Social groups, communities and identities

The starting point of this book is the observation that there is a discrepancy between the lived reality of human beings and the fabricated, planned, and governed 'reality' of the state apparatus at both the local and national level.

This ambitious book provides the latest research in leading topics of behavioral medicine and evidence-based strategies for its application in solving clinical problems.

This book focuses on women's human rights in India.

A remarkable number of women today are taking the daunting step of having children outside of marriage.

This book makes evident how love, as an interstitial practice, produces a set of collective practices and how, through a mapping of these practices, it is possible to observe the connection between the politics of sensibilities and social conflict.

This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of African cultural independence.

After living in San Francisco for fifteen years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and the ';star' of the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me.

A crisis of faith confronted many Canadian Protestants in the late nineteenth century.

Producing Queer Youth challenges popular ideas about online media culture as a platform for empowerment, cultural transformation, and social progress.

Recent national achievement data reveal significant outcome disparities between African American boys and other student groups by grade 4.

Explores the economic, social and financial changes that have transformed China''s rural governance over the past twenty years.

This book considers the full sweep of Haitian community invention and recreation in a multitude of national territories, with an eye toward the "e;place"e; factors that shape the everyday lives of Haitian migrants.

This volume is an exploration of the ways in which political economy as a mode of analysis moves anthropology toward a vital, politically engaged form of scholarship.

Interest in sexual threesomes is significant, but how much do we really know about them?

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In Cistem Failure Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cisgender.

A comprehensive guide to understanding Vietnam's long and tumultuous history A Brief History of Vietnam explores the turbulent history of a land that has risen from the ashes of war to become the newest Asian tiger economy.

This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based 'company town' projects built in association with the 'Big Three' powers of World War II.

Africa: What It Gave Me, What It Took from Me is a memoir of an extraordinary woman who, as a newlywed, travelled with her husband to German South West Africa, a colony situated just above South African on the Atlantic coast.

The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature explores the interplay between the domination of nature and the oppression of women, as well as liberatory alternatives, bringing together essays from leading academics in the field to facilitate cutting-edge critical readings of literature.

Odile Atthalin was a young woman from a prominent, bourgeois family in Paris when she decided to leave home in search of meaning.

This book focuses on rural-urban migrants in China.

In the late 20th and 21st centuries, the meteoric rise of countless social media platforms and mobile applications have illuminated the profound need friendship and connection have in all of our lives; and yet, very few scholarly volumes have focused on this unique and important bond during this new era of relating to one another.

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Wright presents this collection of six essays on aspects of black history.

The book consists of well-written, well analysed and well research material of eight chapters in a comprehensive way with caste system : early stages, evolution of castes, castes in India, social reforms, caste system in modern India, caste determines social status, etc.

Abu'l-Barakat is often considered one of the most comprehensive philosophers of the Arabic-Jewish milieu in the medieval age.

A Kansas Notable BookLas Madres is an incredible story of generational resilience and transformation with family and community at its heart.

This book presents the pioneering role of the women chemists at the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW).

In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualised only as victim.

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Upon arrival to the United States, Mexican immigrants are racialized as simultaneously non-White and "e;illegal.

This book explores the relationship between Islamism, secularism and violence against women in the Middle East and North Africa.

During World War II's battle for control of the Mediterranean, both the British and Italian navies planned to bring their battle fleets into play.

This book offers a historically sweeping yet detailed view of world-systemic migration as a racialized process.

While the Arab Uprisings presented new opportunities for the empowerment of women, the sidelining of women remains a constant risk in the post-revolutionist MENA countries.

Abraham ben Hananiah Yagel 1553-c.

The scientific debates on border crossings and cultural exchange between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have much increased over the last decades.

Although many schools and educational systems, from elementary to tertiary level, state that they endorse anti-homophobic policies, pedagogies and programs, there appears to be an absence of education about, and affirmation of, bisexuality and minimal specific attention paid to bi-phobia.

First published in 1987.

In writing in English about the classical era, is it more appropriate to refer to “Jews” or to “Judeans”?

Through South Korean filmic and literary texts, this book explores affect and ethics in the healing of historical trauma, as alternatives to the measures of transitional justice in want of national unity.

Eine gute Beziehung zum eigenen »inneren Kind« ist die beste Voraussetzung für eine gute Paarbeziehung.

This book focuses on how we understand COVID-19-medically, socially, and rhetorically.

Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American.

In this book, leading and emerging scholars consider the mixed critical responses to Lena Dunham's TV series Girls and reflect on its significance to contemporary debates about postfeminist popular cultures in a post-recession context.

A provocative, immersive medieval novel starring one of literatures most unforgettable characters in her own wordsChaucers bold and libidinous Wife of Bath.

Maximiliano Korstanje presents an overview and analysis of the work of the Argentinian sociologist and physician, Jose Ingenieros (1877-1925).