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  • 1
    ISBN: 9780520260122
    Language: English
    Pages: 487 Seiten
    DDC: 305.3
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    Keywords: Geschlechterrolle ; Geschlechtsidentität ; Biodiversität
    Abstract: In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science-and even Darwin himself. She leads the reader through a fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, including primates. Evolution's Rainbow explains how this diversity develops from the action of genes and hormones and ...
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  • 2
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520943391
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (207 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.309794
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    Keywords: Verbraucherverhalten ; Kalifornien
    Abstract: Even as they see their wages go down and their buying power decrease, many parents are still putting their kids' material desires first. These parents struggle with how to handle children's consumer wants, which continue unabated despite the economic downturn. And, indeed, parents and other adults continue to spend billions of dollars on children every year. Why do children seem to desire so much, so often, so soon, and why do parents capitulate so readily? To determine what forces lie behind the onslaught of Nintendo Wiis and Bratz dolls, Allison J. Pugh spent three years observing and interviewing children and their families. In Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture, Pugh teases out the complex factors that contribute to how we buy, from lunchroom conversations about Game Boys to the stark inequalities facing American children. Pugh finds that children's desires stem less from striving for status or falling victim to advertising than from their yearning to join the conversation at school or in the neighborhood. Most parents respond to children's need to belong by buying the particular goods and experiences that act as passports in children's social worlds, because they sympathize with their children's fear of being different from their peers. Even under financial constraints, families prioritize children "feeling normal". Pugh masterfully illuminates the surprising similarities in the fears and hopes of parents and children from vastly different social contexts, showing that while corporate marketing and materialism play a part in the commodification of childhood, at the heart of the matter is the desire to belong.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 0520943384 , 1282772538 , 9780520943384 , 9781282772533
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 338 pages)
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    DDC: 330.1
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1968-2000 ; Capitalism ; Communism ; Comparative economics ; Working class ; Business ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General ; Kapitalismus ; Kommunismus ; Wirtschaft ; Comparative economics ; Capitalism ; Communism ; Working class ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Sozialismus ; Wirtschaftssystem ; Soziokultureller Wandel ; Politischer Wandel ; Kapitalismus ; Kapitalismus ; Sozialismus ; Wirtschaftssystem ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Politischer Wandel ; Soziokultureller Wandel ; Geschichte 1968-2000
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-327) and index , In this collection of essays, Burawoy develops the extended case method by connecting his own experiences among workers of the world to the great transformations of the 20th century including the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites, and the reconstruction of US capitalism , Prologue : bringing theory to the field -- Introduction : from Manchester to Berkeley by way of Chicago -- The extended case method : race and class in postcolonial Africa -- The ethnographic revisit : capitalism in transition and other histories -- Two methods in search of revolution : Trotsky versus Skocpol -- Multicase ethnography : tracking the demise of state socialism -- Conclusion : the ethnography of great transformations -- Epilogue : on public ethnography
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  • 4
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520942899
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (225 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    DDC: 305.9642
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    Keywords: Küche ; Restaurant ; Kochen ; Kultur ; Ess- und Trinksitte
    Abstract: Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant. In this rich, often surprising portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, Gary Alan Fine brings their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life. A new preface updates this riveting exploration of how restaurants actually work, both individually and as part of a larger culinary culture.
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  • 5
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520941298
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (89 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st edition
    DDC: 304.8
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Diaspora ; Minderheit
    Abstract: Coined in the third century B.C., the term diaspora has evolved into a buzzword used to describe the migrations of groups as diverse as ethnic populations, religious communities, and even engineers working abroad. This concise book provides a critical introduction to the concept of diaspora, bringing a fresh, synthetic perspective to virtually all aspects of this topic. Stéphane Dufoix incorporates a wealth of case studies-about the Jewish, Armenian, African, Chinese, Greek, and Indian experiences- to illustrate key concepts, give a clear overview on current thinking, and reassess the value of the term for us today.
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  • 6
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520942448 , 0520942442
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 251 pages)
    DDC: 201/.7
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    Keywords: Einwanderer ; Recht ; Religiöses Engagement ; Menschenrecht ; Religiöse Gruppe ; USA
    Abstract: In this timely and compelling account of the contribution to immigrant rights made by religious activists in post-1965 and post-9/11 America, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo provides a comprehensive, close-up view of how Muslim, Christian, and Jewish groups are working to counter xenophobia. Against the hysteria prevalent in today's media, in which immigrants are often painted as a drain on the public coffers, inherently unassimilable, or an outright threat to national security, Hondagneu-Sotelo finds the intersection between migration and religion and calls attention to quieter voices, those dedic.
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  • 7
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520942462 , 0520942469 , 9780520256736 , 0520256735 , 9780520256743 , 0520256743
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 258 pages) , Illustrations, map
    DDC: 973.00468/72
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1940-2005 ; Mexikanischer Einwanderer ; Mexikaner ; Migrationspolitik ; USA ; Houston, Tex. ; Mexiko
    Abstract: Challenging many common perceptions, this book is dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon - the large number of skilled urban workers who are coming to America from Mexico's cities. Based on a ten-year study of one working-class neighbourhood in Monterrey, the book studies the forces that lead to Mexican emigration.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index
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  • 8
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520941292 , 9780520941298
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 136 p.)
    Uniform Title: Diasporas
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration ; Emigration and immigration ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Emigration and immigration History ; Diaspora ; Minderheit ; Diaspora ; Geschichte ; Minderheit ; Geschichte
    Note: "Originally published in French as Les diasporas, c2003, Presses Universitaires de France"--T.p. verso , Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-136) , What is a diaspora? -- The spaces of dispersion -- Maintaining connections : holding on and letting go -- Managing distance , A critical introduction to the concept of 'diaspora' this book incorporates a wealth of case studies & provides a clear overview of current thinking
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  • 9
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520942462
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 973.0046872
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1940-2005 ; Mexikanischer Einwanderer ; Mexikaner ; Migrationspolitik ; USA ; Houston, Tex. ; Mexiko ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Challenging many common perceptions, this is the first book fully dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon-the large numbers of skilled urban workers who are now coming across the border from Mexico's cities. Based on a ten-year, on-the-ground study of one working-class neighborhood in Monterrey, Mexico's industrial powerhouse and third-largest city, Metropolitan Migrants explores the ways in which Mexico's economic restructuring and the industrial modernization of the past three decades have pushed a new flow of migrants toward cities such as Houston, Texas, the global capital of the oil industry. Weaving together rich details of everyday life with a lucid analysis of Mexico's political economy, Rubén Hernández-León deftly traces the effects of restructuring on the lives of the working class, from the national level to the kitchen table.
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9780520933897
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: Thirtieth anniversary edition, with a new preface by the author
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    Keywords: Ethnologie ; Feldforschung ; Fremdheit ; Marokko
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  • 11
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520940697
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (229 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies
    DDC: 305.89607307
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    Keywords: Mittelstand ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Washington, DC
    Abstract: As Karyn R. Lacy's innovative work in the suburbs of Washington, DC, reveals, there is a continuum of middle-classness among blacks, ranging from lower-middle class to middle-middle class to upper-middle class. Focusing on the latter two, Lacy explores an increasingly important social and demographic group: middle-class blacks who live in middle-class suburbs where poor blacks are not present. These "blue-chip black" suburbanites earn well over fifty thousand dollars annually and work in predominantly white professional environments. Lacy examines the complicated sense of identity that individuals in these groups craft to manage their interactions with lower-class blacks, middle-class whites, and other middle-class blacks as they seek to reap the benefits of their middle-class status.
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  • 12
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | New York, NY : JSTOR
    ISBN: 9780520933026 , 0520933028
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: Updated with a new preface
    Series Statement: Comparative studies of health systems and medical care 33
    DDC: 306.4/61
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    Keywords: Aids ; HIV-Infektion ; Armut ; Haiti ; USA
    Abstract: In this dissertation, ethnographic, historical and epidemiologic data are brought to bear on the subject of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Haiti. The forces that have helped to determine rates and pattern of spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are examined, as are social responses to AIDS in rural and urban Haiti, and in parts of North America. History and its calculus of economic and symbolic power also help to explain why residents of a small village in rural Haiti came to understand AIDS in the manner that they did. Drawing on several years of fieldwork, the evolution of a cultural model of AIDS is traced. In a small village in rural Haiti, it was possible to document first the lack of such a model, and then the elaboration over time of a widely shared representation of AIDS. The experience of three villagers who died of complications of AIDS is examined in detail, and the importance of their suffering to the evolution of a cultural model is demonstrated. Epidemiologic and ethnographic studies are prefaced by a geographically broad historical analysis, which suggests the outlines of relations between a powerful center (the United States) and a peripheral client state (Haiti). These relations constitute an important part of a political-economic network termed the "West Atlantic system." The epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in Haiti and elsewhere in the Caribbean is reviewed, and the relation between the degree of involvement in the West Atlantic system and the prevalence of HIV is suggested. It is further suggested that the history of HIV in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Bahamas is similar to that documented here for Haiti.
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  • 13
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520933026
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (277 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    DDC: 306.4/61
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    Keywords: Aids ; HIV-Infektion ; Armut ; Haiti ; USA
    Abstract: Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. First published in 1992 this new edition has been updated and a new preface added.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520938984
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (245 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Studies on the History of Society and Culture v.52
    DDC: 306.70956090
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    Keywords: Islam ; Ethik ; Recht ; Sexualität ; Osmanisches Reich ; Naher Osten
    Abstract: This highly original book brings into focus the sexual discourses manifest in a wealth of little-studied source material-medical texts, legal documents, religious literature, dream interpretation manuals, shadow theater, and travelogues-in a nuanced, wide-ranging, and powerfully analytic exploration of Ottoman sexual thought and practices from the heyday of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Following on the work of Foucault, Gagnon, Laqueur, and others, the premise of the book is that people shape their ideas of what is permissible, define boundaries of right and wrong, and imagine their sexual worlds through the set of discourses available to them. Dror Ze'evi finds that while some of these discourses were restrictive and others more permissive, all treated sex in its many manifestations as a natural human pursuit. And, he further argues that all these discourses were transformed and finally silenced in the last century, leaving very little to inform Middle Eastern societies in sexual matters. With its innovative approach toward the history of sexuality in the Middle East, Producing Desire sheds new light on the history of the Ottoman Empire, on the history of sexuality and gender, and on the Islamic Middle East today.
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  • 15
    ISBN: 9780520248113
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 308 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: American crossroads 13
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520938984 , 1429467436 , 9780520938984 , 9781429467438
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 223 p.)
    Series Statement: Studies on the history of society and culture 52
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    DDC: 306.7/0956/0903
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1900 ; PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality ; SELF-HELP / Sexual Instruction ; HISTORY / Middle East / General ; Desire ; Sex customs ; Sexuality / history / Middle East ; Sex customs ; Desire ; Sexualität ; Geschlechterverhältnis ; Naher Osten ; Naher Osten ; Naher Osten ; Geschlechterverhältnis ; Geschichte 1500-1900 ; Naher Osten ; Sexualität ; Geschichte 1500-1900
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-211) and index , The body sexual: medicine and physiognomy -- Regulating desire: sharīʻa and kanun -- Morality wars: orthodoxy, Sufism, and beardless youths -- Dream interpretation and the unconscious -- Boys in the hood: shadow theater as a sexual counter-script -- The view from without: sexuality in travel accounts -- Conclusion: modernity and sexual discourse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520939547
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (268 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.80097471
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    Keywords: Stadtviertel ; Anthropologie ; Soziale Situation ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; New York- Harlem
    Abstract: Rich with the textures and rhythms of street life, The Tenants of East Harlem is an absorbing and unconventional biography of a neighborhood told through the life stories of seven residents whose experiences there span nearly a century. Modeled on the ethnic distinctions that divide the community, the book portrays the old guard of East Harlem: Pete, one of the last Italian holdouts; José, a Puerto Rican; and Lucille, an African American. Side by side with these representatives of a century of ethnic succession are the newcomers: Maria, an undocumented Mexican; Mohamed, a West African entrepreneur; Si Zhi, a Chinese immigrant and landlord; and, finally, the author himself, a reluctant beneficiary of urban renewal. Russell Leigh Sharman deftly weaves these oral histories together with fine-grained ethnographic observations and urban history to examine the ways that immigration, housing, ethnic change, gentrification, race, class, and gender have affected the neighborhood over time. Providing unique access to the nuances of inner-city life, The Tenants of East Harlem shows how roots sink so quickly in a community that has always hosted the transient, how new immigrants are challenging the claims of the old, and how that cycle is threatened as never before by the specter of gentrification.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520930872
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.09520903
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Ainu ; Ethnische Identität ; Modernisierung ; Sozialstatus ; Japan
    Abstract: In this pioneering study, David L. Howell looks beneath the surface structures of the Japanese state to reveal the mechanism by which markers of polity, status, and civilization came together over the divide of the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Howell illustrates how a short roster of malleable, explicitly superficial customs-hairstyle, clothing, and personal names- served to distinguish the "civilized" realm of the Japanese from the "barbarian" realm of the Ainu in the Tokugawa era. Within the core polity, moreover, these same customs distinguished members of different social status groups from one another, such as samurai warriors from commoners, and commoners from outcasts.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520930049
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (308 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.70973
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    Keywords: Kinsey-Report ; Sexualverhalten ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Geschlechterverhältnis ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: When Alfred Kinsey's massive studies Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female appeared in 1948 and 1953, their detailed data spurred an unprecedented public discussion of the nation's sexual practices and ideologies. As they debated what behaviors were normal or average, abnormal or deviant, Cold War Americans also celebrated and scrutinized the state of their nation, relating apparent changes in sexuality to shifts in its political structure, economy, and people. American Sexual Character employs the studies and the myriad responses they evoked to examine national debates about sexuality, gender, and Americanness after World War II. Focusing on the mutual construction of postwar ideas about national identity and sexual life, this wide-ranging, shrewd, and lively analysis explores the many uses to which these sex surveys were put at a time of extreme anxiety about sexual behavior and its effects on the nation. Looking at real and perceived changes in masculinity, female sexuality, marriage, and homosexuality, Miriam G. Reumann develops the notion of "American sexual character," sexual patterns and attitudes that were understood to be uniquely American and to reflect contemporary transformations in politics, social life, gender roles, and culture. She considers how apparent shifts in sexual behavior shaped the nation's workplaces, homes, and families, and how these might be linked to racial and class differences.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520238354
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 294 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version American Sexual Character : Sex, Gender, and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports
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    Keywords: Kinsey, Alfred C ; Institute for Sex Research ; Sex ; Gender identity ; Gender identity ; United States ; Institute for Sex Research ; Sexual behavior in the human female ; Kinsey, Alfred C ; (Alfred Charles) ; 1894-1956 ; Sexual behavior in the human male ; Sex ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: When Alfred Kinsey's massive studies Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female appeared in 1948 and 1953, their detailed data spurred an unprecedented public discussion of the nation's sexual practices and ideologies. As they debated what behaviors were normal or average, abnormal or deviant, Cold War Americans also celebrated and scrutinized the state of their nation, relating apparent changes in sexuality to shifts in its political structure, economy, and people. American Sexual Character employs the studies and the myriad responses they evoked to examine nati
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; ONE. ""SEXUAL ORDER IN OUR NATION"": American Sexuality and National Character in the Postwar United States; TWO. ""A MISSING SENSE OF MALENESS"": Male Heterosexuality, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, and the Crisis of American Masculinity; THREE. ""MUCH THE SAME DESIRES AS MEN"": Sexual Behavior in the Human Female and the "American Woman"; FOUR. ""I'M A MUCH BETTER CITIZEN THAN IF I WERE SINGLE"": Remaking Postwar Marriage and Reconfiguring Marital Sexuality
    Description / Table of Contents: FIVE. ""AN AGE OF SEXUAL AMBIGUITY"": Homosexuality and National Character in the Postwar United StatesEPILOGUE. ""ALL AMERICA IS ONE BIG ORGONE BOX"": American Sexual Character Revisited; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-286) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520931381
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (378 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.7660955090544
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    Keywords: Kadscharen ; Geschichte 1785-1925 ; Geschlechterrolle ; Frau ; Soziale Situation ; Iran
    Abstract: Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality. Peeling away notions of a rigid pre-modern Islamic gender system, Afsaneh Najmabadi provides a compelling demonstration of the centrality of gender and sexuality to the shaping of modern culture and politics in Iran and of how changes in ideas about gender and sexuality affected conceptions of beauty, love, homeland, marriage, education, and citizenship. She concludes with a provocative discussion of Iranian feminism and its role in that country's current culture wars. In addition to providing an important new perspective on Iranian history, Najmabadi skillfully demonstrates how using gender as an analytic category can provide insight into structures of hierarchy and power and thus into the organization of politics and social life.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520242629 , 0520242637
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 363 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards : Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity
    DDC: 305.42/0955/09034
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    Keywords: Gender identity History ; Women Social conditions 19th century ; Women Social conditions 20th century ; Gender identity ; Iran ; History ; Women ; Iran ; Social conditions ; 19th century ; Women ; Iran ; Social conditions ; 20th century ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality. Peeling away notions of a rigid pre-modern Islamic gender system, Afsaneh Najmabadi provides a compelling demonstration of the centrality of gender and sexuality to the shaping of modern culture and politics in Iran and of how changes in ideas about gender and sexuality affected conceptions of beauty, love, homeland, marriage, education, and citizenship. She concludes with a provocative d
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: BEAUTY, LOVE, AND SEXUALITY; 1. Early Qajar; 2. Nineteenth-Century Transformations; PART II: CULTURAL LABOR OF SEXUALITY AND GENDER; 3. The Eclipse of the (Fe)Male Sun; 4. Vatan, the Beloved; Vatan, the Mother; 5. Women's Veil and Unveil; 6. The Tragedy of Romantic Marriage; 7. Crafting an Educated Wife and Mother; 8. Women or Wives of the Nation?; Epilogue: Feminism and Its Burden of Birth; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Credits; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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