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A cohesive, interdisciplinary study of the imaginative power screen media has to reshape our perception of Roman women, covering over 100 years with examples from silent cinema through to computer games.

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The inaugural winner of The Iremonger Award for Writing on Public Issues, this is a provocative exploration of urbanised Australia and a passionate plea for the suburbs to be given their rightful place in Australia's public consciousness.

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Provides the historical context necessary for an understanding of contemporary issues in a society coming to terms with native title and multiculturalism.

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This book uses an innovative and original theoretical framework for the understanding of Christian consciousness in the age of pluralism, drawing on Georg Simmels social theory as well as philosophers such as Heidegger, Beauvoir, Sartre, Ferrara, and MacIntyre and classical and contemporary sociologists and anthropologists.

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Focusing on the political life of the sha'b in Cairo, this book shows how men and women develop creative and effective strategies to accomplish shared goals, despite the dominant forces ranged against them. It examines communal patterns of allocation, distribution, and decision-making.

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Identifies changing patterns of labor force participation by married women and analyzes the consequences to women of the work versus family decision.

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The Victorians posited that cleanliness was next to Godliness and nowhere was this association more apparent than when it was applied to women.

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What do women today make of 'feminist' attitudes to pornography, censorship and the media. Catharine Lumby argues, controversially, that 'politically correct' attitudes to these issues which generate a knee-jerk response from the feminist establishment can be just as restricting as the traditional patriarchy.

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This work analyzes techniques and gendered aspects of the making of beads, as well as their role in trade and body adornment, in a wide range of societies where they have become a symbol of cultural survival and identity.

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This work analyzes techniques and gendered aspects of the making of beads, as well as their role in trade and body adornment, in a wide range of societies where they have become a symbol of cultural survival and identity.

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Beauty, Virtue, Power, and Success in Venezuela 18502015 examines how Venezuelan women have learned to exercise and perform to societal expectations of beauty in four historical moments: 18501890, 19101950, 19601990, and 20002015.

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The best-selling author of Flow and an award-winning sociologist draw on a unique longitudinal study to reveal how adolescents develop attitudes, skills, and expectations about their adult careers.

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Explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race. This title weaves together multiple narratives to tell the complex history of a problematic term.

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A revealing portrait of black men in America explores their lives and experiences with unusual depth and clarity

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Being Gay in Ireland argues that existing theory on gay mens lives exhibits a social weightlessness, whereby regional histories become lost in universalist conceptions of identity. Gerard Rodgers aims to fill the gap in regional knowledge by exploring Irelands evolving history and its potential implications for gay mens lives.

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Every year more and more Europeans, including Germans, are embracing Islam. It is estimated that there are now up to one hundred thousand German converts--a number similar to that in France and the United Kingdom. What stands out about recent conversions is that they take place at a time when Islam is increasingly seen as contrary to European value

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In Being Indian, Pavan Varma, whom the Guardian has called 'one of the country's most perceptive writers', demolishes the myths and generalisations as he turns his sharply observant gaze on his fellow countrymen to examine what really makes Indians tick and what they have to offer the world in the 21st century.

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For everyone fed up with inquiries about their love lives, tired of going out on blind dates, or sensitive about living in a world that views marriage as a requirement and not an option, here is a prescription for enjoying singlehood to the utmost.

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