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  • 1
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    Circumcision and medicine in modern Turkey (2023)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9781477327036 , 9781477327043
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 196 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: First edition
    Uniform Title: The professionalization of male circumcision in Turkey
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    Dissertation note: Dissertation University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2016
    DDC: 392.1095610904
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    MS 6030
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Circumcision History 20th century ; Circumcision History 21st century ; Medical personnel Social conditions ; Religionsausübung ; Beschneidung ; Kind ; Gesellschaft ; Türkei ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Türkei ; Kind ; Beschneidung ; Gesellschaft ; Religionsausübung
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    DOI: 10.7560/327029
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  • 2
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    Brown trans figurations : rethinking race, gender, and sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx studies (2022)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9781477322147
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (182 pages)
    Series Statement: Latinx: The Future is Now
    DDC: 306.76/8
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    LB 44615
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    MS 3200
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Intersectionality (Sociology) ; Intersectionality (Sociology) ; Mexican Americans Ethnic identity ; Mexican Americans Political activity ; Mexican Americans-Political activity ; Queer theory ; Sexual minorities Political activity ; Sexual minority culture ; Transgender people Political activity ; Transgender people Identity ; Transgender people-Political activity-United States ; Transphobia ; Transphobia-United States
    Abstract: Within queer, transgender, and Latinx and Chicanx cultural politics, brown transgender narratives are frequently silenced and erased. Brown trans subjects are treated as deceptive, unnatural, nonexistent, or impossible, their bodies, lives, and material circumstances represented through tropes and used as metaphors. Restoring personhood and agency to these subjects, Francisco J. Galarte advances "brown trans figuration" as a theoretical framework to describe how transness and brownness coexist within the larger queer, trans, and Latinx historical experiences. Brown Trans Figurations presents a collection of representations that reveal the repression of brown trans narratives and make that repression visible and palpable. Galarte examines the violent deaths of two transgender Latinas and the corresponding narratives that emerged about their lives, analyzes the invisibility of brown transmasculinity in Chicana feminist works, and explores how issues such as transgender politics can be imagined as part of Chicanx and Latinx political movements. This book considers the contexts in which brown trans narratives appear, how they circulate, and how they are reproduced in politics, sexual cultures, and racialized economies
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2022) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/322123
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  • 3
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    Women's lives, women's voices : Roman material culture and female agency in the Bay of Naples (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9781477323595
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 332 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: First edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Women's lives, women's voices
    DDC: 305.409377256
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    Keywords: Electronic books ; Römisches Reich ; Neapel ; Pompeji ; Herculaneum ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Neapel ; Pompeji ; Herculaneum ; Frau ; Alltag ; Sachkultur
    Abstract: Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction. Negotiating Silence, Finding Voices, and Articulating Agency (Brenda Longfellow and Molly Swetnam-Burland) -- Part I. Public and Commercial Identities -- Chapter 1. Pompeian Women and the Making of a Material History (Lauren Hackworth Petersen) -- Chapter 2. Women's Work? Investors, Money-Handlers, and Dealers (Molly Swetnam-Burland) -- Chapter 3. From Household to Workshop: Women, Weaving, and the Peculium (Lauren Caldwell) -- Chapter 4. Buying Power: The Public Priestesses of Pompeii (Barbara Kellum) -- Chapter 5. Real Estate for Profit: Julia Felix's Property and the Forum Frieze (Eve D'Ambra) -- Part II. Women on Display -- Chapter 6. Contextualizing the Funerary and Honorific Portrait Statues of Women in Pompeii (Brenda Longfellow) -- Chapter 7. Portraits and Patrons: The Women of the Villa of the Mysteries in Their Social Context (Elaine K. Gazda) -- Chapter 8. "What's in a Name?" Mapping Women's Names from the Graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum (Erika Zimmermann Damer) -- Chapter 9. The Public and Private Lives of Pompeian Prostitutes (Sarah Levin-Richardson) -- Part III. Representing Women -- Chapter 10. Women, Art, Power, and Work in the House of the Chaste Lovers at Pompeii (Jennifer Trimble) -- Chapter 11. The House of the Triclinium (V.2.4) at Pompeii: The House of a "Courtesan"? (Luciana Jacobelli) -- Chapter 12. Sex on Display in Pompeii's Tavern VII.7.18 (Jessica Powers) -- Chapter 13. Drawings of Women at Pompeii (Margaret L. Laird) -- Epilogue. The Complexity of Silence (Allison L. C. Emmerson) -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Illustration Credits -- Index.
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  • 4
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    White Metropolis : Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001 (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292796195
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (299 pages)
    DDC: 305.8/009764/2812
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    Keywords: HISTORY / General
    Abstract: From the nineteenth century until today, the power brokers of Dallas have always portrayed their city as a progressive, pro-business, racially harmonious community that has avoided the racial, ethnic, and class strife that roiled other Southern cities. But does this image of Dallas match the historical reality? In this book, Michael Phillips delves deeply into Dallas's racial and religious past and uncovers a complicated history of resistance, collaboration, and assimilation between the city's African American, Mexican American, and Jewish communities and its white power elite. Exploring more than 150 years of Dallas history, Phillips reveals how white business leaders created both a white racial identity and a Southwestern regional identity that excluded African Americans from power and required Mexican Americans and Jews to adopt Anglo-Saxon norms to achieve what limited positions of power they held. He also demonstrates how the concept of whiteness kept these groups from allying with each other, and with working- and middle-class whites, to build a greater power base and end elite control of the city. Comparing the Dallas racial experience with that of Houston and Atlanta, Phillips identifies how Dallas fits into regional patterns of race relations and illuminates the unique forces that have kept its racial history hidden until the publication of this book
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/709683
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  • 5
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    Tragedy Offstage : Suffering and Sympathy in Ancient Athens (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292794368
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (250 pages)
    DDC: 303.3/7209385
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    NH 5412
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    NH 6860
    Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / General ; Caring History To 1500 ; Helping behavior History To 1500
    Abstract: Humane ideals were central to the image Athenians had of themselves and their city during the classical period. Tragic plays, which formed a part of civic education, often promoted pity and compassion. But it is less clear to what extent Athenians embraced such ideals in daily life. How were they expected to respond, emotionally and pragmatically, to the suffering of other people? Under what circumstances? At what risk to themselves? In this book, Rachel Hall Sternberg draws on evidence from Greek oratory and historiography of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE to study the moral universe of the ancient Athenians: how citizens may have treated one another in times of adversity, when and how they were expected to help. She develops case studies in five spheres of everyday life: home nursing, the ransom of captives, intervention in street crimes, the long-distance transport of sick and wounded soldiers, and slave torture. Her close reading of selected narratives suggests that Athenians embraced high standards for helping behavior-at least toward relatives, friends, and some fellow citizens. Meanwhile, a subtle discourse of moral obligation strengthened the bonds that held Athenian society together, encouraging individuals to bring their personal behavior into line with the ideals of the city-state
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/714168
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  • 6
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    Cultures of migration : the global nature of contemporary mobility (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292735361
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (179 pages)
    DDC: 304.8
    RVK:
    MS 1560
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    MS 3600
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Emigration and immigration Economic aspects ; Emigration and immigration Social aspects ; Internationale Migration ; Migration ; Internationale Migration ; Migration
    Abstract: Around the globe, people leave their homes to better themselves, to satisfy needs, and to care for their families. They also migrate to escape undesirable conditions, ranging from a lack of economic opportunities to violent conflicts at home or in the community. Most studies of migration have analyzed the topic at either the macro level of national and global economic and political forces, or the micro level of the psychology of individual migrants. Few studies have examined the "culture of migration"-that is, the cultural beliefs and social patterns that influence people to move. Cultures of Migration combines anthropological and geographical sensibilities, as well as sociological and economic models, to explore the household-level decision-making process that prompts migration. The authors draw their examples not only from their previous studies of Mexican Oaxacans and Turkish Kurds but also from migrants from Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, the Pacific, and many parts of Asia. They examine social, economic, and political factors that can induce a household to decide to send members abroad, along with the cultural beliefs and traditions that can limit migration. The authors look at both transnational and internal migrations, and at shorter- and longer-term stays in the receiving location. They also consider the effect that migration has on those who remain behind. The authors' "culture of migration" model adds an important new dimension to our understanding of the cultural beliefs and social patterns associated with migration and will help specialists better respond to increasing human mobility
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/726840
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  • 7
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    Sexual Labor in the Athenian Courts (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781477324417
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 p.) , 4 maps
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 306.7409495/12
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    NH 6870
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Oratory is a valuable source for reconstructing the practices, legalities, and attitudes surrounding sexual labor in classical Athens. It provides evidence of male and female sex laborers, sex slaves, brothels, sex traffickers, the cost of sex, contracts for sexual labor, and manumission practices for sex slaves. Yet the witty, wealthy, and independent hetaira, well-known from other genres, does not feature. Its detailed narratives and character portrayals provide a unique discourse on sexual labor and reveal the complex relationship between such labor and Athenian society. Through a holistic examination of five key speeches, Sexual Labor in the Athenian Courts considers how portrayals of sex laborers intersected with gender, the body, sexuality, the family, urban spaces, and the polis in the context of the Athenian courts. Drawing on gender theory and exploring questions of space, place, and mobility, Allison Glazebrook shows how sex laborers represented a diverse set of anxieties concerning social legitimacy and how the public discourse about them is in fact a discourse on Athenian society, values, and institutions.
    DOI: 10.7560/324400
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  • 8
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    Queer Brown Voices : Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9781477302330
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (238 pages)
    DDC: 306.76089/68073
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    MS 2870
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Gay activists ; Hispanic American sexual minorities Political activity ; Sexual minorities Identity ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In the last three decades of the twentieth century, LGBT Latinas/os faced several forms of discrimination. The greater Latino community did not often accept sexual minorities, and the mainstream LGBT movement expected everyone, regardless of their ethnic and racial background, to adhere to a specific set of priorities so as to accommodate a "unified" agenda. To disrupt the cycle of sexism, racism, and homophobia that they experienced, LGBT Latinas/os organized themselves on local, state, and national levels, forming communities in which they could fight for equal rights while simultaneously staying true to both their ethnic and sexual identities. Yet histories of LGBT activism in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s often reduce the role that Latinas/os played, resulting in misinformation, or ignore their work entirely, erasing them from history. Queer Brown Voices is the first book published to counter this trend, documenting the efforts of some of these LGBT Latina/o activists. Comprising essays and oral history interviews that present the experiences of fourteen activists across the United States and in Puerto Rico, the book offers a new perspective on the history of LGBT mobilization and activism. The activists discuss subjects that shed light not only on the organizations they helped to create and operate, but also on their broad-ranging experiences of being racialized and discriminated against, fighting for access to health care during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and struggling for awareness
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/302323
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  • 9
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    Mexican Americans and the Question of Race (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292754027
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (173 pages)
    DDC: 305.868/72073
    RVK:
    MS 3550
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    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Mexican Americans Race identity ; Mexican Americans Social conditions
    Abstract: With Mexican Americans constituting a large and growing segment of U.S. society, their assimilation trajectory has become a constant source of debate. Some believe Mexican Americans are following the path of European immigrants toward full assimilation into whiteness, while others argue that they remain racialized as nonwhite. Drawing on extensive interviews with Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants in Texas, Dowling's research challenges common assumptions about what informs racial labeling for this population. Her interviews demonstrate that for Mexican Americans, racial ideology is key to how they assert their identities as either in or outside the bounds of whiteness. Emphasizing the link between racial ideology and racial identification, Dowling offers an insightful narrative that highlights the complex and highly contingent nature of racial identity
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/754010
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  • 10
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    Intercultural Communication : A Practical Guide (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292798991
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 303.48/2
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    MR 7100
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    MS 9500
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Intercultural communication
    Abstract: Successfully communicating with people from another culture requires learning more than just their language. While fumbling a word or phrase may cause embarrassment, breaking the unspoken cultural rules that govern personal interactions can spell disaster for businesspeople, travelers, and indeed anyone who communicates across cultural boundaries. To help you avoid such damaging gaffes, Tracy Novinger has compiled this authoritative, practical guide for deciphering and following "the rules" that govern cultures, demonstrating how these rules apply to the communication issues that exist between the United States and Mexico. Novinger begins by explaining how a major proportion of communication within a culture occurs nonverbally through behavior and manners, shared attitudes, common expectations, and so on. Then, using real-life examples and anecdotes, she pinpoints the commonly occurring obstacles to communication that can arise when cultures differ in their communication techniques. She shows how these obstacles come into play in contacts between the U.S. and Mexico and demonstrates that mastering the unspoken rules of Mexican culture is a key to cementing business and social relationships. Novinger concludes with nine effective, reliable principles for successfully communicating across cultures
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/755703
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  • 11
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    Consuming Grief : Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292798236
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
    DDC: 394.9/089/9839
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    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Cannibalism ; Pakaasnovos Indians Funeral customs and rites
    Abstract: Mourning the death of loved ones and recovering from their loss are universal human experiences, yet the grieving process is as different between cultures as it is among individuals. As late as the 1960s, the Wari' Indians of the western Amazonian rainforest ate the roasted flesh of their dead as an expression of compassion for the deceased and for his or her close relatives. By removing and transforming the corpse, which embodied ties between the living and the dead and was a focus of grief for the family of the deceased, Wari' death rites helped the bereaved kin accept their loss and go on with their lives. Drawing on the recollections of Wari' elders who participated in consuming the dead, this book presents one of the richest, most authoritative ethnographic accounts of funerary cannibalism ever recorded. Beth Conklin explores Wari' conceptions of person, body, and spirit, as well as indigenous understandings of memory and emotion, to explain why the Wari' felt that corpses must be destroyed and why they preferred cannibalism over cremation. Her findings challenge many commonly held beliefs about cannibalism and show why, in Wari' terms, it was considered the most honorable and compassionate way of treating the dead
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/712324
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  • 12
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    Sista, Speak! : Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292798380
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
    DDC: 305.48/896073
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    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; African American women Biography ; African American women Education ; African American women Social conditions ; African Americans Languages ; African Americans Race identity ; Language and culture ; Literacy Social aspects ; Biografie
    Abstract: The demand of white, affluent society that all Americans should speak, read, and write "proper" English causes many people who are not white and/or middle class to attempt to "talk in a way that feel peculiar to [their] mind," as a character in Alice Walker's The Color Purple puts it. In this book, Sonja Lanehart explores how this valorization of "proper" English has affected the language, literacy, educational achievements, and self-image of five African American women-her grandmother, mother, aunt, sister, and herself. Through interviews and written statements by each woman, Lanehart draws out the life stories of these women and their attitudes toward and use of language. Making comparisons and contrasts among them, she shows how, even within a single family, differences in age, educational opportunities, and social circumstances can lead to widely different abilities and comfort in using language to navigate daily life. Her research also adds a new dimension to our understanding of African American English, which has been little studied in relation to women
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/747289
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    Women and Social Movements in Latin America : Power from Below (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292799899
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 pages)
    DDC: 305.42/098
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    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Feminism Case studies ; Social movements Case studies ; Women in development Case studies ; Women Interviews ; Women's rights Case studies ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Women's grassroots activism in Latin America combines a commitment to basic survival for women and their children with a challenge to women's subordination to men. Women activists insist that issues such as rape, battering, and reproductive control cannot be divorced from women's concerns about housing, food, land, and medical care. This innovative, comparative study explores six cases of women's grassroots activism in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, and Chile. Lynn Stephen communicates the ideas, experiences, and perceptions of women who participate in collective action, while she explains the structural conditions and ideological discourses that set the context within which women act and interpret their experiences. She includes revealing interviews with activists, detailed histories of organizations and movements, and a theoretical discussion of gender, collective identity, and feminist anthropology and methods
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) , In English
    DOI: 10.7560/777156
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  • 14
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    Queer Beirut (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292763166
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Keywords: HISTORY / Middle East / General ; Gay men ; Gender identity ; Homosexuality
    Abstract: Gender and sexual identity formation is an ongoing anthropological conversation in both Middle Eastern studies and urban studies, but the story of gay and lesbian identity in the Middle East is only just beginning to be told. Queer Beirut is the first ethnographic study of queer lives in the Arab Middle East. Drawing on anthropology, urban studies, gender studies, queer studies, and sociocultural theory, Sofian Merabet's compelling ethnography suggests a critical theory of gender and religious identity formations that will disrupt conventional anthropological premises about the contingent role that society and particular urban spaces have in facilitating the emergence of various subcultures within the city. From 1995 to 2014, Merabet made a series of ethnographic journeys to Lebanon, during which he interviewed numerous gay men in Beirut. Through their life stories, Merabet crafts moving ethnographic narratives and explores how Lebanese gays inhabit and perform their gender as they formulate their sense of identity. He also examines the notion of "queer space" in Beirut and the role that this city, its class and sectarian structure, its colonial history, and religion have played in these people's discovery and exploration of their sexualities. In using Beirut as a microcosm for the complexities of homosexual relationships in contemporary Lebanon, Queer Beirut provides a critical standpoint from which to deepen our understandings of gender rights and citizenship in the structuring of social inequality within the larger context of the Middle East
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    DOI: 10.7560/760967
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    Jewish Women in Fin de Siècle Vienna (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292794283
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
    DDC: 305.48892404361309034
    RVK:
    NY 4690
    Keywords: HISTORY / General ; Jewish women Education ; Jewish women Social conditions 19th century ; Jewish women Social conditions 20th century ; Jewish women Social life and customs 19th century ; Jewish women Social life and customs 20th century ; Jews History 19th century ; Jews History 20th century ; Jews Identity
    Abstract: Despite much study of Viennese culture and Judaism between 1890 and 1914, little research has been done to examine the role of Jewish women in this milieu. Rescuing a lost legacy, Jewish Women in Fin de Siècle Vienna explores the myriad ways in which Jewish women contributed to the development of Viennese culture and participated widely in politics and cultural spheres. Areas of exploration include the education and family lives of Viennese Jewish girls and varying degrees of involvement of Jewish women in philanthropy and prayer, university life, Zionism, psychoanalysis and medicine, literature, and culture. Incorporating general studies of Austrian women during this period, Alison Rose also presents significant findings regarding stereotypes of Jewish gender and sexuality and the politics of anti-Semitism, as well as the impact of German culture, feminist dialogues, and bourgeois self-images. As members of two minority groups, Viennese Jewish women nonetheless used their involvement in various movements to come to terms with their dual identity during this period of profound social turmoil. Breaking new ground in the study of perceptions and realities within a pivotal segment of the Viennese population, Jewish Women in Fin de Siècle Vienna applies the lens of gender in important new ways
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    DOI: 10.7560/718616
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/718616
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    On the Edge of the Law : Culture, Labor, and Deviance on the South Texas Border (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292795440
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (367 pages)
    DDC: 306.109721
    RVK:
    MS 3300
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Crime ; Crime ; Labor ; Labor ; Mexicans Social conditions ; Mexicans Social conditions ; Subculture ; Subculture
    Abstract: The Valley of South Texas is a region of puzzling contradictions. Despite a booming economy fueled by free trade and rapid population growth, the Valley typically experiences high unemployment and low per capita income. The region has the highest rate of drug seizures in the United States, yet its violent crime rate is well below national and state averages. The Valley's colonias are home to the poorest residents in the nation, but their rates of home ownership and intact two-parent families are among the highest in the country for low-income residential areas. What explains these apparently irreconcilable facts? Since 1982, faculty and students associated with the Borderlife Research Project at the University of Texas-Pan American have interviewed thousands of Valley residents to investigate and describe the cultural and social life along the South Texas-Northern Mexico border. In this book, Borderlife researchers clarify why Valley culture presents so many apparent contradictions as they delve into issues that are "on the edge of the law"-traditional health care and other cultural beliefs and practices, displaced and undocumented workers, immigration enforcement, drug smuggling, property crime, criminal justice, and school dropout rates. The researchers' findings make it plain that while these issues present major challenges for the governments of the United States and Mexico, their effects and contradictions are especially acute on the border, where residents must daily negotiate between two very different economies; health care, school, and criminal justice systems; and worldviews
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    DOI: 10.7560/713338
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    Muslim Women Activists in North America : Speaking for Ourselves (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9780292796614
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (237 pages)
    DDC: 305.4869709227
    RVK:
    MS 3000
    Keywords: RELIGION / General ; Muslim women Biography ; Social action Case studies ; Voluntarism Case studies ; Women in Islam Case studies ; Women social reformers Biography ; Biografie ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: In the eyes of many Westerners, Muslim women are hidden behind a veil of negative stereotypes that portray them as either oppressed, subservient wives and daughters or, more recently, as potential terrorists. Yet many Muslim women defy these stereotypes by taking active roles in their families and communities and working to create a more just society. This book introduces eighteen Muslim women activists from the United States and Canada who have worked in fields from social services, to marital counseling, to political advocacy in order to further social justice within the Muslim community and in the greater North American society. Each of the activists has written an autobiographical narrative in which she discusses such issues as her personal motivation for doing activism work, her views on the relationship between Islam and women's activism, and the challenges she has faced and overcome, such as patriarchal cultural barriers within the Muslim community or racism and discrimination within the larger society. The women activists are a heterogeneous group, including North American converts to Islam, Muslim immigrants to the United States and Canada, and the daughters of immigrants. Young women at the beginning of their activist lives as well as older women who have achieved regional or national prominence are included. Katherine Bullock's introduction highlights the contributions to society that Muslim women have made since the time of the Prophet Muhammad and sounds a call for contemporary Muslim women to become equal partners in creating and maintaining a just society within and beyond the Muslim community
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    DOI: 10.7560/706316
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    Banana cultures : agriculture, consumption, and environmental change in Honduras and the United States (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9781477322819
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (369 pages) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: Revised and updated edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Soluri, John, 1967 - Banana cultures
    DDC: 306.3/49/097283
    RVK:
    NW 4200
    RVK:
    LC 24630
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    LC 24610
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    LC 22630
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    NW 2564
    Keywords: Banana trade ; Banana trade Social aspects ; Banana trade Environmental aspects ; Banana trade ; Banana trade Social aspects ; Banana trade--Honduras ; Banana trade--Social aspects--Honduras ; Banana trade--Environmental aspects--Honduras ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing stores--everything from exotic kitsch, to Third World dictatorships, to middle-class fashion. But how did the rise in banana consumption in the United States affect the banana-growing regions of Central America? In this lively, interdisciplinary study, John Soluri integrates agroecology, anthropology, political economy, and history to trace the symbiotic growth of the export banana industry in Honduras and the consumer mass market in the United States. This new paperback edition features a new preface to the second edition, a new postscript, an updated bibliography, and an updated index"--
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    The Mechanical Horse : How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life (2021)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9781477308141
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 303.48/320973
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    NW 6060
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    QF 062
    Keywords: SPORTS & RECREATION / Cycling ; Bicycles History ; Cycling Social aspects
    Abstract: With cities across the country adding miles of bike lanes and building bike-share stations, bicycling is enjoying a new surge of popularity in America. It seems that every generation or two, Americans rediscover the freedom of movement, convenience, and relative affordability of the bicycle. The earliest two-wheeler, the draisine, arrived in Philadelphia in 1819 and astonished onlookers with the possibility of propelling themselves "like lightning." Two centuries later, the bicycle is still the fastest way to cover ground on gridlocked city streets. Filled with lively stories, The Mechanical Horse reveals how the bicycle transformed American life. As bicycling caught on in the nineteenth century, many of the country's rough, rutted roads were paved for the first time, laying a foundation for the interstate highway system. Cyclists were among the first to see the possibilities of self-directed, long-distance travel, and some of them (including a fellow named Henry Ford) went on to develop the automobile. Women shed their cumbersome Victorian dresses-as well as their restricted gender roles-so they could ride. And doctors recognized that aerobic exercise actually benefits the body, which helped to modernize medicine. Margaret Guroff demonstrates that the bicycle's story is really the story of a more mobile America-one in which physical mobility has opened wider horizons of thought and new opportunities for people in all avenues of life
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    DOI: 10.7560/743625
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    My Shadow Is My Skin : Voices from the Iranian Diaspora (2020)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 9781477320358
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (297 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.80955
    RVK:
    MS 3600
    Keywords: Iranians-United States ; Iranian Americans ; Ethnic identity ; Iranian Americans ; Social conditions ; Iranian diaspora ; Iranians ; United States ; Electronic books ; Erlebnisbericht
    Abstract: Intro -- Foreword, Persis Karim -- Introduction -- Light/Shadow -- The Summer I Disappeared, Jasmin Darznik -- Sacrifices, Iraj Isaac Rahmim -- Shadow Nation, Cyrus M. Copeland -- Two Minutes to Midnight, Daniel Rafinejad -- When We Were Lions, Mehdi Tavana Okasi -- Fortune-Tellers, Dena Afrasiabi -- Silkscreen, Omid Fallahazad -- Hookah, Once upon a Time (Pastiche after Roberto Bolaño), Poupeh Missaghi -- Think of the Trees, Leila Emery -- Pushing the Boundaries, Dena Rod -- Uninvited Guest, Roia Ferrazares -- Coding/Decoding -- The Name on My Coffee Cup, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh -- Negotiating Memories, Amy Malek -- In Praise of Big Noses, Persis Karim -- Transmutations of/by Language, Raha Namy -- Gilad, My Enemy, Salar Abdoh -- Two Countries, One Divided Self, Roger Sedarat -- Mothering across the Cultural Divide, Katherine Whitney -- My Mom Killed Michael Jackson, Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh -- Am I an Immigrant?, Roxanne Varzi -- 1,916 Days, Mandana Chaffa -- Culture beyond Language, Leyla Farzaneh -- Memory/Longing -- Forget Me Not, Shideh Etaat -- Errand, Babak Elahi -- The Color of the Bricks, Farnaz Fatemi -- Renounce and Abjure All Allegiance, Renata Khoshroo Louwers -- Learning Farsi, Darius Atefat-Peckham -- Delam Tang Shodeh, Shireen Day -- Walking with Zahra, Layla Razavi -- Halva, Nazanine Attaran -- Her Orange-Blossom Tea, Maryam Atai -- The Iranians of Mercer Island, Siamak Vossoughi -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors.
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/320273
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    Houston journal : adventures in North America and Texas, 1837-1841 (1954)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 168 p) , illus., ports., maps, facsims , 24 cm
    Edition: Alexandria, VA Alexander Street Press 2003 North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041032-9
    Parallel Title: Reproduktion von Dresel, Gustav Houston journal
    RVK:
    HR 2604
    RVK:
    LB 56600
    RVK:
    MS 3600
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    NW 2562
    Keywords: Germans ; USA ; Texas Description and travel ; United States Description and travel
    Note: First published in the yearbook of the German-American Historical Society of Illinois for 1920-21, under title: Texanisches Tagebuch
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