Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.74
€ 30.74
Paperback. Examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6. BIC Classification: 1FMV; HBWS2; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520277717
- ISBN
- 9780520277717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.70
€ 41.70
Paperback. From POZ magazine founder Sean Strub, "a captivating.. eyewitness account from the inside of the AIDS epidemic" (Next). Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; JFFH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781451661965
- ISBN
- 9781451661965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.36
€ 19.99
€ 18.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 26 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JPL; MBDC; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816676491
- ISBN
- 9780816676491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.21
€ 19.21
Hardcover. Attempting to cut a third way between the usual alternatives of social constructionist and naturalist approaches to the body, this collection turns to both the biological and the social sciences as a starting point for an adequate critique of the body, before moving to offer a cultural analysis. Editor(s): Welton, Donn. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HP; JFC; JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 264 x 189 x 27. Weight in Grams: 922.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781577181255
- ISBN
- 9781577181255
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.69
€ 183.69
Paperback. Blends seminal essays with new and original pieces to take the analysis into new areas, and includes contributions from Judith Butler, Susan Bordo, Rom Harre, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Mary Rawlinson, Hubert Dreyfus, and Iris Young. Editor(s): Welton, Donn. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HP; JFC; JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 172 x 245 x 23. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781577181262
- ISBN
- 9781577181262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.00
€ 69.00
paperback. This book introduces students to the key concepts and debates surrounding the relationship between bodily boundaries, abject materiality and spaces. It uses interviews, focus group data and case studies and will critically engage the students. Series: Critical Geographies. Num Pages: 176 pages, 4 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA; PSX; RGC; RGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415189675
- ISBN
- 9780415189675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.97
€ 74.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 8 b/w & 14 color illus. BIC Classification: AC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837626094
- ISBN
- 9783837626094
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 31.98
€ 44.99
€ 31.98
Hardback. Favazza critically assesses new and significant biological, ethnological, social, and psychological findings regarding self-injury; presents current understandings of self-injurious acts from cultural and clinical perspectives; and places self-mutilation in historical and contemporary context. Num Pages: 352 pages, 17, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH; JHMC; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 3 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801899652
- ISBN
- 9780801899652
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.47
€ 82.47
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
€ 44.92
€ 44.92
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
€ 44.78
€ 44.78
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
€ 127.92
€ 127.92
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.68
€ 42.68
Paperback. Since the 1980s, tattooing has emerged anew in the United States as a widely appealing cultural, artistic, and social form. This title explains how elite tattooists, magazine editors, and leaders of tattoo organizations have downplayed the working-class roots of tattooing in order to make it more palatable for middle-class consumption. Num Pages: 256 pages, 22 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AFY; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324676
- ISBN
- 9780822324676
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.34
€ 35.34
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 84.15
€ 84.15
Hardcover. The history has resurrected from northern Europe's bogs several men, women, and children who were deposited there as sacrifices in the early Iron Age and kept intact by the chemical properties of peat. Offering an account of their modern afterlives, this title argues that the discovery of bog bodies began an extraordinary cultural journey. Num Pages: 320 pages, 63 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DN; HDDA; JFC; JHM; PSXE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 29. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226734040
- ISBN
- 9780226734040
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.37
€ 126.37
Hardcover. Bodies in Protest reveals how hunger strikes and music ranging from gospel songs to rock anthems can efficiently convey political messages and mobilize the masses. Series: Protest and Social Movements. Num Pages: 180 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: AV; JFF; JPWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 241 x 16. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089649331
- ISBN
- 9789089649331
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.45
€ 156.45
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.69
€ 50.69
Paperback. Editor(s): Sandahl, Carrie; Auslander, Philip. Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 photographs. BIC Classification: AS; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472068913
- ISBN
- 9780472068913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.21
€ 47.21
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.68
€ 121.68
Paperback. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KJ; ACX; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813935973
- ISBN
- 9780813935973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.84
€ 39.84
Hardcover. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KJ; ACX; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813935966
- ISBN
- 9780813935966
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.74
€ 83.74
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.22
€ 17.99
€ 16.22
Paperback. Now available for the first time in paperback, Boats Against the Current offers a brilliant portrait of a society in the midst of change, expansion, and reflection about its own future and past. Written by one of our leading intellectual historians, it makes a major contribution to our understanding of the emergence of modern American culture. Num Pages: 352 pages, bibliography; index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742522503
- ISBN
- 9780742522503
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.58
€ 71.58