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Privilege and Prejudice
Twenty Years with the Invisible Knapsack
Twenty years after Peggy McIntosh’s groundbreaking essay on white privilege, these essays reveal how sexism and racism persist. This text explores enduring inequality in higher education, technology, and media, even in systems trying to address these problems.
Twenty years after Peggy McIntosh’s groundbreaking essay on white privilege, these essays reveal how sexism and racism persist. This text explores enduring inequality in higher education, technology, and media, even in systems trying to address these problems.
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This book examines the intersection of political leadership, media coverage, and sexual identity, with emphasis on the negotiation between public and private behavior. Centering on key cases, each chapter questions assumptions about media coverage of same-sex behavior.
This book examines the intersection of political leadership, media coverage, and sexual identity, with emphasis on the negotiation between public and private behavior. Centering on key cases, each chapter questions assumptions about media coverage of same-sex behavior.
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As crime crosses national boundaries, understanding global criminology is imperative. This book offers a rich variety of international perspectives on an array of crime and justice-related issues, providing a treasure trove of insights for academics and students.
As crime crosses national boundaries, understanding global criminology is imperative. This book offers a rich variety of international perspectives on an array of crime and justice-related issues, providing a treasure trove of insights for academics and students.
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Passage to Manhattan
Critical Essays on Meena Alexander
This is the first collection of essays on Meena Alexander, one of the most influential contemporary South Asian American writers. Scholars analyze her poetry, memoirs, and fiction, examining her contribution to postcolonial and US multicultural studies.
This is the first collection of essays on Meena Alexander, one of the most influential contemporary South Asian American writers. Scholars analyze her poetry, memoirs, and fiction, examining her contribution to postcolonial and US multicultural studies.
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Feminist Insiders-Outsiders
Muslim Women in Nigeria and the Contemporary Feminist Movement
This book examines the Islamic feminism of Nigerian Muslim women. It argues that their struggles are rooted in Islamic texts from the Prophetic era, contrary to stereotypes of patriarchal domination, and shows how they use organizations for feminist changes.
This book examines the Islamic feminism of Nigerian Muslim women. It argues that their struggles are rooted in Islamic texts from the Prophetic era, contrary to stereotypes of patriarchal domination, and shows how they use organizations for feminist changes.
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Situating Racism
The Local, National and the Global
This book uncovers the complex causes and manifestations of contemporary racism in a globalized world. It analyzes how its boundaries shift, the impact of factors like nationalism and politics, and the challenges of building an anti-racist future.
This book uncovers the complex causes and manifestations of contemporary racism in a globalized world. It analyzes how its boundaries shift, the impact of factors like nationalism and politics, and the challenges of building an anti-racist future.
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Of Mice and Men
Animals in Human Culture
This collection of essays by international scholars examines human views of animals. Addressing topics from animal rights and ecology to feminism and domestication, the book considers global issues from ancient to contemporary times.
This collection of essays by international scholars examines human views of animals. Addressing topics from animal rights and ecology to feminism and domestication, the book considers global issues from ancient to contemporary times.
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Muslim Societies in the Age of Mass Consumption
Politics, Culture and Identity between the Local and the Global
Muslim consumers are not passive victims of globalization. They adapt global brands, reshaping their culture. This volume uses consumption as a prism to understand the enormous transformations that Muslim societies have undergone in the past few decades.
Muslim consumers are not passive victims of globalization. They adapt global brands, reshaping their culture. This volume uses consumption as a prism to understand the enormous transformations that Muslim societies have undergone in the past few decades.
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Sociology of Memory
Papers from the Spectrum
These papers advance discourse beyond “collective memory” to the contested terrain of personal, public, and commodity memory. In a society dependent on automated data, a key question arises: who owns memory, and for what social or private purpose?
These papers advance discourse beyond “collective memory” to the contested terrain of personal, public, and commodity memory. In a society dependent on automated data, a key question arises: who owns memory, and for what social or private purpose?
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Feminism and the Body
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Feminist scholars grapple with the interplay between corporeal differences and power. This collection takes the reader on a journey into myriad domains, from medical surgery and law to feminist film, reinvigorating feminism's emphatic engagement with the body.
Feminist scholars grapple with the interplay between corporeal differences and power. This collection takes the reader on a journey into myriad domains, from medical surgery and law to feminist film, reinvigorating feminism’s emphatic engagement with the body.
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Disasters, Culture, Politics
Chinese-Bulgarian Anthropological Contribution to the Study of Critical Situations
This volume explores contemporary crises—from epidemics to social catastrophes—in China and Bulgaria. Using ecological anthropology and a cross-cultural approach, it investigates the full life-cycle of disasters and our strategies for coping and relief.
This volume explores contemporary crises—from epidemics to social catastrophes—in China and Bulgaria. Using ecological anthropology and a cross-cultural approach, it investigates the full life-cycle of disasters and our strategies for coping and relief.
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Friends Watching Friends
American Television in Egypt
This study explores American television's impact in Egypt, using the sitcom Friends as a focal point. It examines how Egyptian women view American influence and form ideas about Americans, celebrating a diversity of opinions and cultural heritage.
This study explores American television’s impact in Egypt, using the sitcom Friends as a focal point. It examines how Egyptian women view American influence and form ideas about Americans, celebrating a diversity of opinions and cultural heritage.
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The satires of Lucian of Samosata targeted everyone from cult-leaders to the rich and powerful. This volume focuses on what his works show us about the intellectual, political, religious, and everyday life of the vibrant Imperial period.
The satires of Lucian of Samosata targeted everyone from cult-leaders to the rich and powerful. This volume focuses on what his works show us about the intellectual, political, religious, and everyday life of the vibrant Imperial period.
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Migrancy, Memory and Repossession
Women on the Historical Margins
This book explores the hidden histories of women artists on the periphery of mainstream society. By analysing their representations of “marginal” groups like Travellers and Roma, it uncovers new conclusions about the relationships between different cultures.
This book explores the hidden histories of women artists on the periphery of mainstream society. By analysing their representations of “marginal” groups like Travellers and Roma, it uncovers new conclusions about the relationships between different cultures.
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Gendered Bodies and New Technologies
Rethinking Embodiment in a Cyber-era
As human interaction with technology becomes seamless, the body is reduced to an interface. What is forgotten is that being human means being embodied. To live in the dynamic intersection between mind and body is what makes us human.
As human interaction with technology becomes seamless, the body is reduced to an interface. What is forgotten is that being human means being embodied. To live in the dynamic intersection between mind and body is what makes us human.
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Celebrity Colonialism
Fame, Power and Representation in Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures
Celebrity Colonialism explores the entanglements of fame and power in colonial and postcolonial settings. It demonstrates the ambivalent roles played by famous personalities, providing a powerful lens for understanding what colonialism was and what it has become.
Celebrity Colonialism explores the entanglements of fame and power in colonial and postcolonial settings. It demonstrates the ambivalent roles played by famous personalities, providing a powerful lens for understanding what colonialism was and what it has become.
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This pioneering study explores the new female Muslim identity. Through interdisciplinary essays, it examines the daily struggles, challenges, choices, and rights of Muslim women globally, both within and outside the Muslim world, in the twenty-first century.
This pioneering study explores the new female Muslim identity. Through interdisciplinary essays, it examines the daily struggles, challenges, choices, and rights of Muslim women globally, both within and outside the Muslim world, in the twenty-first century.
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This book examines the collective action of marginalised people in Western Europe. It analyses how they organise to overcome obstacles, act collectively, and intervene in public space, exploring their political significance amid new forms of inequality.
This book examines the collective action of marginalised people in Western Europe. It analyses how they organise to overcome obstacles, act collectively, and intervene in public space, exploring their political significance amid new forms of inequality.
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This collection of essays explores how visual and Internet culture interact, examining how we use virtual imaginings to construct who we are. It treats Internet images as contested sites of cultural activity and transformation, raising questions for future scholarship.
This collection of essays explores how visual and Internet culture interact, examining how we use virtual imaginings to construct who we are. It treats Internet images as contested sites of cultural activity and transformation, raising questions for future scholarship.
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In our digital world, it can be easy to forget public spaces. This book interrogates cultural programs, from festivals to museums, to discover how these bodily experiences affect us. It argues that both events and institutions are caught in political webs.
In our digital world, it can be easy to forget public spaces. This book interrogates cultural programs, from festivals to museums, to discover how these bodily experiences affect us. It argues that both events and institutions are caught in political webs.
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