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  • 2010-2014
  • 1995-1999  (27)
  • 1996  (27)
  • Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH  (27)
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  • 1
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    Religionssoziologie : Entwicklung der Vorstellungen vom Heiligen (1996)
    Berlin : Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9783486787788
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (190p.)
    Edition: Reprint 2017
    Edition: [2017]
    DDC: 306.6
    RVK:
    BE 3300
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    BE 3320
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    MS 6550
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    BE 3300
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    BE 3320
    RVK:
    MS 6550
    Keywords: Religionssoziologie ; Das Heilige ; Vorstellung ; Entwicklung
    Abstract: Die Vorstellungen vom Heiligen sind nachprüfbare Daten, anhand derer sich hier die Soziologie mit Religionen befasst.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jun 2017)
    DOI: 10.1515/9783486787788
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783486787788
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  • 2
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    Public Men and Virtuous Women : The Gendered Languages of Religion and Politics in Upper Canada, 1791-1850 (1996)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781487576806
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.)
    Edition: [2019]
    Series Statement: Heritage
    DDC: 305.3/09713
    Abstract: Gendered images and symbols were of central importance the public debate about loyalty, a political conflict, and religious participation in early Ontario. Drawing on a wide range of international scholarship in feminist theory, women's and gender history, and cultural studies, Cecilia Morgan analyses political and religious languages in the Upper Canadian press, both secular and religious, and other material published in the colony from the 1790s to the 1850s. She examines constructs and concepts of gender in a wide number of areas: narratives of the War of 1812, political struggles over responsible government in the 1820s and 1830s, evangelical religious discourses throughout these decades, and related discussions of manners and moral behaviour. She also considers the relations between religion and politics in the 1840s, pointing to the continuous struggles of Upper Canadians to define and fix the meanings of public and private and their use of masculinity and femininity to signify these realms. She suggests as well that scholars of gender and colonial history need to consider a more nuanced way of understanding social formation in the colony through an examination of the representation of voluntary organizations. The book also examines relations of gender, class, and race as they affected the cultural development of the middle class. Morgan concludes that while seemingly hegemonic definitions of gender relations emerged over this period -- with men and masculinity identified with politics and loyalty to the colonial state and imperial connection, and women and femininity linked to the home -- the meanings of gender and gendered imagery differed according to their contexts. Colonial society's attempts to make sharp delineations between the public and the private were rarely successful and were marked by numerous tensions and contradictions.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)
    DOI: 10.3138/9781487576806
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487576806
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  • 3
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    Science, Jews, and Secular Culture : Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History (1996)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781400847747
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (190 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 305.552
    Keywords: Jews Intellectual life ; Science History 20th century ; Secularism History 20th century ; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century ; Academic freedom, disputes over ; African-Americans ; Anderson, Sherwood ; Anti-Semitism ; Asian-Americans ; Benedict, Ruth ; Blumenberg, Hans ; Boulding, Kenneth ; Bush, Vannevar ; Catholics and Catholicism ; Coffin, Henry Sloan ; Cook, William W ; Cosmopolitanism ; Cowley, Malcolm ; Davis, Chandler ; De-Christianization ; Dos Passos, John ; Edel, Abraham ; Enlightenment, traditions of ; Ethical Culture Society ; Fairchild, Harold Pratt ; Feminism ; Foucault, Michel ; Frankfurter, Felix ; Gadamer, Hans-Georg ; Haber, William ; Herskovitz, Melville ; Hiss, Alger ; Hook, Sidney ; Immigration ; Irvine, James ; Judaism ; Kaempffert, Waldemar ; Klein, Lawrence ; Lazarsfeld, Paul ; Lippmann, Walter ; Markert, Clement ; Miller, Warren ; Nashville Agrarians ; National Science Foundation ; Noyes, Alfred ; Pluralism, academic ; Pragmatism ; Price, Derek ; Reichenbach, Hans ; Schleiermacher, Freidrich ; Shils, Edward ; Spingarn, Joel ; Terman, Lewis ; Tyndall, John ; Universalism ; Vetter, Jan
    Abstract: This remarkable group of essays describes the "culture wars" that consolidated a new, secular ethos in mid-twentieth-century American academia and generated the fresh energies needed for a wide range of scientific and cultural enterprises. Focusing on the decades from the 1930s through the 1960s, David Hollinger discusses the scientists, social scientists, philosophers, and historians who fought the Christian biases that had kept Jews from fully participating in American intellectual life. Today social critics take for granted the comparatively open outlook developed by these men (and men they were, mostly), and charge that their cosmopolitanism was not sufficiently multicultural. Yet Hollinger shows that the liberal cosmopolitans of the mid-century generation defined themselves against the realities of their own time: McCarthyism, Nazi and Communist doctrines, a legacy of anti-Semitic "as, and both Protestant and Catholic versions of the notion of a "Christian America." The victory of liberal cosmopolitans was so sweeping by the 1960s that it has become easy to forget the strength of the enemies they fought.Most books addressing the emergence of Jewish intellectuals celebrate an illustrious cohort of literary figures based in New York City. But the pieces collected here explore the long-postponed acceptance of Jewish immigrants in a variety of settings, especially the social science and humanities faculties of major universities scattered across the country. Hollinger acknowledges the limited, rather parochial sense of "mankind" that informed some mid-century thinking, but he also inspires in the reader an appreciation for the integrationist aspirations of a society truly striving toward equality. His cast of characters includes Vannevar Bush, James B. Conant, Richard Hofstadter, Robert K. Merton, Lionel Trilling, and J. Robert Oppenheimer.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021)
    DOI: 10.1515/9781400847747
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400847747
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400847747
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    Mastering Slavery : Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives (1996)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814728079
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.5/67/0975
    Abstract: In Mastering Slavery, Fleischner draws upon a range of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, African-American studies, literary theory, social history, and gender studies, to analyze how the slave narratives--in their engagement with one another and with white women's antislavery fiction--yield a far more amplified and complicated notion of familial dynamics and identity than they have generally been thought to reveal. Her study exposes the impact of the entangled relations among master, mistress, slave adults and slave children on the sense of identity of individual slave narrators. She explores the ways in which our of the social, psychological, biological--and literary--crossings and disruptions slavery engendered, these autobiographers created mixed, dynamic narrative selves.
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814728079.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814728079
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  • 5
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    The Rise of Christianity : A Sociologist Reconsiders History (1996)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780691214290
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.) , 10 halftones, 10 tables
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 306.6701
    Abstract: The idea that Christianity started as a clandestine movement among the poor is a widely accepted notion. Yet it is one of many myths that must be discarded if we are to understand just how a tiny messianic movement on the edge of the Roman Empire became the dominant faith of Western civilization. In a fast-paced, highly readable book that addresses beliefs as well as historical facts, Rodney Stark brings a sociologist's perspective to bear on the puzzle behind the success of early Christianity. He comes equipped not only with the logic and methods of social science but also with insights gathered firsthand into why people convert and how new religious groups recruit members. He digs deep into the historical evidence on many issues--such as the social background of converts, the mission to the Jews, the status of women in the church, the role of martyrdom--to provide a vivid and unconventional account of early Christianity. The author plots the most plausible curve of Christian growth from the year 40 to 300. By the time of Constantine, Christianity had become a considerable force, with growth patterns very similar to those of modern-day successful religious movements. An unusual number of Christian converts, for example, came from the educated, cosmopolitan classes. Because it offered a new perspective on familiar concepts and was not linked to ethnicity, Christianity had a large following among persons seeking to assimilate into the dominant culture, mainly Hellenized Jews. The oversupply of women in Christian communities--due partly to the respect and protection they received--led to intermarriages with pagans, hence more conversions, and to a high fertility rate. Stark points out, too, the role played by selflessness and faith. Amidst the epidemics, fires, and other disasters that beleaguered Greco-Roman cities, Christian communities were a stronghold of mutual aid, which resulted in a survival rate far greater than that of the pagans. In the meantime, voluntary martyrdom, especially a generation after the death of Christ, reinforced the commitment of the Christian rank and file. What Stark ultimately offers is a multifaceted portrait of early Christianity, one that appeals to practical reasoning, historical curiosity, and personal reflection.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780691214290
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691214290
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691214290
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    Clothing and Difference : Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa (1996)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822396376
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p.) , 22 b&w photographs
    Series Statement: Body, Commodity, Text
    DDC: 391.009
    Abstract: This volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously been directed almost exclusively to a Western and urban context. Unusual in its treatment of the body surface as a critical frontier in the production and authentification of identity, Clothing and Difference shows how the body and its adornment have been used to construct and contest social and individual identities in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, and other African societies during both colonial and post-colonial times.Grounded in the insights of anthropology and history and influenced by developments in cultural studies, these essays investigate the relations between the personal and the public, and between ideas about the self and those about the family, gender, and national groups. They explore the bodily and material creation of the changing identities of women, spirits, youths, ancestors, and entrepreneurs through a consideration of topics such as fashion, spirit possession, commodity exchange, hygiene, and mourning.By taking African societies as its focus, Clothing and Difference demonstrates that factors considered integral to Western social development-heterogeneity, migration, urbanization, transnational exchange, and media representation-have existed elsewhere in different configurations and with different outcomes. With significance for a wide range of fields, including gender studies, cultural studies, art history, performance studies, political science, semiotics, economics, folklore, and fashion and textile analysis/design, this work provides alternative views of the structures underpinning Western systems of commodification, postmodernism, and cultural differentiation.Contributors. Misty Bastian, Timothy Burke, Hildi Hendrickson, Deborah James, Adeline Masquelier, Elisha Renne, Johanna Schoss, Brad Weiss...
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822396376
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822396376?locatt=mode:legacy
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822396376
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    Coming through the Fire : Surviving Race and Place in America (1996)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822378433
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (168 p.)
    DDC: 305.8/00973
    Abstract: In Coming through the Fire, prominent scholar and writer C. Eric Lincoln addresses the most important issue of our time with insights forged by a lifetime of confronting racial oppression in America. Born in a small rural town in northern Alabama, raised by his grandparents, Lincoln portrays in rich detail the nuances of racial conflict and control that characterized the community of Athens, personal experiences which would lead him to dedicate his life to illuminating issues of race and social identity. The contradictions and calamities of being black and poor in the United States become a purifying fire for his searing analyses of the contemporary meanings of race and color.Coming through the Fire, with its fiercely intelligent, passionate, and clear-eyed view of race and class conflict, makes a major contribution to understanding-and thereby healing-the terrible rift that has opened up in the heart of America. Lincoln explores the nature of biracial relationships, the issue of transracial adoption, violence-particularly black-on-black violence-the "endangered" black male, racism as power, the relationship between Blacks and Jews, our multicultural melting pot, and Minister Louis Farrakhan.Without sidestepping painful issues, or sacrificing a righteous anger, the author argues for "no-fault reconciliation," for mutual recognition of the human endowment we share regardless of race, preparing us as a nation for the true multiculture tomorrow will demand.Readers familiar with Lincoln's earlier groundbreaking work on the Black Muslims and on the black church will be eagerly awaiting the publication of Coming through the Fire. Others will simply find C. Eric Lincoln's personal story and his exploration of survival and race in America to be absorbing and compelling reading.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822378433
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822378433?locatt=mode:legacy
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822378433
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    Rural Democracy : Family Farmers and Politics in Western Washington, 1890-1925 (1996)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501744907
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 p.) , 19 b&w illustrations, 5 maps, 16 tables
    Edition: [2019]
    DDC: 306.2/09797/8209041
    Keywords: Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: What happens to social movements in rural settings when they do not face the divisive issues of race and class? Marilyn Watkins examines the stable political climate built by successive waves of Populism, socialism, the farmer-labor movement, and the Grange, in turn-of-the-century western Washington. She shows how all of these movements drew upon the same community base, empowered farmers, and encouraged them in the belief that democracy, independence, and prosperity were realizable goals. Indeed they were-in a setting where agriculture was diversified, farmers were debt-free, and, critically,women enjoyed equal status as activists in social movements.Rural Democracy illuminates the problems that undermined Populism and other forms of rural radicalism in the South and the Midwest by demonstrating the political success of those movements where such problems were notably absent: in Lewis County, Washington. By so doing, Watkins convincingly demonstrates the continuing value of local community studies in understanding the large-scale transformations that continue to sweep over rural America.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)
    DOI: 10.7591/9781501744907
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501744907
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    Trust in Numbers : The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life (1996)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781400821617
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: Course Book
    DDC: 306.45
    Abstract: This investigation of the overwhelming appeal of quantification in the modern world discusses the development of cultural meanings of objectivity over two centuries. How are we to account for the current prestige and power of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is seen as desirable in social and economic investigation as a result of its successes in the study of nature. Theodore Porter is not content with this. Why should the kind of success achieved in the study of stars, molecules, or cells be an attractive model for research on human societies? he asks. And, indeed, how should we understand the pervasiveness of quantification in the sciences of nature? In his view, we should look in the reverse direction: comprehending the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research will teach us something new about its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Drawing on a wide range of examples from the laboratory and from the worlds of accounting, insurance, cost-benefit analysis, and civil engineering, Porter shows that it is "exactly wrong" to interpret the drive for quantitative rigor as inherent somehow in the activity of science except where political and social pressures force compromise. Instead, quantification grows from attempts to develop a strategy of impersonality in response to pressures from outside. Objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts, quantification becoming most important where elites are weak, where private negotiation is suspect, and where trust is in short supply.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Mrz 2018)
    DOI: 10.1515/9781400821617
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400821617
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  • 10
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    The Nubians of West Aswan : Village Women in the Midst of Change (1996)
    Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781685855659
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (179 p.)
    Edition: 2023
    Series Statement: Women and Change in the Developing World
    DDC: 305.488965
    RVK:
    MS 3000
    Keywords: Frau ; Assuan
    Abstract: Jennings journeys past the idealized vision of Nubia, capturing the realities of everyday life for women in a devoutly Islamic society undergoing dramatic change.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781685855659
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685855659
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685855659
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    The Anthropology of Anger : Civil Society and Democracy in Africa (1996)
    Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781685858032
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (219 p.)
    Edition: 2023
    DDC: 320.9609045
    RVK:
    MS 9600
    Keywords: Demokratie ; Subsaharisches Afrika
    Abstract: Monga sheds light on Africa's long tradition of an indigenous form of political activism.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781685858032
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685858032
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685858032
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    Wrong for All the Right Reasons : How White Liberals Have Been Undone by Race (1996)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814759677
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.800973
    Abstract: There was a time, in this century, when liberals championed the working class, when Democrats were indisputably the party of those who worked rather than invested for a living. Today, however, most Americans have come to see liberals as drifting and aimless, somehow lacking in backbone and moral fiber, beholden to radical ideologies that have little to do with the average American's life. Few incidents cast this phenomenon into greater relief than George Bush's successful tarring of Michael Dukakis as a liberal in 1988--and, tellingly, Dukakis's subsequent flight from the liberal tradition. How has it come to this? Why have liberals allowed themselves to be so portrayed? In this book, Gordon MacInnes--state senator, fiscal conservative, frustrated Democrat, and a man who believes deeply in America's civic culture--reveals how progressive forces have retreated from the battle of ideas, at great cost. Squarely at the nexus of race, poverty, and politics, Wrong for All the Right Reasons charts the sources of liberal decline and the high costs of conservative rule. Tracing the origins of the liberal retreat to the fall-out over Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's report on the black family in the 1960s, MacInnes claims that white liberals have somewhere along the way stopped taking black people seriously enough to argue with them. Continuously put on the desfensive, liberals have been unable to forge an aggressive, proactive agenda of that addresses the needs of working-class and poor Americans. This has led to a breakdown of honest dialogue which to this day continues to plague liberal Democrats, as evidenced by Bill Bradley's withdrawal from active party politics last fall. Finding room for optimism in the groundswell of grass-roots progressivism, Wrong for All the Right Reasons is a timely, necessary call to arms for liberal, progressive Democrats, outlining ways in which they can reverse their party's dangerous decline.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814759677.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759677
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    Privilege Revealed : How Invisible Preference Undermines America (1996)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479878949
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Critical America 48
    DDC: 303.3
    Abstract: Affirmative action remains a hotly contested issue on our political landscape, yet the institutionalized systems of privilege which uphold the status quo remain unchallenged. Many Americans who advocate a merit-based, race-free worldview do not acknowledge the systems of privilege which benefit them. For example, many Americans rely on a social and sometimes even financial inheritance from previous generations. This inheritance, unlikely to be forthcoming if one's ancestors were slaves, privileges whiteness, maleness, and heterosexuality. In this important volume, scholars positioned differently with respect to white privilege examine how privilege of all forms manifests itself and how we can, and must, be aware of invisible privilege in our daily lives. Individual chapters focus on language, the workplace, the implications of comparing racism and sexism, race-based housing privilege, the dream of diversity and the cycle of exclusion, the rule of law and invisible systems of privilege, and the power of law to transform society.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479878949.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479878949
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    RePresenting Bisexualities : Subjects and Cultures of Fluid Desire (1996)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814768839
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 1996
    DDC: 306.76/4
    Abstract: Is bisexuality coming out in America? Bisexual characters are surfacing on popular television shows and in film. Newsweek proclaims that a new sexual identity is emerging. But amidst this burgeoning acknowledgment of bisexuality, is there an understanding of what it means to be bisexual in a monosexual culture? RePresenting Bisexualities seeks to answer these questions, integrating a recognition of bisexual desire with new theories of gender and sexuality. Despite the breakthroughs in gender studies and queer studies of recent years, bisexuality has remained largely unexamined. Problematic sexual images are usually attributed either to homosexual or heterosexual desire while bisexual readings remain unexplored. The essays found in RePresenting Bisexualities discuss fluid sexualities through a variety of readings from the fence, covering texts from Emily Dickinson to Nine Inch Nails. Each author contributes to the collection a unique view of sexual fluidity and transgressive desire. Taken together, these essays provide the most comprehensive bisexual theory reader to date.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814768839.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814768839
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    The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350 (1996)
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781512806670
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2015]
    Series Statement: The Middle Ages Series
    DDC: 305.230902
    Abstract: James A Schultz has brought a historiographic approach to nearly two hundred Middle High German texts—narrative, didactic, homiletic, legal, religious, and secular. He explores what they say about the nature of the child, the role of inherited and individual traits, the status of education, the remarkable number of disruptions these children suffered as they grew up, the rites of passage that mark coming of age, the various genres of childhood narratives, and the historical development of such narratives.
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    DOI: 10.9783/9781512806670
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    Hopeful Journeys : German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 (1996)
    Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780812291674
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(272 p.) , illustrations
    Edition: [2014]
    Series Statement: Early American Studies
    DDC: 305.83/1073/09033
    Abstract: "The first comprehensive history of the settlement of Germans in the 1700s and how they influenced the economy, politics, and ways of life in the New World."—Pennsylvania.
    DOI: 10.9783/9780812291674
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    Recast Dreams : Class and Gender Consciousness in Steeltown (1996)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781442602908
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2019]
    DDC: 305.3
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This is the first theoretical and empirically based examination of the interaction of class consciousness with workplace-related gender consciousness and household class relations. Significant contemporary socio-political issues, such as the division of labour for both women and men in the paid workplace and household spheres are examined afresh. Based on the Steelworker Families and Hamilton Families Projects &mdash studies of class and gender relations employing survey data and indepth interviews which span a decade of research &mdash D.W. Livingstone and Marshall Mangan revise the materialist approach to group consciousness, employing a Marxist-Feminist perspective to discuss practices in the household sphere and the production of goods and services in the paid workplace. Internationally recognized scholars Meg Luxton and Wally Seccombe also contribute, in critical analyses of class consciousness and gender relations and critiques of conventional Marxist and post-modernist perspectives. Elizabeth Asner, formerly a research assistant on the Hamilton Families Project, co-authors the chapter on household class groupings. Recast Dreams is an immensely informative and highly readable book, essential reading for all those who are interested in class and gender relations. The book will be particularly useful for unionists and social activists.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781442602908
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442602908
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    A Space on the Side of the Road : Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America (1996)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780691212883
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 36 halftones
    Edition: [2020]
    DDC: 306.09754
    Abstract: A Space on the Side of the Road vividly evokes an "other" America that survives precariously among the ruins of the West Virginia coal camps and "hollers." To Kathleen Stewart, this particular "other" exists as an excluded subtext to the American narrative of capitalism, modernization, materialism, and democracy. In towns like Amigo, Red Jacket, Helen, Odd, Viper, Decoy, and Twilight, men and women "just settin'" track a dense social imaginary through stories of traumas, apparitions, encounters, and eccentricities. Stewart explores how this rhythmic, dramatic, and complicated storytelling imbues everyday life in the hills and forms a cultural poetics. Alternating her own ruminations on language, culture, and politics with continuous accounts of "just talk," Stewart propels us into the intensity of this nervous, surreal "space on the side of the road." It is a space that gives us a glimpse into a breach in American society itself, where graveyards of junked cars and piles of other trashed objects endure along with the memories that haunt those who have been left behind by "progress." Like James Agee's portrayal of the poverty-stricken tenant farmers of the Depression South in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this book uses both language and photographs to help readers encounter a fragmented and betrayed community, one "occupied" by schoolteachers, doctors, social workers, and other professionals representing an "official" America. Holding at bay any attempts at definitive, social scientific analysis, Stewart has concocted a new sort of ethnographic writing that conveys the immediacy, density, texture, and materiality of the coal camps. A Space on the Side of the Road finally bridges the gap between anthropology and cultural studies and provides us with a brilliant and challenging experiment in thinking and writing about "America."...
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780691212883
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691212883
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    Spinsters and Lesbians : Independent Womanhood in the United States (1996)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814728925
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: The Cutting Edge 6
    DDC: 306.7663
    Abstract: Americans have long held fast to a rigid definition of womanhood, revolving around husband, home, and children. Women who rebelled against this definition and carved out independent lives for themselves have often been rendered invisible in U.S. history.In this unusual comparative study, Trisha Franzen brings to light the remarkable lives of two generations of autonomous women: Progressive Era spinsters and mid-twentieth century lesbians. While both groups of women followed similar paths to independence--separating from their families, pursuing education, finding work, and creating woman-centered communities--they faced different material and cultural challenge and came to claim very different identities. Many of the turn-of-the-century women were prominent during their time, from internationally recognized classicist Edith Hamilton through two early Directors of the Women's Bureau, Mary Anderson and Freida Miller. Maturing during the time of a broad and powerful women's movement, they were among that era's new women, the often-single women who were viewed as in the vanguard of women's struggle for equality. In contrast, never-married women after World War II, especially lesbians, were considered beyond the pale of real womanhood. Before the women's and gay/lesbian liberation movements, they had no positive contemporary images of alternative lives for women. Highlighting the similarities and differences between women-oriented women confronting changing gender and sexuality systems, Spinsters and Lesbians thus traces a continuum among women who constructed lives outside institutionalized heterosexuality.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814728925.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814728925
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    The Coming Race War : And Other Apocalyptic Tales of America after Affirmative Action and Welfare (1996)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814744284
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.8/00973
    Abstract: In The Washington Post, Julius Lester praised Richard Delgado's The Rodrigo Chronicles: Conversations about America and Race as free of cant and ideology. . . . an excellent starting place for the national discussion about race we so desperately need. The New York Times has hailed Delgado as a pioneer in the study of race and law, and the Los Angeles Times has compared his storytelling style to Plato's Dialogues. In The Coming Race War?, Delgado turns his attention to the American racial landscape in the wake of the mid-term elections in 1994. Our political and racial topography has been radically altered. Affirmative action is being rolled back, immigrants continue to be targeted as the source of economic woes, and race is increasingly downplayed as a source of the nation's problems. Legal obstacles to racial equality have long been removed, we are told, so what's the problem? And yet, the plight of the urban poor grows worse. The number of young black men in prison continues to exceed those in college. Informal racial privilege remains entrenched and systemic. Where, asks Delgado in this new volume, will this lead? Enlisting his fictional counterpart, Rodrigo Crenshaw, to untangle the complexities of America's racial future, Delgado explores merit and affirmative action; the nature of empathy and, more commonly, false empathy; and the limitations of legal change. Warning of the dangers of depriving the underprivileged of all hope and opportunity, Delgado gives us a dark future in which an indignant white America casts aside, once and for all, the spirit of the civil rights movement, with disastrous results.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814744284.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814744284
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    Children and the Politics of Culture (1996)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780691224893
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (376 p.) , 18 line illustrations
    Edition: 2021
    Series Statement: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History 11
    DDC: 305.23
    Abstract: The bodies and minds of children--and the very space of children--are under assault. This is the message we receive from daily news headlines about violence, sexual abuse, exploitation, and neglect of children, and from a proliferation of books in recent years representing the domain of contemporary childhood as threatened, invaded, polluted, and "stolen" by adults. Through a series of essays that explore the global dimensions of children at risk, an international group of researchers and policymakers discuss the notion of children's rights, and in particular the claim that every child has a right to a cultural identity. Explorations of children's situations in Japan, Korea, Singapore, South Africa, England, Norway, the United States, Brazil, and Germany reveal how children's everyday lives and futures are often the stakes in contemporary battles that adults wage over definitions of cultural identity and state cultural policies. Throughout this volume, the authors address the complex and often ambiguous implications of the concept of rights. For example, it may be used to defend indigenous children from radically assimilationist or even genocidal state policies; but it may also be used to legitimate racist institutions. A substantive introduction by the editor examines global political economic frameworks for the cultural debates affecting children and traces intriguing, sometimes surprising, threads throughout the papers. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Norma Field, Marilyn Ivy, Mary John, Hae-joang Cho, Saya Shiraishi, Vivienne Wee, Pamela Reynolds, Kathleen Hall, Ruth Mandel, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, and Njabulo Ndebele.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780691224893
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691224893
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691224893
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    The Spectacle of History : Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings (1996)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822398677
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (368 p.) , 8 b&w photographs
    Series Statement: Post-Contemporary Interventions
    DDC: 302.23/092
    Abstract: How is history produced? How do individuals write-or rewrite-their parts while engaged in the production of history? Michael Lynch and David Bogen take the example of the Iran-contra hearings to explore these questions. These hearings, held in 1987 by the Joint House-Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaragua Opposition, provided the nation with a media spectacle and a rare chance to see a struggle over the writing of history. There was Oliver North, prime suspect and designated scapegoat, turning into a hero of the American Right before the very eyes of the nation. How this transformation occurred, with the complicity of the press and the public, becomes disturbingly clear in The Spectacle of History.Lynch and Bogen detail the practices through which the historical agents at the center of the hearings composed, confirmed, used, erased, and denied the historical record. They show how partisan skirmishes over the disclosure of records and testimony led to a divided and irresolute outcome, an outcome further facilitated by the "applied deconstruction" deployed by North and his allies. The Spectacle of History immerses the reader in a crowded field of texts, utterances, visual displays, and media commentaries, but, more than a case study, it develops unique insight into problems at the heart of society and social theory-lying and credibility, the production of civic spectacle, the relationship between testimony and history, the uses of memory, and the interplay between speech and writing.Drawing on themes from sociology, literary theory, and ethnomethodology and challenging prevailing concepts held by contemporary communication and cultural studies, Lynch and Bogen extract valuable theoretical lessons from this specific and troubling historical episode.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822398677
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822398677?locatt=mode:legacy
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822398677
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    Political Theory for Mortals : Shades of Justice, Images of Death (1996)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501718311
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    Series Statement: Contestations
    DDC: 306.88
    Abstract: Despite an abundance of violence occurring in political contexts, no liberal political theorist since Thomas Hobbes has talked directly and coherently about death. John E. Seery does. He contends that liberalism desperately needs a theoretical framework in which to discuss pressing matters of human mortality. Among the contemporary political issues that cry out for theoretical articulation, Seery suggests, are abortion politics, ethnic cleansing, suicide assistance, national reparations, environmental degradation, and capital punishment. Seery offers a new conception of social contract theory as a framework for confronting death issues. He urges us to look to an older tradition of descent into an underworld, wherein classic theorists consulted poetically with the dead and acquired from them political insight and direction.In this lively book, Seery excavates the infernal tradition by rereading the politics of death in Platonism, early Christianity, and contemporary feminism. Building on those traditions, he proposes a new, constructive image of death that can serve democratic theory productively. Reconsidered from the "land of the shades," social contractarian theory is sufficiently altered that, for example, a pro-life Christian and a pro-choice secularist might be able to strike common ground upon which to discuss abortion politics.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501718311
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501718311
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    The Witch-Hunt; or, The Triumph of Morality (1996)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501720802
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 20 halftones
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 306/.0954/13
    Abstract: In the village of Bisipara in eastern India, an anthropologist is witness to a drama when a young girl takes a fever and quickly dies. The villagers find Susilla's death suspicious and fear that she was possessed. Holding an investigation to find someone to blame, they carry out a hurried inquiry because the stage must be cleared for the annual celebration of the birthday of the god Sri Ramchandro. However, they eventually agree on the identity of a culprit an extract from him a large fine.F.G. Bailey, who was doing fieldwork in Bisipara in the 1950's, tells what it was like to be living there during this witch-hunt. As his narrative unfolds, we sense the very texture of the villagers lives—their caste relationships, occupations, kinship networks, and religious practices. We become familiar with the sites, sounds, and smells of Bisipara and with many of the village men and women and we learn their ideas of health and disease, their practice of medicine and burial customs, their ways of resolving discord. The author's commentary opens the curtain on a larger and more complicated scene. It portrays a community in the process of change: from one aspect, the offender is seen as a heroic individual who has broken from the chains of the past, a dissenter standing up for his rights against an entrenched and conservative establishment. From the opposite point of view he is a troublemaker who rejects the moral order on which society and the good life depend, a man who has trespassed outside his proper domain. From Bailey's neutral perspective, the offenders conduct threaten those in power; their determined and successful effort to punish him was an attempt to protect their own privileged position. In doing so, of course, they could say that they were defending the moral order of their community. Bailey moves easily between field notes and memory as he takes a new look at his first impressions and reflects on what he has learned. His elegant book is a powerful reassessment of anthropology's most enduring themes and debates which will imprint on the reader's mind a vivid image of a place and its people.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501720802
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501720802
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    Signs of Work : Semiosis and Information Processing in Organisations (1996)
    Berlin : De Gruyter | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9783110819014
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(402p.)
    Edition: [2015]
    Series Statement: Grundlagen der Kommunikation und Kognition / Foundations of Communication and Cognition
    DDC: 302.2
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    ER 730
    Keywords: Innerbetriebliche Kommunikation ; Information Retrieval ; Semiotik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    DOI: 10.1515/9783110819014
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110819014
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    Media and Politics in Japan (1996)
    Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780824863555
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 302.23/0952
    Abstract: Japan is one of the most media-saturated societies in the world. The circulations of its "big five" national newspapers dwarf those of any major American newspaper. Its public service broadcasting agency, NHK, is second only to the BBC in size. And it has a full range of commercial television stations, high-brow and low-brow magazines, and a large anti-mainstream media and mini-media. Japanese elites rate the mass media as the most influential group in Japanese society. But what role do they play in political life? Whose interests do the media serve? Are the media mainly servants of the state, or are they watchdogs on behalf of the public? And what effects do the media have on the political beliefs and behavior of ordinary Japanese people? These questions are the focus of this collection of essays by leading political scientists, sociologists, social psychologists, and journalists. Japan's unique kisha (press) club system, its powerful media business organizations, the uses of the media by Japan's wily bureaucrats, and the role of the media in everything from political scandals to shaping public opinion, are among the many subjects of this insightful and provocative book.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780824863555
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9780824863555
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    A Moment's Notice : Time Politics across Culture (1996)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501725029
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    DDC: 306.2
    Abstract: Focusing on the problem of time-the paradox of time's apparent universality and cultural relativity-Carol J. Greenhouse develops an original ethnographic account of our present moment, the much-heralded postmodern condition, which is at the same time a reflexive analysis of ethnography itself. She argues that time is about agency and accountability, and that representations of time are used by institutions of law, politics, and scholarship to selectively refashion popular ideas of agency into paradigms of institutional legitimacy. A Moment's Notice suggests that the problem of time in theory is the corollary of problems of power in practice.Greenhouse develops her theory in examinations of three moments of cultural and political crisis: the resistance of the Aztecs against Cortes, the consolidation of China's First Empire, and the recent partisan political contests over Supreme Court nominees in the United States. In each of these cases, temporal innovation is integral to political improvisation, as traditions of sovereignty confront new cultural challenges. These cases return the discussion to current issues of inequality, postmodernity, cultural pluralism, and ethnography.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501725029
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501725029
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