Social issues & processes
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Social issues & processes
Paperback. Presents an exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of 'race' after the Holocaust. This title looks at ethnic drag (Ethnomaskerade) as one particular kind of performance that reveals how postwar Germans lived, disavowed, and contested 'Germanness' in its complex racial, national, and sexual dimensions. Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 drawings, 10 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFGW; 3JJPG; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472033621
- ISBN
- 9780472033621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.73
€ 39.73
Paperback. States that Barack Obama's inauguration was a defining moment in the political destiny of this country, based largely on demographic shifts. This book tells about contemporary politics, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, and about the changes happening in America, the ones that we live day in and day out as part of our personal lives. Series: Contemporary Political and Social Issues. Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472033911
- ISBN
- 9780472033911
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.68
€ 30.99
€ 26.68
Paperback. Treating language as a type of machine code opens new avenues for the study of history and politics Num Pages: 298 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472035281
- ISBN
- 9780472035281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.43
€ 43.43
Paperback. Investigates the relationship between performance culture and the cultivation of charitable sentiment in America, exploring the distinctive practices that have evolved to make the plea for charity legible and compelling. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: AN; JFD; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472036554
- ISBN
- 9780472036554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.33
€ 40.33
Paperback. Explores the role that disability plays in modern art and in aesthetic judgments. This title focuses on disability in the American culture wars. It includes chapters that deal with the use of aesthetic appearance, and the connection between artworks and the representation of injury as a subject of art. Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Num Pages: 200 pages, 38 b&w illustrations, 23 colour plates. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472051007
- ISBN
- 9780472051007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.23
€ 37.23
Paperback. Autism is widely understood in contemporary times as nothing more than a biomedical disorder in need of treatment and/or cure. War on Autism disrupts this singularity by examining autism as a historically specific and power-laden cultural phenomenon that has much to teach about the social organization of a neoliberal western modernity. Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Num Pages: 280 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472053124
- ISBN
- 9780472053124
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.76
€ 54.76
Paperback. Provocative essays on the ways feminist approaches to research can unite research practice and social action Series: Critical Perspectives on Women & Gender. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 4. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472064656
- ISBN
- 9780472064656
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.81
€ 37.81
Paperback. Presents a study of the creation of youth drug culture in Hamburg during the 1960s and 1970s and an exploration of the paradoxes of modernization. Placing Hamburg's drug scene within national and international contexts, this book examines the ways in which mass consumerism created complicated forms of resistance to state power and cultural norms. Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 328 pages, 15 images, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBTB; JFC; JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472069736
- ISBN
- 9780472069736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.82
€ 41.82
Hardcover. Investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states. This work contends that law can never offer an adequate account of political violence. Instead, we must turn to political theology, which reveals that torture and terror are, essentially, forms of sacrifice. Series: Law, Meaning & Violence. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472070473
- ISBN
- 9780472070473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.29
€ 108.29
Hardcover. Artists like Blind Arthur Blake, Sonny Terry, Arizona Dranes, and Art Tatum have appeared throughout the history of popular music in America - the list of visually impaired black musicians is long. This book examines the ways that blindness, like blackness, shaped both the music these artists produced and the way the nation received it. Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVA; JFC; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472070640
- ISBN
- 9780472070640
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.26
€ 96.26
Hardcover. Explores the role that disability plays in modern art and in aesthetic judgments. This title focuses on disability in the American culture wars. It includes chapters that deal with the use of aesthetic appearance, and the connection between artworks and the representation of injury as a subject of art. Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Num Pages: 200 pages, 38 b&w illustrations, 23 colour plates. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472071005
- ISBN
- 9780472071005
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.59
€ 97.59
Hardcover. Explores changing perceptions of body and mind in social, cultural, and political life as the 21st century unfolds. The book's provocative essays mine the worlds of advertising, film, literature, and the visual arts as they consider issues of disability, depression, physician-assisted suicide, medical diagnosis, transgender, and other identities. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472072026
- ISBN
- 9780472072026
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.82
€ 90.82
Hardcover. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and a variety of original sources, Katharina C. Heyer examines three case studies - Germany, Japan, and the United Nations - to trace the evolution of a disability rights model from its origins in the US through its adaptations in other democracies to its current formulation in international law. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472072477
- ISBN
- 9780472072477
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.46
€ 97.46
The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Per...
Sharon L. Snyder David T. Mitchell
Paperback. Theorizing the role of disabled subjects in global consumer culture and the emergence of alternative crip/queer subjectivities in film, fiction, media, and art Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472072712
- ISBN
- 9780472072712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 97.18
€ 97.18
Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 figures, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; JFC; JFFN; JFSL1; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472073085
- ISBN
- 9780472073085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.45
€ 108.45
Hardcover. Autism is widely understood in contemporary times as nothing more than a biomedical disorder in need of treatment and/or cure. War on Autism disrupts this singularity by examining autism as a historically specific and power-laden cultural phenomenon that has much to teach about the social organization of a neoliberal western modernity. Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Num Pages: 280 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472073122
- ISBN
- 9780472073122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.02
€ 103.02
Hardcover. The Broadway tomboys, rebel nuns, and funny girls, who upset the 1950s gender norms: Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Julie Andrews, and Barbra Streisand Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance. Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGM; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 237 x 31. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472097722
- ISBN
- 9780472097722
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.65
€ 114.65
Hardcover. How a group of people in Madagascar resisted oppression and maintained their political and cultural freedom Num Pages: 208 pages, 14 pages of photographs. BIC Classification: JFF; JKS; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472103898
- ISBN
- 9780472103898
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.79
€ 102.79
Hardcover. Examines congressional responsiveness to the interests of citizens of color Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JFSL1; JFSL3; JPHC; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472108053
- ISBN
- 9780472108053
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.63
€ 102.63
Hardcover. Demonstrates that traditional beliefs about migration are really modern myths Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 352 pages, 24figs.41tabs.3M. BIC Classification: JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- n
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472109449
- ISBN
- 9780472109449
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.36
€ 115.36