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  • 1
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520943094
    Language: English
    Pages: 411 p., [14] p.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 780.89/96073
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    Keywords: Musik ; Schwarze. USA ; African Americans Music ; History and criticism ; Music History and criticism ; African American musicians ; Musik ; Schwarze ; USA ; USA ; Musik ; Schwarze
    Note: "George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies" , Includes discographies
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  • 2
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520943445 , 0520943449
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 277 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Geary, Daniel Radical Ambition : C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought
    DDC: 301.092
    Keywords: Mills, C. Wright 1916-1962 ; Mills, C. Wright ; Mills, C. Wright ; Mills, C. Wright 1916-1962 ; Mills, C. Wright ; Sociology History ; 20th century ; United States ; Sociology History 20th century ; Sociology History 20th century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General ; Sociology ; History ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Maverick on a Motorcycle?: The Thought and Times of C. Wright Mills; 1. Student Ambitions: The Education of a Social Scientist; 2. What Is Happening in the World Today: Weberian Sociology and Radical Political Analysis; 3. The Union of the Power and the Intellect: The Labor Movement and Bureau-Driven Social Research; 4. The New Little Men: 'White Collar'; 5. The Politics of Truth: 'The Power Elite' and 'The Sociological Imagination'; 6. Worldly Ambitions: The Emergence of a Global New Left.
    Abstract: Epilogue: The Legacy of C. Wright MillsNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
    Abstract: Sociologist, social critic, and political radical C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was one of the leading public intellectuals in twentieth century America. Offering an important new understanding of Mills and the times in which he lived, Radical Ambition challenges the captivating caricature that has prevailed of him as a lone rebel critic of 1950s complacency. Instead, it places Mills within broader trends in American politics, thought, and culture. Indeed, Daniel Geary reveals that Mills shared key assumptions about American society even with those liberal intellectuals who were his primary oppo
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: maverick on a motorcycle? The thought and times of C. Wright MillsStudent ambitions: the education of a social scientist -- What is happening in the world today: Weberian sociology and radical political analysis -- The union of the power and the intellect: the labor movement and bureau-driven social research -- The new little men: 'white collar' -- The politics of truth: 'the power elite' and 'the sociological imagination' -- Worldly ambitions: the emergence of a global new left -- Epilogue: the legacy of C. Wright Mills.
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  • 3
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520942448 , 0520942442
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 251 pages)
    DDC: 201/.7
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    Keywords: Einwanderer ; Recht ; Religiöses Engagement ; Menschenrecht ; Religiöse Gruppe ; USA
    Abstract: In this timely and compelling account of the contribution to immigrant rights made by religious activists in post-1965 and post-9/11 America, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo provides a comprehensive, close-up view of how Muslim, Christian, and Jewish groups are working to counter xenophobia. Against the hysteria prevalent in today's media, in which immigrants are often painted as a drain on the public coffers, inherently unassimilable, or an outright threat to national security, Hondagneu-Sotelo finds the intersection between migration and religion and calls attention to quieter voices, those dedic.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index
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  • 4
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520941311 , 0520941314
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 294 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Illouz, Eva, 1961- Saving the modern soul
    DDC: 306.4613
    Keywords: Social values United States ; Psychoanalysis and culture United States ; Psychotherapy Social aspects ; United States ; Emotions Social aspects ; Social norms United States ; Social values ; Psychoanalysis and culture ; Psychotherapy Social aspects ; Emotions Social aspects ; Social norms ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; PSYCHOLOGY ; General ; Emotions ; Social aspects ; Psychoanalysis and culture ; Psychotherapy ; Social aspects ; Social norms ; Social values ; Psykoterapi ; sociala aspekter ; Förenta staterna ; Psykoanalys och kultur ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The language of psychology is all-pervasive in American culture -- from 'The Sopranos' to 'Oprah', from the abundance of self-help books to the private consulting room, and from the support group to the magazine advice column. 'Saving the Modern Soul' examines the profound impact of therapeutic discourse on our lives and on our contemporary notions of identity. Eva Illouz plumbs today's particular cultural moment to understand how and why psychology has secured its place at the core of modern identity. She examines a wide range of sources to show how self-help culture has transformed contemporary emotional life and how therapy complicates individuals' lives even as it claims to dissect their emotional experiences and heal trauma"--Provided by publisher
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-286) and index. - Description based on print version record
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  • 5
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520942462
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 973.0046872
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1940-2005 ; Mexikanischer Einwanderer ; Mexikaner ; Migrationspolitik ; USA ; Houston, Tex. ; Mexiko ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Challenging many common perceptions, this is the first book fully dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon-the large numbers of skilled urban workers who are now coming across the border from Mexico's cities. Based on a ten-year, on-the-ground study of one working-class neighborhood in Monterrey, Mexico's industrial powerhouse and third-largest city, Metropolitan Migrants explores the ways in which Mexico's economic restructuring and the industrial modernization of the past three decades have pushed a new flow of migrants toward cities such as Houston, Texas, the global capital of the oil industry. Weaving together rich details of everyday life with a lucid analysis of Mexico's political economy, Rubén Hernández-León deftly traces the effects of restructuring on the lives of the working class, from the national level to the kitchen table.
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  • 6
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520256569 , 9780520251090
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 416 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First paperback printing
    DDC: 304.20973
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    Keywords: Kultur ; Landschaft ; Politik ; Politik ; Political ecology ; Human ecology ; Landscape assessment ; USA ; USA ; United States Politics and government
    Abstract: Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. This anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to the deepest mines, and from the antislavery struggles of two hundred years ago to today's street protests. The nearly forty essays collected here comprise a unique guidebook to the American landscape after the millennium--not just the deserts, skies, gardens, and wilderness areas that have long made up Solnit's subject matter, but the social landscape of democracy and repression, of borders, ruins, and protests. She ventures into territories as dark as prison and as sublime as a broad vista, revealing beauty in the harshest landscape and political struggle in the most apparently serene view.--From publisher description.
    Description / Table of Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 7
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520942462 , 0520942469 , 9780520256736 , 0520256735 , 9780520256743 , 0520256743
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 258 pages) , Illustrations, map
    DDC: 973.00468/72
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1940-2005 ; Mexikanischer Einwanderer ; Mexikaner ; Migrationspolitik ; USA ; Houston, Tex. ; Mexiko
    Abstract: Challenging many common perceptions, this book is dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon - the large number of skilled urban workers who are coming to America from Mexico's cities. Based on a ten-year study of one working-class neighbourhood in Monterrey, the book studies the forces that lead to Mexican emigration.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index
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  • 8
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9781429482288 , 1429482281 , 9780520940697 , 0520940695
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xx, 281 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: ACLS Humanites E-book
    Parallel Title: Print version Blue-chip Black
    DDC: 305.8960730722
    Keywords: African Americans Case studies ; Social conditions ; 1975- ; African Americans Case studies ; Race identity ; Middle class Case studies ; United States ; Social status Case studies ; United States ; African Americans Social conditions ; Washington Region ; African Americans Race identity ; Washington Region ; Middle class Washington Region ; Social status Washington Region ; African Americans Case studies Race identity ; Middle class Case studies ; Social status Case studies ; African Americans Social conditions ; African Americans Race identity ; Middle class ; Social status ; African Americans Case studies Social conditions 1975- ; African Americans Social conditions ; African Americans Race identity ; Middle class ; Social status ; African Americans Case studies Social conditions 1975- ; Social status Case studies ; Middle class Case studies ; African Americans Case studies Race identity ; Middle class ; Race relations ; Social status ; African Americans ; Race identity ; African Americans ; Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; Case studies ; United States Case studies ; Race relations ; Washington Region Race relations ; United States ; Washington (D.C.) Region ; United States Case studies Race relations ; Washington Region Race relations ; United States Case studies Race relations ; Washington Region Race relations ; United States ; Washington (D.C.) Region ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Case studies ; Electronic books ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Defining the post-integration black middle classes -- Social organization in Washington's suburbia -- Public identities : managing race in public spaces -- Status-based identities : protecting and reproducing middle-class status -- Race- and class-based identities : strategic assimilation in middle-class suburbia -- Suburban identities : building alliances with neighbors.
    Abstract: Explores middle-class blacks who live in suburbs where poor blacks are not present. This book examines the sense of identity that individuals in these groups craft to manage their interactions with lower-class blacks, middle-class whites, and other middle-class blacks as they seek to reap the benefits of their middle-class status
    Description / Table of Contents: Defining the post-integration black middle classesSocial organization in Washington's suburbia -- Public identities : managing race in public spaces -- Status-based identities : protecting and reproducing middle-class status -- Race- and class-based identities : strategic assimilation in middle-class suburbia -- Suburban identities : building alliances with neighbors.
    Note: "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies"--P. facing t.p. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-268) and index. - Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-268) and index
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  • 9
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520940970 , 0520940970
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiii, 272 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Markens, Susan, 1967- Surrogate motherhood and the politics of reproduction
    DDC: 306.8743
    Keywords: Surrogate mothers Legal status, laws, etc ; United States ; Surrogate motherhood Social aspects ; United States ; United States ; Surrogate motherhood ; Surrogate mothers Legal status, laws, etc ; Surrogate motherhood Social aspects ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Parenting ; Motherhood ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies ; Surrogate motherhood ; Surrogate motherhood ; Social aspects ; Surrogate mothers ; Legal status, laws, etc ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Susan Markens takes on one of the hottest issues on the fertility front - surrogate motherhood - in a book that illuminates the culture wars that have erupted over new reproductive technologies in the United States
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-256) and index. - Description based on print version record
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  • 10
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press | New York, NY : JSTOR
    ISBN: 9780520933026 , 0520933028
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: Updated with a new preface
    Series Statement: Comparative studies of health systems and medical care 33
    DDC: 306.4/61
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    Keywords: Aids ; HIV-Infektion ; Armut ; Haiti ; USA
    Abstract: In this dissertation, ethnographic, historical and epidemiologic data are brought to bear on the subject of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Haiti. The forces that have helped to determine rates and pattern of spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are examined, as are social responses to AIDS in rural and urban Haiti, and in parts of North America. History and its calculus of economic and symbolic power also help to explain why residents of a small village in rural Haiti came to understand AIDS in the manner that they did. Drawing on several years of fieldwork, the evolution of a cultural model of AIDS is traced. In a small village in rural Haiti, it was possible to document first the lack of such a model, and then the elaboration over time of a widely shared representation of AIDS. The experience of three villagers who died of complications of AIDS is examined in detail, and the importance of their suffering to the evolution of a cultural model is demonstrated. Epidemiologic and ethnographic studies are prefaced by a geographically broad historical analysis, which suggests the outlines of relations between a powerful center (the United States) and a peripheral client state (Haiti). These relations constitute an important part of a political-economic network termed the "West Atlantic system." The epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in Haiti and elsewhere in the Caribbean is reviewed, and the relation between the degree of involvement in the West Atlantic system and the prevalence of HIV is suggested. It is further suggested that the history of HIV in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Bahamas is similar to that documented here for Haiti.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-331) and index
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  • 11
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520933026
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (277 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
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    Keywords: Aids ; HIV-Infektion ; Armut ; Haiti ; USA
    Abstract: Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. First published in 1992 this new edition has been updated and a new preface added.
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  • 12
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 1429419156 , 9781429419154 , 1601295308 , 9781601295309 , 9780520939615 , 0520939611
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 307 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Print version Strange harvest
    DDC: 306.461
    Keywords: Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc Social aspects ; United States ; Medical anthropology United States ; Ethnology United States ; Funeral rites and ceremonies United States ; Death United States ; Mourning customs United States ; Memorials United States ; Kinship United States ; Greffe (Chirurgie) Aspect social ; États-Unis ; Anthropologie médicale États-Unis ; Ethnologie États-Unis ; Funérailles Rites et cérémonies ; États-Unis ; Mort États-Unis ; Deuil Coutumes ; États-Unis ; Monuments commémoratifs États-Unis ; Parenté États-Unis ; Ethnology ; Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Death ; Mourning customs ; Memorials ; Kinship ; Medical anthropology ; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc Social aspects ; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc Social aspects ; Medical anthropology ; Ethnology ; Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Death ; Mourning customs ; Memorials ; Kinship ; United States ; Tissue and Organ Procurement ; Organ Transplantation ; Anthropology, Cultural ; Tissue and Organ Procurement ; Anthropology, Cultural ; Organ Transplantation ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; Death ; Ethnology ; Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Kinship ; Medical anthropology ; Memorials ; Mourning customs ; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc ; Social aspects ; Bewältigung ; Sozialanthropologie ; Transplantation ; Trauerarbeit ; Trauerritual ; Soziale Situation ; Bestattungsritus ; Transplantatie ; Anniversaries ; United States ; United States ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Strange Harvest illuminates the wondrous yet disquieting medical realm of organ transplantation by drawing on the voices of those most deeply involved: transplant recipients, clinical specialists, and the surviving kin of deceased organ donors. In this rich and deeply engaging ethnographic study, anthropologist Lesley Sharp explores how these parties think about death, loss, and mourning, especially in light of medical taboos surrounding donor anonymity. As Sharp argues, new forms of embodied intimacy arise in response, and the riveting insights gleaned from her interviews, observations, and d
    Description / Table of Contents: We are the dead menMemory work -- Public encounters as subversive acts -- Human hybridity.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-298) and index. - Print version record
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  • 13
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520938601 , 0520938607 , 142373145X , 9781423731450
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (1 v.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Mexican New York
    DDC: 304.87471072090511
    Keywords: Mexican Americans Social conditions ; New York (State) ; New York ; Immigrants Social conditions ; New York (State) ; New York ; Transnationalism ; Immigrants Social conditions ; Mexican Americans Social conditions ; Transnationalism ; Mexican Americans Social conditions ; Immigrants Social conditions ; Soziale Situation ; Immigrants ; Social conditions ; Mexican Americans ; Social conditions ; International relations ; Transnationalism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration ; Emigration and immigration ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Einwanderung ; Ethnic relations ; United States Relations ; Mexico ; Mexico Relations ; United States ; New York (N.Y.) Emigration and immigration ; Puebla (Mexico : State) Emigration and immigration ; New York (N.Y.) Ethnic relations ; Mexico ; Mexico ; Puebla (State) ; New York (State) ; New York ; United States ; United States Relations ; Mexico Relations ; New York (N.Y.) Emigration and immigration ; Puebla (Mexico : State) Emigration and immigration ; New York (N.Y.) Ethnic relations ; Puebla (Mexico : State) Emigration and immigration ; New York (N.Y.) Ethnic relations ; United States Relations ; Mexico Relations ; New York (N.Y.) Emigration and immigration ; Mexico ; Mexico ; Puebla (State) ; New York (State) ; New York ; United States ; New York 〈NY〉 ; Hispanos ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Drawing on more than fifteen years of research, Mexican New York offers an intimate view of globalization as it is lived by Mexican immigrants and their children in New York and in Mexico. Robert Courtney Smith's groundbreaking study sheds new light on transnationalism, vividly illustrating how immigrants move back and forth between New York and their home village in Puebla with considerable ease, borrowing from and contributing to both communities as they forge new gender roles; new strategies of social mobility, race, and even adolescence; and new brands of politics and egalitarianism. Smith
    Abstract: Transnational life in ethnographic perspective -- Dual contexts for transnational life -- "Los ausentes siempre presentes" : imagining and making a local-level transnational political community -- The defeat of Don Victorio and why it matters : transnationalization, democratization, and regime change on local, state, and federal levels -- Gender strategies, settlement, and transnational life -- "In Ticuani, he goes crazy" : the second generation renegotiates gender in Ticuani -- "Padre Jesus is our protector" : adolescence, religion, and social location in New York and Ticuani -- "I'll go back next year" : local-level transnational life across the life course -- Defending your name in New York and Ticuani : the roots and transnationalization of Mexican gangs -- "Why you gotta mess up a good place?" : returning to a changed Ticuani.
    Description / Table of Contents: [new title to come]Mexican immigrants in New York and Puebla : the dual contexts for transnational life -- "Los ausentes siempre presentes" : imagining and making a local-level transnational political community -- The defeat of Don Victorio and why it matters : transnationalization, democratization, and regime change on local, state, and federal levels -- Gender strategies, settlement, and transnational life -- "In Ticuani, he goes crazy" : the second generation renegotiates gender in Ticuani -- "Padre Jesus is our protector" : adolescence, religion, and social location in New York and Ticuani -- "I'll go back next year" : local-level transnational life across the life course -- Defending your name in New York and Ticuani : the roots and transnationalization of Mexican gangs -- "Why you gotta mess up a good place?" : returning to a changed Ticuani.
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  • 14
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520939204 , 1429481838 , 9780520246492 , 9780520939202 , 9781429481830
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 279 pages)
    Series Statement: American crossroads 20
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    DDC: 362.1/0979494
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1879-1939 ; HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues ; MEDICAL / Public Health ; MEDICAL / Health Policy ; HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General ; MEDICAL / Diseases ; MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery ; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) ; Asian Americans / Health and hygiene ; Immigrants / Health and hygiene ; Mexican Americans / Health and hygiene ; Public health ; Race relations ; Sociale gezondheidszorg ; Immigranten ; Rassenverhoudingen ; Public Health / history / Los Angeles ; Asian Americans / history / Los Angeles ; Emigration and Immigration / history / Los Angeles ; History, 19th Century / Los Angeles ; History, 20th Century / Los Angeles ; Mexican Americans / history / Los Angeles ; Race Relations / history / Los Angeles ; Einwanderer ; Geschichte ; Medizin ; Immigrants Health and hygiene ; History ; Asian Americans Health and hygiene ; History ; Mexican Americans Health and hygiene ; History ; Public health History ; Asiaten ; Chicanos ; Medizinische Versorgung ; USA ; Los Angeles, Calif. ; Los Angeles, Calif. ; Asiaten ; Medizinische Versorgung ; Geschichte 1879-1939 ; Los Angeles, Calif. ; Chicanos ; Medizinische Versorgung ; Geschichte 1879-1939
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index , Interlopers in the land of sunshine : Chinese disease carriers, launderers, and vegetable peddlers -- Caught between discourses of disease, health, and nation : public health attitudes toward Japanese and Mexican laborers in progressive-era Los Angeles -- Institutionalizing public health in ethnic Los Angeles in the 1920s -- "We can no longer ignore the problem of the Mexican" : depression-era public health policies in Los Angeles -- The fight for "health, morality, and decent living standards" : Mexican Americans and the struggle for public housing in 1930s Los Angeles -- Epilogue : genealogies of racial discourses and practices , Shows how science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Examining the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, this book illustrates the ways health officials used complexly constructed concerns about public health to demean, diminish, discipline, and define racial groups
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520939578 , 0520939573 , 1423752694 , 9781423752691 , 1598759426 , 9781598759426
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (1 volume)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sidel, Ruth Unsung heroines
    DDC: 306.874320869420973
    Keywords: Single mothers Social conditions ; United States ; Single mothers Economic conditions ; United States ; Welfare recipients United States ; United States ; Single mothers Social conditions ; Single mothers Economic conditions ; Welfare recipients ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Parenting ; Motherhood ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Single mothers ; Economic conditions ; Single mothers ; Social conditions ; Welfare recipients ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Gives political-economic analysis that provides historical background on the way American social policy has evolved and compares the situation in the US to the social policies and ideologies of other countries. This book introduces courageous population of women committed to their families, holding fast to quintessential American values
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 1417585005 , 9781417585007 , 9780520929111 , 052092911X
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 480 p , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2005 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
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    Keywords: Dreiser, Theodore, ; Dreiser, Theodore 1871-1945 ; Dreiser, Theodore ; Dreiser, Theodore ; Dreiser, Theodore, ; Dreiser, Theodore ; Novelists, American Biography. 20th century ; Journalists Biography. ; Novelists, American Biography ; 20th century ; Journalists Biography ; United States ; Journalists Biography ; Novelists, American Biography 20th century ; Journalists Biography ; Novelists, American Biography 20th century ; Novelists, American Biography. 20th century ; Journalists Biography. ; Novelists, American 20th century ; Journalists United States ; Electronic books ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Literary ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General ; Journalists ; Novelists, American ; Biographies ; Biographie ; United States ; Electronic books. ; Electronic book ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Biografie ; Dreiser, Theodore 1871-1945 ; Biografie ; Dreiser, Theodore 1871-1945 ; Dreiser, Theodore 1871-1945
    Abstract: Hoosier hard times -- A very bard of a city -- This matter of reporting -- Survival of the fittest -- Editorial days -- The writer -- Sister Carrie -- Down hill and up -- Return of the novelist -- Life after the Titanic -- The genius himself -- Back to the future -- An American tragedy -- Celebrity -- Tragic America -- Facing West -- Selected works of Theodore Dreiser
    Description / Table of Contents: Hoosier hard times --A very bard of a city --This matter of reporting --Survival of the fittest --Editorial days --The writer --Sister Carrie --Down hill and up --Return of the novelist --Life after the Titanic --The genius himself --Back to the future --An American tragedy --Celebrity --Tragic America --Facing West --Selected works of Theodore Dreiser.
    Description / Table of Contents: Hoosier hard timesA very bard of a cityThis matter of reportingSurvival of the fittestEditorial daysThe writerSister CarrieDown hill and upReturn of the novelistLife after the TitanicThe genius himselfBack to the futureAn American tragedyCelebrityTragic AmericaFacing WestSelected works of Theodore Dreiser.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2005
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    ISBN: 0520244036 , 0520244044
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 372 p
    Series Statement: California series in public anthropology 12
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.08998
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    Keywords: Yanomamo Indians Study and teaching (Higher) ; Yanomamo Indians Public opinion ; Yanomamo Indians Social conditions ; Anthropological ethics Study and teaching (Higher) ; Anthropology Authorship ; Anthropology Fieldwork ; Anthropologists Professional relationships ; Kulturanthropologe ; Yanomami ; Empirische Forschung ; Menschenrechtsverletzung ; Kontroverse ; Wissenschaftsethik ; Forschungsgegenstand ; Kulturanthropologie ; USA ; USA ; Kulturanthropologie ; Empirische Forschung ; Yanomami ; Forschungsgegenstand ; Menschenrechtsverletzung ; USA ; Kulturanthropologe ; Wissenschaftsethik ; Kontroverse
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520930049 , 0520930045
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (308 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version American Sexual Character : Sex, Gender, and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports
    DDC: 306.70973
    Keywords: Sex - United States ; Sex - United States ; Kinsey, Alfred C ; Social sciences ; Social sciences ; Kinsey, Alfred C ; Sex ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Human Sexuality ; SELF-HELP ; Sexual Instruction ; HISTORY ; United States ; General ; Sex ; Social sciences ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: When Alfred Kinsey's massive studies Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female appeared in 1948 and 1953, their detailed data spurred an unprecedented public discussion of the nation's sexual practices and ideologies. As they debated what behaviors were normal or average, abnormal or deviant, Cold War Americans also celebrated and scrutinized the state of their nation, relating apparent changes in sexuality to shifts in its political structure, economy, and people. American Sexual Character employs the studies and the myriad responses they evoked to examine nati
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Contents; List Of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One. "Sexual Order In Our Nation": American Sexuality and National Character in the Postwar United States; Two. "A Missing Sense Of Maleness": Male Heterosexuality, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, and the Crisis of American Masculinity; Three. "Much The Same Desires As Men": Sexual Behavior in the Human Female and the "American Woman"; Four. "I'm A Much Better Citizen Than If I Were Single": Remaking Postwar Marriage and Reconfiguring Marital Sexuality.
    Description / Table of Contents: Five. "An Age Of Sexual Ambiguity": Homosexuality and National Character in the Postwar United StatesEpilogue. "All America Is One Big Orgone Box": American Sexual Character Revisited; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937864
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (381 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.0973
    Keywords: Landleben ; Natur ; Religiöses Verhalten ; Spiritualität ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Motivated variously by the desire to reject consumerism, to live closer to the earth, to embrace voluntary simplicity, or to discover a more spiritual path, homesteaders have made the radical decision to go "back to the land," rejecting modern culture and amenities to live self-sufficiently and in harmony with nature. Drawing from vivid firsthand accounts as well as from rich historical material, this gracefully written study of homesteading in America from the late nineteenth century to the present examines the lives and beliefs of those who have ascribed to the homesteading philosophy, placing their experiences within the broader context of the changing meanings of nature and religion in modern American culture. Rebecca Kneale Gould investigates the lives of famous figures such as Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, Ralph Borsodi, Wendell Berry, and Helen and Scott Nearing, and she presents penetrating interviews with many contemporary homesteaders. She also considers homesteading as a form of dissent from consumer culture, as a departure from traditional religious life, and as a practice of environmental ethics.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520930049
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (308 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.70973
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    Keywords: Kinsey-Report ; Sexualverhalten ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Geschlechterverhältnis ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: When Alfred Kinsey's massive studies Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female appeared in 1948 and 1953, their detailed data spurred an unprecedented public discussion of the nation's sexual practices and ideologies. As they debated what behaviors were normal or average, abnormal or deviant, Cold War Americans also celebrated and scrutinized the state of their nation, relating apparent changes in sexuality to shifts in its political structure, economy, and people. American Sexual Character employs the studies and the myriad responses they evoked to examine national debates about sexuality, gender, and Americanness after World War II. Focusing on the mutual construction of postwar ideas about national identity and sexual life, this wide-ranging, shrewd, and lively analysis explores the many uses to which these sex surveys were put at a time of extreme anxiety about sexual behavior and its effects on the nation. Looking at real and perceived changes in masculinity, female sexuality, marriage, and homosexuality, Miriam G. Reumann develops the notion of "American sexual character," sexual patterns and attitudes that were understood to be uniquely American and to reflect contemporary transformations in politics, social life, gender roles, and culture. She considers how apparent shifts in sexual behavior shaped the nation's workplaces, homes, and families, and how these might be linked to racial and class differences.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520938632
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (262 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.48895107
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    Keywords: Buck, Pearl S. ; Wong, Anna May ; Song, Meiling ; Chinabild ; USA
    Abstract: Throughout the history of the United States, images of China have populated the American imagination. Always in flux, these images shift rapidly, as they did during the early decades of the twentieth century. In this erudite and original study, Karen J. Leong explores the gendering of American orientalism during the 1930s and 1940s. Focusing on three women who were popularly and publicly associated with China-Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, and Mayling Soong-Leong shows how each negotiated what it meant to be American, Chinese American, and Chinese against the backdrop of changes in the United States as a national community and as an international power. The China Mystique illustrates how each of these women encountered the possibilities as well as the limitations of transnational status in attempting to shape her own opportunities. During these two decades, each woman enjoyed expanding visibility due to an increasingly global mass culture, rising nationalism in Asia, the emergence of the United States from the shadows of imperialism to world power, and the more assertive participation of women in civic and consumer culture.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520937864 , 0520937864 , 1423717317 , 9781423717317
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (1 v.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Annus, Irén E. Review: At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America, by Rebecca Kneale Gould 2009
    Parallel Title: Print version At home in nature
    DDC: 306.0973
    Keywords: Country life Religious aspects ; Nature Religious aspects ; Spirituality United States ; Country life United States ; Nature and civilization United States ; Country life Religious aspects ; Nature Religious aspects ; Spirituality ; Country life ; Nature and civilization ; Country life ; Nature and civilization ; Spirituality ; Nature Religious aspects ; Country life Religious aspects ; United States Religious life and customs ; Country life ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; RELIGION ; Comparative Religion ; Country life ; Religious aspects ; Nature and civilization ; Nature ; Religious aspects ; Spirituality ; United States Religious life and customs ; United States Religious life and customs ; United States Religious life and customs ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Motivated variously by the desire to reject consumerism, to live closer to the earth, to embrace voluntary simplicity, or to discover a more spiritual path, homesteaders have made the radical decision to go "back to the land," rejecting modern culture and amenities to live self-sufficiently and in harmony with nature
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Homesteading Time Line; Introduction; 1. Conversion; 2. Getting (Not Too) Close to Nature; 3. Homemade Ritual; Interlude: Interpreting Ambivalence: Homesteading as Spiritual and Cultural Work; 4. The Reenchantment of the Farm: John Burroughs Goes Back to the Land; 5. Scott Nearing and the Social Gospel of Agriculture; 6. Ambivalent Legacies I: The Dynamics of Engagement and Retreat; 7. Ambivalent Legacies II: Gender, Class, Nature, and Religion; Appendix: Of Hoes and Huckleberries: A Note on Method; Notes; Selected Bibliography.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520241401 , 0520241428 , 0520937864 , 1282357859 , 1423717317 , 1598755811 , 9780520241404 , 9780520241428 , 9780520937864 , 9781282357853 , 9781423717317 , 9781598755817
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 volume)
    DDC: 306/.0973
    Keywords: Country life ; United States / Religious life and customs ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture ; RELIGION / Comparative Religion ; Religion ; Country life Religious aspects ; Nature Religious aspects ; Spirituality ; Country life ; Nature and civilization ; Natur ; Landbevölkerung ; Religion ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Natur ; Landbevölkerung ; Religion
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Homesteading Time Line; Introduction; 1. Conversion; 2. Getting (Not Too) Close to Nature; 3. Homemade Ritual; Interlude: Interpreting Ambivalence: Homesteading as Spiritual and Cultural Work; 4. The Reenchantment of the Farm: John Burroughs Goes Back to the Land; 5. Scott Nearing and the Social Gospel of Agriculture; 6. Ambivalent Legacies I: The Dynamics of Engagement and Retreat; 7. Ambivalent Legacies II: Gender, Class, Nature, and Religion; Appendix: Of Hoes and Huckleberries: A Note on Method; Notes; Selected Bibliography , Motivated variously by the desire to reject consumerism, to live closer to the earth, to embrace voluntary simplicity, or to discover a more spiritual path, homesteaders have made the radical decision to go "back to the land," rejecting modern culture and amenities to live self-sufficiently and in harmony with nature
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937468
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (303 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 304.8/73/00922
    Keywords: Einwanderung ; USA ; Erlebnisbericht
    Abstract: A Korean street child is adopted into an upper-middle-class suburban home. A Vietnamese monk dishes up fast food to fund a spiritual center. A woman saves for a home back in Ghana, where she will never live. All are immigrants to the United States, known to most of their fellow Americans only as statistics.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 141754533X , 9781417545339 , 9780520940901 , 0520940903
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 volume
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Print version What's wrong with democracy?
    Keywords: Democracy History. ; Direct democracy ; Representative government and representation ; Political culture History. ; Democracy History ; Direct democracy Greece ; Athens ; Republicanism History ; United States ; Representative government and representation United States ; Political culture History ; United States ; Democracy History ; Direct democracy ; Republicanism History ; Representative government and representation ; Political culture History ; Representative government and representation ; Political culture History ; Republicanism History ; Direct democracy ; Democracy History ; Democracy History. ; Direct democracy ; Representative government and representation ; Political culture History. ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; History & Theory ; Civilization ; Greek influences ; Democracy ; Direct democracy ; Political culture ; Representative government and representation ; Republicanism ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Political Ideologies ; Democracy ; History ; Demokratie ; Rezeption ; Republicanism History. ; United States Civilization ; Greek influences. ; United States Civilization ; Greek influences ; Greece ; Athens ; United States ; United States Civilization ; Greek influences ; United States Civilization ; Greek influences ; Republicanism History. ; United States Civilization ; Greek influences. ; Greece ; Athens ; United States ; Griechenland ; USA ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books History ; Griechenland ; Demokratie ; Rezeption ; USA ; Griechenland ; Demokratie ; Rezeption ; USA
    Abstract: In this daring reassessment of classical Athenian democracy & its significance for the United States today, Samons firstly shows why the Athenian model was distrusted by America's founding father, before considering how the concept of democracy has now become an object of popular veneration
    Abstract: Introduction -- Athenian society and government -- Democracy and demagogues : election, voting, and qualifications for citizenship -- Public finance : democracy and the people's purse -- Foreign policy I : democracy imperial -- Foreign policy II : the Peloponnesian War -- National defense : democracy defeated -- Democracy and religion -- Conclusion : Socrates, Pericles, and the citizen
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Athenian society and government -- Democracy and demagogues : election, voting, and qualifications for citizenship -- Public finance : democracy and the people's purse -- Foreign policy I : democracy imperial -- Foreign policy II : the Peloponnesian War -- National defense : democracy defeated -- Democracy and religion -- Conclusion : Socrates, Pericles, and the citizen
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionAthenian society and government -- Democracy and demagogues : election, voting, and qualifications for citizenship -- Public finance : democracy and the people's purse -- Foreign policy I : democracy imperial -- Foreign policy II : the Peloponnesian War -- National defense : democracy defeated -- Democracy and religion -- Conclusion : Socrates, Pericles, and the citizen.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2004
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937062
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (291 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies
    DDC: 305.48697107
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    Keywords: Schwarze Frau ; Islam ; Soziale Situation ; USA
    Abstract: Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected subtleties and complexities in the relation of women, especially black women, to Islam? Carolyn Rouse sought answers to these questions among the women of Sunni Muslim mosques in Los Angeles. Her richly textured study provides rare insight into the meaning of Islam for African American women; in particular, Rouse shows how the teachings of Islam give these women a sense of power and control over interpretations of gender, family, authority, and obligations. In Engaged Surrender, Islam becomes a unique prism for clarifying the role of faith in contemporary black women's experience. Through these women's stories, Rouse reveals how commitment to Islam refracts complex processes-urbanization, political and social radicalization, and deindustrialization-that shape black lives generally, and black women's lives in particular. Rather than focusing on traditional (and deeply male) ideas of autonomy and supremacy, the book-and the community of women it depicts-emphasizes more holistic notions of collective obligation, personal humility, and commitment to overarching codes of conduct and belief. A much-needed corrective to media portraits of Islam and the misconceptions they engender, this engaged and engaging work offers an intimate, in-depth look into the vexed and interlocking issues of Islam, gender, and race.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520937413 , 0520937414
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 312 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Family of woman
    DDC: 306.874308664
    Keywords: Lesbian mothers Case studies ; United States ; Children of gay parents Case studies ; United States ; Sex role Case studies ; United States ; Lesbian mothers Case studies ; Children of gay parents Case studies ; Sex role Case studies ; Sex role Case studies ; Lesbian mothers Case studies ; Children of gay parents Case studies ; Lesbian mothers United States ; Children of gay parents United States ; Sex role United States ; Electronic books United States ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Parenting ; Motherhood ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies ; Children of gay parents ; Lesbian mothers ; Sex role ; Case studies ; United States ; Electronic books Case studies ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Amidst the shrill and discordant notes struck in debates over the make-up - or breakdown - of the American family, the family keeps evolving. This book offers a close and clear-eyed look into a form this change has taken most recently, the lesbian coparent family. Based on intensive interviews and extensive firsthand observation, The Family of Woman chronicles the experience of thirty-four families headed by lesbian mothers whose children were conceived by means of donor insemination. With its intimate perspective on the interior dynamics of these families and its penetrating view of their pub
    Abstract: The emergence of lesbian-coparent families in postmodern society -- Becoming parents : baby making in the age of assisted procreation -- Being parents : the end of Oedipus and the expansion of intimacy -- Undoing the gender division of labor -- Truth and reconciliation : families of origin come around and come out -- Becoming familiar in the community of strangers -- The structure of donor-extended kinship -- The theoretical future of a conscious feminist kinship -- Appendix: Families by the bay : the study design, method, and participants.
    Description / Table of Contents: The emergence of lesbian-coparent families in postmodern societyBecoming parents : baby making in the age of assisted procreation -- Being parents : the end of Oedipus and the expansion of intimacy -- Undoing the gender division of labor -- Truth and reconciliation : families of origin come around and come out -- Becoming familiar in the community of strangers -- The structure of donor-extended kinship -- The theoretical future of a conscious feminist kinship -- Appendix: Families by the bay : the study design, method, and participants.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520237940 , 0520237943 , 9780520237957 , 0520237951 , 9780520937062 , 0520937066 , 141752541X , 9781417525416
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvii, 271 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Ghozzi, Kamel Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam, by Carolyn Moxley Rouse. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, 271pp.; 50.00 USD (cloth), 19.95 USD (paper) 2005
    Series Statement: George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies
    Parallel Title: Print version Engaged surrender
    DDC: 305.48697073
    Keywords: Muslim women Social conditions ; Muslim women Social conditions ; United States ; African American women Religious life ; United States ; Women in Islam ; Muslim women Social conditions ; Muslim women Social conditions ; African American women Religious life ; African American women Religious life ; Muslim women Social conditions ; Muslim women Social conditions ; Women in Islam ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; African American women ; Religious life ; Muslim women ; Social conditions ; Women in Islam ; Electronic books ; United States ; Electronic books Electronic books
    Abstract: Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women ""reproducing their oppression, "" as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected subtleties and complexities in the relation of women, especially black women, to Islam? Carolyn Rouse sought answers to these questions among the women of Sunni Muslim mosques in Los Angeles. Her richly textured study provides rare insight into the meaning of Islam for African American women; in
    Abstract: Engaged surrender -- A community of women : consensus, borders, and resistance praxis -- Gender negotiations and Qur'anic exegesis : one community's reading of Islam and women -- Historical discourses -- Soul food : changing markers of identity through the transition -- Conversion -- Performing gender : marriage, family, and community -- Searching for Islamic purity in and out of secular Los Angeles County.
    Description / Table of Contents: Engaged surrenderA community of women : consensus, borders, and resistance praxis -- Gender negotiations and Qur'anic exegesis : one community's reading of Islam and women -- Historical discourses -- Soul food : changing markers of identity through the transition -- Conversion -- Performing gender : marriage, family, and community -- Searching for Islamic purity in and out of secular Los Angeles County.
    Note: "George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index. - Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520926578
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.5
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1860 ; Industrialisierung ; Klassengesellschaft ; Sprache ; USA
    Abstract: In this innovative book, Stephen P. Rice offers a new understanding of class formation in America during the several decades before the Civil War. This was the period in the nation's early industrial development when travel by steamboat became commonplace, when the railroad altered concepts of space and time, and when Americans experienced the beginnings of factory production. These disorienting changes raised a host of questions about what machinery would accomplish. Would it promote equality or widen the distance between rich and poor? Among the most contentious questions were those focusing on the social consequences of mechanization: while machine enthusiasts touted the extent to which machines would free workers from toil, others pointed out that people needed to tend machines, and that that work was fundamentally degrading and exploitative. Minding the Machine shows how members of a new middle class laid claim to their social authority and minimized the potential for class conflict by playing out class relations on less contested social and technical terrains. As they did so, they defined relations between shopowners-and the overseers, foremen, or managers they employed-and wage workers as analogous to relations between head and hand, between mind and body, and between human and machine. Rice presents fascinating discussions of the mechanics' institute movement, the manual labor school movement, popular physiology reformers, and efforts to solve the seemingly intractable problem of steam boiler explosions. His eloquent narrative demonstrates that class is as much about the comprehension of social relations as it is about the making of social relations, and that class formation needs to be understood not only as a social struggle but as a conceptual struggle.
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    ISBN: 9780520240711 , 0520240715
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 335 Seiten , Karte
    Edition: First paperback printing
    DDC: 306.36209599
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    Keywords: Slavery Philippines ; History ; Nationalism Philippines ; History ; Philippines History ; 1898-1946 ; USA ; Sklaverei ; Philippinen ; Philippinen ; Nationalismus ; Geschichte 1898-1916
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520936478
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (237 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.40973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1650-1800 ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Wert ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Ruth Bloch's stellar essays on the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of gender and morality are brought together in this valuable book, which collects six of her most influential pieces in one place for the first time and includes two new essays. The volume illuminates the overarching theme of her work by addressing a basic historical question: Why did the attitudes toward gender and family relations that we now consider traditional values emerge when they did? Bloch looks deeply into eighteenth-century culture to answer this question, highlighting long-term developments in religion, intellectual history, law, and literature, showing that the eighteenth century was a time of profound transformation for women's roles as wives and mothers, for ideas about sexuality, and for notions of female moral authority. She engages topics from British moral philosophy to colonial laws regarding courtship, and from the popularity of the sentimental novel to the psychology of religious revivalism. Lucid, provocative, and wide-ranging, these eight essays bring a revisionist challenge to both women's studies and cultural studies as they ask us to reconsider the origins of the system of gender relations that has dominated American culture for two hundred years.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520929265
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (202 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.8089
    Keywords: Filipinos ; Ethnosoziologie ; Philippinischer Einwanderer ; USA
    Abstract: Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, have been little studied, though they are one of our largest immigrant groups. Based on her in-depth interviews with more than one hundred Filipinos in San Diego, California, Yen Le Espiritu investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them. Her sensitive analysis reveals that Filipino Americans confront U.S. domestic racism and global power structures by living transnational lives that are shaped as much by literal and symbolic ties to the Philippines as they are by social, economic, and political realities in the United States. Espiritu deftly weaves vivid first-person narratives with larger social and historical contexts as she discovers the meaning of home, community, gender, and intergenerational relations among Filipinos. Among other topics, she explores the ways that female sexuality is defined in contradistinction to American mores and shows how this process becomes a way of opposing racial subjugation in this country. She also examines how Filipinos have integrated themselves into the American workplace and looks closely at the effects of colonialism.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937277
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (317 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 330.979474
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    Keywords: Mexikaner ; Chicanos ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Armut ; USA
    Abstract: Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two impoverished California communities-one made up of recent immigrants from Mexico, the other of U.S.-born Chicano citizens-this book provides an invaluable comparative perspective on Latino poverty in contemporary America. In northern California's high-tech Silicon Valley, author Daniel Dohan shows how recent immigrants get by on low-wage babysitting and dish-cleaning jobs. In the housing projects of Los Angeles, he documents how families and communities of U.S.-born Mexican Americans manage the social and economic dislocations of persistent poverty. Taking readers into worlds where public assistance, street crime, competition for low-wage jobs, and family, pride, and cross-cultural experiences intermingle, The Price of Poverty offers vivid portraits of everyday life in these Mexican American communities while addressing urgent policy questions such as: What accounts for joblessness? How can we make sense of crime in poor communities? Does welfare hurt or help?.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520927544
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (286 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 304.8/7307295/09043
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Puerto Ricaner ; Globalisierung ; Auswanderung ; Einwanderung ; USA ; Europa
    Abstract: Colonial Subjects is the first book to use a combination of world-system and postcolonial approaches to compare Puerto Rican migration with Caribbean migration to both the United States and Western Europe. Ramon Grosfoguel provides an alternative reading of the world-system approach to Puerto Rico's history, political economy, and urbanization processes.
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    ISBN: 1417525584 , 0520936914 , 9780520936911 , 9781417525584
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 295 pages , 24 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fractious nation?
    Keywords: USA ; National characteristics, American. ; Political culture ; Citizenship Social aspects ; Social conflict ; Pluralism (Social sciences) ; Social conflict United States ; Cultural pluralism United States ; National characteristics, American ; Political culture ; Citizenship Social aspects ; Political culture United States ; Citizenship Social aspects ; United States ; Cultural pluralism ; Social conflict ; National characteristics, American. ; Political culture ; Citizenship Social aspects ; Social conflict ; Pluralism (Social sciences) ; Electronic books ; Political culture ; Politics and government ; Social conditions ; Social conflict ; Regions & Countries - Americas ; History & Archaeology ; United States - General ; HISTORY ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Citizenship ; Social aspects ; Cultural pluralism ; National characteristics, American ; Moral conditions ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Politische Kultur ; United States Social conditions 1980- ; United States Politics and government 1989- ; United States Social conditions 1980- ; United States Politics and government ; 1989- ; United States Moral conditions ; United States Social conditions ; 1980- ; United States ; United States Moral conditions ; United States Moral conditions. ; United States Politics and government 1989- ; United States Moral conditions. ; United States ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; USA Government ; Politische Kultur ; Nationalbewusstsein ; USA Government ; Politische Kultur ; Nationalbewusstsein
    Abstract: Getting a fix on fragmentation: "breakdown" as estimation error, rhetorical strategy, and organizational accomplishment / Jonathan Rieder -- The fetish of difference / Richard Berstein -- Fragments or ties? the defense of difference / Martha Minow -- The myth of culture war: the disparity between private opinion and public politics / Paul DiMaggio -- America's Jews: highly fragmented, insufficiently disputatious / Jack Wertheimer -- Once again, strangers on our shores / Mary C. Waters -- Expelling newcomers: the eclipse of constitutional community / Cecilia Muñoz -- The United States in the world community: the limits of national sovereignty / Douglas S. Massey -- "Who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd?": narrowing the enduring divisions of race / Jennifer Hochschild -- The ambivalence of citizenship: African-American intellectuals in search of community / Kevin Gaines -- Social provision and civic community: beyond fragmentation / Theda Skocpol -- Stable fragmentation in multicultural America / Paul Starr -- The moral compassion of true conservatism / John J. DiIulio Jr. -- Shaking off the past: third ways, fourth ways, and the urgency of politics / E.J. Dionne Jr. -- Epilogue: Into the unknown: unity and conflict after September 11, 2001 / Jonathan Rieder
    Abstract: What are we to make of the speed with which the new climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look strange against a backdrop of the much-touted divisiveness of American life? In truth, The Fractious Nation? makes clear, the contrast of the time of divisiveness before and the time of unity that followed is much too stark, indeed; Since 1980
    Description / Table of Contents: Getting a fix on fragmentation: "breakdown" as estimation error, rhetorical strategy, and organizational accomplishment / Jonathan Rieder -- The fetish of difference / Richard Berstein -- Fragments or ties? the defense of difference / Martha Minow -- The myth of culture war: the disparity between private opinion and public politics / Paul DiMaggio -- America's Jews: highly fragmented, insufficiently disputatious / Jack Wertheimer -- Once again, strangers on our shores / Mary C. Waters -- Expelling newcomers: the eclipse of constitutional community / Cecilia Muñoz -- The United States in the world community: the limits of national sovereignty / Douglas S. Massey -- "Who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd?": narrowing the enduring divisions of race / Jennifer Hochschild -- The ambivalence of citizenship: African-American intellectuals in search of community / Kevin Gaines -- Social provision and civic community: beyond fragmentation / Theda Skocpol -- Stable fragmentation in multicultural America / Paul Starr -- The moral compassion of true conservatism / John J. DiIulio Jr. -- Shaking off the past: third ways, fourth ways, and the urgency of politics / E.J. Dionne Jr. -- Epilogue: Into the unknown: unity and conflict after September 11, 2001 / Jonathan Rieder
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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520227557 , 0520235274
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 271 p
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.8/089/9921073
    Keywords: Filipino Americans Social conditions ; Filipino Americans Ethnic identity ; Families ; Transnationalism ; Racism ; Philippinischer Einwanderer ; Ethnosoziologie ; Filipinos ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Filipinos ; Ethnosoziologie ; USA ; Philippinischer Einwanderer ; Ethnosoziologie
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-265) and index , Home making , Leaving home : Filipino migration/return to the United States , Positively no Filipinos allowed : differential inclusion and homelessness , Mobile homes : lives across borders , Making home : building communities in a Navy town , Home sweet home : work and changing family relations , We don't sleep around like white girls do : the politics of home and location , What of the children? : emerging homes and identities , Homes, borders, and possibilities
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520938437 , 9780520938434
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (297 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 781.64/089/96073
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal ; MUSIC / General ; African Americans in popular culture ; African Americans / Music ; Popular music / Social aspects ; Gesellschaft ; Musik ; Schwarze. USA ; African Americans Music ; History and criticism ; Popular music Social aspects ; African Americans in popular culture ; Musik ; Schwarze ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Musik ; Schwarze ; Geschichte
    Description / Table of Contents: Covering the vast and various terrain of African American music, this text begins with an account of the author's own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago. It goes on to explore the global influence and social relevance of African American music
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520929869
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (404 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 304.873
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    Keywords: Einwanderung ; Geschlechtsunterschied ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Resurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories anchoring and shaping immigration patterns. Yet the intersection of gender and immigration has received little attention in contemporary social science literature and immigration research. This book brings together some of the best work in this area, including essays by pioneers who have logged nearly two decades in the field of gender and immigration, and new empirical work by both young scholars and well-established social scientists bringing their substantial talents to this topic for the first time.
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520938755 , 0520938755 , 1417508167 , 9781417508167
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 338 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: ACLS Humanites E-book
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Whitewashing race
    DDC: 305.896073
    Keywords: Racism United States ; African Americans Civil rights ; Racism ; African Americans Civil rights ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; African Americans ; Civil rights ; Race relations ; Racism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies ; United States Race relations ; United States ; United States Race relations ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Introduction: Race preferences and race privileges -- Of fish and water : perspectives on racism and privilege -- Bankruptcy of virtuous markets : racial inequality, poverty, and "individual failure" -- Keeping Blacks in their place : race, education, and testing -- Been in the pen so long : race, crime, and justice -- Civil rights and racial equality : employment discrimination law, affirmative action, and quotas -- Color-blindness as color consciousness : voting rights and political equality -- Conclusion: Facing up to race.
    Abstract: White Americans, abetted by neo-conservative writers of all hues, generally believe that racial discrimination is a thing of the past and that any racial inequalities that undeniably persist--in wages, family income, access to housing or health care--can be attributed to African Americans' cultural and individual failures
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-324) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520936478 , 0520936477 , 0585467781 , 9780585467788
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 225 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Gender and morality in Anglo-American culture, 1650-1800
    DDC: 305.40973
    Keywords: Women History ; United States ; Sex role History ; United States ; Women colonists History ; United States ; Ethics History ; United States ; Sex role History ; Women colonists History ; Ethics History ; Women History ; Ethics History ; Women colonists History ; Women History ; Sex role History ; Women ; Women colonists ; Sekseverschillen ; Vrouwen ; Ethische aspecten ; Religieuze aspecten ; Gender Studies & Sexuality ; Gender & Ethnic Studies ; Social Sciences ; RELIGION ; Christianity ; General ; Ethics ; Sex role ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies ; History ; United States History ; Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 ; United States ; United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 ; United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 ; United States ; Britse koloniën ; Verenigde Staten ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: A collection of essays on the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of gender and morality. The volume illuminates the overarching theme by addressing a basic historical question: Why did the attitudes toward gender and family relations that we now consider traditional values emerge when they did?
    Description / Table of Contents: Overviews. Theory : culturalist critique of feminist theory (1993). History : untangling the roots of modern sex roles₃ (1978)Colonial transitions. Revaluing motherhood : American feminine ideals in transition : the rise of the moral mother, 1785-1815 (1978). Regulating courtship : women and the law of courtship in eighteenth century America (2001). Utilitarian vs. evangelical perspectives : women, love, and virtue in the thought of Edwards and Franklin (1993) -- Revolutionary synthesis. Religion and sentimentalism : religion, literary sentimentalism, and popular revolutionary ideology (1994). Republican virtue : the gendered meanings of virtue in revolutionary America (1987). Public/private : gender and the public/private dichotomy in revolutionary thought.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-215) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937222
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (295 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.845
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    Keywords: Ehe ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Interethnische Ehe ; USA
    Abstract: By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the complex motivations and experiences of the people behind the stereotypes and misconceptions that have exploded along with the practice of transnational courtship and marriage. Combining extensive Internet ethnography and face-to-face fieldwork, Romance on a Global Stage looks at the intimate realities of Filipinas, Chinese women, and U.S. men corresponding in hopes of finding a suitable marriage partner. Through the experiences of those engaged in pen pal relationships-their stories of love, romance, migration, and long-distance dating-this book conveys the richness and dignity of women's and men's choices without reducing these correspondents to calculating opportunists or naive romantics. Attentive to the structural, cultural, and personal factors that prompt women and men to seek marriage partners abroad, Romance on a Global Stage questions the dichotomies so frequently drawn between structure and agency, and between global and local levels of analysis.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520237056 , 0520238702 , 0520937228 , 1417508329 , 1597348775 , 9780520237056 , 9780520238701 , 9780520937222 , 9781417508327 , 9781597348775
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 283 pages)
    DDC: 306.84/5
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    Keywords: Mariage interethnique / États-Unis ; Agences matrimoniales / États-Unis ; Mariage par correspondance / États-Unis ; Asiatiques / États-Unis ; Correspondance internationale / États-Unis ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; Huwelijksbemiddeling ; Internet ; Vrouwen ; Aziaten ; Frau ; Gesellschaft ; Intercountry marriage ; Marriage brokerage ; Mail order brides ; Asians ; International correspondence Social aspects ; Interethnische Ehe ; Ehe ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Ehe ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; USA ; Interethnische Ehe
    Note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 , Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index , Making introductions -- Ethnography in imagined virtual communities -- Feminism and myths of "mail-order" marriages -- Fairy tales, family values, and the global politics of romance -- Political economy and the cultural logics of desire -- Women's agency and the gendered geography of marriage -- Tales of waiting: history, immigration, and the state -- Conclusion: marriage, migration, and transnational families , By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the complex motivations and experiences of the people behind the stereotypes and misconceptions that have exploded along with the practice of transnational courtship and marriage. Combining extensive Internet ethnography and face-to-face fieldwork, Romance on a Global Stage looks at the intimate realities
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520240544 , 0520240545
    Language: English
    Pages: xxxviii, 361 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: Tenth anniversary edition
    DDC: 305.42
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    Keywords: Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) ; Human body Social aspects ; Body image ; Self-esteem in women ; Feminist criticism ; USA ; Frauenbild ; Schönheitsideal ; Körperkultur ; Körperbild ; Feminismus ; Frau ; Körpererfahrung ; Selbsteinschätzung
    Note: Literaturangaben , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520935655
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (255 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st edition
    DDC: 781.62924
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    Keywords: Klezmer ; Jews -- Music -- Congresses ; Klezmer music -- Congresses ; USA ; Konferenzschrift 1996 ; Konferenzschrift 1996 ; Conference papers and proceedings ; Konferenzschrift 1996
    Abstract: Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This musical subculture came to the United States with the late-nineteenth-century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Although it had declined in popularity by the middle of the twentieth century, this lively music is now enjoying recognition among music fans of all stripes. Today, klezmer flourishes in the United States and abroad in the world music and accompany Jewish celebrations. The outstanding essays collected in this volume investigate American klezmer: its roots, its evolution, and its spirited revitalization. The contributors to American Klezmer include every kind of authority on the subject--from academics to leading musicians--and they offer a wide range of perspectives on the musical, social, and cultural history of klezmer in American life. The first half of this volume concentrates on the early history of klezmer, using folkloric sources, records of early musicians unions, and interviews with the last of the immigrant musicians. The second part of the collection examines the klezmer "revival" that began in the 1970s. Several of these essays were written by the leaders of this movement, or draw on interviews with them, and give firsthand accounts of how klezmer is transmitted and how its practitioners maintain a balance between preservation and innovation.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0585468370 , 9781282357341 , 1282357344 , 9780585468372
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 218 p , ill
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2003 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Print version Radio goes to war
    Keywords: Radio broadcasting Political aspects ; Radio in propaganda History 20th century. ; Radio broadcasting History 20th century. ; Radio broadcasting Political aspects ; United States ; Radio in propaganda History ; 20th century ; United States ; Radio broadcasting History ; 20th century ; United States ; United States ; Radio broadcasting Political aspects ; Radio broadcasting History 20th century ; Radio in propaganda History 20th century ; Radio broadcasting Political aspects ; Radio in propaganda History 20th century. ; Radio broadcasting History 20th century. ; Hörfunk ; Propaganda ; Weltkrieg ; USA ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books History ; USA ; Hörfunk ; Propaganda ; Zweiter Weltkrieg ; USA ; Hörfunk ; Propaganda ; Zweiter Weltkrieg
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2003
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 1417508116 , 0520230582 , 0520936035 , 9780520936034 , 9781417508112 , 1597348635 , 9781597348638 , 9780520230576 , 0520230574 , 9780520230583
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 427 pages , 24 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rethinking American history in a global age
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Rethinking American history in a global age
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    Keywords: Globalization. ; Mondialisation. ; Mondialisation ; Globalization ; Globalization. ; Mondialisation. ; Globalization ; Historiography ; Geschiedschrijving ; Regions & Countries - Americas ; History & Archaeology ; United States - General ; HISTORY ; State & Local ; General ; HISTORY ; United States ; General ; History ; Geschiedenis (vorm) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Globalisierung ; United States Historiography. ; United States History ; Philosophy. ; États-Unis Historiographie. ; États-Unis Histoire ; Philosophie. ; United States Historiography ; United States History ; Philosophy ; États-Unis Historiographie ; États-Unis Histoire ; Philosophie ; United States History ; Philosophy ; United States Historiography ; United States Historiography. ; United States History ; Philosophy. ; États-Unis Historiographie. ; États-Unis Histoire ; Philosophie. ; United States History ; États-Unis Histoire ; Philosophie USA ; United States ; Philosophy ; United States ; Verenigde Staten ; USA ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Globalisierung ; USA ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: Transnationalism and the challenge to national histories / Prasenjit Duara -- Internationalizing international history / Akira Iriye -- Where in the world is America? The history of the United States in the global age / Charles Bright and Michael Geyer -- International at the creation : early modern American history / Karen Ordahl Kupperman -- How the West was one : the African diaspora and the re-mapping of U.S. history / Robin D.G. Kelley -- Time and revolution in African America : temporality and the history of Atlantic slavery / Walter Johnson -- Beyond the view from Euro-America : environment, settler societies, and the internationalization of American history / Ian Tyrrell -- From Euro- and Afro-Atlantic to Pacific migration system : a comparative migration approach to North American history / Dirk Hoerder -- Framing U.S. history : democracy, nationalism, and socialism / Robert Wiebe -- An age of social politics / Daniel T. Rodgers -- The age of global power / Marilyn B. Young -- American empire and cultural imperialism : a view from the receiving end / Rob Kroes -- Do American historical narratives travel? / François Weil -- The modernity of America and the practice of scholarship / Winfried Fluck -- The exhaustion of enclosures : a critique of internationalization / Ron Robin -- The historian's use of the United States and vice versa / David A. Hollinger
    Abstract: In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history
    Description / Table of Contents: Transnationalism and the challenge to national histories / Prasenjit Duara -- Internationalizing international history / Akira Iriye -- Where in the world is America? The history of the United States in the global age / Charles Bright and Michael Geyer -- International at the creation : early modern American history / Karen Ordahl Kupperman -- How the West was one : the African diaspora and the re-mapping of U.S. history / Robin D.G. Kelley -- Time and revolution in African America : temporality and the history of Atlantic slavery / Walter Johnson -- Beyond the view from Euro-America : environment, settler societies, and the internationalization of American history / Ian Tyrrell -- From Euro- and Afro-Atlantic to Pacific migration system : a comparative migration approach to North American history / Dirk Hoerder -- Framing U.S. history : democracy, nationalism, and socialism / Robert Wiebe -- An age of social politics / Daniel T. Rodgers -- The age of global power / Marilyn B. Young -- American empire and cultural imperialism : a view from the receiving end / Rob Kroes -- Do American historical narratives travel? / François Weil -- The modernity of America and the practice of scholarship / Winfried Fluck -- The exhaustion of enclosures : a critique of internationalization / Ron Robin -- The historian's use of the United States and vice versa / David A. Hollinger
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0585466238 , 9780585466231 , 0520233115 , 9780520233119 , 9780520936355 , 0520936353 , 0520233107 , 9780520233102
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 322 S. , Ill. , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2003 E-Books von NetLibrary
    Series Statement: Weimar and now 32
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    Series Statement: Weimar and now
    Parallel Title: Print version Dark mirror
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    Keywords: Motion pictures Germany ; History ; Motion picture producers and directors Germany ; Biography ; Motion pictures History. ; Motion picture producers and directors Biography. ; Germans ; Cinéma Histoire. ; Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma Biographies. ; Allemands ; Germans California ; Los Angeles ; Motion picture producers and directors Biography ; Germany ; Motion pictures History ; Germany ; Cinéma Histoire ; Allemagne ; Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma Biographies ; Allemagne ; Allemands Californie ; Los Angeles ; California ; Los Angeles ; Germany ; Motion pictures History ; Motion picture producers and directors Biography ; Germans ; Germans ; Motion picture producers and directors Biography ; Motion pictures History ; Motion pictures History. ; Motion picture producers and directors Biography. ; Germans ; Cinéma Histoire. ; Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma Biographies. ; Allemands ; Motion picture producers and directors Germany ; PERFORMING ARTS ; Film & Video ; Reference ; Germans ; Motion picture producers and directors ; Motion pictures ; Music, Dance, Drama & Film ; Film ; Biographies ; History ; California ; Los Angeles ; Germany ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books Biography ; History ; USA ; Film ; Nationalsozialismus ; Geschichte 1933-1955 ; Deutschland ; Film ; USA ; Geschichte 1933-1955 ; Berlin ; Film ; Geschichte 1933-1939 ; Los Angeles- Hollywood ; Exil ; Deutsche ; Filmschaffender ; Geschichte 1939-1955
    Abstract: "Lutz Koepnick analyzes the complicated relationship between two cinemas--Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's--in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The Dark Mirror examines the split course of German popular film from the early 1930s until the mid 1950s, showing how Nazi filmmakers appropriated Hollywood conventions and how German film exiles reworked German cultural material in their efforts to find a working base in the Hollywood studio system. Through detailed readings of specific films, Koepnick provides a vivid sense of the give and take between German and American cinema." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal042/2001007068.html
    Abstract: Introduction: The Dark Mirror -- pt. 1. Hollywood in Berlin, 1933-1939. Ch. 1. Sounds of Silence: Nazi Cinema and the Quest for a National Culture Industry. Ch. 2. Incorporating the Underground: Curtis Bernhardt's The Tunnel. Ch. 3. Engendering Mass Culture: Zarah Leander and the Economy of Desire. Ch. 4. Siegfried Rides Again: Nazi Westerns and Modernity -- pt. 2. Berlin in Hollywood, 1939-1955. Ch. 5. Wagner at Warner's: German Sounds and Hollywood Studio Visions. Ch. 6. Berlin Noir: Robert Siodmak's Hollywood. Ch. 7. Pianos, Priests, and Popular Culture: Sirk, Lang, and the Legacy of American Populism. Ch. 8. Isolde Resurrected: Curtis Bernhardt's Interrupted Melody -- Epilogue: "Talking about Germany
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: The Dark Mirrorpt. 1. Hollywood in Berlin, 1933-1939. Ch. 1. Sounds of Silence: Nazi Cinema and the Quest for a National Culture Industry. Ch. 2. Incorporating the Underground: Curtis Bernhardt's The Tunnel. Ch. 3. Engendering Mass Culture: Zarah Leander and the Economy of Desire. Ch. 4. Siegfried Rides Again: Nazi Westerns and Modernity -- pt. 2. Berlin in Hollywood, 1939-1955. Ch. 5. Wagner at Warner's: German Sounds and Hollywood Studio Visions. Ch. 6. Berlin Noir: Robert Siodmak's Hollywood. Ch. 7. Pianos, Priests, and Popular Culture: Sirk, Lang, and the Legacy of American Populism. Ch. 8. Isolde Resurrected: Curtis Bernhardt's Interrupted Melody -- Epilogue: "Talking about Germany."
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-307) and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2003
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    ISBN: 0520227425 , 0520227433
    Language: English
    Pages: xxii, 274 p.
    Series Statement: American crossroads 8
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 979.4/94004956
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1934-1990 ; Geschichte ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Geschichte ; Japanese Americans Social life and customs 20th century ; Japanese Americans Social conditions 20th century ; Japanese Americans Ethnic identity ; Ethnic festivals History 20th century ; Citizens' associations History 20th century ; Japaner ; Fest ; Nisei ; Ethnische Identität ; Los Angeles, Calif. ; USA ; USA ; Japaner ; Ethnische Identität ; Geschichte 1934-1990 ; Los Angeles, Calif. ; Nisei ; Fest ; Geschichte
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-263) and index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520227174 , 0520227182
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 245 p.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 781.62/924
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    Keywords: Juden ; Musik ; Klezmer music Congresses ; Jews Music ; Congresses ; Klezmer ; Geschichte ; USA ; Konferenzschrift ; USA ; Klezmer ; Geschichte
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-232) and index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520926868
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (182 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.4
    Keywords: Schönheitsideal ; Kosmetische Chirurgie ; USA
    Abstract: Today women are lifting weights to build muscle, wrapping their bodies in seaweed to reduce unwanted water retention, attending weigh-ins at diet centers, and devoting themselves to many other types of "body work." Filled with the voices of real women, this book unravels the complicated emotional and intellectual motivations that drive them as they confront American culture's unreachable beauty ideals. This powerful feminist study lucidly and compellingly argues against the idea that the popularity of body work means that women are enslaved to a male-fashioned "beauty myth." Essential reading for understanding current debates on beauty, Body Work demonstrates that women actually use body work to escape that beauty myth. Debra Gimlin focuses on four sites where she conducted in-depth research--a beauty salon, aerobics classes, a plastic surgery clinic, and a social and political organization for overweight women. The honest and provocative interviews included in this book uncover these women's feelings about their bodies, their reasons for attempting to change or come to terms with them, and the reactions of others in their lives. These interviews show that women are redefining their identities through their participation in body work, that they are working on their self-images as much as on their bodies. Plastic surgery, for example, ultimately is an empowering life experience for many women who choose it, while hairstyling becomes an arena for laying claim to professional and social class identities. This book develops a convincing picture of how women use body work to negotiate the relationship between body and self, a process that inevitably involves coming to terms with our bodies' deviation from cultural ideals. One of the few studies that includes empirical evidence of women's own interpretations of body work, this important project is also...
    Abstract: based firmly in cultural studies, symbolic interactionism, and feminism. With this book, Debra Gimlin adds her voice to those of scholars who are now looking beyond the surface of the beauty myth to the complex reality of women's lives.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520926967 , 052092696X , 0585465886 , 9780585465883 , 0520228871 , 9780520228870 , 0520228898 , 9780520228894 , 159734690X , 9781597346900 , 1282758934 , 9781282758933
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 223 pages) , Illustrations
    DDC: 781.65
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    Keywords: Jazz ; USA
    Abstract: From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to erase old boundaries, but they have just as resolutely constructed new ones. David Ake's book considers the diverse musics and related identities that jazz communities have shaped over the course of the twentieth century, exploring the many ways in which jazz musicians and audiences experience and understand themselves, their music, their communities, and the world at large. Writing as a professional pianist and composer, the author looks at evolving meanings, values, and ideals--as well as the sounds--that musicians, audiences, and critics carry to and from the various activities they call jazz. Among the compelling topics he discusses is the "visuality" of music: the relationship between performance demeanor and musical meaning. Focusing on pianists Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, Ake investigates the ways in which musicians' postures and attitudes influence perceptions of them as profound and serious artists. In another essay, Ake examines the musical values and ideals promulgated by college jazz education programs through a consideration of saxophonist John Coltrane. He also discusses the concept of the jazz "standard" in the 1990s and the differing sense of tradition implied in recent recordings by Wynton Marsalis and Bill Frisell. Jazz cultures shows how jazz history has not consisted simply of a smoothly evolving series of musical styles, but rather an array of individuals and communities engaging with disparate--and oftentimes conflicting--actions, ideals, and attitudes.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-208) and index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520225627 , 9780520225626 , 9780520938441 , 0520938445
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 269 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Good with their hands
    DDC: 306.0973
    Keywords: City and town life Case studies ; United States ; Deindustrialization Case studies ; Social aspects ; United States ; Work Case studies ; Social aspects ; United States ; Social change Case studies ; United States ; Boxing Case studies ; United States ; Police films Case studies ; United States ; Landscape design Case studies ; United States ; Blues (Music) Case studies ; Deindustrialization Case studies Social aspects ; Work Case studies Social aspects ; Social change Case studies ; Boxing Case studies ; Police films Case studies ; Landscape design Case studies ; Blues (Music) Case studies ; City and town life Case studies ; Social change Case studies ; Boxing Case studies ; Police films Case studies ; Landscape design Case studies ; Blues (Music) Case studies ; Work Case studies Social aspects ; Deindustrialization Case studies Social aspects ; City and town life Case studies ; City and town life United States ; Deindustrialization Social aspects ; United States ; Work Social aspects ; United States ; Social change United States ; Boxing United States ; Police films United States ; Landscape design United States ; Electronic books ; Blues (Music) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Labor & Industrial Relations ; Boxing ; City and town life ; Deindustrialization ; Social aspects ; Landscape design ; Manners and customs ; Police films ; Social change ; Work ; Social aspects ; Case studies ; United States Social life and customs ; 1971- ; United States Social life and customs 1971- ; United States Social life and customs 1971- ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: This eloquent, streetwise book is a paean to America's Rust Belt and a compelling exploration of four milieus caught up in a great transformation of city life. With loving attention to detail and a fine sense of historical context, Carlo Rotella explores women's boxing in Erie, Pennsylvania; Buddy Guy and the blues scene in Chicago; police work and crime stories in New York City, especially as they converged in the making of the movie The French Connection; and attempts at urban renewal in the classic mill city of Brockton, Massachusetts
    Abstract: Truth and beauty in the Rust Belt -- The culture of the hands -- Too many notes -- Grittiness -- Rocky Marciano's ghost -- Getting there.
    Description / Table of Contents: Truth and beauty in the Rust BeltThe culture of the hands -- Too many notes -- Grittiness -- Rocky Marciano's ghost -- Getting there.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520931466 , 0520931467
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 221 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: California / Milbank books on health and the public 7
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    Parallel Title: Print version Death is that man taking names
    DDC: 306.9
    Keywords: Terminal care United States ; Death Social aspects ; United States ; Death ; Terminal care ; Death Social aspects ; Terminal care ; Death Social aspects ; Death ; Jurisprudence ; Death ; Attitude to Death ; Right to Die ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Death & Dying ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Death, Grief, Bereavement ; MEDICAL ; History ; Death ; Death ; Social aspects ; Terminal care ; United States ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Pursuing the good death -- Hidden death -- Death at war -- Judges and death -- Doctors and death -- Choosing death -- The death penalty -- All the days of my life.
    Abstract: The American culture of death changed radically in the 1970s. For terminal illnesses, hidden decisions by physicians were rejected in favor of rational self-control by patients asserting their "right to die"--Initially by refusing medical treatment and more recently by physician-assisted suicide
    Description / Table of Contents: Pursuing the good deathHidden death -- Death at war -- Judges and death -- Doctors and death -- Choosing death -- The death penalty -- All the days of my life.
    Note: Includes index. - Notes: p. 187-218. - Description based on print version record , Notes: p. 187-218
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520224483 , 0520224485 , 9780520232310 , 0520232313 , 9780520928169 , 0520928164
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvi, 413 p.) , Ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Media worlds
    DDC: 302.23
    Keywords: Médias et culture ; Mass media and culture ; Mass media and culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; Mass media and culture ; Massenmedien ; Anthropologie ; Massamedia ; Culturele antropologie ; Communication & Mass Media ; Journalism & Communications ; USA ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Screen memories: resignifying the traditional in indigenous media /Faye D. Ginsburg --Visual media and the primitivist perplex: colonial fantasies, indigenous imagination, and advocacy in North America /Harald E.L. Prins --Representation, politics, and cultural imagination in indigenous video: general points and Kayapo examples /Terence Turner --Spectacles of difference: cultural activism and the mass mediation of Tibet /Meg McLagan --Egyptian melodrama: technology of the modern subject? /Lila Abu-Lughod --Epic contests: television and religious identity in India /Purnima Mankekar --The national picture: Thai media and cultural identity /Annette Hamilton --Television, time, and the national imaginary in Belize /Richard R. Wilk --Mass media and transnational subjectivity in Shanghai: notes on (re)cosmopolitanism in a Chinese metropolis /Mayfair Mei-hui Yang --A Marshall plan of the mind: the political economy of a Kazakh soap opera /Ruth Mandel --Mapping Hmong media in diasporic space /Louisa Schein --Putting American public television documentary in its places /Barry Dornfeld --Culture in the ad world: producing the Latin look /Arlene Dávila --"And yet my heart is still Indian": the Bombay film industry and the (h)Indianization of Hollywood /Tejaswini Ganti --Arrival scenes: complicity and media ethnography in the Bolivian public sphere /Jeff D. Himpele --The materiality of cinema theaters in northern Nigeria /Brian Larkin --Mobile machines and fluid audiences: rethinking reception through Zambian radio culture /Debra Spitulnik --The Indian work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction: or, what happens when peasants "get hold" of images /Christopher Pinney --Live or dead? Televising theater in Bali /Mark Hobart --A room with a voice: mediation and mediumship in Thailand's information age /Rosalind C. Morris.
    Abstract: This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media--film, television, video--are used in societies around the globe, often in places that have been off the map of conventional media studies
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record , Screen memories: resignifying the traditional in indigenous media , Visual media and the primitivist perplex: colonial fantasies, indigenous imagination, and advocacy in North America , Representation, politics, and cultural imagination in indigenous video: general points and Kayapo examples , Spectacles of difference: cultural activism and the mass mediation of Tibet , Egyptian melodrama: technology of the modern subject? , Epic contests: television and religious identity in India , The national picture: Thai media and cultural identity , Television, time, and the national imaginary in Belize , Mass media and transnational subjectivity in Shanghai: notes on (re)cosmopolitanism in a Chinese metropolis , A Marshall plan of the mind: the political economy of a Kazakh soap opera , Mapping Hmong media in diasporic space , Putting American public television documentary in its places , Culture in the ad world: producing the Latin look , "And yet my heart is still Indian": the Bombay film industry and the (h)Indianization of Hollywood , Arrival scenes: complicity and media ethnography in the Bolivian public sphere , The materiality of cinema theaters in northern Nigeria , Mobile machines and fluid audiences: rethinking reception through Zambian radio culture , The Indian work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction: or, what happens when peasants "get hold" of images , Live or dead? Televising theater in Bali , A room with a voice: mediation and mediumship in Thailand's information age
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520936614 , 0520936612 , 0585441170 , 9780585441177
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 197 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Melammed, Renée Levine Hidden heritage. The legacy of the crypto-Jews. By Janet Leibman Jacobs. (The S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies.) Pp. xi+197. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: University of California Press, 2002. £35 (cloth), £13.95 (paper). 0 520 23346 8; 0 520 23517 7 2004
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Glazier, Stephen D. [Rezension von: Jacobs, Janet Liebman, Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews] 2003
    Series Statement: S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies
    Parallel Title: Print version Hidden heritage
    DDC: 305.8924073
    Keywords: Marranos History ; United States ; Jews History ; United States ; Marranos Religious life ; Marranos Social life and customs ; Jews Identity ; Marranos Social life and customs ; Jews Identity ; Marranos Religious life ; Marranos History ; Jews History ; Marranos Social life and customs ; Jews Identity ; Marranos Religious life ; Marranos History ; Jews History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; RELIGION ; Christianity ; General ; Ethnic relations ; Jews ; Jews ; Identity ; Marranos ; Marranos ; Social life and customs ; Identität ; Judentum ; Joden ; Identiteit ; Marranen ; History ; United States Ethnic relations ; United States Ethnic relations ; United States Ethnic relations ; United States ; Verenigde Staten ; Marranen ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This study of contemporary crypto-Jews - descendants of European Jews forced to convert to Christianity during the Spanish Inquisition - traces the group's history of clandestinely conducting their faith and their present-day efforts to reclaim their past
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Crypto-Jewish descent: an ethnographic study in historical perspectiveSecrecy, antisemitism, and the dangers of JewishnessWomen and the persistence of culture : ritual, custom, and the recovery of Sephardic ancestrySelf-in-relation and the transformation of religious consciousnessSyncretism and faith blending in modern Crypto-JudaismConversion and the rekindling of the Jewish soulJewish ancestry and the social construction of ethnic identity -- Conclusion: Ethnic loss and the future of Crypto-Jewish culture.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-185) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520928169 , 0520928164
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 413 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Médias et culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General ; Mass media and culture ; Mass media and culture ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Massenmedien ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Massenmedien ; Anthropologie ; USA ; Massenmedien ; Ethnologie
    Description / Table of Contents: Screen memories: resignifying the traditional in indigenous media - Faye D. Ginsburg -- - Visual media and the primitivist perplex: colonial fantasies, indigenous imagination, and advocacy in North America - Harald E.L. Prins -- - Representation, politics, and cultural imagination in indigenous video: general points and Kayapo examples - Terence Turner -- - Spectacles of difference: cultural activism and the mass mediation of Tibet - Meg McLagan -- - Egyptian melodrama: technology of the modern subject? - Lila Abu-Lughod -- - Epic contests: television and religious identity in India - Purnima Mankekar -- - The national picture: Thai media and cultural identity - Annette Hamilton -- - Television, time, and the national imaginary in Belize - Richard R. Wilk -- - Mass media and transnational subjectivity in Shanghai: notes on (re)cosmopolitanism in a Chinese metropolis - Mayfair Mei-hui Yang -- - A Marshall plan of the mind: the political economy of a Kazakh soap opera - Ruth Mandel -- - Mapping Hmong media in diasporic space - Louisa Schein -- - Putting American public television documentary in its places - Barry Dornfeld -- - Culture in the ad world: producing the Latin look - Arlene Dávila -- - "And yet my heart is still Indian": the Bombay film industry and the (h)Indianization of Hollywood - Tejaswini Ganti -- - Arrival scenes: complicity and media ethnography in the Bolivian public sphere - Jeff D. Himpele -- - The materiality of cinema theaters in northern Nigeria - Brian Larkin -- - Mobile machines and fluid audiences: rethinking reception through Zambian radio culture - Debra Spitulnik -- - The Indian work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction: or, what happens when peasants "get hold" of images - Christopher Pinney -- - Live or dead? Televising theater in Bali - Mark Hobart -- - A room with a voice: mediation and mediumship in Thailand's information age - Rosalind C. Morris
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520936614
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (210 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies
    DDC: 305.8924073
    Keywords: Marranen ; Judentum ; Identität ; USA
    Abstract: This study of contemporary crypto-Jews-descendants of European Jews forced to convert to Christianity during the Spanish Inquisition-traces the group's history of clandestinely conducting their faith and their present-day efforts to reclaim their past. Janet Liebman Jacobs masterfully combines historical and social scientific theory to fashion a brilliant analysis of hidden ancestry and the transformation of religious and ethnic identity.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520222814 , 9780520222816 , 0520222822 , 9780520222823 , 1597347841 , 9781597347846 , 0520924665 , 9780520924666
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 307 p.) , ill. (some col.), maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kratz, Corinne Ann, 1953- Ones that are wanted
    DDC: 305.8965
    Keywords: Dorobo (African people) Exhibitions ; Portraits ; Dorobo (African people) Exhibitions ; Portraits ; Public opinion ; Public opinion United States ; Dorobo (African people) Exhibitions ; Attitudes ; Dorobo (Peuple d'Afrique) Portraits ; Expositions ; Dorobo (Peuple d'Afrique) Portraits ; Expositions ; Opinion publique ; Opinion publique États-Unis ; Dorobo (Peuple d'Afrique) Expositions ; Attitudes ; Photographie en ethnologie ; Photography in ethnology ; Dorobo (African people) Exhibitions Portraits ; Public opinion ; Public opinion ; Dorobo (African people) Exhibitions Attitudes ; Dorobo (African people) Exhibitions Portraits ; Dorobo (African people) Portraits ; Dorobo (African people) Portraits ; Public opinion ; Dorobo (African people) Attitudes ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies ; Photography in ethnology ; Public opinion ; Dorobo (volk) ; Fotografie ; Tentoonstellingen ; Publieke opinie ; Exhibition catalogs ; Exhibition catalogs ; United States ; Electronic book ; Electronic books ; Ausstellungskatalog ; Ausstellungskatalog
    Abstract: Tracing Okiek portraits: images, exhibitions, and the politics of representation -- Producing Okiek portraits: collaboration, negotiation, and exhibitionary authority -- Imagining audiences: Okiek portraits in Kenya -- Imagining audiences: Okiek portraits and the United States -- The final venues: designing and defining interpretation -- Appendix A. The politics of representation and identities -- Appendix B. Key relationships represented in Okiek portraits -- Appendix C. Learning about visitors in Michigan and Georgia.
    Abstract: The Okiek people of Kenya's forested highlands have a long history of hunting, honey gathering, and trading with their Maasai and Kipsigis neighbors; several decades ago, they also began farming and herding. This book follows a traveling exhibition of anthropologist Corinne Kratz's photographs of the Okiek through showings at seven venues, including the National Museum in Nairobi and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Kratz tells the story of the exhibition--the stereotypes it sought to challenge, how commentaries by Okiek people were incorporated, and different ways that viewers
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-295) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520219759 , 9780520219755 , 0520229576 , 9780520229570 , 9780520927315 , 0520927311 , 0585419752 , 9780585419756
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (vii, 266 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Inside the American couple
    DDC: 306.7
    Keywords: Couples United States ; Interpersonal relations United States ; United States ; Couples ; Interpersonal relations ; Interpersonal relations ; Couples ; Couples ; Interpersonal relations ; SELF-HELP ; Sexual Instruction ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Human Sexuality ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Biblical models: from Adam and Eve to the bride of Christ / Marilyn Yalom -- Dearest friend: the marriage of Abigail and John Adams / Edith B. Gelles -- "The thing bartered": love economics and the Victorian couple / Kate Washington -- "Boston marriage" among lesbians: are we a couple if we're not having sex? / Esther D. Rothblum -- "You'll never walk alone": lesbian and gay weddings and the authenticity of the same-sex couple / Ellen Lewin -- The couple at home: education's contribution / Nel Noddings -- When one of us is ill: scenes from a partnership / Mary Felstiner -- Wives and husbands working together: law partners and marital partners / Cynthia Fuchs Epstein -- Grounds for marriage: reflections and research on an institution in transition / Arlene Skolnick -- Divorce, American style / Deborah L. Rhode -- What's a wife worth? / Myra H. Strober -- Toward an understanding of Asian American interracial marriage and dating / Jeanne L. Tsai, Diane E. Przymus, and Jennifer L. Best -- Arranged marriages: what's love got to do with it? / Monisha Pasupathi -- Marriage in old age / Susan Turk Charles and Laura L. Carstensen
    Description / Table of Contents: Biblical models: from Adam and Eve to the bride of Christ / Marilyn YalomDearest friend: the marriage of Abigail and John Adams / Edith B. Gelles -- "The thing bartered": love economics and the Victorian couple / Kate Washington -- "Boston marriage" among lesbians: are we a couple if we're not having sex? / Esther D. Rothblum -- "You'll never walk alone": lesbian and gay weddings and the authenticity of the same-sex couple / Ellen Lewin -- The couple at home: education's contribution / Nel Noddings -- When one of us is ill: scenes from a partnership / Mary Felstiner -- Wives and husbands working together: law partners and marital partners / Cynthia Fuchs Epstein -- Grounds for marriage: reflections and research on an institution in transition / Arlene Skolnick -- Divorce, American style / Deborah L. Rhode -- What's a wife worth? / Myra H. Strober -- Toward an understanding of Asian American interracial marriage and dating / Jeanne L. Tsai, Diane E. Przymus, and Jennifer L. Best -- Arranged marriages: what's love got to do with it? / Monisha Pasupathi -- Marriage in old age / Susan Turk Charles and Laura L. Carstensen.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520929748 , 0585391173 , 1282357042 , 9780520929746 , 9780585391175 , 9781282357044
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 266 pages)
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    DDC: 393/.2
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    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying ; RELIGION / Comparative Religion ; Cremation ; Cremation / Public opinion ; Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Manners and customs ; Public opinion ; Geschichte ; Cremation History ; Cremation Public opinion ; Funeral rites and ceremonies History ; Public opinion ; Krematorium ; Geschichte ; USA ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History ; USA ; Krematorium ; Geschichte
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-261) and index , 'Purified by Fire' tells the story of cremation's rise from notoriety to legitimacy and takes a provocative new look at important transformations in the American cultural landscape over the last 150 years , Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: BIRTH, 18741896 -- 1. The Cremation of Baron De Palm -- 2. Sanitary Reform -- 3. Resurrection and the Resurrectionists -- PART TWO: BRICKS AND MORTAR, 18961963 -- 4. The Business of Cremation -- 5. The Memorial Idea -- PART THREE: BOOM, 1963PRESENT -- 6. Consumers Last Rites -- 7. Contemporary Ways of Cremation -- Timeline -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.
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    ISBN: 0585389659 , 9780585389653 , 9780520935273 , 0520935276
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 162 p , ill , 26 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2002 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Print version Recording conceptual art
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    Keywords: Conceptual art ; Artists Interviews. ; Conceptual art United States ; Artists Interviews ; United States ; United States ; Conceptual art ; Artists Interviews ; Artists Interviews ; Conceptual art ; Conceptual art ; Artists Interviews. ; Conceptual art United States ; Artists United States ; Interviews ; Conceptual art ; Conceptuele kunst ; Interviews ; Interviews (vorm) ; ART ; Conceptual ; Artists ; Interview ; Concept-art ; Künstler ; United States ; Verenigde Staten ; USA ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books Interviews ; Interview ; USA ; Concept-art ; Künstler ; Interview ; USA ; Concept-art ; Künstler
    Abstract: Preliminaries; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; INTRODUCTION TO ELEVEN INTERVIEWS; NOTE ON THE INTERVIEWS; Dennis Oppenheim; Seth Siegelaub; Robert Morris; Stephen Kaltenbach; Robert Barry; Lawrence Weiner; Sol LeWitt; Robert Smithson; Douglas Huebler; INDEX.
    Abstract: Recording Conceptual Art features a highly provocative series of previously unpublished interviews conducted in early 1969 with some of the most dynamic, daring, and innovative artists of the tumultuous 1960s. The nine individuals--eight artists and one art dealer--are now known as major contributors to Conceptual art
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2002
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520228474 , 0520228472 , 9780520228481 , 0520228480 , 9780520935792 , 0520935799
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxiv, 406 p., [23] p. of plates) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Legacies
    DDC: 305.906912
    Keywords: Immigrants Economic conditions ; United States ; Immigrants Social conditions ; United States ; Immigrants Conditions économiques ; États-Unis ; Immigrants Conditions sociales ; États-Unis ; Immigrants Social conditions ; Immigrants Economic conditions ; Immigrants Social conditions ; Immigrants Economic conditions ; Immigranten ; Tweede generatie ; Immigrants ; Economic conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; Immigrants ; Social conditions ; Emigration and immigration ; United States Emigration and immigration ; États-Unis Émigration et immigration ; United States ; United States Emigration and immigration ; United States Emigration and immigration ; United States ; Verenigde Staten ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Annotation One out of five Americans, more than 55 million people, are first-or second-generation immigrants. This landmark study, the most comprehensive to date, probes all aspects of the new immigrant second generation's lives, exploring their immense potential to transform American society for better or worse. Whether this new generation reinvigorates the nation or deepens its social problems depends on the social and economic trajectories of this still young population. InLegacies,Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut--two of the leading figures in the field--provide a close look at this rising second generation, including their patterns of acculturation, family and school life, language, identity, experiences of discrimination, self-esteem, ambition, and achievement.Based on the largest research study of its kind,Legaciescombines vivid vignettes with a wealth of survey and school data. Accessible, engaging, and indispensable for any consideration of the changing face of American society, this book presents a wide range of real-life stories of immigrant families--from Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, the Philippines, China, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam--now living in Miami and San Diego, two of the areas most heavily affected by the new immigration. The authors explore the world of second-generation youth, looking at patterns of parent-child conflict and cohesion within immigrant families, the role of peer groups and school subcultures, the factors that affect the children's academic achievement, and much more.A companion volume toLegacies,entitledEthnicities: Children of Immigrants in America,was published by California in Fall 2001. Edited by the authors ofLegacies,this book will bring together some of the country's leading scholars of immigration and ethnicity to provide a close look at this rising second generation.A Copublication with the Russell Sage Foundation
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.Twelve storiesch. 2.The new Americans : an overview3.Not everyone is chosen : segmented assimilation and its determinants4.Making it in America5.In their own eyes : immigrant outlooks on America6.Lost in translation : language and the new second generation7.Defining the situation : the ethnic identities of children of immigrants8.The crucible within : family, schools, and the psychology of the second generation9.School achievement and failure10.Conclusion : mainstream ideologies and the long-term prospects of immigrant communities.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520927711
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (357 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.90691
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    Keywords: Einwanderung ; Stadt ; Sozialökologie ; USA
    Abstract: Immigration is remaking the United States. In New York, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and Chicago, the multiethnic society of tomorrow is already in place. Yet today's urban centers appear unlikely to provide newcomers with the same opportunities their predecessors found at the turn of the last century. Using the latest sources of information, this hard-hitting volume of original essays looks at the nexus between urban realities and immigrant destinies in these American cities. Strangers at the Gates tells the real story of immigrants' prospects for success today and delineates the conditions that will hinder or aid the newest Americans in their quest to get ahead. This book stresses the crucial importance of understanding that immigration today is fundamentally urban and the equally important fact that immigrants are now flocking to places where low-skilled workers--regardless of ethnic background--are in particular trouble. These two themes are at the heart of this book, which also covers a range of provocative topics, often with surprising findings. Among the essayists, Nelson Lim enters the controversy over whether and how immigrants affect the employment prospects for African Americans; Mark Ellis investigates whether low immigrant wages depress other workers' salaries; William A.V. Clark contends that immigrants seem to be experiencing downward mobility; and Min Zhou asserts that trends among second-generation immigrants are decidedly more optimistic. These well-integrated and well-organized essays sit squarely at the intersection of sociology and economics, and along the way they point out both the strengths and the weaknesses of these two disciplines in understanding immigration. Providing a theoretically and empirically comprehensive overview of the economic fate of immigrants in major American cities, this book will make a major...
    Abstract: contribution to debates over immigration and the American future.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520927711 , 0520927710
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvi, 339 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Strangers at the gates
    DDC: 305.90691
    Keywords: Immigrants Social conditions ; United States ; Immigrants Economic conditions ; United States ; Foreign workers United States ; Cities and towns United States ; Immigrants Conditions sociales ; États-Unis ; Immigrants Conditions économiques ; États-Unis ; Travailleurs étrangers États-Unis ; Villes États-Unis ; Minorités en milieu urbain États-Unis ; United States ; Immigrants Social conditions ; Immigrants Economic conditions ; Foreign workers ; Cities and towns ; Electronic books ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration ; Cities and towns ; Foreign workers ; Immigrants ; Economic conditions ; Immigrants ; Social conditions ; Sozialökologie ; Einwanderung ; Stadt ; Immigranten ; Steden ; USA ; United States ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: These essays look at U.S. immigration and the nexus between urban realities and immigrant destinies. They argue that immigration today is fundamentaly urban and that immigrants are flocking to places where low-skilled workers are in trouble
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520935792
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (455 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.90691
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    Keywords: Einwanderer ; Generation 2 ; Akkulturation ; Ethnische Identität ; Soziale Situation ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; USA
    Abstract: One out of five Americans are first- or second-generation immigrants. This study probes all aspects of the new immigrant second generation live's, exploring their potential to transform American society for better or worse.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520926035
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (402 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.360973
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    Keywords: Arbeit ; Familie ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The dynamics of work and parenthood are in the midst of a revolutionary shift in the United States. Focused around a major factor in this shift--the rise of dual-income families--this groundbreaking volume provides a highly informative snapshot of the intricate fabric of work and family in the United States.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520926035 , 052092603X , 0585391645 , 9780585391649
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 389 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Working families
    DDC: 306.360973
    Keywords: Dual-career families United States ; Work and family United States ; Children of working parents United States ; Children of working parents ; Dual-career families ; Work and family ; Work and family ; Dual-career families ; Children of working parents ; Electronic books United States ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Children of working parents ; Dual-career families ; Work and family ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Introduction / Rosanna Hertz and Nancy L. Marshall -- 1. The Rise of the Dual-Earner Family, 1963-1997 / Linda J. Waite and Mark Nielsen -- 2. Gendered Careers: A Life-Course Perspective / Phyllis Moen and Shin-Kap Han -- 3. Getting Younger While Getting Older: Family-Building at Midlife / Lillian B. Rubin -- 4. Men's Family Work: Child-Centered Fathering and the Sharing of Domestic Labor / Scott Coltrane and Michele Adams -- 5. Family-Responsive Benefits and the Two-Tiered Labor Market / Cynthia H. Deitch and Matt L. Huffman -- 6. How Are Small Business Responding to Work and Family Issues? / Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes and Leon Litchfield -- 7. Part-Time Work Arrangements and the Corporation: A Dynamic Interaction / Marcia Brumit Kropf -- 8. Toward a New View of Work and Family Life / Ellen Galinsky -- 9. Work, Family, and Globalization: Broadening the Scope of Policy Analysis / Harriet E. Gross -- 10. Changing the Structure and Culture of Work: Work and Family Conflict, Work Flexibility, and Gender Equity in the Modern Workplace / Kathleen Gerson and Jerry A. Jacobs -- 11. Workplace Policies and the Psychological Well-Being of First-Time Parents: The Case of Working-Class Families / Heather-Lyn Haley, Maureen Perry-Jenkins and Amy Armenia -- 12. Work, Family, and Gender in Medicine: How Do Dual-Earners Decide Who Should Work Less? / Lena M. Lundgren, Jennifer Fleischer-Cooperman and Robert Schneider / [and others] -- 13. From Baby-sisters to Child Care Providers: The Development of a Feminist Consciousness in Family Day Care Workers / Heather M. Fitz Gibbon -- 14. Children, Work, and Family: Some Thoughts on "Mother-Blame" / Anita Ilta Garey and Terry Arendell -- 15. The Kinderdult: The New Child Born to Conflict between Work and Family / Diane Ehrensaft -- 16. Passing between the Worlds of Maid and Mistress: The Life of a Mexican Maid's Daughter / Mary Romero -- 17. Eavesdropping Children, Adult Deals, and Cultures of Care / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- 18. Pick-up Time at Oakdale Elementary School: Work and Family from the Vantage Points of Children / Barrie Thorne.
    Abstract: The dynamics of work and parenthood are in the midst of a revolutionary shift in the United States. Focused around a major factor in this shift--the rise of dual-income families--this groundbreaking volume provides a highly informative snapshot of the intricate fabric of work and family in the United States
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 1597345067 , 9781597345064 , 9780520926868 , 0520926862 , 0585466319 , 9780585466316
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 171 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Body work
    DDC: 306.4
    Keywords: Beauty, Personal Social aspects ; United States ; Beauty culture Social aspects ; United States ; Beauté corporelle Aspect social ; États-Unis ; Soins de beauté Aspect social ; États-Unis ; Beauty, Personal Social aspects ; Beauty culture Social aspects ; Beauty, Personal Social aspects ; Beauty culture Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies ; Beauty, Personal ; Social aspects ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Beautifully written, cleverly argued, and skillfully researched, Debra Gimlin's Body Work goes beyond the argument that the beauty industry exists only to control women. Instead, Gimlin examines women's relationship to beauty from a feminist sociological perspective, finding that women are not dupes of the beauty industry but rather use body work in both empowering and degrading ways. It's about time a sociologist delved into women's complicated relationship to the beauty industry!"--Verta Taylor, author of Rock-a-By Baby: Feminism, Self-Help, and Postpartum Depression"This fascinating study r
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520926851 , 0520926854
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 260 pages) , illustrations)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fine, Gary Alan Whispers on the color line
    Keywords: Whites Folklore ; African Americans Folklore ; Urban folklore ; White people Folklore ; African Americans Folklore ; Whites ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations ; African Americans ; Urban folklore ; Folklore ; White people ; Légendes urbaines - États-Unis ; Personnes blanches - États-Unis - Folklore ; Noirs américains - Folklore ; Urban legends ; Noirs américains - Folklore ; Folklore ; Urban legends ; Légendes urbaines ; United States
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-250) and index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520928985 , 0520928989
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (362 pages)
    DDC: 781.65
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    Keywords: Jazz ; Jazzmusiker ; USA
    Abstract: Floyd Levin, an award-winning jazz writer, has personally known many of the jazz greats who contributed to the music's colorful history. In this collection of his articles, published mostly in jazz magazines over a fifty-year period, Levin takes us into the nightclubs, the recording studios, the record companies, and, most compellingly, into the lives of the musicians who made the great moments of the traditional jazz and swing eras. Brilliantly weaving anecdotal material, primary research, and music analysis into every chapter, Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians is a.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520927193 , 0520222261 , 0520927192 , 0585272506 , 9780585272504 , 0520900219 , 9780520900219 , 1282355813 , 9781282355811 , 9780520222267
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 163 pages) , illustrations.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: The Aaron Wildavsky forum for public policy 2
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wilson, William J., 1935- Bridge over the racial divide
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: Racism Political aspects ; United States ; African Americans Politics and government ; African Americans Social conditions ; 1975- ; Minorities Political activity ; United States ; Minorities Social conditions ; United States ; Social classes Political activity ; United States ; Coalitions ; Racism Political aspects ; African Americans Politics and government ; African Americans Social conditions 1975- ; Minorities Political activity ; Minorities Social conditions ; Social classes Political activity ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; African Americans ; Politics and government ; African Americans ; Social conditions ; Coalitions ; Minorities ; Political activity ; Minorities ; Social conditions ; Race relations ; Political aspects ; Racism ; Political aspects ; Social classes ; Political activity ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Sozialstruktur ; Etnische betrekkingen ; Ongelijkheid ; Politieke aspecten ; United States Race relations ; Political aspects ; United States Race relations ; Political aspects ; United States Race relations ; United States Economic conditions ; 1981- ; United States Politics and government ; 1989- ; United States ; United States ; Verenigde Staten ; USA ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Studies the rising inequality in American society and addresses the need for a progressive, multiracial political coalition to combat that inequality
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520920026 , 0520920023 , 0585047774 , 9780585047775 , 9780520211087 , 0520211081 , 9780520211223 , 0520211227
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 280 pages)
    DDC: 305.892/4073
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    Keywords: Juden ; Ethnische Identität ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    ISBN: 0520211081 , 0520211081 , 0520211227 , 0520211227 , 0520920023 , 0585047774 , 9780520211087 , 9780520211223 , 9780520920026 , 9780585047775
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 280 pages)
    DDC: 305.892/4073
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies ; Jews / Cultural assimilation ; Jews / Intellectual life ; Multiculturalism ; Juden ; Jews Intellectual life ; Jews Cultural assimilation ; Multiculturalism ; Juden ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; USA ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Juden
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction : the dialectic of Jewish enlightenment - David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel -- - The melting pot and beyond : Jews and the politics of American identity - David Biale -- - In defense of Shaatnez : a politics for Jews in a multicultural America - Mitchell Cohen -- - Pluralism and its discontents : the case of Blacks and Jews - Cheryl Greenberg -- - Multiculturalism and the politics of interest - Michael Walzer -- - Jewish studies as counterhistory - Susannah Heschel -- - The paradox of Jewish studies in the new academy - Sara R. Horowitz -- - The double canonicity of the Hebrew bible - Robert Alter -- - The idea of Judaism in feminism and afrocentricism - Amy Newman -- - Scattered seeds : a dialogue of diasporas - Michael Galchinsky -- - Language as homeland in Jewish-American literature - Hana Wirth-Nesher -- - Modernism and exile : a view from the margins - Michael Gluzman -- - Fags-hags and bu-Jews : toward a (Jewish) politics of vicarious identity - Naomi Seidman
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520919488 , 0520919483 , 0585292779 , 9780585292779
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xviii, 326 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Destination culture
    DDC: 306/.074
    Keywords: Tourism ; Culture ; Museum exhibits ; Heritage tourism ; Ethnological museums and collections ; Ethnological museums and collections ; Heritage tourism ; Museum exhibits ; Tourism ; Culture ; ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES ; Popular Culture ; Culture ; Ethnological museums and collections ; Heritage tourism ; Museum exhibits ; Tourism ; Ferntourismus ; Volkskundemuseum ; Ethnologie ; Tourismusindustrie ; Tentoonstellingen ; Etnografie ; Anthropology ; Social Sciences ; Anthropology - General ; Cultura ; Exposições museológicas ; Turismo ; Museus etnográficos ; Acervo museológico ; Tourisme culturel ; Écomusées ; Muséologie ; Ethnologie ; Musées ; Tourisme ; Völkerkundemuseum ; Sammlung ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Ausstellung ; Kulturerbe ; Museum ; Bildungstourismus
    Abstract: Destination Culture deals with agencies of display in museums, festivals, world's fair, historical recreations, and tourist attractions. Drawing on the history of the avant-garde and the implications of its practices, Destination Culture attempts to theorize the artifact and the logic of exhibition in the context of lively debates about the death of museums, ascendancy of tourism, production of heritage, limits of multiculturalism, social efficacy of the arts, and circulation of value in the life world
    Abstract: The agency of display: Objects of ethnography ; Exhibiting Jews -- A second life as heritage: Destination museum ; Ellis Island ; Plimoth Plantation -- Undoing the ethnographic: Confusing pleasures ; Secrets of encounter -- Circulating Value: Disputing Taste.
    Abstract: With the question, "What does it mean to show?", the author explores the agency of display in museums and tourist attractions. She looks at how objects are made to perform their meaning by being collected and how techniques of display, not just the things shown, convey a powerful message
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    ISBN: 0520209966 , 0520209966 , 0520925475 , 058504774X , 9780520209961 , 9780520925472 , 9780585047744
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (241 pages)
    DDC: 305.8/00973
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies ; African Americans / Civil rights ; Black nationalism ; Blacks / Civil rights ; Race relations ; Racism ; Geschichte ; Schwarze. USA ; Racism History ; Racism History ; Black nationalism History ; Black nationalism History ; African Americans Civil rights ; History ; Blacks Civil rights ; History ; Rassismus ; Bürgerrechtsbewegung ; Nationalismus ; Geschichte ; Südafrika (Staat) ; USA ; Südafrika ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Südafrika ; Nationalismus ; Rassismus ; Geschichte ; USA ; Nationalismus ; Rassismus ; Geschichte ; Südafrika ; Rassismus ; Bürgerrechtsbewegung ; USA
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-236) and index , The status of comparative history (1980) -- The frontier in South African and American history -- From exceptionalism to variability: recent developments in cross-national comparative history -- Planters, junkers, and Pomeschiki -- Understanding racism: reflections of a comparative historian -- Race and empire in liberal thought: the legacy of tocqueville -- Black-white relations since emancipation: the search for a comparative perspective -- Reform and revolution in American and South African freedom struggles -- Prophets of black liberation -- Nonviolent resistance to white supremacy: the american civil rights movement and the South African defiance campaigns -- From black power to black consciousness
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    ISBN: 9780520918986 , 0520918983 , 0585047677 , 9780585047676
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxiii, 254 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Not our kind of girl
    DDC: 306.8743
    Keywords: African American teenage mothers Case studies ; Teenage pregnancy Case studies ; United States ; United States ; African American teenage mothers Case studies ; Teenage pregnancy Case studies ; African American teenage mothers Case studies ; Teenage pregnancy Case studies ; Teenage pregnancy ; Sociology & Social History ; Social Sciences ; Family & Marriage ; African American teenage mothers ; Case studies ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Parenting ; Motherhood ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Case studies ; Fallstudiensammlung
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0585075050
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 176 Seiten) , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Edition: Online_Ausgabe Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 1999 E-Books von NetLibrary Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 22382847
    Parallel Title: Reproduktion von Ullman, Sharon R. Sex seen
    DDC: 306.70973
    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Sex customs - History - 20th century - United States ; Sexual ethics - History - 20th century - United States ; Geschichte ; Sex customs History 20th century ; Sexual ethics History 20th century ; Sexualethik ; Sexualverhalten ; USA ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books History ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books History ; USA ; Sexualverhalten ; USA ; Sexualethik
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-165) and index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520919242 , 0520919246 , 0585105952 , 9780585105956
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 264 p.)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Disrupted lives
    DDC: 302.5
    Keywords: Life change events United States ; Adjustment (Psychology) United States ; Life change events ; Adjustment (Psychology) ; Life change events ; Adjustment (Psychology) ; Adaptation, Psychological ; Life Change Events ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology ; Adjustment (Psychology) ; Life change events ; Psychology ; Social Sciences ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Our lives are full of disruptions, from the minor - a flat tire, an unexpected phone call - to the fateful - a diagnosis of infertility, an illness, the death of a loved one. And the ways in which we come to understand and cope with these disruptions can say as much about our cultural heritage as they say about us as individuals. In the first book to examine disruption in American life from a cultural rather than a psychological perspective, Gay Becker follows hundreds of people to find out what they do after something unexpected occurs. Starting with bodily distress, she shows how individuals recount experiences of disruption metaphorically, drawing on important cultural themes to help them reestablish order and continuity in their lives. Through the vivid and poignant stories of people from different walks of life who experience different types of disruptions, Becker examines how people rework their ideas about themselves and their worlds, from the meaning of disruption to the meaning of life itself
    Description / Table of Contents: Mediating disruptionNarratives as cultural documents -- Order and chaos -- Metaphors as mediators in disrupted lives -- The disordered body -- Personal responsibility for continuity -- Living in limbo -- Creating order out of chaos -- Healing the body through the mind -- Metaphors of transformation -- Disruption and the creation of continuity.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520086531 , 0520086538 , 9780520206205 , 0520206207 , 9780520918122 , 0520918126 , 0585078041 , 9780585078045
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 358 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Print version Tangled memories
    DDC: 306.20973
    Keywords: Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer ; Memory Political aspects ; United States ; Political culture History ; 20th century ; United States ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Influence ; AIDS (Disease) United States ; Persian Gulf War, 1991 Influence ; Popular culture History ; 20th century ; United States ; Television and history United States ; Motion pictures and history United States ; Persian Gulf War, 1991 Influence ; Popular culture History 20th century ; Television and history ; Motion pictures and history ; Memory Political aspects ; AIDS (Disease) ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Influence ; Political culture History 20th century ; Television and history ; Motion pictures and history ; Memory Political aspects ; Popular culture History 20th century ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Influence ; Political culture History 20th century ; AIDS (Disease) ; Persian Gulf War, 1991 Influence ; Memory ; Politics ; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ; Television ; Motion Pictures as Topic ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; AIDS (Disease) ; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) ; Memory ; Political aspects ; Motion pictures and history ; Political culture ; Popular culture ; Television and history ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; Aids ; Golfkrieg ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Vietnamkrieg ; Collectief geheugen ; Vietnam-oorlog ; AIDS ; Politieke cultuur ; AIDS ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; History ; USA ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: Camera images and national meanings -- The Wall and the screen memory: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- Reenactment and the making of history: the Vietnam War as docudrama -- Spectacles of memory and amnesia: remembering the Persian Gulf War -- AIDS and the politics of representation -- Conversations with the dead: bearing witness in the AIDS memorial quilt -- Bodies of commemoration: the immune system and HIV -- Afterword.
    Abstract: This fascinating investigation into the production of American cultural memory focuses on two of the most traumatic and contested events in recent U.S. history: the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic. Each, Marita Sturken argues, disrupts our conventional understanding of nationhood, identity, and American culture. She brilliantly compares the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the AIDS Quilt as key sites where cultural memory is produced and debated. While debunking the characterization of the United States as a culture of amnesia, Sturken shows that remembering is itself a form of forgetting, and memory an inventive social practice
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520209961 , 0520209966 , 9780520925472 , 0520925475 , 058504774X , 9780585047744
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (241 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Comparative imagination
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: Racism History ; United States ; Racism History ; South Africa ; Black nationalism History ; United States ; Black nationalism History ; South Africa ; African Americans Civil rights ; History ; Blacks Civil rights ; History ; South Africa ; Black nationalism History ; African Americans Civil rights ; History ; Blacks Civil rights ; History ; Black nationalism History ; Racism History ; Racism History ; Blacks Civil rights ; History ; African Americans Civil rights ; History ; Black nationalism History ; Black nationalism History ; Racism History ; Racism History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; African Americans ; Civil rights ; Black nationalism ; Blacks ; Civil rights ; Race relations ; Racism ; Gender & Ethnic Studies ; Social Sciences ; Ethnic & Race Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; History ; United States Race relations ; South Africa Race relations ; South Africa ; United States ; South Africa Race relations ; United States Race relations ; South Africa Race relations ; United States Race relations ; United States ; South Africa ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: The status of comparative history (1980) -- The frontier in South African and American history -- From exceptionalism to variability: recent developments in cross-national comparative history -- Planters, junkers, and Pomeschiki -- Understanding racism: reflections of a comparative historian -- Race and empire in liberal thought: the legacy of tocqueville -- Black-white relations since emancipation: the search for a comparative perspective -- Reform and revolution in American and South African freedom struggles -- Prophets of black liberation -- Nonviolent resistance to white supremacy: the american civil rights movement and the South African defiance campaigns -- From black power to black consciousness
    Description / Table of Contents: The status of comparative history (1980)The frontier in South African and American history -- From exceptionalism to variability: recent developments in cross-national comparative history -- Planters, junkers, and Pomeschiki -- Understanding racism: reflections of a comparative historian -- Race and empire in liberal thought: the legacy of tocqueville -- Black-white relations since emancipation: the search for a comparative perspective -- Reform and revolution in American and South African freedom struggles -- Prophets of black liberation -- Nonviolent resistance to white supremacy: the american civil rights movement and the South African defiance campaigns -- From black power to black consciousness.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-236) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520919976 , 0520919971 , 0585054495 , 9780585054490
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 279 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Twilight zones
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Popular culture Psychological aspects ; United States ; Consumers Attitudes ; United States ; Body image United States ; United States ; Popular culture Psychological aspects ; Consumers Attitudes ; Body image ; Body image ; Consumers Attitudes ; Popular culture Psychological aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Body image ; Consumers ; Attitudes ; Popular culture ; Psychological aspects ; Populaire cultuur ; Afbeeldingen (algemeen) ; Menselijk lichaam ; Konsumgesellschaft ; Pop-Kultur ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Braveheart, Babe, and the contemporary body -- P.C., O.J., and truth -- Never just pictures -- Can a woman harass a man? -- Bringing body to theory -- The feminist as other -- Missing kitchens / with Bonnie Klein and Marilyn K. Silverman.
    Abstract: Susan Bordo deciphers the hidden life of cultural images and the impact they have on our lives. She builds on the provocative themes introduced in her acclaimed work Unbearable Weight - which explores the social and political underpinnings of women's obsession with bodily image - to offer a singularly readable and perceptive interpretation of our image-saturated culture. As it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between appearance and reality, Bordo argues, we need to rehabilitate the notion that not all versions of reality are equally trustworthy. Looking to the body and bodily practices as an arena in which cultural fantasies and anxieties are played out, Bordo examines the mystique and the reality of empowerment through cosmetic surgery. Her incisive analysis of sexual harassment in the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill controversy, as well as in films such as Disclosure, challenges media-driven caricatures of sexuality. Bordo also sharply diagnoses the continuing marginalization of feminist thought, in particular the failure to read feminist work as cultural criticism. In a final powerful collaborative essay entitled "Missing Kitchens," Bordo and her sisters Binnie Klein and Marilyn Silverman explore notions of bodies, place, and space through a moving recreation of the topographies of their childhood
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520918368 , 0520918363 , 0585091404 , 9780585091402
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvi, 251 pages) , illustrations.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: American crossroads 1
    Parallel Title: Print version Border matters
    DDC: 306.09721
    Keywords: Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer ; Popular culture Mexican-American Border Region ; Mexican American arts Mexican-American Border Region ; American literature Mexican American authors ; History and criticism ; Biculturalism Mexican-American Border Region ; Biculturalism ; American literature Mexican American authors ; History and criticism ; Popular culture ; Mexican American arts ; Popular culture ; Biculturalism ; Mexican American arts ; American literature Mexican American authors ; History and criticism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Folklore ; México ; American literature ; Mexican American authors ; Biculturalism ; Civilization ; Intellectual life ; Mexican American arts ; Popular culture ; Grenzgebiet ; Volkskultur ; Literatur ; Geschichte ; Kultur ; Chicanos ; Kunst ; Populaire cultuur ; Populaire literatuur ; Grensgebieden ; Regions & Countries - Americas ; History & Archaeology ; United States Local History ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Mexican-American Border Region Civilization ; Mexican-American Border Region Intellectual life ; North America ; Mexican-American Border Region ; Mexican-American Border Region Intellectual life ; Mexican-American Border Region Civilization ; Mexican-American Border Region Civilization ; Mexican-American Border Region Intellectual life ; North America ; Mexican-American Border Region ; Mexiko ; USA ; Chicanos ; Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Abstract: Cultural theory in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands -- Américo Paredes and decolonization -- Changing borderland subjectivities -- The production of space / Arturo Islas and Carmen Lomas Garza -- On the bad edge of La Frontera -- Tijuana calling : travel writing, autoethnography, and video art -- Remapping American cultural studies.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-237) and index. - Description based on print version record
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520921047 , 0520921046 , 0585091854 , 9780585091853
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxxii, 315 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version For the hell of it
    DDC: 303.484
    Keywords: Hoffman, Abbie ; Hoffman, Abbie ; Hoffman, Abbie ; Radicals Biography ; United States ; Radicalism History ; 20th century ; United States ; Radicalism History 20th century ; Radicals Biography ; Radicalism History 20th century ; Radicals Biography ; Radicalism ; Radicals ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Biographies ; History ; United States ; Electronic books ; Biografie
    Abstract: "I'm Abbie Hoffman" -- Bad behavior -- A thousand faces -- Civil rights and wrongs -- White mischief, black power -- Death of a salesman, birth of a hippie -- The mythic revolutionary -- The apotheosis of Abbie Hoffman -- Busy being born, busy dying -- Fire in a crowded courtroom -- American Armageddon -- The longest good-bye: 1974-1989 -- A cautionary note.
    Abstract: Drawing on his own twenty-year relationship with Hoffman, hundreds of interviews with friends, family members, and former comrades, and careful scrutiny of FBI files, court records, and public documents, Raskin provides the best account we have of this mercurial figure. He takes us from Hoffman's childhood in Worcester, Massachusetts, through his civil rights and antiwar activities - in particular his roles in the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the notorious Chicago Conspiracy trial the next year. Raskin chronicles Hoffman's cocaine bust, his years underground during the seventies, and his alternating fits of manic hyperactivity and paralyzing depression. When he took his own life in 1989, Hoffman was both larger than life and a deeply troubled soul
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-296) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520916470 , 0520916476 , 0585285098 , 9780585285092
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 277 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version What makes life worth living?
    DDC: 303.372
    Keywords: Social values Japan ; Quality of life Japan ; Social values United States ; Quality of life United States ; Conduct of life Japan ; United States ; Conduct of life ; Quality of life ; Social values ; Quality of life ; Social values ; Quality of life ; Conduct of life ; Social values ; Social values ; Quality of life ; Quality of life ; Social values ; Social Conditions ; Sociology & Social History ; Social Sciences ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Conduct of life ; United States ; Japan ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: pt. 1. The cultural foundations of Ikigai -- Introduction: what makes life worth living? The varieties of Ikigai in Japan -- Individualism, community, and conformity in the United States -- The comparison of Japanese and American selves -- pt. 2. Ikigai in Japanese and American lives. Ikigai in work and family. Ikigai and gender -- Ikigai in past and future. Ikigai and dreams -- Ikigai in creation and religion. Ikigai and significance -- pt. 3. Ikigai and the meaning of life. A phenomenological analysis of Ikigai -- Ikigai and the meaning of life.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520203105 , 0520203100 , 9780520203112 , 0520203119 , 9780520917057 , 0520917057 , 0585047634 , 9780585047638
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 270 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Family silver
    DDC: 305.3
    Keywords: Krieger, Susan ; Krieger, Susan ; Krieger, Susan ; Women United States ; Lesbians United States ; Women college teachers United States ; Gender identity United States ; Interpersonal relations United States ; Feminist theory United States ; Women ; Lesbians ; Women college teachers ; Gender identity ; Interpersonal relations ; Feminist theory ; Women college teachers ; Gender identity ; Interpersonal relations ; Feminist theory ; Lesbians ; Women ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies ; Feminist theory ; Gender identity ; Interpersonal relations ; Lesbians ; Women ; Women college teachers ; Vrouwen ; Lesbiennes ; Interpersoonlijke relaties ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: In an inventive and controversial collection of essays, sociologist Susan Krieger considers the many forms of wealth, both material and emotional, that women pass on to each other. This domestic heritage-the "family silver"--Is the keystone for a discussion of mother-daughter relationships, intimate relationships between lesbians, ties between students and feminist teachers, the dilemmas of women in academia as well as in the broader work world, and the importance of female separatism. Drawing on her experiences as a lesbian, a feminist, and a teacher, Krieger presents a stunning critique of hi
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-270). - Description based on print version record
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520085787 , 0520085795 , 0520914856 , 0585078815 , 9780520914858 , 9780585078816
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 219 pages)
    Series Statement: Latinos in American society and culture 4
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.868/72073
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    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies ; Gesellschaft ; American literature Mexican American authors ; History and criticism ; Theory, etc ; Law and literature Social aspects ; Mexican Americans Legal status, laws, etc ; Mexican Americans Historiography ; Mexican Americans in literature ; Narration (Rhetoric) ; Recht ; Chicanos ; Literatur ; USA ; USA ; Chicanos ; Literatur ; USA ; Recht
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203) and index , 1. Legal Rhetoric and Cultural Critique: An Institutional Context for Reading Chicano Narrative -- 2. Mission Denial: The Development of Historical Amnesia -- 3. "Rancho Mexicana, USA" under Siege -- 4. Consensual Fictions -- 5. A Social Context for Mourning and Mourning's Sublimation
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520914858 , 0520914856 , 0585078815 , 9780585078816
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 219 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Latinos in American society and culture 4
    Parallel Title: Print version Rethinking the borderlands
    DDC: 305.86872073
    Keywords: American literature Mexican American authors ; History and criticism ; Theory, etc ; Law and literature Social aspects ; United States ; Mexican Americans Legal status, laws, etc ; Mexican Americans Historiography ; Mexican Americans in literature ; Narration (Rhetoric) ; Mexican Americans Legal status, laws, etc ; Mexican Americans Historiography ; American literature Mexican American authors ; History and criticism ; Theory, etc ; Law and literature Social aspects ; Mexican Americans Historiography ; Mexican Americans in literature ; Narration (Rhetoric) ; Mexican Americans Legal status, laws, etc ; Law and literature Social aspects ; American literature Mexican American authors ; History and criticism ; Theory, etc ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Law and literature ; Social aspects ; Mexican Americans ; Historiography ; Mexican Americans in literature ; Mexican Americans ; Legal status, laws, etc ; Narration (Rhetoric) ; English ; Languages & Literatures ; American Literature ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 1. Legal Rhetoric and Cultural Critique: An Institutional Context for Reading Chicano Narrative -- 2. Mission Denial: The Development of Historical Amnesia -- 3. "Rancho Mexicana, USA" under Siege -- 4. Consensual Fictions -- 5. A Social Context for Mourning and Mourning's Sublimation.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Legal Rhetoric and Cultural Critique: An Institutional Context for Reading Chicano Narrative2. Mission Denial: The Development of Historical Amnesia -- 3. "Rancho Mexicana, USA" under Siege -- 4. Consensual Fictions -- 5. A Social Context for Mourning and Mourning's Sublimation.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-203) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520914926 , 0520914929 , 0585131007 , 9780585131009
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxii, 262 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version China and the American dream
    DDC: 303.48251073
    Keywords: Regions & Countries - Americas ; History & Archaeology ; United States - General ; International relations ; Buitenlandse betrekkingen ; Beeldvorming ; Politieke ideologie ; History ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Globalization ; United States Relations ; China ; China Relations ; United States ; China History ; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 ; China ; United States ; China History Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 ; United States Relations ; China Relations ; United States Relations ; China History Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 ; China Relations ; China ; Verenigde Staten ; China ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: From the "Red Menace" to Tiananmen Square, the United States and China have long had an emotionally tumultuous relationship. Richard Madsen's frank and innovative examination of the moral history of U.S.-China relations targets the forces that have shaped this surprisingly strong tie between two strikingly different nations. Combining his expertise as a sinologist with the vision of America developed in Habits of the Heart and The Good Society, Madsen studies the cultural myths that have shaped the perceptions of people of both nations for the past twenty-five years. The dominant American myth about China, born in the 1960s, foresaw Western ideals of economic, intellectual, and political freedom emerging triumphant throughout the world. Nixon's visit to China nurtured this idea, and by the 1980s it was helping to sustain America's hopefulness about its own democratic identity. Meanwhile, Chinese popular culture has focused on the U.S., especially American consumer goods--Coca-Cola was described by the People's Daily as "capitalism concentrated in a bottle." Today we face a new global institutional and cultural environment in which the old myths no longer work for either Americans or Chinese. Madsen provides a framework for us to think about the relationship between democratic ideals and economic/political realities in the post-Cold War world. What he proposes is no less than the foundation for building a public philosophy for the emerging world order
    Description / Table of Contents: The moral challenge of Tiananmen: shattering a liberal mythAmerica's China: creation of a liberal myth -- Nixon's China: propagation of a liberal myth -- Hopes and illusions: the institutionalization of a liberal myth -- Diplomatic normalization: moral challenges to the liberal myth -- Missionaries of the American dream: putting the liberal myth into practice -- Openness and emptiness: Chinese reactions to the liberal myth -- Searching for a dream: Chinese creations of their own myths -- Conclusion: an East-West dialogue for the next century: new myths for a new world.
    Note: "A Philip E. Lilienthal book. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-254) and index. - Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-254) and index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0-520-08914-6 , 978-0-520-08914-3
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 450 Seiten
    Keywords: Bevölkerungspolitik Sozialpolitik ; Reproduktion, menschliche ; Geburtenkontrolle ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; HIV ; China ; Kanada ; USA ; Ägypten ; Italien ; Nigeria ; Rumänien ; Norwegen ; Brasilien ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: This groundbreaking volume provides a dramatic investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. In an unusually broad spectrum of essays, a distinguished group of international feminist scholars and activists explores the complexity of contemporary sexual politics around the globe. Using reproduction as an entry point in the study of social life and placing it at the center of social theory, the authors examine how cultures are produced, contested, and transformed as people imagine their collective future in the creation of the next generation.The studies encompass a wide variety of subjects, from the impact of AIDS on reproduction in the United States to the aftereffects of Chernobyl on the Sami people in Norway and the impact of totalitarian abortion and birth control policies in Romania and China. The contributors use historical and comparative perspectives to illuminate the multiple and intersecting forms of power and resistance through which reproduction is given cultural weight and social form. They discuss the ways that seemingly distant influences shape and constrain local reproductive experiences such as the international flows of adoptive babies and childcare workers and the Victorian and imperial legacy of eugenics and family planning. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction: Conceiving the New World Order / Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp -- One. The Politics of Birthcontrol -- Two. Stratified Reproduction -- Three. Rethinking Demography, Biology, and Social Policy -- Four. Disastrous Circumstances and Reproductive Consequences -- Five. What's so New About the New Reproductive Technologies ? -- Six. What's Political about Reproduction -- Notes on Contributors
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520342910 , 0520342917
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 275 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: California studies in food and culture 7
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Levenstein, Harvey A., 1938- Revolution at the table
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-1930 ; Food habits History ; Diet History ; Habitudes alimentaires - États-Unis - Histoire ; Alimentation - États-Unis - Histoire ; COOKING - History ; Diet ; Food habits ; Voedingsgewoonten ; History ; USA ; United States
    Abstract: In this wide-ranging and entertaining study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: The British-American culinary heritage -- The American table in 1880 : the tastes of the upper crust -- How the other half ate -- The rise of the giant food processors -- The New England kitchen and the failure to reform working-class eating habits -- The "servant problem" and middle-class cookery -- The new nutritionists assault the middle classes -- Scientists, pseudoscientists, and faddists -- New reformers and new immigrants -- The great malnutrition scare, 1907-1921 -- "Best for babies" or "preventable infanticide"? The controversy over artificial feeding of infants, 1880-1930 -- "Food will win the war" -- The newer nutrition, 1915-1930.
    Note: Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1988 , Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-260) and index
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