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Hardback. Num Pages: 297 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
297
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231062305
ISBN
9780231062305
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.30
€ 90.18

Hardback. This juxtaposition of Virginia Woolf and Christa Wolf, writers of two distinct cultures, countries and generations, focuses on the strategies the two authors share in creating their female characters. Hermann looks at each author within the social and historical conditions that produced them, employ Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231066426
ISBN
9780231066426
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.64
€ 72.77

Paperback. An analysis of immigrant life in the USA which focuses on the habits of consumption. The author describes how Jews responded to the prospect of mass consumption, familiarizing themselves with such activities as installment buying, advertising and vacationing. Series: The Columbia History of Urban Life. Num Pages: 276 pages, 17 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JFFT; JFSR1; JHMP; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780231068536
ISBN
9780231068536
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Paperback. This study explores the role of politically active Palestinian women in the Lebanese Resistance Movement. The author describes the types of work involved, the organizations these women have founded, and the changing nature of gender roles set against an intense and sustained crisis. Num Pages: 245 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 1FBP; JFSJ1; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780231074476
ISBN
9780231074476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Hardback. An ethnographic study of Chinese urban life in the Mongolian city of Huhhot. The text is organized around specific elements of culture, moving from public domains to the private issues of sex and gender, family life and religion. Num Pages: 345 pages, photos. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
345
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231079600
ISBN
9780231079600
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.68
€ 101.49

Paperback. Examines the feminist, African-American and avant-garde counter-cultures that flourished in the USA between the two World Wars. It discusses such topics as public art in the Depression, the proletarian subculture and the social poetics of Kenneth Fearing, Muriel Rukeyser and Langston Hughes. Num Pages: 316 pages, 128 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFC; JFFK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231082792
ISBN
9780231082792
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 31.10

Paperback. A bold attempt to provide a coherent and unified theoretical understanding of urbanism that draws upon history, sociology, and geography, to bring intellectual unity to the history and development of urban anthropology. Num Pages: 378 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Columbia University Press New York
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231083768
ISBN
9780231083768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.64

Hardback. Num Pages: 436 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GBC; HBG; HBTB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 36. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1952
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
436
Condition
New
Edition
Volume 2
SKU
V9780231088398
ISBN
9780231088398
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.88
€ 111.93

Hardback. Num Pages: 460 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HBTB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 36. Weight in Grams: 817.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
460
Condition
New
Edition
2nd ed.
SKU
V9780231088534
ISBN
9780231088534
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.88
€ 111.93

Paperback. One of the first women to be ordained as a rabbi explores how lesbians can shape Jewish tradition to resonate with their own experience. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; HRLB; JFSJ1; JFSK1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231096614
ISBN
9780231096614
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.52

Paperback. This is the study of a small group of Tibetan Buddhists called the Nyishangba who have maintained an egalitarian culture, where women own land and have equal rights, including in social and religious institutions, and where the usual subordination of women does not appear to occur. Num Pages: 408 pages, 28 photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKAH; 1FKN; 1FPCT; HRE; JFSJ1; JHM; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231102155
ISBN
9780231102155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 31.01

Hardback. Examining Jewish presence in French literature, this book explores the many shapes and forms in which Jews are perceived, spoken, and written about. It looks at strains of antisemitism running through French literature, analyzing such antecedents as the nihilism of the 1880s and its meditation on death and absence. Num Pages: 187 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
187
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231103084
ISBN
9780231103084
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.07
€ 51.18

Paperback. This book bridges both the macro and micro levels of analysis to place the dynamics of a national political movement within a richly detailed account of its working at the village level. Num Pages: 392 pages, 35 photos. BIC Classification: 1FMT; JFC; JFSF; JHM; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231103916
ISBN
9780231103916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.72

Hardback. Linking narrative theory, theories of sexuality, and gay and lesbian theory, this text explores the place of homosexuality, in particular the lesbian, in the tradition of the Western narrative. The author shows how sexuality and narrative must be disentangled to alter oppressive social practices. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFD; JFSJ1; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231104364
ISBN
9780231104364
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.39
€ 85.82

Paperback. This is an oral history of a second-generation, urban-born woman who struggles to survive in the poor, Andean city of La Paz. It shows how her identity shifts over time, shaped by the major events in her life. Topics range fron social networks to magical interventions and clairvoyant dreaming. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; BGHA; HBTD; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231104678
ISBN
9780231104678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.72

Paperback. Contributors discuss the differences between women within and across cultures and how local attitudes and traditions can affect the prevention of, or vulnerability to, HIV / AIDS. Editor(s): Long, Lynellyn D.; Ankrah, E.Maxine. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH2; JFSJ1; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231106054
ISBN
9780231106054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.52

paperback. Twelve essays provide a nuanced portrait of why public sexual activity is such an integral part of gay culture. Contributors explore issues such as visibility and secrecy, as well as economic status and social class, and interrogate the historical trajectories through which certain locations come to be favored sites for sexual encounters. Editor(s): Leap, William L. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 photos. BIC Classification: JFSK2; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231106917
ISBN
9780231106917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.52

Paperback. Elfenbein takes on the absorbing subject of homosexuality in British Romantic writing, showing the centrality of disreputable desires to the works of Romantic male authors--from William Beckford to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Blake-as well as to the writings of lesser-known but equally significant female authors of the period. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DSBF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231107532
ISBN
9780231107532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.61

Paperback. A controversial examination of the Jewish "success story" in American that questions notions of identity, assimilation, and ethnicity. Num Pages: 409 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
409
Condition
New
Edition
With a new preface
SKU
V9780231108416
ISBN
9780231108416
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Hardback. Balgopal and contributors explore ideas and skills that help human service workers, social workers, helping professionals, and policymakers deepen their understanding of newly arrived immigrants and refugees. Editor(s): Balgopal, Pallassana R. Series: Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFD; JFFN; JFS; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231108560
ISBN
9780231108560
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.30
€ 90.18

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