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No Writer's Block Here Smith faculty authors have been especially prolific lately, having published--either as books or CD-ROMs--works on Betty Friedan, environmental crusaders, the crisis of American cities, the economics of stadiums and sports and the constitution of Japan.
The Constitution of Japan, a Documentary History of its Framing and Adoption, 1945-1947, is a CD-ROM edited by Donald L. Robinson, Charles N. Clark Professor of Government and American Studies, and Ray A. Moore, professor of history and Asian studies at Amherst College. The Japanese constitution was framed, adopted and promulgated in 1946 and took effect six months later. This collection presents more than 500 documents, the electronic equivalent of 8,000 pages of material, including transcripts of debates in both houses of the Japanese Diet, annotations, cross-references and portions of diaries and memoirs. It also includes a chronology and introductory essays by the editors. The constitution was created more than 50 years ago and remains in force and unamended to this day. The CD-ROM is distributed by Princeton University Press. |
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Randall Bartlett, professor of economics,
has written The Crisis of America's Cities, "a thoughtful exercise
in American urban history," according to Publishers Weekly, which added,
"Presenting a colorful overview of the spatial organization of major
U.S. metropolitan areas spanning the past 200 years, Bartlett predicts that
cities will continue to lose jobs, population and economic activity to suburbs
and to 'edge cities' on their periphery, creating multinodal metropolitan
webs that will be increasingly dependent on automobiles." Bartlett
doubts that central cities can ever be rejuvenated as economic hubs. The
book is published by M.E. Sharpe.
Myron Peretz Glazer, Smith professor of sociology,
and Penina Migdal Glazer, professor of history at Hampshire College, have
written The Environmental Crusaders: Confronting Disaster, Mobilizing
Community. A panoramic survey of grassroots environmentalism in Israel,
the former Czechoslovakia and the United States, the book features profiles
of key activists who exposed serious ecological problems and demanded a
safe environment and an accountable society. Their participation transformed
these citizens from uninvolved residents to political activists working
collectively to improve the quality of community life. The book is published
by Penn State University Press.
In Betty Friedan and the Making
of "The Feminine Mystique": The American Left, the Cold War and
Modern Feminism, Daniel Horowitz, Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor of
American Studies, persuasively demonstrates that the roots of Friedan's
feminism run much deeper than she led us to believe. In her landmark book,
The Feminine Mystique, Friedan insisted that her commitment to women's rights
grew out of her experiences as an alienated suburban housewife. Through
his research, however, Horowitz traces Friedan's odyssey through Smith and
the University of California at Berkeley and her years as a writer for two
of the period's most radical labor journals and on behalf of a wide range
of progressive social causes.
Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist
is an editor of and contributor to the anthology Sports, Jobs & Taxes:
The Economic Impact of Sports Teams and Stadiums. He and Roger Noll
of Stanford University have collected 15 essays which explore such issues
as the appropriate method for measuring economic benefits and costs, the
local politics of attracting and retaining teams and the relationship between
sports and local employment. They deny that increasingly expensive ballparks
are a boon to the economies of their host cities. The book is published
by the Brookings Institution Press. Zimbalist is now writing a book for
Houghton Mifflin on the economics of college sports.