Global Learning Community - Week 14

Our library catalog has changed! You will notice that when you look up any books in the catalog, there should be picture of the book’s cover and a link to Google Books. If it’s an electronic book, like the fourth selection for this week, just click on the hyperlink or book icon and ebrary will load the electronic book! Be sure and check out these new features!

1. The Human Drama of Abortion: A Global Search for Consensus
   
   • In this book, Aníbal Faúndes and José S. Barzelatto evaluate abortion from a global perspective. What are some of the issues that women consider prior to terminating pregnancies? Furthermore, what are some of the challenges that women face when seeking abortions? This book offers a variety of intellectual approaches to this issue, including medical, religious, financial, social, and political viewpoints, while putting a human face to this highly charged topic.
   • Call Number: HQ767 .F3818 2006
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2. Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World
   
• This teaching guide offers strategies for informing students about global issues, including child labor, sweatshops, global warming, and destruction of the ecological systems. Included are useful interviews, poetry, stories, and background readings that are designed to help students visualize and realize the impact and challenges that the current population faces.
  
• Call Number: HM671 .R478 2002
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3. The Cult of Thinness
   
   • Did you know that France is considering a ban on the glamorization of being ultra-thin? In this book, Hesse-Biber, the author, “goes beyond traditional psychological explanations of eating disorders to level powerful indictment against the social, political, and economic pressures women face in a weight-obsessed society – a society that is, ironically, becoming increasingly more fat while worshipping a progressively more thin idea.” Hesse-Biber uses the metaphor of a cult to illuminate the high degree involvement in the pursuit of thinness. (Book description adapted from back cover.)
     
   • Call Number: BF697.5 .B63 H47 2007
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4. From Marriage to the Market: The Transformation of Women's Lives and Work
   • This electronic book is available through ebrary! In this book, the author examines the how women’s lives have changed with respect to marriage, motherhood, and labor. The author views this within the context of historical events and provides commentary on how these new domestic and work economies will influence future landscapes.
     
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5. Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America
   • In this book, Gregory Rodriguez examines the history of Mexico and applies its concepts of race and identity to the United States. He “calls for a change in attitude that more closely reflects the Mexican unifying idea of mestizaje, that we are all, to some extent, racially mixed ‘mongrels.’" (Adapted from the book description.)
     
   • Call Number: E184.M5 R587 2007
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