Books with author James D. Hall

Date rape emerged as a controversial issue on college campuses in the late 1980s after a widely publicized study revealed that large numbers of college women had been coerced, either through physical force or psychological pressure, into having sex against their will. Questions of consent --does no really mean no? And whether the definition of rape should be broadened to include incidents where no force is used are debated and discussed in this anthology.

Close to 90 percent of military jobs are now open to the nearly 200,000 women-16 percent of total U.S. military personnel-who currently serve in the armed forces. Women are still forbidden from serving in direct combat units. Whether this last remaining barrier to women's military service should be removed is one of several issues debated and discussed in this anthology.

From the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy to the growing civil rights movement to the rise of the Berlin Wall and escalating Cold War-tensions, 1961 offered no shortage of compelling events that set into motion many of the issues that would come to characterize the turbulence of the 1960s. In addition to the above-mentioned events, the authors in this anthology also describe the increasing U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, the movement for social justice on college campuses, and the folk music trend that led a young Bob Dylan to New York's Greenwich Village.