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Paperback. Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beattie, John Updike, Chang-rae Lee, and Rudolfo Anaya, among others, show how individuals find their American identities. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349292899
- ISBN
- 9781349292899
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€ 66.44
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Transnational Borderlands in Women’s Global Networks: The Making of ...
. Ed(S): Sierra, M.; Roman-Odio, Clara
paperback. Editor(s): Sierra, M.; Roman-Odio, Clara. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 343.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- SKU
- V9781349292318
- ISBN
- 9781349292318
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Segol, Marla. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; HBJD; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349292295
- ISBN
- 9781349292295
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€ 66.95
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Paperback. For nearly a decade, writers' collectives such as Kwani Trust in Kenya and Femrite, the Ugandan women writers' association, have dramatically reshaped the East African literary scene. This text extends the purview of postcolonial literary studies by providing the long overdue critical inquiry that these writers so urgently deserve. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; DSBH5; HPD; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349291748
- ISBN
- 9781349291748
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Jane Flax argues that a reciprocal relationship exists between unconscious processes and race/gender domination and that unless we attend to these unconscious processes, no adequate remedy for the malignant consequences of our current race/gender practices and relations can be devised. Flax supports her arguments using a variety of sources. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; JFC; JFFK; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349291458
- ISBN
- 9781349291458
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€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Paperback. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; HPK; JFSJ; JHB; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349291229
- ISBN
- 9781349291229
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€ 65.88
€ 65.88
Paperback. This collection, with contributions on seventeen countries from social scientists from Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, analyzes the characteristics and potential of diverse educational, political and related initiatives towards progressive changes in gender relations to show how men are reacting to contemporary social change Editor(s): Ruspini, E. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 292 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 377.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349290673
- ISBN
- 9781349290673
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€ 66.95
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Paperback. This volume explores issues of black female identitythrough the various "imaginings" of the black female body in print and visual culture. Contributions emphasize the ways in which the black female body is framed and how black women (and their allies) have sought to write themselves back into social discourses on their terms." Editor(s): Henderson, C. Num Pages: 231 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 300.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349290536
- ISBN
- 9781349290536
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 314.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349290185
- ISBN
- 9781349290185
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Goelman, Hillel; Pivik, Jayne; Guhn, Martin. Series: Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JNA; JNC; JNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289899
- ISBN
- 9781349289899
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€ 53.37€ 47.16
€ 53.37
€ 47.16
Paperback. While there have been scholarly commentaries on the philosophy of fashion, none yet have attempted to engage fashion on its own hybrid, inflected, and heterogeneous terms. Celebrating the plurality and audacity inherent in its subject, Fashion Statements presents insightful, playful, and accessible essays on the philosophy of fashion. Editor(s): Scapp, Ron; Seitz, B. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; JFC; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 345.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289875
- ISBN
- 9781349289875
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Friedman, J. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 285 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 423.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289615
- ISBN
- 9781349289615
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€ 66.95
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Paperback. This study examines the representation of marital and extramarital relations in James Joyce's texts, with reference to context and to Joyce's biography. Utell claims that Joyce uses these relations to imagine a different kind of love, one based in a radical acceptance and a rejection of a utilitarian and sexually repressive stance towards marriage. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289578
- ISBN
- 9781349289578
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€ 65.60
€ 65.60
Paperback. This bookis first in its field to analyze how disability and gender both thematically and formally operate within late medieval popular literature. Reading romance, conduct manuals, and spiritual autobiography, it proposes a 'gendered model' for exploring the processes by which differences like gender and disability get coded as deviant." Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289554
- ISBN
- 9781349289554
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€ 66.95
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Paperback. Translator(s): Pluecker, John. Series: Theory in the World. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289493
- ISBN
- 9781349289493
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€ 66.95
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Paperback. Contrary to the widespread view that women exercised economic autonomy only in widowhood, Hutton argues that marital status was not the chief determinant of women's economic activities in the mid-fourteenth century andthat women managed their own wealth to a far greater extent than previously recognized." Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 256 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 384.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289400
- ISBN
- 9781349289400
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€ 66.95
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Paperback. This book analyzes the music that young portenas/os (the inhabitants of Buenos Aires, Argentina) actually listen to nowadays, which, contrary to well-entrenched stereotypes, is not tango but rock nacional, cumbiaand romantic music. Chapters examine the music and what the Argentinean youth use it to say about themselves." Editor(s): Seman, Pablo; Vila, Pablo. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; JFC; JFSL; JFSR; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 300.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289233
- ISBN
- 9781349289233
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€ 66.95
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Paperback. Hinddraws on poetry, short stories, plays, novels, photographs, personal correspondence, advertising, and interviews to make visible the anti-feminine tendencies in femmenism and to imagine a femmenism that will appeal to the next generation of women." Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; JFC; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289004
- ISBN
- 9781349289004
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€ 66.95
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Paperback. These innovative essays take a comparative approach to queer studies while simultaneously queering the field of comparative literature, strengthening the interdisciplinary of both.Thebookfocuses not only on comparative praxis, but also on interrogating our assumptions and categories of analysis." Editor(s): Hayes, J.; Higonnet, Professor Margaret R. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349288908
- ISBN
- 9781349288908
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€ 66.95
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Paperback. "This volume is the first full-length study on pioneering sexologist and sexual rights activist, Magnus Hirschfeld, that examines his impact on the politics and culture of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Germany and the value of his rationalist humanist approach for contemporary debates on sexual rights"-- Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ; JHB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349288717
- ISBN
- 9781349288717
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Condition: New
€ 160.92
€ 160.92