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A collection of essays-plus interviews with well-known feminists-by Manifesta co-author Jennifer Baumgardner on everything from purity balls to Lady Gaga

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The portrayal of Islamist movements as a tide of religious fanaticism has provoked a debate of great significance to the future of international relations. Francois Burgat argues that political Islam's desire to restore a culture distorted by colonisation does not necessarily compromise its progress to more democracy and greater tolerance.

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This text goes a step further by providing a framework for intervening on a moment-by-moment basis to ensure group goal achievement.

Facilitating Training Groups provides clear descriptions of three primary models--T-groups, personal growth groups, and skills training groups.

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Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory feelings about their bodies and the physical real...

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Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory feelings about their bodies and the physical real...

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Explores the lived experiences of thirty-six white Australian converts to Islam, in a national context where Islam is cast in opposition to the white Australian nation. Oishee Alam details how racialisation is reproduced and experienced in everyday interpersonal encounters by white converts, with Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

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Renowned Critical Africana scholar and philosopher, Molefi Kete Asante demonstrates the multidimensionality of Afrocentricity as a paradigm of theoretical perspectives advancing the agency of African people. Examining orientations to culture, society, values, and communication, Asantes essays face South first, and then to the rest of the world.

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Renowned Critical Africana scholar and philosopher, Molefi Kete Asante demonstrates the multidimensionality of Afrocentricity as a paradigm of theoretical perspectives advancing the agency of African people. Examining orientations to culture, society, values, and communication, Asantes essays face South first, and then to the rest of the world.

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There is no teasing apart what interracial couples think of themselves from what society shows them about themselves. Following on her earlier ground-breaking study of the social worlds of interracial couples, Erica Chito Childs considers the larger context of social messages, ...

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This insightful provocative glimpse at identity formation in the US reviews the new frontier of race and looks back at the archaism of the one-drop rule that is unique to America.

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This insightful provocative glimpse at identity formation in the US reviews the new frontier of race and looks back at the archaism of the one-drop rule that is unique to America.

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Riots and demonstrations, the lifeblood of American social and political protest in the 1960s, are now a historical memory. But Mary Fainsod Katzenstein argues that protest has not disappeared-it has simply moved off the streets into the country's core institutions.

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Wells and Curry have brought contributions from various disciplines under one theme in an attempt to answer one question: what is the appropriate use of religious commitments by scholars trying to do intellectual work that would appeal to academic colleagues

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This book discusses the theory that alternative relationship and family structures challenge the privileged status of the nuclear family as the preferable mode of family life for all, and the one to be endorsed and encouraged by society.

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Much of the life and ritual of the Druze in Lebanon appears mysterious to outsiders, as this esoteric sect remains closed to non-members. In this book, the author explores how the substantial social and political changes that have shaken the country have affected marriage and divorce practices.

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This volume provides insight into the family life of Native Americans of the northeast quadrant of the North American continent and those living in the adjacent coastal and piedmont regions.

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The media have described Vietnamese Americans as the quintessential American immigrant success story. This book draws on interviews and participant observation with Vietnamese immigrants in Philadelphia to show how they construct their family lives in response to the social and economic challenges posed by migration and resettlement.

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This book is the result of a survey conducted among experts on the problems faced by families and women in Central-Eastern Europe. Each contributor evaluates the chances for equal rights and opportunities for men and women, and indicates trends in social policy concerning the family and working women.

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Polari has been the secret language of gay men and women through the 20th century. This work presents a lexicon of Polari as well as a more general dictionary of lesbian and gay slang.

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This volume examines women on American television in the nineties in an attempt to uncover the cultural obsession with tough, sexy heroines in mythical pasts, the "girl power" present, and utopic futures. Programmes covered include "Babylon 5", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", and "Xena.

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This book examines the relationship between women's fashion, female representation and femininity in Britain throughout the 1900s. The authors unpick the dynamics of the fashion system and set fashion into the context of British social life.

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Is Gangsta Rap just black noise Or does it play the same role for urban youth that CNN plays in mainstream America This provocative set of essays tells us how Gangsta Rap is a creative "report" about an urban crisis, our new American dilemma, and why we need to listen.

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This book argues that Indonesian female workers are actively confronting matters that are important to their interests as labor. In their writings and activism, they challenge the political order and demand gender justice.

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This text examines the place of food in the American woman's life, roles and self-image. Combining feminist anthropology and theory with culinary history, it examines food in women's history, with a particular emphasis on the life and changing roles of the American woman and her self-image.