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Many believe that the urban underclass in America is a large, rapidly increasing proportion of the population; that crime, teenage pregnancy, and high school dropout rates are escalating; and that welfare rolls are exploding.

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A new angle, this should become a key text in the debate on Saudi-US-UK relations.

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"This expanded edition of the bestseller ... features a diverse set of new monologues in addition to those previously included, as well as a new introduction by a leader in feminist thought and a new afterword about the global influence of [the book]""--

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Takes the reader on a journey from LA to Tokyo via Europe. This book explores what cities were, are and will be. It questions how memory - personal, urban, national and global memory - can survive.

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This book investigates how a victims voice, identity, and credibility are established in the current sexual misconduct crisis. Using rhetorical analysis, gender studies, and law and society perspectives, the author examines victim impact statements, campus sexual assault investigations, workplace sexual harassment parameters, and new activism.

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This book investigates how a victims voice, identity, and credibility are established in the current sexual misconduct crisis. Using rhetorical analysis, gender studies, and law and society perspectives, the author examines victim impact statements, campus sexual assault investigations, workplace sexual harassment parameters, and new activism.

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The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) is the most expansive federal legislation addressing intimate violence in the United States to date.

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This book offers a social movement perspective on family violence, framing the discovery of abuse toward women and men as a natural development flowing out of social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The problem of women's violence is one that has remained largely ignored compared to the mountain of research on men's violence toward women.

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Provides an assessment of feminist rejections of rationality and a reconstruction of the concept to meet feminist demands. This book represents a sustained argument for a feminist theory of rationality. It opens by asking the question: is reason inherently masculine

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Examines Chilean singer-songwriter, visual artist, poet and ethnographer Violeta Parra (19171967)

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This innovative book gives a historical and geographic perspective on visual cultures of childhood, looking at representation as well as media effects.

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What really hurts America's children and what we can do about it.

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Because women are more likely to seek professional help, and because they are more likely to be the victims of abuse by people in positions of power, women who do seek professional assistance may end up being victims of sexual exploitation by the very people from whom they seek help.

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"In his withering dissection of the origins and misuse of the term "underclass" to stereotype and stigmatize the poor, Herbert J. Gans shows how this ubiquitous label has relegated a wide variety of pe"

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This insightful analysis argues that the media should have done a better job of performing its traditional role of skeptic and watchdog, and it examines what went wrong.

There are, of course, many people whose support for going to war in Iraq was not contingent on the existence of WMD or a connection to al-Qaeda.

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Blows the lid on what has been described by the UN as a 'human catastrophe' the governments war on disabled people

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Here is the whole story of the world of drugs-from the infamous Opium Wars to the legal availability of narcotics in the United States during the past century; from the unexpected boost given to illicit drugs by Prohibition to the great success of the French Connection.

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In this clear-eyed and controversial book he sets himself to take the temperature of the nation at the end of the 20th century - to test its blood for health and heartiness, sample its imagination for largeness amd magnanimity, conduct examinations of its intelligence, judgement and moral sense.

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This collection of essays examines the question of how injustices of the past affect entire groups of people today and outlines the current beneficiaries of these injustices.

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Members of social groups, including communities, routinely exert subtle forms of social control on others. The Web: Social Control in a Lesbian Community is a sociological study examining the effects of informal social control_the response to behavior or people regarded as dev...