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Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism

Mysogination reprezintă o analiză îndrăzneață, înțeleaptă și incisivă asupra evenimentelor actuale, argumentând cu pasiune cât de important este să facem un pas înapoi, ...

Depresia nervoasa. Tehnici si exercitii fizice

Autor: Dumitru Motet

Women migrants from East to West

Based on the oral histories of eighty migrant women and thirty additional interviews with ‘native’ women in the ‘receiving’ countries, this volume documents the contempor...

Captain Rugged

Captain Rugged is a multimedia project collaboration between 2 Nigerian artists: Keziah Jones and Native Maqari. The book is a graphic novel and will come

Conceiving the Future

Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1938 Through nostalgic idealizations of motherhood, family, and the home, a...

Informed Consent To Psychoanalysis The Law The Theory And The Data

'This book examines informed consent to psychoanalysis. It reviews the law. It examines informed consent as a theoretical matter: e.g., is it possible, is it

Spree

Journalist and shopping addict Pamela Klaffke documents the history of shopping, from a time when cattle were currency to the current age of contemporary shopping

Stressed Sex

Every day millions of people struggle with psychological and emotional problems. The Stressed Sex sets out to answer a simple, but crucial, question: are rates

Poignant Relations

Theirs was a discreet, relational feminism, which they expressed by considering their relationships to themselves and to others. Because they were less political (and thu...

Trust : Self-Interest and the Common Good

Trust lies at the very heart of our relationships, our society, and our everyday lives. Kohn's essay consider its connections to a wider complex of

Least Worst Place

In January 2002, the first detainees of the War on Terror disembarked in Guantánamo Bay, dazed, bewildered, and--more often than not--alarmingly thin. With little advance...

Filiation and Affiliation

Announcements in the 1970s and 1980s of the death of kinship and descent as subjects of anthropological study were highly premature. These subjects continue routinely

Cornelia James Cannon and the Future American Race

A probing analysis of the role of eugenics in the thinking of progressive reformers in the 1920s and 1930s

Never Marry A Girl With A Dead Father

Freud's ''discovery'' of hysteria was both anticipated by, and grounded in, 19th-century realist fiction. Here, the author reveals how the dark continent that Freud cal...

Catching a Wave

A collection of original essays that calls for new voices to redefine feminism. Young women today have benefited from the strides made by grassroots social

Like Water on Stone

Provides a historical review of Amnesty International, as well as a close-up look at the ways the organization has assisted people in their diverse struggles

Play-by-Play

Smith examines the troubled relationship between higher education and the broadcasting industry, the effects of TV revenue on college athletics (notably football), and th...

Sartre, Self-formation, and Masculinities

Published on the occasion of Sartre's Centenary, this book helps to understand the man behind the work, offering a psycho-social analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre with

Wording the World

The essays in this book offer a detailed exploration of how Veena Das's work has been critically assimilated in the thinking and writing of a

The surplus woman

The belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenberschu, formed a principal pillar of the first German womens movement and served

An Anthropological Trompe Loeil For A Common World An Essay On The Economy Of Knowledge

Our political age is characterized by forms of description as 'big' as the world itself: talk of 'public knowledge' and 'public goods,' 'the commons' or

The power of law in a transnational world anthropological enquiries

Recoge: Power of law as discourse - At the intersection of legalities - Religion as a resource in legal pluralism.

Women and the Authority of Scripture

Addresses the theological impact of accepting the absolute authority of biblical scripture and its related issues, examining how women in the church have dealt with

Teste progresive de psihologie

Autor: Margareta Modrea

Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects

The essays in Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects ask how the risingpreponderance of scholarship from Southeast Asia is de-centering Southeast Asian studies in the United St...

Copiii sub agresiune

Autor: Solomon Marcus

Double or Nothing?

A lively and accessible look at Jewish intermarriage and its familial and cultural effects. The American Jewish resistance to intermarriage held by earlier generations...

Computation, Cognition, and Pylyshyn

A collection of cutting-edge work on cognition and a celebration of a foundational figure in the field. Classical cognitive science has found itself in something

Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life

Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during

Questioning the veil

Across much of the world today, Muslim women of all ages are increasingly choosing to wear the veil. Is this trend a sign of rising

Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote

Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this exciting history explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote

Freedom of speech

'From the longtime New York Times reporter, best-selling author, and Pulitzer Prize winner-- an expansive, timely assessment of the state of free speech in America.

Panic Attacks

Examining the ability of the media to whip up a panic and our tendency to fall victim to mass delusion and hysteria, this title discusses

The Home Its Work And Influence

Reprint of 1903 edition of Gilman's classic indictment of domestic life, offering a program of domestic reform that inspired women at the beginning of what

Order and Disorder: Anthropological Perspectives

Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with political unrest, devia...

Guihai Yuheng Zhi

This important work of twelfth-century Chinese scholarship is at once a gazetteer, an ethnography, and a natural history of south China - mainly Guangxi and

The End of Anger

With The Rage of a Privileged Class, Ellis Cose, a venerated and bestselling voice on American life, offered an eye-opening look at the simmering anger

BEYOND OJ

Discusses the social issues of the O.J. Simpson case, comparing recent cases involving white and African American male defendants with similar charges

Rendezvous With Oblivion

'What does a middle-class democracy look like when it comes apart? When, after forty years of economic triumph, America's winners persuade themselves that they owe

Damned Fools in Utopia

A hefty collection of noted anarchist Nicolas Walter's writings, this history recounts the anarchist and peace movements in the United Kingdom alongside the author's adve...

Assume nothing

Frank images of twenty-five people ranging in age from twenty to sixty from countries around the world explore the meaning of gender and includes the

Liste de iubire pentru soti. Pasi simpli spre casnicia ideala

Autori: Mark Merrill, Susan Merrill

Russian Minority Politics in Post-Soviet Latvia and Kyrgyzstan

The collapse of the Soviet Union suddenly rendered ethnic Russians living in non-Russian successor states like Latvia and Kyrgyzstan new minorities subject to dramatic po...

Preface to Peasantry

Arguing that the plantation system had taught African Americans only dependence and irresponsibility, Raper warned that, without social programs that materially altered t...

Fast Or Die

Italian photographer Alex Fakso got his start at the age of 13, photographing his own works of graffiti on trains. Since then, Fakso has become

African Encounters With Domesticity

Anthropologists usually think of domesticity as the activities related to the home and the family. Such activities have complex meanings associated with the sense of

Letters to Santa Claus

Who are the people called Hoosiers? What are their stories? Two centuries ago, on the Indiana frontier, they were settlers who created a way of

On The Public Agenda

Puts the idea of dissidence, and the confidence to effect change, back on the public agenda.

Facing Evil

Lectures by prominent scholars, writers, theologians, and philosophers address the nature of human evil.

Without Consent or Contract: Markets and Productions

Written to accompany Without Consent or Contract, this book is part of a two volume set which has been designed to fill out the portrait

Gay and After

Late 20th-century ideas of gayness have become more complex. Gay communities are vilified over AIDS, courted as consumers, urged to be queer and/or bisexual. Acclaime...

College Girls

Since the opening of Vassar College in 1865, objections to higher education for women have ranged from charges that females were mentally and physically incapable

Dumbocracy Adventures With The Loony Left The Rabid Right And Other American Idiots

In this scathing exploration of the ridiculous ends of the American political spectrum both conservative and liberal, fresh new voice Marty Beckerman interacts with the

To Be Young Was Very Heaven

A great history of the important women living in New York City before WWI who helped to shape the social consciousness of the twentieth century.

Violence in America

Today's culture of violence affects everyone. Dr. Flannery, a clinical psychologist and author of Preventing Youth Violence--to date the only reliable and substantive boo...

Believing Identity

The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrant...

Reading the Fire

Reading the Fireengages America's 'first literatures,' traditional Native American tales and legends, as literary art and part of our collective imaginative heritage. Thi...

Comics' comics

Erich Beasley likes to laugh, and he likes to laugh with the comedians that make him laugh.Comics’ Comicsis the result of Beasley’s pursuit to meet

Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union

In May 2004, after bringing their legislation into accordance with EU regulations, ten more countries joined the European Union. The contributors to this volume assess

Questioning the Millennium

The noted naturalist sheds new light on humankind's fascination with the approaching millennium, offering a collection of scientific and historical essays on the millenni...