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Masculinities and the Nation in the Modern World sheds new light on the interrelationship between gender and the nation, focusing on the role of masculinities in various processes of nation-building in the modern world between 1800 and the 1960s.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-29
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Global Masculinities
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Lyombe Eko carries out an historical and cultural survey of the regulation of visual depictions of explicit human sexual conduct from their earliest appearance on the clay tablets of the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in ancient Mesopotamia, to the tablet...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-29
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The Doppelgänger – the double, twin, mirror image or alter ego of someone else – is an ancient and universal theme that can be traced at least as far back as Greek and Roman mythology, but is particularly associated with two areas of study: psychology, and German...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-29
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This exciting new book presents the field of social demography, animating the study of population with a vibrant sociological imagination. Gregg Lee Carter provides multiple demonstrations of how taking a demographic perspective can give us a better understanding of...
Editeur :
Polity
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2016-04-29
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The Rise of the New Second Generation In this age of migration, more and more children are growing up in immigrant or transnational families.The "new second generation" refers to foreign-born and native-born children of immigrants who have come of age at the turn of the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2016-04-29
Collection :
Immigration and Society
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During the Enlightenment, rationality becomes not a property belonging to all humans but something that one must achieve. This transformation has the effect of excluding non-whites and non-males from the domain of reason. Heikes seeks to uncover the source of this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-29
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This book provides innovative pedagogy, theory, and strategies for college and university professors who seek effective methods and materials for teaching about gender and sex to today’s students. It provides thoughtful reflections on the new struggles and opportunities...
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Springer
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2016-04-28
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This book investigates, compares and contrasts the experience of entering into and engaging in modernity and the modern era in many parts of the Asian continent. It focuses on the coming into being, development, and transformation of major urban centers from Tokyo to...
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Springer
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2016-04-28
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This book comprises the historical overview of migration processes in Kyrgyzstan, contemporary migration trends in international migration and various social, economic and political impacts of migration. It presents the findings of longstanding, in-depth, comprehensive...
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Springer
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2016-04-27
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This book offers a series of short, provocative essays about value and reputation in the world of American comic books. Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s analyses of fields of cultural production, The Greatest Comic Book of All Time explores why works have the reputations...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-04-27
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This book introduces the Internet through a systematic geographical interpretation, thus shedding light on the Internet as a spatial entity. The book’s approach is to extend basic concepts developed for terrestrial geography to cyberspace, most notably those relating to...
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Springer
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2016-04-26
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In diesem Band werden soziale und religiös-kulturelle
Milieus von MuslimInnen im Generationenwandel dargestellt und die vielfältigen
innerfamiliären Transmissionsprozesse in muslimischen Familien (auf Basis von
363 Eltern-Kind-Dyaden) untersucht. Im
Mittelpunkt der...
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Springer VS
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2016-04-26
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Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY-NC 2.5 Lizenz.Wie leben und erleben Jugendliche ihren Alltag? Wie nehmen sie die historischen und heutigen Verhältnisse in Deutschland und in der Welt wahr? Was stiftet für sie Sinn? Welche Lebensentwürfe...
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Springer
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2016-04-26
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At the dawn of the 1970s, waves of hopeful idealists abandoned the city and headed for the country, convinced that a better life awaited. They were full of dreams, mostly lacking in practical skills, and soon utterly out of money. But they knew paradise when they saw...
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PublicAffairs
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2016-04-26
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This important volume on the history of sociology in India locates scholars, scholarship, theories, perspectives, and practices of the discipline in different cities and regions of the country over a century. It argues that this history is enmeshed in political projects...
Editeur :
OUP India
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2016-04-26
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Combining statistical analyses and personal interviews, this book examines the phenomenon of adult children in the United States who have returned to living with their parents in the family home. It uses both data and narrative to fully detail how such co-residency has...
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Springer
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2016-04-25
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"With great rigour, yet an enviable lightness of touch, Susan Pickard has written an engaging and accessible book that students will love." - Rosaline Gill, City University London "A scholarly tour de force that brings into focus the various disciplines, histories,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-04-24
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This book presents the early existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger as a way to reformulate academic disability studies and activist disability politics. It redresses the almost categorical neglect of human difference in the philosophy of...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2016-04-23
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The book deals with the question of resistance to Soviet hegemony in Central Europe after 1968, when Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia.The political and cultural situation in the context of Central Europe is presented through the life and work of the Slovak...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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Human behavior causes environmental problems which, in turn, affect people and whole societies. The author elaborates the role of the public in the discourse about environmental protection. As the public consists of socio-economic, legal and political actors, the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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