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Draws on wide-ranging empirical research to show the production, distribution and consumption of pornography, its content, its consumers and the public debates within which people make sense of it. This title provides insight into the everyday uses of pornography by ordinary consumers, and the place of pornography in society.

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"The Pornography of Meat, a visual companion and sequel to the seminal The Sexual Politics of Meat, charts how representations in our culture are evidence of overlapping oppressions of misogyny, white supremacy, homophobia, ableism, and human superiority. This revised edition includes over 300 images and has been updated to cover digital media, the language of Trump and the #MeToo movement"--

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From Seattle anarchist punks to UK Asian underground music, Canadian female X-Files fans to Australian dance cultures, this book draws on a variety of international case studies to investigate the new relationships among youth subcultural music, politics and taste. It questions the possibility of what might be termed post-subcultural studies.

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From Seattle anarchist punks to UK Asian underground music, Canadian female "X-Files" fans to Australian dance cultures, this book draws on a variety of international case studies to investigate the relationships among youth subcultural music, politics and taste. It also questions the relevance of what might be termed post-subcultural studies.

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A review of poverty in the United States, summarising conservative views and providing evidence to defeat their arguments. The author aims to demonstrate that widespread poverty is not caused by lack of ambition, and probes both the political dimension and the role of government.

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A review of poverty in the United States, summarising conservative views and providing evidence to defeat their arguments. The author aims to demonstrate that widespread poverty is not caused by lack of ambition, and probes both the political dimension and the role of government.

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Based on an ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television.

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This collection presents a critical and historicising investigation of contemporary debates on affect, power and agency in queer, feminist and antiracist media cultures. Through a range of in-depth case studies, the book explores the potential as well as the constraints of vulnerability as a new political language. -- .

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Untangles the jargon, and provides you with the knowledge to participate in the production of practical media products. This work is a guide to understanding how the media works and how people in the media talk to each other about their industry. It also includes specialist jargon found in a TV studio, and on location.

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The difficulty for students and new entrants to the industry is that the day-to-day working language, the customised roles and the specific deployment of skills and specialist activities can seem at first daunting and inpenetrable. The Practical Media Dictionary' is an essential guide to understanding how the media works and how people in the media talk to each other about their industry.

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This unique text examines 30 specific pain management case studies to explain pain treatments from the perspectives of Eastern acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine as well as that of Western medical practice.

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Introduces readers to the transsexual mindset, explaining how the identity discord develops, and to research that suggests a biological, and not purely psychological, basis for transsexuality. This book also details the psychological, social, family and legal issues transsexuals face.

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In this volume an international array of scholars provides case studies from various countries of social inequalities and how they shape media narratives and experiences. The topics include how social inequalities relate to gender and empowerment, poverty and the media, and discriminatory access to media technologies.

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In this volume an international array of scholars provides case studies from various countries of social inequalities and how they shape media narratives and experiences. The topics include how social inequalities relate to gender and empowerment, poverty and the media, and discriminatory access to media technologies.

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The author discusses the role of economic concentration in limiting public access to information and reducing opportunities for public discourse.

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Perhaps no drama catches the interest of the American public more than a spectacular trial.

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Documents the uneasy place Jews have held in America's racial culture since the late nineteenth century. This book traces Jews' often tumultuous encounter with race from the 1870s through World War II, when they became vested as part of America's white mainstream and abandoned the practice of describing themselves in racial terms.