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A Women's Berlin: Building the Modern City
ISBN: 9780816653232 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Around the beginning of the twentieth century, women began to claim Berlin as their own, expressing a vision of the German capital that embraced their feminine modernity, both culturally and architecturally. Women located their lives and made their presence felt in the streets and institutions of this dynamic metropolis. From residences to restaurants, schools to exhibition halls, a visible network of women's spaces arose to accommodate changing patterns of life and work. A Women's Berlin retraces this largely forgotten city, which came into being in the years between German...
Around the beginning of the twentieth century, women began to claim Berlin as their own, expressing a vision of the German capital that embraced their...
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Azeri Women in Transition: Women in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan
ISBN: 9780700716623 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study of women and gender in a Muslim society draws on archival and literary sources as well as the life stories of women of different generations to offer an ethnographic and historical account of the lives of urban women in contemporary Azerbaijan
This study of women and gender in a Muslim society draws on archival and literary sources as well as the life stories of women of different generation...
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780,44 |
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Young Adult Women, Work and Family: Living a Contradiction
ISBN: 9780720123364 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text is an exploration of the interplay between employment and domestic relations within a specific group of young women, which includes single working women without children and working mothers. It is based on actual experiences, as related in interviews, and uses longitudianl data to chart the experience of young adult women living a contradiction between work and family. The text also employs social theory to interpret interview data showing the interdependence of young women as active agents, and the constraints and opportunities of the social structure. The main conclusion is that...
This text is an exploration of the interplay between employment and domestic relations within a specific group of young women, which includes single w...
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682,89 |
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Women, Work and Trade Unions
ISBN: 9780720123289 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study focuses on working-class women, catering and cleaning workers, and the way their interests were presented in trade unions. It argues that there is an institutional bias within trade unions which precludes the full representation of women's interests. Based on empirical research into two trade unions in the National Health Service, the book stresses the importance of how women's work is structured, in order to investigate the role of trade unions in challenging or reproducing inequalities.
This study focuses on working-class women, catering and cleaning workers, and the way their interests were presented in trade unions. It argues that t...
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829,23 |
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Women and Labour Organizing in Asia: Diversity, Autonomy and Activism
ISBN: 9780415413152 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing a full account of the role of women in union activism in Asia, covering all the major economies of the region, this book successfully challenges the prevailing conception of women workers in Asia as passive and uninterested in industrial issues. Providing a full account of the role of women in union activism in Asia, covering all the major economies of the region, this book successfully cha... |
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780,44 |
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Chinese Women-Living and Working
ISBN: 9780415406185 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents significant new findings on new domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and the twenty-first century. Experts in gender, politics, media studies, and anthropology discuss the impact of economic reform and globalization on Chinese women in family businesses, management, the professions, the prostitution industry and domestic service. Significant themes include changing marriage and consumer aspirations and the reinvention of domestic space. The volume offers fresh insights into changing definitions of 'women's work' in contemporary...
This book presents significant new findings on new domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and the twenty-fi...
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238,96 |
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The Gendered New World Order: Militarism, Development, and the Environment
ISBN: 9780415915175 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ecological security seems increasingly precarious and battles over land and models of economic development now lead to military conflicts. The Gendered New World Order addresses the compelling issue of how gender connects the global problems of militarism, underdevelopment, and environmental decay. Scholars from around the world make connections between seemingly disparate issues such as refugees, polluted waters, bombed vilages, massive dam projects, starving children, deforestation, nuclear arms buildup and the rights of women.
Ecological security seems increasingly precarious and battles over land and models of economic development now lead to military conflicts.
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487,73 |
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Facing the Mirror: Older Women and Beauty Shop Culture
ISBN: 9780415915243 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative, ethnographic study of a neighborhood beauty salon investigates how customers constitute a lively, affirming community of peers during their weekly visits. Facing the Mirror gives voice to older women, who, in a sexist and ageist society, are frequently devalued and rendered invisible. These older, mostly Jewish women articulate their experiences of bodily self-presentation, femininity, aging, and caring pertaining to their lives within and outside Julie's International Salon. This book explores the socio-moral significance of these...
This innovative, ethnographic study of a neighborhood beauty salon investigates how customers constitute a lively, affirming community of peers during...
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204,81 |
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Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories
ISBN: 9780415047487 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text adopts a feminist analysis to examine the place of gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Taking the Shakespearean history play as their point fo departure, the authors argue that the change from dynastic kingdom to modern nation was integrally connected to shifts in cultural understandings of gender, and in the social roles available to men and women. The cultural centrality of the Elizabethan theatre made it an important arena for staging the diverse and contradictory elements of this transition. Plays featured include: King John; Henry VI,...
This text adopts a feminist analysis to examine the place of gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Taking the Sh...
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731,67 |
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Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman Elite from Cornelia to Julia Domna
ISBN: 9780415196932 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the education of upper-class women in Roman society in the central period of Roman history, from the second century BC to AD 235. The author explores the place of Roman upper-class women in the world of the educated. She reconstructs their opportunities to acquire an education; the impediments they faced; the level of education they could reach and the judgement on educated women in Roman society. She also examines the role of women as patronesses of literature and learning and Roman women's writing.
A study of the education of upper-class women in Roman society in the central period of Roman history, from the second century BC to AD 235. The autho...
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756,05 |
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Women, Gender and Labour Migration : Historical and Cultural Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415228008 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Approximately half of all migrants today are female. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which attention to gender is moving debates away from old paradigms, such as the push/pull motivation which used to dominate the field of migration studies. The authors consider women's experience of migration, especially in long distance, transnational moves. They examine the extent to which labour migration is a social and strategic decision for women.
Approximately half of all migrants today are female. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which attention to gender is moving debates ...
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756,05 |
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Feeding Desire : Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality Among a Saharan People
ISBN: 9780415280952 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Voluptuous immobility is thought to beautify girls' bodies, hasten the onset of puberty, heighten their sexuality and ripen them for marriage. From the time of the loss of their first milk teeth, girls are directed to eat huge bowls of milk and porridge in one of the world's few examples of active female fattening. meanings of women's fatness as constituted by desire, kinship, concepts of health,...
While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centurie...
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682,89 |
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Footbinding, Feminism and Freedom : The Liberation of Women's Bodies in Modern China
ISBN: 9780714646336 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text brings Chinese women to the centre of the Chinese cultural stage by examining the role which exercise and, subsequently, sport played in their liberation. Physical emancipation, particularly in the custom of footbinding, which continued to be practised to some extent in China until 1949, was the prerequisite for wider emancipation. Through the medium of women's bodies, Fan Hong explores the significance of religious beliefs, cultural codes and political dogmas for gender relations, gender concepts and the human body in an Asian setting. Inquiry into the evolving relationship between...
This text brings Chinese women to the centre of the Chinese cultural stage by examining the role which exercise and, subsequently, sport played in the...
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829,23 |
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Not Only the Dangerous Trades: Women's Work and Health in Britain 1880-1914
ISBN: 9780748401444 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using original research and focusing on occupational ill-health in relation to women workers, this book presents a perspective for the analysis of both gender and work and work and ill-health. The author gives a critique of traditional theoretical accounts of gender relations, state intervention and industrial ill-health. The chapters examine the extent to which feminist activists got involved in debates about health and industrial work, and show how activists went beyond the concerns of suffrage.
Using original research and focusing on occupational ill-health in relation to women workers, this book presents a perspective for the analysis of bot...
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756,05 |
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Imagining Home: Gender, Race and National Identity, 1945-1964
ISBN: 9781857283518 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imagining Home offers a unique examination of ideas and images of home in Britain during a period of national decline and loss of imperial power. In exploring the relationship between gender, 'race' and national identity, it higlights the continuing importance of empire in imaginings of the nation during a period of decolonization. Analyzing the significance of colonialism and racism in shaping ideas of motherhood, employment and domestictiy, it traces the process by which Englishness was increasingly associated with domestic order, and the home and family constructed as...
Imagining Home offers a unique examination of ideas and images of home in Britain during a period of national decline and loss of imperial po...
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Tales Of Dark Skinned Women: Race, Gender And Global Culture
ISBN: 9781857286120 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text looks at the way race and gender are portrayed in popular culture, focusing on the representation of black women. It incorporates a discussion of the politics of representation in Britain and North America and the shift from negative stereotypes to positive images to postmodern knowingness. The author is especially interested in the reach of various race/gender literacies, including the impact of North American racial discourse has had on British conceptions of Asian and Afro-Caribbean femininity.
This text looks at the way race and gender are portrayed in popular culture, focusing on the representation of black women. It incorporates a discussi...
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243,84 |
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Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges
ISBN: 9789058230683 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of women in this field. This book considers the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion of them.
Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of women in this fi...
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731,67 |
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Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe V Wade
ISBN: 9780415904483 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rickie Soliger seeks to unravel the complex, disturbing reality of single parent pregnancy in the post World War II era, exploring the way in which race, more than any other factor, defined the experience of unwed motherhood.
Rickie Soliger seeks to unravel the complex, disturbing reality of single parent pregnancy in the post World War II era, exploring the way in which ra...
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370,66 |
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Reproductions of Reproduction: Imaging Symbolic Change
ISBN: 9780415912426 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reproductions of Reproduction is about the loss of the paternal metaphor and how the ensuing scramble to relocate it has set off a series of representational crises. Examining the sudden popularity of such figures as cyborgs, bodybuilders, and vampires; shifts in legislation about abortion, paternity and copyright; the transition to a digital-based society; the emergence of lesbian and gay studies; the growing infatuation with hyper-realistic patterns in television, this book argues that each of these manifestations represents an attempt to resituate...
Reproductions of Reproduction is about the loss of the paternal metaphor and how the ensuing scramble to re...
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463,34 |
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Women 18th Century: Cons Fem
ISBN: 9780415034883 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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