First published in 1987, this volume makes available key documents, giving the contemporary reader a valuble record of women's struggle for eduacation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The history of the execution of women in the United States has largely been ignored and scholars have given scant attention to gender issues in capital punishment.
Examining the dynamics between subject, photographer and viewer, Fashioning Brazil analyses how Brazilians have appropriated and reinterpreted clothing influences from local and global cultures.
Im Lehrgang Technische Hilfeleistung (nach FwDV 2) sind für das Erlernen des korrekten Umgangs mit Trennschleifer, Plasmaschneider und Brennschneidegerät nur wenige Unterrichtseinheiten vorgesehen.
Photography: A Critical Introduction was the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts, and is now established as one of the leading textbooks in its field.
Promoting Reproductive Security in Developing Countries provides a comprehensive approach to developing and implementing reproductive health programs in the developing world.
This book expands the discourse as well as the nature of critical commentary on science fiction, speculative fiction and futurism - literary and cinematic by Black writers.
This book argues that a sense of affinity for land and space constitutes the foundation of human agency and underlies all social activity of human beings from a personal level to family, nation, region, and the world.
Corruption is linked to a wide range of developmental issues, including undermining democratic institutions, slowing economic development and contributing to government instability, poverty and inequality.
Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the present discourse on gender and violence, discovering new ways to address the complexities encountered in academic research on the topic.
Military action in South Ossetia, growing tensions with the United States and NATO, and Russia's relationship with the European Union demonstrate how the issue of Russian nationalism is increasingly at the heart of the international political agenda.
In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph providesthe fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women's writing.
Many can attest to the importance of the self-growth that occurs for young people through the arts and their accompanying communities of support, understanding, and caring.
When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom.
This book examines the implications of new communication technologies in the light of the most recent work in social and cultural theory and argues that new developments in electronic media, such as the Internet and Virtual Reality, justify the designation of a "e;second media age"e;.
Barbara Köhler Stüdeli legt mit dem vorliegenden Band die erste explorative Studie vor, die die mediale Identitätsdarstellung öffentlicher Akteure empirisch untersucht und ihren Einfluss auf die Reputation von Organisationen und Management analysiert.
5784 Jahre Denkgeschichte für die ZukunftShitstorms, Sex, Selbstbestimmung – ein ungewöhnlicher Blick auf aktuelle Themen:Wenn es heute um jüdisches Leben geht, dreht sich die Diskussion – insbesondere in Deutschland – meist um den Holocaust, den arabisch-israelischen Konflikt oder Antisemitismus.
This interdisciplinary volume provides the most comprehensive evaluation, to date, of the merits and problems of Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School.
The impact of the United Nations "e;Healthy Prisons"e; initiative has highlighted the importance of health and health promotion in incarcerated populations.
Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma, Staging Citizenship offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European Union s most marginal and disenfranchised communities.
In the context of contemporary economic, political, social and cultural transformations, this book brings together contributions from developed and emerging societies in Europe, the USA and East Asia in order to highlight the nature, extent and impact of these changes on the housing opportunities of women.
Der Studienführer informiert über den Gegenstand des Studienfachs, die interdisziplinären Bezüge, die möglichen Studienorte, die Voraussetzungen zum Studium, den Studienalltag, die möglichen Berufsfelder und die Berufsaussichten.
