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hardcover. What should be done about trafficking in women? Aradau shows that the problematization of trafficking as a security issue limits what can be done. Exploring the complex relationship between security, politics and subjectivity, this book suggests new forms of action which transcend security practices. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JKV; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230573314
- ISBN
- 9780230573314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. This ground-breaking book explores the experiences of gay men and their understanding of what it meant to be gay in the 20th Century: from when homosexuality was illegal though the less repressed but no less difficult eras of gay liberation and the HIV-AIDS epidemic. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230573956
- ISBN
- 9780230573956
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Paperback. Comparing the UK, US, Germany and Japan, this book draws on innovative concepts of varieties of gender regime as well as varieties of capitalism. The volume re-thinks the processes of de-gendering and re-gendering of working practices in the context of both de-regulation and re-regulation of employment. Editor(s): Walby, Sylvia; Gottfried, Heidi; Gottschall, Karin; Osawa, Mari. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBL; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230575707
- ISBN
- 9780230575707
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardback. This book provides a fresh perspective on the emergence of public Muslim identities, traversing issues of Muslim-state engagement across government initiatives and church-state relations, across equalities agendas and the education system, the courts and the media. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSR2; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576667
- ISBN
- 9780230576667
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.84
€ 127.84
Hardback. A rich analysis of the discourses and figurations of 'crisis masculinity' around the turn of the twenty-first century, working at the intersection of performance and cultural studies and looking at film, television, drama, performance art, visual art and street theatre. Num Pages: 242 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579699
- ISBN
- 9780230579699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.64
€ 127.64
Paperback. The contributors investigate the workings of language ideologies in relation to other social processes in a globalizing world. They explore in detail the specific ways in which language ideologies underpin language policy and the relationship between public policies and individual practices, with particular attention to Europe. Editor(s): Mar-Molinero, Clare; Stevenson, Patrick. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 280 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JFFS; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 365.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580084
- ISBN
- 9780230580084
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardback. Bringing together leading scholars to investigate trends in contemporary social life, this book examines the current patterning of identities based on class and community, gender and generation, 'race', faith and ethnicity, and derived from popular culture, exploring debates about social change, individualization and the re-making of social class. Editor(s): Wetherell, Margaret. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580879
- ISBN
- 9780230580879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardback. This book critically assessesthird-wave feminist strategies for advancing a feminist 'politics of the self' within the late modern, postfeminist gender order -- a context where gender equality has been mainstreamed, feminism has been dismissed, and a neoliberal culture of self-management has become firmly entrenched. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580909
- ISBN
- 9780230580909
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.84
€ 127.84
Hardback. This book explores the dimensions and characteristics of social vulnerability in Western Europe. It provides a broad empirical foundation for recent theories on the emergence of new social risks in post-industrial societies, revealing to what extent social risks are compromising the 'normal' functioning of the European population. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; GTB; JFF; JFSC; JHBC; JKS; YQG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580916
- ISBN
- 9780230580916
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Paperback. Placing gender at the centre of the debate about young children and multimedia, particularly video games, this, now available in paperback, book develops a relational approach to game play using. The book explores issues of violence and parental regulation and argues that economic relations are central to the micro-relations of playing. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSJ; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230584716
- ISBN
- 9780230584716
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.82
€ 126.82
Hardcover. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation, this book examines the ways straight men are queered and abjected in literature, theory, and film. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSB; JFCA; JFSJ2. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600089
- ISBN
- 9780230600089
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardback. The contributions in this volume consider the question of migrant agency, how Western societies are both transforming migrants, and being transformed by them. It is informed by debates on the new 'transnational mobility', the immigration of Muslims, the increasing importance of human rights law, and the critical attention paid to women migrants. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DD; 1KB; JFFN; JFSJ1; JFSR2; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600133
- ISBN
- 9780230600133
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.28
€ 53.36
€ 47.28
Hardback. This book examines village democracy and the prospects of China's democratization. It explains how three key factors - township, economy and kinship - shape village democracy and account for rural variations. It considers the extension of village to township elections, the idea of a mixed regime and its impact on political development in China. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSF; JPHF; JPHV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 521.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600164
- ISBN
- 9780230600164
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. This book explores the significant relationship between western classical mythology and African American women's literature. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; DSK; JFHF; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600225
- ISBN
- 9780230600225
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.54
€ 138.54
Hardback. This book analyzes the discourses and deliberations in the discussion forums of three of the most visited Islamic websites and investigates the extent to which they have provided a venue for Muslims to freely engage in discussion among themselves and with non-Muslims about political, economic, religious and social issues. Series: The Palgrave MacMillan Series in International Political Communication. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GL; HRH; JFSR; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600355
- ISBN
- 9780230600355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
Hardback. This study examines the origins and development of racism in North America through addressing the inception and persistence of the concept of 'race' and the biology of human variance. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFFJ; JFSL; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600775
- ISBN
- 9780230600775
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.19
€ 150.19
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JPA; JPS; JW; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600980
- ISBN
- 9780230600980
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBTB; HPS; HRAX; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 355.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602311
- ISBN
- 9780230602311
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 365 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFSJ; JKS; JPVH; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 365
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602328
- ISBN
- 9780230602328
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.32
€ 128.32
Paperback. Black intellectuals in the US have long thought of racism as a global phenomenon.This book presents, for the first time, a full overview of the history, critical analysis and theoretical perspectives of key black scholars and activists on the transnational dynamics of modern race and racism throughout the world. Editor(s): Marable, Manning; Agard-Jones, Vanessa. Series: Critical Black Studies. Num Pages: 366 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSL; JHB; JPA; RBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602687
- ISBN
- 9780230602687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.17
€ 73.17