Social groups, communities and identities

Fashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be.

A Jehovah’s Witness’ Painful but Liberating Realization that She Must Give Up Her Faith“An inherently compelling and candidly revealing memoir .

Though personally remembered by very few people, the interwar period was a fascinating time for railway enthusiasts, with the colourful liveries of the pre-Grouping companies allowing for a wide variety of interesting markings in the run-up to Grouping in 1923.

Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when a national-cultural production is reproduced outside the immediate social, political and cultural context of its origin.

To better understand the diverse inheritance of Islamic movements in present-day Turkey, we must take a closer look at the religious establishment, the ulema, during the first half of the twentieth century.

Diversity among Architects presents a series of essays questioning the homogeneity of architecture practitioners, who remain overwhelmingly male and Caucasian, to help you create a field more representative of the population you serve.

An exciting new work on how black and Asian racial structures were woven together within US theatrical practices in the run up to the Second World War, Steen uses this history to model how we might use performance histories to more carefully assess how racial formation occurs on the boundaries between racial groups in an international context.

This comprehensive and innovative volume focuses on the usefulness and relevance of extending the scope of protections already in place for national minorities ('old minorities') to migrant populations ('new minorities') in Europe.

Originally published in 1985, Industrialization and Urbanization in Latin America focuses on the process of industrialisation in Latin America.

Since 9/11 interest in Islamophobia has steadily increased - as has the number of academic publications discussing the phenomenon.

Women in Asia are on the move.

The high growth performance of the Indian economy since the launch of economic reforms in the early 1990s has been much lauded.

How did the Victorians perceive Muslims in the British Empire and beyond?

This book investigates a Jewish orientation to film culture in interwar Britain.

Winner of the 2020 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from the Public Address Division of the National Communication AssociationThe African colonization movement occupies a troubling rhetorical territory in the struggle for racial equality in the United States.

Delve into gender lens investing and the reality of the female economy Women today are an unparalleled force in the global economy as successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives and family breadwinners.

Originally published in 1973, this book begins with the arrival of the Europeans in South Africa.

This book takes up the queer girl as a represented and rhetorical figure within film, television and video.

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Critical Race Theory (CRT) is virtually unheard of in European scholarship, especially among legal scholars.

The Latino community in the United States is commonly stereotyped as Roman Catholic and politically passive.

This book explores the significance and meaning of the countryside within mid-twentieth century youth movements.

As one of the first academic monographs on Keith Haring, this book uses the Pop Shop, a previously overlooked enterprise, and artist merchandising as tools to reconsider the significance and legacy of Haring's career as a whole.

This collection of essays takes up the most famous feminist sentence ever written, Simone de Beauvoir's "e;On ne nat pas femme: on le devient,"e; finding in it a flashpoint that galvanizes feminist thinking and action in multiple dimensions.

Though the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occurred in the United States only after 1800, just as the struggle to end slavery took hold.

What would it be like to leave your loved ones behind knowing you may never see them again?

Despite the rise of the Hollywood system and hostility to Asian migrant communities in the early twentieth-century United States, Japanese Americans created a thriving cinema culture that produced films and established theaters and exhibition companies to facilitate their circulation between Japan and the United States.

This collection examines the ongoing shared struggles of diverse groups of women in Canada and beyond focusing on a diverse range of themes including movements, spaces and rights; inclusion, equity and policies; reproductive labour, work and economy; health, culture and violence; and sports and bodies.

This book critically examines new perspectives on the transformations in the Indian diaspora.

In the first major study of women in an Arab countrys Jewish community, Rachel Simon examines the changing status of Jewish women in Libya from the second half of the nineteenth century until 1967, when most Jews left the country.

All people spend a considerable portion of their lives either as dependents or the caretakers of dependents.

The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic investigates the roles played by the concept of the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud and other theorists, in the representation of lesbian and male gay sexualities and transgender in a selection of contemporary British, American and Caribbean fiction published 1980-2007.

This book offers an essential introduction to the phenomenon of shrinking cities in China, highlighting several case studies, qualitative and quantitative methods, and planning responses.

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This book explores male friendship in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through Mark Twain and the relationships he had with William Dean Howells, Joseph Twichell, and Henry H.

Packed with never-before-seen photos, plans and meticulous new digital artwork, this is the first history of the USAAF's futuristic World War II prototype interceptor, the XP-67 "e;Moonbat"e;.

Using a combination of new perspectives and new evidence, this book presents a reinterpretation of how 21st Army Group produced a successful combined arms doctrine by late 1944 and implemented this in early 1945.

China's Long and Winding Road to Modernization: Uncertainty, Learning, and Policy Change interprets contemporary China's economic transformation from Austrian and evolutionary perspectives.

In 1934, at the age of fourteen, Colette Brull-Ulmann knew that she wanted to become a pediatrician.

This book examines the Court of Final Appeal''s structure, jurisprudence and politics and the contribution of its Chief Justice under Chinese sovereignty.

“An amazingly detailed account of the American Expeditionary Force at Belleau Wood in 1918” from the authors of Tanks in Hell (Books Monthly).

This book draws on a four-year ethnographic study conducted in the prisons and on the streets of Greater Manchester, England, to examine gangs and organised crime in the North of England.

This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people's stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.

Bringing together unique international research from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Europe, this book presents a detailed examination of the violence perpetrated by males and females within the context of childhood, adolescence and adulthood.

Now in its third edition, Health Psychology offers the perfect introduction to this rapidly developing field.