Max Weber Meets Feminism: A Reconsideration of Charisma

Also CSST Working Paper #36.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51174/1/407.pd

Review of \u3cem\u3eBlack, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles.\u3c/em\u3e Laura Pulido. Reviewed by Cheryl A. Hyde.

Book review of Laura Pulido, Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006. $29.95 paperback

Review of \u3cem\u3eA Mother\u27s Work: How Feminism, the Market and Policy Shape Family Life.\u3c/em\u3e Neil Gilbert. Reviewed by Cheryl Hyde.

Book review of Neil Gilbert, A Mother\u27s Work: How Feminism, the Market and Policy Shape Family Life. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. $26.00 hardcove

Review of \u3cem\u3eMen Who Believe in Feminism.\u3c/em\u3e Amanda Goldrick Jones. Reviewed by Cheryl A. Hyde.

Book review of Amanda Goldrick Jones, Men Who Believe in Feminism. Westport, CT: Praegar, 2003. $64.95 hardcover

A Clear and Dangerous Enemy: How Feminist Social Movement Organizations Respond to the New Right

Also PCMA Working Paper #24.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51195/1/428.pd

Feminist Social Movement Organizations: The Construction of an Ideal Type

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51117/1/349.pd

Changing Organizational Racism: A Workshop for University Staff Leaders

Also PCMA Working Paper #14.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51130/1/362.pd

Pre-capacity building in loosely-coupled collaborations: Setting the stage for future initiatives

This article examines the benefits and limitations of ‘loosely-coupled’ research collaborations between university faculty and 12 grassroots community-based organisations (CBOs). The authors assert that community-based research projects that develop the knowledge base within CBOs, and can be described as ‘pre-capacity building’ work, can be an important stepping stone to the subsequent development of more formal and strategic capacity-building partnership ventures. However, such projects must be approached carefully with a clear understanding of the ‘threshold dimensions’ that must be met before proceeding with any collaboration. Written as a cautionary tale, the authors identify some of the problems that arise when the threshold stage is poorly executed, and more generally speak to the dangers of initiating even loosely-coupled collaborations in the absence of an explicit and well-established campus commitment to and support for community engagement and partnerships. Keywords: Community capacity-building, community-university partnerships, community research, collaboratio

Sexuality and Affection among Elderly German Men and Women in Long-Term Relationships: Results of a Prospective Population-Based Study

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.The study was funded by the German Federal Ministry for Families, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (AZ 314-1722-102/16; AZ 301-1720-295/2), the Ministry for Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg, and the University of Rostock (FORUN 989020; 889048)

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead