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Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8, 1 maps, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; JFSG; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801443558
- ISBN
- 9780801443558
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Condition: New
€ 32.84
€ 32.84
Paperback. Focuses on an everyday item - blue jeans - to learn what one simple article of clothing can tell us about our individual and social lives and challenging, by extension, the foundational anthropological presumption of the normative. Num Pages: 184 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; JFC; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520272194
- ISBN
- 9780520272194
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.64
€ 33.99
€ 24.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 404 pages. BIC Classification: FA; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Sama Editorial and Publishing Services Pakistan
- Number of pages
- 404
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789698784638
- ISBN
- 9789698784638
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 20.17
€ 29.99
€ 20.17
Paperback. Explores middle-class blacks who live in suburbs where poor blacks are not present. This book examines the sense of identity that individuals in these groups craft to manage their interactions with lower-class blacks, middle-class whites, and other middle-class blacks as they seek to reap the benefits of their middle-class status. Num Pages: 302 pages, 6 b/w photographs, 3 line illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBFC; JFSC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520251168
- ISBN
- 9780520251168
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.70
€ 40.99
€ 28.70
Paperback. Explores the deep appeal of the Bluebeard story for twentieth-century culture. This book focuses how the modernist imagination used the elements of Bluebeard's tale to explore masculinity's anxieties in the face of the emerging demands of women for redefinition and sexual equality. Editor(s): Pollock, Griselda; Anderson, Victoria. Num Pages: 288 pages, 36 integrated black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845116330
- ISBN
- 9781845116330
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.57
€ 35.99
€ 30.57
Paperback. Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Baker offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its vernacular level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 2ABM; AV; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226035383
- ISBN
- 9780226035383
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.35
€ 35.99
€ 28.35
Paperback. In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. Doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs would wither and die. This title tells the story of the fight for female education in Britain. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16pp b/w photographic inset. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; HBTB; JFSJ1; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141029719
- ISBN
- 9780141029719
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.07
€ 26.99
€ 20.07
Paperback. In this witty report, Brooks identifies the Bobos, bourgeois bohemians, the new strivers whose culture, tastes and attitudes have replaced the older elite by melding into the bohemians. Num Pages: 288 pages, index. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780684853789
- ISBN
- 9780684853789
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.47
€ 18.99
€ 16.47
Hardcover. In the French Third Republic, nursing was an occupation caught in the crosscurrents of conflicting notions about the role of women. This deft political history shows how the turmoil and transformation of nursing during this period reflected the political and cultural tensions at work in the nation. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSJ; MQC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674004917
- ISBN
- 9780674004917
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Condition: New
€ 90.50€ 80.46
€ 90.50
€ 80.46
paperback. Argues that from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, black transatlantic entertainers often transformed the alienating conditions of social and political marginalization into modes of self-actualization through performance Num Pages: 488 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; AN; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822337225
- ISBN
- 9780822337225
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 33.59
€ 34.99
€ 33.59
Paperback. This is the first book to provide serious scholarly insight into the methodological practices that shape lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer oral histories. Each of the fourteen chapters pairs an oral history excerpt with an original essay in which the oral historian addresses his or her methods and practices. Editor(s): Boyd, Nan Alamilla; RamIrez, Horacio N. Roque. Series: Oxford Oral History Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 b/w halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBA; HBTD; JFSJ; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199742738
- ISBN
- 9780199742738
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Condition: New
€ 83.15
€ 83.15
Paperback. Throughout the 1970s and '80s, women argued that unless they gained access to information about their own bodies, there would be no equality. This book focuses on the ways in which ordinary women worked to position the female body at the center of women's liberation. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; 3JJPN; JFFK; JFSJ1; VFDW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226443089
- ISBN
- 9780226443089
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.29
€ 34.99
€ 27.29
Hardcover. Throughout the 1970s and '80s, women argued that unless they gained access to information about their own bodies, there would be no equality. This book considers the ways in which ordinary women worked to position the female body at the center of women's liberation. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; 3JJPN; JFFK; JFSJ1; VFDW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226443058
- ISBN
- 9780226443058
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.26€ 78.33
€ 95.26
€ 78.33
Paperback. Examines social representations of the fat body. This work questions discursive constructions of fatness while analyzing the politics and power of corpulence and addressing the absence of fat people in media representations of the body. Editor(s): Braziel, Jana Evans; LeBesco, Kathleen. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 black-and-white photographs, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520225855
- ISBN
- 9780520225855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.13
€ 35.99
€ 26.13
Hardcover. An informative and engaging exploration of four prominent female poets writing in Hindi and Urdu over the course of the twentieth century in India and Pakistan. Anantharam follows the authors Mahadevi Varma, Kishwar Naheed, Fahmida Riaz and Gagen Gill and their works, as both countries undergo profound political and social transformations. Series: Gender and Globalization. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 519.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815632634
- ISBN
- 9780815632634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.38
€ 44.38
Paperback. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816679164
- ISBN
- 9780816679164
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 24.92
€ 24.99
€ 24.92
Paperback. Cartography of high literary order, plotting routes, real and imagined, and putting an alternate landscape on the map Series: American Lives. Num Pages: 272 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- 0th edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803239852
- ISBN
- 9780803239852
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Condition: New
€ 23.73
€ 23.73
Paperback. How Black women's engagement in improving health and fitness raises questions about feminism and the construction of black female identity Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL3; MBNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 210 x 13. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439903094
- ISBN
- 9781439903094
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.21
€ 31.99
€ 30.21
Paperback. A science journalist's provocative exploration of how biology, psychology, media, and culture come together to shape our ongoing obsession with our bodies, while also tackling the myths and realities of the "obesity epidemic." Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH; JFSJ1; JMP; MMZD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 204 x 23. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780738218823
- ISBN
- 9780738218823
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.66
€ 20.99
€ 16.66
Paperback. Looks at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists. Interweaving historical and ethnographic evidence, this book explains how refuge-seeking has become a socially and politically debased practice in the Kashmir region and why this devaluation has turned refugee men into potential militants. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 342 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFD; JFSR2; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474. Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. 342 pages. Looks at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists. Interweaving historical and ethnographic evidence, this book explains how refuge-seeking has become a socially and politically debased practice in the Kashmir region and why this devaluation has turned refugee men into potential militants. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFD; JFSR2; JPW. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 20. Weight: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520274211
- ISBN
- 9780520274211
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.70
€ 40.99
€ 28.70
Paperback. Examines ten years worth of men's and women's health and fitness magazines to determine the ways in which bodies are "made" in today's culture Num Pages: 235 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSJ; MBNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814719688
- ISBN
- 9780814719688
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.39
€ 32.99
€ 29.39
Paperback. The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body work features in health and social care and the meanings of this work both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodies they work. Editor(s): Twigg, Julia; Wolkowitz, Carol; Cohen, Rachel Lara; Nettleton, Sarah. Series: Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs. Num Pages: 182 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSG; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 11. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444349870
- ISBN
- 9781444349870
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.06
€ 29.06
Paperback. Presents a feminist study that argues against the idea that the popularity of body work means that women are enslaved to a male-fashioned 'beauty myth'. This title demonstrates that women actually use body work to escape that beauty myth. Num Pages: 181 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFC; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 181
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520228566
- ISBN
- 9780520228566
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.65
€ 33.99
€ 24.65
Hardback. Explores the ways in how the male and female body is constructed in Leviticus 12 and 15 and how its reception history unfolds. Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRCF1; HRCG; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 507.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780567246561
- ISBN
- 9780567246561
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.37€ 114.88
€ 129.37
€ 114.88