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    Milton : Taylor & Francis Group | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781000036411
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (311 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration Series
    DDC: 305.906914094
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    Keywords: Flüchtling ; Einwanderer ; Soziale Situation ; Ethik ; Europa ; Electronic books
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    Freiburg ; Basel ; Wien : Verlag Herder | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783451819445
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (134 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Geschlechterrolle ; Gesellschaft ; Soziale Situation ; Wandel ; Frau ; Iran ; Electronic books ; Reisebericht ; Iran ; Frau ; Gesellschaft ; Soziale Situation ; Geschlechterrolle ; Wandel
    Abstract: 40 Jahre nach seiner Gründung wirkt der diktatorische Gottesstaat in Iran sehr stabil. Die islamistische Ideologie scheint alle Bereiche des Lebens zu prägen. Außenpolitisch setzt Iran seine geostrategischen Interessen in Jemen, Syrien und im Irak durch. Keine Hoffnung auf Veränderung hin zu Frieden und Freiheit? Ulrike Keding macht sich auf die Suche nach dem anderen Iran. Vor allem die Frauen, die sie kennenlernt, geben ihr Hoffnung. Sie gehen mutig und selbstbewusst ihren eigenen Weg und setzen sich von der männlich geprägten Staatsdoktrin ab. Sie repräsentieren eine junge Generation westlich orientierter Iranerinnen und streben nach Freiheit.Ulrike Kedings mitreißende Porträts machen deutlich, dass wir Iran und seine Menschen nicht aufgeben dürfen.
    Abstract: Biographische Informationen: Ulrike Keding, geb. 1963, ist ausgebildete Rundfunk- und Fernsehredakteurin und arbeitet als freie Journalistin. Für ihre Reportagen hat sie häufiger Iran bereist.
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    Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner Publishers | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781626378629
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (295 pages)
    DDC: 305.420956
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    Keywords: Frau ; Soziale Situation ; Geschlechterrolle ; Naher Osten ; Nordafrika
    Abstract: The role of gender in the Middle East and North Africa is widely discussed--but often little understood. Seeking to close that gap, the authors of this comprehensive study explore a wide range of issues related to gender in the region as they have been unfolding since the Arab Spring.
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    Ithaca : Cornell University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781501703959
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (340 pages)
    DDC: 304.873
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    Keywords: Metropole ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Integration ; Soziale Situation ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Los Angeles : Stone Bridge Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780990557173
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (135 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    DDC: 306.742092
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    Keywords: Prostitution ; Soziale Situation ; USA
    Abstract: A uniquely thrilling book that features striking images of and probing words by the most American whore there is!.
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    New York : Russell Sage Foundation | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781610448444
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
    DDC: 306.85/08623
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-2015 ; Arbeiterklasse ; Familie ; Soziale Situation ; Familienstruktur ; USA
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    New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781137305251
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 187 Seiten)
    DDC: 305.896073
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Hip-Hop ; Subkultur ; Soziale Situation ; USA
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    New York and London : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781135127657 , 9780203076828
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 264 Seiten)
    Edition: Second edition
    DDC: 305.8009
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Rassendiskriminierung ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Soziale Situation ; USA
    Abstract: In this book Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative concept, the white racial frame. Now four centuries-old, this white racial frame encompasses not only the stereotyping, bigotry, and racist ideology emphasized in other theories of "race," but also the visual images, array of emotions, sounds of accented language, interlinking interpretations and narratives, and inclinations to discriminate that are still central to the frame's everyday operations. Deeply imbedded in American minds and institutions, this white racial frame has for centuries functioned as a broad worldview, one essential to the routine legitimation, scripting, and maintenance of systemic racism in the United States. Here Feagin examines how and why this white racial frame emerged in North America, how and why it has evolved socially over time, which racial groups are framed within it, how it has operated in the past and in the present for both white Americans and Americans of color, and how the latter have long responded with strategies of resistance that include enduring counter-frames.In this new edition, Feagin has included much new interview material and other data from recent research studies on framing issues related to white, black, Latino, and Asian Americans, and on society generally. The book also includes a new discussion of the impact of the white frame on popular culture, including on movies, video games, and television programs as well as a discussion of the white racial frame's significant impacts on public policymaking, immigration, the environment, health care, and crime and imprisonment issues.
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203415924
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (250 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Rewriting Histories
    DDC: 306.0975
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Sklaverei ; Soziale Situation ; USA Südstaaten
    Abstract: Combining established work with that of recent provocative scholarship on the antebellum South, this collection of essays puts students in touch with some of the central debates in this dynamic field. It includes substantial excerpts from the work of Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, who lay out the influential interpretation of the South as a `paternalistic' society and culture, and contributions from more recent scholars who provide dissenting or alternative interpretations of the relations between masters and slaves and men and women. The essays draw on a wide range of disciplines, including economics, psychology and anthropology to investigate the nature of plantation and family life in the South. Explanatory notes guide the reader through each essay and the Editor's introduction places the work in its historiographical context.
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    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780812202922
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
    Series Statement: Early American Studies
    DDC: 305.5/69/097481109033
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1900 ; Armut ; Soziale Wohlfahrt ; Soziale Situation ; Philadelphia, Pa.
    Abstract: "A useful and readable account of the ways in which the poor were regulated by the emergent disciplinary power of the modern state."-William and Mary Quarterly.
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    Wiesbaden : VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften GmbH | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783322951380
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (375 pages)
    Series Statement: Lebenslauf - Alter - Generation Ser. v.1
    DDC: 305.260943
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    Keywords: Alter ; Soziale Situation ; Partizipation ; Sozialberichterstattung ; Deutschland
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781136290794
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (289 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    DDC: 305.983
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Englisch ; Soziale Situation ; Schriftstellerin ; Romanschriftstellerin ; Prestige ; Roman ; Soziologie ; Buchmarkt ; Verleger ; Romancier ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the twentieth century, "men of letters" acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most critically successful novelists were men. In the book, sociologist Gaye Tuchman examines how men succeeded in redefining a form of culture and in invading a white-collar occupation previously practiced mostly by women. Tuchman documents how men gradually supplanted women as novelists once novel-writing was perceived as potentially profitable, in part because of changes in the system of publishing and rewarding authors. Drawing on unusual data ranging from the archives of Macmillan and company (London) to an analysis of the lives and accomplishments of authors listed in the Dictionary of National Biography, she shows that rising literacy and the centralization of the publishing industry in London after 1840 increased literary opportunities and fostered men's success as novelists. Men redefined the nature of a good novel and applied a double standard in critically evaluating literary works by men and by women. They also received better contracts than women for novels of equivalent quality and sales. They were able to accomplish this, says Tuchman, because they were to a large extent the culture brokers - the publishers, publishers' readers, and reviewers of an elite art form. Both a sociological study of occupational gender transformation and a historical study of writing and publishing, this book will be a rich resource for students of the sociology of culture, literary criticism, and women's studies.
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    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780807898932
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (353 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in Rural Culture
    DDC: 305.800979494
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-1970 ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Landarbeiter ; Soziale Situation ; Zitrusanbau ; Chicanos ; Los Angeles, Calif.
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    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780812202236
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (260 pages)
    Series Statement: Early American Studies
    DDC: 305.560974
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700 - 1800 ; Armut ; Gesetzgebung ; Randgruppe ; Soziale Situation ; Neuengland
    Abstract: "Herndon has painstakingly reconstructed the lives of these most obscure early New Englanders. . . . The resulting study at once opens an important window onto the development of poor-relief policy in America and offers a fascinating account of lives and voices often lost to us."-New England Quarterly.
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    Pittsburgh PA : University of Pittsburgh Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780822977636
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
    Series Statement: Pitt Latin American Series
    DDC: 307.76097
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    Keywords: Gruppenidentität ; Soziale Situation ; Stadtsoziologie ; Lateinamerika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Cultures of the City explores the cultural mediation of relationships between people and urban spaces in Latin/o America and how these mediations shape the identities of cities and their residents. Addressing a broad spectrum of phenomena and disciplinary approaches, the contributors to this volume analyze lived urban experiences and their symbolic representation in cultural texts. Individual chapters explore Havana in popular music; Mexico City in art; Buenos Aires, Recife, and Salvador in film; and Asuncion and Buenos Aires in literature. Others focus on particular events, conditions, and practices of urban life including the Havana book fair, mass transit in Bogotá, the restaurant industry in Los Angeles, the media in Detroit, Andean festivals in Lima, and the photographic record of a visit by members of the Zapatista Liberation Army to Mexico City.     The contributors examine identity and the sense of place and belonging that connect people to urban environments, relating these to considerations of ethnicity, social and economic class, gender, everyday life, and cultural practices. They also consider history and memory and the making of places through the iterative performance of social practices. As such, places are works in progress, a condition that is particularly evident in contemporary Latin/o American cities where the opposition between local and global influences is a prominent facet of daily life. These core issues are theorized further in an afterword by Abril Trigo, who takes the chapters as a point of departure for a discussion of the dialectics of identity in the Latin/o American global city.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203894972
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Series Statement: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    DDC: 305.42
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    Keywords: Frau ; Soziale Situation ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In this new edition of this best selling text, interdisciplinary feminist experts from around the world provide new analyses of the ongoing relationship between gender and neoliberal globalization under the new imperialism in the post-9/11 context. Divided into Sightings, Sites and Resistances, this book examines: the disciplining politics of race, sexuality and modernity under securitized globalization, including case studies on domestic workers in Hong Kong heteronormative development policies and responses to the crisis of social reproduction and colonizing responses to AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa migration, human rights and citizenship, including studies on remittances, the emergence of neoliberal subjectivities among rural Mexican women, Filipina migrant workers and women's labor organizing in the Middle East and North Africa feminist resistance, incorporating the latest scholarship on transnational feminism and feminist critical globalization movement activism, including case studies on men's violence on the Mexico/US border, pan-indigenous women's movements and cyberfeminism. Providing a coherent and challenging approach to the issues of gender and the processes of globalization in the new millennium, this important text will be of interest to students and scholars of IPE, international relations, economics, development and gender studies.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203875544
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (160 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 304.8
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    Keywords: Migration ; Einwanderer ; Soziale Situation ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Stadtleben
    Abstract: International migration has emerged in the last decade as one of the world's most controversial and pressing issues. This thought-provoking textbook offers the reader a more nuanced and knowledgeable understanding of the complex economic, political, cultural, and moral concerns that arise when people move across borders seeking admission into other countries. Splitting the text into five broad sections, Steiner facilitates easy navigation of the complex discussions that surround the issue of migration: Section One - Introduction: examines how the central questions that frame the book will be addressed, including: what criteria should be used to admit migrants? and How should a country grant citizenship? Section Two - Immigrants: discusses the criteria for accepting immigrants, dealing with the unwanted, and assessing the economic, cultural and political impacts. Section Three - Refugees: evaluates the methods used to protect refugees, the controversies surrounding asylum and the shortcomings of current refugee definitions. Section Four - Citizenship: charts the rise of nationalism, presents modern issues of minority rights and diversity, and examines processes of naturalization across the globe. Section Five - Conclusion: considers more unconventional approaches to migration and citizenship, and suggests moving towards a more holistic approach. Carefully constructed to spark discussion and student reflection and featuring suggested resources at the end of each section, this book offers dozens of contemporary examples and case studies from across the globe. International Migration and Citizenship Today is essential reading for not only students of migration and citizenship, but also globalization, international relations, and democracies.
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    Jackson : University Press of Mississippi | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781604732177
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (153 pages)
    DDC: 796.3570973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 20. Jh. ; Schwarze ; Frau ; Soziale Situation ; USA
    Abstract: Smart Ball follows Major League Baseball's history as a sport, a domestic monopoly, a neocolonial power, and an international business. MLB's challenge has been to market its popular mythology as the national pastime with pastoral, populist roots while addressing the management challenges of competing with other sports and diversions in a burgeoning global economy. Baseball researcher Robert F. Lewis II argues that MLB for years abused its legal insulation and monopoly status through arrogant treatment of its fans and players and static management of its business. As its privileged position eroded in the face of increased competition from other sports and union resistance, it awakened to its perilous predicament and began aggressively courting athletes and fans at home and abroad. Using a detailed marketing analysis and applying the principles of a "smart power" model, the author assesses MLB's progression as a global business brand that continues to appeal to a consumer's sense of an idyllic past in the midst of a fast-paced, and often violent, present.
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    Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781452222691
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (278 pages)
    Series Statement: Sociology for a New Century Series
    DDC: 304.8
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    Keywords: Einwanderer ; Soziale Situation ; Soziale Integration ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
    Abstract: The most up-to-date analysis of today's immigration issues As the authors state in Chapter 1, "the movement of people across national borders represents one of the most vivid dramas of social reality in the contemporary world." This comparative text examines contemporary immigration across the globe, focusing on 20 major nations. Noted scholars Peter Kivisto and Thomas Faist introduce students to important topics of inquiry at the heart of the field, including Movement: Explores the theories of migration using a historical perspective of the modern world. Settlement: Provides clarity concerning the controversial matter of immigrant incorporation and refers to the varied ways immigrants come to be a part of a new society. Control: Focuses on the politics of immigration and examines the role of states in shaping how people choose to migrate. Key Features Provides comprehensive coverage of topics not covered in other texts, such as state and immigration control, focusing on policies created to control migratory flow and evolving views of citizenship Offers a global portrait of contemporary immigration, including a demographic overview of today's cross-border movers Offers critical assessments of the achievements of the field to date Encourages students to rethink traditional views about the distinction between citizen and alien in this global age Suggests paths for future research and new theoretical developments.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203871072
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (401 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.23
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    Keywords: Kind ; Jugend ; Soziale Situation ; Jugendpolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: A Handbook of Children and Young People's Participation brings together key thinkers and practitioners from diverse contexts across the globe to provide an authoritative overview of contemporary theory and practice around children's participation. Promoting the participation of children and young people - in decision-making and policy development, and as active contributors to everyday family and community life - has become a central part of policy and programme initiatives in both majority and minority worlds. This book presents the most useful recent work in children's participation as a resource for academics, students and practitioners in childhood studies, children's rights and welfare, child and family social work, youth and community work, governance, aid and development programmes. The book introduces key concepts and debates, and presents a rich collection of accounts of the diverse ways in which children's participation is understood and enacted around the world, interspersed with reflective commentaries from adults and young people. It concludes with a number of substantial theoretical contributions that aim to take forward our understanding of children's participation. The emphasis throughout the text is on learning from the complexity of children's participation in practice to improve our theoretical understanding, and on using those theoretical insights to challenge practice, with the aim of realising children's rights and citizenship more fully.
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    Berlin : transcript Verlag | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783839410059
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (257 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Kultur- und Medientheorie
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    Keywords: Wohnen ; Soziale Situation ; Lebensform ; Randgruppe ; Kreativität ; Alter ; Deutschland
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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780226114101
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (368 pages)
    DDC: 364.9712/4
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    Keywords: Soziale Situation ; Kriminalität ; Postkolonialismus ; Gewalt ; Entwicklungsländer ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Are postcolonies haunted more by criminal violence than other nation-states? The usual answer is yes. In Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, Jean and John Comaroff and a group of respected theorists show that the question is misplaced: that the predicament of postcolonies arises from their place in a world order dominated by new modes of governance, new sorts of empires, new species of wealth-an order that criminalizes poverty and race, entraps the "south" in relations of corruption, and displaces politics into the realms of the market, criminal economies, and the courts.  As these essays make plain, however, there is another side to postcoloniality: while postcolonies live in states of endemic disorder, many of them fetishize the law, its ways and itsmeans. How is the coincidence of disorder with a fixation on legalities to be explained? Law and Disorder in the Postcolony addresses this question, entering into critical dialogue with such theorists as Benjamin, Agamben, and Bayart. In the process, it also demonstrates how postcolonies have become crucial sites for the production of contemporary theory, not least because they are harbingers of a global future under construction.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816656455
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (246 pages)
    DDC: 305.8009773/11
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1870-1990 ; Schwarze ; Soziale Situation ; Chicago, Ill.
    Abstract: In the Jim Crow era of the early twentieth century, Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood on the city's South Side was a major center of African American cultural vitality and a destination for thousands of Southern blacks seeking new opportunities in the North during the Great Migration. After decades of decline, the 1980s saw several community organizations in the neighborhood collaborating on a revitalization plan called "Restoring Bronzeville," envisioning an idealized version of the neighborhood as it had thrived during segregation. Opening with a description by a Bronzeville tour guide, wistful for the days of its famously rich and rewarding cultural life, Michelle R. Boyd examines how black leaders reinvented the neighborhood's history in ways that, amazingly, sanitized the brutal elements of life under Jim Crow. Connecting such collective inventions of memory to neighborhood projects in the present, Boyd emphasizes how interpretations of history are mobilized for political goals and how links between nostalgia and redevelopment contribute to the politicization of racial identity. As community leaders sought to make an area more attractive to investors, she finds that they consciously worked to define and even redraw geographic boundaries, real estate values, and even the character of the people who lived there. Acknowledging the present and growing public anxiety over the existence of a stable and collective black identity, Boyd takes a nuanced view of nostalgia for the neighborhoods of the Jim Crow era and develops a new way to understand the political significance of race today.
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    Bloomington : Indiana University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780253117076
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (225 pages)
    DDC: 305.896
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Schwarze ; Soziale Situation ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Sexualität ; USA
    Abstract: The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power is a political, cultural, and intellectual study of race, sex, and Western empire. Greg Thomas interrogates a system that represents race, gender, sexuality, and class in certain systematic and oppressive ways. By connecting sex and eroticism to geopolitics both politically and epistemologically, he examines the logic, operations, and politics of sexuality in the West. The book focuses on the centrality of race, class, and empire to Western realities of "gender and sexuality" and to problematic Western attempts to theorize gender and sexuality (or embodiment). Addressing a wide range of intellectual disciplines, it holds out the hope for an analysis freed from the domination of white, Western terms of reference.
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    College Station : Texas A&M University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781603444583
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (204 pages)
    Series Statement: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
    DDC: 305.8009764/242
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    Keywords: Weiße ; Ethnische Identität ; Einwanderer ; Soziale Situation ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Gewalt ; Texas
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    Brookfield : Ashgate Publishing Ltd | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780754684787
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (279 pages) , Illustrationen
    DDC: 306.76/601
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    Keywords: Sexualität ; Öffentlicher Raum ; Soziale Situation ; Homosexualität ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    New York : Guilford Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781593857356
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 pages)
    Series Statement: The Duke Series in Child Development and Public Policy
    DDC: 304.8
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    Keywords: Einwanderer ; Familie ; Akkulturation ; Soziale Situation ; Ethnische Identität ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: How do some families successfully negotiate the linguistic, cultural, and psychological challenges of immigration, while others struggle to acculturate? This timely volume explores the complexities of immigrant family life in North America and analyzes the individual and contextual factors that influence health and well-being. Synthesizing cutting-edge research from a range of disciplines, the book addresses such key topics as child development, school achievement, and the cultural and religious contexts of parenting. It examines the interface between families and broader systems, including schools, social services, and intervention programs, and discusses how practices and policies might be improved to produce optimal outcomes for this large and diverse population.
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    New York : NYU Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780814786505
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (205 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.48/896073
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    Keywords: Schwarze Frau ; Weibliche Jugend ; Hip-Hop ; Geschlechterrolle ; Soziale Situation ; USA ; Interview
    Abstract: 2007 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Emily Toth Award Pimps Up, Ho's Down pulls at the threads of the intricately knotted issues surrounding young black women and hip hop culture. What unravels for Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting is a new, and problematic, politics of gender. In this fascinating and forceful book, Sharpley-Whiting, a feminist writer who is a member of the hip hop generation, interrogates the complexities of young black women's engagement with a culture that is masculinist, misogynistic, and frequently mystifying. Beyond their portrayal in rap lyrics, the display of black women in music videos, television, film, fashion, and on the Internet is indispensable to the mass media engineered appeal of hip hop culture, the author argues. And the commercial trafficking in the images and behaviors associated with hip hop has made them appear normal, acceptable, and entertaining - both in the U.S. and around the world. Sharpley-Whiting questions the impacts of hip hop's increasing alliance with the sex industry, the rise of groupie culture in the hip hop world, the impact of hip hop's compulsory heterosexual culture on young black women, and the permeation of the hip hop ethos into young black women's conceptions of love and romance. The author knows her subject from the inside. Coming of age in the midst of hip hop's evolution in the late 1980s, she mixed her graduate studies with work as a runway and print model in the 1990s. Her book features interviews with exotic dancers, black hip hop groupies, and hip hop generation members Jacklyn "Diva" Bush, rapper Trina, and filmmaker Aishah Simmons, along with the voices of many "everyday" young women. Pimps Up, Ho's Down turns down the volume and amplifies the substance of discussions about hip hop culture and to provide a space for young black women to be heard.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816697595
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (226 pages)
    DDC: 305.48800973
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    Keywords: Frau ; Nationale Minderheit ; Rassendiskriminierung ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Soziale Situation ; USA
    Abstract: Universality is a dangerous concept, according to Grace Kyungwon Hong, one that has contributed to the rise of the U.S. nation-state that privileges the propertied individual. However, African American, Asian American, and Chicano people experience the same stretch of city sidewalk with varying degrees of safety, visibility, and surveillance.The Ruptures of American Capital examines two key social formations-women of color feminism and racialized immigrant women's culture-in order to argue that race and gender are contradictions within the history of U.S. capital that should be understood not as monolithic but as marked by its crises. Hong shows how women of color feminism identified ways in which nationalist forms of capital, such as the right to own property, were repressive. The Ruptures of American Capital demonstrates that racialized immigrant women's culture has brought to light contested modes of incorporation into consumer culture.Interweaving discussion of U.S. political economy with literary analyses (including readings from Booker T. Washington to Jessica Hagedorn) Hong challenges the individualism of the United States and the fetishization of difference that is one of the markers of globalization.
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    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780807877357
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (332 pages)
    DDC: 394.12
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Schwarze Frau ; Kochen ; Essgewohnheit ; Soziale Situation ; USA
    Abstract: Chicken--both the bird and the food--has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their families, shaped a distinctive culture, and helped women define and exert themselves in racist and hostile environments. Psyche A. Williams-Forson examines the complexity of black women's legacies using food as a form of cultural work. While acknowledging the negative interpretations of black culture associated with chicken imagery, Williams-Forson focuses her analysis on the ways black women have forged their own self-definitions and relationships to the "gospel bird."Exploring material ranging from personal interviews to the comedy of Chris Rock, from commercial advertisements to the art of Kara Walker, and from cookbooks to literature, Williams-Forson considers how black women arrive at degrees of self-definition and self-reliance using certain foods. She demonstrates how they defy conventional representations of blackness and exercise influence through food preparation and distribution. Understanding these complex relationships clarifies how present associations of blacks and chicken are rooted in a past that is fraught with both racism and agency. The traditions and practices of feminism, Williams-Forson argues, are inherent in the foods women prepare and serve.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203986806
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (189 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.31/09428/19
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    Keywords: Mēn ; Mann ; Arbeiterklasse ; Soziale Situation ; Freizeitverhalten ; England ; Leeds
    Abstract: Leisure Life is a ground-breaking study of men and masculinity. Focusing on the social networks and leisure lifestyles of a particular group of working-class men - 'the lads' - Tony Blackshaw argues that traditional social collectivities such as class are being superseded. Instead, leisure life is now the central arena in which individuals assert their identities and confirm their belonging. For 'the lads', leisure time is the pivotal point in a fragmented life which not only allows them to fashion some sense of order in a world of endemic disorder but also provides opportunities for the assertion of their masculinity. The book uniquely combines 'the lads'' own raw and compelling accounts of their leisure experiences with a sophisticated interpretive analysis. In doing so, it draws on the work of major theorists such as Baudrillard, Derrida, Foucault, and especially Bauman to develop new critical insights into our understanding of the meaning of leisure. Leisure Life awakens the sociological imagination. It offers a new approach to the study of masculinity and the ethnography of leisure, making it appropriate for courses in sociology, leisure, cultural and gender studies.
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    Palo Alto : Stanford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780804767842
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (188 pages)
    DDC: 305.891/4073
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    Keywords: Südasiaten ; Ethnische Identität ; Soziale Situation ; Globalisierung ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203309506
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (385 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.708996073
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    Keywords: Stereotyp ; Rassismus ; Sexualverhalten ; Vorurteil ; Schwarze ; Geschlechterrolle ; Soziale Situation ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; USA
    Abstract: In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a new brand of racism around the world today.
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    Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780313062872
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (342 pages)
    Series Statement: Teen Life around the World
    DDC: 305.235/09729
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    Keywords: Jugend ; Soziale Situation ; Lateinamerika ; Karibik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Teens in Latin America and the Caribbean generally face a difficult path to adulthood. Poverty and unemployment, violence, political instability, and emigration are frequently the norm in their native countries. Those from poorer families must often work as well as attend school, and opportunities for higher education and good jobs are limited. Wealthier teens, on the other hand, are sheltered from harshness and enjoy private schools, vacations abroad, and access to American consumer products. Yet family is important no matter what the class, and most of these teens share a love of parties, music, and current fashions. Latin America and the Caribbean are important regions to the United States, since large numbers of Americans can trace their roots there. Teen Life in Latin America and the Caribbean allows U.S. teens to understand the unique challenges and opportunities of teens in 15 Latin American or Caribbean countries. Photos complement the text.
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    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780807864173
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (318 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Gender and American Culture
    DDC: 305.38896073009041
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-1930 ; Schwarze ; Geschlechterrolle ; Soziale Situation ; USA
    Abstract: Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203361627
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (193 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    DDC: 305.8943504309049
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    Keywords: Türken ; Soziale Situation ; Kurden ; Türkischer Einwanderer ; Politische Beteiligung ; Politik ; Kurdischer Flüchtling ; Deutschland ; Türkei ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Using the Turkish and Kurdish communities in Germany as a case study, this book offers a unique analysis of trans-state political loyalties and activities of transnational communities and their political ramifications at both national and international levels.
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    Leiden : BRILL | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9789047401520
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (206 pages)
    DDC: 305.48697104
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    Keywords: Muslimin ; Frau ; Soziale Situation ; Geschlechterrolle ; Großbritannien ; Westliche Welt ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: An exploration of the ways in which Muslim women are portrayed, alongside their experiences of being Muslim and part of a predominantly Western culture. It engages with Muslim women living mainly in the UK, with contributions from other countries such as Australia, America and Sweden.
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    Mahwah : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781410608901
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (415 pages)
    DDC: 306.440977311
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    Keywords: Englisch ; Alphabetisierung ; Soziale Situation ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Einwanderung ; Chicago, Ill. ; Illinois
    Abstract: Often cited as a quintessential American city, Chicago is and always has been a city of immigrants, and is one of the most linguistically diverse cities in the United States. Language is central to social identity, this work look at the related issues of language and ethnicity.
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    New York : NYU Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780814783412
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.8/009747/23
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1960-2000 ; Nationale Minderheit ; Soziale Situation ; New York, NY
    Abstract: In response to the riots of the mid-'60s, Walter Thabit was hired to work with the community of East New York to develop a plan for low- and moderate-income public housing. In the years that followed, he experienced first-hand the forces that had engineered East New York's dramatic decline and that continued to work against its successful revitalization. How East New York Became a Ghetto describes the shift of East New York from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to a largely black and Puerto Rican neighborhood and shows how the resulting racially biased policies caused the deterioration of this once flourishing area. A clear-sighted, unflinching look at one ghetto community, How East New York Became a Ghetto provides insights and observations on the histories and fates of ghettos throughout the United States.
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    Cambridge : Harvard University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780674040328
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
    Series Statement: The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
    DDC: 305.896073
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Soziale Situation ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; USA
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203168677
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (266 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.420944
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1944-1968 ; Frau ; Rechtsstellung ; Soziale Situation ; Frankreich
    Abstract: Women's Rights and Women's Lives In France 1944-1968 explores key aspects of the everyday lives of women between the Liberation of France and the events of May '68. At the end of the war, French women believed that a new era was beginning and that equality had been won. The redefined postwar public sphere required women's participation for the new democracy, and women's labour power for reconstruction, but equally important was the belief in women's role as mothers. Over the next two decades, the tensions between competing visions of women's `proper place' dominated discourses of womanhood as well as policy decisions, and had concrete implications for women's lives. Working from a wide range of sources, including women's magazines, prescriptive literature, documentation from political parties, government reports, parliamentary debates and personal memoirs, Claire Duchen follows the debates concerning womanhood, women's rights and women's lives through the 1944-1968 period and grounds them in the changing reality of postwar France.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520936645
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.4096762
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschlechterrolle ; Beschneidung ; Soziale Situation ; Frau ; Kenia
    Abstract: In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political struggle in and about Africa. By examining the political significance-and complex ramifications-of reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female initiation, abortion, childbirth, and premarital pregnancy have been crucial to the exercise of colonial and postcolonial power. This innovative book enriches the study of gender, reproduction, sexuality, and African history by revealing how reproductive controversies challenged long-standing social hierarchies and contributed to the construction of new ones that continue to influence the fraught politics of abortion, birth control, female genital cutting, and HIV/AIDS in Africa.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781317794240
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (322 Seiten)
    DDC: 306.0968221
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    Keywords: Stadtplanung ; Soziale Situation ; Johannesburg (South Africa) - Politics and government ; Johannesburg ; Konferenzschrift 2000
    Abstract: Johannesburg is most often compared with Sao Paulo and Los Angeles and sometimes even with Budapest, Calcutta and Jerusalem. Johannesburg reflects and informs conditions in cities around the world. As might be expected from such comparisons, South Africa's political transformation has not led to redistribution and inclusive social change in Johannesburg. In Emerging Johannesburg the contributors describe the city's transition from a post apartheid city to one with all too familiar issues such as urban/suburban divide in the city and its relationship to poverty and socio-political power, local politics and governance, crime and violence, and, especially for a city located in Southern Africa, the devastating impact of AIDS.
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203035283
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (258 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    DDC: 306.0952
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1945-1989 ; Geschichte 1945-1989 ; Soziale Situation ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialstruktur ; Individuum ; Japan
    Abstract: The issue of how Japanese society operates, and in particular why it has `succeeded', has generated a wide variety of explanatory models, including the Confucian ethic, classlessness, group consciousness, and `uniqueness' in areas as diverse as body images and language patterns. In Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan the contributors examine these models and the ways in which they have sometimes been used to create a sense of `Japaneseness', that obscures the fact that Japan is actually an extremely complex and heterogenous society. In particular, `practice' at the micro-level of society is explored to illuminate or express a broader ideology. The contributors investigate a wide variety of subjects - from attitudes to death to the role of education, from film making to gender segregation - to see what can be said about the phenomenon in particular, what it tells us about Japan in general, and what conclusions can be drawn for our understanding of society in the broadest sense.
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203221402
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (303 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.230941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1860-1918 ; Soziale Situation ; Kind ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203906620
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (239 pages)
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    DDC: 305.3/0954
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    Keywords: Frau ; Soziale Situation ; Geschlechterrolle ; Indien
    Abstract: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203200018
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (229 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Gender in Performance
    DDC: 306.484082
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1841-1911 ; Schauspielerin ; Soziale Situation ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Using historical evidence as well as personal accounts, Tracy C. Davis examines the reality of conditions for `ordinary' actresses, their working environments, employment patterns and the reasons why acting continued to be such a popular, though insecure, profession. Firmly grounded in Marxist and feminist theory she looks at representations of women on stage, and the meanings associated with and generated by them.
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    Cary : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780198027614
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (279 pages)
    DDC: 305.895073
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    Keywords: Asiaten ; Ethnische Identität ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Soziale Situation ; USA
    Abstract: Thinking Orientals' is a study of Asian Americans and the racial formation of 20th-century American society. It reveals the influential role Asian Americans played in constructing the understandings of Asian American identity and also analyses the internment of Japanese Americans during the war and the subsequent "model minority" profile.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203019573
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (225 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.895041
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    Keywords: Asiaten ; Soziale Situation ; Heranwachsender ; Ausländischer Jugendlicher ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Between Cultures considers the position of young Asians in Britain in relation to education, employment, housing, the police and the responses they encounter from these institutions. It explores the cultural issues of family, marriage, religion and mother tongue, and the roles of Asian parents and the Asian community are analysed. Muhammad Anwar goes on to compare the situation of young Asians with that of young people generally, and to those in similar circumstances but with different backgrounds and religions.
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    New York : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780199763580
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (305 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
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    Keywords: Mittelstand ; Soziale Situation ; USA
    Abstract: In print for fifty years, White Collar by C. Wright Mills is considered a standard on the subject of the new middle class in twentieth-century America. This landmark volume demonstrates how the conditions and styles of middle class life--originating from elements of both the newer lower and upper classes--represent modern society as a whole. By examining white-collar life, Mills aimed to learn something about what was becoming more typically "American" than the once-famous Western frontier character. He painted a picture instead of a society that had evolved into a business-based milieu, viewing America instead as a great salesroom, an enormous file, and a new universe of management. Russell Jacoby, author of The End of Utopia and The Last Intellectuals, contributes a new Afterword to this edition, in which he reflects on the impact White Collar had at its original publication and considers what it means to our society today. "A book that persons of every level of the white collar pyramid should read and ponder. It will alert them to their condition for their better salvation."-Horace M. Kaellen, The New York Times (on the first edition).
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    New York : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780198028390
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (241 pages)
    DDC: 305.23508996
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Jugend ; Soziale Situation ; USA
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203219089
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (314 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.40947
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1991-1996 ; Frau ; Soziale Situation ; Russland
    Abstract: This book explores the lives and expectations of young women in the new Russia, looking at the enormous changes that the new social and economic environment have brought. The authors draw on the growing literature on gender and generation in the West which has arisen as a result of the recognition that the experience of youth is classed, raced and gendered and that the experience of gender is mediated by class, race, ethnicity, sexuality and age. They consider the role of the media, state and social institutions in shaping opportunities and experiences in the post-Soviet environment, focusing on the strategies employed by individual women to reforge social identities in a society in which they have been dislocated more acutely than in any other `postmodern' society.
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    Chicago : Ohio University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780821440995
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (355 Seiten)
    DDC: 305.48896096
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    Keywords: Schwarze Frau ; Soziale Situation ; African American women -- History -- Congresses ; African American women -- Social conditions -- Congresses ; Women, Black -- Africa -- History -- Congresses ; Women, Black -- Africa -- Social conditions -- Congresses ; Women, Black -- Jamaica -- History -- Congresses ; Women, Black -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- Congresses ; Women, Black -- Social conditions -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses ; Afrika ; Amerika ; Konferenzschrift 1999
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    New York : NYU Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780814790946
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (213 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.896972907307946
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    Keywords: Westinder ; Ethnische Identität ; Soziale Situation ; USA
    Abstract: As new immigrant communities continue to flourish in U.S. cities, their members continually face challenges of assimilation in the organization of their ethnic identities. West Indians provide a vibrant example. In West Indian in the West, Percy Hintzen draws on extensive ethnographic work with the West Indian community in the San Francisco Bay area to illuminate the ways in which social context affects ethnic identity formation. The memories, symbols, and images with which West Indians identify in order to differentiate themselves from the culture which surrounds them are distinct depending on what part of the U.S. they live in. West Indian identity comes to take on different meanings within different locations in the United States. In the San Francisco Bay area, West Indians negotiate their identity within a system of race relations that is shaped by the social and political power of African Americans. By asserting their racial identity as black, West Indians make legal and official claims to resources reserved exclusively for African Americans. At the same time, the West Indian community insulates itself from the problems of the black/white dichotomy in the U.S. by setting itself apart. Hintzen examines how West Indians publicly assert their identity by making use of the stereotypic understandings of West Indians which exist in the larger culture. He shows how ethnic communities negotiate spaces for themselves within the broader contexts in which they live.
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    Wiesbaden : Deutscher Universitäts Verlag | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783322991881
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (271 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: DUV Sozialwissenschaft Series v.1
    DDC: 306
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    Keywords: Sozialstruktur ; Lebensstil ; Soziale Situation ; Lifestyles ; Quality of life ; Social indicators ; Social movements ; Deutschland ; Deutschland ; Electronic books
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    Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781452221960
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (349 pages)
    Series Statement: Feminist Perspective on Communication v.7
    DDC: 306/.0973
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    Keywords: Dominanz ; Massenkultur ; Soziale Situation ; USA
    Abstract: This text is the first to present cultural hegemony in its original form - as a process of consent, resistance, and coercion. Hegemony is illustrated with examples from American history and contemporary culture, including practices that represent race, gender, and class in everyday life.
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    Cary : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780198030577
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (262 pages)
    DDC: 306.0973
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    Keywords: Soziale Situation ; Sozialer Indikator ; USA
    Abstract: This text offers a fuller and deeper view of America's quality of life, gathering together statistical information on such factors as the well-being of America's children and youth, the accessibility of health care, the quality of education, or the adequacy of housing.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511152214
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (326 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
    DDC: 305.562
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    Keywords: Arbeiterklasse ; Armut ; Soziale Situation ; Rotherham
    Abstract: This book addresses the personal effects of poverty, social deprivation and inequality using a phenomenological approach.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816685905
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    DDC: 305.48896333
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    Keywords: Yoruba ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Soziale Situation ; Nigeria
    Abstract: The "woman question," this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western construction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Author Oyeronke Oyewumi reveals an ideology of biological determinism at the heart of Western social categories-the idea that biology provides the rationale for organizing the social world. And yet, she writes, the concept of "woman," central to this ideology and to Western gender discourses, simply did not exist in Yorubaland, where the body was not the basis of social roles. Oyewumi traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. Her analysis shows the paradoxical nature of two fundamental assumptions of feminist theory: that gender is socially constructed and that the subordination of women is universal. The Invention of Women demonstrates, to the contrary, that gender was not constructed in old Yoruba society, and that social organization was determined by relative age. A meticulous historical and epistemological account of an African culture on its own terms, this book makes a persuasive argument for a cultural, context-dependent interpretation of social reality. It calls for a reconception of gender discourse and the categories on which such study relies. More than that, the book lays bare the hidden assumptions in the ways these different cultures think. A truly comparative sociology of an African culture and the Western tradition, it will change the way African studies and gender studies proceed.
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    Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781452246642
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (305 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Women and Work: A Research and Policy Series v.6
    DDC: 158.7
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    Keywords: Soziale Situation ; Frauenarbeit ; United States ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: How race, ethnicity and social class shape the working lives, working conditions and wages of women is explored in this collection of original research articles. With the emphasis on women from non-white or working-class backgrounds, Women and Work assesses women′s abilities to control their work environments, how they see themselves and their options in the work place. Throughout, the collection addresses such topics as the integration of work and family, women′s vision of their own work and consciousness as employees, and women′s resistance to exploitative and limiting work.
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    Pittsburgh PA : University of Pittsburgh Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780822971610
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (201 pages)
    DDC: 305.409748
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1790-1850 ; Frau ; Soziale Situation ; Pennsylvania
    Abstract: This book is a fascinating re-creation of the lives of women in the time of great social change that followed the end of the French and Indian War in  western Pennsylvania.  Many decades passed before a desolate and violent frontier was transformed into a stable region of farms and towns.  Keeping House: Women's Lives in Western Pennsylvania, 1790-1850  tells how the daughters, wives, and mothers who crossed the Allegheny Mountains responded and adapted to unaccustomed physical and psychological hardships as they established lives for themselves and their families in their new homes. Intrigued by late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century manuscript cookbooks in the collection of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Virginia Bartlett wanted to find out more about women living in the region during that period.  Quoting from journals, letters, cookbooks, travelers' accounts - approving and critical - memoirs, documents, and newspapers, she offers us voices of women and men commenting seriously and humorously on what was going on around them. The text is well-illustrated with contemporaneous art-- engravings, apaintings, drawings, and cartoons.  Of special interest are color and black-and-white photographs of furnishings, housewares, clothing, and portraits from the collections of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. This is not a sentimental account.  Bartlett makes clear how little say women had about their lives and how little protection they could expect from the law, especially on matters relating to property.  Their world was one of marked contrasts: life in a log cabin with bare necessities and elegant dinners in the homes of Pittsburgh's military and entrepreneurial elite; rural women in homespun and affluent Pittsburgh ladies in imported fashions.  When the book begins, families are living in fear of Indian...
    Abstract: attacks; as it ends, the word "shawling" has come into use as the polite term for pregnancy, referring to women's attempt to hide their condition with cleverly draped shawls.  The menacing frontier has given way to American-style gentility. An introduction by Jack D. Warren, University of Virginia, sets the scene with a discussion of the early peopling of the region and places the book within the context of women's studies.
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    MD : Lexington Books | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780739130193
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
    DDC: 305.895
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1960-2005 ; Asiaten ; Soziale Situation ; Politisches Handeln ; Bürgerrechtsbewegung ; USA
    Abstract: This text reinterprets a misunderstood and overlooked epoch of the Asian American experience, the Asian American Movement (AAM). The authors argue that, contrary to the common view of the movement as a passing phase limited to college youth, the Asian American Movement spanned diverse political viewpoints and became increasingly sophisticated and effective. Asian Americans were active participants and played unique roles in the social movements that convulsed the 1960s and 1970s, particularly in protestsagainst the Vietnam War. The book traces the history of the AAM from its roots in the 1930s to the present day and its impact on diverse areas of the Asian American community. Most importantly, it looks at the societal and community dynamics that led tothe movement's trajectory. Using the lens of social movement theory, it analyzes the AAM's rise and ebb and possible resurgence. The authors argue that the AAM constituted a distinct, identifiable, and relatively stable social movement that dramaticallyimpacted the direction of Asian American political and social activity.
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