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Classic accounts of modernity have generally ignored or marginalized women, relegating them to the private sphere of home, sexuality and personal relationships. This book discusses the highly gendered nature of the concept of modernity which has, to date, marginalized the domestic space and women's traditional role as 'homemakers'.

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Challenges stereotypes about domesticity with a reevaluation of women's roles in the 'private' sphere. This book discusses the highly gendered nature of the concept of modernity which has, to date, marginalized the domestic space and women's traditional role as 'homemakers'.

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This book is a tool for educators at all levels to embrace infusing popular culture into their teaching in ways that both embrace and resist contemporary thinking. Its chapters provide a range of theoretical and practical suggestionssome widely accepted, some somewhat controversialto elicit discussion and spark creativity amongst all students.

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Their story is one of three interacting players: the Croatian government which until recently has sat firmly in control, the compliant press which seemed little motivated to change, and the largely quiescent public which demanded little from its press or its government.

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A true "first," this encyclopedia is the only comprehensive guide ever published on the archaeology and traditional culture of the Caribbean.

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Olfa Youssef investigates the rulings about inheritance, marriage, and homosexuality in the Quranic text itself and compares them with the androcentric interpretations provided by male Muslim theologians and legal scholars from medieval times to the present, which today inform the body of the sharia law in the Muslim world.

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Explores how MCSOs have responded to the challenges of the Australian socio-political context, the perceived impact of these experiences, and how Islam is manifested within the contexts of these experiences. This book offers researchers, policy makers and those engaged in community development a rich understanding of Muslim community building, engagement and agency.

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A study of the Bond phenomenon and its relation to the rise of playboy culture from the 1960s onwards. -- .

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Drawing on an international body of case studies from leading millennial networks, Millennials in the Modern Workforce shows how millennials can live deeper and more enriching lives by reflecting on the self, placing value on solitude and resisting the feeling that they must constantly connect and share.

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The description for this book, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, will be forthcoming.

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Through empirical analysis and theoretical reflection, this book shows that the aesthetics and politics of the Islamic Stateis futurist. ISIS overcomes postmodern pessimism and joins the modern, techno-oriented, and optimistic attitude propagated by Italian Futurism in the early twentieth century.

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This book examines the causes and consequences of gender gaps in policy preferences in the United States. While explaining the causes of gender gaps requires drawing from a wide array of fields, ranging from biology to economics, understanding their origins and consequences does much to further empirical research in public opinion and mass behavior.

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The contributors show that digital media are disrupting entire media industries, but without erasing the past and insist that one media sector is not the same as the next. As the title signals even in the age of convergence and remix culture, different media continue to display their own distinctive political economies.

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A radical new collection addressing violence against women in conflict zones across the global South.

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Hearns-Branaman presents a full-scale application of Herman and Chomskys propaganda model to the Peoples Republic of China, examining the effects of concentrated media ownership, profit motive, the influence of advertisers and flak-generating groups, sourcing patterns of media, and dominant ideology.

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Hearns-Branaman presents a full-scale application of Herman and Chomskys propaganda model to the Peoples Republic of China, examining the effects of concentrated media ownership, profit motive, the influence of advertisers and flak-generating groups, sourcing patterns of media, and dominant ideology.

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The book makes a compelling case for reconstructing feminist theory in critical-realist terms and forms a trend-setting text in the area of gender studies. -- .

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This examination of key CBS broadcasts and the people behind them that helped to establish the network as the prototype for excellence provides a unique perspective on the early era of broadcasting.

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Choi and Murphy seek to analyze the key facets of the debate over PC.

Starting with an examination of the key concepts of PC, Choi and Murphy review the essentials of neo-conservative social philosophy and the Postmodern Alternative as well as neo-conservative critiques of postmodernism.