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"A book length study of how fans have been depicted in mass media"--

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Topics range from personal identity and the effects upon it of gender, socialization, culture, and ethnic background to women's relationships and the role of professional women in occupations defined and dominated by a male perspective.

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Seeing Straight introduces students to key concepts in gender and sexuality through the lens of privilege and power. The book addresses tough topics like hate, violence and privilege, and institutionalized heteronormativity. This book is an ideal introduction to gender and sexuality that encourages students to question their own assumptions.

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Seeing Straight introduces students to key concepts in gender and sexuality through the lens of privilege and power. The book addresses tough topics like hate, violence and privilege, and institutionalized heteronormativity. This book is an ideal introduction to gender and sexuality that encourages students to question their own assumptions.

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A legal and social examination of asylum in Israel - a controversial and hotly debated topic.

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Parts II and III, focusing on Immigrant Women of the Past and Immigrant Women Since 1920, provide empirical and interpretive essays on immigrant women from Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

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Parts II and III, focusing on Immigrant Women of the Past and Immigrant Women Since 1920, provide empirical and interpretive essays on immigrant women from Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

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This book develops a theory of comedy by analyzing the television situation comedy Seinfeld and demonstrating how comedy presents a comic vision of the world, one that embraces human nature and its place in the world despite all the frustrations of everyday human life.

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In this volume, anthropologists and religious studies scholars come to terms not only with a landscape that has shifted fundamentally, but a landscape that is still shifting.

Essays in this collection raise new and important issues for the anthropological study of religion in new and important ways.

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The book presents six articles written at intervals of about a decade between 1960 and 2020, all of which relate to the problem of representative politics. The articles are contextualised historically to document a developing presentation of self on the part of the author while also raising questions about the changing nature of political represen

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This book analyzes eleven trailblazing 1920s female authors who wrote counter-narratives to sexism, racism, classism, and homophobia. The author brings their novels, poems, plays, film scenarios, and blues lyrics into conversation with each other to show different approaches women could take to become autonomous individuals and full citizens.

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From a leading Harvard expert on stress comes a book--now in paperback--that gives women permission to take care of themselves in a world of overwhelming demands. Readers will also find the tools they need to reclaim their capacity for inner peace.

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The book presents six articles written at intervals of about a decade between 1960 and 2020, all of which relate to the problem of representative politics. The articles are contextualised historically to document a developing presentation of self on the part of the author while also raising questions about the changing nature of political representation.

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In this major study of poor working women in a third world urban market, the authors expode several assumptions held by agencies working in developing countries. that poor women are the children of poor parents and that their own children can hardly even hope to move up to a factory job, let alone a white-collar job.

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Sellers and Servants is a welcome addition to research on a neglected subject, that of poverty-stricken Peruvian women whose alternatives for subsistence are few and cruel: to be a servant or to peddle goods in the markets and streets of Lima.

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Provides a comparative study of how drinks and drinking, as embodied semiotic and material forms, mediate modern social life. This book examines the fundamental nature of drink through a series of modular but connected ethnographic discussions.

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Provides a comparative study of how drinks and drinking, as embodied semiotic and material forms, mediate modern social life. This book examines the fundamental nature of drink through a series of modular but connected ethnographic discussions.