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Unpacking assumptions about corseting, Rebecca Gibson supplements narratives of corseted women from the 18th and 19th centuries with her seminal work on corset-related skeletal deformation. An undergarment that provided support and shape for centuries, the corset...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-16
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This book breaks new theoretical ground by constructing a framework of ‘relational vulnerability’ through which it analyses the disadvantaged position of those who undertake unpaid caregiving, or ‘dependency-work’, in the context of the private family. Expanding on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-15
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Ce numéro spécial lance un cycle de réflexion qui aspire à colmater une brèche liée à l'enseignement et la recherche en sciences humaines, à savoir l'aspect pratique, lié au principe de recherche action et de recherche intervention. Ainsi les articles de ce numéro...
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Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2020-11-15
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This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5...
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Springer
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2020-11-13
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The Midwest experienced an upheaval over labor rights beginning in the winter of 2011. For most commentators, the fallout in the Midwest and unions' weak showing in the 2016 presidential election a few years later was just more evidence of labor's emaciated state.
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-11-13
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The book provides a contemporary ‘snapshot’ of critical debate centred around cybercrime and related issues, to advance theoretical development and inform social and educational policy. It covers theoretical explanations for cybercrime, typologies of online grooming,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-13
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What did gay men do in women’s liberation—and vice-versa? This book offers the first systematic investigation of the question. Conventional wisdom has offered varied and contradictory stories: Gay men were misogynistic enemies of feminism; feminist women were homophobic...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-11-13
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Dieser Open-Access-Sammelband vereint strukturierte Erfahrungsberichte und Reflexionen von Hochschullehrenden und Studierenden in der pluralen, sozioökonomischen Hochschulbildung. Neben der konkreten Inspiration, die diese Beiträge für andere Lehrende darstellen sollen,...
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Springer VS
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2020-11-13
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This third and last open access volume in the series takes the perspective of non-EU countries on immigrant social protection. By focusing on 12 of the largest sending countries to the EU, the book tackles the issue of the multiple areas of sending state intervention...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-11-12
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This book takes a holistic approach by capturing the various perspectives and viewpoints concerning the theory and practice of Human Rights Journalism. Firstly, this book helps fill the epistemological vacuum present in Human Rights Journalism by proposing ‘pragmatic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-12
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This book argues that past inattentive treatment by state criminal justice agencies in relation to domestic abuse is now being self-consciously reversed by neoliberal governing agendas intent on denouncing crime and holding offenders to account. Criminal prosecutions...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-12
Collection :
Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
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Das Lexikon zur Soziologie ist das umfassendste Nachschlagewerk für die sozialwissenschaftliche Fachsprache. Für die 6. Auflage wurde das Werk neu bearbeitet und durch Aufnahme neuer Stichwortartikel erweitert.Das Lexikon zur Soziologie bietet aktuelle, zuverlässige...
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Springer VS
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2020-11-12
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This book argues that online harassment communities function as Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) where the collective goal is to ruin peoples’ lives. Framing these communities like ARGs highlights ways to limit their impact in the future, partly through offering...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-12
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'A powerful and moving book - it's quite a battle he has faced' Nick Robinson, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme'It really is an interesting read' Dan Walker, BBC Breakfast*INCLUDES A FOREWORD BY SIR ALEX FERGUSON*__________'I'm not sure whether life prepared me for football,...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2020-11-12
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Sub-Saharan Africa faces many development challenges, such as its size and diversity, rapid urban population growth, history of colonial exploitation, fragile states and conflicts over land and natural resources. This collection, contributed from different academic...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-11-11
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Das Schwerpunktthema dieses Jahrbuchs behandelt die digitale Transformation, die Gesellschaften heute erleben. Diese betrifft Verwaltungsabläufe ebenso wie die Steuerung der technischen und sozialen Infrastruktur, Mobilität und Verkehr, Zahlungssysteme, Produktion,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-11-11
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Age at Work explores the myriad ways in which ‘age’ is at ‘work’ across society, organizations and workplaces, with special focus on organizations, their boundaries, and marginalizing processes around age and ageism in and across these spaces.
The book examines:
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Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2020-11-11
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This book explores the socially and individually determined nature of media literacy, addressing the central question of how individuals’ media activity can be explained and evaluated. It examines people's media activity through the relationship between their competence...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-11-11
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Trotz der steigenden Zahl an Computerspielern weltweit markiert die moralische Einordnung von Computerspielhandlungen ein bislang ungelöstes Rätsel der philosophischen Ethik. Angesichts der Brisanz der Thematik im Alltag (zu sehen an der ‚Killerspiel-Debatte‘) ist...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-11-11
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