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The Sexualized Body and the Medical Authority of Pornography
Performing Sexual Liberation
This collection examines pornography as a material practice that eroticises gender inequality and sexual violence towards women. It addresses the complex relationship between pornography and medicine, whereby medicine has afforded pornography great legitimacy and even authority.
This collection examines pornography as a material practice that eroticises gender inequality and sexual violence towards women. It addresses the complex relationship between pornography and medicine, whereby medicine has afforded pornography great legitimacy and even authority.
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Soviet repressions and a nationalist focus on Christian roots have made researching shamanism in Armenia no easy business. This study confronts this impasse, helping to set in motion the process of uncovering these ancient and suppressed practices.
Soviet repressions and a nationalist focus on Christian roots have made researching shamanism in Armenia no easy business. This study confronts this impasse, helping to set in motion the process of uncovering these ancient and suppressed practices.
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Soviet repressions against shamanism, a recent surge of interest in the Orthodox church, and a nationalist preoccupation with Christian roots makes research into Georgia's pagan practices no easy business. This study helps to set the process in motion.
Soviet repressions against shamanism, a recent surge of interest in the Orthodox church, and a nationalist preoccupation with Christian roots makes research into Georgia’s pagan practices no easy business. This study helps to set the process in motion.
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The Shaping of Persian Art
Collections and Interpretations of the Art of Islamic Iran and Central Asia
The image of Persian art was not a pure creation of its civilization. It was largely defined by Euro-American collectors, scholars, and dealers who shaped how it should be viewed and displayed. This volume offers novel insight into this process.
The image of Persian art was not a pure creation of its civilization. It was largely defined by Euro-American collectors, scholars, and dealers who shaped how it should be viewed and displayed. This volume offers novel insight into this process.
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This book explores Sherpa culture, a distinct lifestyle preserved despite outside influence from tourism and modernisation. As the Sherpa language is oral, outside accounts often suffer from mistranslations. Written by a Sherpa, this unique work overcomes these barriers.
This book explores Sherpa culture, a distinct lifestyle preserved despite outside influence from tourism and modernisation. As the Sherpa language is oral, outside accounts often suffer from mistranslations. Written by a Sherpa, this unique work overcomes these barriers.
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The Shifting Role of Women
From Chores to Cores
This book traces women’s journey from domestic confinement to a major public voice. It challenges the historical standards that judge women and reveals how social media has sparked the suffragette movement of the 21st century.
This book traces women’s journey from domestic confinement to a major public voice. It challenges the historical standards that judge women and reveals how social media has sparked the suffragette movement of the 21st century.
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The Silent Life of Things
Reading and Representing Commodified Objecthood
Given increasing interest in analysis of materiality, the essays here discuss those aspects of this concept that are not immediately visible and require increased attention and a sense of intuition, establishing a new paradigm for reading and interpreting commodified materiality.
Given increasing interest in analysis of materiality, the essays here discuss those aspects of this concept that are not immediately visible and require increased attention and a sense of intuition, establishing a new paradigm for reading and interpreting commodified materiality.
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The Sochi Predicament
Contexts, Characteristics and Challenges of the Olympic Winter Games in 2014
Sochi was an unlikely host for the Winter Olympics, a prestige project for Russia. This book analyzes the profound challenges of identity, security, and ethnic relations from Russian, Georgian, Abkhazian, and Circassian perspectives.
Sochi was an unlikely host for the Winter Olympics, a prestige project for Russia. This book analyzes the profound challenges of identity, security, and ethnic relations from Russian, Georgian, Abkhazian, and Circassian perspectives.
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The Social Economy
Poverty Alleviation and Social Wellbeing
This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately.
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This book examines why South Asian immigrant women must change how they mother in Canada. It reveals the stressful disjuncture between their work and institutional expectations around mothering, schooling, and employment, complicating their settlement experience.
This book examines why South Asian immigrant women must change how they mother in Canada. It reveals the stressful disjuncture between their work and institutional expectations around mothering, schooling, and employment, complicating their settlement experience.
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This publication gathers together a series of case studies of developed, emerging and developing countries, studying the evolution or decline observed in these countries and proffering insights into the influence of the economic model around the world.
This publication gathers together a series of case studies of developed, emerging and developing countries, studying the evolution or decline observed in these countries and proffering insights into the influence of the economic model around the world.
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This original work discusses the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, a political, social, economic, and philosophical challenge that tested the limits of human nature. The volume brings together diverse approaches, from philosophy and sociology to politics and social work.
This original work discusses the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, a political, social, economic, and philosophical challenge that tested the limits of human nature. The volume brings together diverse approaches, from philosophy and sociology to politics and social work.
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The Social-Structural Determinants of Health
Beyond Genetics
An understanding of the human body and mind is incomplete without examining the social environment. Social forces create conditions that can either strengthen or undermine the wellbeing of individuals, groups, and entire communities—the social-structural determinants of health.
An understanding of the human body and mind is incomplete without examining the social environment. Social forces create conditions that can either strengthen or undermine the wellbeing of individuals, groups, and entire communities—the social-structural determinants of health.
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This book analyses the sociocultural adaptation and integration of temporary migrants and refugees. Based on global research, it explores the interpersonal dimensions of these processes, from the friendships of students to the family dynamics of refugees in camps.
This book analyses the sociocultural adaptation and integration of temporary migrants and refugees. Based on global research, it explores the interpersonal dimensions of these processes, from the friendships of students to the family dynamics of refugees in camps.
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The Sociology of Longevity
Socioecological Factors of Survival Probability
For the first time, this book analyzes how socioecological factors influence our probability of becoming a centenarian. It presents global evidence on the factors affecting life expectancy and contributes applicable knowledge on how to become a healthy centenarian.
For the first time, this book analyzes how socioecological factors influence our probability of becoming a centenarian. It presents global evidence on the factors affecting life expectancy and contributes applicable knowledge on how to become a healthy centenarian.
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The Space of Memory
Language and Culture of Portocannone, a Small Albanian Village in Italy. Gjaku Jonë i Shëprishur (The Albanian Diaspora)
This volume preserves the endangered Arbëresh language through its tales, stories, and songs. By recording its authentic sound, it serves as a vital linguistic and cultural tool to bring Arbëresh to future generations of young speakers.
This volume preserves the endangered Arbëresh language through its tales, stories, and songs. By recording its authentic sound, it serves as a vital linguistic and cultural tool to bring Arbëresh to future generations of young speakers.
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The Sport Economist
Australian Sport by the Numbers
Australians are sport-crazy, but what does it mean for our economy? Is hosting the Olympics worth it? Will cricket survive the T20 revolution? How can four codes of football thrive? Join a unique journey through the economics and business of sport.
Australians are sport-crazy, but what does it mean for our economy? Is hosting the Olympics worth it? Will cricket survive the T20 revolution? How can four codes of football thrive? Join a unique journey through the economics and business of sport.
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The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity
Literature and the Christian Critic
This volume brings two worlds together. Instead of crisis, its contributors see the postmodern turn as an opportunity. These Christian scholars enter into dialogue with contemporary literary theory, offering innovative new readings informed by both theory and faith.
This volume brings two worlds together. Instead of crisis, its contributors see the postmodern turn as an opportunity. These Christian scholars enter into dialogue with contemporary literary theory, offering innovative new readings informed by both theory and faith.
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The Surplus of Culture
Sense, Common-sense, Non-sense
This volume presents the surplus of culture: the added value of irony, irrationality, and absurdity that subverts mainstream culture. It dwells at the risky intersection of untamed interpretation and tradition, where entrenched notions reveal their shattering nature.
This volume presents the surplus of culture: the added value of irony, irrationality, and absurdity that subverts mainstream culture. It dwells at the risky intersection of untamed interpretation and tradition, where entrenched notions reveal their shattering nature.
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The Sustainable Dead
Searching for the Intolerable
Ecological sustainability is profoundly challenging long-standing death styles. This collection brings together new scholarship on innovative changes to managing the dead from around the world, arguing for a new perspective on the shift to more sustainable death ways.
Ecological sustainability is profoundly challenging long-standing death styles. This collection brings together new scholarship on innovative changes to managing the dead from around the world, arguing for a new perspective on the shift to more sustainable death ways.
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