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Social groups
Paperback. Drawing on research in men's long-term, maximum-security prisons, this book examines three interconnected problems: the tendency of the prison to obscure other social problems and conceal its own failings, the pursuit of greater levels of human security through repressive and violent means and the persistence of the belief in the problem of 'evil'. Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JKV; JKVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349328727
- ISBN
- 9781349328727
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€ 139.98
€ 139.98
Paperback. This book explores the social and cultural impact of the Olympic Games, examining gender and sport, the inequalities between nations and people and at what the Games offer and how they are changing, in relation to spectacles, spectatorship and culture, including the links between art and sport. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JHB; JHBS; WS. 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
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349328789
- ISBN
- 9781349328789
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. A lively and engaging study of on-screen and off-screen performances of masculinity, focusing onwell-known male actors in American film and popular culturein the 1990s and 2000s.Peberdyexamines specific social, cultural, historical and political contexts that have affected age, race, sexuality and fatherhood on screen." Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APFN; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349329083
- ISBN
- 9781349329083
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Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Paperback. A lively discussion of costume dramas to women's films, Shelley Cobb investigates the practice of adaptation in contemporary films made by women. The figure of the woman author comes to the fore as a key site for the representation of women's agency and the authority of the woman filmmaker. Num Pages: 167 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; D; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 231.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 167
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349329106
- ISBN
- 9781349329106
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€ 65.33
€ 65.33
Paperback. By reading key Carter texts alongside their Decadent intertexts, Tonkin interrogates the claim that Carter was in thrall to a fetishistic aesthetic antithetical to her feminism. Through historical contextualization of the woman-as-doll, muse and femme fatale, Tonkin tests Carter's own description of her fiction as a form of literary criticism. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349329281
- ISBN
- 9781349329281
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Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Paperback. This book sheds light on the processes that have transformed national citizenship of the European Union's member states and explains the legislative changes thathave takenplace since the mid-1980s in Germany, Hungary and Poland." Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHB; JPQB; LAB. 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
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349329410
- ISBN
- 9781349329410
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Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Paperback. This book explores the extent to which children engage with questions of morality, arguing that they are active members of society who have both the capacity and understanding to engage with discourses of morality. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFSP; JHBK; JKV; JKVQ2; JPQB. 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
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349329434
- ISBN
- 9781349329434
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Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Paperback. "Instead of seeing the family as a "monolithic" entity, as though separate from its surroundings, this new approach draws attention to assemblages of various types that in different constellations and through different transactions relate people to each other as families and kin"-- Editor(s): Widmer, E. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSP; JFSR; JHBK; JKSN; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349329472
- ISBN
- 9781349329472
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
The Europeanization of Gender Equality Policies. A Discursive-Sociolog...
Lombardo, Emanuela; Forest, Maxime
Paperback. A discursive-sociological approach to the Europeanization of gender and other equality policies. Using largely unpublished empirical data coveringtwenty-nineEuropean countries this book adopts a pluralistic perspective to explore the complex and often divergent gender and other equality policy outputs of Europeanization." Series: Gender and Politics. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; JPA; JPP. 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
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349329533
- ISBN
- 9781349329533
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Condition: New
€ 67.51
€ 67.51
Paperback. This book analyzes how the media covers women leaders and reinforces gendered evaluations of their candidacies and performance. It deals with current transformations in political communication that may change the nature and scope of leadership in contemporary democracies with implications for relations between female leaders, media and citizens. Series: Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership. Num Pages: 147 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JPA; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 207.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 147
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349330461
- ISBN
- 9781349330461
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Condition: New
€ 77.53
€ 77.53
Paperback. Understanding Collective Political Violence offers a unique view on contemporary processes of violent political mobilization across continents: Africa, Latin America, South East Asia and the Middle East. It pays particular attention to unconventional combatants such as women or children and details the drivers of their violent engagement." Editor(s): Guichaoua, Yvan. Series: Conflict, Inequality and Ethnicity. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; GTJ; JFSJ; JPA; JPWL; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349330607
- ISBN
- 9781349330607
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Condition: New
€ 128.39
€ 128.39
Paperback. An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; 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
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349330805
- ISBN
- 9781349330805
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Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Paperback. This book explores the relationship between social movements, sexual citizenship and change in Southern Europe. Providing a comparative analysis about LGBT issues in Italy, Spain and Portugal, it discusses how activism can generate legal, political and cultural impact in post-dictatorial, Catholic and EU-focused countries. Series: Citizenship, Gender and Diversity. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ; JPA; JPQB; JPVH; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349331062
- ISBN
- 9781349331062
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Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Paperback. Using experiences of the white, English, working-classes in Manchester, this book explores the local frustrations with feeling 'ignored' and 'neglected' by the government through articulations of fairness. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSJ; JFSL; JHB; JPA; JPP. 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
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349331109
- ISBN
- 9781349331109
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Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. This collection examines recent theoretical and methodological debates, shifts in law and policy, and social and cultural changes around sexuality. It sets out new ways of conceptualizing and researching sexuality and explores persistently marginalised and re-traditionalised sexual practices, subjectivities and identities. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 327 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ; JHB; JMU; VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 327
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349331260
- ISBN
- 9781349331260
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Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Paperback. The favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro provide an ideal case study since they are renowned for high levels of police and gang violence resulting in high death rates among young black men, causing both outrage and fear. This book foregrounds women's experiences and how different forms of violence overlap and reinforce one another. Series: Gender and Politics. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JPA; JPP; JPQB; JPWL. 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
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349331680
- ISBN
- 9781349331680
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€ 67.51
€ 67.51
Paperback. This book provides insights into the theoretical framework of 'tensions' related to care for children and the elderly. It analyzes if, and under what conditions, welfare state reforms have contributed to strengthening existing tensions, creating new tensions, or relaxing such tensions. Editor(s): Pfau-Effinger, Birgit. Series: Work and Welfare in Europe. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JFSP31; JHB; JKSB1; JPB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349331932
- ISBN
- 9781349331932
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Employing the first analysis of the entire population of any British town, this book examines how overseas migrants affected society and culture in South Shields near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Resituating Britain within global processes of migration and cultural change, it recasts British society pre-1940 as culturally and racially dynamic and diverse. Num Pages: 339 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JFSL; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 339
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349331970
- ISBN
- 9781349331970
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Condition: New
€ 150.16
€ 150.16
Paperback. This book explores the construction of identities within a lesbian group, outlining interactive tactics used in the production of mutually-negotiated norms of authenticity. Using ethnography and discourse analysis, a range of group-specific personae are revealed to be continually reworked and reproduced within the women's interaction. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 265.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349332342
- ISBN
- 9781349332342
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. " At a time of significant change in the precarious world of female individualization, this collection explores such phenomena by critically incorporating the parameters of popular media culture into the overarching paradigm of gender relations, economics and politics of everyday life. "-- Editor(s): Kim, Y. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349332465
- ISBN
- 9781349332465
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95