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  • 1
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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
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822379522?locatt=mode:legacy
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822379522
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  • 2
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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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  • 3
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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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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814723074.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814723074
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    MPI Ethno. Forsch.
  • 4
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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.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Sep 2019)
    DOI: 10.7591/9781501731655
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501731655
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  • 5
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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
    RVK:
    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
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691225319
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  • 6
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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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  • 7
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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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  • 8
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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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  • 9
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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.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)
    DOI: 10.7591/9781501717789
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501717789
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  • 10
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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
    RVK:
    MS 3000
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    MS 4850
    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
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474473668
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474473668
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  • 11
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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
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814721087
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  • 12
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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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    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
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487575076
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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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    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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    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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    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
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748610839
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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.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501717833
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501717833
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674040052
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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
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292799646
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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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    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
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