Social groups, communities and identities

This book provides a detailed study of approved schools for girls, which operated in England and Wales between 1933-1973.

Sex-Selfies als Social-Media-Trend, frauenfeindliche Rap- und Partysongs zum Mitgrölen, Sexshops in Innenstädten mit Masturbationsgerätschaften in der Auslage, Sexting und DickPics-Versendung per Smartphone, digitale Darstellungen von sexualisierter Gewalt und Missbrauch von Kindern, Cybermobbing und -grooming, Herabwürdigung und sexuelle Ausbeutung per Dating-Apps und Unmengen von kinderleicht zugänglichen Pornoangeboten im Internet … Alles Anzeichen für eine bedenkliche Hypersexualisierung und Pornographisierung unserer Gesellschaft?

From nineteenth-century public baths to todays private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life.

Political Prayer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how American women writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Emily Dickinson translated petitioning - a political form for redress of grievances with religious resonance, or what Strand calls "e;political prayer"e; - in their literary works.

This companion comprises essays that analyze interactions between art and global imperial relationships from 1800 to World War II.

Take a bumpy ride with Denise known on stage as Dutchess through the dark day-to-day life of a career stripper/dancer.

Originally published in 1992, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction and new preface, Forms of Dominance: On the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise examines the complex experience of colonial domination, social reaction, and physical adaptation within the built environment of regions such as Morocco, Eastern Europe, India, Guatemala and East Africa, and provides a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective on the colonial experience.

Originally published in 1981 Controlling Women critically examines the forms of moral regulation and social control that were exercised over women at the time, arguing that the study of 'deviant' women cannot be separated from the study of how all women are defined and controlled.

Women's Studies investigates the world from women-centred perspectives which cross the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines.

The primary aim of this edited volume is to document the current theories, best practices, and technological advancements in the move towards a Smart Built Environment (SBE).

Peter Kurer was born in 1931 in Austria.

Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand their experiences.

This book critically explores global challenges from linguistic and literary standpoints aimed atcontributing towards their mitigation.

Despite reliance on ingredients like horse dung, Old English remedies for women's medicine speak to contemporary reproductive concerns.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Sustainable Development is a comprehensive exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies are revolutionizing the field of sustainable development.

The Kit b-i-Aqdas is considered the most important and sacred text of the Bah ' Faith, a religion with some eight million adherents, found in nearly every country of the world.

In den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten erfolgte kaum Grundlagenforschung zu Homosexualität im Allgemeinen und zu Partnerschaften schwuler Männer im Besonderen.

This book investigates the radical transformation of the relationship between Germany and France, neighbors whose border constituted one of the deepest fault lines of European history.

This book focuses on the question of how to understand conflict and its place in Catholic and Christian social ethics.

How does aging intersect with migration in lived experiences of displacement?

Women have long been crucial to the provision of medical services, both in the treatment of sickness and in maintaining health.

A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2025'Essential reading' Irish Independent'Fascinating and powerfully argued' Daily Telegraph'A captivating must-read for anyone who wants to understand how and why misogyny is as powerful a force as ever' KATE MANNE, author of Down GirlCosmetic surgeries are at an all-time high, Ozempic is bringing back 'heroin chic' and TikTok trad-wives are on the rise - after four waves of feminism, what went wrong?

This volume examines the cultural history of European and North American hunting from the Middle Ages to the present day from the perspective of gender as well as animal studies.

Business and Sociology (1982) is a sociological perspective on business that examines industrialisation, capitalism, organisation, management, work, and industrial relations.

Offering a unique, comprehensive, and critical introduction to increasingly visible social inequalities, this textbook examines the political and economic causes and cultural consequences of a stratifying system that allocates material resources and human dignity on the basis of private profit and labor exploitation.

Rabaka explores funk as a distinct multiform of music, aesthetics, politics, social vision, and cultural rebellion that has been remixed and continues to influence contemporary Black popular music and Black popular culture, especially rap music and the Hip Hop Movement.

A book of stunning black and white photographs, capturing the events, people, and landscape of Chicago's Washington Park during the summer of 1987.

This volume captures the social, political, psychological, administrative, and policy dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Indian context.