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  • 1
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    Promise and Dilemma : Perspectives on Racial Diversity and Higher Education (1999)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780691225319
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (223 p.) , 7 line illus. 12 tables
    Edition: 2022
    Series Statement: The William G. Bowen Series 119
    DDC: 306.43
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    AL 89500
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    AL 91500
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    MS 3530
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    MS 7300
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Issues of diversity and affirmative action have turned elite higher education in the United States into contested terrain. Rights revolutions in the country have raised hopes that have proved difficult to fulfill. Most particularly, expectations about access and opportunity--redressing the unfairness of the past--have collided with widely held beliefs: that educational institutions should treat each person fairly as an individual and should promote high academic standards. Promise and Dilemma gathers the reflections of a group of leading educators on whether and how objectives of diversity, equity, and excellence can be simultaneously pursued. Empirical in orientation, these essays focus on constructive proposals and on the role of social and political consensus. Furthermore, they contrast what we believe we know with what empirical data and institutional experience can teach us. Eugene Lowe's substantive introduction reviews the history of the practice of affirmative action in colleges and universities. The other essays are by L. Scott Miller of The College Board; Mamphela Ramphele, vice chancellor of the University of Cape Town; Neil J. Smelser of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford; and Claude M. Steele of Stanford University. Also included are commentaries by Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School; Richard J. Light, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Chang-Lin Tien, the University of California, Berkeley; and Philip Uri Treisman, the University of Texas.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780691225319
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691225319?locatt=mode:legacy
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  • 2
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    Performing hybridity (1999)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
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    ISBN: 9780816630110
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 258 p.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 700/.1/03
    RVK:
    HU 1119
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    LB 48000
    Keywords: Cultural fusion and the arts ; Performing arts
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  • 3
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    State/Culture : State-Formation after the Cultural Turn (1999)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501717789
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 12 halftones, 1 chart/graph
    Edition: [2018]
    Series Statement: The Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: What impact does culture have on state-formation and public policy? How do states affect national and local cultures? How is the ongoing cultural turn in theory reshaping our understanding of the Western and modernizing states, long viewed as the radiant core of a universal, context-free rationality? This eagerly awaited volume brings together pioneering scholars who reexamine the sociology of the state and historical processes of state-formation in light of developments in cultural analysis.The volume first examines some of the unsatisfying ways in which cultural processes have been discussed in social science literature on the state. It demonstrates new and sophisticated approaches to understanding both the role culture plays in the formation of states and the state's influence on broad cultural developments. The book includes theoretical essays and empirical studies; the latter essays are concerned with early modern European nations, non-European countries undergoing political modernization, and twentieth-century Western nation-states. A wide range of perspectives are presented in order to delineate this emergent area of research. Together the essays constitute an agenda-setting work for the social sciences.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501717789
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501717789
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    Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? (1999)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781400840991
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Polygamy, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, punishing women for being raped, differential access for men and women to health care and education, unequal rights of ownership, assembly, and political participation, unequal vulnerability to violence. These practices and conditions are standard in some parts of the world. Do demands for multiculturalism--and certain minority group rights in particular--make them more likely to continue and to spread to liberal democracies? Are there fundamental conflicts between our commitment to gender equity and our increasing desire to respect the customs of minority cultures or religions? In this book, the eminent feminist Susan Moller Okin and fifteen of the world's leading thinkers about feminism and multiculturalism explore these unsettling questions in a provocative, passionate, and illuminating debate. Okin opens by arguing that some group rights can, in fact, endanger women. She points, for example, to the French government's giving thousands of male immigrants special permission to bring multiple wives into the country, despite French laws against polygamy and the wives' own bitter opposition to the practice. Okin argues that if we agree that women should not be disadvantaged because of their sex, we should not accept group rights that permit oppressive practices on the grounds that they are fundamental to minority cultures whose existence may otherwise be threatened. In reply, some respondents reject Okin's position outright, contending that her views are rooted in a moral universalism that is blind to cultural difference. Others quarrel with Okin's focus on gender, or argue that we should be careful about which group rights we permit, but not reject the category of group rights altogether. Okin concludes with a rebuttal, clarifying, adjusting, and extending her original position. These incisive and accessible essays--expanded from their original publication in Boston Review and including four new contributions--are indispensable reading for anyone interested in one of the most contentious social and political issues today. The diverse contributors, in addition to Okin, are Azizah al-Hibri, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Homi Bhabha, Sander Gilman, Janet Halley, Bonnie Honig, Will Kymlicka, Martha Nussbaum, Bhikhu Parekh, Katha Pollitt, Robert Post, Joseph Raz, Saskia Sassen, Cass Sunstein, and Yael Tamir.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781400840991
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9781400840991
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  • 5
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    When Sorry Isn't Enough : The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (1999)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814739471
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Critical America 10
    DDC: 303.3/72
    Abstract: "How much compensation ought to be paid to a woman who was raped 7,500 times? What would the members of the Commission want for their daughters if their daughters had been raped even once?"—Karen Parker, speaking before the U.N. Commission on Human RightsSeemingly every week, a new question arises relative to the current worldwide ferment over human injustices. Why does the U.S. offer ...
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814739471.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814739471
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  • 6
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    Fighting Words : Working-Class Formation, Collective Action, and Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century England (1999)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501717833
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 7 tables
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 305.5/62/094209034
    Abstract: A key component of social life, discourse mediates the processes of class formation and social conflict. Drawing on dialogic theory and building on the work of E. P. Thompson, Marc W. Steinberg argues for the importance of incorporating discursive analysis into the historical reconstruction of class experience. Amending models of collective action, he offers new insights on how discourse shapes the dynamics of popular protest. To support his thesis, he presents studies of two English trade groups in the 1820s: cotton spinners from Lancashire factory towns and London silk weavers.For each case, Steinberg closely examines the labor process, industrial organization, social life, community politics, discursive struggles, and collective actions. By describing how workers shared experiences of exploitation and oppression in their daily lives, he shows how discourses of contention were products of struggle and how they framed possibilities for collective action. Embracing work in literary theory, sociocultural psychology, and cultural studies, Fighting Words claims a middle ground between postmodern and materialist analyses.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)
    DOI: 10.7591/9781501717833
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501717833
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  • 7
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    Kiss and Tell (1999)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674036574
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 306.7/0973/0904
    DOI: 10.4159/9780674036574
    URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674036574
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674036574
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  • 8
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    The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674061712
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (432 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 305.8/009791/51
    Abstract: In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. The Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction tells this disturbing and dramatic tale to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. Clifton/Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild West" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. Racial walls hardened as the mines became big business and whiteness became a marker of superiority. These already volatile race and class relations produced passions that erupted in the "orphan incident." To the Anglos of Clifton/Morenci, placing a white child with a Mexican family was tantamount to child abuse, and they saw their kidnapping as a rescue. Women initiated both sides of this confrontation. Mexican women agreed to take in these orphans, both serving their church and asserting a maternal prerogative; Anglo women believed they had to "save" the orphans, and they organized a vigilante squad to do it. In retelling this nearly forgotten piece of American history, Linda Gordon brilliantly recreates and dissects the tangled intersection of family and racial values, in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the "best interests of the child."...
    DOI: 10.4159/9780674061712
    URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674061712
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  • 9
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    Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ : Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru (1999)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822397038
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (312 p.) , 51 illustrations, 8 in color
    DDC: 394.266
    Abstract: In Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ Carolyn Dean investigates the multiple meanings of the Roman Catholic feast of Corpus Christi as it was performed in the Andean city of Cuzco after the Spanish conquest. By concentrating on the era's paintings and its historical archives, Dean explores how the festival celebrated the victory of the Christian God over sin and death, the triumph of Christian orthodoxy over the imperial Inka patron (the Sun), and Spain's conquest of Peruvian society.As Dean clearly illustrates, the central rite of the festival-the taking of the Eucharist-symbolized both the acceptance of Christ and the power of the colonizers over the colonized. The most remarkable of Andean celebrants were those who appeared costumed as the vanquished Inka kings of Peru's pagan past. Despite the subjugation of the indigenous population, Dean shows how these and other Andean nobles used the occasion of Corpus Christi as an opportunity to construct new identities through tinkuy, a native term used to describe the conjoining of opposites. By mediating the chasms between the Andean region and Europe, pagans and Christians, and the past and the present, these Andean elites negotiated a new sense of themselves. Dean moves beyond the colonial period to examine how these hybrid forms of Inka identity are still evident in the festive life of modern Cuzco.Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ offers the first in-depth analysis of the culture and paintings of colonial Cuzco. This volume will be welcomed by historians of Peruvian culture, art, and politics. It will also interest those engaged in performance studies, religion, and postcolonial and Latin American studies.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822397038
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822397038?locatt=mode:legacy
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  • 10
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    A Doomsday Reader : Prophets, Predictors, and Hucksters of Salvation (1999)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814744048
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 301
    Abstract: The approach of the year 2000 has made the study of apocalyptic movements trendy. But groups anticipating the end of the world will continue to predict Armageddon even after the calendar clicks to triple 0s. A Doomsday Reader brings together pronouncements, edicts, and scriptures written by prominent apocalyptic movements from a wide range of traditions and ideologies to offer an exceptional look into their belief systems. Focused on attaining paradise, millenarianism often anticipates great, cosmic change. While most think of religious belief as motivating such fervor, Daniels' comparative approach encompasses secular movements such as environmentalism and the Montana Freemen, and argues that such groups are often more political than religious in nature. The book includes documents from groups such as the Branch Davidians, the Order of the Solar Temple, Heaven's Gate, and white supremacists. Each document is preceded by a substantive introduction placing the movement and its beliefs in context. This important overview of contemporary politics of the End will remain a valuable resource long after the year 2000 has come and gone.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814744048.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814744048
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    Popular Culture : An Introduction (1999)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814771648
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 1999
    DDC: 306/.0973
    Abstract: From Madonna and drag queens to cyberpunk and webzines, popular culture constitutes a common and thereby critical part of our lives. Yet the study of popular culture has been condemned and praised, debated and ridiculed. In Popular Culture: An Introduction, Carla Freccero reveals why we study popular culture and how it is taught in the classroom. Blending music, science fiction, and film, Freccero shows us that an informed awareness of politics, race, and sexuality is essential to any understanding of popular culture. Freccero places rap music, the Alien Trilogy and Sandra Cisneros in the context of postcolonialism, identity politics, and technoculture to show students how they can draw on their already existing literacies and on the cultures they know in order to think critically.Complete with a glossary of useful terms, a sample syllabus and extensive bibliography, this book is the concise introduction to the study of popular culture.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814771648.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814771648
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    Black Identities (1999)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674044944
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (431 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    Series Statement: Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press
    DDC: 305.896073
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
    Abstract: The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is generally considered to be a great success. Mary Waters, however, tells a very different story. She finds that the values that gain first-generation immigrants initial success--a willingness to work hard, a lack of attention to racism, a desire for education, an incentive to save--are undermined by the realities of life and race relations in the United States. Contrary to long-held beliefs, Waters finds, those who resist Americanization are most likely to succeed economically, especially in the second generation.
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    DOI: 10.4159/9780674044944
    URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674044944
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674044944
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    Interracial Justice : Conflict and Reconciliation in Post-Civil Rights America (1999)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814745496
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Critical America 1
    DDC: 305.8/00973
    Abstract: The United States in the twenty-first century will be a nation of so-called minorities. Shifts in the composition of the American populace necessitate a radical change in the ways we as a nation think about race relations, identity, and racial justice. Once dominated by black-white relations, discussions of race are increasingly informed by an awareness of strife among nonwhite racial groups. While white influence remains important in nonwhite racial conflict, the time has come for acknowledgment of ways communities of color sometimes clash, and their struggles to heal the resulting wounds and forge strong alliances. Melding race history, legal theory, theology, social psychology, and anecdotes, Eric K. Yamamoto offers a fresh look at race and responsibility. He tells tales of explosive conflicts and halting conciliatory efforts between African Americans and Korean and Vietnamese immigrant shop owners in Los Angeles and New Orleans. He also paints a fascinating picture of South Africa's controversial Truth and Reconciliation Commission as well as a pathbreaking Asian American apology to Native Hawaiians for complicity in their oppression. An incisive and original work by a highly respected scholar, Interracial Justice greatly advances our understanding of conflict and healing through justice in multiracial America.
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814745496.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814745496
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    Stylin' : African-American Expressive Culture, from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit (1999)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501718083
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 42 color halftones, 14 figures
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 305.896/073
    Abstract: For over two centuries, in the North as well as the South, both within their own community and in the public arena, African Americans have presented their bodies in culturally distinctive ways. Shane White and Graham White consider the deeper significance of the ways in which African Americans have dressed, walked, danced, arranged their hair, and communicated in silent gestures. They ask what elaborate hair styles, bright colors, bandanas, long watch chains, and zoot suits, for example, have really meant, and discuss style itself as an expression of deep-seated cultural imperatives. Their wide-ranging exploration of black style from its African origins to the 1940s reveals a culture that differed from that of the dominant racial group in ways that were often subtle and elusive. A wealth of black-and-white illustrations show the range of African American experience in America, emanating from all parts of the country, from cities and farms, from slave plantations, and Chicago beauty contests. White and White argue that the politics of black style is, in fact, the politics of metaphor, always ambiguous because it is always indirect. To tease out these ambiguities, they examine extensive sources, including advertisements for runaway slaves, interviews recorded with surviving ex-slaves in the 1930s, autobiographies, travelers' accounts, photographs, paintings, prints, newspapers, and images drawn from popular culture, such as the stereotypes of Jim Crow and Zip Coon.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501718083
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501718083
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    Trade in Strangers : The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America (1999)
    University Park, PA : Penn State University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780585278889
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 p.) , 8 illustrations
    Edition: 2015
    DDC: 304.8/73043/09033
    Keywords: HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
    Abstract: American historians have long been fascinated by the ";peopling"; of North America in the seventeenth century. Who were the immigrants, and how and why did they make their way across the ocean? Most of the attention, however, has been devoted to British immigrants who came as free people or as indentured servants (primarily to New England and the Chesapeake) and to Africans who were forced to come as slaves. Trade in Strangers focuses on the eighteenth century, when new immigrants began to flood the colonies at an unprecedented rate. Most of these immigrants were German and Irish, and they were coming primarily to the middle colonies via an increasingly sophisticated form of transport.Wokeck shows how first the German system of immigration, and then the Irish system, evolved from earlier, haphazard forms into modern mass transoceanic migration. At the center of this development were merchants on both sides of the Atlantic who organized a business that enabled them to make profitable use of underutilized cargo space on ships bound from Europe to the British North American colonies. This trade offered German and Irish immigrants transatlantic passage on terms that allowed even people of little and modest means to pursue opportunities that beckoned in the New World.Trade in Strangers fills an important gap in our knowledge of America's immigration history. The eighteenth-century changes established a model for the better-known mass migrations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which drew wave after wave of Europeans to the New World in the hope of making a better life than the one they left behind—a story that is familiar to most modern Americans.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780585278889
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780585278889
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    Cybersexualities : A Reader in Feminist Theory, Cyborgs and Cyberspace (1999)
    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781474473668
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (392 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 306.4/6
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    Keywords: Cyberspace ; Feminismus ; Cyberpunk ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Cyberspace, the cyborg and cyberpunk have given feminists new imaginative possibilities for thinking about embodiment and identity in relation to technology. This is the first anthology of the key essays on these potent metaphors. Divided into three sections (Technology, Embodiment and Cyberspace; Cybersubjects: Cyborgs and Cyberpunks; Cyborg Futures), the book addresses different aspects of the human-technology interface. The extensive introduction surveys the ways cyborg and cyberspace metaphors have been used in relation to current critical theory and indicates the context for the specific essays. This is an invaluable guide for students studying any aspects of contemporary theory and culture.Brings together in a unique collection the work of key authors in feminist and cyber theoryDemonstrates the wide range of contemporary critical workChallenges constructions of gender, race and classAn extensive introduction surveys the ways cyborg and cyberspace metaphors have been used in relation to current critical theoryBrief section introductions indicate the context for the specific essays...
    DOI: 10.1515/9781474473668
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    Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality : A Critical Reader (1999)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814790427
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Critical America 57
    DDC: 305.38896073
    Abstract: In late 1995, the Million Man March drew hundreds of thousands of black men to Washington, DC, and seemed even to skeptics a powerful sign not only of black male solidarity, but also of black racial solidarity. Yet while generating a sense of community and common purpose, the Million Man March, with its deliberate exclusion of women and implicit rejection of black gay men, also highlighted one of the central faultlines in African American politics: the role of gender and sexuality in antiracist agenda. In this groundbreaking anthology, a companion to the highly successful Critical Race Feminism, Devon Carbado changes the terms of the debate over racism, gender, and sexuality in black America. The essays cover such topics as the legal construction of black male identity, domestic abuse in the black community, the enduring power of black machismo, the politics of black male/white female relationships, racial essentialism, the role of black men in black women's quest for racial equality, and the heterosexist nature of black political engagement. Featuring work by Cornel West, Huey Newton, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Houston Baker, Marlon T. Riggs, Dwight McBride, Michael Awkward, Ishmael Reed, Derrick Bell, and many others, Devon Carbado's anthology stakes out new territory in the American racial landscape.--Critical America, A series edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stephancic.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814790427.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814790427
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    Down to Earth People : Beyond Class Reductionism and Postmodernism (1999)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442602526
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2019]
    DDC: 305.562
    Abstract: "Published Under the Garamond Imprint From the Introduction: "This book proposes a substantial revision of the orthodox Marxist approach to understanding group consciousness and action. The tendency to anchor all forms of collective struggle and consciousness in prevailing relations of production is now conceded by both scholars and political activists to be inadequate. The social movements of oppressed peoples that have swept the globe during the post-WWII era-movements for national self-determination, the civil rights of visible minorities and the liberation of women-have conclusively demonstrated the deficiencies of this viewpoint. We seek to break with a 'class first' framework which treats gender, generational, and race relations as subsidiary to, or somehow derived from, class relations. But, unlike so many scholars who have made their break with Marxist orthodoxy by embracing some version of postmodernist discourse theory, we remain steadfast materialists."...
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781442602526
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442602526
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    Western Representations of the Muslim Woman : From Termagant to Odalisque (1999)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780292799646
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 305.48/6971
    Abstract: Veiled, secluded, submissive, oppressed-the "odalisque" image has held sway over Western representations of Muslim women since the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Yet during medieval and Renaissance times, European writers portrayed Muslim women in exactly the opposite way, as forceful queens of wanton and intimidating sexuality. In this illuminating study, Mohja Kahf traces the process through which the "termagant" became an "odalisque" in Western representations of Muslim women. Drawing examples from medieval chanson de geste and romance, Renaissance drama, Enlightenment prose, and Romantic poetry, she links the changing images of Muslim women to changes in European relations with the Islamic world, as well as to changing gender dynamics within Western societies.
    DOI: 10.7560/743366
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/743366
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    Coalitions across the Class Divide : Lessons from the Labor, Peace, and Environmental Movements (1999)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501718731
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 305.5/0973
    Abstract: Too often struggles for jobs and economic justice have been divided from social goals such as peace or protecting the environment. How do we create an economy where both the process and product of work serve life-sustaining goals? Coalitions across the Class Divide argues that the seeds of this new society are being sown by those who learn to bridge working and middle-class movements and cultures. A new generation of activists is seizing a historic opportunity to organize coalitions across the labor, peace, environmental, and other movements that have previously worked in isolation or at odds. Fred Rose brings the challenges and potential of coalition organizing to life through an in-depth look at cases of conflict and cooperation. From the timber wars in the Pacific Northwest to military conversion coalitions emerging with the end of the Cold War, these cases teach practical lessons about the processes and pitfalls of organizing across movements and classes.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501718731
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501718731
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    In Defense of Single-Parent Families (1999)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814721087
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.85/6
    Abstract: Single-parent families succeed. Within these families children thrive, develop, and grow, just as they do in a variety of family structures. Tragically, they must do so in the face of powerful legal and social stigma that works to undermine them. As Nancy E. Dowd argues in this bold and original book, the justifications for stigmatizing single-parent families are founded largely on myths, myths used to rationalize harshly punitive social policies. Children, in increasing numbers, bear the brunt of those policies. In this generation, more than two-thirds of all children will spend some time in a single-parent family before reaching age 18. The damage done in the name of justified stigma, therefore, harms a great many children. Dowd details the primary justifications for stigmatizing single-parent families, marshalling an impressive array of resources about single parents that portray a very different picture of these families. She describes them in all their forms, with particular attention to the differential treatment given never-married and divorced single parents, and to the impact of gender, race, and class. Emphasizing that all families face significant conflicts between work and family responsibilities, Dowd argues many two-parent families, in fact, function as single-parent caregiving households. The success or failure of families, she contends, has little to do with form. Many of the problems faced by single-parent families mirror problems faced by all families. Illustrating the harmful impact of current laws concerning divorce, welfare, and employment, Dowd makes a powerful case for centering policy around the welfare and equality of all children. A thought-provoking examination of the stereotypes, realities and possibilities of single-parent families, In Defense of Single-Parent Families asks us to consider the true purpose or goal of a family.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814721087.001.0001
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    One Quarter of Humanity : Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000 (1999)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674040052
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (267 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 304.6/0951
    Abstract: One Quarter of Humanity presents evidence about historical and contemporary Chinese population behavior that overturns much of the received wisdom about the differences between China and the West. James Lee and Wang Feng argue that there has been effective regulation of population growth in China through a variety of practices that depressed marital fertility to levels far below European standards, and through the widespread practices of infanticide and abortion. These practices and other distinctive features of the Chinese demographic and social system, they argue, led to a different demographic transition in China from the one that took place in the West.
    DOI: 10.4159/9780674040052
    URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674040052
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    Still Lifting, Still Climbing : African American Women's Contemporary Activism (1999)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814786802
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.48896073
    Abstract: Still Lifting, Still Climbing is the first volume of its kind to document African American women's activism in the wake of the civil rights movement. Covering grassroots and national movements alike, contributors explore black women's mobilization around such areas as the black nationalist movements, the Million Man March, black feminism, anti-rape movements, mass incarceration, the U.S. Congress, welfare rights, health care, and labor organizing. Detailing the impact of post-1960s African American women's activism, they provide a much-needed update to the historical narrative. Ideal for course use, the volume includes original essays as well as primary source documents such as first-hand accounts of activism and statements of purpose. Each contributor carefully situates their topic within its historical framework, providing an accessible context for those unfamiliar with black women's history, and demonstrating that African American women's political agency does not emerge from a vacuum, but is part of a complex system of institutions, economics, and personal beliefs. This ambitious volume will be an invaluable resource on the state of contemporary African American women's activism.
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814786802.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814786802
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    Discourse in Late Modernity : Rethinking Critical Discourse Analysis (1999)
    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780748610839
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (176 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    Series Statement: Critical Discourse Analysis : CDA
    DDC: 306.44
    Abstract: Discourse in Late Modernity sets out to show that critical discourse analysis is strongly positioned to address empirical research and theory-building across the social sciences, particularly research and theory on the semiotic/linguistic aspects of the social world. It situates critical discourse analysis as a form of critical social research in relation to diverse theories from the philosophy of science to social theory and from political science to sociology and linguistics. First, the authors clarify the ontological and epistemological assumptions of critical discourse analysis - its view of what the social world consists of and how to study it - and, in so doing, point to the connections between critical discourse analysis and critical social scientific research more generally. Secondly, they relate critical discourse analysis to social theory, by creating a research agenda in contemporary social life on the basis of narratives of late modernity, particularly those of Giddens, Habermas, and Harvey as well as feminist and postmodernist approaches. Thirdly, they show the relevance of sociological work in the analysis of discursive aspects of social life, drawing on the work of Bourdieu and Bernstein to theorise the dialectic of social reproduction and change, and on post-structuralist, post-colonial and feminist work to theorise the dialectic of complexity and homogenisation in contemporary societies. Finally, they discuss the relationship between systemic-functional linguistics and critical discourse analysis, showing how the analytical strength of each can benefit from the other.Sets out a new and distinctive theoretical grounding and research agenda for critical discourse analysisInterdisciplinary in scopeDraws on a broad range of theories and approaches...
    DOI: 10.1515/9780748610839
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748610839
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    Theorizing the Americanist Tradition (1999)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781487575076
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (406 p.)
    Edition: [2020]
    Series Statement: Heritage
    DDC: 306.44/089/97
    Abstract: This collection challenges the prevailing notion that the Americanist Tradition in anthropology, typified by Franz Boas and his colleagues, is atheoretical. Contributions from twenty five distinguished scholars are brought together here to provide a comprehensive, accessible, state-of-the-art appraisal of interdisciplinary research in the areas of anthropology, linguistics, and Native Studies. Participants in this dialogue accepted the challenge of making their underlying theoretical assumptions explicit. Topics range from historical debates in anthropology and linguistics to recent innovations within the Americanist Tradition. The search for authenticity is brought to bear on discussion of changing traditions in texts and literacy, in linguistics and education, and in contemporary discourse spanning the Americas. Debate on the future of the Americanist Tradition forms a critical part of this collection. The volume juxtaposes Canadian and American theoretical work on language and revitalizes a shared tradition centred on the study of meaning. Readers are invited to enter this vibrant and open-ended Americanist discourse.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781487575076
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    Queer in Russia : A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other (1999)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822379522
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 p.) , 9 b&w photographs
    DDC: 306
    Abstract: In Queer in Russia Laurie Essig examines the formation of gay identity and community in the former Soviet Union. As a sociological fieldworker, she began her research during the late 1980s, before any kind of a public queer identity existed in that country. After a decade of conducting interviews, as well as observing and analyzing plays, books, pop music, and graffiti, Essig presents the first sustained study of how and why there was no Soviet gay community or even gay identity before perestroika and the degree to which this situation has-or has not-changed.While male homosexual acts were criminalized in Russia before 1993, women attracted to women were policed by the medical community, who saw them less as criminals than as diseased persons potentially cured by drug therapy or transsexual surgery. After describing accounts of pre-perestroika persecution, Essig examines the more recent state of sexual identities in Russia. Although the fall of communism brought new freedom to Russian queers, there are still no signs of a mass movement forming around the issue, and few identify themselves as lesbians or gay men, even when they are involved in same-sex relations. Essig does reveal, however, vibrant manifestations of gay life found at the local level-in restaurants, discos, clubs, and cruising strips, in newspapers, journals, literature, and the theater. Concluding with a powerful exploration of the surprising affinities between some of Russia's most prominent nationalists and its queers, Queer in Russia fills a gap in both Russian and cultural studies.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822379522
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    Good-Natured Feminist : Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy (1999)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
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    ISBN: 9780816688869
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (270 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sandilands, Catriona The good-natured feminist
    Parallel Title: Print version Good-Natured Feminist : Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy
    DDC: 305.4201
    Keywords: Ecofeminism Political aspects ; Ecofeminism ; Human ecology ; Green movement ; Feminist theory ; Environmental ethics ; Environmental policy ; Ecofeminism -- Political aspects ; Ecofeminism ; Political aspects ; Ecofeminism ; Environmental ethics ; Environmental policy ; Feminist theory ; Green movement ; Human ecology ; Electronic books ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Ökologie ; Feminismus ; Feminismus ; Umweltpolitik ; Feminismus ; Ökologie ; Demokratie
    Abstract: The Good-Natured Feminist inaugurates a sustained conversation between ecofeminism and recent writings in feminist postmodernism and radical democracy. Starting with the assumption that ecofeminism is a body of democratic theory, the book tells how the movement originated in debates about "nature" in North American radical feminisms, how it then became entangled with identity politics, and how it now seeks to include nature in democratic conversation and, especially, to politicize relations between gender and nature in both theoretical and activist milieus.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Mothers, Natures, and Ecofeminists -- Part I: On the Subject of Ecofeminism -- 1 A Genealogy of Ecofeminism -- 2 Identity: Another Genealogy -- 3 From Difference to Differences: A Proliferation of Ecofeminisms -- 4 From Natural Identity to Radical Democracy -- Part II: The Quest for a Radical Democratic Politics -- 5 Cyborgs and Queers: Ecofeminism and the Politics of Coalition -- 6 Ecofeminism, Universality, and Particularity -- 7 Ecofeminism, Public and Private Life -- 8 The Return of the Real: Ecofeminism and the "Wild" Side -- Conclusion: The Lack of Conclusiveness -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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    Everybody knows : cynicism in America (1999)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
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    ISBN: 081663310X , 0816633118 , 9780816633104
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 240 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2007 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Everybody Knows : Cynicism in America
    DDC: 303.3/8/0973
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    Keywords: Cynicism ; Public opinion ; Cynicism ; United States ; Public opinion ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In this biting and controversial analysis-now available in paperback-William Chaloupka scrutinizes the cynicism that is our common condition, examining both its uses in the politics of backlash and resentment and its surprisingly positive aspects. "A provocative study of political cynicism and pessimism." New York Review of Books
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Cynicism; Part II: Cultural Crisis; Part III: Alternatives; Notes; Index
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    Screening Culture, Viewing Politics : An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India (1999)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822378242
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (448 p.) , 28 b&w photographs
    DDC: 302.23/45/0954
    Abstract: In Screening Culture, Viewing Politics Purnima Mankekar presents a cutting-edge ethnography of television-viewing in India. With a focus on the responses of upwardly-mobile, yet lower-to-middle class urban women to state-sponsored entertainment serials, Mankekar demonstrates how television in India has profoundly shaped women's place in the family, community, and nation, and the crucial role it has played in the realignment of class, caste, consumption, religion, and politics.Mankekar examines both "entertainment" narratives and advertisements designed to convey particular ideas about the nation. Organizing her study around the recurring themes in these shows-Indian womanhood, family, community, constructions of historical memory, development, integration, and sometimes violence-Mankekar dissects both the messages televised and her New Delhi subjects' perceptions of and reactions to these messages. In the process, her ethnographic analysis reveals the texture of these women's daily lives, social relationships, and everyday practices. Throughout her study, Mankekar remains attentive to the tumultuous historical and political context in the midst of which these programs' integrationalist messages are transmitted, to the cultural diversity of the viewership, and to her own role as ethnographer. In an enlightening epilogue she describes the effect of satellite television and transnational programming to India in the 1990s.Through its ethnographic and theoretical richness, Screening Culture, Viewing Politics forces a reexamination of the relationship between mass media, social life, and identity and nation formation in non-Western contexts. As such, it represents a major contribution to a number of fields, including media and communication studies, feminist studies, anthropology, South Asian studies, and cultural studies.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822378242
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    Conversations about Psychology and Sexual Orientation (1999)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814723074
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.76/5
    Abstract: Psychology's approach to sexual orientation has long had its foundation in essentialism, which undergirds psychological theory and research as well as clinical practice and applications of psychology to public policy issues. It is only recently that psychology as a discipline has begun to entertain social constructivism as an alternative approach. Based on the belief that thoughtful dialogue can engender positive change, Conversations about Psychology and Sexual Orientation explores the implications for psychology of both essentialist and social constructionist understandings of sexual orientation. The book opens with an introduction presenting basic theoretical frameworks, followed by three application sections dealing with clinical practice, research and theory, and public policy. In each, the discussion takes the form of a conversation, as the authors first consider essentialist and constructionist approaches to the topic at hand. These thoughts, in turn, are followed by responses from distinguished scholars chosen for their expertise in a particular area. By providing an array of comments and thoughtful responses to topics surrounding psychology's approaches to sexual orientation, this valuable study sheds new light on the contrasting views held in the field and the ways in which essentialist and constructionist understandings may be applied to specific practices and policies.
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    The limits of multiculturalism : interrogating the origins of American anthropology (1999)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
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    ISBN: 0816632464 , 0816632472 , 9780816632473
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxviii, 245 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Limits of Multiculturalism : Interrogating the Origins of American Anthropology
    DDC: 305.8
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    Keywords: Anthropology History ; Eurocentrism ; Indians of North America Historiography ; Indianists History ; Anthropology ; United States ; History ; Eurocentrism ; United States ; Indianists ; History ; Indians of North America ; Historiography ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In the early nineteenth century, the profession of American anthropology emerged as European Americans began to make a living by studying the "Indian." Less well known are the AmerIndians who, at that time, were writing and publishing ethnographic accounts of their own people. By bringing to the fore this literature of autoethnography and revealing its role in the forming of anthropology as we know it, this book searches out-and shakes-the foundations of American cultural studies, asserting the importance of the Indian voices to the discipline
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prolegomenon: Groundwork: The Limits of Multiculturalism; 1. Positions, Ex-Positions, Dis-Positions; 2. Destructuring Whiteness: Color, Animality, Hierarchy; 3. Amerindian Voice(s) in Ethnography; 4. Methodists and Method: Conversion and Representation; 5. Borders of Anthropology, History, and Science; Coda: Anthropology and Archaeo-logicality; Notes; References; Index
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    Conspiracy theories : secrecy and power in American culture (1999)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
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    ISBN: 9780816689736 , 0816632421 , 081663243X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 282 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fenster, Mark Conspiracy theories
    DDC: 306.0973
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    Keywords: Conspiracies ; Conspiracies ; United States ; Electronic books ; USA ; Verschwörungstheorie
    Abstract: JFK, Karl Marx, the Pope, Aristotle Onassis, Queen Elizabeth II, Howard Hughes, Fox Mulder, Bill Clinton-all have been linked to vastly complicated global (or even galactic) intrigues. In his enlightening tour of conspiracy theories, Mark Fenster guides readers through this shadowy world and analyzes its complex role in American culture and politics. To that end, he discusses Richard Hofstadter's The Paranoid Style in American Politics, the militia movement, The X-Files, popular Christian apocalyptic thought, and such artifacts of suspicion as The Turner Diaries, the Illuminatus! trilogy and t
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Conspiracy Theory as Political Ideology; 1. Richard Hofstadter and "The Paranoid Style"; 2. John Doe #2 Goes to Washington: Militias, Pathology, and Discipline; 3. Conspiracy Theory and Populism; Part II. Uncovering the Plot of Conspiracy; 4. The Clinton Chronicles: Conspiracy Theory as Interpretation; 5. JFK, The X-Files, and Beyond: Conspiracy Theory as Narrative; Part III. Conspiracy in Everyday Life; 6. Millennialism and Christian Conspiracy Theory; 7. The Conspiracy "Community"; 8. Conspiracy Theory as Play
    Description / Table of Contents: Afterword: Conspiracy Theory and Cultural StudiesNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z;
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    Authoritarianism in Syria : Institutions and Social Conflict, 1946-1970 (1999)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501725616
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 15 tables
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 306/.095691
    Abstract: For almost forty years Syria has been ruled by a populist authoritarian regime under the Ba'th Party, led since 1970 by President Hafiz al-Asad. The durability and resilience of this regime is a striking contrast to the instability and intense social conflict that preceded the Bath's seizure of power, when Syria was seen as among the least stable of Arab states. This dramatic transition raises questions about how the Ba'th succeeded in constructing the institutions needed to consolidate a radically populist and authoritarian system of rule. The Ba'th's accomplishment also poses a significant theoretical challenge to the widely held view that populist strategies of state building are inherently unstable.Drawing on evidence from Syrian, American, and British archives as well as from published French and Arabic sources, Steven Heydemann explains the capacity of the Ba'th to overcome the obstacles that typically undermine the consolidation of radical populist regimes. He links the Ba'th's adoption of a radical populist strategy of state building, and its capacity to implement this strategy, to the dynamics of social conflict, state expansion, and structural change in the political economy of post-independence Syria. Arguing that conventional accounts of Syrian politics neglect the centrality of institutions and institutional change, Heydemann shows how shifts in the pattern of state intervention after 1946 transformed Syria's political arena.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501725616
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501725616
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    On the Front Line : Organization of Work in the Information Economy (1999)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501724220
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 29 tables, 6 charts/graphs
    Edition: [2018]
    Series Statement: Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports
    DDC: 306.3/6
    Keywords: Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: The importance of customer service is widely emphasized in business today. This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the organization and dynamics of front-line work. The volume is based on a four-year study of over a thousand employees and eight leading companies in the United States, Australia, and Japan. On the Front Line reveals similarities and differences found in work environments-such as variance in authority relations and division of labor-as well as significant contrasts between management approaches used in Japan and those used in the United States and Australia. By examining how work differs among service, sales, and knowledge-based settings, it also shows how bureaucratic, entrepreneurial, and network forms of organization coexist in the informational economy.This seminal analysis of work in the service sector offers both a benchmark for consultants working with customer-contact organizations and valuable information for anyone concerned with the changing nature of work.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501724220
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501724220
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    Lady Friends : Hawaiian Ways and the Ties that Define (1999)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501721809
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    Series Statement: The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    DDC: 306/.09969
    Abstract: Many indigenous Hawaiians who have moved to the islands' cities languish at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale and are thought to have lost their cultural roots. Initially apolitical urban Hawaiians were often skeptical of activists who sought to revitalize traditional ways; yet, as Karen L. Ito shows, Hawaiian women in particular continue to maintain and express crucial aspects of their cultural heritage in their lifestyle and interactions with others. Ito conducted intensive fieldwork with six Honolulu families, all of which shared the distinguishing characteristics of Hawaii's matrifocal society. In her close examination of the friendships and family relations among the women in these households, she focuses on the significance of a traditional manner of speech known as "talk story" which they use when conversing together. She describes how her subjects employ metaphoric language to address issues concerning responsibility, retribution, understandings of self and personhood, and methods for conflict resolution. For these "lady friends," Ito finds, the emotional quality and quantity of their social relationships help define personal identity while their common concepts of morality bind them together. By applying ethnopsychological strategies to the exploration of culture, Ito demonstrates cultural continuity at a level where most observers would not expect to find it. Lady Friends brings a new dimension to Hawaiian research.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501721809
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501721809
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    A Nation Divided : Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society (1999)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501728914
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 23 tables, 20 drawings, 6 maps, 1 photograph
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 305.5/0973
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The United States will enter the twenty-first century with an increasingly diverse, unequal, and divided population. Longstanding tensions persist between ethnic groups, rich and poor, and immigrants and the native-born. New sources of strain involve sexual and gender minorities, those who possess alternate family forms, and white and nonwhite immigrants, as well as the widening gulf between rich and poor Americans.A Nation Divided offers a fresh approach to these controversial issues. In this volume, leading social scientists explore the potentially explosive combination of diversity and inequality. Using the latest theory and research, the authors show how different groups become socially and economically unequal and how such patterns of "durable inequality" affect national stability. They also discuss strategies for reducing durable inequality and creating social harmony. Their contributions address the changing demography of diversity and inequality and the interplay of diversity, inequality, and community in educational institutions, the military, the family, popular culture, and religion.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501728914
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501728914
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    Think No Evil : Korean Values in the Age of Globalization (1999)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501720529
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 306/.095195
    Abstract: In this investigation of the contemporary notion of evil, C. Fred Alford asks what we can learn about this concept, and about ourselves, by examining a society where it is unknown-where language contains no word that equates to the English term "evil." Does such a society look upon human nature more benignly? Do its members view the world through rose-colored glasses? Korea offers a fascinating starting point, and Alford begins his search for answers there.In conversations with hundreds of Koreans from diverse religions and walks of life-students, politicians, teachers, Buddhist monks, Confucian scholars, Catholic priests, housewives, psychiatrists, and farmers-Alford found remarkable agreement about the nonexistence of evil. Koreans regard evil not as a moral category but as an intellectual one, the result of erroneous Western thinking. For them, evil results from the creation of dualisms, oppositions between people and ideas.Alford's interviews often led to discussions about imported ways of thinking and the impact of globalization upon society at large. In particular, he was struck by how Koreans' responses to globalization matched Westerners' views about evil. In much of the world, he argues, globalization is the ultimate dualism-attractive for the enlightenment and freedom it brings, terrifying for the great social and personal upheaval it can cause.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501720529
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501720529
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    The Play of Reason : From the Modern to the Postmodern (1999)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501729225
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 305.42/01
    Abstract: This volume brings together for the first time the highly influential essays, many of them classics, of one of the most prominent scholars in social philosophy and feminist theory. These essays provide a compelling view of many of the major trends in social theory over the past fifteen years—trends that Linda Nicholson herself helped to shape.The Play of Reason examines the legacies of modernity in contemporary political, social, and feminist thought and the unraveling of these legacies in postmodern times. Linda Nicholson first focuses on the tension in modern social theory between attempts to recognize change and diversity and struggles to capture such change in overarching frameworks of meaning and value. She illuminates the consequences of these conflicting tendencies in relation to Marxism, feminist theory, and classical liberal accounts of the family and the state. Nicholson then asks how theory and the resolution of difference are possible after such overarching frameworks are abandoned. She shows how a pragmatic understanding of theory answers widespread fears about relativism. The Play of Reason is a powerful demonstration of a politically engaged social theory.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501729225
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501729225
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    Norms in International Relations : The Struggle against Apartheid (1999)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501731655
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    Series Statement: Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    DDC: 305.8/00968
    Abstract: Applying a social-constructivist approach to her richly detailed case history, Audie Jeanne Klotz demonstrates that normative standards such as racial equality can serve as much more than a weak constraint on fundamental strategic concerns. Norms can play a crucial role in the formation of global policy. After forty years of protest against apartheid, the world celebrated Nelson Mandela's inauguration as South Africa's first democratically elected president. Klotz considers why racial discrimination in South Africa became a global concern and why—in a remarkable change of practice—nations and international organizations adopted sanctions against the Pretoria regime. By explaining how the world community actively came to condemn apartheid, Norms in International Relations contributes to broader debates on the role of norms in global politics. Klotz rehearses a fascinating history, combining the power politics of economic sanctions and the normative politics of racial equality. She reenacts the events that resulted in the United Nations decision to oppose apartheid. The author also analyzes anti-apartheid activism in the British Commonwealth and in the Organization of African Unity, and she documents changing attitudes toward South African racial separateness in the United States, Britain, and Zimbabwe.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501731655
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501731655
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    Millennial Seduction : A Skeptic Confronts Apocalyptic Culture (1999)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501729577
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (192 p.) , 4 halftones
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 306
    Abstract: Who among us still thinks the year 2000 is just an arbitrary turn of a calendar page? Why does its approach bring both fear of apocalyptic destruction and the promise of millennial salvation? Lee Quinby investigates how anxiety about the arrival of the new century casts everything from El Niño to sheep cloning in apocalyptic terms, simultaneously fueling panic and fostering unfounded hope for a perfect world.Millennial rhetoric is both pervasive and persuasive, Quinby argues, because it operates with mutually reinforcing doses of fear and hope. Religious and secular anxiety erupts over charged issues such as sex education, the regulation of cyberspace, and the Christian masculinity of the Promise Keepers. Quinby exposes the dangers of millennialist solutions, which link misogyny, homophobia, and racism with absolutist claims about truth, morality, sexuality, and technology.It is the absolutism of apocalyptic thought-not an impending apocalypse-that poses the more serious threat to our society, Quinby maintains. Millennial Seduction advocates a form of skepticism that challenges absolutism and encourages democratic participation.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501729577
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501729577
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    Channeling Violence : The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming (1998)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780691228310
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (390 p.) , 16 line illus. 97 tables
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 303.6
    Abstract: "If it bleeds, it leads." The phrase captures television news directors' famed preference for opening newscasts with the most violent stories they can find. And what is true for news is often true for entertainment programming, where violence is used as a product to attract both viewers and sponsors. In this book, James Hamilton presents the first major theoretical and empirical examination of the market for television violence. Hamilton approaches television violence in the same way that other economists approach the problem of pollution: that is, as an example of market failure. He argues that television violence, like pollution, generates negative externalities, defined as costs borne by others than those involved in the production activity. Broadcasters seeking to attract viewers may not fully bear the costs to society of their violent programming, if those costs include such factors as increased levels of aggression and crime in society. Hamilton goes on to say that the comparison to pollution remains relevant when considering how to deal with the problem. Approaches devised to control violent programming, such as restricting it to certain times and rating programs according to the violence they contain, have parallels in zoning and education policies designed to protect the environment. Hamilton examines in detail the microstructure of incentives that operate at every level of television broadcasting, from programming and advertising to viewer behavior, so that remedies can be devised to reduce violent programming without restricting broadcasters' right to compete.
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691228310
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691228310
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    Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology (1998)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780691187662
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 306.3
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    MQ 3912
    Abstract: While most people are familiar with The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, few know that during the last decade of his life Max Weber (1864-1920) also tried to develop a new way of analyzing economic phenomena, which he termed "economic sociology." Indeed, this effort occupies the central place in Weber's thought during the years just before his death. Richard Swedberg here offers a critical presentation and the first major study of this fascinating part of Weber's work. This book shows how Weber laid a solid theoretical foundation for economic sociology and developed a series of new and highly evocative concepts. He not only investigated economic phenomena but also linked them clearly with political, legal, and religious phenomena. Swedberg also demonstrates that Weber's approach to economic sociology addresses a major problem that has haunted economic analysis since the nineteenth century: how to effectively unite an interest-driven type of analysis (popular with economists) with a social one (of course preferred by sociologists). Exploring Weber's views of the economy and how he viewed its relationship to politics, law, and religion, Swedberg furthermore discusses similarities and differences between Weber's economic sociology and present-day thinking on the same topic. In addition, the author shows how economic sociology has recently gained greater credibility as economists and sociologists have begun to collaborate in studying problems of organizations, political structures, social problems, and economic culture more generally. Swedberg's book will be sure to further this new cooperation.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780691187662
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9780691187662
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    The Cultural Dynamics of Democratization in Spain (1998)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501728716
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 34 tables, 38 charts/graphs
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 306.2/0946/09048
    RVK:
    MG 68086
    Abstract: Since the death of Franco in 1975, Spain has made a successful transition to democracy. This book looks at what that transition has meant for the Spanish people. Drawing on national surveys taken in 1978, 1980, 1984, and 1990, the authors explore three questions: What is the basis of the new regime's political legitimacy? How did Spanish democracy move from the conservative center-right coalition that engineered the transition to the socialist government that consolidated it? And why is political participation so low among Spaniards? The answers to the first two questions highlight the ambiguity built into the political contrast with the Franco regime and a certain appreciation of the material accomplishments of authoritarianism, the pivotal role of the king in opting for democracy while symbolically spanning traditional and modernizing forces, and finally a movement from foundational issues to economic and social concerns. In response to the third question, the authors illuminate the participatory shortfall in Spanish politics by comparing Spain with Brazil and Korea, two post-authoritarian societies where political involvement is much higher. They consider long-term structural factors as well as short-term strategic actions that have contributed to low civic engagement.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501728716
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501728716
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    A Republic of Men : The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics (1998)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814763520
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.310973
    Abstract: What role did manhood play in early American Politics? In A Republic of Men, Mark E. Kann argues that the American founders aspired to create a "republic of men" but feared that "disorderly men" threatened its birth, health, and longevity. Kann demonstrates how hegemonic norms of manhood–exemplified by "the Family Man," for instance--were deployed as a means of stigmatizing unworthy men, rewarding responsible men with citizenship, and empowering exceptional men with positions of leadership and authority, while excluding women from public life. Kann suggests that the founders committed themselves in theory to the democratic proposition that all men were created free and equal and could not be governed without their own consent, but that they in no way believed that "all men" could be trusted with equal liberty, equal citizenship, or equal authority. The founders developed a "grammar of manhood" to address some difficult questions about public order. Were America's disorderly men qualified for citizenship? Were they likely to recognize manly leaders, consent to their authority, and defer to their wisdom? A Republic of Men compellingly analyzes the ways in which the founders used a rhetoric of manhood to stabilize American politics.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814763520.001.0001
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    Membership and Morals : The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America (1998)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780691187693
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 306/.0973
    Abstract: In recent years, membership has dropped in traditional voluntary associations such as Rotary Clubs, Jaycees, and bowling leagues. At the same time, concern is rising about the growth of paramilitary and hate groups. Scholars have warned that these trends are undermining civic society by creating a dangerous number of isolated, mistrustful individuals and organized, antisocial renegades. In this provocative book, however, Nancy Rosenblum takes a new, less narrowly political approach to the study of groups. And she reaches more optimistic conclusions about the state of civil society. Rosenblum argues that we should judge associations not only by what they do for civic virtue, but also by what they do for individual members. She shows that groups of all kinds--among them religious groups, corporations, homeowner associations, secret societies, racial and cultural identity groups, prayer groups, and even paramilitary groups--fill deep psychological and moral needs. And she contends that the failure to recognize this has contributed to an alarmist view of their social impact. For example, she argues that, although extremist groups have obvious antisocial aims, they constrain individuals who would be even more dangerous as maladjusted loners. And she examines the rapid growth of small "support groups"--which are usually dismissed as politically irrelevant--and shows that the moral support people find in such places as prayer groups and self-help groups helps to cultivate the social trust some scholars say is disappearing. Rosenblum concludes that, for practical and principled reasons, American democracy should permit expansive freedom of association, illustrating her case with discussion of specific cases in law. Rosenblum recognizes, however, that freedom has a price. She reminds us that some groups have oppressive and even criminal tendencies, and she explores what liberal democracy should do to ensure that individuals also have freedom within associations and freedom to exit. Throughout, Rosenblum writes eloquently and with a powerful moral voice, drawing on law, practical politics, and psychology to produce an original political theory of the moral uses of pluralism. The book adds remarkable depth and subtlety to one of the leading subjects in contemporary social and political debate.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780691187693
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9780691187693
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    New and Improved : The Transformation of American Women's Emotional Culture (1998)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814739815
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: History of Emotions 4
    DDC: 305.4/0973/0904
    Abstract: As the Victorian era drew to a close, American culture experienced a vast transformation. In many ways, the culture changed even more rapidly and profoundly for women. The "new woman," the "new freedom," and the "sexual revolution" all referred to women moving out of the Victorian home and into the public realm that men had long claimed as their own. Modern middle-class women made a distinction between emotional styles that they considered Victorian and those they considered modern. They expected fulfillment in marriage, companionship, and career, and actively sought up-to-date versions of love and happiness, relieved that they lived in an age free from taboo and prudery. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of women from a wide range of backgrounds and geographic regions, this volume offers insights into middle-class women's experiences of American culture in this age of transition. It documents the ways in which that culture--including new technologies, advertising, and movies--shaped women's emotional lives and how these women appropriated the new messages and ideals. In addition, the authors describe the difficulties that women encountered when emotional experiences failed to match cultural expectations.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814739815.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814739815
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    From Duty to Desire : Remaking Families in a Spanish Village (1998)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780691215860
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p.) , 10 halftones
    Edition: [2020]
    Series Statement: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History 6
    DDC: 306.85/09468
    Abstract: In the 1980s, Jane Collier revisited a village in Andalusia, where she and others had conducted fieldwork twenty years earlier, to investigate changes in family relationships and to explore the larger question of the development of a "modern subjectivity" among the people. Whereas the villagers she met in the sixties stressed the importance of meeting social obligations, the people she interviewed more recently emphasized the need to think for oneself: status concerns in choosing a spouse had apparently been replaced by romantic love, patriarchal authority by partnership marriages, parental demands for obedience by hopes of earning children's affection, mourners' respect for the dead by personal expressions of grief. In each of these areas, the author detected a modern concern for "producing oneself," which emerged with changes in how villagers experienced social inequality. Collier notes that when inheritance appeared to determine social status, villagers protected family reputations and properties by demonstrating concern for "what others might say." Once villagers began participating in the national job market, where individual achievement appeared to determine a worker's income, they focused on realizing their inner abilities and productive capacities. Sensitivity to one's feelings, thoughts, and aptitudes, along with "rational" assessments of the costs and benefits entailed in "choosing" how to use them, testified to a person's unceasing efforts to realize inner potentials. The author also traces shifts in the meaning of "tradition," suggesting that although "modern" people cannot "be" traditional, they must have traditions in order to produce themselves.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780691215860
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691215860
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    'You're So Fat!' : Exploring Ojibwe Discourse (1998)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442683761
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2017]
    DDC: 306.44/089973
    Abstract: 'You're so fat!' was the greeting extended to the author's wife on her return to the Algonquin community of Pikogan in northwestern Quebec. The Anishnaabe elder was in fact complimenting her for looking robust and healthy.Non-Natives have much to learn in order to understand Native experience and culture. Spielmann sets out to show how one might use the techniques of conversation analysis and discourse analysis to accomplish this. Ultimately, he seeks to capture the essence of Native experience by exploring how Native people talk about that experience, an approach that is missing from existing books about Aboriginal peopleYou're So Fat! will be of interest to linguists, anthropologists, sociologists and others interested in exploring issues in conversation analysis, ethnography, and Native studies.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781442683761
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442683761
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    Delinquents and Debutantes : Twentieth-Century American Girls' Cultures (1998)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814737781
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.23
    Abstract: The contributors, including such leading scholars as Vicki L. Ruiz, Jennifer Scanlon, and Miriam Formanek-Brunell, examine myriad ways in which a variety of discourses and activities from popular girls' magazines and advertisements to babysitting and the Girl Scouts help form girls' experiences of what it means to be a girl, and later a woman, in our society. The essays address such topics as board games and the socialization of adolescent girls, dolls and political ideologies, Nancy Drew and the Filipina American experience, the queering of girls' detective fiction, and female juvenile delinquency to demonstrate how cultural discourses shape both the young and teenage girl in America. Although girls' culture has until now received comparatively little attention from scholars, this work confirms that understanding the culture of girls is essential to understanding how gender works in our society. Making a significant contribution to a long-neglected area of social and cultural inquiry, Delinquents and Debutantes will be of central interest to those in women's studies, American studies, history, literature, and cultural studies.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814737781.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814737781
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    The Canadian Sansei (1998)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781487575984
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (228 p.)
    Edition: [2019]
    Series Statement: Heritage
    DDC: 305.895/6071
    Keywords: Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: With 66,000 members the Japanese-Canadian community is one of the smallest ethnic communities in Canada. Originally concentrated on the West Coast, their population was dispersed following the expulsion and internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. In 1988 the redress of injustices to citizens interned during the war marked the end of a long fight that had united Japanese Canadians. The community has sensed a weakening of ties ever since. The Nisei, or second generation of Japanese Canadians who lived through the war, suffered massive discrimination. Scattered across the nation, their children, the Sansei or third generation, have little contact with other Japanese Canadians and have been fully integrated into mainstream society. Tomoko Makabe discovered in her interviews with thirty-six men and twenty-eight women that, in general, the Sansei don't speak japanese; they marry outside of the Japanese community; and they tend to be indifferent to their being Japanese Canadian. Many are upwardly mobile: they live in middle-class neighbourhoods, are well educated, and work as professionals. It's possible to speculate that the community will vanish with the fourth generation. But Makabe has some reservations. Ethnic identity can be sustained in more symbolic ways. With support and interest from the community at large, aspects of the structures, institutions, and identities of an ethnic group can become an integral part of the dominant culture. The Canadian Sansei is much more than an account of third-generation Japanese Canadians. Makabe's explorations reflect on facets of history, culture, and identity in general as they relate to ethnic minorities in Canada and throughout the world.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781487575984
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487575984
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    Men as Women, Women as Men : Changing Gender in Native American Cultures (1998)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780292799684
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 305.3/08997
    Abstract: As contemporary Native and non-Native Americans explore various forms of "gender bending" and gay and lesbian identities, interest has grown in "berdaches," the womanly men and manly women who existed in many Native American tribal cultures. Yet attempts to find current role models in these historical figures sometimes distort and oversimplify the historical realities. This book provides an objective, comprehensive study of Native American women-men and men-women across many tribal cultures and an extended time span. Sabine Lang explores such topics as their religious and secular roles; the relation of the roles of women-men and men-women to the roles of women and men in their respective societies; the ways in which gender-role change was carried out, legitimized, and explained in Native American cultures; the widely differing attitudes toward women-men and men-women in tribal cultures; and the role of these figures in Native mythology. Lang's findings challenge the apparent gender equality of the "berdache" institution, as well as the supposed universality of concepts such as homosexuality.
    DOI: 10.7560/747005
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/747005
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292799684
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    Sustaining Democracy? : Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity (1998)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442602991
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2019]
    DDC: 302.23
    Abstract: The news media are often accused of lacking objectivity. Sustaining Democracy? asks whether it is worth trying to be objective in the first place by addressing current, and highly topical, debates on the relationship between journalism and democracy in Canada and the United States. These debates are made all the more urgent by the perceived crises of technological change, declining and fragmented audiences, media concentration, and popular cynicism about public life.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781442602991
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442602991
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    Diagnosis: Difference : The Moral Authority of Medicine (1998)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501744938
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2019]
    DDC: 306.4/61/082973
    Abstract: How is justice in the delivery of health care influenced by the culture of medicine? In a groundbreaking new work of feminist bioethics, Abby L. Wilkerson examines the cultural status of the medical establishment. Challenging traditional views, she shows that morality in health care has a far-reaching impact on social justice.Situating her analysis in the context of the AIDS and women's health movements, Wilkerson explores continuing patterns of injustice in medicine, the function of health care as social control, and the unequal risk of illness and injury among different social groups. She assesses the role of medicine and bioethics in the sexual oppression of women and of gay and bisexual men, and defines the forces undermining the role of bioethics in monitoring the moral status of health care.What changes would make bioethicists more responsive to the needs of oppressed groups? Wilkerson's book points the way toward a better understanding of medical authority and brings a fresh perspective to health activism, demonstrating that a feminist and sexually inclusive analysis has much to offer in revealing the hidden cultural politics of medicine.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501744938
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501744938
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    Everyday Courage : The Lives and Stories of Urban Teenagers (1998)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814784891
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 1998
    Series Statement: Qualitative Studies in Psychology 10
    DDC: 305.2350973
    Abstract: What does it mean to be a teenager in an American city at the close of the twentieth century? How do urban surroundings affect the ways in which teens grow up, and what do their stories tell us about human development? In particular, how do the negative images of themselves on television and in the newspaper affect their perspectives about themselves? Psychologists typically have shown little interest in urban youth, preferring instead to generalize about adolescent development from studies of their middle-class, suburban counterparts. In Everyday Courage Niobe Way, a developmental psychologist, looks beyond the stereotypes to reveal how the personal worldviews of inner-city poor and working-class adolescents develop over time. In the process, she challenges much conventional wisdom about inner-city youth and about adolescents more generally. She introduces us to Malcolm, a sensitive and proud young man full of contradictions. We follow him as he makes the honor roll, becomes a teenage father, and falls into depression as his younger sister is dying of cancer. We meet Eva, an intelligent and confident young women full of questions, who grows increasingly alienated from her mother and comes to rely on her best friends for support. We watch her blossom as a ball player and a poet. We share her triumph when she receives a scholarship to the college of her choice. In these 24 adolescents, Way finds a cross-section of youngsters who want to make positive changes in their lives and communities while struggling with concerns about betrayal, trust, racism, violence, and death. Each adolescent wants most of all to "be somebody," to have her or his voice heard.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814784891.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814784891
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    The First Woman in the Republic : A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child (1998)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822398387
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (844 p.) , 10 b&w photographs
    Edition: 1994
    Series Statement: New Americanists
    DDC: 303.48/4/092
    Abstract: For half a century Lydia Maria Child was a household name in the United States. Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Lydia Maria Child did not figure prominently as a pathbreaker. Although best known today for having edited Harriet A. Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, she pioneered almost every department of nineteenth-century American letters-the historical novel, the short story, children's literature, the domestic advice book, women's history, antislavery fiction, journalism, and the literature of aging. Offering a panoramic view of a nation and culture in flux, this innovative cultural biography (originally published by Duke University Press in 1994) recreates the world as well as the life of a major nineteenth-figure whose career as a writer and social reformer encompassed issues central to American history.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822398387
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822398387?locatt=mode:legacy
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822398387
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    Atlantic Crossings (1998)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674042827
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (670 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 306.0973
    Keywords: Progressisme États-Unis ; Progressivism (United States politics) ; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
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    DOI: 10.4159/9780674042827
    URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674042827
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    Practicing Community : Class Culture and Power in an Urban Neighborhood (1998)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780292759756
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 306/.09771/78
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    Abstract: Cincinnati's East End river community has been home to generations of working-class people. This racially mixed community has roots that reach back as far as seven generations. But the community is vulnerable. Developers bulldoze "raggedy" but affordable housing to build upscale condos, even as East Enders fight to preserve the community by participating in urban development planning controlled by powerful outsiders. This book portrays how East Enders practice the preservation of community. Drawing on more than six years of anthropological research and advocacy in the East End, Rhoda Halperin argues for redefining community not merely as a place, but as a set of culturally embedded and class-marked practices that give priority to caring for children and the elderly, procuring livelihood, and providing support for family, friends, and neighbors. These practices create the structures of community within the larger urban power structure. Halperin uses different genres to weave the voices of East Enders throughout the book. Poems and narratives offer poignant insights into the daily struggles against impersonal market forces that work against the struggle for livelihood. This firsthand account questions commonly held assumptions about working-class people. In a fresh way, it reveals the cultural construction of marginality, from the viewpoints of both "real East Enders" and the urban power structure.
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    DOI: 10.7560/731189
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/731189
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292759756
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    The Gender of Breadwinners : Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950 (1998)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442681347
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2019]
    DDC: 306.3/615/09713
    Abstract: This is a story of two Ontario towns, Hanover and Paris, that grew in many parallel ways. They were about the same size, and both were primarily one-industry towns. But Hanover was a furniture-manufacturing centre; most of its workers were men, drawn from a community of ethnic German artisans and agriculturalists. In Paris the biggest employer was the textile industry; most of its wage earners were women, assisted in emigration from England by their Canadian employer.Joy Parr considers the impacy of these fundamental differences from a feminist perspective in her study of the towns' industrial, domestic, and community life. She combines interviews of women and men of the towns with analyses of a wide range of documents: records of the firms from which their families worked, newspapers, tax records, paintings, photographs, and government documents.Two surprising and contrasting narratives emerge. The effects of gender identities upon both women's and men's workplace experience and of economic roles upon familial relationships are starkly apparent.Extending through seventy crucial years, these closely textured case studies challenge conventional views about the distinctiveness of gender and class roles. They reconfigure the social and economic change accompanying the rise of industry. They insistently transcend the reflexive dichtomies drawn between womena dn men, public and privae, wage and non-wage work. They investigate industrial structure, technological change, domesticity, militance, and perceptions of personal power and worth, simultaneously as products of gender and class identities, recast through community sensibilities.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781442681347
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442681347
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    The Gender Line : Men, Women, and the Law (1998)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814752715
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Critical America 78
    DDC: 305.3
    Abstract: Despite tremendous advances in civil rights, we live in a world where the sexes remain sharply segregated from birth to death: in names, clothing, social groupings, and possessions; in occupations, civic association, and domestic roles. Gender separatism, so pervasive as to be almost invisible, permeates the fabric of our daily social routines. Preferring a notion of gender that is fluid and contextual, and denying that separatism is inevitable, Nancy Levit dismantles the myths of gender essentialism Drawing on a wealth of interdisciplinary data regarding the biological and cultural origins of sex differences, Levit provides a fresh perspective on gendered behaviors and argues the need for careful cultivation of new relations between the sexes. With its focus particularly on men, The Gender Line offers an insightful overview of the construction of gender and the damaging effects of its stereotypes. Levit analyzes the ways in which law legitimizes the social segregation of the sexes through legal decisions regarding custody, employment, education, sexual harassment, and criminal law. In so doing, she illustrates the ways in which men's and women's oppressions are intertwined and how law molds the very definition of masculinity. Applying feminist methodology to the doctrine of feminism itself, Levit artfully demonstrates that gender separatism infects even our contemporary views of feminism. Levit asks questions that have been too long been unspoken--those that lie at the core of the feminist project, yet threaten its very foundations. Revealing masculinity as both a privileged and a victimized condition, she calls for a step forward, past the bounds of contemporary feminism and its conflicts, toward a more egalitarian and inclusive feminism. This brand of feminism would reshape traditional masculinity, invite men into feminist dialogue, and claim men as political allies.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814752715.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814752715
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    Prometheus : Archetypal Image of Human Existence (1998)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780691214580
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (184 p.) , 16 plates
    Edition: 2021
    Series Statement: Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology 132
    DDC: 398.2
    Keywords: Archetype (Psychology) in literature ; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical ; Aischylos ; Athene ; Bolsena ; Bronze Age ; Chiron ; Cicero ; Dionysos ; Epimetheus ; Fate ; Force ; Gaia ; Graces ; Hephaistos ; Herakles ; Hesiod ; Iapetos ; Kabeiroi ; Kronos ; Lemnos ; Moschylos ; Odysseus ; Okeanos ; Persephone ; Pindar ; Sophokles ; Tartaros ; Titans ; Zeus ; darkness ; eagle ; injustice ; mythologems ; narthex ; nymphs ; sacrilege ; salvation ; vapors ; wounds ; wreath
    Abstract: Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus's release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of humankind. Carl Kerényi examines the story of Prometheus and the very process of mythmaking as a reflection of the archetypal function and seeks to discover how this primitive tale was invested with a universal fatality, first in the Greek imagination, and then in the Western tradition of Romantic poetry. Kerényi traces the evolving myth from Hesiod and Aeschylus, and in its epic treatment by Goethe and Shelley; he moves on to consider the myth from the perspective of Jungian psychology, as the archetype of human daring signifying the transformation of suffering into the mystery of the sacrifice.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780691214580
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691214580
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691214580
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    Female Masculinity (1998)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822378112
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (344 p.) , 38 b&w photographs
    DDC: 305.48/9664
    Abstract: Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Judith Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years. Providing the first full-length study on this subject, Halberstam catalogs the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances.Through detailed textual readings as well as empirical research, Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities while arguing for a more nuanced understanding of gender categories that would incorporate rather than pathologize them. She rereads Anne Lister's diaries and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness as foundational assertions of female masculine identity. She considers the enigma of the stone butch and the politics surrounding butch/femme roles within lesbian communities. She also explores issues of transsexuality among "transgender dykes"-lesbians who pass as men-and female-to-male transsexuals who may find the label of "lesbian" a temporary refuge. Halberstam also tackles such topics as women and boxing, butches in Hollywood and independent cinema, and the phenomenon of male impersonators.Female Masculinity signals a new understanding of masculine behaviors and identities, and a new direction in interdisciplinary queer scholarship. Illustrated with nearly forty photographs, including portraits, film stills, and drag king performance shots, this book provides an extensive record of the wide range of female masculinities. And as Halberstam clearly demonstrates, female masculinity is not some bad imitation of virility, but a lively and dramatic staging of hybrid and minority genders.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822378112
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822378112?locatt=mode:legacy
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822378112
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    A Small Boy and Others : Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol (1998)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822396024
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 p.) , 17 b&w photographs
    Series Statement: Series Q
    DDC: 306.76/6/0973
    Abstract: In A Small Boy and Others, Michael Moon makes a vital contributon to our understanding of the dynamics of sexuality and identity in modern American culture. He explores a wide array of literary, artistic, and theatrical performances ranging from the memoirs of Henry James and the dances of Vaslav Nijinsky to the Pop paintings of Andy Warhol and such films as Midnight Cowboy, Blue Velvet, and Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures.Moon illuminates the careers of James, Warhol, and others by examining the imaginative investments of their protogay childhoods in their work in ways that enable new, more complex cultural readings. He deftly engages notions of initiation and desire not within the traditional framework of "sexual orientation" but through the disorienting effects of imitation. Whether invoking the artist Joseph Cornell's early fascination with the Great Houdini or turning his attention to James's self-described "initiation into style" at the age of twelve-when he first encountered the homoerotic imagery in paintings by David, Géricault, and Girodet-Moon reveals how the works of these artists emerge from an engagement that is obsessive to the point of "queerness."Rich in historical detail and insistent in its melding of the recent with the remote, the literary with the visual, the popular with the elite, A Small Boy and Others presents a hitherto unimagined tradition of brave and outrageous queer invention. This long-awaited contribution from Moon will be welcomed by all those engaged in literary, cultural, and queer studies.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822396024
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822396024?locatt=mode:legacy
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    The Family Squeeze : Surviving the Sandwich Generation (1998)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442627741
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2017]
    DDC: 306.874
    Abstract: The Sandwich Generation refers to the growing numbers of middle-aged people who must care for both children and elderly parents while trying to manage the stress of full-time jobs. Advances in technology and medicine are helping us to live longer - but not without extended care from our families. At the same time, the economic climate is making it difficult for young adults to leave home and start their own lives; they are often 'boomeranged' back to their parents for financial help, emotional support, and accommodation. In The Family Squeeze, Suzanne Kingsmill and Ben Schlesinger trace the day-to-day life of a typical family caught up in this situation. They guide the reader through various scenarios, paying particular attention to the 'woman in the middle,' who has traditionally been the caregiver to young and old but is now also a full-time member of the workforce. Each scenario is followed by comments, advice, and suggestions that will help the reader understand each stage of the game. The resource section includes an extensive annotated bibliography, as well as a list of selected services in Canada and the United States. Internet resources are also listed.Any person who is, or about to become, a member of the Sandwich Generation will find this a helpful guide for coping with the conflicting demands of family and work.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781442627741
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442627741
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    The Scar That Binds : American Culture and the Vietnam War (1998)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814709108
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 303.66
    Abstract: At the height of the Vietnam War, American society was so severely fragmented that it seemed that Americans may never again share common concerns. The media and other commentators represented the impact of the war through a variety of rhetorical devices, most notably the emotionally charged metaphor of "the wound that will not heal." References in various contexts to veterans' attempts to find a "voice," and to bring the war "home" were also common. Gradually, an assured and resilient American self-image and powerful impressions of cultural collectivity transformed the Vietnam war into a device for maintaining national unity. Today, the war is portrayed as a healed wound, the once "silenced" veteran has found a voice, and the American home has accommodated the effects of Vietnam. The scar has healed, binding Americans into a union that denies the divisions, diversities, and differences exposed by the war. In this way, America is now "over" Vietnam. In The Scar That Binds, Keith Beattie examines the central metaphors of the Vietnam war and their manifestations in American culture and life. Blending history and cultural criticism in a lucid style, this provocative book discusses an ideology of unity that has emerged through widespread rhetorical and cultural references to the war. A critique of this ideology reveals three dominant themes structured in a range of texts: the "wound," "the voice" of the Vietnam veteran, and "home." The analysis of each theme draws on a range of sources, including film, memoir, poetry, written and oral history, journalism, and political speeches. In contrast to studies concerned with representations of the war as a combat experience, The Scar That Binds opens and examines an unexplored critical space through a focus on the effects of the Vietnam War on American culture. The result is a highly original and compelling interpretation of the development of an ideology of unity in our culture.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814709108.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814709108
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    The Children's Culture Reader (1998)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814743782
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.23
    Abstract: Every major political and social dispute of the twentieth century has been fought on the backs of our children, from the economic reforms of the progressive era through the social readjustments of civil rights era and on to the current explosion of anxieties about everything from the national debt to the digital revolution. Far from noncombatants whom we seek to protect from the contamination posed by adult knowledge, children form the very basis on which we fight over the nature and values of our society, and over our hopes and fears for the future. Unfortunately, our understanding of childhood and children has not kept pace with their crucial and rapidly changing roles in our culture. Pulling together a range of different thinkers who have rethought the myths of childhood innocence, The Children's Culture Reader develops a profile of children as creative and critical thinkers who shape society even as it shapes them. Representing a range of thinking from history, psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, women's studies, literature, and media studies, The Children's Culture Reader focuses on issues of parent-child relations, child labor, education, play, and especially the relationship of children to mass media and consumer culture. The contributors include Martha Wolfenstein, Philippe Aries, Jacqueline Rose, James Kincaid, Lynn Spigel, Valerie Walkerdine, Ellen Seiter, Annette Kuhn, Eve Sedgwick, Henry Giroux, and Nancy Scheper-Hughes. Including a groundbreaking introduction by the editor and a sourcebook section which excerpts a range of material from popular magazines to child rearing guides from the past 75 years, The Children's Culture Reader will propel our understanding of children and childhood into the next century.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814743782.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814743782
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    Looking White People in the Eye : Gender, Race, and Culture in Courtrooms and Classrooms (1998)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442670204
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 305.48/8/00971
    Abstract: In this book Sherene Razack explores what happens when whites look at non-whites, and in particular at non-white women. Most studies examining this encounter between dominant and subordinate groups focus on how it occurs in films, books, and popular culture. In contrast, Razack addresses how non-white women are viewed, and how they must respond, in classrooms and courtrooms. Examining the discussion of equity issues in the classroom and immigration and sexual violence cases in the courtroom, she argues that non-white women must often present themselves as culturally different instead of oppressed. Seen as victims of their own oppressive culture who must be pitied and rescued by white men and women, non-white women cannot then be seen as subjects. This book makes clear why we must be wary of educational and legal strategies that begin with saving 'Other' women. It offers powerful arguments for why it is important to examine who are the saviours and who are the saved, and what we must do to disrupt these historical relations of power.
    DOI: 10.3138/9781442670204
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442670204
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442670204
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    The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism : Urban Political Culture in Boston, 1900-1925 (1998)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674029842
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 305.800974461
    Abstract: Progressivism, James Connolly shows us, was a language and style of political action available to a wide range of individuals and groups. A diverse array of political and civic figures used it to present themselves as leaders of a communal response to the growing power of illicit interests and to the problems of urban-industrial life. As structural reforms weakened a ward-based party system that helped mute ethnic conflict, this new formula for political mobilization grew more powerful. Its most effective variation in Boston was an "ethnic progressivism" that depicted the city's public life as a clash between its immigrant majority--"the people"--and a wealthy Brahmin elite--"the interests." As this portrayal took hold, Bostonians came to view their city as a community permanently beset by ethnic strife. In showing that the several reform visions that arose in Boston included not only the progressivism of the city's business leaders but also a series of ethnic progressivisms, Connolly offers a new approach to urban public life in the early twentieth century. He rejects the assumption that ethnic politics was machine politics and employs both institutional and rhetorical analysis to reconstruct the inner workings of neighborhood public life and the social narratives that bound the city together. The result is a deeply textured picture that differs sharply from the traditional view of machine-reform conflict.
    DOI: 10.4159/9780674029842
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674029842
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    Beyond the Household : Women's Place in the Early South, 1700–1835 (1998)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501731549
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 22 b&w photographs
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 305.42/0975
    Abstract: Much has been written about the "southern lady," that pervasive and enduring icon of antebellum regional identity. But how did the lady get on her pedestal—and were the lives of white southern women always so different from those of their northern contemporaries? In her ambitious new book, Cynthia A. Kierner charts the evolution of the lives of white southern women through the colonial, revolutionary, and early republican eras. Using the lady on her pedestal as the end—rather than the beginning—of her story, she shows how gentility, republican political ideals, and evangelical religion successively altered southern gender ideals and thereby forced women to reshape their public roles. Kierner concludes that southern women continually renegotiated their access to the public sphere—and that even the emergence of the frail and submissive lady as icon did not obliterate women's public role.Kierner draws on a strong overall command of early American and women's history and adds to it research in letters, diaries, newspapers, secular and religious periodicals, travelers' accounts, etiquette manuals, and cookery books. Focusing on the issues of work, education, and access to the public sphere, she explores the evolution of southern gender ideals in an important transitional era. Specifically, she asks what kinds of changes occurred in women's relation to the public sphere from 1700 to 1835. In answering this major question, she makes important links and comparisons, across both time and region, and creates a chronology of social and intellectual change that addresses many key questions in the history of women, the South, and early America.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501731549
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501731549
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    Women of Steel : Female Bodybuilders and the Struggle for Self-Definition (1998)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814765456
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.4082
    Abstract: "A lot of people in the general public think female bodybuilding is gross and freaky . . . that that's not what a woman is supposed to look like." So says Michelle, a national bodybuilding judge. In fact, athletic women, especially those in sports where strength, muscle, and sweat feature prominently, are typically viewed by the public as being outside the boundaries of appropriate femininity. And perhaps no group of women athletes embodies this gender outlaw status more than female bodybuilders, who by their bulk and sheer strength challenge our very notions of what it means to be a woman. Why would women choose to look like that? And what does it take to get and stay so muscular? Maria R. Lowe has interviewed more than one hundred people connected with women's bodybuilding, from the bodybuilders themselves, to trainers, family members, spouses, judges, and sponsors. In Women of Steel, Lowe introduces us to a world where size and strength must be balanced with a nod toward grace and femininity. Lowe, who actually worked out with a couple of the bodybuilders she interviewed, gets at the heart of what it is to be a woman bodybuilder. We learn about "paying the price"--doing the necessary exercise, and sometimes drugs--that allows women to rise to the top of their profession. We follow their successes and failures, and discover the benefits-- including increased self-esteem and physical strength--as well as the sometimes unhealthy effects of their training regimen, from dehydration to baldness to rampant acne to high blood pressure. We travel with the women from competition to competition and find that judges' standards seem to vary alarmingly depending on momentary notions of what constitutes "the overall package"--that elusive perfect body that catches judges' eyes and wins competitions. Above all, Women of Steel is a keenly observant diary of life in women's bodybuilding, a must-read for people interested in sports, competition, physical culture, and gender.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814765456.001.0001
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    Sex and Sexuality in Early America (1998)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814729410
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.7/0973
    Abstract: What role did sexual assault play in the conquest of America? How did American attitudes toward female sexuality evolve, and how was sexuality regulated in the early Republic? Sex and sexuality have always been the subject of much attention, both scholarly and popular. Yet, accounts of the early years of the United States tend to overlook the importance of their influence on the shaping of American culture. Sex and Sexuality in Early America addresses this neglected topic with original research covering a wide spectrum, from sexual behavior to sexual perceptions and imagery. Focusing on the period between the initial contact of Europeans and Native Americans up to 1800, the essays encompass all of colonial North America, including the Caribbean and Spanish territories. Challenging previous assumptions, these essays address such topics as rape as a tool of conquest; perceptions and responses to Native American sexuality; fornication, bastardy, celibacy, and religion in colonial New England; gendered speech in captivity narratives; representations of masculinity in eighteenth- century seduction tales, the sexual cosmos of a southern planter, and sexual transgression and madness in early American fiction. The contributors include Stephanie Wood, Gordon Sayre, Steven Neuwirth, Else L. Hambleton, Erik R. Seeman, Richard Godbeer, Trevor Burnard, Natalie A. Zacek, Wayne Bodle, Heather Smyth, Rodney Hessinger, and Karen A. Weyler.
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814729410.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814729410
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    Alienated Affections : Divorce and Separation in Scotland 1684-1830 (1998)
    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781474470209
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 306.8/9/09411/0903
    Abstract: Personal accounts of adultery, cruelty, desertion and nullity fill this exposition of divorce and separation in Scotland in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Leah Leneman brings vividly to life the marriages and affairs, loves and hates, tenderness and harshness experienced by men and women whose marriages broke down in this period. Their stories, told in their own words, come from the entire spectrum of Scottish society, from the aristocracy to the 'common' people. Contrary to popular belief, divorce and legal separation were available on equal terms to men and women in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland. Alienated Affections offers an overall picture of this phenomenon, richly illustrated by the experiences of individuals.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781474470209
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474470209
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    Claiming Disability : Knowledge and Identity (1998)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814765043
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Cultural Front 14
    DDC: 306.90816
    Abstract: A comprehensive assessment of the field of Disability Studies that presents beyond the medical to dig into the meaningFrom public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact of disability has been felt everywhere since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. And a remarkable groundswell of activism and critical literature has followed in this wake. Claiming Disability is the first comprehensive examination of Disability Studies as a field of inquiry. Disability Studies is not simply about the variations that exist in human behavior, appearance, functioning, sensory acuity, and cognitive processing but the meaning we make of those variations. With vivid imagery and numerous examples, Simi Linton explores the divisions society creates—the normal versus the pathological, the competent citizen versus the ward of the state. Map and manifesto, Claiming Disability overturns medicalized versions of disability and establishes disabled people and their allies as the rightful claimants to this territory.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814765043.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814765043
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    Blacks in the Jewish Mind : A Crisis of Liberalism (1998)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814728901
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.896/073
    Abstract: Since the 1960s the relationship between Blacks and Jews has been a contentious one. While others have attempted to explain or repair the break-up of the Jewish alliance on civil rights, Seth Forman here sets out to determine what Jewish thinking on the subject of Black Americans reveals about Jewish identity in the U.S. Why did American Jews get involved in Black causes in the first place? What did they have to gain from it? And what does that tell us about American Jews? In an extremely provocative analysis, Forman argues that the commitment of American Jews to liberalism, and their historic definition of themselves as victims, has caused them to behave in ways that were defined as good for Blacks, but which in essence were contrary to Jewish interests. They have not been able to dissociate their needs--religious, spiritual, communal, political--from those of African Americans, and have therefore acted in ways which have threatened their own cultural vitality. Avoiding the focus on Black victimization and white racism that often infuses work on Blacks and Jews, Forman emphasizes the complexities inherent in one distinct white ethnic group's involvement in America's racial dilemma.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814728901.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814728901
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    To Die in this Way : Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965 (1998)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822398844
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (336 p.) , 11 b&w photographs, 2 maps
    Series Statement: Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations
    DDC: 305.897/07285
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    Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This Way reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially "forgotten" indigenous culture. Jeffrey L. Gould argues that mestizaje-a cultural homogeneity that has been hailed as a cornerstone of Nicaraguan national identity-involved a decades-long process of myth building.Through interviews with indigenous peoples and records of the elite discourse that suppressed the expression of cultural differences and rationalized the destruction of Indian communities, Gould tells a story of cultural loss. Land expropriation and coerced labor led to cultural alienation that shamed the indigenous population into shedding their language, religion, and dress. Beginning with the 1870s, Gould historicizes the forces that prompted a collective movement away from a strong identification with indigenous cultural heritage to an "acceptance" of a national mixed-race identity.By recovering a significant part of Nicaraguan history that has been excised from the national memory, To Die in This Way critiques the enterprise of third world nation-building and thus marks an important step in the study of Latin American culture and history that will also interest anthropologists and students of social and cultural historians.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822398844
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822398844?locatt=mode:legacy
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822398844
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    Culture Moves : Ideas, Activism, and Changing Values (1998)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780691186719
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 306
    Abstract: Some periods in history are marked by stability in cultural values; at other times, values undergo rapid change. How and why do cultural transformations, such as those affecting race and gender relations, take place? How does one value win acceptance in society when there are conflicting values competing for attention? In Culture Moves, Thomas Rochon addresses this complex process and develops a theory to explain both how values originate and how they spread. In particular, he analyzes the crucial role that small communities of critical thinkers play in developing new ideas and inspiring their dissemination through larger social movements. Rochon develops this theory by drawing from such sources as survey research, content analysis of the mass media, and historical accounts. He focuses mainly on contemporary issues in the United States--such as feminism, civil rights, and environmentalism--but also discusses cases ranging from the French Revolution to the abolition of slavery. He explores the cultural niches--typically universities and research institutes--where new ideas and values evolve and then traces how these ideas play out in society through movements that may have little formal structure. Attention in the media, he argues, is often a deciding move in the contest over public opinion. This book will fundamentally revise how we understand the process of social change and what the prospects are for particular culture moves in the future.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780691186719
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9780691186719
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    National deconstruction : violence, identity, and justice in Bosnia (1998)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
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    ISBN: 9780816629367
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 304 p
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302
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    MG 91094
    Keywords: Jugoslawienkriege ; Psychologie ; Social psychology ; War Psychological aspects ; Fear ; Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 Psychological aspects ; Psychologie ; Bosnienkrieg ; Angst ; Bosnienkrieg ; Psychologie ; Bosnienkrieg ; Angst
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-298) and index
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    Reconstructing Chinatown : ethnic enclave, global change (1998)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
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    ISBN: 9780816629046
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 248 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Globalization and community Volume 2
    Series Statement: Globalization and community
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lin, Jan Reconstructing Chinatown
    DDC: 307.76097471
    RVK:
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    RU 20817
    Keywords: Chinese Americans Economic conditions ; Chinese Americans Politics and government ; Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) ; Economic conditions ; Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) ; Politics and government ; Chinese Americans ; New York (State) ; New York ; Economic conditions ; Chinese Americans ; New York (State) ; New York ; Politics and government ; New York (N.Y.) ; Economic conditions ; New York (N.Y.) ; Politics and government ; Electronic books ; New York (N.Y.) Politics and government ; Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) Economic conditions ; New York (N.Y.) Economic conditions ; Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) Politics and government ; New York- Chinatown ; Politik ; New York- Chinatown ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung
    Abstract: In the American popular imagination, Chinatown is a mysterious and dangerous place, clannish and dilapidated, filled with sweatshops, vice, and organized crime. In this well-written and engaging volume, Jan Lin presents a real-world picture of New York City's Chinatown, countering this "orientalist" view by looking at the human dimensions and the larger forces of globalization that make this vital neighborhood both unique and broadly instructive
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. From Bachelor Society to Immigrant Enclave; 2. Labor Struggles: Sweatshop Workers and Street Traders; 3. The Nexus of Transnational and Local Capital: Chinatown Banking and Real Estate; 4. The Growth of Satellite Chinatowns; 5. Solidarity, Community, and Electoral Politics; 6. The Enclave and the State; 7. Encountering Chinatown: Tourism, Voyeurism, and the Cinema; 8. Community Change in Global Context; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Living for change : an autobiography (1998)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
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    ISBN: 0816629552 , 0816629544 , 9780816629541
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 301 p., [16] p. of plates) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Living for Change : An Autobiography
    DDC: 303.48/4/092
    Keywords: Boggs, Grace Lee ; Boggs, James ; Chinese Americans Biography ; Chinese American women Biography ; Political activists Biography ; Boggs, Grace Lee ; Boggs, James ; Chinese American women ; Michigan ; Detroit ; Biography ; Chinese Americans ; Michigan ; Detroit ; Biography ; Detroit (Mich.) ; Biography ; Political activists ; Michigan ; Detroit ; Biography ; Electronic books ; Detroit (Mich.) Biography ; Biografie
    Abstract: Living for Change is a sweeping account of the life of an untraditional radical from the end of the thirties, through the cold war, the civil rights era, and the rise of Black Power, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panthers to the present efforts to rebuild our crumbling urban communities
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1: East Is East-Or Is It?; 2: From Philosophy to Politics; 3: C.L.R.James; 4: Jimmy; 5: ""The City Is the Black Man's Land""; 6: Beyond Rebellion; 7 ""Going Back"" to China; 8 New Dreams for the Twenty-First Century; 9 On My Own; Notes; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-289) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    On the Fringe : Gays and Lesbians in Politics (1998)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501729638
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (384 p.) , 7 tables, 17 halftones
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 305.9/0664
    Abstract: Does the idea of equality for sexual minorities have as strong an influence as the media suggest? How often do politicians come out forthrightly in support of gay rights? Drawing on more than three hundred interviews with activists, politicians, officials, legislative aides, and journalists, David Rayside shows that gays, lesbians, and their political issues are still on the fringe of the political mainstream. His landmark study of political access demonstrates that, despite the overall tempering of anti-gay rhetoric in the 1990s, opponents of equality are formidable, and standing up for sexual minorities is still widely thought to be politically risky.Rayside documents a high-profile controversy in each of three countries: gays and lesbians in the military in the United States, sexual orientation and human rights legislation in Canada, and the age-of-consent battle in the United Kingdom. In addition, in-depth interviews of openly gay elected officials from three countries-U.S. Congressman Barney Frank, Canadian Member of Parliament Svend Robinson, and British M.P. Chris Smith-provide an inside look at the political process: the negotiation of gay and lesbian policy issues on a daily basis, the attitudes of colleagues in various political parties, and the tensions created when grassroots and mainstream activism intersect with each other. The only major book to look at gay and lesbian politics in three culturally similar but politically disparate countries, On the Fringe explores the political workings and impact of a modern social movement.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501729638
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501729638
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    Living with the Adirondack Forest : Local Perspectives on Land-Use Conflicts (1998)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501731662
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 2 tables, 19 photos
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 304.2/7
    Abstract: Attitudes about land use, Catherine Henshaw Knott suggests, may reflect profound differences in class, religion, and life experience, pitting urban Americans who see nature at risk against rural Americans whose lives are dominated by nature's forces. She documents the thoughts and feelings of people whose lives are intimately connected to the forest, including loggers, trappers, craftspeople, and guides, as well as tree farmers and maple syrup producers. After describing the key players in the conflict and chronicling battles and bridge-building between stake-holders, Knott concludes that the participation of local people in decision making is the only process that can shift an increasingly hostile cycle toward resolution.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501731662
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    Masculinity and Morality (1998)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501728587
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 305.31
    Abstract: What does it mean to be a morally responsible man? Psychology and the law have offered reasons to excuse men for acting aggressively. In these philosophically reflective essays, Larry May argues against standard accounts of traditional male behavior, discussing male anger, paternity, pornography, rape, sexual harassment, the exclusion of women, and what he terms the myth of uncontrollable male sexuality. While refuting the platitudes of the popular men's movement, his book challenges men to reassess and change behavior that has had detrimental effects on the lives of women and of men.In May's view, the key to solving many problems is to understand how individual actions may combine to produce large-scale, harmful consequences. May is eager to reconceptualize male roles in ways that build on men's strength rather than rendering them androgynous. Each chapter in his book suggests strategies to effect changes based on May's views on the nature of moral responsibility.Examining separatism and the socialization of youth in athletics and the military, specifically at Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel, May analyzes the moral implications of the way all-male environments are constructed. Rejecting the standard arguments for them, he speculates about the positive ways they might be used to transform the socialization of young men.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501728587
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    Moral Problems in American Life : New Perspectives on Cultural History (1998)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501725494
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (368 p.) , 13 halftones
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 306/.0973
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: American history is filled with moments of grave moral doubt and institutional crisis, with conflicts over fundamental values, with ethical dilemmas and paradoxes. This volume surveys the moral landscape of the American past from slavery to the Vietnam War. Bringing together fourteen of the most original historians practicing today, the book illuminates a critical dimension of American history, even as it shows how historical study contributes to present-day debates about values and the moral life.These essays examine a wide range of questions that have engaged past generations of Americans and persist into the present-questions about the composition of a moral community and the case for civil disobedience, about the appropriate responses to injustices and inequalities, and about the ethical implications of artistic expression, school curricula, sexual behaviors, and popular media. Focusing on the impact of moral problems on everyday experience, the authors consider these questions in light of reform movements and religious practices; changing social institutions such as marriage, public schools, labor unions, and penitentiaries; and enduring moral forces from the Bible to the U.S. Constitution. Together their essays give historical context to a wide variety of American practices and beliefs and, in doing so, provide a new framework for understanding cultural life.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501725494
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    Between Two Nations : The Political Predicament of Latinos in New York City (1998)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501731341
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 22 tables, 7 charts, 2 maps
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 305.868/07471
    Abstract: Immigrants come to the United States from all over Latin America in search of better lives. They obtain residency status, find jobs, pay taxes, and they have children who are American citizens by birth; yet decades may go by before they seek citizenship for themselves or become active participants in the American political process. Between Two Nations examines the lack of political participation among Latin American immigrants in the United States to determine why so many remain outside the electoral process. Michael Jones-Correa studied the political practices of first-generation immigrants in New York City's multiethnic borough of Queens. Through intensive interviews and participant observation, he found that immigrant participation was stymied both by lack of encouragement to participate and by the requirement to renounce former citizenship, which raised the fear of never being able to return to the country of origin. The hesitation to naturalize as American citizens can extend over decades, leaving immigrants adrift in a political limbo.Between Two Nations is the first qualitative study of how new immigrants assimilate into American political life. Jones-Correa reexamines assumptions about Latino politics and the diversity of Latino populations in the United States, about the role of informal politics in immigrant communities, and about gender differences in approaches to political activity.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501731341
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501731341
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    Tamed Power : Germany in Europe (1998)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501731488
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 3 tables
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 303.48/24304
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Revolutionary changes in global and European politics have reawakened old fears that Europe will be dominated by an unpredictable German giant. The same changes have fueled new hopes for Germany and Europe as models of political pluralism in a peaceful and prosperous world. In fact, Peter J. Katzenstein explains, the current reality is too complex to fit either expectation. Katzenstein contends that a multilateral institutionalization of power is the most distinctive aspect of the relationship between Europe and Germany. Only the observer who is aware of this important fact can understand why Germany is willing to give up its new sovereign power. Although Germany is larger than any other member of the European Union and plays a crucial role in the economic and political life of Eastern Europe, its power is now funneled through the institutions of the European Union rather than erupting in a narrow, power-defined sense of national self-interest. The empirical chapters of this book explore the institutionalization of power relations between the European Union and Germany, as well as the relations of Germany and the European Union with most of the smaller European states.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501731488
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    Social Justice Feminists in the United States and Germany : A Dialogue in Documents, 1885-1933 (1998)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501718120
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 305.42/0973
    Abstract: Women reformers in the United States and Germany maintained a brisk dialogue between 1885 and 1933. Drawing on one another's expertise, they sought to alleviate a wide array of social injustices generated by industrial capitalism, such as child labor and the exploitation of women in the workplace. This book presents and interprets documents from that exchange, most previously unknown to historians, which show how these interactions reflected the political cultures of the two nations. On both sides of the Atlantic, women reformers pursued social justice strategies. The documents discussed here reveal the influence of German factory legislation on debates in the United States, point out the differing contexts of the suffrage movement, compare pacifist and antipacifist reactions of women to World War I, and trace shifts in the feminist movements of both countries after the war. Social Justice Feminists in the United States and Germany provides insight into the efforts of American and German women over half a century of profound social change. Through their dialogue, these women explicate their larger political cultures and the place they occupied in them.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501718120
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501718120
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    Violent cartographies : mapping cultures of war (1997)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
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    ISBN: 9780816629213
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 241 p.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.6/6
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    Keywords: War and civilization ; War and society ; Zivilisation ; Gesellschaft ; Krieg ; USA ; USA ; Krieg ; Zivilisation ; Gesellschaft ; USA ; Krieg ; Gesellschaft
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    States of grace : Senegalese in Italy and the new European immigration (1997)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
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    ISBN: 9780816625420
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 274 p.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.896/63045
    RVK:
    LB 56255
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    LB 56526
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    Keywords: Senegalese Social conditions ; Senegalese Cultural assimilation ; Muslims Social conditions ; Culture conflict ; Senegalesischer Einwanderer ; Italien ; Italien ; Hochschulschrift ; Italien ; Senegalesischer Einwanderer
    Note: Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Chicago, 1992) presented under the title: Invisible cities, Touba Turin, Sengalese transnational migrants in northern Italy , Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-265) and index
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    Political correctness : a response from the cultural Left (1997)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
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    ISBN: 0816624763 , 0816624755 , 9780816624768
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxi, 230 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Political Correctness : A Response from the Cultural Left
    DDC: 306/.0973
    Keywords: Right and left (Political science) ; Political correctness ; Political correctness ; Right and left (Political science) ; United States ; Civilization ; 20th century ; United States ; Moral conditions ; United States ; Politics and government ; 1989- ; Electronic books ; United States Civilization 20th century ; United States Politics and government 1989- ; United States Moral conditions
    Abstract: Written with refreshing clarity and wit, Political Correctness describes a cultural nonphenomenon brought into being by the desires of neoconservatives. Nostalgic for the simple moral logic of the Cold War, the conservative Right has created an evil empire within and conferred upon its enemies-from multiculturalists to postmodernists and poststructuralists-a McCarthyite agenda that demands action from the high-minded
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. The PC Lexicon; 2. Sound Bite Myth: Scholars Hate Students; 3. The Myth of Disinterested Scholarship; 4. Mythic Parameters: Fast-Food PC, McCarthyism, and McReaganism; 5. Constructing the Enemy; 6. The Mirror of Manufactured Cultural Relations; 7. White Male Canon Formation and the End of History; 8. Where Do We Go from Here?; Bibliography; Index
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    Mal'uocchiu : Ambiguity, Evil Eye, and the Language of Distress (1997)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442676947
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2017]
    Series Statement: Anthropological Horizons
    DDC: 306.4
    Abstract: The evil eye has received considerable attention in the literature of disciplines as diverse as anthropology and medicine. Researchers have attempted to identify and explain this essentially ambiguous and variable phenomenon from a number of perspectives –as a culture-bound syndrome, an idiom of distress, a mechanism of social control, and a representation of psychobiological fear. InMal'uocchiu: Ambiguity, Evil Eye, and the Language of Distress, Sam Migliore shifts the focus of discussion from paradigms to a practical examination of how people use the notion of the evil eye in a variety of sociocultural contexts, particularly in various aspects of Sicilian-Canadian culture and experience. Drawing on the theories of Luigi Pirandello and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Migliore argues that mal'uocchiu, and by implication other folk constructs, is like a character in search of an author to give it 'form' or 'meaning.' The book begins by considering the indeterminate nature of the evil-eye complex. Migliore proposes that this indeterminacy allows people to create myriad alternative meanings and messages to define and make sense of their personal experiences. He then examines how the evil eye relates to Sicilian-Canadian conceptions of health and illness, and discusses treatment and prevention strategies. Throughout the study, the author blends context-setting, case studies, personal recollection, and interpretation to provide readers with an accessible, alternative look at the multifaceted nature of this folk tradition. His position as both an anthropologist and a community 'insider' affords him a unique perspective on the subject. This study will be essential reading for students of medical anthropology, religion, and ethnic studies.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781442676947
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442676947
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    Writing new identities : gender, nation, and immigration in contemporary Europe (1997)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
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    ISBN: 0816624615 , 0816624607 , 9780816624614
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 392 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Writing New Identities : Gender, Nation, and Immigration in Contemporary Europe
    DDC: 304.8/2/094
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    Keywords: Nationalism ; Ethnicity ; Migration, Internal ; Women in literature ; Emigration and immigration in literature ; Nationalism in literature ; Emigration and immigration in literature ; Ethnicity ; Europe ; Europe ; Emigration and immigration ; Migration, Internal ; Europe ; Nationalism ; Europe ; Nationalism in literature ; Women in literature ; Electronic books ; Europe Emigration and immigration ; Europe Social conditions 20th century ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The essays in Writing New Identities address the changing notions of community that the New Europe faces as a result of the large numbers of immigrants and migrant workers seeking work and refuge within its borders
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Gender, Nation, and Immigration in the New Europe; Part I. Post/Coloniality in the New Europe; Part II. The New Europe and Its Old Margins; Part III. Nationalisms, Gender, and Sexualities; Contributors; Index
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    Between the sheets, in the streets : queer, lesbian, gay documentary (1997)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
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    ISBN: 0816627746 , 0816627754 , 9780816627752
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 274 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Visible evidence v. 1
    Parallel Title: Print version Between the Sheets, in the Streets : Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary
    DDC: 306.76/6
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    Keywords: Gays in popular culture ; Documentary mass media ; Documentary mass media ; United States ; Gays in popular culture ; United States ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: From film festivals to university campuses, from private homes to first-run theaters, people everywhere are viewing and discussing gay, lesbian, queer, bisexual, and transgender films and videos. Between the Sheets, In the Streets considers these videos and films, testifying to the unavoidable connections between sexuality (the sheets) and activism (the streets) for all who identify as gay, lesbian, or queer in the 1990s. This first collection of essays to focus exclusively on queer, lesbian, and gay documentary argues that documentary films and videos speak with a sense of political and socia
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; MARKERS; MEMORIES; MARRIAGE AND MOURNING; MIRRORS; Film and Videography; Contributors; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index -- Includes filmography: p. 241-263 , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Border theory : the limits of cultural politics (1997)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
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    ISBN: 0816629633 , 0816629625 , 9780816629633
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (vii, 266 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2008 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Border Theory : The Limits of Cultural Politics
    DDC: 306.2
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    Keywords: Boundaries ; Boundaries in literature ; Multiculturalism ; Geopolitics ; Political anthropology ; Ethnicity ; Boundaries in literature ; Boundaries ; Ethnicity ; Geopolitics ; Multiculturalism ; Political anthropology ; United States ; Boundaries ; Mexico ; Electronic books ; Mexico Boundaries ; United States Boundaries ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The authors gathered in this volume examine the multiple borders that define the United States and the Americas, including the Mason-Dixon line, the U.S.-Canadian border, the shifting boundaries of urban diasporas, and the colonization and confinement of American Indians. They examine the way border studies beckons us to rethink all objects of study and intellectual disciplines as versions of a border problematic
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Border Secrets: An Introduction; I. The Borderlands; II. Other Geographies; Afterword: Further Perspectives on Culture, Limits, and Borders; Contributors; Index
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    Meaning in Motion : New Cultural Studies of Dance (1997)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822397281
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (408 p.) , 37 b&w photographs
    Series Statement: Post-Contemporary Interventions
    DDC: 306.4/84
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Dance, whether considered as an art form or embodied social practice, as product or process, is a prime subject for cultural analysis. Yet only recently have studies of dance become concerned with the ideological, theoretical, and social meanings of dance practices, performances, and institutions. In Meaning in Motion, Jane C. Desmond brings together the work of critics who have ventured into the boundaries between dance and cultural studies, and thus maps a little-known and rarely explored critical site.Writing from a broad range of perspectives, contributors from disciplines as varied as art history and anthropology, dance history and political science, philosophy and women's studies chart the questions and challenges that mark this site. How does dance enact or rework social categories of identity? How do meanings change as dance styles cross borders of race, nationality, or class? How do we talk about materiality and motion, sensation and expressivity, kinesthetics and ideology? The authors engage these issues in a variety of contexts: from popular social dances to the experimentation of the avant-garde; from nineteenth-century ballet and contemporary Afro-Brazilian Carnival dance to hip hop, the dance hall, and film; from the nationalist politics of folk dances to the feminist philosophies of modern dance. Giving definition to a new field of study, Meaning in Motion broadens the scope of dance analysis and extends to cultural studies new ways of approaching matters of embodiment, identity, and representation.Contributors. Ann Cooper Albright, Evan Alderson, Norman Bryson, Cynthia Cohen Bull, Ann Daly, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Susan Foster, Mark Franko, Marianne Goldberg, Amy Koritz, Susan Kozel, Susan Manning, Randy Martin, Angela McRobbie, Kate Ramsey, Anna Scott, Janet Wolff...
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822397281
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822397281?locatt=mode:legacy
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    Islamic Homosexualities : Culture, History, and Literature (1997)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814761083
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306/.62/0917671
    Abstract: The dramatic impact of Islamic fundamentalism in recent years has skewed our image of Islamic history and culture. Stereotypes depict Islamic societies as economically backward, hyper-patriarchal, and fanatically religious. But in fact, the Islamic world encompasses a great diversity of cultures and a great deal of variation within those cultures in terms of gender roles and sexuality. The first collection on this topic from a historical and anthropological perspective, Homosexuality in the Muslim World reveals that patterns of male and female homosexuality have existed and often flourished within the Islamic world. Indeed, same-sex relations have, until quite recently, been much more tolerated under Islam than in the Christian West. Based on the latest theoretical perspectives in gender studies, feminism, and gay studies, Homosexuality in the Muslim World includes cultural and historical analyses of the entire Islamic world, not just the so-called Middle East. Essays show both age-stratified patterns of homosexuality, as revealed in the erotic and romantic poetry of medieval poets, and gender-based patterns, in which both men and women might, to varying degrees, choose to live as members of the opposite sex. The contributors draw on historical documents, literary texts, ethnographic observation and direct observation by both Muslim and non-Muslim authors to show the considerable diversity of Islamic societies and the existence of tolerated gender and sexual variances.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814761083.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814761083
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    Women's Voices, Women's Power : Dialogues of Resistance from East Africa (1997)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442603103
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2019]
    Series Statement: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    DDC: 305.48/896395
    Abstract: Most ethnographic treatments of other cultures restrict the voice of their "subjects"; at most, description and analysis by the observer are accompanied by brief selective "ation. With a methodological openness that may be particularly appropriate to gender studies, anthropologist Judith Abwunza provides in this ethnography both the fruit of her research into the lives of Logoli women of Western Kenya and substantial transcripts giving the women's own description and analysis of their situation. The Avalogoli remain a strongly patriarchal society. Yet, as in many such societies elsewhere in Africa and indeed around the world, women have demonstrated a resilience under patriarchy that has resulted in their nominal power being far outweighed by their actual power. As Abwunza demonstrates, the economic survival of the Avalogoli is dependent not only on women's works but also on their decision-making. Through 'back-door decisions' they have a surprising power to influence national as well as local events. Women's Voices, Women's Power offers no apologies for a system that remains disturbingly patriarchal. But it does attempt to face directly the complexities and paradoxes involved-not the least of which is that many of the women posture an adherence to patriarchy even as they describe the disproportionate burden it places upon them. And it seeks an understanding of the ways in which Logoli society is changing in the face of increasing capitalism and commodification-processes that the author argues may simultaneously empower and disempower women.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781442603103
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442603103
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    Black, Jewish, and Interracial : It's Not the Color of Your Skin, but the Race of Your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity (1997)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822382300
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (232 p.)
    DDC: 305.896/073
    Abstract: How do adult children of interracial parents-where one parent is Jewish and one is Black-think about personal identity? This question is at the heart of Katya Gibel Azoulay's Black, Jewish, and Interracial. Motivated by her own experience as the child of a Jewish mother and Jamaican father, Gibel Azoulay blends historical, theoretical, and personal perspectives to explore the possibilities and meanings that arise when Black and Jewish identities merge. As she asks what it means to be Black, Jewish, and interracial, Gibel Azoulay challenges deeply ingrained assumptions about identity and moves toward a consideration of complementary racial identities.Beginning with an examination of the concept of identity as it figures in philosophical and political thought, Gibel Azoulay moves on to consider and compare the politics and traditions of the Black and Jewish experience in America. Her inquiry draws together such diverse subjects as Plessy v. Ferguson, the Leo Frank case, "passing," intermarriage, civil rights, and anti-Semitism. The paradoxical presence of being both Black and Jewish, she argues, leads questions of identity, identity politics, and diversity in a new direction as it challenges distinct notions of whiteness and blackness. Rising above familiar notions of identity crisis and cultural confrontation, she offers new insights into the discourse of race and multiculturalism as she suggests that identity can be a more encompassing concept than is usually thought. Gibel Azoulay adds her own personal history and interviews with eight other Black and Jewish individuals to reveal various ways in which interracial identities are being lived, experienced, and understood in contemporary America.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822382300
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822382300?locatt=mode:legacy
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822382300
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    Reworking Class (1997)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501725449
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (424 p.) , 8 tables, 8 charts/graphs, 1 map, 1 photo, 1 drawing
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The twelve essays in this volume propose new directions in the analysis of class. John R. Hall argues that recent historical and intellectual developments require reworking basic assumptions about classes and their dynamics. The contributors effectively abandon the notion of a transcendent class struggle. They seek instead to understand the historically contingent ways in which economic interests are pursued under institutionally, socially, and culturally structured circumstances.In his introduction, Hall proposes a neo-Weberian venue intended to bring the most promising contemporary approaches to class analysis into productive exchange with one another. Some of the chapters that follow rework how classes are conceptualized. Others offer historical and sociological reflections on questions of class identity. A third cluster focuses on the politics of class mobilizations and social movements in contexts of national and global economic change.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501725449
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501725449
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    Women of the American South : A Multicultural Reader (1997)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814728642
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.4/0975
    Abstract: Among the most prominent icons of the American south is that of the southern belle, immortalized by such figures as Scarlett O'Hara, Dolly Madison, and Lucy Pickens (whose elegant image graced the Confederate ...
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814728642.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814728642
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    Young Heroes : The Indonesian Family in Politics (1997)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501718908
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 306.8509598
    Abstract: An exploration of the family as a cultural, historical, and political construction in New Order Indonesia. The linkage of family life to politics was an integral part of Suharto's New Order ideology. With extensive fieldwork and research into education, family dynamics, politics, and the media, Shiraishi's work presents an in-depth view of the intricacies of Indonesian society.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501718908
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501718908
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    Wandering Peoples : Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850 (1997)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822398943
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (432 p.) , 6 illustrations, 5 maps, 4 graphs
    Series Statement: Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations
    DDC: 305.8/0097217
    Abstract: Wandering Peoples is a chronicle of cultural resiliency, colonial relations, and trespassed frontiers in the borderlands of a changing Spanish empire. Focusing on the native subjects of Sonora in Northwestern Mexico, Cynthia Radding explores the social process of peasant class formation and the cultural persistence of Indian communities during the long transitional period between Spanish colonialism and Mexican national rule. Throughout this anthropological history, Radding presents multilayered meanings of culture, community, and ecology, and discusses both the colonial policies to which peasant communities were subjected and the responses they developed to adapt and resist them.Radding describes this colonial mission not merely as an instance of Iberian expansion but as a site of cultural and political confrontation. This alternative vision of colonialism emphasizes the economic links between mission communities and Spanish mercantilist policies, the biological consequences of the Spanish policy of forced congregación, and the cultural and ecological displacements set in motion by the practices of discipline and surveillance established by the religious orders. Addressing wider issues pertaining to ethnic identities and to ecological and cultural borders, Radding's analysis also underscores the parallel production of colonial and subaltern texts during the course of a 150-year struggle for power and survival.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822398943
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822398943?locatt=mode:legacy
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