Social groups, communities and identities

Jennifer Bain contextualizes the revival of Hildegard''s music, engaging with intersections amongst local devotion and political, religious, and intellectual activity.

This book explores recent social policy reforms and innovations in Chile.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City is an outstanding reference source to this exciting subject and the first collection of its kind.

»Das Schamempfinden gehört zur menschlichen Grundausstattung.

In a post-9/11 sea of social and political discord, one state stands apart.

The Messerschmitt Bf 110 was undoubtedly one of the most significant aircraft of World War II.

College Student Self-Efficacy Research Studies offers three uniquely designed sections that provide a unique mixture of research studies conducted on African American, Mexican American, and first-generation college students.

The Ju 87 Stuka was the most feared weapon in the German arsenal in the first year of World War 2, the Luftwaffe using it to deadly effect during the Blitzkrieg between September 1939 and June 1940.

This book addresses the issue of agency in relation to child marriage.

Queer Style offers an insight into queer fashionability by addressing the role that clothing has played in historical and contemporary lifestyles.

Is obesity really a public health problem and what does the construction of obesity as a health problem mean for men?

Television writer Tracy McMillan’s comic literary road trip into the heart and soul of her relationship with her father—a convicted pimp, drug dealer, and felon—and what it has meant for her relationships with men.

In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitch.

The Evolution of Socialist Feminism from Eleanor Marx to AOC traces the intersection of feminism and socialism as it has played out in the socialist movements arising in Europe and North America in the nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries.

Winner of the 2008 Washington State Book Award in History/BiographyThis updated edition of Native Seattle brings the indigenous story to the present day and puts the movement of recognizing Seattle's Native past into a broader context.

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Do the new Asian economies encourage gender equality?

Lanfranc of Pavia was archbishop of Canterbury from 1070 to 1089, and so for nineteen critical years in the history of the Anglo-Norman church and kingdom after the Norman conquest of 1066.

Warum erzeugt Gewalt wieder Gewalt?

In this fascinating study the lives and mores of women in one of the least understood but most densely populated areas of the world are unveiled through the eyes of generations of court poets.

European Trade Unionism (1973) examines the differences between the trade union movements of Europe, alongside noting their similarities.

Mixed Harvest explores rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one.

This book studies the intimate tensions between affect and emotions as terrains of sociopolitical significance in the cinema of Lucrecia Martel, Albertina Carri, and Lucia Puenzo.

Based on extensive original fieldwork, this book examines the complex and diverse livelihoods of Zimbabwe's Tonga people as they have developed over time, including in the wake of the country's post- 2000 political and economic crises.

We are constantly being told that communities are under threat, that we are losing a 'sense of community'.

Latin America has been a major focal point for analysis of the global class war over land and labor.

This book critically explores the role of state schooling in the reproduction of social class inequalities in the UK.

Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War explores the impact of the Second World War on literature and culture in Northern Ireland between 1939 and 1970.

Raum ist nicht geschlechtsneutral - mittlerweile eine gängige Perspektive in den raumbezogenen Wissenschaften.

Pentecostalism is one of the fastest-growing religious movements in the world.

Randbemerkungen (1509/10).

Much of the existing scholarship on Nancy Mairs has approached her essays in the context of disability studies.

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What role do transitional justice processes play in determining the gender outcomes of transitions from conflict and authoritarianism?

This book presents the first published account in English of Sverre Lysgaard's theory of the 'worker collectivity' - a theory of an informal protective organisation among subordinate employees, which so far has been unknown outside Scandinavia.

This book is about the future: Ireland's future and feminism's future, approached from a moment that has recently passed.

In May 1936, Abe Sada committed the most notorious crime in twentieth-century Japan-the murder and emasculation of her lover.

In den letzten 20 Jahren wurden die sozialen Sicherungssysteme des deutschen Sozialstaats grundlegend umgestaltet.

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This book examines the ways Poland dealt with the territories and peoples it gained from Germany after the Second World War.

The first comprehensive study of rape – its images and its politics – at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance.

Large-scale protest movements have recently transformed urban common spaces into sites of resistance.

This innovative book applies findings from the field of cognitive linguistics to the study of emotions in the Hebrew Bible.

This book examines the period leading up to the Hong Kong handover in 1997 - the 'countdown of time', and by using iconic cultural symbols such as the countdown clock, the Hong Kong Museum exhibitions and cultural heritage sites, argues that China has undergone a transition to neoliberal state, in part through its reunification with Hong Kong.

In the early twenty-first century, the Chinese literary world saw an emergence of fictional works - dubbed as "e;oppositional political novels"e; - that took political articulation as their major purpose and questioned the fundamental principles and intrinsic logic of the Chinese model.

Meaning-Centered-Psychotherapy in the Cancer Setting provides a theoretical context for Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP), a non-pharmalogic intervention which has been shown to enhance meaning and spiritual well-being, increase hope, improve quality of life, and significantly decrease depression, anxiety, desire for hastened death, and symptom burden distress in the cancer setting.