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The Pursuit Of Pleasure - Gender, Space And Architecture In Regency London

by Jane Rendell

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Fashion, Desire And Anxiety - Image And Morality In The Twentieth Century

by Rebecca Arnold

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Feminism & The Biological Body

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Places In The Bone - A Memoir

by Carol Dine

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 In a series of unflinching vignettes laced with heartbreak and often with humour, Places in the Bone gives an unforgettable account of loss and survival, childhood secrets banished from memory, and the power of language to retrieve the missing parts of oneself and one's past. Woven together with unmistakable lyricism, Carol Dine's narrative moves back and forth in time and place.
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The Orchid House

by Phyllis Shand Allfrey

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 Lally helps to raise three white sisters in the Orchid House on the Island of Dominica and observes as each flees to the cold northern lands of England and America only to return to their magical past and the man they love.
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Representing Blackness - Issues In Film And Video

by Valerie Smith

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 The essays in this collection provide a variety of perspectives on black representation and questions of racial authenticity in mainstream as well as African American independent cinema. This volume includes seminal essays on racial stereotypes, trenchant critiques of that discourse, original essays on important directors, and an insightful discussion of black gay and lesbian film and video.
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Black Resonance - Iconic Women Singers And African American Literature

by Emily J. Lordi

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 Black Resonance analyzes writings by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, and Nikki Giovanni that engage such iconic singers as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, and Aretha Franklin. The book focuses on two generations of artists from the 1920s to the 1970s; each chapter pairs one writer with one singer to crystallize the artistic practice they share: lyricism, sincerity, understatement, haunting, and the creation of a signature voice.
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Environmental Movement In Majority And Minority Worlds - A Global Perspective

by Timothy Doyle

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 Drawing on his primary fieldwork in six countries, environmental researcher Timothy Doyle argues that there is, in fact, no one global environmental movement; rather, there are many, and the differences between them far outweigh their similarities.
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A Prehistory Of The North - Human Settlement Of The Higher Latitudes

by John F. Hoffecker

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 Early humans did not drift north from Africa as their ability to cope with cooler climates evolved. Settlement of Europe and northern Asia occurred in relatively rapid bursts of expansion. This study tells the complex story, spanning almost two million years, of how humans inhabited some of the coldest places on earth.
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Gender And The Civil Rights Movement

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 This collection of nine essays analyzes the people, the protests, and the incidents of the civil rights movement through the lens of gender. More than just a study of women, the book examines the ways in which assigned sexual roles and values shaped the strategy, tactics, and ideology of the movement.
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Gendering Disability

by Brenda Jo Brueggemann

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 Disability and gender are becoming increasingly complex in light of recent politics and scholarship. This volume provides findings not only about the discrimination practised against women and people with disabilities, but also about the productive parallelism between the two categories.
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The Art Of The American Musical - Conversations With The Creators

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 Bringing together interviews with nineteen leading composers, lyricists, librettists, directors, choreographers, and producers, this book details the careers of the individuals who shaped popular performance art during its most prolific period. It gives insight into "a nightly miracle" - the creation of the American musical.
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Logos And Revelation - Ibn 'Arabi, Meister Eckhart, And Mystical Hermeneutics

by Robert J. Dobie

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 What is 'mysticism' and, most importantly, how do the great mystical writers understand it? This book seeks to answer this question by looking closely at the writings of two of the most prominent medieval mystical writers: the Muslim, Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240) and the Christian, Meister Eckhart (1260-1328).
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The Clerical Dilemma - Peter Of Blois And Literate Culture In The Twelfth Century

by John D. Cotts

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 Peter of Blois pursued the life of a twelfth-century intellectual with vigor and passion tinged with anxiety. This book offers a study of Peter of Blois' life, thought, and writings. It explores how Peter brought classical, patristic, monastic, and scholastic traditions into an uneasy synthesis, and deployed them in letters.
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Faithfully Seeking Understanding - Selected Writings Of Johannes Kuhn

by Johannes Von Kuhn

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 Offers an opportunity for English-speaking readers to encounter the thought of Johannes Kuhn (1806-1887), widely considered the greatest speculative theologian of the renowned Catholic Tubingen School. This book presents selected essays spanning Kuhn's lengthy career.
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Suburban Sahibs - Three Immigrant Families And Their Passage From India To America

by S. Mitra Kalita

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 Focuses on three waves of immigration in the post-civil rights era through the stories of three families: the Kotharis, Patels and Sarmas. This book attempts to answer the question of how and why they arrived, and it offers a window into what America has become; a nation of suburbs as well as a nation of immigrants.
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Knowing What We Know - African American Women'S Experiences Of Violence And Violation

by Gail Garfield

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 Bringing together the life-history interviews with nine women, this study urges a departure from established approaches that position women as victims of exclusively male violence. Instead, the author explores what happens when women's ability to make decisions and act upon those choices comes into conflict with cultural and social constraints.
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A Church Of Our Own - Disestablishment And Diversity In American Religion

by R. Stephen Warner

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 R. Stephen Warner traces the ""new paradigm"" interpretation of American religion. Formulatted in the 1990s in response to theories of secularization that focused on the waning plausibility of religions, the new paradigm reoriented to a focus on communities, subcultures, new religious institutions, and the fluidity of modern religious identities.
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A Church Of Our Own - Disestablishment And Diversity In American Religion

by R.Stephen Warner

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 R. Stephen Warner traces the "new paradigm" interpretation of American religion. Formulatted in the 1990s in response to theories of secularization that focused on the waning plausibility of religions, the new paradigm reoriented to a focus on communities, subcultures, new religious institutions, and the fluidity of modern religious identities.
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Women'S Studies For The Future - Foundations, Interrogations, Politics

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 This volume addresses questions on the subject of women's studies. Offering innovative models for research and teaching and compelling new directions for action, 'Women's Studies for the Future' ensures the continued relevance and influence of this developing field.
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Israeli Women'S Studies - A Reader

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 This exposes the hidden causes of discrimination and links the restrictions that Israeli women experience to deeply entrenched structures, including colonial legacies, religious traditions, capitalism, nationalism, and ongoing political conflict. In contrast, the essays also explore how women act creatively to affect social change.
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Grandmotherhood - The Evolutionary Significance Of The Second Half Of Female Life

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 Darwinian theory holds that a successful life is measured in terms of reproduction. Yet a woman's lifespan can greatly exceed her childbearing and childrearing years. Bringing together work in anthropology, psychology, ethnography and the social sciences, this study explores the evolutionary purpose and possibilities of female post-generative life.
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Terrorism, Media, Liberation

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 'Terrorism, Media, Liberation' explores the relationship between violent political actions and the technological media that present and frame them for mass audiences. It provides a historical, rather than simplistically moral perspective on the well-mediated, ""war on terrorism.
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Terrorism, Media, Liberation

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 'Terrorism, Media, Liberation' explores the relationship between violent political actions and the technological media that present and frame them for mass audiences. It provides a historical, rather than simplistically moral perspective on the well-mediated, "war on terrorism."
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