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Society & culture: general
Paperback. A unique look at how non-legal rabbinic writings imagine women and their lives. Series: Brandeis Series on Jewish Women. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584651789
- ISBN
- 9781584651789
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.82
€ 32.99
€ 25.82
Hardback. Presents historical perspectives on the theory, practices, and policies of nutrition science in Western Europe and the United States from the 1860s to the 1960s. Editor(s): Neswald, Elizabeth; Smith, David F.; Thoms, Ulrike. Num Pages: 238 pages, 11 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFF; MBNH3; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580465762
- ISBN
- 9781580465762
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.22
€ 127.22
Paperback. This collection of essays aims to reveal the everyday practice of cultural hierarchies. The essays demonstrate social inequality in a variety of settings through a series of case studies on gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, and their complex intersections. Editor(s): Brien, Jodi O.; Howard, Judith A. Num Pages: 432 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSC; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781577181224
- ISBN
- 9781577181224
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Condition: New
€ 54.71
€ 54.71
Paperback. This text explores the question of how linguistic practices and ideologies relate to sexuality and sexual identity, opening with a discussion of the field of "queer linguistics" and moving from theory into practice with case studies of language use in a variety of cultural settings. Series: CSLI - Stanford Monographs in Linguistics. Num Pages: 350 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: CFB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575863207
- ISBN
- 9781575863207
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.90
€ 31.99
€ 24.90
Hardcover. Takes the reader back through history and around the world to uncover a clear pattern of women as warriors. It is a fascinating comment on the nature of gender, on the power of the warrior image, and on the image's source in history. Series: The Warriors. Num Pages: 296 pages, photos. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ1; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781574881066
- ISBN
- 9781574881066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.41
€ 26.99
€ 25.41
Paperback. Describes how people perform their sexual identities as athletes and spectators. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; VFVC; WSDP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566399944
- ISBN
- 9781566399944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.69
€ 31.99
€ 30.69
Paperback. Looks into the many ways in which popular music and artists around the world are subjected to censorship. Series: Sound Matters. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 b&w illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: AVGP; JFMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 16. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781566399906
- ISBN
- 9781566399906
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.34
€ 41.99
€ 37.34
Paperback. Presents the history of the way class formed in the US. This work offers a look at the invention of whiteness and how the inextricable links between race and class were formed in the seventeenth century and consolidated by custom, social relations, and eventually naturalized by the structures that organize our lives and our work. Series: Labor in Crisis. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSC; JFSL1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566399821
- ISBN
- 9781566399821
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.00
€ 36.99
€ 35.00
Paperback. A collection of essays that asks readers to reconsider who represents Asian America and what constitutes its history. Defining the early period as spanning the nineteenth century and the 1960s, it speaks to the difficulty of recovering a past that was largely unrecorded as well as understanding the varied experiences of peoples of Asian descent. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 416 pages, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 18. Weight in Grams: 667.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566399647
- ISBN
- 9781566399647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.90
€ 36.99
€ 32.90
Paperback. Surveys the contours of Asian America. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, 8 tables, references. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 18. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566399388
- ISBN
- 9781566399388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
€ 37.99
€ 33.91
Paperback. Examines the organizational aspects of vegetarianism and tries to explain why the predominant movement strategies have not successfully attracted more people to adopt a vegetarian identity. This book also takes into account the history of North American vegetarianism and the various reasons why people adopt vegetarian diets. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFFZ; JFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 12. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566399364
- ISBN
- 9781566399364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.61
€ 31.99
€ 30.61
Paperback. Asian Americans are widely believed to be passive and compliant participants in the US political process if they participate at all. This book maps the actions and strategies of Asian Americans as they negotiate a space in the American political arena. It shows how race, ethnicity, and trans nationalism led to a complex American electorate. Num Pages: 296 pages, 21 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566398954
- ISBN
- 9781566398954
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 34.12
€ 34.99
€ 34.12
Paperback. Offers a collection of essays, which consider the history as well as the historiography of the queer identities and struggles that developed in the United States in the midst of widespread upheaval and change. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 figure, 2 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBAH; HBJK; HBLW; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 19. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566398725
- ISBN
- 9781566398725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.07
€ 36.99
€ 33.07
Paperback. What is the effect of a "nation"? In this age of globalization, is it dead, dying, only dormant? The title collects essays that looks at a range of aesthetic productions - especially literature and the visual arts - that give context to how art and society interact. Num Pages: 248 pages, 19 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; AB; ACB; HPS; JFFS; JPA; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781566398664
- ISBN
- 9781566398664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.86
€ 31.99
€ 30.86
paperback. Explores the social changes that account for the growth of intermarriage as well as the lingering prejudices that oppress racially mixed families. This book traces race prejudice to the various institutions that were structured to maintain white privilege, but the core analysis is about what happens when people of different races decide to marry. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 tables, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566398268
- ISBN
- 9781566398268
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 33.91
€ 34.99
€ 33.91
Paperback. Helps you Examine the power of traditional Southern attitudes toward race and religion, and consider the "don't ask, don't tell" attitude about homosexuality in some communities. This title shows how gay culture is thriving in the form of women's festivals, gay bars, and unusual networks like that of Asian and Pacific Islanders in Atlanta. Editor(s): Dews, C.L.; Law, Carolyn Leste. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 16. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566398145
- ISBN
- 9781566398145
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.00
€ 36.99
€ 35.00
Paperback. Takes readers into the interconnected worlds of Turkish maids and the women who employ them, tracing the incorporation of rural migrant women into the interiors of the domestic spheres of the urban middle-classes. This book forges an understanding of the complex interaction between gender and class subordination. Series: Women in the Political Economy. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 tables, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVT; JFSJ1; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781566398084
- ISBN
- 9781566398084
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.92
€ 36.99
€ 32.92
Paperback. Conceived within a clandestine relationship between a black man and a married white woman, Spain was born in Mississippi during the mid-1950s. This title portrays the dehumanizing conditions in the prisons, the pervasive abuses in the criminal justice system, and the case for overturning Spain's conspiracy conviction. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BG; JFSL3; JKV; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781566397506
- ISBN
- 9781566397506
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 38.45
€ 38.99
€ 38.45
Paperback. Explores the sister bond in a wide range of modernist feature films that depart from the conventional cinematic rendering of women's lives. This book emphasizes the role of a woman's relationship and inner world in her continual quest for self-knowledge and draws upon the works of filmmakers from the 1970s to the 1990s. Series: Culture & the Moving Image. Num Pages: 221 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; JFCA; JFSJ1; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566397476
- ISBN
- 9781566397476
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 36.39
€ 37.99
€ 36.39
Paperback. Examines the way in which education and the media act as immobilizing social forces to shape the Latino world that exists despite the best efforts of many Mexican Americans and other Latinos. This book focuses on social issues that impede the progress of Latinos. Num Pages: 257 pages, 1 b&w photograph. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFD; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 458. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781566397438
- ISBN
- 9781566397438
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.17
€ 34.17