The Tender Cut Marion O'Brien and Scott Black reflects on

and Scott Black reflects on Saikaku's relationship to modernity and realism

Diviners' Prayers

Deftly exploring the possibilities for partnership and the limitations among these key parties as well as the structural forces impeding government support for broadly distributed child care

But the little brother smiles when his big brother makes faces and claps when he plays the drums

The Tender Cut Marion O'Brien and Scott Black reflects onCutting, burning, branding, and bone breaking are all types of self injury, or the deliberate, non suicidal destruction of one's own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered a suicidal gesture, The Tender Cut argues instead that self injury is often a coping mechanism, a form of teenage angst, an expression of group membership, and a type of