Cynthia Bowman

Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy

In Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy, Cynthia Grant Bowman explores legal recognition of opposite-sex cohabiting couples in the United States. Unmarried cohabitation has increased at a phenomenal rate in the U.S. over the last few decades, but the law has not responded to the legal issues ra...

Beyond the Uprising: A Polish Girl's Journey

Cynthia Grant Bowman is a professor of law at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York. She met the subject of this biography, Maria Chudzinski, while teaching at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, where Maria worked in the international sec

Understanding Disability: Inclusion, Access, Diversity, and Civil Rights

Disability is rarely considered a social issue. Scholars tend to discuss it in the abstract; medical personnel view it as a health issue; and legal concerns for the disabled focus on how to advocate or protect organizations against demands for accommodation. As a result, disabled individuals are see...

Disability Matters: Legal and Pedagogical Issues of Disability in Education

Authored by a legal specialist and an education professor, this study is targeted to everyone involved in the education of students with disabilities and provides a full examinatiaon of the legal issues. Each chapter blends classroom vignettes and teachable moments with relevant legal rights and res...

A Guide to High School Success for Students with Disabilities

Written for young people with disabilities and the people who care for and educate them, this unique resource offers both inspiration and advice to help disabled teenagers successfully meet the special social and academic challenges of high school and to find their paths into the future. Compiling a...

Dawn Clark Netsch: A Political Life (Chicago Lives)

Illinois Democratic politics has recently produced the most skilled and inspirational politician in memory . . . and has also reminded us of the need for further reform. It is fitting, then, that the latest installment of the Chicago Lives series turns to Dawn Clark Netsch, a leading reformer of Ill...

Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Health Issues (The Greenwood Press Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Series)

Today, traditional illnesses and high risk behaviors of adolescents have become interrelated through the multitude of physical, social and emotional changes young people experience. Good literature which gives adolescents the truth has incredible power to heal and to renew. This reference resource p...

Cases and Materials on Feminist Jurisprudence: Taking Women Seroiusly (American Casebook Series and Other Coursebooks)

Feminist Jurisprudence: Taking Women Seriously includes a variety of materials, drawn from cases and statutes and from less typical sources and other disciplines, in order to raise central questions about equality, progress toward equality, and the routes taken to achieve equality. Introduces curren...

Cases and Materials on Feminist Jurisprudence: Taking Women Seriously

Cases and Materials on Feminist Jurisprudence: Taking Women Seroiusly

Understanding Disability: Inclusion, Access, Diversity, And Civil Rights

Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope With Health Issues

A Guide to High School Success for Students with Disabilities

Disability Matters: Legal and Pedagogical Issues of Disability in Education