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Although general bibliographies on immigration may include entries on women, researchers interested in women immigrants will welcome this work.

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Examines the lived housing experiences of recently arrived migrants living in inner city, town and small town locations in Ireland. Building on the concept of 'housing careers', this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of migrants' 'housing pathways'. -- .

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Well over dozens of members of the so-called Beur generation have published narrative works. They include Mehdi Charef, Azouz Begag and Farida Belghoul. This study combines careful analysis of the formal structures with the authors and extensive access to unpublished writings.

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Presents the history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity. This book probes more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, and argues that the Christianization of the Roman Empire generated the most fundamental features of medieval and modern Jewish life.

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Since the 1960s the number of highly educated professionals in America has grown dramatically. This title challenges these characterizations, showing that claims about the distinctive politics and values of the professional stratum have been overstated.

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This distillation of women's experience from the British Commonwealth and the United States includes contributions by Shirley Chisholm, Janet Frame, Rosemary Brown, Dorothy Livesay, Gabrielle Roy, and Kim Chernin.

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An absorbing account of the sociocultural aspects of gender transition. Weinberg, Indiana University

Anne Bolin illuminates the array of social, psychological and physical changes experienced by a group of people in the process of changing gender.

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Challenging the widespread 'separatist imagination' behind partition, this book demonstrates the ways in which works of Jewish and Arab literature reject simple notions of separatism and instead display configurations of identity that emphasize the presence of alterity within the self - the Jew within the Arab, and the Arab within the Jew.

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Offering a new perspective on male prostitution, In the Company of Men employs qualitative methodology to present a real-world view of the issues, both obvious and obscure, surrounding the world's "second-oldest profession."

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A collection that explores the politics of female celebrity across a range of contemporary, historical, media and national contexts. It seeks to interrogate such phenomena by forging a greater conceptual, theoretical and historical dialogue between celebrity studies and critical gender studies.

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Exploring the politics of female celebrity across a range of contemporary, historical, media and national contexts, this collection seeks to interrogate such phenomena by forging a greater conceptual, theoretical and historical dialogue between celebrity studies and critical gender studies.

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When the 19th Amendment became law on August 26, 1920, women as newly enfranchised voters entered an era of political rights and responsibilities for which, as a subordinate class, they were unprepared. This text details the vital role played by the League of Women Voters in American politics.

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This encyclopedia describes how intrusive activities such as mining, tourism, and dam building are damaging the environments of indigenous people around the world. Entries frequently describe the situation in whole countries and regions and other times focus in on the experiences of a particular ind

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Indigenous essays in honour of Linda Tuhiwai Smith celebrate the positive, shifting ground of how Indigenous writers are shaping the post-colonial research world

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Represents a survey of research which aims to open up different perspectives on many European countries. The theme of social inequality is divided into sections on income, property, employment, education, housing, illness and death. This book also attempts to develop arguments about the relationship between industrialisation and social inequality.

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A survey of research that opens up different perspectives on a number of European countries. It divides the theme of social inequality into sections on income, property, employment, education, housing, illness and death. It attempts to develop many arguments about the relationship between industrialisation and social inequality.

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Challenges arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessary, accompaniment of economic growth. This book stresses that economic fortune depends more on social circumstances than on IQ, which is itself a product of society.

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Unintentional injuries (car crashes, drowning, burns) are a leading cause of death to young children. Child abuse, infectious diseases and food poisoning also affect children under five. This bibliography provides information useful to those who care for or are responsible for young children.

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Presents the story of the Jewish community in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. This work reveals a pattern of adaptation to American life surprisingly different from that followed by Jewish immigrants to metropolitan areas. It presents an examination of Jewish life in the Eastern European regions from which most of Johnstown's immigrants came.

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This study describes how and why institutional racism arose in Hawai'i, what kept it going and how it can be dismantled. It focuses on racial problems in relation to education, employment, health care delivery and public accommodation.