Vanderbilt University Press

Fiction and Poetry about Family CaregivingLiving in the Land of Limbo is the first anthology of short stories and poems about family caregivers. These men and women find themselves in "e;limbo,"e; as they struggle to take care of a family member or friend in the uncertain world of chronic illness. The authors explore caregivers'...

Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar AmericaToo often lost in our understanding of the American Cold War crisis, with its nuclear brinkmanship and global political chess game, is the simultaneous crisis on the nation's racial front. Reckoning Day is the first book to examine the relationship of African Americans to the atom bomb in...

Doris E. Fleischman, Ruth Hale, and Jane GrantAnonymous in Their Own Names recounts the lives of three women who, while working as their husbands' uncredited professional partners, had a profound and enduring impact on the media in the first half of the twentieth century. With her husband, Edward L. Bernays, Doris E. Fleischman helped found...

Inside the Experience of Capital Defense AttorneysHow do attorneys who represent clients facing the death penalty cope with the stress and trauma of their work? Through conversations with twenty of the most experienced and dedicated post-conviction capital defenders in the United States, Fighting for Their Lives explores this emotional...

Infertility, Childlessness, and AmbivalenceOne message that comes along with ever-improving fertility treatments and increasing acceptance of single motherhood, older first-time mothers, and same-sex partnerships, is that almost any woman can and should become a mother. The media and many studies focus on infertile and involuntarily childless women...

A Guide for the Critical ReaderNoam Chomsky is a pioneering scholar in the field of linguistics, but he is better known as a public intellectual: an iconoclastic, radical critic of US politics and foreign policy. Chomsky's Challenge examines most of the major subjects Chomsky has dealt with in his nearly half century of intellectual...