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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...

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

Zero Negativity

COMANDĂ ACUM Există momente în care viața pare că te încolțește: dificultăți financiare, probleme de relație, probleme de serviciu, toate cele de mai sus. Fiecare

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

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.

Why Do I Love These People?

We all have an imaginary definition of a great family. We imagine what it would be like to belong to such a family. No fights

The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin De Rios

A look inside almost half a century of pioneering research in the Amazon and Peru by a noted anthropologist studying hallucinogens, including ayahuasca Reveals how

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...

Melatonin

Melatonin takes a deep dive into the workings of this essential, all-natural hormone, which regulates sleep and the body's circadian rhythm. Learn about its effects

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...

Poppyganda

This is the story of how the modern relationships between man and nature, war and politics, and the media and technology are writing another chapter

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

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

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

Negotiating Poverty

Over one and a half billion people live on the equivalent of less than one US dollar a day. As the gap between rich and

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

The Time In Between: A memoir of hunger and hope

Când Nancy Tucker avea opt ani, clasa ei a avut de scris despre ceea ce își doresc de la viață. S-a gândit și s-a tot

A TREATISE ON SOCIAL THEORY

The concluding volume of W.G. Runciman's trilogy on social theory applies his theory and methodology to the case of twentieth-century English society. He shows how...

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

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...

The Right Darwin ?

The common assumption that Darwinism and conservatism are mutually inconsistent is now fiercely debated on the right. A number of conservative thinkers argue that evolut...

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

The Invisible Presence

Whether he's conscious of it or not, a man's mother is the model for just about every relationship with a woman he has for the

Zucked

One of the Financial Times' Best Business Books of 2019 The New York Times bestseller about a noted tech venture capitalist, early mentor to Mark

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

Talking with Psychopaths and Savages

A natural subject for the UK's bestselling true-crime author: a study of people who randomly kill large numbers of others (spree killers), or who set

On The Public Agenda

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

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

Why Young Men

The day after the 2015 Paris terror attacks, twenty-eight-year-old Canadian Jamil Jivani opened the newspaper to find that the men responsible were familiar to him.

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.

Coming of Age in Times of Uncertainty

Adulthood is taken for granted. It connotes the end of childhood, the resolution to the 'storm and stress' period of adolescence. This conception is strongly

Routes into the Abyss International Studies in Social History

Examining the 1930s and the different reactions to the crisis, this volume offers a global comparative perspective that includes a comparison across time to give

Ageing Without Children

Rapid fertility declines and improved longevity are now shifting the overall balance of population towards older ages in many parts of the world. Within this

Class, contention and a world in motion

Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed

No House to Call My Home

În acest debut liric, Ryan Berg afundă cititorii în lumea dureroasă, periculoasă și șocantă a adolescenților LGBTQA fără adăpost din New York. Berg a asistat

The Shape We're In: How Junk Food and Diets are Shortening Our Lives

This demonization of the overweight by the media and politicians is unrelenting. Sarah Boseley, the Guardian's award-winning health editor, argues it's time we understoo...

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

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...