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Anne Hendershott

Anne Hendershott
Anne Hendershott
is author of Moving for Work: The Sociology of Relocating in the 1990s, The Reluctant Caregivers: Learning to Care for a Loved One with Alzheimer's and The Politics of Deviance. She is a Professor of Sociology at the University of San Diego and served as a Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.

The Politics of Abortion

The Politics of Abortion

By Anne Hendershott | hardcover $25.95

In The Politics of Abortion, Anne Hendershott carefully analyzes the politics behind our most contentious issue. How did the culture shift that produced Roe v. Wade occur? How did the Democratic Party move from being the party of the New Deal, Medicare, and Aid to Families with Dependent Children to the party of abortion-on-demand? Why [...]

The Politics of Deviance

The Politics of Deviance

By Anne Hendershott | paperback $16.95

Until the 1960s, sociologists had asserted that a willingness to identify deviance, or what constitutes appropriate behavior, was indispensable to the process of generating and sustaining cultural values, clarifying moral boundaries, and promoting social solidarity. Yet today, after three decades of lacerating debate, shifts in values and social relations, and questioning social authority, the subject [...]