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Thinkers From Many Countries Address the Political, Economic, and Social Problems of Our Time
In this book, intellectuals from around the world make specific recommendations for a wide range of political, economic and cultural concerns. Discussion topics include the links among democracy, development and the market economy; collapsing global development visions; and more.
This is the study of a major change in American middle-class emotional culture. It took place between the end of World War I and the 1950s. Becoming a cool character meant adopting an air of nonchalance, an emotional mantle, to shield the whole personality from embarrassing excess.
Despite growing awareness of feminist sensibilities, single women remain polarized in the popular imagination. Either old maids or power women, they remain defined in relation to men--women who can't get, or, unnaturally, women who don't want a man. Through extensive historical research as well as interviews with dozens of women from San ......
During the past two generations, Jewish public thought and discourse has differed dramatically from that of the era between the Emancipation and the Second World War. The chasm of the Holocaust and the watershed establishment of a Jewish state has radically changed the Jewish intellectual landscape. With their two largest concentrations in ......
Higher Education and Student Socialization in the Antebellum South
Suitable for those interested in women's studies, Southern history, and female friendship, this book provides us with an intimate picture of the social experience of antebellum women's colleges and seminaries in the South, analyzing the impact of these colleges upon the cultural construction of femininity among white Southern women.
Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality
This work argues that the debate over homosexuality is fundamentally an issue of communication. Chapters address such subjects as: gay political language; homosexuality and AIDs on prime-time television; the politics of male homosexuality in young adult fiction; and coming-out strategies.
The story of 19th-century Winston-Salem, a community of artisans and small farmers, united, as members of a religious congregation, by a single vision of life. Its transformation into an industrial centre within a few decades, illustrates the changes that swept through America's Southern society.
Rousseau's writings reflect paradoxes and apparent inconsistencies with his principled commitments to freedom and equality. This title addresses the debates concerning Rousseau's understandings of gender, justice, freedom, community, and equality.
Each volume of The International Library of Law and Legal Theory brings together important essays of central theoretical importance in its subject area, for researchers, teachers, and students of law. The Areas section of the series takes in the main branches of law with an emphasis on essays which
