Social groups, communities and identities

This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary France by focusing on racial diversity, race, and racism as central features of French society and identity.

Domestic and care work in private households is now the largest employment sector for migrant women.

Ausgehend von den Grundlagen des Städtebaus beschäftigt sich dieser Titel mit dem besonderen Aspekt der Nachhaltigkeit in der aktuellen Stadt- und Verkehrsentwicklung und dem Umgang mit bestehenden städtebaulichen Strukturen.

This book studies the role that grassroots volunteers play in the integration and naturalization process in Singapore.

Examining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of "e;normal"e; and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives will prevail.

Subverting stereotypical images of women, a new generation of feminist artists is remaking the pin-up, much as Annie Sprinkle, Cindy Sherman, and others did in the 1970s and 1980s.

With the NASDAQ having lost 70 percent of its value, the giddy, optimistic belief in perpetual growth that accompanied the economic boom of the 1990s had fizzled by 2002.

Undeniably, growing old is challenging; the physical pain and emotional angst are unrelenting.

This book explores the relationship between the food culture of Israel and the creation of its national identity.

No one has done more to emphasise the significance of the land in early modern England that Joan Thirsk, whose writings are both an important contribution to its history and point the way for future research.

The contributors to Otherwise Worlds investigate the complex relationships between settler colonialism and anti-Blackness to explore the political possibilities that emerge from such inquiries.

In the first book detailing the social and economic history of Ireland during the Second World War, Bryce Evans reveals the real story of the Irish emergency.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014In what was a golden age of British advertising, the notion of the 'peacock male' was a strong theme in fashion promotion, reflecting a new affluence and the emergence of stylish youth cultures.

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement.

The Power of Representation traces the emergence of modern Egyptian national identity from the mid-1870s through the 1910s.

Evans chronicles the stories of African American women who struggled for and won access to formal education, beginning in 1850, when Lucy Stanton, a student at Oberlin College, earned the first college diploma conferred on an African American woman.

Experience the confidence and joy of living as a beloved daughter of GodWhen it comes to being a daughter of God, you have questions.

The Laughing People, translated from the award-winning Le peuple rieur, conveys the richness and resilience of the Innu while reminding us of the forces - old and new - that threaten their community.

This book offers fresh insights into the contemporary state of Ecumenism.

In this daring study of queer life and the public sphere, Eric O.

The book is the first biography of Raphael Lemkin to draw on a comprehensive body of research into Lemkin as a person and his background and will be of interest to both non-specialists and academics.

A gripping and inspiring book, Civic Passions examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history.

Understanding the politics of security in city-regions is increasingly important for the study of contemporary policing.

If there was a moment during the sixties, seventies, or eighties that changed the history of the women's film movement, B.

This book focuses on empirical experiences related to market development, and specifically new markets with structurally different characteristics than mainstream markets.

In what will be essential reading for all industrial relations scholars, Gill Kirton considers the social construction of women's trade union participation in the context of male dominated trade unions.

Mehr und mehr geht die Geschichte des Holocausts aus der ZeitzeugInnen-Kultur in die Erinnerungskultur über.

This edited volume focuses on charting the rise of neo-abolitionism and offering a critique of the idea, its logics and consequences.

Youth Ethnic and National Identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina is an interdisciplinary effort to position and describe the contested nature of state and ethnic identity among youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina by providing empirical, first-hand evidence on identity structure and the subsequent implications for inter-group relations.

This book covers the entire historical range of the Sioux, from their emergence as an identifiable group in late prehistory to the year 2000.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer gave contemporary TV viewers an exhilarating alternative to the tired cultural trope of a hapless, attractive blonde woman victimized by a murderous male villain.

This book sets out to search for the Second World - the (post)socialist context - in dance studies and examines the way it appears and reappears in today's globalized world.

A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherrie L.

Henry E.

Fabled for more than three thousand years as fierce warrior-nomads and cameleers dominating the western Trans-Saharan caravan trade, today the Sahrawi are admired as soldier-statesmen and refugee-diplomats.

As Meghan Markle once said: 'With fame comes opportunity, but it also includes responsibility - to advocate and share, to focus less on the glass slipper and more on pushing through glass ceilings.

This book discusses the role of gender and participation within the context of budgeting and planning.

Our families are increasingly a matter of choice, and the choices are widening all the time.

The T&T Clark Handbook of Political Theology is a comprehensive reference resource informed by serious theological scholarship in the three Abrahamic traditions.

Do religions justify and cause violence or are they more appropriately seen as forces for peace and tolerance?

This state-of-the-art handbook will keep researchers and practitioners in gerontology abreast of the newest theories and models of aging.

Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory.

Call It English identifies the distinctive voice of Jewish American literature by recovering the multilingual Jewish culture that Jews brought to the United States in their creative encounter with English.

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The story of the succession to the Prophet Muhammad and the rise of the Rashidun Caliphate (632-661) is familiar to historians from the political histories of medieval Islam, which treat it as a factual account.

Religion has always been a focal element in the long and tortured history of American ideas about race.