...Ann Cvetkovich Duke University Press 2007 Ann Cvetkovich Public Feelings The editors’ invitation to write about how our work on “nonsexual” domains relates to our inter- est in sexuality very much spoke to me...

...Steve Wing; Leah Schinasi Duke University Press 2007 Steve Wing and Leah Schinasi Public Health Preparedness: Social Control or Social Justice? ​Public health preparedness refers to a society’s readiness to respond to sudden...

...Christopher Newfield; Colleen Lye When then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger cut the California higher education budget by 20 percent in 2009, the largest protests erupted on University of California campuses than had been seen in the United States since the 1960s. The struggle for public education...

... UCLA’s Underground Students Rise to Fight for Public Education The events at UCLA on November 19, 2009, the day of the UC Board of Regents’ vote to raise tuition, brought to light varying levels of activism and political consciousness as well as differing philosophies of political action...

...Margaret Gibson This essay examines the expansion of death and grief from private experience and spaces, into public spheres via a range of media events and communication technologies. This shift is increasingly acknowledged and documented in death studies and to some extent in media research...

... the privatization of the management of water and other local services of general interest. Ninety-five percent of those voting voted against allowing a profit to be made from managing a commons. This vote was against privatization but also against the old public model, which has at this time been completely...

...I. B. Holley, Jr. BOOKS The University and the Public Interest. By A. Bartlett Giamatti. New York: Atheneum, 1982. Pp. xii, 184. $12.95. This book is a work of art, a joy to read. It has a gem-like quality with carefully crafted phrases of intaglio precision which catch the eye and linger...

...Susan Willis Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Susan Willis Disney World: Public Use/Private State I recall a discussion with four or five women friends on the subject of shopping malls. None of us was pro-mall, so our talk tended to highlight those aspects of malls that most...

...Henry A. Giroux Henry A. Giroux Liberal Arts Education and the Struggle for Public Life: Dreaming about Democracy I will begin with what has become a com­ monplace but no less significant assertion: that the most important questions facing both the liberal arts and higher education in general...

...Phyllis Franklin Phyllis Franklin The Academy and the Public My assignment is to consider one of the emerging conditions likely to affect liberal arts education in the late twentieth century: namely, heightened public interest in the academy. We have just experienced a period of national blue...

...William B. Huntley Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Jefferson s Public and Private Religion William B. Huntley Debate over the character of Thomas Jefferson s religion has been taken up by his friends, his enemies, and scholars for the last 200 years. Religion was an important...

...Ruth Aproberts Thackeray’s Canvass of Humanity: An Author and His Public . By Colby Robert A. . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 1979 . Pp. vi , 469 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 237 Thackeray s Canvass of Humanity: An Author...

...Walter Nugent Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America . By Keller Morton . Cambridge, Mass., and London : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 1977 . Pp. ix , 631 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 528 The South...

...Walter J. Matherly Copyright © 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 PUBLIC BENEFITS OF PRIVATE PROFITS WALTER J. MATHERLY THE SYSTEM of private profits in America as well as elsewhere faces an uncertain future. The philosophy of economic self-interest originally stated by Adam Smith and so ably...

...Norman S. Buchanan Copyright © 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 THE PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE NORMAN S. BUCHANAN I AMID the economic disorders of recent years few institu. tions have fallen farther from grace than the public utility holding company. Once in high...

...Benjamin Ulysses Ratchford Copyright © 1928 by Duke University Press 1928 The South Atlantic Quarterly Volume XXVII JANUARY, 1928 Number 1 THE PUBLIC FINANCES OF NORTH CAROLINA SINCE 1920 BENJAMIN ULYSSES RATCHFORD Cornell University TODAY North Carolina occupies a high position among...

...David G. Davies Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Unemployment, Inflation, and Public Policy David G. Davies Through the programs of the New Deal, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt attempted to come to grips with the problem of mass unemployment. England as well as other...

...Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.; John Nolen Copyright © 1906 by Duke University Press 1906 Public Open Spaces in American Towns and Cities* By Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and John Nolen At the present time public spirited people in this country appreciate the value of open spaces in towns...

...Elmer Ellsworth Brown In What Definite Ways May the State Depart­ ment of Education Further the Establishment of a System of Public High Schools?* By Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Commissioner of Education of the United States It is fast coming to be a fixed characteristic of American educa­ tion...

...Charles A. Woods Copyright © 1908 by Duke University Press 1908 Public Discussion* By Charles A. Woods Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina The ultimate conclusion, after centuries of struggle and discus­ sion, that the legal rights of the inividual should not be asserted...