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This work looks at gay men's English as a cultural and a linguistic phenomenon. Examining a variety of material, including interviews and discussions with gay men, newspapers and magazines, the text focuses on the linguistic practices of gay men in their everyday lives.

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Features lyrical essays, which draw on the author's experiences as a politically committed, gay Jamaican American to deliver a condemnation of the prejudices, hatreds, and inhumanities that persist in the United States and elsewhere, as both official policy and social reality. This book puts forth a moral and ethical understanding of human rights.

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In these lyrical and powerful essays, Thomas Glave draws on his experiences as a politically committed, gay Jamaican American to deliver a searing condemnation of the prejudices, hatreds, and inhumanities that persist in the United States and elsewhere as both official policy and social reality.

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Using Robert Reich's "The Work of Nations" as a springboard, the text argues that globalism coupled with disparities of wealth and power, changes the work of nations and the role of communities. It examines local entrepreneurial policy choices in the context of economic and political restructuring.

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This work addresses the question of female spirituality within medieval theological and devotional writings by examining texts in which women play a significant role, either as authors, recipients, or subjects. It suggests that these texts express the idea of "female vernacular theology".

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This work addresses the question of female spirituality within medieval theological and devotional writings by examining texts in which women play a significant role, either as authors, recipients, or subjects. It suggests that these texts express the idea of "female vernacular theology".

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The ancient Kurdish mountain people are considered one of the oldest ethnicities in the Middle East, and often derided as 'devil-worshippers'. This work presents a survey of Yezidi culture and documents the increasing demands of modernisation on one of the oldest ethnic minorities of the Middle East.Unique volume with 35 colour photographs.

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Today, two-thirds of all Arab Muslims are under the age of thirty. Young Islam takes readers inside the evolving competition for their support--a competition not simply between Islamism and the secular world, but between different and often conflicting visions of Islam itself. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research among rank-and-file activist

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The diverse ways in which old age is seen across Europe are compared and different forms of care for the needs of older people are examined. The question of inter-generational relations is seen as an element in the future of old age. It is argued that much is to be learned from cross-national comparisons in developing social responses to old age.

This book tells their stories, with particular focus on women who fought.

Entries profile over 300 remarkable women of the military, covering such groups as the Amazons, women in the Spanish Civil War, and Native Americans.

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Leah Purcell features in this series of interviews with Aboriginal women making their mark on the Australian political and cultural landscape.

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How do we raise our sons to be compassionate, responsible men in a world where toxic masculinity is still the norm And why are young men today more troubled, less confident and more radicalized than ever before

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A fresh compilation of essays and entries based on the latest research, this work documents African American culture and political activism from the slavery era through the 20th century.

This is a revealing compilation of essays on the latest research and debates on Asian Americans, a growing and influential ethnic group today.