Adoption
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What does adoption look like in the United States today?
In the middle of the twentieth century, adoption became a widespread practice in the United States when thousands of ...
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Advocacy Frameworks: Ending VAWG
Jacqui True
in Violence against Women: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What theories of social and behavioral change inform current advocacy to end VAWG?
Prevention of VAWG requires deep societal transformation in norms, structures, and institutions. ...
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The Basics of Opioids and Opioid Addiction
Yngvild Olsen and Joshua M. Sharfstein
in The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are opioids?
Opioids are a group of chemical compounds that can reduce pain, cause sensations of pleasure, and induce sleep. To have these and other effects on the human ...
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Birthing, Breast-Feeding, and Reproductive Politics
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
In what settings are babies born in the United States today?
In 1900 more than 95 percent of American women gave birth at home. Fourteen years later, anesthesia, or “twilight ...
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A Brief History of Women’s Sport
Jaime Schultz
in Women's Sports: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How long have women played sport?
Women have always engaged in various sport forms. Much of our knowledge about these activities is pieced together from archeological evidence, ...
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Challenges of Causing Change
David Bornstein and Susan Davis
in Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the main financial constraints?
It is often assumed that start-up capital is a significant hurdle for social entrepreneurs. Although it is never easy to obtain the ...
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Children and Teens Using Pornography
Shira Tarrant
in The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The issue of children and teens accessing pornography is often fraught with distress and debate. There are those who worry that easy access to porn causes harm among today’s youth. Will ...
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Companies: Optimizing Virtual and Remote Work Practices
Barbara Z. Larson
in Remote and Hybrid Work: What Everyone Needs to Know®
This chapter assesses the issues that companies face
related to remote and hybrid work, rather than individuals, managers, or teams. In some types of
...
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Conclusion: Campus Politics at the Administrative University
Jonathan Zimmerman
in Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
On May 31, 1969, Wellesley College’s first-ever elected class speaker delivered a short set of remarks at its 91st commencement exercises. She had been preceded at the podium by ...
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Conclusion
Goldie Blumenstyk
in American Higher Education in Crisis?: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Should we be optimistic about the future of higher education in America?
In May 2014, Gallup reported results of the first of five planned annual surveys on the state of American ...
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Conflict-Related VAWG
Jacqui True
in Violence against Women: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Is VAWG inevitable during war and armed conflict?
No, it is not. Yet VAWG appears to have always been a part of warfare. Historically, VAWG during war and armed conflict has been ...
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Constitutional Collapse, 1960–1974
James Ker-Lindsay
in The Cyprus Problem: What Everyone Needs to Know®
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Contemporary Abortion III—Activism, Law, and Policy
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How are state legislatures responding to abortion and satellite issues?
In recent years many state legislatures have defined abortion and efforts to limit the procedure as their ...
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Contemporary Abortion Politics I—Opinions and Science
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the most common objections to abortion today, and how have objections changed over time?
Objections to abortion have changed over time. In the nineteenth century, before ...
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Contemporary Abortion Politics Ii—experience and Practice
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the abortion rate in the United States and how has it changed in recent years?
After 1990, the number and rate of abortions declined every year for about a decade and a ...
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Contextualizing Gender
Laura Erickson-Schroth and Benjamin Davis
in Gender:
This chapter examines feminism and gender studies. It
begins by distinguishing the different “waves” of feminism. The first wave is usually described
...
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Contraception
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the most commonly used forms of contraception in the United States?
Almost all heterosexual, sexually active women have used at least one form of contraception; nearly 90 ...
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Costs, Spending, and Debt
Goldie Blumenstyk
in American Higher Education in Crisis?: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How much does America spend on higher education, and how has that changed over time?
Higher education is big business. The nearly $500 billion in revenues generated annually by ...
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Criminal Justice Policy and the Opioid Epidemic
Yngvild Olsen and Joshua M. Sharfstein
in The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the war on drugs?
The “war on drugs” refers to the primary US approach to addressing drug use since the early 1970s. While its roots can be traced to the anti-drug ...
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Culture and VAWG
Jacqui True
in Violence against Women: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Is the recognition of VAWG universal or culturally relative?
Violence against women and girls presents itself in different forms across all cultures. Culture itself is a dynamic ...
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