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The new TIME magazine cover story, “Growing Up is Harder Than Ever. Young Americans on How They See Themselves,” examines the unique stress of growing up right now and how young Americans are coping (Oct. 23 issue; on sale Oct. 13). The story features photographs and interviews of dozens of teenagers about their mental health. In his letter to readers, TIME Editor‐in‐Chief Sam Jacobs wrote: “In this issue, we also explore the youth mental health crisis through a project that brought photographer Robin Hammond to meet 48 kids, aged 11‐17, living across the United States. The data on the state of U.S. children and mental health is stark … these kids and teenagers, including two who are featured on accompanying covers, talked to Hammond about their experiences with gun violence, bullying, social media, gender identity, and more.” Here's what Malayha, 14, from Georgia, had to say: “Adults shouldn't disregard our feelings because we go through things as well. [They don't] get to minimize our problems.” The cover story was written by TIME author Jamie Ducharme.

Agrarian Mythologies

Agrarian Mythologies Debra Bricker Balken (bio) Britt E. Halvorson and Joshua O. Reno tell us at the outset of Imagining the Heartland: White Supremacy and the Midwest that the election of Donald Trump to the Oval Office in 2016, and the rise of his MAGA followers, spawned a long-standing interest to consolidate their research into the cultural tropes and aesthetic languages that grew from the Corn Belt since the Great Depression. Both anthropologists, this collaborative duo has lived in Michigan, an experience they present as bona fides, or personal reflections, alongside their fused scholarship. In these authors' hands, the Midwest is mined for its "seeming ordinariness," a narrative that they argue masks a deep-seated racism that can be read in representations that embody Whiteness, both through its histories, literary traditions, and visual arts, as well as more recently in mass media discourse. Certainly, the heartland has not always been viewed as a preserve of tolerance: that is, immune to racial and class prejudice despite its geographical isolation from the Northern colonies and slave-holding South. On the contrary, there has been ample study of its imagery to reinforce that artists and writers who spent time in the Midwest were attuned to the social fissures that stemmed from segregation and difference. However, Halvorson and Reno focus only on a small handful of Regionalist artists, novelists, and filmmakers, figures who were bent, they claim, on countering the progressive ethos that drove antithetical movements such as modernism which was a global direction. Already, Imagining the Heartland reveals its limitations and is on shaky ground. Foremost among the many conceptual flaws and contradictions that pervade this book, is the assumption that the Midwest has been fantasized primarily as a rural territory that depended upon "agrarian mythologies" to shape its accumulated depictions of flat, endless plains planted with either [End Page 105] wheat or corn all to vivify not only plentitude and bounty but the virtues of hard work, self-sufficiency, and middle-class conformity. This iconography of mundaneness, as they see it, extends to entrenched stereotypes of a god-fearing, white picket fence America whose populations are homogeneous rather than a racialized entity, its White folks idealized through painting and literature for their homespun values and Christian morality. Admittedly, this view of the Midwest as a pastoral oasis was a conceit employed by Thomas Hart Benton, an artist who hailed from Missouri and whose prominence and visibility was such that he appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1934. After briefly engaging abstract forms as a painter in New York, Benton reversed course and became an academic artist before he returned to Kansas City in the mid-1930s where his murals and canvases similarly utilized traditional, by then retro, tactics such as verisimilitude or realism to convey the heartland and its authenticities. The prominent undulating line and curvilinear forms that define his bodies and landscapes purposefully exaggerate the traits of his middle western subjects while distilling a patriotism aimed at undermining what Benton considered as the extravagant degeneracy of modern art wherein the expression of the artist's subjectivity was made a wellspring of originality and invention. To be sure, his new-found identity as an artistic patriarch on the Great Plains drew from latent declarations of antisemitism, homophobia, and misogyny. However, not all the Regionalists succumbed to a stratagem of agrarian idealization braided with White nationalism. In fact, the story is not as one-sided, unequivocal, and seamless as Halvorson and Reno let on. Benton's overt goal may have been to destabilize the modernist expressions that still emanated from cities such as New York during the Depression, but a dip into the representations that issued from the studios of his Regionalist cohorts such as John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood—who were frequently constructed by critics as an aesthetic triad—reveal little unity outside of their revival of Renaissance-type painting techniques. While Wood yielded to the puritanism associated with small town Iowa farm life in paintings such as Stone City (1930), where nature is a benevolent, verdant, stabilizing force, the artist did not play into the same "agrarian mythologies" in American Gothic (1930), a painting that thrives on...

Ashley Judd to Speak at APA Annual Meeting

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Annual MeetingFull AccessAshley Judd to Speak at APA Annual MeetingKatie O'ConnorKatie O'ConnorSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:25 Feb 2023https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.pn.2023.03.3.66AbstractGolden Globe winner and Emmy-nominated actress Ashley Judd has long been a devoted activist and humanitarian, championing women’s rights and public health issues. She has also written about the need to ensure privacy for families following the death of a loved one to suicide.Actor and mental health advocate Ashley Judd is the keynote speaker at the Opening Session of APA’s 2023 Annual Meeting. The Opening Session will be held Saturday, May 20, at 5:30 p.m. in the Moscone Center.Known for her roles in “De-Lovely,” “Ruby in Paradise,” and “Double Jeopardy,” actress, writer, and humanitarian Ashley Judd, M.P.A., will be a plenary speaker at the 2023 APA Annual Meeting in San Francisco.Judd has also gained worldwide acclaim as an avid advocate of human rights, with a focus on gender equality and public health. Since 2004 she has worked with numerous NGOs and traveled the world in support of public health efforts related to maternal health, child survival, HIV prevention, and malaria prevention and treatment.She currently serves as a Global Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations (UN) Population Fund, the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency. She is also the chair of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project: Curbing Abuse, Expanding Freedom; a Global Ambassador for both Population Services International and Polaris Project; and a member of the leadership council of the International Center for Research on Women.Judd earned her master’s degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. In 2017, she was the recipient of the Muhammad Ali Kentucky Humanitarian Award. Her undergraduate alma mater, the University of Kentucky, established the Ashley T. Judd Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in the Office for Policy Studies on Violence Against Women.She was also featured on the cover of TIME Magazine’s 2017 Person of the Year issue, which honored the thousands of individuals across the world who spoke out about their experiences of sexual harassment and assault, dubbed “The Silence Breakers.”Judd has written about her family experiences with mental illness. In August 2022, she penned a guest essay in the New York Times about her family’s effort to keep police reports related to the suicide of her mother, Naomi Judd, private. Naomi Judd was a well-respected musician who dealt with mental illness for much of her life.Tennessee law allows police reports from closed investigations, including family interviews, to be made public. “Naomi lost a long battle against an unrelenting foe that in the end was too powerful to be defeated,” Ashley Judd wrote. “I could not help her. I can, however, do something about how she is remembered.”She wrote that she intends to make the invasion of privacy following an individual’s death by suicide “a personal as well as a legal cause.” She also called for a reformation of law enforcement procedures related to such cases. “Though I acknowledge the need for law enforcement to investigate a sudden violent death by suicide, there is absolutely no compelling public interest in the case of my mother to justify releasing the videos, images, and family interviews that were done in the course of that investigation.”Last August, Naomi Judd’s family filed for injunctive relief in Williamson County, Tenn., to keep the police records related to her death private. Last December, the Associated Press reported that the family had filed a notice to voluntarily dismiss the lawsuit, due in part to the fact that journalists who requested the police records were not requesting photographs or body cam footage. The notice also said a Tennessee state lawmaker is introducing legislation to make death investigation records private when the death is not the result of a crime.“I hope that leaders in Washington and in state capitals will provide some basic protections for those involved in the police response to mental health emergencies,” Ashley Judd wrote in her essay, adding that her mother “should be remembered for how she lived, which was with goofy humor, glory onstage, and unfailing kindness off it—not for the private details of how she suffered when she died.” ■ ISSUES NewArchived

RNA BASED THERAPIES - A POSITIVE OUTCOME OF COVID-19

Dear Reader, It was way back in December 2014 that Ella Watson-Stryker was named TIMES Person of the Year for 2014 and featured on the Cover of Time Magazine. Dr Watson-Stryker was recognised with the honour, which she shared with all the healthcare workers who, under trying circumstances,helped people in various west African countries fight the Ebola virus. While many experts predicted that the Ebola virus might cause a pandemic like situation across the world, the efforts of the healthcare workers ensured that Ebola virus was contained. However, the COVID-19 pandemic nearly five years later created a similar desperate situation not just in a small region of the world but all across the globe. This desperate situation however, has facilitated the rapid development and acceptance of a new class of therapeutics called RNA based therapies.

America’s Public Philosopher: Essays on Social Justice, Economics, Education, and the Future of Democracy by John Dewey

Reviewed by: America’s Public Philosopher: Essays on Social Justice, Economics, Education, and the Future of Democracy by John Dewey John R. Shook DEWEY, John. America’s Public Philosopher: Essays on Social Justice, Economics, Education, and the Future of Democracy. Edited by Eric Thomas Weber. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. xii + 335 pp. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $28.00 John Dewey conducted his philosophy in public as a public philosopher, concerned with public questions that crucially mattered in America. How may integration ever happen? When shall women ever vote? Will religion control schooling, or not? Shall teachers be professionals, or not? Will labor gain protections, or not? Shall [End Page 622] science lead policy, or not? Are civil liberties truly for everyone, or not? Can technocratic management be trusted, or not? Is capitalism more democratic, or is socialism? Shall America be an empire, or a peacemaker? If answers seem obvious now, or at least debate-worthy, that is because you live in Dewey’s America. That progressivism was pragmatism, not just “publicity.” Dewey was constantly in the public eye and on the public’s mind during several of its most transformative decades because his philosophy was of, by, and for the American people. Dewey was always on the march, often literally as well as in literary form. There was hardly any agenda of the liberal, civil rights, and progressive movements from the 1890s through the 1940s that proceeded without his name as a cofounder, signatory, delegate, advisor, or advocate. If a single affordable volume could capture the ethical, educational, social, economic, legal, and political philosophy of such a wide-ranging epochal thinker, this must be it. Eric Thomas Weber’s fine general introduction and concise prefaces to each selection (forty-six in total) keeps up with that pace. This volume’s writings are sometimes more academic than popularly written, but there was not a big difference when Dewey offered his explanations of social problems, dissected rival theories, and proposed practical solutions. We are to be reminded of his prolificity; it is hardly an exaggeration to say that no matter the topic, a hundred or more items stand alongside any single piece represented here, filling the bulk of the thirty-seven volumes of his Collected Works. His open letters, talks, testimonies, speeches, and addresses to innumerable meetings, councils, leagues, committees, and associations were broadcast and printed everywhere, from local radio and city newspapers to national and international magazines and journals, along with pamphlets and tracts printed in uncountable numbers. Dewey did not have to compete for public attention; his philosophy attended to America’s struggles. Part 1, on democracy and the United States, brings together “Democracy Is Radical,” “Address to National Negro Conference,” “A Symposium on Woman’s Suffrage,” “Pragmatic America,” and “The Basic Values and Loyalties of Democracy,” along with three more pieces on democracy’s duty and destiny. Part 2, on politics and power, has eight essays, including “Politics and Culture,” “Force, Violence, and the Law,” “Why I Am Not a Communist,” and “A Liberal Speaks Out for Liberalism.” The eight essays in part 3, on education, explain the essential role of public education and professionalized teachers for democracy’s growth. Part 4, on social ethics and economic justice, has eight essays, including “Capitalistic or Public Socialism?”, “Does Human Nature Change?”, “The Ethics of Animal Experimentation,” “Ethics and International Relations,” and “The Jobless—A Job for All of Us.” Part 5, on science and society, has “The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy,” “Science, Belief and the Public,” “Social Science and Social Control,” “Education and Birth Control,” “The Supreme Intellectual Obligation,” and “The Revolt against Science.” Part 6, on philosophy and culture, has “The Case of the Professor and the Public Interest,” “Social Absolutism,” “Some Factors in [End Page 623] Mutual National Understanding,” “The Basis for Hope,” “Art as Our Heritage,” “The Value of Historical Christianity,” and “What Humanism Means to Me.” Although his stand-alone books such as Democracy and Education and Reconstruction in Philosophy should be required reading, the essentials of Dewey’s entire philosophy are all here in their full vitality. Fame for this Columbia University professor was inescapable. A cover of Time magazine came in...

"Without Even His Hat Took Off": Faulkner's Sanctuary

"Without Even His Hat Took Off":Faulkner's Sanctuary William Brevda In his infamous introduction to the Modern Library edition of Sanctuary, William Faulkner stated that he wrote the original version of the novel just "to make money" (v). Angry and frustrated about his difficulties getting Sartoris and The Sound and the Fury published and being told that Sartoris was not going to sell, Faulkner decided to write a more commercial novel: "I took time out, and speculated what a person in Mississippi would believe to be current trends, chose what I thought was the right answer and invented the most horrific tale I could imagine" (vi). Although Faulkner did not identify these trends, it is safe to say that they were the gangster phenomenon, the vogue of Freudianism, movies, sex, and fashion. Faulkner exploited popular trends to make money, but he also parodied them for a laugh. Sanctuary is primarily a gangster novel, but it is also a criticism of the artificiality of modern life. The attributes of Popeye are the attributes of a material object. Faulkner's gangster has no self that is separate from his things or from the current trends out of which he has been fashioned. The indifference of Popeye and Temple Drake to their own corruption is the indifference of the inanimate world in their lack of a conscience. Sanctuary is a gangster Waste Land, as Faulkner might have expected even a person in the "Sahara of the Bozart" (Mencken) to recognize, breeding gangsters out of the dead land. Sanctuary depicts a world of dead matter and spiritless "already dead" people (Sanctuary 115). Pop-eye is the most "thing-like" character, but all the characters, as I argue in this essay, are hat-like (Adamowski 32). How would we know the gangster without his gat and his hat? The gat is important, but the hat is essential. Writing a gangster novel would have seemed like a good way to make money in 1929 when Faulkner began writing Sanctuary. Damon [End Page 393] Runyon's first four Guys and Dolls stories were published in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1929. That year Donald Henderson Clarke's Louis Beretti sold 11,000 copies and another 99,000 when the movie version Born Reckless was released in 1930. Armitage Trail wrote Scarface in 1929. It was published in 1930 and released as a film in 1932. Also published in 1929 were Frank L. Packard's The Big Shot and W. R. Bur-nett's Little Caesar and award-winning short story "Dressed to Kill." The pulp magazine Gangster Stories began publication in 1929. All an author needed in 1929 to make a killing in the popular market was a tough Italian gangster, or so it must have seemed to Faulkner, who needed money for his impending marriage. Popeye's ethnicity is a pop culture stereotype: he is pop Eyetalian. Faulkner's writing of Sanctuary coincided with Al "Scarface" Capone's well publicized reign as the "King of Gangland" from the mid-1920s to 1931 (Enright 85). On February 14, 1929, one month after Faulkner began work on Sanctuary, the media coverage of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre turned Capone into a national celebrity. In March 1930, Capone, the personification of the gangster myth, made the cover of Time Magazine (nine years before Faulkner did). That same year, Fred D. Pasley popularized the Capone legend in Al Capone: The Biography of a Self-Made Man. Popeye is not Al Capone, and even Capone said that he did not belong in Pasley's book "any more than I belong in a book by Horatio Alger" (Ruth 118), but Capone is the archetype of the literary and cinematic gangster. When Faulkner "took a little time out, and speculated what a person in Mississippi would believe to be current trends," it would not have taken him long to identify them and to see how they were related (Introduction vi). In a 1930 story by Runyon, a character based on Walter Winchell uses Freudian lingo to call the public's obsession with gangsters "an underworld complex" ("Social Error" 70). This fascination with "gangster chic" had a lot to do with...

Hamilton Naki: From Gardening to Greatness

In the wake of the first heart transplant 53 years ago in Cape Town, Professor Christian Barnard found himself to be the subject of much media attention with his face appearing on the cover of Time magazine, highlighting the significance of this milestone in transplant surgery. While the importance of this moment in the history of transplant surgery has never been in dispute, the roster of people who made this achievement possible has, with the presence of one particular individual being the source of great controversy in the 53 years following the procedure.

A “Comer” or a “Second-Rater”?

Abstract Michael Arlen was one of the most successful popular novelists of the interwar period, even appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1927. Best known in his day for the novel The Green Hat (1924), he lived intermittently in Paris in the later 1920s, where he encountered American expatriates, including Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. This article examines his relationship with Fitzgerald, presenting the material in chronological order. The relationship took two forms: meetings between the two men (only two of which are documented, although they must surely have met on other occasions as well) and reception by Fitzgerald of Arlen’s work. Fitzgerald showed early familiarity with Arlen’s writings, even suggesting that Arlen was in some sense his successor and someone from whom he and Hemingway might learn. At the same time, he identified faults with Arlen’s writing and by the end of the 1920s declared him “second-rate.” Arlen himself borrowed motifs from The Great Gatsby for his novel Men Dislike Women (1931) but left no memoir of his personal contacts with Fitzgerald.

100 Years of Macromolecular Science

100 Years of Macromolecular Science

Editor's Column: “Danny in the back seat wants a cup a water”: Musings on America, Steinbeck, and the Child

Editor's Column: “Danny in the back seat wants a cup a water”: Musings on America, Steinbeck, and the Child

Failure in Residency Education: Lessons Learned From Harry Potter, Oprah Winfrey, and the Marigold Hotel.

Failure in Residency Education: Lessons Learned From Harry Potter, Oprah Winfrey, and the Marigold Hotel.

The afterlife of Osama bin Laden: performative pictures in the “war on terror”

ABSTRACTIn his interview with CBS News on 4 May 2011, US President Barack Obama acknowledged the power of images when he explained that his government would not release a photo of the dead Osama bin Laden due to moral considerations and security-related issues. How is it possible that a photo is perceived as too horrific to be published and as a powerful threat to national security? In this article, I argue that the concept of performativity helps to acknowledge the iconic power of an image as well as its discursive contextualisation. Yet, the meaning of a picture is not only discursively constituted but made possible by a performative act of showing/seeing. Empirically, I focus on pictures that refer to the killing of Osama bin Laden, based on a critical reading of three defining and prominent images in the US public discourse (that circulated worldwide): the Situation Room photo by Pete Souza, a photo-shopped image purporting to show the terrorist’s dead body and the iconic X-ing out of bin Laden on the cover of Time magazine. This reading looks at three dimensions of performative pictures: (1) their success and failure, (2) their self-reflexivity and sociability and (3) their performativity.

Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison

Reviewed by: Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison Jeffrey Berman (bio) Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire. Kay Redfield Jamison. New York: Knopf, 2017. 532 pp. Kay Redfield Jamison's magisterial Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire reveals two stories: the one she tells, about the most famous American postwar poet, who struggled with severe manic-depressive illness throughout his adult life, and the other she does not tell, about her own battle with the same mood disorder. The two stories, stitched seamlessly together, are both fascinating. Robert Lowell (1917–1977) was the early major figure behind the Confessional poetry movement, later joined by two of his Boston University students, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. Lowell's Life Studies, one of the transformative poetry volumes of the twentieth century, won the 1960 National Book Award. Two other poetry volumes, Lord Weary's Castle and The Dolphin, earned Pulitzer Prizes in 1947 and 1974, respectively. Lowell served as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, an appointment now called the U.S. Poet Laureate, from 1947–1948. He was one of the few poets to appear on the cover of Time magazine, in June 1967, where he was hailed as the "best American poet of his generation." Lowell was born into an illustrious Boston family that included on his paternal side the poets James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) and Amy Lowell (1874–1925), also a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and on his maternal side the Calvinist fire-and-brimstone theologian Jonathan Edwards and the Puritan preacher and poet Anne Hutchinson. Serious mental instability affected both sides of Lowell's family. He suffered sixteen psychotic breaks, beginning in his early thirties, resulting in prolonged hospitalizations, many of which occurred at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, where, according to Jamison's research, his great-great-grandmother (James Russell Lowell's mother) had also been institutionalized a century earlier. Madness was the overwhelming fear in Lowell's life, [End Page 105] but rather than concealing his psychiatric breakdowns, he frequently wrote about them, both to destigmatize mental illness and to show how his creativity was allied to his mercurial moods. Madness became, as Jamison demonstrates, a driving force behind his poetry. No one is better qualified to write about manic-depressive illness than Jamison. She is the Dalio Family Professor in Mood Disorders and a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she has taught since the mid-1980s. She is the coauthor, with the psychiatrist Frederick K. Goodwin, of Manic-Depressive Illness, first published in 1990 and republished in a second edition in 2007 with the subtitle: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression. Over twelve hundred pages long, the tome is still regarded as the standard medical text on the subject. Jamison's second book, Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament (1993), remains the single best study of the relationship between mood disorders and creativity. Not until her third book, however, the searing memoir An Unquiet Mind (1995), did Jamison write about her own history of manic depression and close encounter with suicide. Her spousal loss memoir, Nothing Was the Same (2009), is a heartfelt tribute to the memory of her husband, Dr. Richard Wyatt, a noted schizophrenia researcher who died of cancer in 2002 at age sixty-three. A recipient in 2001 of a MacArthur Fellowship, Jamison has earned several major awards, including being chosen by Time magazine as a "Hero of Medicine." In Robert Lowell, Jamison's luminous prose and the metaphorical power of her language reveal her own poetic side. Her book on Lowell is about "fire in the blood and darkness; it is about mania and the precarious, deranging altitude to which mania ascends. It is about the poetic imagination and how mania and imagination come together to create great art. But it is as much and more about the vital role of discipline and character in making art from inborn gift" (p. 4). She could have been describing herself. Jamison focuses on a single poet, but her book is, in a larger sense, a study of poetry's...

Three Little Words Changed the Course of My Life

Three Little Words Changed the Course of My Life

Far from paradise: The body, the apparatus and the image of contemporary virtual reality

The contemporary popularity of virtual reality devices such as the Oculus Rift has links not just with earlier eras of virtual reality technology, but with recurrent discourse surrounding the moving image and spectatorship. The articulation of the Oculus Rift in public through YouTube ‘reaction’ videos and media moments such as the Oculus Rift Time magazine cover of 2015 links contemporary virtual reality to early cinema discourses of credulous spectatorship, strenuous spectatorship and the cinema of attractions. Through these comparisons, this article argues that the ‘image’ of contemporary virtual reality technology is not that of a simulated exotic paradise enabled by the apparatus, but the apparatus itself, the body of its user and that body’s gender.

The Status of the Social Fact

The Status of the Social Fact

The rise of the FGFR inhibitor in advanced biliary cancer: the next cover of time magazine?

Cholangiocarcinomas (CCAs) are heterogeneous tumors arising from the biliary tract with features of cholangiocyte differentiation. CCAs are aggressive tumors with limited treatment options and poor overall survival. Only a subset of CCA patients with early stage disease can avail potentially curative treatment options. For advanced biliary tract tumors, currently there are limited effective treatment modalities. Recent advances have provided greater insight into the genomic landscape of CCAs. The fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) pathway is involved in key cellular processes essential to survival and differentiation. Accordingly, aberrant FGFR signaling has significant oncogenic potential. Recent discovery of FGFR2 gene fusions in CCA has heightened interest in FGFR inhibition in advanced biliary tract cancer. These findings have served as a catalyst for ongoing clinical investigation of FGFR inhibition in CCA patients with various FGFR signaling abnormalities. Herein, we review FGFR aberrations in CCA and their prognostic implications, FGFR targeting as a viable therapeutic option in advanced biliary tract malignancies, and future directions for development of combination approaches utilizing FGFR inhibition.

Lean in Women, Work, and the will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg's Lean Inis a massive cultural sensation and its title became an instant catchphrase for empowering women. The book rapidly peaked to the best sellers' list internationally, kindling global conversations about women and their ambitions. In fact, Sandberg over shadowed opinion pages and was seen on every major television show and debate, besides being on the cover of Time magazine. Her book ignited an intense debate about women and leadership.

The Mindfulness Imperative: How the Pedagogical Principles of Mindfulness Provide the Foundation for Biofeedback

Mindfulness is everywhere, from the cover of TIME magazine to segments on every major news network. With such popularity in mainstream culture for mindfulness, it was only a matter of time before psychology embraced the approach by offering a burst of mindfulness-based therapies, such as mindfulness-based stress reduction, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, and mindfulness-based eating awareness therapy. These approaches claim mindfulness as a central theme, yet debate has grown over the role of mindfulness in psychotherapy and biofeedback, and there is growing concern about secularizing a philosophy originating in Asia over 2,000 years ago. This paper will define mindfulness from both traditional and modern perspectives, review the skills and practice of mindfulness, examine the connection of mindfulness and health, and show how, as a process, mindfulness is incorporated in virtually most forms of psychotherapy as well as biofeedback training.

Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the LawIsaacWest. New York: New York University Press, 2014.

Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law Isaac West. New York: New York University Press, 2014.When transactress Laverne Cox (Orange Is the New Black) graced the cover of Time magazine a year ago for the cover story Transgender Tipping Point, it became more than apparent that transgender identity, rights and representations were achieving unprecedented visibility and acceptance in the United States. The recent revelations of Caitlyn Jenner and the accompanying celebration of her transformation have even more thoroughly popularized as well as legitimized trans presence and participation in American society. Critics of assimilationist, neoliberal political strategies might view these events more grimly, as manifestations of homonormativity. In this view, the culture industry's inclusion of trans identity exploits the desire to be normal and, far from challenging status quo norms of identity, fosters loyalty to consumer capitalism, allegiance to the state, and divests Jenner, Cox, and their fans of any kind of oppositional agency.A central thread of Isaac West's Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law remains to contest the assumption that trans struggles for equal rights and full inherently pander to heteroand homonormativity, that striving for equal rights inevitably coincides with embracing sameness, erasing difference, and undermining oppositional agency. The historical examples and theoretical explorations of Transforming Citizenships provide compelling evidence that transgender struggles for equal rights can result in normative assimilation, but they can also change public, mainstream perceptions of citizenship and the identities encompassed by that label.Transforming Citizenships is a remarkable book for many reasons, in particular, West's dual commitments to practice and theory. Engaging in what he calls cultural studies of the law, West remains as concerned with the intricacies of concrete crusades for justice and political battles over identity as in theoretical disputes in trans, queer, and cultural studies. The book focuses on trans gender struggles for civil rights in recent US history: Debbie May ne's concerted campaign in 1950s Los Angeles to be granted legal status as a woman, which involved seeking arrest and publicity to push the point; the work of People in Search of Safe and Accessible Restrooms (PISSAR), a coalition of genderqueer and disability activists seeking reform of public restrooms at the University of California-Santa Barbara; Congressional tussles over the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which included gay congressman Barney Frank's willingness to sacrifice gender identity protections to insure coverage of lesbians and gay men versus the resounding support of LGBT groups for trans inclusion; and the Indiana Transgender Rights Advocacy Alliance's (INTRAA) efforts to include trans protections in Bloomington's Human Rights Ordinance. …