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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. This title depicts how immigrant women use international migration as a strategy to challenge existing patriarchal hegemonies operative both in the United States and Africa. It also weaves together the multidimensional strands of how African immigrant women shape and are shaped by the process of international migration. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; JFFN; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617780
- ISBN
- 9780230617780
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.21
€ 64.21
Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia (Comparati...
Blackwood, Evelyn, Bhaiya, Abha
Paperback. A unique collection of writings by both academic and activist scholars on women's same-sex sexualities and female masculinities in a globalizing Asia. Editor(s): Wieringa, Saskia; Blackwood, Evelyn; Bhaiya, Abha. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JFFK; JFSJ1; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617483
- ISBN
- 9780230617483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.86
€ 63.86
Hardcover. Focusing in particular on pairings of writers within the larger grouping of poets, this book suggests how literary partnerships became pivotal to American poets in the wake of Donald Allen's 'New American Poetry' anthology. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617322
- ISBN
- 9780230617322
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Paperback. Becoming Muslim is an ethnographic study based on in-depth interviews with Swedish and American women who have converted to Islam. Proceeding from the women's life-stories, McGinty explores the appeal of Islam to some Western women and the personal meaning assigned to the religion. Series: Culture, Mind and Society. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616684
- ISBN
- 9780230616684
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. The accomplished contributors add significant understanding to the staging and teaching of Macbeth and reflect on the rich history of African Americans struggling to find a voice on the American stage. Editor(s): Newstok, Scott L.; Thompson, Ayanna. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; DSGS; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616424
- ISBN
- 9780230616424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.62
€ 69.62
Paperback. The waning of power in the public sphere diminishes the influence that citizens can have in deciding on the conditions of life, and therefore minimizes the changes that feminists can envision or enact in the social field to work towards equality, access, deliberation, participation, just distribution, rights, and authority for women. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616417
- ISBN
- 9780230616417
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.13€ 44.67
€ 51.13
€ 44.67
Hardcover. Argues that feminism needs to develop a theory of the public responding to a moment when feminism's impetus to reconstitute the private sphere left a huge gap in its political thinking on the public. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616400
- ISBN
- 9780230616400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.13€ 45.60
€ 51.13
€ 45.60
Hardcover. Through a gender, ethnicity, and sexuality lens, Perez demonstrates that queer Chicana/o and Latina/o identities are much more prevalent in cultural production than most people think. By claiming a variety of characters and texts as queer, he expands the breadth of queer representation in cultural production. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 209 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSK; JFSL4. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616066
- ISBN
- 9780230616066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.11
€ 64.11
Hardcover. Reimagining the Immigrant examines integrative practices by residents towards Mexican immigrants in a small farm town in America. This groundbreaking book sheds light on the coexisting practices of discrimination and accommodation and the ways in which immigrants and established residents reimagine ethnic identity in a more positive light. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616028
- ISBN
- 9780230616028
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.35
€ 64.35
Hardcover. In a clear and accessible style, this book theorizes female movement within narratives of enslavement and advocates for a changed black female consciousness. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK; HBTS; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615939
- ISBN
- 9780230615939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. Gender and Decolonization in the Congo focuses on women and questions of gender in its examination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961), the assassinated leader of the independent Congo. Num Pages: 247 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFJC; HBTR; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615571
- ISBN
- 9780230615571
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.49
€ 64.49
Hardcover. This insightful ethnography explores cross-cultural contact in the highlands of Vietnam, Christian conversion, refugee exile, and the formation of the Dega refugee community in the United States. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRC; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615366
- ISBN
- 9780230615366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.29
€ 64.29
Hardcover. This book examines the historical endeavors to regulate Black female sexuality and reproduction in the United States, through methods of exploitation, control, and repression. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615304
- ISBN
- 9780230615304
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardcover. This text argues for the usefulness of fictional realities for criminological theorizing and analysis. It illustrates that a creative and critical social scientific practice requires craft norms rather than commercial norms that threaten to completely colonize higher education. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615168
- ISBN
- 9780230615168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.49
€ 64.49
Hardcover. This book claims Nietzsche as a leftist revolutionary but without overlooking the conservative and retrogressive elements of his political philosophy. The author argues that these two 'halves' of his philosophy help construct a new form of politics for contemporary readers, a possibility of revolution post-Marx. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613584
- ISBN
- 9780230613584
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.55
€ 64.55
Hardcover. Cosmopolitan Liberalism is a critique of the western tradition of liberal thought and an effort to overcome the philosophical boundaries of individualism towards a more inclusive and open conception. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350. Expanding the Boundaries of the Individual. 240 pages. Cosmopolitan Liberalism is a critique of the western tradition of liberal thought and an effort to overcome the philosophical boundaries of individualism towards a more inclusive and open conception. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFC; JPFK. Dimension: 219 x 149 x 16. Weight: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613522
- ISBN
- 9780230613522
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.01
€ 64.01
Hardcover. A study of the media coverage of the Yemenite Babies Affair - the story of the alleged kidnapping of hundreds of Yemenite babies from their families upon arrival to Israel in the early 1950s. Examining the role played by the media and by racism, this book is part of a growing trend to expand perspectives within Israeli scholarship. Num Pages: 238 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613461
- ISBN
- 9780230613461
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Hardcover. This book deals with the long overlooked and understudied Soviet famine of 1946-47, which came on the heels of World War II and at the dawn of the Cold War and killed as many as two million people. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW3; JFFC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613331
- ISBN
- 9780230613331
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book analyzes Black women's involvement in American political life, focusing on what they did to gain political power between 1961 and 2001, and why, in many cases, they did not succeed. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; JFSJ1; JFSL3; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613300
- ISBN
- 9780230613300
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.09
€ 64.09
Hardcover. Through the lens of education, this book attempts to situate young people within a number of theoretical and political considerations that offer up a new 'analytic of youth', one that posits not only the emergence of a new way to talk about youth but also a new language for understanding the politics that increasing frame their lives. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613294
- ISBN
- 9780230613294
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.13€ 45.37
€ 51.13
€ 45.37
Hardcover. Despite the availability of some formal legal remedies, women lawyers rarely challenge discriminatory behaviour. This book explores this seemingly contradictory situation, and by exploring lawyers' use of legal discourse in an Internet community, Baumle examines whether the law can in fact serve as a useful tool to challenge inequality. Num Pages: 207 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSJ1; JH; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613256
- ISBN
- 9780230613256
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.91
€ 63.91
Hardcover. This book demonstrates the integral nature of gendered issues and feminist frameworks for a comprehensive understanding of contemporary IR bringing together the work of feminist scholars, teachers and activists into a coherent and accessible collection. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 479.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230611603
- ISBN
- 9780230611603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.49
€ 64.49
Hardcover. This book explores the experiences and writings of four teachers at the University of Chicago Laboratory School, both to investigate their lives as female professionals during the Progressive era, and to add to our understanding of this innovative institution and how these philosophies and innovations have carried out to this day. Num Pages: 241 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; HBTB; JFSJ1; JNKH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230610736
- ISBN
- 9780230610736
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.26
€ 64.26
Hardcover. This book delves into the reasons why pop culture, and all of its "X-Rated" features, are so appealing to masses of people, even though they may hate to love it. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF; GTE; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230610675
- ISBN
- 9780230610675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18