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Hardcover. Despite the availability of some formal legal remedies, women lawyers rarely challenge discriminatory behaviour. This book explores this seemingly contradictory situation, and by exploring lawyers' use of legal discourse in an Internet community, Baumle examines whether the law can in fact serve as a useful tool to challenge inequality. Num Pages: 207 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSJ1; JH; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613256
- ISBN
- 9780230613256
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Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Hardcover. Through the lens of education, this book attempts to situate young people within a number of theoretical and political considerations that offer up a new 'analytic of youth', one that posits not only the emergence of a new way to talk about youth but also a new language for understanding the politics that increasing frame their lives. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613294
- ISBN
- 9780230613294
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.14
€ 54.99
€ 44.14
Hardcover. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book analyzes Black women's involvement in American political life, focusing on what they did to gain political power between 1961 and 2001, and why, in many cases, they did not succeed. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; JFSJ1; JFSL3; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613300
- ISBN
- 9780230613300
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.31
€ 62.31
Hardcover. A study of the media coverage of the Yemenite Babies Affair - the story of the alleged kidnapping of hundreds of Yemenite babies from their families upon arrival to Israel in the early 1950s. Examining the role played by the media and by racism, this book is part of a growing trend to expand perspectives within Israeli scholarship. Num Pages: 238 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613461
- ISBN
- 9780230613461
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Hardcover. This book claims Nietzsche as a leftist revolutionary but without overlooking the conservative and retrogressive elements of his political philosophy. The author argues that these two 'halves' of his philosophy help construct a new form of politics for contemporary readers, a possibility of revolution post-Marx. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613584
- ISBN
- 9780230613584
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Condition: New
€ 62.76
€ 62.76
Hardcover. This book examines the historical endeavors to regulate Black female sexuality and reproduction in the United States, through methods of exploitation, control, and repression. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615304
- ISBN
- 9780230615304
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. This insightful ethnography explores cross-cultural contact in the highlands of Vietnam, Christian conversion, refugee exile, and the formation of the Dega refugee community in the United States. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRC; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615366
- ISBN
- 9780230615366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.51
€ 62.51
Hardcover. Gender and Decolonization in the Congo focuses on women and questions of gender in its examination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961), the assassinated leader of the independent Congo. Num Pages: 247 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFJC; HBTR; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615571
- ISBN
- 9780230615571
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Hardcover. In a clear and accessible style, this book theorizes female movement within narratives of enslavement and advocates for a changed black female consciousness. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK; HBTS; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615939
- ISBN
- 9780230615939
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Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. Through a gender, ethnicity, and sexuality lens, Perez demonstrates that queer Chicana/o and Latina/o identities are much more prevalent in cultural production than most people think. By claiming a variety of characters and texts as queer, he expands the breadth of queer representation in cultural production. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 209 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSK; JFSL4. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616066
- ISBN
- 9780230616066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.34
€ 62.34
Hardcover. Argues that feminism needs to develop a theory of the public responding to a moment when feminism's impetus to reconstitute the private sphere left a huge gap in its political thinking on the public. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616400
- ISBN
- 9780230616400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.37
€ 54.99
€ 44.37
Paperback. The accomplished contributors add significant understanding to the staging and teaching of Macbeth and reflect on the rich history of African Americans struggling to find a voice on the American stage. Editor(s): Newstok, Scott L.; Thompson, Ayanna. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; DSGS; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616424
- ISBN
- 9780230616424
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Condition: New
€ 67.68
€ 67.68
Paperback. Becoming Muslim is an ethnographic study based on in-depth interviews with Swedish and American women who have converted to Islam. Proceeding from the women's life-stories, McGinty explores the appeal of Islam to some Western women and the personal meaning assigned to the religion. Series: Culture, Mind and Society. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616684
- ISBN
- 9780230616684
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Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. Focusing in particular on pairings of writers within the larger grouping of poets, this book suggests how literary partnerships became pivotal to American poets in the wake of Donald Allen's 'New American Poetry' anthology. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617322
- ISBN
- 9780230617322
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia (Comparati...
Blackwood, Evelyn, Bhaiya, Abha
Paperback. A unique collection of writings by both academic and activist scholars on women's same-sex sexualities and female masculinities in a globalizing Asia. Editor(s): Wieringa, Saskia; Blackwood, Evelyn; Bhaiya, Abha. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JFFK; JFSJ1; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617483
- ISBN
- 9780230617483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.08
€ 62.08
Hardcover. This title depicts how immigrant women use international migration as a strategy to challenge existing patriarchal hegemonies operative both in the United States and Africa. It also weaves together the multidimensional strands of how African immigrant women shape and are shaped by the process of international migration. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; JFFN; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617780
- ISBN
- 9780230617780
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.43
€ 62.43
Cape Verdean Women and Globalization: The Politics of Gender, Culture,...
Carter, Katherine, Aulette, Judy
Hardcover. This book employs critical ethnography and critical discourse analysis to explore what Cape Verdeans have to say about women's lives in the era of twenty-first century globalization. The authors investigate the economic and personal difficulties they face such as poverty, managing single mother-headed households, and violence. Num Pages: 205 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDV; 3JM; JFFS; JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618084
- ISBN
- 9780230618084
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Hardcover. Based on interviews with women academics, engineers, politicians, mathematicians, neurologists and others in male dominated organizations as well as the author's own experiences, this book will offer insights and advice to women who aspire to top positions in companies and industries where men traditionally have held those positions. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KJ; VSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 402. How Women Can Succeed in Male-Dominated Industries. 188 pages. Based on interviews with women academics, engineers, politicians, mathematicians, neurologists and others in male dominated organizations as well as the author's own experiences, this book will offer insights and advice to women who aspire to top positions in companies and industries where men traditionally have held those positions. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KJ; VSC. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 15. Weight: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618121
- ISBN
- 9780230618121
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.94
€ 54.99
€ 43.94
Hardcover. This book considers neopopulism as a central issue to understand patterns of women's citizenship construction in many countries of contemporary Latin America. It also explains the paradoxes entailed for women's participation and citizenship rights. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618152
- ISBN
- 9780230618152
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.91
€ 54.99
€ 43.91
Hardcover. This study analyzes a variety of transnational South Asian mobilities in the West in the first half of the twentieth century. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; HB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618206
- ISBN
- 9780230618206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.23
€ 62.23
Paperback. The product of years of cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this is an innovative volume of essays situated at the intersection of multi-disciplinary fields: postcolonial/subaltern theory; comparative literary analysis, especially with a South Asian and transnational focus; the study of 'alternative' and 'indigenous' modernities. Editor(s): Mohanty, Satya P. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2BM; DSBH5; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619081
- ISBN
- 9780230619081
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. Freiner defines a new understanding of nationalism, with a focus on the ways in which the Japanese state has utilized Confucian philosophy to create a Japanese national identity and on the impact of this on women. She examines the key policy areas of education and social security alongside the roles that women have played in these initiatives. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFFE3; JFSJ1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 220 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619289
- ISBN
- 9780230619289
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Paperback. The author offers a new account of the formation of sexual identity, coined 'emerged fusion,' which avoids the traps of the essentialism versus constructivism debate, and offers a viable third alternative. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619654
- ISBN
- 9780230619654
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.44
€ 61.44
Paperback. Interested in the nexus between sport, gender, and language, Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations contains twenty-one wide-ranging chapters examining sport vis-a-vis the language surrounding and incorporated by it in the world arena. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619708
- ISBN
- 9780230619708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.68
€ 67.68