'A trenchant and invaluable people's history of the bottom of the pyramid in the world's most populous nation' Financial Times What does the life of an ordinary working-class, Muslim woman look and feel like in modern India?
Feminist and Anti-caste Activism in the Bodhgaya Land Movement of Rural Bihar examines the long-term social, spatial, and material impacts of the Bodhgaya Land Movement (BGLM) of the 1970s and 1980s on its participants and beneficiaries.
Over the past two decades, Romanian immigration to the Italian Peninsula has grown to nearly a quarter of the country’s foreign population, making it the largest Romanian diaspora in the world.
Nicht ob die katholische Kirche das Recht auf Religionsfreiheit anzuerkennen hat, ist seit der bahnbrechenden Erklärung Dignitatis humanae des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils die Frage, sondern was für sie aus der Anerkennung dieses Menschenrechts folgt.
Die Autorin vergleicht die Handlungsmöglichkeiten und Sprechweisen im ländlich geprägten Umfeld der drei Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen, Esterwegen und Moringen.
Over the past two decades, Romanian immigration to the Italian Peninsula has grown to nearly a quarter of the country’s foreign population, making it the largest Romanian diaspora in the world.
Extraordinarily little has been written about how women who survived the Holocaust dealt with life after the war, with the trauma of their immediate pasts, and with the debilitating sense of alienation they felt in a changed world.
This book critically examines the ever-evolving relationship between gender, identity and technology, investigating how identity is shaped, expressed, and contested within virtual environments.
Based on sociolinguistic analysis methods, theoretical analysis or empirical research was conducted on 39 keywords related to rural reform, peasant behaviour and peasant politics in China since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
How Feminist Writing Shapes Personal and Political Narratives delves into the profound influence of female writers on the author's craft and worldview.
After job losses and the housing crash, the author and her family leave LA to start over in a most unlikely place: a 9-foot-wide back-alley house in one of Ho Chi Minh City's poorest districts, where neighbors unabashedly stare into windows, generously share their barbecued rat, keep cockroaches for luck, and ultimately help her find joy without Western trappings.
Critical Visual Methods to Advance Racial Justice in Educational Research advances critical research methodologies for analyzing visual and multimodal data, with particular attention to racial justice for minoritized communities.
The Contemporary Reader of Feminist International Relations is a comprehensive volume for contemporary scholarship on feminist international relations and theory, showcasing research from a range of international scholars.
In this book of poetry, Martin Herskovitz, the son of Holocaust survivors, manifests a language of remembrance that describes not the desolation and destruction, but rather the possibility of grieving, of finding compassion and healing.
Gardening during times of crisis can have significant benefits to individuals and populations in terms of health, well-being, social and economic outcomes.
American Society for Aesthetics Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance AestheticsExamining a century of dance criticism in the United States and its influence on aesthetics and inclusionDance criticism has long been integral to dance as an art form, serving as documentation and validation of dance performances, yet few studies have taken a close look at the impact of key critics and approaches to criticism over time.
Even before we get to introduce ourselves by name, our hair has already started to tell stories about who we are, where we are from and where we are at.
First published in 1991, Metropolitan Government provides an in-depth study of metropolitan government and outlines the need for a unit of government at the metropolitan level.
First published in 1989, Mind and the Body Politic is a collection of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's twelve essays and lectures on political theory, psychoanalysis, feminism, and the theory of biography.
Originally appearing in the Warsaw daily Der Moment (1926-7), this intimate self-portrait by pioneering Yiddish actress Ester-Rokhl Kaminska (1870 1925) appears here for the first time in English.
Through a reconsideration of the debate about the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon towns, Richard Hodges focuses on the origins and history of the four Middle-Saxon emporia London, Ipswich, Southampton and York and then the impact of the Viking Conquest in AD 866 on England's subsequent history.
A founding document of African American Studies, reissued for today's students and scholars In a landmark 1968 conference at Yale University, students, faculty, and community activists helped establish "e;Afro American Studies"e; as a major, and then a thriving department, at Yale.
Through a reconsideration of the debate about the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon towns, Richard Hodges focuses on the origins and history of the four Middle-Saxon emporia London, Ipswich, Southampton and York and then the impact of the Viking Conquest in AD 866 on England's subsequent history.
It is argued here that before the extensive formalization of sharia laws from the late nineteenth century onwards, Islam was prominently influenced by elements of enchantment and mysticism, mirrored in its textual portrayal of passionate and sexual relations.
A nostalgic and poignant coming-of-agestory told through one young womans relationships with the mother figures inher lifeRelationshipsbetween mothers and daughters can often be complicated and fraught.
Belgian auteur Chantal Akerman's ouevre is profoundly philosophical, exploring everything from home and homelessness, work and social reproduction, self and identity, to desire in its many forms.
