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Gender Lessons
ISBN: 9789463000291 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public schools in early America were designed to ensure the reproduction of Eurocentric social values. It could be argued that little has changed. Gender Lessons takes an in-depth look at how schools institutionalize gender-how kids are taught the rules and expectations of performing masculinity and femininity. This work provides extensive examples of how elementary, middle, and high schools: sextype; defend and preserve patriarchy; weave gendered expectations in all things school related; promote inequity; and limit their students' potential by explicitly and implicitly teaching that they...
Public schools in early America were designed to ensure the reproduction of Eurocentric social values. It could be argued that little has changed. Gen...
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World Blind Union Guide to the Marrakesh Treaty: Facilitating Access to Books for Print-Disabled Individuals
ISBN: 9780190679651 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled is a watershed development in the fields of intellectual property and human rights. As the first international legal instrument to establish mandatory exceptions to copyright, the Marrakesh Treaty uses the legal and policy tools of copyright to advance human rights. The World Blind Union Guide to the Marrakesh Treaty offers a comprehensive framework for interpreting the Treaty in ways that enhance the ability of print-disabled individuals to...
The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled is a w...
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Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law
ISBN: 9780814791318 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fighting for marriage and family rights; protection from discrimination in employment, education, and housing; criminal law reform; economic justice; and health care reform: the LGBT movement is engaged in some of the most important cultural and political battles of our times. Seeking to reshape many of our basic social institutions, the LBGT movement's legal, political, and cultural campaigns reflect the complex visions, strategies, and rhetoric of the individuals and groups knocking at the law's door. The original essays in this volume bring social movement scholarship and legal... Fighting for marriage and family rights; protection from discrimination in employment, education, and housing; criminal law reform; economic justic... |
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The Male Clock
ISBN: 9789463000116 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As speculative fiction informed by social science and biomedical perspectives, The Male Clock propels readers into a futuristic, yet believable world transformed by SGEV - a debilitating virus that drastically compromises mens ability to procreate. Set mostly in the years 2034-2042, Jordan Giordano, a prominent American journalist, navigates a world steeped in personal misfortune and public controversy. Jordan chronicles his intimate struggle to become a father and family man while doing investigative reporting related to the ever changing social landscape with its radically altered sexual...
As speculative fiction informed by social science and biomedical perspectives, The Male Clock propels readers into a futuristic, yet believable world ...
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Unequal: How America's Courts Undermine Discrimination Law
ISBN: 9780190278380 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is no secret that since the 1980s, American workers have lost power vis-a-vis employers through the well-chronicled steep decline in private sector unionization. American workers have also lost power in other ways. Those alleging employment discrimination have fared increasingly poorly in the courts. In recent years, judges have dismissed scores of cases in which workers presented evidence that supervisors referred to them using racial or gender slurs. In one federal district court, judges dismissed more than 80 percent of the race discrimination cases filed over a year. And when juries...
It is no secret that since the 1980s, American workers have lost power vis-a-vis employers through the well-chronicled steep decline in private sector...
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Soaring Beyond Boundaries : Women Breaking Educational Barriers in Traditional Societies
ISBN: 9789077874974 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Higher education systems in many countries are undergoing significant changes in response to variety of local, national, and international pressures. Among these, the shift from elitism to the provision of mass higher education; increased impact of internationalization and globalization, which are increasingly blurring national boundaries; increased competition among universities for limited resources to support higher education sector; the impact of technology and the knowledge economy; and the continuing quest educational for equity.
While universities in many countries, both developed... Higher education systems in many countries are undergoing significant changes in response to variety of local, national, and international pressures. ...
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But Don't Call Me White : Mixed Race Women Exposing Nuances of Privilege and Oppression Politics
ISBN: 9789460916915 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Highlighting the words and experiences of 16 mixed race women (who have one white parent and one parent who is a person of color), Silvia Bettez exposes hidden nuances of privilege and oppression related to multiple positionalites associated with race, class, gender, and sexuality. These women are "secret agent insiders" to cultural Whiteness who provide unique insights and perspectives that emerge through their mixed race lenses. Much of what the participants share is never revealed in mixed - White/of color - company. Although critical of racial power politics and hierarchies, these women...
Highlighting the words and experiences of 16 mixed race women (who have one white parent and one parent who is a person of color), Silvia Bettez expos...
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Writing the Family : Women, Auto-Ethnography, and Family Work
ISBN: 9789460917479 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is not a traditional book about the family. In a very essential way, it is a book about being a woman in relation to the current form of the family under capitalism in North America. The authors are three women whose interest in the family stems out of their own unique and varied experiences. The text is comprised of three autoethnographies that look at the family from radically distinct perspectives. Each section is rooted in the authors own personal and professional life experience. The book explores multi-cultural family therapy, living inside a divorcing family, the role of child...
This is not a traditional book about the family. In a very essential way, it is a book about being a woman in relation to the current form of the fami...
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Boys will be boys? : Bridging the Great Gendered Literacy Divide
ISBN: 9789462095373 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses the issue of preadolescent boys literacy practices and the social construction of their identities as they navigate multiple classroom literacies. Exploring the role of the teacher, the role of multiple literacies and the way they "count" or do not count in the classroom curriculum through qualitative and quantitative findings, allows educators to rethink and reflect upon current instructional beliefs and practices. As educators align their curriculum with the Common Core Standards it is imperative for them to consider how they will meet each students' individual learning...
This book addresses the issue of preadolescent boys literacy practices and the social construction of their identities as they navigate multiple class...
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On (Writing) Families
ISBN: 9789462096202 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who are we with-and without-families? How do we relate as children to our parents, as parents to our children? How are parent-child relationships-and familial relationships in general-made and (not) maintained? Informed by narrative, performance studies, poststructuralism, critical theory, and queer theory, contributors to this collection use autoethnography-a method that uses the personal to examine the cultural-to interrogate these questions. The essays write about/around issues of interpersonal distance and closeness, gratitude and disdain, courage and fear, doubt and certainty, openness...
Who are we with-and without-families? How do we relate as children to our parents, as parents to our children? How are parent-child relationships-and ...
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Gender, Feminism, and Queer Theory in the Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices
ISBN: 9789462096844 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume gives explicit attention to the influence of gender, feminism, and queer theory in self-study of teacher education practices. It builds on the self-study community's interest in social justice that has mostly been focused on race, ethnicity, gender, disability, and power, as well as broad conceptions that include multiculturalism and ways of knowing. This is the time to examine gender both because our community is growing and because of the reconceptualization of issues of gender, feminism, and queer theory in teacher education. This collection of papers provides a space...
This edited volume gives explicit attention to the influence of gender, feminism, and queer theory in self-study of teacher education practices. It bu...
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Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures
ISBN: 9789463000895 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures provides a dynamic exploration of the subject of teaching gender and feminism through the fundamental corpus encompassing Latin American, Iberian and Latino authors and cultures from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. The four editors have created a collaborative forum for both experienced and new voices to share multiple theoretical and practical approaches to the topic. The volume is the first to bring so many areas of study and perspectives together and will serve as a tool for reassessing what it means to...
Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures provides a dynamic exploration of the subject of teaching gender and fe...
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Feminism in Community
ISBN: 9789463002004 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors draw upon their earlier research examining how feminists have negotiated identity and learning in international contexts or multisector environments. Feminism in Community focuses on feminist challenges to lead, learn, and participate in nonprofit organizations, as well as their efforts to enact feminist pedagogy through arts processes, Internet fora, and critical community engagement. The authors bring a focused energy to the topic of women and adult learning, integrating insights of pedagogy and theory-informed practice in the fields of social movement learning, transformative...
The authors draw upon their earlier research examining how feminists have negotiated identity and learning in international contexts or multisector en...
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Equality: The Legal Framework
ISBN: 9781849466394 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second edition of this widely-acclaimed book about the UK's Equality Act 2010 -- written by one of its leading architects -- brings forward the story of how and why this historic legislation was enacted and what it means. The book covers the first four years of the law's implementation by the UK Coalition Government and in the courts. It includes an assessment of amendments to the legislation and of the reduction in the powers and budget of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, as well as a discussion of possible future directions of equality law and policy. Equality: The Legal...
The second edition of this widely-acclaimed book about the UK's Equality Act 2010 -- written by one of its leading architects -- brings forward the st...
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The ANU Scrabble Society
ISBN: 9780228854098 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Race and Reproduction in Cuba
ISBN: 9780820362779 / Angielski / Miękka / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Access and Equity in Postsecondary Education: A Special Issue of the Peabody Journal of Education
ISBN: 9780805896862 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This special issue of the Peabody Journal of Education explores issues of access and equity in post-secondary education.
This special issue of the Peabody Journal of Education explores issues of access and equity in post-secondary education.
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Key Facts: Employment Law
ISBN: 9780340966860 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Key Facts is the essential revision series for anyone studying law. This informative third edition of Employment Law provides the simplest and most effective way for you to absorb and retain the essential facts associated with this specific area of law.
Key features include: *Diagrams at the start of chapters to summarize key points *Structured heading levels to allow for clear recall of the main facts *Charts and tables to break down more complex information An improved text design makes this volume even easier to read and the facts even simpler to retain. Key Facts is the essential revision series for anyone studying law. This informative third edition of Employment Law provides the simplest and most ef...
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In Brown's Wake
ISBN: 9780195171525 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education? While it is well known for establishing racial equality as a central commitment of American schools, the case also inspired social movements for equality in education across all lines of difference, including language, gender, disability, immigration status, socio-economic status, religion, and sexual orientation. Yet more than a half century after Brown, American schools are more racially separated than before, and educators, parents and policy makers still debate whether the ruling requires all-inclusive classrooms in...
What is the legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education? While it is well known for establishing racial equality as a central commitment of Americ...
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AIDS and the Sexuality of Law: Ironic Jurisprudence
ISBN: 9780312240066 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. AIDS and the Sexuality of Law investigates the role that HIV/AIDS has played in the legal construction of sexuality. AIDS and its metaphors have been judicially enlisted to patrol the boundaries of heterosexuality, producing flawed understandings of HIV/AIDS and sexuality. The proliferation of this flawed knowledge through judicial discourse has had a profound impact on the way sexuality is understood. Even more fundamentally, closer analysis exposes the ironic processes of the law whereby material reality, ignorance, and belief interact to replace unknowns with 'social facts.' The book...
AIDS and the Sexuality of Law investigates the role that HIV/AIDS has played in the legal construction of sexuality. AIDS and its metaphors have been ...
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