wyszukanych pozycji: 5
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Spectacular Men: Race, Gender, and Nation on the Early American Stage
ISBN: 9780190653675 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Spectacular Men, Sarah E. Chinn investigates how working class white men looked to the early American theatre for examples of ideal manhood. Theatre-going was the primary source of entertainment for working people of the early Republic and the Jacksonian period, and plays implicitly and explicitly addressed the risks and rewards of citizenship. Ranging from representations of the heroes of the American Revolution to images of doomed Indians to plays about ancient Rome, Chinn unearths dozens of plays rarely read by critics. Spectacular Men places the theatre at the center...
In Spectacular Men, Sarah E. Chinn investigates how working class white men looked to the early American theatre for examples of ideal manhoo...
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427,92 zł |
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Inventing Modern Adolescence: The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America
ISBN: 9780813543109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The 1960s are commonly considered to be the beginning of a distinct "teenage culture" in America. But did this highly visible era of free love and rock 'n' roll really mark the start of adolescent defiance? In Inventing Modern Adolescence Sarah E. Chinn follows the roots of American teenage identity further back, to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She argues that the concept of the "generation gap"--a stereotypical complaint against American teens--actually originated with the division between immigrant parents and their American-born or -raised children....
The 1960s are commonly considered to be the beginning of a distinct "teenage culture" in America. But did this highly visible era of free love and roc...
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187,12 zł |
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Technology and the Logic of American Racism
ISBN: 9780826447500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this book, Sarah E. Chinn pulls together what seems to be opposite discourses--the information-driven languages of law and medicine and the subjective logics of racism--to examine how racial identity has been constructed in the United States over the past century. She examines a range of primary social case studies such as the American Red Cross' lamentable decision to segregate the blood of black and white donors during World War II, and its ramifications for American culture, and more recent examples that reveal the racist nature of criminology, such as the recent trial of O.J.... In this book, Sarah E. Chinn pulls together what seems to be opposite discourses--the information-driven languages of law and medicine and the subj... |
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192,13 zł |
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Terror Tales of the West Country
ISBN: 9781845832087 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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65,76 zł |
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Women's Realities, Women's Choices: An Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
ISBN: 9780199843602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This landmark text introduces readers to the field of women's studies by analyzing the contradictions between social and cultural "givens" and the realities that women face in society. Written collectively by nine authors from various disciplines, Women's Realities, Women's Choices, Fourth Edition, has been updated to incorporate the latest research and statistics in the field. Covering the most recent developments in politics, labor, family life, religion, and culture, the book also features extensive research on relevant social issues, such as the impact of the post-Soviet world on...
This landmark text introduces readers to the field of women's studies by analyzing the contradictions between social and cultural "givens" and the rea...
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935,28 zł |