Gender and Risk-Taking: Economics, Evidence, and Why the Answer Matters
ISBN: 9781138284036 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The belief that men and women have fundamentally distinct natures, resulting in divergent preferences and behaviours, is widespread. Recently, economists have also engaged in the search for gender differences, with a number claiming to find fundamental gender differences regarding risk-taking, altruism, and competition. In particular, the idea that "women are more risk-averse than men" has become accepted as a truism. But is it true? And what are its causes and consequences? Gender and Risk Taking makes three contributions. First, it asks whether the belief that men... The belief that men and women have fundamentally distinct natures, resulting in divergent preferences and behaviours, is widespread. Recentl... |
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190,39 zł |
Gender and Risk-Taking: Economics, Evidence, and Why the Answer Matters
ISBN: 9781138284012 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The belief that men and women have fundamentally distinct natures, resulting in divergent preferences and behaviours, is widespread. Recently, economists have also engaged in the search for gender differences, with a number claiming to find fundamental gender differences regarding risk-taking, altruism, and competition. In particular, the idea that "women are more risk-averse than men" has become accepted as a truism. But is it true? And what are its causes and consequences? Gender and Risk Taking makes three contributions. First, it asks whether the belief that men... The belief that men and women have fundamentally distinct natures, resulting in divergent preferences and behaviours, is widespread. Recentl... |
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669,12 zł |
Real Sex Films: The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema
ISBN: 9780190244613 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment. Risk sociology, feminist film theory and critical feminist mapping theory are brought together with concepts of production, narrative, genre, authorship, stardom, spectatorship and social audience as several lenses of both 'mutual understanding' and 'galvanizing extension' in ways of seeing this object of 'real-sex cinema'. Notions of personal subjectivity and critical distance, disciplinary...
Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination o...
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218,37 zł |
Real Sex Films: The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema
ISBN: 9780190244606 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment. Risk sociology, feminist film theory and critical feminist mapping theory are brought together with concepts of production, narrative, genre, authorship, stardom, spectatorship and social audience as several lenses of both 'mutual understanding' and 'galvanizing extension' in ways of seeing this object of 'real-sex cinema'. Notions of personal subjectivity and critical distance, disciplinary...
Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination o...
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542,68 zł |
Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders
ISBN: 9780822370383 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley traces how contemporary queer Caribbean and African American writers, filmmakers, musicians, and performers evoke the divinity Ezili-a pantheon of lwa feminine spirits in Vodou-in ways that offer a new model of queer black feminist theory.
Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley traces how contemporary queer Caribbean and African American writers, filmmakers, musicians, and performers evoke the divini...
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121,50 zł |
Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism
ISBN: 9781138723078 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Homegrown, cultural critics bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing on everything from home and family to multiculturalism and the mass media, hooks and Mesa-Bains invite readers to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream discourse about Black-Latino relationships that is too often negative in its emphasis on political splits between people of color. A work of activism through dialogue, Homegrown is a declaration of solidarity that rings true even ten years after its first publication. ...In Homegrown, cultural critics bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing o... |
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694,86 zł |
Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism
ISBN: 9781138723085 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Homegrown, cultural critics bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing on everything from home and family to multiculturalism and the mass media, hooks and Mesa-Bains invite readers to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream discourse about Black-Latino relationships that is too often negative in its emphasis on political splits between people of color. A work of activism through dialogue, Homegrown is a declaration of solidarity that rings true even ten years after its first publication. ...In Homegrown, cultural critics bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing o... |
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164,65 zł |
Violent Women in Contemporary Theatres: Staging Resistance
ISBN: 9783319570051 / Angielski / Twarda / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together the fields of theatre, gender studies, and psychology/sociology in order to explore the relationships between what happens when women engage in violence, how the events and their reception intercept with cultural understandings of gender, how plays thoughtfully depict this topic, and how their productions impact audiences.
This book brings together the fields of theatre, gender studies, and psychology/sociology in order to explore the relationships between what happens w...
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549,74 zł |
Making a Case for Stricter Abortion Laws
ISBN: 9783319572901 / Angielski / Twarda / 105 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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215,94 zł |
Anglo-Indian Women in Transition: Pride, Prejudice and Predicament
ISBN: 9789811046537 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The study considers two generations of Anglo-Indian women in post-colonial India, and their social interaction with their community. It explores Anglo-Indian women as part of a cultural whole and as participants in the mainstream cultural claims of India. It notably highlights the marginalisation of Anglo-Indian women in decision-making, focusing on the multiple patriarchal dominations they face, and how it impacts on their role within society. It argues that the historical gendering of the Anglo-Indian community has concrete consequences in terms of familial, cultural and organizational... The study considers two generations of Anglo-Indian women in post-colonial India, and their social interaction with their community. It explores An... |
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333,75 zł |
Oldest Daughters: What to know if you are one or have ever been bossed around by one
ISBN: 9780998386508 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stories from the author's in-depth interviews with more than 100 individuals from diverse ethnicities, along with her own personal experiences, reveal the impact of the first-born daughter's role on her adult life, her siblings and family relationships. The author heard one comment, in particular, from those she interviewed about their interest in the book's topic: "I want to know I'm not the only one out there feeling this way." Results from an online survey of several hundred adult family members about their experiences and feelings provide additional insights into the pride and... Stories from the author's in-depth interviews with more than 100 individuals from diverse ethnicities, along with her own personal experiences, rev... |
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65,16 zł |
The Kind of Man I Am: Jazzmasculinity and the World of Charles Mingus Jr.
ISBN: 9780819577566 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exploration of masculinity in jazz culture and the work of Charles Mingus Jr.
An exploration of masculinity in jazz culture and the work of Charles Mingus Jr.
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95,22 zł |
Narratives of East Asian Women Teachers of English: Where Privilege Meets Marginalization
ISBN: 9781783098729 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a powerful narrative of how six women experienced their lives alongside their desire to overcome the challenging and empowering nature of the English language. The volume shares who they are as transnational and mobile women living in the midst of linguistic privilege and marginalization. It is one outcome of a research project and the lived experiences which surround and influence (and were influenced by) it. The author documents how she and her research partners began studying what had drawn them to US TESOL programs, and how English was and is a symbol of power and... This book is a powerful narrative of how six women experienced their lives alongside their desire to overcome the challenging and empowering nature... |
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487,35 zł |
Reading and Writing Experimental Texts: Critical Innovations
ISBN: 9783319583617 / Angielski / Twarda / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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431,93 zł |
M Archive: After the End of the World
ISBN: 9780822370697 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive--the second book in a planned experimental triptych--is a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of Black life following a worldwide cataclysm. Engaging with the work of the foundational Black feminist theorist M. Jacqui Alexander, and following the trajectory of Gumbs's acclaimed visionary fiction short story "Evidence," M Archive is told from the perspective of a future researcher who uncovers evidence of the conditions of late capitalism, anti-blackness, and...
Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive--the second book in a planned experimental triptych--is a se...
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473,53 zł |
M Archive: After the End of the World
ISBN: 9780822370840 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive--the second book in a planned experimental triptych--is a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of Black life following a worldwide cataclysm. Engaging with the work of the foundational Black feminist theorist M. Jacqui Alexander, and following the trajectory of Gumbs's acclaimed visionary fiction short story "Evidence," M Archive is told from the perspective of a future researcher who uncovers evidence of the conditions of late capitalism, anti-blackness, and...
Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive--the second book in a planned experimental triptych--is a se...
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108,45 zł |
Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser
ISBN: 9783319523859 / Angielski / Twarda / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scholars from philosophy, political science, sociology, gender studies, race theory and economics come together to think through the vicissitudes of capitalism and feminism while also responding to different elements of Nancy Fraser's work, which weaves together a strong feminist standpoint with a vibrant and complex critique of capitalism.
Scholars from philosophy, political science, sociology, gender studies, race theory and economics come together to think through the vicissitudes of c...
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589,01 zł |
Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership
ISBN: 9781138696839 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited collection contends that if women are to enter into leadership positions at equal levels with their male colleagues, then sexism in all its forms must be acknowledged, attended to, and actively addressed. This interdisciplinary collection--Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership--is part storytelling, part autoethnography, part action plan. The chapters document and analyze everyday sexism in the academy and offer up strategies for survival, ultimately 'lifting the veil" from the good old boys/business-as-usual culture that continues to pervade... This edited collection contends that if women are to enter into leadership positions at equal levels with their male colleagues, then sexism in all... |
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772,07 zł |
Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership
ISBN: 9781138696846 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited collection contends that if women are to enter into leadership positions at equal levels with their male colleagues, then sexism in all its forms must be acknowledged, attended to, and actively addressed. This interdisciplinary collection--Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership--is part storytelling, part autoethnography, part action plan. The chapters document and analyze everyday sexism in the academy and offer up strategies for survival, ultimately 'lifting the veil" from the good old boys/business-as-usual culture that continues to pervade... This edited collection contends that if women are to enter into leadership positions at equal levels with their male colleagues, then sexism in all... |
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205,83 zł |
Women's Emancipation in Africa - Reality or Illusion?: A Case Study of Mbarara, Western Uganda
ISBN: 9783631723029 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women's emancipation in Uganda remains a challenge in a society with a long-held structure of patriarchy and institutional, cultural beliefs. The study critically analyses the institutional mechanisms and concludes suggesting concrete measures and strategies towards gender mainstreaming.
Women's emancipation in Uganda remains a challenge in a society with a long-held structure of patriarchy and institutional, cultural beliefs. The st...
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376,23 zł |