Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, todays Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference.
As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions.
This compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the timesfrom civil rights to black power to gay liberation to AIDS activismhelped shape the cultural stigmas that surrounded race and homosexuality.
The authors identify the general symbol of the Mother Goddess as a common sanctified image, and they demonstrate some of the cultural variations in form or function of the symbol in specific sociocultural settings.
By delvinginto the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize anypolitical project as rampant as empire, thisthought-provoking study focusesonchildrenand their ambivalent, intimate relationships with mapsandpracticesof mappingat the dawn of the American Century.
In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration.
This collection pushes the boundaries of studies and practices of voice-not only past essential, transcendental, and universal notions of voicing, but also to understudied arenas of voice and identity, especially in race, disability, aging, geographical, Indigenous, trans, and other contexts.
Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social relations and constituting new social domains on a global scale, from virtually borderless electronic markets and Internet-based large-scale conversations to worldwide open source software development communities, transnational corporate production systems, and the global knowledge-arenas associated with NGO networks.
In large chain bookstores the "e;religion"e; section is gone and in its place is an expanding number of topics including angels, Sufism, journey, recovery, meditation, magic, inspiration, Judaica, astrology, gurus, Bible, prophesy, evangelicalism, Mary, Buddhism, Catholicism, and esoterica.
For generations, critics have noticed in nineteenth-century American women's sentimentality a streak of masochism, but their discussions of it have over-simplified its complex relationship to women's power.
Over 30 years ago, the United Nations developed the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), heralding the importance of protecting children from a range of human rights violations.
Animal Advocacy and Englishwomen, 1780-1900 focuses on women writers and their struggle to protect animals from abuse in the transition from preindustrial to Victorian society.
Defects brings together essays on the emergence of the concept of monstrosity in the eighteenth century and the ways it paralleled the emergence of notions of sexual difference.
Harvesting Coffee, Bargaining Wages offers an insightful scrutiny of rural market behavior and a convincing explanation of why farmers fail sometimes to manage their laborers in ways predicted by market models--and how power imbalances and social conditions can impair the ability of laborers to attain a fair market contract during lax labor market periods.
Seminar paper from the year 2025 in the subject Gender Studies, grade: 1,0, University of Hamburg (Sozialwissenschaft), course: Qualitative Research, language: English, abstract: The seminar paper begins with a review of existing literature on gender representation in general and in sports specifically, outlining key theoretical frameworks and previous findings to form the research question.
Inside Separate Worlds is a compelling collection of autobiographical essays that opens an honest window onto the lives of young Black, Jewish, and Latino students growing up and coming of age in America.
Sammelband aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschlechterstudien / Gender Studies, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Dieser Sammelband beinhaltet vier Hausarbeiten.
From the early days of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, activists collaborated with artists, musicians, and entertainers, strategically using celebrity and popular culture to amplify protest.
By analysing research into links between low psychological wellbeing and sexual risk-taking behaviours that occur in men who have sex with men (MSM), this book demonstrates what impact social and psychological interventions could have on MSM at risk of poor sexual outcomes.
In Italy as in other Western societies, the medicalization of basic biological functions contributes to the loss of personal confidence in the care of the body.
In Of Two Minds, noted hypertext novelist and writing teacher Michael Joyce explores the new technologies, mediums, and modalities for teaching and writing, ranging from interactive multimedia to virtual reality.
The first women lawyers in America, like many of their twentieth-century counterparts, had to reconcile the traditional roles assigned to women with their roles as lawyers.
China's Economic Development: The Interplay of Scarcity and Ideology by Alexander Eckstein provides a comprehensive analysis of China's economic growth and transformation from a socialist economy.
Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders by Ousseina Alidou examines how a new generation of novelists, popular songwriters, and musical performers in contemporary Hausa society are using their creative works to effect social change.
Politics of Feminist New Materialisms at Music Playschools: Musicking in the Middle examines how feminist new materialist politics unfold within diverse music playschool practices in Finland.
If, as many cultural critics have asserted, the world is becoming more like the Caribbean, then the task of charting what we mean by "e;the Caribbean"e; is an urgent one.
The first three decades of the twentieth century in late-colonial Vietnam -- the period that also marked the transition between the dominant Confucian and nascent Western worldviews -- generated an abundance of political literature in that country.
