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Despite several decades of feminist activism and scholarship, women’s bodies continue to be sites of control and contention both materially and symbolically. Issues such as reproductive technologies, sexual violence, objectification, motherhood, and sex trafficking,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-16
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Filtered through black womanist perspectives, Zora Neale Hurston: The Breath of Her Voice breaks new ground through innovation and imagination, by fusing interpretive methods in ethnographic writing and literary studies. Intrinsically referencing contemporary...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2018-02-16
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This book explores the roles of religion in the current refugee crisis of Europe. Combining sociological, philosophical, and theological accounts of this crisis, renowned scholars from across Europe examine how religion has been employed to call either for eliminating...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-15
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Religion and Global Migrations
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This book offers a definition of the fantastic that establishes it as a discourse in constant intertextual relation with the construct of reality. In establishing the definition of the fantastic, leading scholar David Roas selects four central concepts that allow him to...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-02-15
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This book analyzes perceptions of self, power, agency, and gender of Muslim women in a rural community of Bangladesh. Rural women’s limited power and agency has been subsumed within the male dominated Islamic discourses on gender. However, many Muslim women have their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-02-15
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This book follows the figure of ‘the clever girl’ from the post-war to the present and focuses on the fiction, plays and memoirs of contemporary British women writers. Spurred on by an ethic of meritocracy, the clever girl is now facing austerity and declining social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-02-15
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Michael Tunç untersucht, inwiefern sich Prozesse des Zusammenwirkens der Differenzlinien Geschlecht, Ethnizität und Klasse bei ethnisch minorisierten Vätern/Vätern of Color (PoC) rekonstruieren lassen. Der Autor präsentiert aktuelle Begriffe, Ansätze und Ergebnisse der...
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Springer VS
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2018-02-15
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The twentieth century witnessed not only the devastation of war, conflict, and injustice on a massive scale, but it also saw the emergence of social psychology as a discipline committed to addressing these and other social problems. In the 21st century, however, the...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-02-15
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Can small indigenous communities survive as distinct cultural entities in northeast India, an area characterized by mind-boggling ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity? What are the choices that such minority groups have, and how do they resist further...
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OUP India
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2018-02-15
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Das Jahrbuch für Theorie und Geschichte der Soziologie trägt dem Umstand Rechnung, dass die Soziologie eine Wissenschaft ist, die es mit einem sich historisch wandelnden Gegenstand zu tun hat, also eine Wissenschaft ist, die sich stets von Neuem selbst reflektieren...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-02-15
Collection :
Jahrbuch für Theorie und Geschichte der Soziologie
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At a time of social, political, and economic shifts across the world, India is faced with the pivotal challenge of addressing the state of its universities. In a region that was home to the leading higher learning institutions during ancient times, the descent in the...
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OUP India
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2018-02-15
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Der Band greift neben theoretisch-konzeptionellen Aspekten anwendungsbezogene und handlungspraktische Fragen auf, die seitens der vielfältigen Institutionen und Akteure an den Schnittstellen von Behinderung und Migration zunehmend laut werden. Es geht um den politischen...
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Springer VS
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2018-02-14
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This book explores the Bible’s ongoing relevance in contemporary discussions around rape culture and gender violence. Each chapter considers the ways that biblical texts and themes engage with various forms of gender violence, including the subjective, physical violence...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-14
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Phänomene des Alters und der Hochaltrigkeit gewinnen gegenwärtig stark an Bedeutung – insbesondere durch die vieldiskutierte demographische Entwicklung der westlichen Gesellschaften. Im öffentlichen Diskurs sind Altersbilder entweder von tatkräftig handelnden best agers...
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Springer VS
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2018-02-14
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Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first animals that people ever rode, as well as the first used on a large-scale as beasts of...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-02-14
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This edited collection is concerned with the ideas, challenges, demands and framework of conditions behind police education from an international perspective. Whilst not directly concerned with a classical comparison of education concepts from different countries, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-14
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This book addresses how accelerating advances in information and communication technology, mobile technology, and location-aware technology have fundamentally changed the ways how social, political, economic and transportation systems work in today’s globally connected...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-02-13
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This book examines the power definiteness of landscape from a social constructivist perspective with a particular focus on the importance of aesthetic concepts of landscape in development. It seeks to answer the question of how societal notions of landscape emerge, how...
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Springer
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2018-02-13
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Mediating Misogyny is a collection of original academic essays that foregrounds the intersection of gender, technology, and media. Framed and informed by feminist theory, the book offers empirical research and nuanced theoretical analysis about the gender-based...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-13
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Adoption in the Digital Age explores the transformation of adoption due to social and digital media technologies. The most prolific of these changes can be seen within contact arrangements, particularly those that are not managed by an intermediary, between adopted...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-13
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