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  • Community Projects as Social Activism

    From Direct Action to Direct Services

    by Benjamin H. Shepard ...
    Community Projects as Social Activism: From Direct Action to Direct Services by Benjamin Shepard is an engaging and accessible work that will get today′s students excited about the very real prospect of achieving lasting, positive change within their communities. It outlines a distinct approach to community practice born out of the intersection among social movements, day-to-day organizing, and ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Play, Creativity, and Social Movements

    If I Can't Dance, It’s Not My Revolution

    by Benjamin Shepard ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    As we play, we step away from stark reality to conjure up new possibilities for the present and our common future. Today, a new cohort of social activists are using it to create social change and reinvent democratic social relations. In contrast to work or routine, play must be free. To the extent that it is, it infuses a high-octane burst of innovation into any number of organizational practices ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Queer Political Performance and Protest

    by Benjamin Shepard ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    From the birth of the Gay Liberation through the rise of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, the global justice movement in 1994, the largest day of antiwar protest in world history in February 2003, the Republican National Convention protests in August 2004, and the massive immigrant rights rallies in the spring of 2006, the streets of cities around the world have been filled ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • On Activism, Friendships, and Fighting

    Oral Histories, Strategies, and Conflicts

    by Benjamin Heim Shepard ...
    Conflict and resolution are the lifeblood of social movements. How, and with whom, do we find lasting friendship, support, and joy in a world in need of so much repair?In On Activism, Friendships, and Fighting veteran organizer and social worker Benjamin Heim Shepard traces a pressing dynamic of social movements: friendship and conflict. The project builds on oral histories with more than thirty ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Beach Beneath the Streets

    Contesting New York City's Public Spaces

    by Benjamin Heim Shepard, Gregory Smithsimon ...
    Series series Excelsior Editions
    Examines New York City as a paradigmatic example of the tensions between privatization and public uses of space in the contemporary U.S.Focusing on the liberating promise of public space, The Beach Beneath the Streets examines the activist struggles of communities in New York City-queer youth of color, gardeners, cyclists, and anti-gentrification activists-as they transform streets, piers, and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Narrating Practice with Children and Adolescents

    Edited by Mery Diaz, Benjamin Shepard ...
    In Narrating Practice with Children and Adolescents, social workers, sociologists, researchers, and helping professionals share engaging and evocative stories of practice that aim to center the young client’s story. Drawing on work with a variety of disadvantaged populations in New York City and around the world, they seek to raise awareness of the diversity of the individual experiences of youth. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Narrating Practice with Children and Adolescents

    Edited by Mery Diaz, Benjamin Shepard ...
    In Narrating Practice with Children and Adolescents, social workers, sociologists, researchers, and helping professionals share engaging and evocative stories of practice that aim to center the young client’s story. Drawing on work with a variety of disadvantaged populations in New York City and around the world, they seek to raise awareness of the diversity of the individual experiences of youth. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Illuminations on Market Street

    (a story about sex and estrangement, AIDS and loss, and other preoccupations in San Francisco)

    by Benjamin Heim Shepard ...
    Series series Edition Noema
    San Francisco in the early 1990s. Cab is on the deep end of a losing streak. After having been dumped yet again, he moves to Haight-Ashbury fresh out of college. It is the middle of a recession, before the dot-com boom, and AIDS is an immediate and untreatable reality. He finds himself working in a housing program for people with HIV/AIDS. The entire city is reeling. His clients are dying. Cab ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sustainable Urbanism and Direct Action

    Case Studies in Dialectical Activism

    by Benjamin Heim Shepard ...
    Series series Radical Subjects in International Politics
    Urban activism can manifest in many guises, from community gardening to mass naked bike rides. But how might we theorize the evidence of the collisions between social forces that take place in our streets and public commons? Cities are formed through these collective collisions in time.This book draws on the author’s own vast experience as an activist to make links between a theory of practice ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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    A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity

    by Kate Bornstein ...
    "This updated edition of Bornstein's formative My Gender Workbook (1997) provides an invigorating introduction to contemporary theory around gender, sexuality, and power. The original is a classic of modern transgender theory and literature and, alongside Bornstein's other work, has influenced an entire generation of trans writers and artists. This revised and expanded edition extends that legacy, ... Read more

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  • How We Get Free

    Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

    Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    Black feminists remind us "that America's destiny is inseparable from how it treats [black women] and the nation ignores this truth at its peril" ( The New York Review of Books).Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." —Combahee River Collective StatementThe Combahee River Collective, a path ... Read more

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  • Angry White Men

    American Masculinity at the End of an Era

    by Michael Kimmel ...
    One of the headlines of the 2012 Presidential campaign was the demise of the white American male voter as a dominant force in the political landscape. On election night four years later, when Donald Trump was announced the winner, it became clear that the white American male voter is alive and well and angry as hell. Sociologist Michael Kimmel, one of the leading writers on men and masculinity in ... Read more

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