-first century, particularly in Western Anglophone cultures. She explains why certain terms are preferred over others, as well as when and why the preferred terms have changed. Read More
Selling People
Six experts, Sutapa Basu, Anne T. Gallagher, Denise Brennan, Elena Shih, Kari Lerum, and Ronald Weitzer, examine human trafficking and whether rescue efforts really help. Read More
Bitter Ironies of History
Former Budapest mayor Gábor Demszky talks with scholar James Jasper about his life as a publisher of samizdat literature before 1989, and his life as mayor afterward. Demszky also grimly assesses Hungary's future under Fidesz. Read More
The New Workplayce
Corey FieldsDoes all work and no play really make Jack a dull boy? In a 2006 TED talk, education … Read More
Fashioning Flawlessness
Amanda LanzoneDuring New York’s Fashion Week last September, patients of plastic surgeon Ramtin Kassir sashayed down the runway to … Read More
Kidneys and Kin
While organ donation systems in the United States are designed to be efficient and equitable, distributing organs harvested from recently deceased individuals to those who … Read More
