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This book answers readers' most pressing questions about sexual harassment, including how to identify it, its causes, and its effects. It also provides guidance and resources for anyone experiencing or witnessing sexual harassment.

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Explores the social concerns of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and the transgendered - what has come to be known as 'lgbt' or 'queer' politics. This book offers the an overview of the study of lgbt politics in political science across the discipline's main subfields and methodologies, and it spotlights lgbt movements in many regions around the world.

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Why have multiple mega-church leaders-Ted Haggard and Bishop Eddie Long, for example-committed acts of sexual misconduct This book discusses the reasons in depth and examines how these acts are impacting the future of megachurches.

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Essays examine how the mass media represents sexuality, gender, and identity and how it intervenes in our perception of popular culture.

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Drawing on the most recent studies, this collection of articles assesses and evaluates current criminal justice responses, policies, and practices regarding sexual violence in the United States and Canada.

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Against the background of the law reform debates around sexuality in Britain and America, Bamforth provides a cogent argument for protecting lesbian and gay rights through law, but is sceptical about how useful law can be in eradicating discriminatory practices.

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This provocative book takes a look at children's consumption of sexualized media messages while providing parents, teachers, and professionals with strategies for abating their influence.

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Questions about memory, identity and belonging touch the lives of many people who live in the shadows of historical trauma. Learning to think in new ways about the Shoah as a defining crisis with modernity, Seidler also helps us imagine an ethics for a postmodern time.

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Questions about memory, identity and belonging touch the lives of many people who live in the shadows of historical trauma. Learning to think in new ways about the Shoah as a defining crisis with modernity, Seidler also helps us imagine an ethics for a postmodern time.

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This collection offers a theoretically robust interrogation of how the circulation of Shakespeare within popular culture modes and genres operates to craft, reify and/or contest existing racial imaginaries.

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Offers a new critical intervention into the studies of the paradox of Chinese socialism. Centering on the unremodable Shanghai bourgeoisie and middle class, the book brilliantly discovers Chinese societys persistent aspiration to bourgeois lifestyle.

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Challenges the notion that modernization is a homogenizing process. This book contends that in the course of large-scale transformations communities often reproduce and strengthen distinctive cultural and social features. It focuses on the French farming community of 'Ste Foy' during a period of rapid change (1945-75).

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Investigates one of the most serious policy challenges facing US: the stubborn persistence of racial inequality in the post-civil rights era. Focusing on two key policy areas, welfare and employment, this book asks why America has had such uneven success at incorporating African Americans and other minorities into the benefits of citizenship.

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In 1961 a family from Des Moines, Iowa moved to Karachi, Pakistan to begin the adventure of a lifetime. Little did anyone suspect how a mid-western housewife would become transformed into a woman of international intrigue.

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Sharing Our Stories of Survival is a comprehensive treatment of the socio-legal issues that arise in the context of violence against native womenwritten by social scientists, writers, poets, and survivors of violence.

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States that White males matter very much to discussions of race, ethnicity, and gender in the US due to their numbers and the influence they wield. This book explores the heterogeneity of white male America, taking into account such factors as age, ethnicity, ideology, social class, regional background, occupational status, and sexual orientation.

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The author explores the heterogeneity of white male America, taking account of age, ethnicity, ideology, social class, regional background, occupation, and sexual preference. This timely work draws on a broad range of sources, including extensive field research and hundreds of interviews.

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Against the backdrop of U.S. drug policy and strategy, this important work, written by an experienced Intelligence and Special Operations Officer and Scholar, peels away the rhetoric to present an insider's view of cocaine trafficking in the Western Hemisphere.

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Islam is often portrayed, especially in Western media, as an alien, violent, hostile, and monolithic religion, whose adherents are intent upon battling nonbelievers throughout the world. This book demonstrates that these conceptions reflect the bias of Western reporters than they do the realities of contemporary Islam.

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From comic books and computer music to gaming and blogging, nerdy women have their say in this witty collection that takes on the "boys only" clubs in science and technology and celebrates a woman's geek spirit

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