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Masculinity and Film Performance: Male Angst in Contemporary American Cinema
ISBN: 9781349329083 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A lively and engaging study of on-screen and off-screen performances of masculinity, focusing onwell-known male actors in American film and popular culturein the 1990s and 2000s.Peberdyexamines specific social, cultural, historical and political contexts that have affected age, race, sexuality and fatherhood on screen."
A lively and engaging study of on-screen and off-screen performances of masculinity, focusing onwell-known male actors in American film and popular cu...
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201,24 |
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Masculinity and Nationhood, 1830-1910: Constructions of Identity and Citizenship in Belgium
ISBN: 9781349483174 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A history of what it meant to be a man, and a citizen of an emerging nation throughout the nineteenth century. This book not only relates how Belgians were taught how to move and fight, but also how they spoke and sang to express masculinity and patriotism.
A history of what it meant to be a man, and a citizen of an emerging nation throughout the nineteenth century. This book not only relates how Belgians...
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201,24 |
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The Body and Military Masculinity in Late Qing and Early Republican China: The Art of Governing Soldiers
ISBN: 9781498531689 / Angielski / Twarda / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1894-1895, after suffering defeat against Japan in a war primarily fought over the control of Korea, the Qing government initiated fundamental military reforms and established "New Armies" modeled after the German and Japanese military. Besides reorganizing the structure of the army and improving military training, the goal was to overcome the alleged physical weakness and lack of martial spirit attributed to Chinese soldiers in particular and to Chinese men in general. Intellectuals, government officials, and military circles criticized the pacifist and civil orientation of Chinese...
In 1894-1895, after suffering defeat against Japan in a war primarily fought over the control of Korea, the Qing government initiated fundamental mili...
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532,17 |
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Engaging Men in the Fight Against Gender Violence: Case Studies from Africa
ISBN: 9781349436897 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gender-based violence is a global phenomenon which affects millions worldwide. However, despite the increasing attention which is now paid to this violence by policy makers data seem to indicate that these efforts are not having as great an impact as may have been hoped. In all countries of the world, reports of gender-related violence remain elevated, whilst many incidents of such violence probably remain unreported due to fear of stigma or reprisals for those who are victims. One of the problems in tackling gender-based violence has been that for too long men have been ignored as part of...
Gender-based violence is a global phenomenon which affects millions worldwide. However, despite the increasing attention which is now paid to this vio...
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201,24 |
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Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present
ISBN: 9781349296439 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An in-depth analysis into the construction of male identity as well as a unique and comprehensive historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed in British literature from the Middle Ages to the present. This book is an important contribution to the emerging field of masculinity studies.
An in-depth analysis into the construction of male identity as well as a unique and comprehensive historical overview of how masculinity has been cons...
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201,24 |
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Negotiating Work, Family, and Identity among Long-Haul Christian Truck Drivers: What Would Jesus Haul?
ISBN: 9780739196625 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book draws upon ethnographic and qualitative research in the United States to demonstrate the means through which long-haul truck drivers navigate work and family tensions in ways that resonate across categories of race, class, gender and religion. It examines how Christianity and constructions of masculinity are significant in the lives of long-haul drivers and how truckers work to construct narratives of their lives as good, moral individuals in contrast to competing cultural narratives which suggest images of romantic, rule-free, renegade lives on the open road. Based upon...
This book draws upon ethnographic and qualitative research in the United States to demonstrate the means through which long-haul truck drivers navigat...
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362,84 |
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Performing Masculinity
ISBN: 9781349367597 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary study analyzes the ways in which signs of masculinity have been performed across a wide variety of contexts and genres - including literature, classical ballet, sports, rock music, films and computer games - from the early nineteenth century to the present day.
This interdisciplinary study analyzes the ways in which signs of masculinity have been performed across a wide variety of contexts and genres - includ...
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201,24 |
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Acts of Manhood: The Performance of Masculinity on the American Stage, 1828-1865
ISBN: 9781349343041 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Investigates how and why the performance of American masculinity changed so dramatically on and off the nineteenth-century American stage.
Investigates how and why the performance of American masculinity changed so dramatically on and off the nineteenth-century American stage.
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201,24 |
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The Uwi Gender Journey: Recollections and Reflections
ISBN: 9789766405823 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Documents the visionary commitment and struggles for recognition and respect of a relatively small cohort of dedicated feminist scholars, each of them powerful academics and leaders, as they collaborated to institutionalize gender and development studies at the University of West Indies.
Documents the visionary commitment and struggles for recognition and respect of a relatively small cohort of dedicated feminist scholars, each of them...
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154,81 |
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Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism
ISBN: 9781349298525 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book argues for the importance of 'cowboy masculinity, ' from late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Owen Wister, and analyzes the democratic politics of masculinity in American literature and positions the American West as central to modernism.
This book argues for the importance of 'cowboy masculinity, ' from late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Heming...
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229,11 |
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Routledge Revivals: Homosexuality: A Research Guide (1987)
ISBN: 9781138280908 / Angielski / Twarda / 853 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1987, this book encompasses a broad range interdisciplinary research into homosexuality -- displaying a full spectrum of points of view -- and, given that the major traditions of modern homosexual research began in Europe, is not restricted to works in English.. In general topics that are densely covered in the literature are presented in this guide selectively, with some less studied topics, such as Economics and Music, fleshed out with signposts to more comprehensive research. It seeks to not only mirror existing publications, but also to stimulate new work by... First published in 1987, this book encompasses a broad range interdisciplinary research into homosexuality -- displaying a full spectrum of points ... |
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Men in Reserve: British Civilian Masculinites in the Second World War
ISBN: 9781526100696 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the armed forces. It uses fifty six newly conducted oral history interviews as well as autobiographies, visual sources and existing archived interviews to explore how this group articulated their wartime experiences and how they positioned themselves in relation to the hegemonic discourse of military masculinity. It considers the range of masculine identities circulating amongst civilian male workers during the war and investigates the extent to...
Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the ...
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432,86 |
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African Masculinities: Men in Africa from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present
ISBN: 9781349529216 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While masculinity studies enjoys considerable growth in the West, there is very little analysis of African masculinities.
While masculinity studies enjoys considerable growth in the West, there is very little analysis of African masculinities.
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402,53 |
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Black Masculinity in the Obama Era: Outliers of Society
ISBN: 9781349493333 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black Masculinity in the Obama Era provides an in-depth examination of the current state of black males and identifies the impact of living in the Obama era. In the era of the first black president, Barack H. Obama, this book gauges the status of black masculinity and provokes discourse to discover whether his election and presence has had an influential impact on black male achievement. A purposeful sample of black males was asked, what does it mean to be a black male in the 21st century? Throughout the interviews with black males, we learn that the 'Obama Effect' has not had the intended...
Black Masculinity in the Obama Era provides an in-depth examination of the current state of black males and identifies the impact of living in the Oba...
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201,24 |
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Mama's Boy: Momism and Homophobia in Postwar American Culture
ISBN: 9781349445493 / Angielski / Miękka / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In postwar America, the discourse of Momism advanced the idea that an over-affectionate or too-distant mother hampers the social and psychosexual development of her children, in particular her sons. Deemed worst of all was the outcome of homosexuality, since the period saw an intense policing of sexual deviance. van den Oever zooms in on four instances of the cultural representation of Momism: The Grotto, by Grace Zaring Stone, Suddenly Last Summer, by Tennessee Williams, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, and Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth, to offer new commentary on canonical texts, a...
In postwar America, the discourse of Momism advanced the idea that an over-affectionate or too-distant mother hampers the social and psychosexual deve...
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201,24 |
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Globalized Fatherhood
ISBN: 9781785333408 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The volume highlights the globally emergent, transnationally inflected transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life, suggesting that men throughout the world are responding to globalization as fathers in creative and unprecedented ways.
The volume highlights the globally emergent, transnationally inflected transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life, suggesting that men ...
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154,57 |
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The Man in the Mirror: Discussion and Application Guide
ISBN: 9781508818540 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Man in the Mirror is not a book you can simply read, lay aside, and expect to have all your problems neatly solved and put behind you. We have designed the discussion and application questions in this Guide, to enable you, either in a small group or on your own, to systematically identify and address the challenges you face as a man seeking to follow Jesus as a faithful disciple.
The Man in the Mirror is not a book you can simply read, lay aside, and expect to have all your problems neatly solved and put behind you. We have des...
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39,81 |
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Masculinity in Contemporary Quality Television
ISBN: 9781138053694 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity and quantity of quality television programs, many of which featuring complicated versions of masculinity that are informed not only by the women s movement of the sixties and seventies, but also by several decades of backlash and debate about the effects of women s equality on men, masculinity, and the relationship between men and women. Drawing upon studies of contemporary television programs, including popular series viewed internationally such as Mad Men, The League, Hung, Breaking Bad, Louie, and Girls, this book explores the ways in which...
Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity and quantity of quality television programs, many of which featuring complicated versions of masculini...
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222,50 |
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Mostly Straight: Sexual Fluidity among Men
ISBN: 9780674976382 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most of us assume that sexuality is fixed: either you're straight, gay, or bisexual. Yet an increasing number of young men today say that those categories are too rigid. They are, they insist, "mostly straight." They're straight, but they feel a slight but enduring romantic or sexual desire for men. To the uninitiated, this may not make sense. How can a man be "mostly" straight? Ritch Savin-Williams introduces us to this new world by bringing us the stories of young men who consider themselves to be mostly straight or sexually fluid. By hearing about their lives, we discover a radically... Most of us assume that sexuality is fixed: either you're straight, gay, or bisexual. Yet an increasing number of young men today say that those cat... |
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The American Elsewhere: Adventure and Manliness in the Age of Expansion
ISBN: 9780700624782 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As important cultural icons of the early nineteenth-century United States, adventurers energized the mythologies of the West and contributed to the justifications of territorial conquest. They told stories of exhilarating perils, boundless landscapes, and erotic encounters that elevated their chauvinism, avarice, and violence into forms of nobility. As self-proclaimed avatars of American exceptionalism, Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. suggests in The American Elsewhere, adventurers transformed westward expansion into a project of romantic nationalism. A study of US expansionism from 1815-1848,...
As important cultural icons of the early nineteenth-century United States, adventurers energized the mythologies of the West and contributed to the ju...
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241,90 |
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