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Here are more great topics and sample book club sessions to help you start a book club and keep it going! Chapters in this volume cover humor, families, social issues, folklore and mythology, sports, magazines, picture books as art, censorship, the Internet, middle school readers, gender bias, booktalks, and the arts.

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In this pioneering book Karlan and Appel show how small changes in banking, insurance, health care, and other development initiatives that take into account human irrationality can drastically improve the well-being of poor people everywhere.

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This book explores, through a feminist and institutionalist approach, how Moroccan women activists altered their national gender institution to improve the lives of all Moroccan women. The authors offer a template for studying change in national gender institutions that can be adopted by practitioners and scholars in other settings.

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This book explores, through a feminist and institutionalist approach, how Moroccan women activists altered their national gender institution to improve the lives of all Moroccan women. The authors offer a template for studying change in national gender institutions that can be adopted by practitioners and scholars in other settings.

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"Mortality and Music examines the ways in which popular music has responded to our awareness of the inevitability of death and the anxiety it can evoke. Exploring bereavement, depression, suicide, violence, gore, and fans' responses to the deaths of musicians, it argues for the social and cultural significance of popular music's treatment of mortality and the apparent absurdity of existence.

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Published in 1991, this collection of nineteen essays delves into themes such as: death, the body, the soul, the individual, and relations between mortals and immortals; the mask, the mirror, the image, and the imagination; the self and the other, and the concept of otherness itself, or "alterity."

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"Demonstrates the immense influence exercised by Mabel Constanduros and early writers and performers, especially women, on the history of the BBC and popular entertainment"--

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The latest installment in the Seal Studies series, focusing on the important and timeless topic of motherhood

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This urban ethnography examines the relationship between urban residence and endemic poverty and health inequalities. Looking at the everyday lives of struggling women, it explores how bureaucratic rigidity and hierarchy relate to personal decision-making in a context of pregnancy, parenting, and poverty.

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This urban ethnography examines the relationship between urban residence and endemic poverty and health inequalities. Looking at the everyday lives of struggling women, it explores how bureaucratic rigidity and hierarchy relate to personal decision-making in a context of pregnancy, parenting, and poverty.

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Controversial, unflinching and intelligent, Anne Manne discusses the big issues surrounding motherhood and childcare and proposes radical new directions for social policy.

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Presents a synthetic history of the family in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, this book advances efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian social history. It provides an analysis of the history of Jewish families in medieval Ashkenaz.

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Drawing on articles appearing in popular women's magazines from 1950 to 1989, this study documents changes in justifications of gender-based divisions of labor in the home and workplace.

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What role did right-wing women play in the Nazi rise to power This book analyzes the work of women in the German Peoples Party and the German National Peoples Party - from the moderate to the radical right parties. Looking at politics on both the local and national level, the author discusses issues ranging from social welfare to foreign policy.

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What role did right-wing women play in the Nazi rise to power This book analyzes the work of women in the German Peoples Party and the German National Peoples Party - from the moderate to the radical right parties. Looking at politics on both the local and national level, the author discusses issues ranging from social welfare to foreign policy.

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MotherScholars Perceptions shares how MotherScholars have achieved success, even amidst a global pandemicboth in redefining their identity and in achieving some semblance of the mythical work-family balance. Readers will gain a renewed sense of passion and vigor while practicing and cultivating gratitude as MotherScholars.

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While media studies have rightly focused on how films prompt men to gaze at women, this study shows that films simultaneously encourage men to see themselves as the object of controlling looks.