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Communes and utopian communities are groups of men and women who share a central or common belief and choose to live together away from mainstream society.

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Enayat describes and interprets some of the major Islamic political ideas, examining the differences between the two main schools in Islam - Shi'ism and Sunnism. The concept of the Islamic state, and the Muslim response to the challenge of modern ideologies, are also covered.

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This work explores how modernization and globalization are changing the meaning of Confucianism for contemporary Chinese people. It focuses on current social changes, their implications for the Chinese scholarly tradition, and the responses of Confucianists to these changes.

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This work examines three very different allegorical uses of the female form: New York's statue of Liberty; the public sculptures of central Paris; and the images of Mrs Thatcher favoured by Fleet Street.

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Here are more great topics and sample book club sessions to help you start a book club and keep it going! Chapters in this volume cover humor, families, social issues, folklore and mythology, sports, magazines, picture books as art, censorship, the Internet, middle school readers, gender bias, booktalks, and the arts.

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"Demonstrates the immense influence exercised by Mabel Constanduros and early writers and performers, especially women, on the history of the BBC and popular entertainment"--

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The latest installment in the Seal Studies series, focusing on the important and timeless topic of motherhood

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Presents a synthetic history of the family in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, this book advances efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian social history. It provides an analysis of the history of Jewish families in medieval Ashkenaz.

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Drawing on articles appearing in popular women's magazines from 1950 to 1989, this study documents changes in justifications of gender-based divisions of labor in the home and workplace.

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What role did right-wing women play in the Nazi rise to power This book analyzes the work of women in the German Peoples Party and the German National Peoples Party - from the moderate to the radical right parties. Looking at politics on both the local and national level, the author discusses issues ranging from social welfare to foreign policy.

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What role did right-wing women play in the Nazi rise to power This book analyzes the work of women in the German Peoples Party and the German National Peoples Party - from the moderate to the radical right parties. Looking at politics on both the local and national level, the author discusses issues ranging from social welfare to foreign policy.

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While media studies have rightly focused on how films prompt men to gaze at women, this study shows that films simultaneously encourage men to see themselves as the object of controlling looks.

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Examines the consequences of people moving to beautiful recreational places and the social structure and natural environment of those places.

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Get to know Ms. AMAZING With This Trade paperback Collecting Issues 2,3,4,5 and 6 in one GIANT BOOK! The First Lady of LIFE Comics Universe!

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A portion of the book describes the psychological traumas associated with political unrest and a society undergoing major transition, paying particular attention to three major traumas: child abuse and neglect, children who have been the victims of an unjust and inequitable educational system, and children caught in the war of political violence.

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So-called multiculturalists have been recently targeted by journalists and scholars arguing that such apologists are the cause of contemporary cultural fragmentation, racism, neo-segregation, lowered standards, and a radicalism that ignores the wishes of mainstream America.

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Multiculturalism has been blamed for encouraging oppression of women. Many critics opportunistically deploy gender equality to justify the retreat from multiculturalism, hijacking the equality agenda to perpetuate cultural stereotypes. The author offers a way of addressing dilemmas of justice and equality in multiethnic, multicultural societies.

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Explores the history and experience of Muslims in Australia.