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- Deals with how we use our bodies sexually and holistically in contemporary culture - Includes discussions of all sexual orientations What About Sex? provides a moral compass to navigate the changing landscape of sex and sexuality. Dealing with the Bible, evolving traditions and customs, and the findings of science and psychology, Haller endeavors to inform and guide rather than lay down the law. This book is not about what goes where or who does what to whom, but about what it means to be an embodied person with responsibilities both to oneself and others.

Audience: seekers, lay...

Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery offers an intimate, textured, and rich depiction of contemporary life in one marginalized development town in the Israeli Negev. Placing the stories of five women at the center, author Pnina Motzafi-Haller depicts a range of creative strategies used by each woman to make a meaningful life within a reality of multiple exclusions-gendered, ethnic, class-based, geographic marginalization. These limitations, Motzafi-Haller argues, create a -concrete box, - which unlike the -glass ceiling- of the liberal feminist discourse, is...

Explores the meaning of writing in the post postmodernist moment when master narratives have been questioned and the very act of representing others has been problematized, and discusses some of the key theoretical debates emerging in the aftermath of what came to be known as the postmodernist crisis.

When the author first went to Botswana in the early 1980s to study the impact a major land reform had on rural life in this impoverished African country, social theory and ethnographic practice seemed solid and convincing. A decade later, and again in 1999, she returned to Bostwana and to...

Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery offers an intimate, textured, and rich depiction of contemporary life in one marginalized development town in the Israeli Negev. Placing the stories of five women at the center, author Pnina Motzafi-Haller depicts a range of creative strategies used by each woman to make a meaningful life within a reality of multiple exclusions-gendered, ethnic, class-based, geographic marginalization. These limitations, Motzafi-Haller argues, create a -concrete box, - which unlike the -glass ceiling- of the liberal feminist discourse, is...