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Book Review: How To Give Financial Advice To Couples, Alycia Degraff, D. Bruce Ross

Journal of Financial Therapy

How to Give Financial Advice to Couples is a financial advisor’s must-read text. Kingsbury allows the reader to become familiar with the daunting area of couple dynamics in this unintimidating and easy read.

Premarital Sex In America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, And Think About Marrying; Sex And The Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, And Religion On America's College Campuses, Mark Regnerus, Jeremy Uecker, Donna Freitas, Brian J. Willoughby

BYU Studies Quarterly

MARK REGNERUS, JEREMY UECKER. Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying. New York City: Oxford University Press, 2011.

DONNA FREITAS. Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses. New York City: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Mark Regnerus (University of Texas) and Jeremy Uecker (Baylor University), both professors of sociology, have previously collaborated on a host of academic papers focused on the dating, marital, and sexual lives of young adults. Regnerus has previously published a book entitled Forbidden Fruit (Oxford University Press, 2007), which explores the sexual lives of …

Review: Death Zones & Darling Spies: Seven Years Of Vietnam War Reporting By Beverly Deepe Keever, Gerd Horten

CUP Faculty Research

A review of the book Death Zones & Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting by Beverly Deepe Keever (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2013)

Women's Studies On Trial, Mary Loeffelholz

Mary Loeffelholz

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Valuing Youth Voices And Differences Through Community Literacy Projects: Review Of Detroit Future Youth Curriculum Mixtape And Freeing Ourselves: A Guide To Health And Self-Love For Brown Bois, Londie T. Martin

Community Literacy Journal

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Slam School: Learning Through Conflict In The Hip-Hop And Spoken Word Classroom, Amanda Fields

Community Literacy Journal

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Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls And Sexual Identity, Jenna Vinson

Community Literacy Journal

No abstract provided.

The Life Giving Stone: Ethnoarchaeology Of Maya Metates ‐ By Searcy, Michael T [Review Of The Book The Life-Giving Stone: Ethnoarchaeology Of Maya Metates, By M. T. Searcy], Jennifer P. Mathews

Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Research

This volume attempts to get at the interpretations of the archaeological record from the back-end by studying the modern Maya metate life cycle, including procurement, production, acquisition, use and discard. The author spent two years in Guatemala conducting ethnographic research with metate producers and users in three Maya communities. It is through this rich research that he greatly expands our understanding of metates by providing background of their complexity through several avenues. For example, he documents contemporary gifting traditions, noting that families still give metates as wedding gifts to couples, even as their use decreases with the presence of electric …

The Mormon People: The Making Of An American Faith, Matthew Bowman, Armand L. Mauss

BYU Studies Quarterly

Matthew Bowman is an up-and-coming young scholar of the generation now rising with the relatively new field of Mormon studies. Having completed his doctorate in American religious history at Georgetown University in 2011, he has nevertheless already been very visible for some time at academic conferences and in periodical literature of both Mormon and American religious histories. He has appeared on various public media sites, electronic and otherwise, as a commentator about Mormons and Mormonism, including discussions of his new book.

This book provides eight solid chapters, a brief introduction, and an even briefer conclusion, followed by four appendices, a …

Book Review: Appropriately Indian: Gender And Culture In A New Transnational Class, Harasankar Adhikari

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Appropriately Indian: Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class by Smitha Radhakrishnan (New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2012)

Book Review: Ecofeminism And Rhetoric: Critical Perspectives On Sex, Technology, And Discourse, R. K. Shalyefu

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Ecofeminism and Rhetoric: Critical Perspectives on Sex, Technology, and Discourse by Douglas A. Vakoch (New York: Berghahn Books, 2011)

Book Review: Women And Subsidised Housing In Kwazulu-Natal: The Extent Of Empowerment, Mvuseleo T. M. Mgeyane

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Women and Subsidised Housing in KwaZulu-Natal: The Extent of Empowerment by Catherine Ndinda (Saarbrücken: Lambert Publishing, 2011)

Book Review: Why Have Kids? A New Mom Explores The Truth About Parenting And Happiness, Rebecca Stevens

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Why Have Kids? A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness by Jessica Valenti (Boston: New Harvest, 2012)

Book Review: Muslim Women In Britain: De-Mystifying The Muslimah, Katherine Bullock

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Muslim Women in Britain: De-Mystifying the Muslimah by Sariya Contractor (London: Routledge, 2012)

Book Review: Understanding And Applying Research Design, Mercy Nduku Ngungu

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Understanding and Applying Research Design by Martin Lee Abbott and Jennifer McKinney (New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2013)

Book Review: Researching Society And Culture, Maureen Nduku

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Researching Society and Culture, edited by Clive Seale (London: Sage Publications, 2011)

Book Review: Cities, Cultural Policy And Governance, Gina Weir-Smith

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance, edited by Helmut Anheier and Yudhishtihir Raj Isar. (London: Sage Publications, 2012)

Book Review: Feminist Ecocriticism: Environment, Women, Literature, Amukelani T. Ngobeni

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Feminist Ecocriticism: Environment, Women, Literature, edited by Douglas A. Vakoch (New York: Lexington Books, 2012)

Book Review: Ethical Research With Sex Workers: Anthropological Approaches, Nteboheleng Mahapa

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Ethical Research with Sex Workers. Anthropological Approaches by Susan Dewey and Tiantian Zheng (New York: Springer, 2013)

Book Review: Ottoman Women: Myth And Reality, Vida Rahiminezhad

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Ottoman Women: Myth and Reality by Asli Sancar (New Jersey: Light, Inc., 2007)

Book Review: From The Shahs To Los Angeles: Three Generations Of Iranian Jewish Women Between Religion And Culture, Catherine Ogunmefun

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture by Saba Soomekh (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2012)

Book Review: Reshaping Gender And Class In Rural Spaces, Thelma Maluleke

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Reshaping Gender and Class in Rural Spaces, edited by Barbara Pini and Belinda Leach (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2011)

Book Review: Women's Movements And The Filipina (1986-2008), Dizline Mfanozelwe Shozi

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Women’s Movements and the Filipina (1986-2008) by Mina Roces (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2012)

Book Review Of The Law Is A White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make And Unmake Persons, By Colin Dayan, Dean Spade

Journal of Legal Education

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Best Of “The Reformed Journal” (Book Review), David Schelhaas

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: Bratt, James D. and Ronald A. Wells. The Best of “The Reformed Journal.” Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012. 321 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8028-6702-5.

Challenges Of Cultural Discipleship: Essays In The Line Of Abraham Kuyper (Book Review), Neal Deroo

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: Mouw, Richard J. The Challenges of Cultural Discipleship: Essays in the Line of Abraham Kuyper. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012. ISBN 9780802866981.

Reviews Of Recent Publications

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

David Palumbo-Liu. The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age. by Paul Cahill

Natalie Edwards. Shifting Subjects. Plural Subjectivity in Contemporary Francophone Women’s Autobiography by Anna Rocca

Zsuzsu Baross. Posthumously: For Jacques Derrida by Stephen Barker

Natalie Edwards, Amy L. Hubbell, and Ann Miller, eds. Textual and Visual Selves by Rachel Gabara

Stephen M. Hart. Gabriel García Márquez by Regina Janes

Vivian Liska. When Kafka Says We: Uncommon Communities in German-Jewish Literature by Tyler Whitney

Book Review Of The End Of The Pipeline: A Journey Of Recognition For African Americans Entering The Legal Profession, By Dorothy H. Evensen And Carla D. Pratt, Meera E. Deo

Journal of Legal Education

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Writing From These Roots: Literacy In A Hmong-American Community By John M. Duffy, Abigail L. Montgomery

Community Literacy Journal

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Vagina: A New Biography, Harasankar Adhikari

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf