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From fascists to fashionistas, this work looks at clothing and its cultural meaning in our everyday lives. Tracing the troubling connections amongst religious orders, the military, schools and fetish clubs, it shows how uniforms control bodies and enable subversion. It shows how the uniform inspires fear and love, conformity and subversion.

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From fascists to fashionistas, this work looks at clothing and its cultural meaning in our everyday lives. Tracing the troubling connections amongst religious orders, the military, schools and fetish clubs, it shows how uniforms control bodies and enable subversion. It shows how the uniform inspires fear and love, conformity and subversion.

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Directors of women's centers from across the United States discuss the potential of such organizations to improve the quality of women's experiences at colleges and universities. Twenty chapters provide information on structural issues, policies and programs, information and advocacy, and identity a

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This book uses a sociological and ethnographic lens to explore why MMA participants endure grueling workouts and serious injury. The authors argue that the idolization of MMA participants from their supporters, each other, and culture more generally is linked to the creation of a type of publicly accessible and consumable form of masculinity.

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This book uses a sociological and ethnographic lens to explore why MMA participants endure grueling workouts and serious injury. The authors argue that the idolization of MMA participants from their supporters, each other, and culture more generally is linked to the creation of a type of publicly accessible and consumable form of masculinity.

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Unrivalled Influence explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Written by one of the world's foremost historians of the Byzantine millennium, this landmark book evokes the complex and exotic world of Byzantium's women, from empresses and saints to uneducated rural widows. Draw

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Unsettling America explores the uses of Indianness in the twenty-first century. It concerns itself with images of Native Americans and the ways in which American Indians have interpreted, challenged, and reworked them. Its close readings offer deeper understandings of racism, culture, and sovereignty.

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"An archaeology of the video game engine examined through the lens of art modding (alterations to video games by players or fans)"--

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Composed after the election of the first black U.S. president, after the post-global financial crisis, more than a decade after 9/11, and concomitant with a rash of xenophobic incidents across the globe, Unveiling Whiteness distills key themes associated with a post-millennial global whiteness.

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How does culture shape notions of sexuality and gender Why are transvestites in the West so often seen as 'deviant' or 'perverse,' while they are accepted in other societies What are the implications for the categories of 'male' and 'female' when considering transvestism

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How does culture shape notions of sexuality and gender Why are transvestites in the West so often seen as 'deviant' or 'perverse,' while they are accepted in other societies What are the implications for the categories of 'male' and 'female' when considering transvestism

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Up for Discussion Volume 1 is a collection of poetry from the mind of someone making commentary on his life and the world in the span of 10 years. In this collection you will find themes of self-determination, sexuality, double standards, spirituality, race, and love.

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This first-hand empirical study of elderly Soviet Jews who immigrated to Israel during the Great Exodus of 1989 to 1991 demonstrates the double jeopardy of transnational relocation in later life.

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A socio-historical and ethnographic account of pioneering Anglophone eastern Caribbean women who signed up to be migrant domestics in the Caribbean oil lands.

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With its workable vocabulary of approximately 2,000 terms, Urban Affairs Subject Headings is a precise and consistent indexing tool. It will serve the subscriber to the Index to Current Urban Documents as a checklist of all the terms that may be used to index documents they need for a reference search.

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An outstanding resource for contemporary American Indians as well as students and scholars interested in community and ethnicity, this book dispels the myth that all American Indians live on reservations and are plagued with problems, and serves to illustrate a unique, dynamic model of community formation.

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Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects , the second in a series, sets out to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing key social and economic problems facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas.

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This book provides a reflection on urban ecocriticism, a subject that has yet to be fully researched and appreciated within the trans-disciplinary framework of the environmental humanities.