...Patrick McCreery INTERVENTIONS Save Our Children/Let Us Marry: Gay Activists Appropriate the Rhetoric of Child Protectionism Patrick McCreery On September 14, 2005, Massachusetts state senators and representatives voted 157 to 39 against amending the state constitution to ban...

...Sara Quezada FORUM Critical Pedagogy: Dynamic Thinking and Teaching within the Confines of No Child Left Behind Sara Quezada Paulo Freire envisioned critical pedagogy as the lightning bolt that illuminates the darkened corners of a dormant consciousness. He utilized...

... scrutiny. How foolish the sanitized and sentimen talized version will then seem. Bernadine Dohis a child advocate in the areas of juvenile justice and child welfare in Chicago. She was a national officer of Students for a Democratic Society, was on the FBI’s ten most wanted list...

...Karen Sotiropoulos This brief essay offers a rumination on the history and implications of open adoption, with a particular focus on the ways the practice grew out of the women's rights movement of the 1970s and on the ways racial inequities impacted child adoption before and after the rise...

... villages. In particular, investment in rural health facilities is responsible for a spectacular decline in fertility, as well as child and maternal mortality. Other improvements may be unintended consequences of government action. The significant rise in the education of rural girls...

...Shafali Lal Julie Berebitsky, Like Our Very Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood, 1851–1950 . Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,2000. Paula S. Fass, Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America . New York:Oxford University Press, 1997. Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona...

... "We are having a fine young revolution here," the American ambassador in Rome, Richard Child, wrote his father the day after Mussolini took power in Italy. "No danger, plenty of enthusiasm and color. We all enjoy it The ambassador's exhilarated reaction to the "March on Rome" of October 28...

... complex as an historically determined dynamic, especially if one took into ac- count the role of the parents as socialized participants along with the child. From this perspective, theories like Freud's Oedipus complex and Lacan's Phallus as a symbolic Signifier of social order, which...

... with training in domestic science assist them as dish- washers, cleaners, maids, and childcare aides. If women were to do this work, how were they to be organized? Gilman insisted that new forms of housing, child care, and domestic service be developed by entrepreneurs "on a business basis." One...

... a few Blacks of similar persuasion. That was it. In fact, it was even narrower. I don't believe I ever knew a child whose parents were members of the Socialist Party or, whisper it, the Socialist Workers' Party. Although I felt as if I were part of a world culture...

... agencies were participating. A survey from the early 1990s showed that, overall, between 70 and 98 percent of religious colleges and universities, international aid providers, and child service agencies reported receiving public funds.5 Evangelical agencies equally participated...

... they debated issues like the morali- ty of bomb shelters and racial segregation. Similarly, Breines reanalyzes social scientific studies of child- rearing in the 1950s, exposing the normative assumptions which underlay the research. She challenges findings that children were permissively reared...

... of the experience of the subjects of her study and in the sources she relies upon, motherhood has never been the idyllic private experience of nurturing mother and compliant child. Since Adrienne Rich's groundbreaking study Of Woman Born (1976), scholarship on motherhood has flourished across the disci...

... of Catholic Sexual Abuse Anthony M. Petro The entire issue of “Child Sexual Abuse,” whether . . . categorized as pedophiliac, homosexual or heterosexual, is displayed prominently across the front pages of newspapers where it shall remain for at least the balance of the decade (having replaced...

... and structural forms of violence ranging from state-­sanctioned killing to racial inequity in child malnutrition. Scholars including Chandan Reddy, Jasbir Puar, and Scott Morgensen have identified the increasingly convivial relationship between militaristic nationalism and certain gay and lesbian...

... were maintained and very jealously guarded. Meanwhile, however, Noyes' wife, Harriet Holton, whom he had married in 1838, had ex- perienced a series of agonizing births. Of the five pregnancies she underwent by 1846, four ended in stillbirths; only one child, a son, lived. John...

...- mend. In fact, other than the "Landmark" series I had read when I was a child, no other titles came to mind. This was, I rationalized, just barely pardonable since both my sons at the time were very young. But, as a historian concerned with developing a critical perception of the past...

... of the United States followed in the wake of this decision. While child custody cases have long been a battleground for GLBT rights advocates, in Perdue v. Mississippi State Board of Health, Lambda Legal Defense, a nonprofi t organization, took the unusual step...