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Paperback. Examines how self-identified middle class Brazilians in Sao Paulo redefined their class during Brazil's economic crisis of 1981-1994. Illuminating the intricate relation between identity and local and global consumption, this work is suitable for students and scholars in anthropology and Latin American studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8 b&w photos, 1 map, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFCA; JFFT; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822328940
ISBN
9780822328940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.23

Paperback. Psychoanalytic theory has traditionally taken sexual difference to be the fundamental organizing principle of human subjectivity. This book contests that assumption, arguing that other forms of difference - particularly race - are equally important to the formation of identity. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JFSL; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329619
ISBN
9780822329619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. Testimonial text by a Mapuche woman, with commentary and other ethnographic interventions by a US historian. Editor(s): Mallon, Florencia E. Num Pages: 392 pages, 36 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; BG; JFSJ1; JFSL9; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329626
ISBN
9780822329626
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 32.36

paperback. The history of African Americans in film musicals and their reception by Black audiences and critics. Num Pages: 352 pages, 68 b&w photos, 5 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 31. Weight in Grams: 730.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822329633
ISBN
9780822329633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. Suitable for those interested in African American studies, Caribbean studies, cultural studies, women's studies, and American studies, this book explores the paths taken by black nationalism in the United States and the Caribbean. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJ; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329732
ISBN
9780822329732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 32.37

Paperback. Examines how Chicana literature - its narrative techniques, stylistic conventions, plot dilemmas and resolutions - interrogate the multiple ways space and social relations constitute each other. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329749
ISBN
9780822329749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.23

paperback. Since the 1970s, Womens Studies has grown from a volunteerist political project to a full scale academic enterprise. This book assesses the present and future of the field, demonstrating how institutionalization has extended a vital, ongoing intellectual project for a generation of scholars and students. Editor(s): Wiegman, Robyn. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 512 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822329862
ISBN
9780822329862
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 34.67

Paperback. Explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. This book finds that weddings - as performances, fantasies, and rituals of transformation - are sites for imagining and enacting forms of social intimacy other than monogamous heterosexuality. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSJ; JHBK; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5665 x 3963 x 22. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822329893
ISBN
9780822329893
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.33

Paperback. Essays consider the relationship of gender, time, and space to globalization, describing conditions under which South and Southeast Asians can resist the attempted erasure of their spaces and histories. Editor(s): Sarker, Sonita; De, Esha Niyogi. Num Pages: 360 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FK; 1FM; JFC; JFFS; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329923
ISBN
9780822329923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. Recovers the history of 19th- and early-20th-century African-American reading societies. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 440 pages, 4 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; JFSL1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 29. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329954
ISBN
9780822329954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.59

Paperback. Offers an account of the historical emergence of "the lesbian" by looking at late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century women's writing. This title proposes that modern lesbian identity in the United States has its roots not just, or even primarily, in sexology and medical literature, but in white, middle-class women's culture. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 368 pages, 3 illus. BIC Classification: JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822330165
ISBN
9780822330165
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. Intends to unravels the complex ways men were defined as men in Renaissance Italy through readings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century evidence - medical and travel literature; theology; law; myth; conduct books; and, plays, chivalric romances, and novellas by authors including Machiavelli, Tasso and Ariosto. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLH; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Bilingual
SKU
V9780822330653
ISBN
9780822330653
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.33

Paperback. In Brazil, the country with the largest population of African descent in the Americas, the idea of race underwent a dramatic shift in the first half of the twentieth century. This title explores the significance of this transition by looking at the history of the Rio de Janeiro school system between 1917 and 1945. Num Pages: 312 pages, 41 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 24. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822330707
ISBN
9780822330707
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.33

Paperback. With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the centuries. The author tracks the proliferation of this figure, the vanishing woman, from her genesis in Victorian stage magic through her development in conjunction with photography and film. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 235 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822330745
ISBN
9780822330745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.15

Paperback. Examines women's inclusion into and exclusion from positions of authority in Austria and Hungary in the latter half of the twentieth century. This book discusses the legacies of Austria's and Hungary's 'gender regimes' following the demise of state socialism and during the process of integration into the European Union. Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History. Num Pages: 224 pages, 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DVH; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822330905
ISBN
9780822330905
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.06

Paperback. How do race and nature work as terrains of power? Synthesizing a number of fields - anthropology, cultural studies, and critical race, feminist, and postcolonial theory, this title analyses diverse historical, cultural, and spatial locations. Editor(s): Moore, Donald S.; Kosek, Jake; Pandian, Anand. Num Pages: 488 pages, 4 b&w photos. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 235 x 29. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822330912
ISBN
9780822330912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.65

Paperback. During the first half of the twentieth century, Japanese immigrants entered Brazil by the tens of thousands. Examining these significant but rarely studied transnational movements and the experiences of Japanese-Brazilians, this book includes essays that rethink complex issues of ethnicity and national identity. Editor(s): Lesser, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 232 pages, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KLSB; JFC; JFFN; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822331483
ISBN
9780822331483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.12

paperback. Presents translations of texts by Latin American women playwrights, and performance artists, together with essays about their work. Editor(s): Taylor, Diana; Constantino, Roselyn. Num Pages: 464 pages, 58 b&w photos, 19 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ABM; DD; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 648.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822332404
ISBN
9780822332404
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 33.45

Paperback. A personal and historical account of the particular place of death and funerals in African American life. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 248 pages, 56 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822332459
ISBN
9780822332459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.12

Paperback. An ethnographic study of indigenous opposition to processes of economic globalization, arguing that neoliberal economic reforms both provoked a crisis of governance and created the conditions for a disruptive indigenous movement in Ecuador Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 312 pages, 28 b&w photos, 6 maps, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; JFSL9; JPW; KJVG; KNBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822332725
ISBN
9780822332725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.33

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