Social groups, communities and identities

Starting with the tensions in the early family constellation, Gloria C.

The new edition of Reproduction and Society assembles an authoritative collection of the best scholarship on reproductive matters to help students and readers think critically and more expansively about acts of reproduction as social phenomena.

Social Surveys (1949) examines a host of fact-finding studies, dealing mainly with working class poverty, and the associated nature and problems.

Davis McEntire's Residence and Race offers a comprehensive examination of one of the most entrenched forms of discrimination in the United States: restrictions on where racial and ethnic minorities could live.

Personnel Policy in the City: The Politics of Jobs in Oakland offers a compelling case study of the University of Californias Oakland Project, an innovative model of university-community partnership aimed at addressing urban challenges.

Pilar Tejera nos sorprende una vez mas con historias de mujeres sorprendentes.

This book guides you through the complexities of difference and diversity in counselling and psychotherapy practice.

In this sweeping history, Tibebe Eshete presents a new view of Ethiopian Christianity.

The Foundation of Positive Psychology: A Compilation of Key Studies, Theory, and Practice is a milestone text which serves as a comprehensive handbook for positive psychology.

Personnel Policy in the City: The Politics of Jobs in Oakland offers a compelling case study of the University of Californias Oakland Project, an innovative model of university-community partnership aimed at addressing urban challenges.

The intention of this book is to provide a convenient basic reference for professionals and amateurs alike, while stimulating curiosity and interest in the latter to appreciate a most fascinating and important aspect of the habitat, ecology, and diversity of wildlife in the Luangwa Valley ecosystem.

Davis McEntire's Residence and Race offers a comprehensive examination of one of the most entrenched forms of discrimination in the United States: restrictions on where racial and ethnic minorities could live.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

In Borderland Brutalities, Laura Elena Belmonte analyzes how border violence is perpetuated and sanctioned by private corporations as well as the US and Mexican governments and how this violence is represented through border literature and cultural production.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Great Sacred Music, a free lunchtime event of spoken word and music for choirs and congregations, is a regular feature of the life at witness of St Martin-in-the-Fields.

American Chinatowns: Race, Identity, and Postwar Urban Redevelopment offers a captivating exploration of the vibrant yet contested landscapes of Chinatowns across the United States.

Nigeria brims with an array of art musicians who have endeavoured to create and perform art music using traditional compositional nuances and performance practices.

In this new second edition of The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance, Solidarity, Amy Allen diagnoses the inadequacies of previous feminist conceptions of power, and draws on the work of a diverse group of theorists of power, including Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, bell hooks, and Hannah Arendt, in order to construct a new feminist conception of power.

This collection examines representations of Spanish queer aging through investigations of literary and cinematic representations of this demographic, offering a showcase for research on communities often made invisible due to age and sexual identity in Spanish culture with wider implications for queer aging studies research.

Social Surveys (1949) examines a host of fact-finding studies, dealing mainly with working class poverty, and the associated nature and problems.

For American children raised exclusively in wartime-that is, a Cold War containing monolithic communism turned hot in the jungles of Southeast Asia-and the first to grow up with televised combat, Vietnam was predominately a mediated experience.

A shocking snapshot of the most current impulses in American religion.

During the Chicano Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of Aztlan, homeland of the ancient Aztecs, served as a unifying force in an emerging cultural renaissance.

This book provides a historical and ethnographic examination of gender relations in Malay society, in particular in the well-known state of Negeri Sembilan, famous for its unusual mixture of Islam and matrilineal descent.

La Asociación de Teólogas Españolas (ATE) ha tenido interés estos últimos años en evaluar el trabajo hermenéutico y metodológico que la teología feminista ha realizado, en su pluralidad de visiones, formas y procedencias.

Revealing the maternal as not a core identity but a site of profound psychic and social division, Hansen illuminates recent decades of feminist thought and explores novels by Jane Rule, Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, and Fay Weldon.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

The erotic and the intellectual come together to create a new kind of criticism in the lushly written work of Joanna Frueh.

Taking a career break is a conflicted and risky decision for high-achieving professional women.

Revealing the maternal as not a core identity but a site of profound psychic and social division, Hansen illuminates recent decades of feminist thought and explores novels by Jane Rule, Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, and Fay Weldon.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Growing Up combines two flourishing historical fields--the history of childhood and world history--to address the question of how much of childhood is natural and how much is historically determined.

Experimental Times is an in-depth ethnography of the transformation of Bengaluru/Bangalore from a site of backend IT work to an aspirational global city of enterprise and innovation.

How do the people of a village that is both Chinese and Christian reconcile the contradictions between their religious and ethnic identities?

In What the World Should Be, Malcolm Magee demonstrates that Woodrow Wilson was immersed in a Presbyterian tradition that shaped his presidency.

The erotic and the intellectual come together to create a new kind of criticism in the lushly written work of Joanna Frueh.

This state-of-the-art guide provides a powerful transdiagnostic approach for treating adolescent eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and others) in either outpatient or inpatient settings.