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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Interested in the nexus between sport, gender, and language, Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations contains twenty-one wide-ranging chapters examining sport vis-a-vis the language surrounding and incorporated by it in the world arena. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619708
- ISBN
- 9780230619708
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Condition: New
€ 67.68
€ 67.68
Paperback. The author offers a new account of the formation of sexual identity, coined 'emerged fusion,' which avoids the traps of the essentialism versus constructivism debate, and offers a viable third alternative. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619654
- ISBN
- 9780230619654
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€ 61.44
€ 61.44
Hardcover. Constructing Mexico City: Colonial Conflicts over Culture, Space, and Authority examines the spatial, material, and cultural dimensions of life in eighteenth-century Mexico City, through programs that colonial leaders created to renovate and reshape urban environments. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBTB; JFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619579
- ISBN
- 9780230619579
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.83
€ 54.99
€ 43.83
Hardcover. Freiner defines a new understanding of nationalism, with a focus on the ways in which the Japanese state has utilized Confucian philosophy to create a Japanese national identity and on the impact of this on women. She examines the key policy areas of education and social security alongside the roles that women have played in these initiatives. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFFE3; JFSJ1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 220 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619289
- ISBN
- 9780230619289
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Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Paperback. The product of years of cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this is an innovative volume of essays situated at the intersection of multi-disciplinary fields: postcolonial/subaltern theory; comparative literary analysis, especially with a South Asian and transnational focus; the study of 'alternative' and 'indigenous' modernities. Editor(s): Mohanty, Satya P. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2BM; DSBH5; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619081
- ISBN
- 9780230619081
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Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. This book examines US foreign policy toward the so-called 'rogue states' and the products of the Hollywood film industry in relation to these states, which promises to make a significant contribution to our understanding of the 'soft power' that is popular culture. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFCA; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618695
- ISBN
- 9780230618695
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Condition: New
€ 62.43
€ 62.43
Hardcover. This study analyzes a variety of transnational South Asian mobilities in the West in the first half of the twentieth century. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; HB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618206
- ISBN
- 9780230618206
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Condition: New
€ 62.23
€ 62.23
Hardcover. This book considers neopopulism as a central issue to understand patterns of women's citizenship construction in many countries of contemporary Latin America. It also explains the paradoxes entailed for women's participation and citizenship rights. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618152
- ISBN
- 9780230618152
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.91
€ 54.99
€ 43.91
Hardcover. Based on interviews with women academics, engineers, politicians, mathematicians, neurologists and others in male dominated organizations as well as the author's own experiences, this book will offer insights and advice to women who aspire to top positions in companies and industries where men traditionally have held those positions. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KJ; VSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 402. How Women Can Succeed in Male-Dominated Industries. 188 pages. Based on interviews with women academics, engineers, politicians, mathematicians, neurologists and others in male dominated organizations as well as the author's own experiences, this book will offer insights and advice to women who aspire to top positions in companies and industries where men traditionally have held those positions. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KJ; VSC. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 15. Weight: 402.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618121
- ISBN
- 9780230618121
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.94
€ 54.99
€ 43.94
Cape Verdean Women and Globalization: The Politics of Gender, Culture,...
Carter, Katherine, Aulette, Judy
Hardcover. This book employs critical ethnography and critical discourse analysis to explore what Cape Verdeans have to say about women's lives in the era of twenty-first century globalization. The authors investigate the economic and personal difficulties they face such as poverty, managing single mother-headed households, and violence. Num Pages: 205 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDV; 3JM; JFFS; JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618084
- ISBN
- 9780230618084
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Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Hardcover. This title depicts how immigrant women use international migration as a strategy to challenge existing patriarchal hegemonies operative both in the United States and Africa. It also weaves together the multidimensional strands of how African immigrant women shape and are shaped by the process of international migration. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; JFFN; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617780
- ISBN
- 9780230617780
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Condition: New
€ 62.43
€ 62.43
Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia (Comparati...
Blackwood, Evelyn, Bhaiya, Abha
Paperback. A unique collection of writings by both academic and activist scholars on women's same-sex sexualities and female masculinities in a globalizing Asia. Editor(s): Wieringa, Saskia; Blackwood, Evelyn; Bhaiya, Abha. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JFFK; JFSJ1; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617483
- ISBN
- 9780230617483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.08
€ 62.08
Hardcover. Focusing in particular on pairings of writers within the larger grouping of poets, this book suggests how literary partnerships became pivotal to American poets in the wake of Donald Allen's 'New American Poetry' anthology. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617322
- ISBN
- 9780230617322
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Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Paperback. Becoming Muslim is an ethnographic study based on in-depth interviews with Swedish and American women who have converted to Islam. Proceeding from the women's life-stories, McGinty explores the appeal of Islam to some Western women and the personal meaning assigned to the religion. Series: Culture, Mind and Society. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616684
- ISBN
- 9780230616684
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. The accomplished contributors add significant understanding to the staging and teaching of Macbeth and reflect on the rich history of African Americans struggling to find a voice on the American stage. Editor(s): Newstok, Scott L.; Thompson, Ayanna. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; DSGS; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616424
- ISBN
- 9780230616424
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Condition: New
€ 67.68
€ 67.68
Paperback. The waning of power in the public sphere diminishes the influence that citizens can have in deciding on the conditions of life, and therefore minimizes the changes that feminists can envision or enact in the social field to work towards equality, access, deliberation, participation, just distribution, rights, and authority for women. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616417
- ISBN
- 9780230616417
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.47
€ 54.99
€ 43.47
Hardcover. Argues that feminism needs to develop a theory of the public responding to a moment when feminism's impetus to reconstitute the private sphere left a huge gap in its political thinking on the public. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616400
- ISBN
- 9780230616400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.37
€ 54.99
€ 44.37
Hardcover. Through a gender, ethnicity, and sexuality lens, Perez demonstrates that queer Chicana/o and Latina/o identities are much more prevalent in cultural production than most people think. By claiming a variety of characters and texts as queer, he expands the breadth of queer representation in cultural production. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 209 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSK; JFSL4. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616066
- ISBN
- 9780230616066
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Condition: New
€ 62.34
€ 62.34
Hardcover. Reimagining the Immigrant examines integrative practices by residents towards Mexican immigrants in a small farm town in America. This groundbreaking book sheds light on the coexisting practices of discrimination and accommodation and the ways in which immigrants and established residents reimagine ethnic identity in a more positive light. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616028
- ISBN
- 9780230616028
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Condition: New
€ 62.56
€ 62.56
Hardcover. In a clear and accessible style, this book theorizes female movement within narratives of enslavement and advocates for a changed black female consciousness. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK; HBTS; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615939
- ISBN
- 9780230615939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54