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Paperback. Examines the ways popular protests are experienced and remembered by those who participate in them. This book focuses on the roles of two young women, Nana and Laura, in uprisings in Argentina. It offers discussions of resistance and the combined effects of globalization, neoliberal economic policies, and political corruption in Argentina. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 248 pages, 19 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; JFC; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822331155
- ISBN
- 9780822331155
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Paperback. How do race and nature work as terrains of power? Synthesizing a number of fields - anthropology, cultural studies, and critical race, feminist, and postcolonial theory, this title analyses diverse historical, cultural, and spatial locations. Editor(s): Moore, Donald S.; Kosek, Jake; Pandian, Anand. Num Pages: 488 pages, 4 b&w photos. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 235 x 29. Weight in Grams: 660.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330912
- ISBN
- 9780822330912
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€ 34.99€ 32.13
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Paperback. Examines women's inclusion into and exclusion from positions of authority in Austria and Hungary in the latter half of the twentieth century. This book discusses the legacies of Austria's and Hungary's 'gender regimes' following the demise of state socialism and during the process of integration into the European Union. Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History. Num Pages: 224 pages, 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DVH; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822330905
- ISBN
- 9780822330905
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Paperback. Presents an examination of how the migration of nurses from the Philippines to the US is inextricably linked to American imperialism and the US colonization of the Philippine Islands in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; JHBL; MQC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330899
- ISBN
- 9780822330899
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€ 30.99€ 27.67
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Paperback. With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the centuries. The author tracks the proliferation of this figure, the vanishing woman, from her genesis in Victorian stage magic through her development in conjunction with photography and film. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 235 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822330745
- ISBN
- 9780822330745
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Paperback. In Brazil, the country with the largest population of African descent in the Americas, the idea of race underwent a dramatic shift in the first half of the twentieth century. This title explores the significance of this transition by looking at the history of the Rio de Janeiro school system between 1917 and 1945. Num Pages: 312 pages, 41 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 24. Weight in Grams: 496.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822330707
- ISBN
- 9780822330707
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Paperback. Intends to unravels the complex ways men were defined as men in Renaissance Italy through readings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century evidence - medical and travel literature; theology; law; myth; conduct books; and, plays, chivalric romances, and novellas by authors including Machiavelli, Tasso and Ariosto. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLH; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Bilingual
- SKU
- V9780822330653
- ISBN
- 9780822330653
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€ 31.99€ 28.79
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Paperback. Provides an ethnographic rendering of religious rituals and ascetic practices at the Akakura Mountain Shrine in northern Japan. This book explains that spiritual practice at the Akakura shrine is motivated by the efforts of women and men to comprehend and manage contradictory obligations and desires related to personal health, family, and work. Num Pages: 288 pages, 31 b&w photos, 5 figures. BIC Classification: HRKN3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330622
- ISBN
- 9780822330622
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€ 30.99€ 27.67
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Paperback. Japanese fitness clubs combine entertainment and exercise, reflecting the Japanese concept of fitness as encompassing a zest for life as well as physical health. This book reveals through an account of these clubs how beauty, bodies, health, and leisure are understood and experienced in Japan. Num Pages: 264 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 435.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822330493
- ISBN
- 9780822330493
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Paperback. Essays offer a new challenge to the death penalty's legitimacy, in light of new empirical research and case studies, and against the backdrop of international law and recent changes in US domestic law. Editor(s): Garvey, Stephen P. Series: Constitutional Conflicts. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330431
- ISBN
- 9780822330431
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Paperback. The South has long played a central role in America's national imagination - the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation's moral other and its moral center. This title explores how ideas about the South function within American culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, 33 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 517.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330400
- ISBN
- 9780822330400
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Paperback. Offers an account of the historical emergence of "the lesbian" by looking at late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century women's writing. This title proposes that modern lesbian identity in the United States has its roots not just, or even primarily, in sexology and medical literature, but in white, middle-class women's culture. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 368 pages, 3 illus. BIC Classification: JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330165
- ISBN
- 9780822330165
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€ 32.99€ 29.90
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Paperback. A theoretically informed study of five major pro- and anti-apartheid intellectuals, showing the inevitability of complex and compromised positions, and the impossibility of pure ones. Series: Philosophy & postcoloniality. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HPQ; JFCX; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3734 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329985
- ISBN
- 9780822329985
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Paperback. Recovers the history of 19th- and early-20th-century African-American reading societies. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 440 pages, 4 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; JFSL1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 29. Weight in Grams: 644.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329954
- ISBN
- 9780822329954
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€ 33.99€ 31.02
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Paperback. Essays consider the relationship of gender, time, and space to globalization, describing conditions under which South and Southeast Asians can resist the attempted erasure of their spaces and histories. Editor(s): Sarker, Sonita; De, Esha Niyogi. Num Pages: 360 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FK; 1FM; JFC; JFFS; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 581.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329923
- ISBN
- 9780822329923
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Paperback. Explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. This book finds that weddings - as performances, fantasies, and rituals of transformation - are sites for imagining and enacting forms of social intimacy other than monogamous heterosexuality. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSJ; JHBK; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5665 x 3963 x 22. Weight in Grams: 636.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822329893
- ISBN
- 9780822329893
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€ 31.99€ 28.79
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paperback. Since the 1970s, Womens Studies has grown from a volunteerist political project to a full scale academic enterprise. This book assesses the present and future of the field, demonstrating how institutionalization has extended a vital, ongoing intellectual project for a generation of scholars and students. Editor(s): Wiegman, Robyn. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 512 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 714.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822329862
- ISBN
- 9780822329862
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Paperback. Examines how Chicana literature - its narrative techniques, stylistic conventions, plot dilemmas and resolutions - interrogate the multiple ways space and social relations constitute each other. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329749
- ISBN
- 9780822329749
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€ 30.99€ 27.67
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Paperback. Suitable for those interested in African American studies, Caribbean studies, cultural studies, women's studies, and American studies, this book explores the paths taken by black nationalism in the United States and the Caribbean. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJ; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329732
- ISBN
- 9780822329732
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Paperback. Critiques some deployments of media in education, in and out of school, while exploring progressive possibilities in others. Num Pages: 280 pages, 28 b&w photos. BIC Classification: JFD; JNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780822329640
- ISBN
- 9780822329640
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
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