The epidemic of mass rape in the former Yugoslavia has illustrated once again, and in particularly brutal fashion, the inextricable relationship between national politics, sexual politics, and body politics. This title turns its attention to the Second World, specifically to such subjects as the birth of the sex media and porn industry in Russia.
The epidemic of mass rape in the former Yugoslavia has illustrated once again, and in particularly brutal fashion, the inextricable relationship between national politics, and body politics. This book turns its attention to the Second World, specifically to such subjects as the birth of the sex media and porn industry in Russia and more.
Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi
Next to Martin Luther King, Jr and Malcolm X, Bob Moses was arguably one of the most influential and respected leaders of the civil rights movement. This book chronicles both Moses' political activity and his intellectual development, revealing the strong influence of French philosopher Albert Camus on his life and work.
Using the court records of every American colony that existed before 1700 and an analysis of over 1,200 seditious speech cases sifted from those records, this book shows how colonists experienced a dramatic expansion during the seventeenth century of their freedom to criticize government and its officials.
The Psychology of Cultural Resilience in Ethnic Minorities
Why does one society survive while others perish? When two cultures come into contact, how do exploitation, violence, and terror arise? Interested in the survival of various cultures in the face of encroaching white civilization, the author has studied five separate groups in Venezuela and Colombia and documented their successes and failures.
What is Japan's political role in the world? Over the past decade, Japan has been increasingly pressured to assume more financial and political burdens globally. This book represents the private and non- governmental indigenous effort to stimulate public debate of Japanese foreign policy. It makes a contribution to the foreign policy debate.
In 1973, three women and two men were held hostage in a bank in Stockholm by two ex-convicts. This book describes how the hostages and their captors formed a bond (now known as the Stockholm Syndrome); and how survival mechanisms for the women could be seen to mirror those employed in daily life.
Cultural differences affect everything from international relations to the trivial encounters of daily life. Tensions between the U.S. and Japan, strife between African-Americans and Koreans, the difficulty urban youth encounter in adapting to a white-collar professional culture all can be traced, directly or indirectly, to cultural and ......
How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women? Dickens has been represented (along with William Blake and D.H. Lawrence) as one who championed the life of the emotions often associated with the "feminine." Yet some of his most important heroines are totally submissive and docile. Dickens, of course, had to accept the conventions of his ......
