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Paperback. Drawn from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. This title examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century. Num Pages: 603 pages, 26 b/w photographs, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; JFMX; JFSG; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 44. Weight in Grams: 917.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 603
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520204393
- ISBN
- 9780520204393
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.72
€ 46.99
€ 33.72
Paperback. One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. The author offers a detailed analysis of these events, illuminating the attitudes that triggered the assaults as well as the beliefs that informed Jewish reactions to them. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520205062
- ISBN
- 9780520205062
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.34
€ 38.99
€ 28.34
Hardback. With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, this title investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. It shows how the coming of the modern period expanded the relationship of Jews to the visual realm far beyond the religious context. Num Pages: 382 pages, 141 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; ACBK; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 31. Weight in Grams: 912.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 382
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520205451
- ISBN
- 9780520205451
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.00€ 64.07
€ 83.00
€ 64.07
Paperback. A collaboration between African American and white feminists that deals with the problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. It questions such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories, and the role of race in the formation of identity. Editor(s): Abel, Elizabeth; Christian, Barbara; Moglen, Helene. Num Pages: 425 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFFK; JFSL3; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 425
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206304
- ISBN
- 9780520206304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.07
€ 41.99
€ 30.07
Hardback. Overturns the common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion. Without understating the role of violent intervention, this book shows that apartheid was sustained by a great and ever-swelling bureaucracy. Series: Perspectives on Southern Africa S. Num Pages: 401 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL; JPQB; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 401
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206519
- ISBN
- 9780520206519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.84€ 49.44
€ 62.84
€ 49.44
Paperback. Locates the study of Chicano culture in a social context. This title examines issues of representation and expression in a diverse, exciting assortment of texts - corridos, novels, poems, short stories, punk and hip-hop music, ethnography, paintings, performance, art, and essays. It provides a model for a kind of US cultural studies. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 298 pages, 4. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DQ; DSB; JFC; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 63.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206823
- ISBN
- 9780520206823
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.65
€ 36.99
€ 26.65
Paperback. When Coca-Cola was introduced in France in the late 1940s, the country's most prestigious newspaper warned that Coke threatened France's cultural landscape. This book presents an exploration of France's response to American influence after World War II. Num Pages: 293 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJD; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 293
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206984
- ISBN
- 9780520206984
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.55
€ 36.99
€ 26.55
Paperback. Featuring contemporary feminist theory, this book argues for a feminism that transcends national borders and ethnic identities. It analysis the novels and short stories of three Chicana writers - Gloria Anzaldua, Sandra Cisneros, and Helena Maria Viramontes and a range of Chicana feminist writing from several disciplines. Num Pages: 226 pages, 6 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADSL; DSA; JFFK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 59.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520207332
- ISBN
- 9780520207332
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.73
€ 36.99
€ 26.73
Paperback. Tourist art production is a global phenomenon and is increasingly recognized as an important and authentic expression of indigenous visual traditions. This title provides a comparative perspective on the history, character, and impact of tourist art in colonized societies in three areas of the world: Africa, Oceania, and North America. Editor(s): Phillips, Ruth B.; Steiner, Christopher B. Num Pages: 435 pages, 88 black-and-white photos. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; 1KB; AC; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 435
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520207974
- ISBN
- 9780520207974
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.14
€ 41.99
€ 30.14
Paperback. Linking the personal and the political, this book depicts the making of the working class in Britain as a 'struggle for the breeches.' Focusing on Lancashire, Glasgow, and London, it contrasts the experience of artisans and textile workers, demonstrating how each created distinctively gendered communities and political strategies. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 415 pages, 10 b&w illustrations, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 415
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520208834
- ISBN
- 9780520208834
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.15
€ 41.99
€ 30.15
Paperback. Offers an insight into the modes and devices employed in the creation of women's fiction since the eighteenth century. This book argues that traditional theorizations of the sublime depend upon unexamined assumptions about femininity and sexual difference, and that the sublime could not exist without misogynistic constructions of 'the feminine.' Num Pages: 205 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 59.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520208889
- ISBN
- 9780520208889
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.86
€ 33.99
€ 24.86
Paperback. The 1993 government assault on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, resulted in the deaths of four federal agents and eighty Branch Davidians, including seventeen children. This title address the accusations of illegal weapons possession, strange sexual practices, and child abuse that were made against David Koresh and his followers. Num Pages: 254 pages, 18 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: HRA; HRCZ; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 63.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520208995
- ISBN
- 9780520208995
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.68
€ 36.99
€ 26.68
Paperback. Contains a series of essays that demonstrate how, at the close of the twentieth century, the world's children are affected by global political-economic structures and by everyday practices embedded in the micro-level interactions of local cultures. Editor(s): Scheper-Hughes, Nancy; Sargent, Carolyn. Num Pages: 464 pages, 20 black-and-white photos, 20 tables, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JFSP2; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 188 x 33. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520209183
- ISBN
- 9780520209183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.27
€ 40.99
€ 29.27
Hardback. Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this study is a treatment of women, gender and sexuality in 17th-century opera. It explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny and desire. Num Pages: 405 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 tables, 45 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; AVGC9; HBT; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 405
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520209336
- ISBN
- 9780520209336
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.18€ 64.99
€ 84.18
€ 64.99
Hardback. Traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at Solesmes, whose founder hoped to rebuild the moral foundation of French culture on the ruins of the Benedictine order. Series: California Studies in 19th Century Music. Num Pages: 196 pages, 37 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC; AVGD; HBJD; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520210080
- ISBN
- 9780520210080
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.10€ 45.60
€ 58.10
€ 45.60
Paperback. Turning the tables on the pornography debate, this is an analysis of taboo-shattering fiction, film and performance art. It investigates the role of fantasy in art, politics and popular culture and shows how technological advances in science and medicine have altered concepts of the human body. Num Pages: 324 pages, 36 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: A; DSBH; JFC; JFD; JFMP; JHM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520210325
- ISBN
- 9780520210325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.65
€ 36.99
€ 26.65
Paperback. Offers an alternative to the Euro-American warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the gentle, receptive male. Analyzing ancient and modern texts, this book reveals early rabbis - studious, family-oriented - as exemplars of manhood and the prime objects of female desire in traditional Jewish society. Series: Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 433 pages, 16. BIC Classification: JFCX; JFSJ; JFSR1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 433
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520210509
- ISBN
- 9780520210509
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.39
€ 38.99
€ 28.39
Paperback. Detailing the role played by non-elites, this book presents a perspective on nationalism in the Arab Middle East in the early 20th century. It documents the appearance of the popular committee and examines nationalist politics as a mass phenomenon that informs the politics of the region today. Num Pages: 353 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBS; HBJF1; HBLW; JFSL; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 353
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520210707
- ISBN
- 9780520210707
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.42
€ 38.99
€ 28.42
Paperback. Demonstrating how the Buddhist revival in Tibet must contend with tensions between the Chinese state and aspirations for greater Tibetan autonomy, the authors discuss ways that Tibetan Buddhists are restructuring their religion through a process of social, political and economic adaptation. Editor(s): Goldstein, Melvyn C.; Kapstein, Matthew T. Num Pages: 235 pages, 37 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; HREX; JFC; JHM; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 49. Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. 235 pages, 37 b&w photographs. Editor(s): Goldstein, Melvyn C.; Kapstein, Matthew T. Demonstrating how the Buddhist revival in Tibet must contend with tensions between the Chinese state and aspirations for greater Tibetan autonomy, the authors discuss ways that Tibetan Buddhists are restructuring their religion through a process of social, political and economic adaptation. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; HREX; JFC; JHM; JPS. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520211315
- ISBN
- 9780520211315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.92
€ 33.99
€ 24.92
Paperback. A study which argues that the spiritual quest is rooted in our biological, psychological, linguistic and social nature. Drawing on tribal religions and practices and from theorists and thinkers, the author seeks to expand our awareness of this complex human activity. Num Pages: 330 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRLB; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520211599
- ISBN
- 9780520211599
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.39
€ 38.99
€ 28.39