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What's a Girl Gonna Do?
Beyoncé proclaimed in 2014, “Gender equality is a myth.” Despite laws granting equal opportunity to both genders, many act as if opportunities for boys and girls should be different. Drew, a new girl at Midville High is a barefoot place kicker. The school needs a kicker. Braden, the quarterback, urges her to join the team even though she’s a girl. Braden’s cheerleader girlfriend, Kaitlin, mercilessly teases Drew about being from “the wrong side of the tracks.” In the first game, Braden smuggles Drew onto the team. She kicks off her shoe and scores the winning field goal. Then, the Coach, the team, the school, and the crowd find out that Drew is a girl. Major conflicts erupt within the town. Drew is confused, filled with pride, shame and guilt. Should girls be allowed on a boy’s team? How does Braden deal with a dilemma with two girls? Will the Coach and Drew’s father lose their jobs? Does the jealousy and social position of one girl jeopardize the chances of another?
The Model Ombudsman
One increasingly popular device for achieving a balance between authority and accountability in government is the institution of the ombudsman. The first non-Scandinavian ombudsman appeared in New Zealand in 1962, and since then the office has spread to many countries and been adopted at different levels of government. This book—the first intensive study of New Zealand's "model" ombudsman- seeks to understand the process by which the institution was successfully adapted and made a part of New Zealand's political system. The author's inquiry is based on eighteen months of field experience in New Zealand. His book examines the complaints, the clients, their interaction with the ombudsman, hi...
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Court of Last Resort
The Court of Last Resort looks at decision making in a mental-health court and at the dilemmas of treating mental illness while protecting patients' legal rights. Carol Warren spent seven years studying hearings in a large California court where people who had been involuntarily committed to institutions for psychiatric treatment could petition for their release. In this book she confronts questions of whether mental illness is real or only a label for societal control, whether the government should be involved in committing the deviant to institutions, and how the interaction of judges, psychiatrists, families, police, and other individuals and agencies affect the court's administration of mental-health law. Though the cases in this book fall under California's Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, Warren's analysis of conflicts between legal and medical models of behavior is of national and international importance both to sociologists and to the many professionals who work at the juncture of mental health and the law.
