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Essays deal with the Jewish use of humor in stressful and tragic situations, with self-disparagement in Jewish humor, with anti-semitism and stereotyping, and with Jewish women as the objects of humor.

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Defines 'sensory history', stresses the importance of historicizing the senses, and considers each sense chapter by chapter. This book examines visual culture in Victorian Britain and South America, sound in nineteenth-century Australia and France, and gender politics and touch in Early Modern Europe and among Native Americans.

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Defines sensory history and stresses the importance of historicizing the senses. This book includes examinations of visual culture in Victorian Britain and South America, of sound in nineteenth-century Australia and France, and of gender politics and touch in Early Modern Europe and among Native Americans.

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This work analyzes the politics of anthropological knowledge from an critical perspective that alters existing understandings of colonialism. At the same time, it produces fresh insights into the history of anthropology.

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Suitable for students and those who want to take their technical skills for instructors who want a text for second methods course, this title teaches social scientists how to get out of their technical skills and tools, providing a resource that describes strategies and concepts no researcher or student of human behavior can do without.

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Two basic themes run throughout this book--the first is the control of fertility and the second overpopulation. It is intended for a general audience to whom the gravity of the situation may not previously have been apparent.

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Experts address key issues-from attitudes and behaviors to harassment and homophobia-related to sexuality among college students.

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Are teenagers more sexually active than they were ten years ago Teenagers from around Australia responded, talking openly and honestly about issues such as: intimacy and relationships; masturbation and sexual fantasies; and coercion and sexual violence. This book presents over a hundred of their responses in their original, unedited form.

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Based on interviews with 100 people across the country, this is primarily a portrait of the baby boomers, whose stories reveal sex in all its variety, and examine the emotions that make it so powerful. Entertaining and enlightening, this book puts sexuality back into a meaningful human context. Insightful and candid, this is a revealing look at our intimate private lives.

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This book presents research that identifies the most salient issues related to communication about sex in relationships and explores these issues in a format that will improve the understanding and practice of sexual communication.

What is missing in sex education

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For more than 60 years, Times Square has reigned as one of New York's premiere tourist attractions. The topics include the sex trade, drugs and drug dealing, recent redevelopment efforts, the social ecology of Times Square, and a discussion of police operations in this marketplace.

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For more than 60 years, Times Square has reigned as one of New York's premiere tourist attractions. The topics include the sex trade, drugs and drug dealing, recent redevelopment efforts, the social ecology of Times Square, and a discussion of police operations in this marketplace.

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They may or may not identify themselves as bisexual, but during significant periods of their life span they act bisexually. Studies of human sexuality world-wide indicate the incidence of bisexuality ranges from high to low prevalence in all literate and many nonliterate societies.

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A prominent conservative scholar traces the post-1960s divisions between the Right and the Left, taking aim at liberals' victimization of African Americans and their failure to offer a viable way forward for American society.

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Written as a gift for other parents to help them cope with the pain and loneliness of decision making, this book will also be a valuable resource for medical professionals, adoption and social workers, counselors and spiritual advisors, and friends and family of the parents.

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A feminist ethnography of the violence in Northern Ireland, this book presents an analysis of a political conflict through the lens of gender. The case in point is the working-class Catholic resistance to British rule in Northern Ireland.

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Susan Ossman takes up questions of how we conceptualize and constitute fields in anthropology and shows how art can enable and enhance social inquiry through this experimental biographical work.

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A diverse collection of critique, prose, and poetry responds to-and rails against-the violent injustice that women worldwide sustain in their daily lives

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Drawing on innovative qualitative data sources, Siblings and sociology demonstrates the sociological significance of sibling relationships, explaining why siblings matter as a relational form capable of influencing us throughout the life course and as a lens through which to re-imagine familiar sociological themes.

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Drawing on innovative qualitative data sources, Siblings and sociology demonstrates the sociological significance of sibling relationships, explaining why siblings matter as a relational form capable of influencing us throughout the life course and as a lens through which to re-imagine familiar sociological themes.