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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Catharine MacKinnon has been very instrumental in making equal rights real for women. As Peter Jennings once put it, more than anyone else in legal studies, she "has made it easier for other women to seek justice". This collection talks about her clear and consistent approach to reframing the law of men on the basis of the lives of women. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 738.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674024069
ISBN
9780674024069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.63

Hardback. Based on over 3000 institutional records, Coleborne's study will have wider relevance outside of the history of medicine and psychiatry. It has a global perspective but focuses on specific destinations, and in so doing, contributes in an innovative way to global history and the history of human migration. Series Editor(s): Thompson, Andrew; MacKenzie, John. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 maps, Line drawings, black & white|Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 1MBN; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTQ; JFFN; JFSC; JKSM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719087240
ISBN
9780719087240
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.30

Paperback. Provides an introduction to the study of gender through an exploration of key terms that are a part of everyday discourse in this vital subject. This title features twenty-one essays that cast an appropriately broad net, spanning the study of gender and sexuality across the humanities and social sciences. Editor(s): Stimpson, Catharine R.; Herdt, Gilbert. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 32. Weight in Grams: 766.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226774817
ISBN
9780226774817
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.83

Hardcover. Explores the interaction of literature and music in the Atlantic world in the age of Enlightenment and Romanticism. This study looks at the relationship of rhetoric and music in the era's intellectual discourses, texts and performance cultures principally in Europe and North America. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; AV; DSBF; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 167 x 242 x 21. Weight in Grams: 584.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748684618
ISBN
9780748684618
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.95
€ 102.99

paperback. Shows how a shared consciousness, or third sight, rooted in pre-colonial African cultures and disseminated in a rich oral tradition, has served diasporic communities by creating structures of feeling linking those of African descent across centuries and continents. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ABM; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822332220
ISBN
9780822332220
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Hardcover. "This book examines the paths of black and white children, and disputes over rights and responsibilities with regard to them, through the tumultuous period following emancipation and Confederate defeat"--Provided by publisher. Series: A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813936758
ISBN
9780813936758
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.37

Paperback. Catherine Allgor describes the various ways genteel elite women during the first decades of the 19th century used "social events" and the "private sphere" to establish the national capital and to build the extraofficial structures so sorely needed in the infant federal government. Series: Jeffersonian America. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 517.
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921181
ISBN
9780813921181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.78

Paperback. An accessible, engaging introduction to the life of first lady Dolley Madison and the pivotal role she played in establishing an atmosphere of unity and civility in the young nation Series: Lives of American Women. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The Perseus Books Group United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780813347592
ISBN
9780813347592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.33

Paperback. In the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction -- including poetry, drama and film -- is paradoxically the most serious location of writing about desire in Western cultura. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631168140
ISBN
9780631168140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.06

Paperback. In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the lives of a group of Somali Bantu refugees over the course of three decades, from their pre-civil war homes and terrible experiences in Kenyan refugee camps, to their recent resettlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine. Series: Global Insecurities. Num Pages: 352 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 1KBBEN; HBJH; JFFD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360445
ISBN
9780822360445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Hardback. In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the lives of a group of Somali Bantu refugees over the course of three decades, from their pre-civil war homes and terrible experiences in Kenyan refugee camps, to their recent resettlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine. Series: Global Insecurities. Num Pages: 352 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 1KBBEN; HBJH; JFFD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 613.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360278
ISBN
9780822360278
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.33

Paperback. Ever wanted to be the most interesting person in the room? Let Catherine Blyth take you on an entertaining tour of the neglected art of conversation. You'll never think of talk as cheap ever again .. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFFP; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
John Murray Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848541665
ISBN
9781848541665
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803239739
ISBN
9780803239739
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Hardback. This new collection of original research demonstrates the continued relevance of the feminist history project in Canada. Editor(s): Carstairs, Catherine; Janovicek, Nancy. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBTB; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774826198
ISBN
9780774826198
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.85

Hardcover. Study of literary critic George Steiner and the focus of the Holocaust on his career Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815609605
ISBN
9780815609605
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.50

Hardcover. Editor(s): Chilcott, Catherine M. Num Pages: 189 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; JFFR; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 261 x 181 x 18. Weight in Grams: 582.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
189
Condition
New
SKU
V9781624179204
ISBN
9781624179204
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 231.72
€ 157.94

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Raymond Williams Society
Number of pages
141
Condition
New
SKU
V9780953150359
ISBN
9780953150359
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.96

Paperback. First in-depth account of how Israel imprisons Palestinian children, which is part of an overall strategy of political domination. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JFSP1; JKVP1; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780745321615
ISBN
9780745321615
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.58

Hardback. The first German women's movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the FrauenuberschuA , as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform. Proponents of the female surplus held that the advances of industry and urbanization had upset traditional marriage patterns.. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 304 pages, 26 tables, 23 figs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ1; JHBD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845454807
ISBN
9781845454807
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.80

Paperback. The first detailed discussion of domestic violence and abuse in same sex relationships, challenging the heteronormative model in domestic violence research, policy and practice. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JFFE3; JFSK; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 233 x 22. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Policy Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447307440
ISBN
9781447307440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 38.45

Paperback. Is there such a thing as "girl culture"? This text argues that both "girls" and "culture" as ideas are too problematic to fulfil any useful role in theorizing about the emergence of feminine adolescence in popular culture. Instead, a Foucauldian genealogy is presented and explored. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 photos. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231119139
ISBN
9780231119139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.10

Hardback. Is there such a thing as "girl culture"? This text argues that both "girls" and "culture" as ideas are too problematic to fulfil any useful role in theorizing about the emergence of feminine adolescence in popular culture. Instead, a Foucauldian genealogy is presented and explored. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 photos. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231119122
ISBN
9780231119122
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.13

Paperback. Says that not only are Latinos a religious community, but their religious institutions inform daily life and politics in Latino communities to a considerable degree. This work shows that Latino religious institutions have played a significant role in the poor and urban communities where Latinos live. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRLM; JFSL4; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814794142
ISBN
9780814794142
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Hardcover. BIC Classification: 1DDB; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Legenda
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909662308
ISBN
9781909662308
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.86

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