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Honor and Violence Against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan
ISBN: 9781349474370 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines violence against women in the name of honor in Iraqi Kurdistan, taking an intersectional perspective. It reveals the links between destructive, state-sanctioned honor discourse and notions of manhood as they are shaped by a resistance culture dedicated to the struggle against ethnic oppression.
This book examines violence against women in the name of honor in Iraqi Kurdistan, taking an intersectional perspective. It reveals the links between ...
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Violent Masculinities: Male Aggression in Early Modern Texts and Culture
ISBN: 9781349466177 / Angielski / Miękka / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the early modern period in England, social expectations for men came under extreme pressure - the armed knight went into decline and humanism appeared. Here, original essays analyze a wide-range of violent acts in literature and culture, from civic violence to chivalric combat to brawls and battles.
During the early modern period in England, social expectations for men came under extreme pressure - the armed knight went into decline and humanism a...
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Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9781349376230 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book engages in an interdisciplinary study of the establishment and entrenchment of gender roles in early modern England. Drawing upon the methods and sources of literary criticism and social history, this edited volume shows how politics at both the elite and plebeian levels of society involved violence that either resulted from or expressed hostility toward the early modern gender system. Contributors take fresh approaches to prominent works by Shakespeare, Middleton, and Behn as well as discuss lesser known texts and events such as the execution of female heretics in Reformation...
This book engages in an interdisciplinary study of the establishment and entrenchment of gender roles in early modern England. Drawing upon the method...
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Unpaid Work and the Economy: Gender, Time Use and Poverty in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9781349303915 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents research findings from across the global South that substantively improves our understanding of time-use, poverty and gender equalities, to shed light on why unpaid work is indispensable to economic analysis and effective policy making.
This book presents research findings from across the global South that substantively improves our understanding of time-use, poverty and gender equali...
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Conrad and Masculinity
ISBN: 9781349398164 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely study offers a radical re-reading of Conrad's work in the light of contemporary theories of masculinity. Drawing on gay studies, feminism, film theory and literary theory, Roberts shows how Conrad's fiction, even as it reflects certain assumptions of its day about the role of men in society, offers striking insights into the instability of the 'masculine'. The book explores the relationship of masculinity with colonialism, modernity, the visual and the body in a wide range of Conrad's major and lesser-known fiction.
This timely study offers a radical re-reading of Conrad's work in the light of contemporary theories of masculinity. Drawing on gay studies, feminism,...
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Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Concepts, Findings, Future Perspectives
ISBN: 9783319348087 / Angielski / Miękka / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Advancing Women in Science: An International Perspective
ISBN: 9783319356372 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many countries have implemented policies to increase the number and quality of scientific researchers as a means to foster innovation and spur economic development and progress. To that end, grounded in a view of women as a rich, yet underutilized knowledge and labor resource, a great deal of recent attention has focused on encouraging women to pursue education and careers in science -- even in countries with longstanding dominant patriarchal regimes. Yet, overall, science remains an area in which girls and women are persistently disadvantaged. This book addresses that situation. It... Many countries have implemented policies to increase the number and quality of scientific researchers as a means to foster innovation and spur econ... |
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From Cold War to Cyber War: The Evolution of the International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict Over the Last 25 Years
ISBN: 9783319369969 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book follows the history of the international law of peace and armed conflict over the last 25 years. The articles analyze new developments concerning the prohibition of the use of force in international relations, self-determination of peoples, human rights and human security as well as international coordination of humanitarian assistance.
This book follows the history of the international law of peace and armed conflict over the last 25 years. The articles analyze new developments conce...
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Couple Resilience: Emerging Perspectives
ISBN: 9789402400403 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This distinctive volume expands our understanding of couple resilience by identifying and exploring specific mechanisms unique to intimate relationships that facilitate positive adaptation to life challenges.
This distinctive volume expands our understanding of couple resilience by identifying and exploring specific mechanisms unique to intimate relationshi...
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British Female Emigration Societies and the New World, 1860-1914
ISBN: 9783319501789 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the departure of Britain's 'surplus' women to Australia and New Zealand organised by Victorian British female emigration societies. Starting with an analysis of the surplus of women question, it then explores the philanthropic nature of the organisations (the Female Middle Class Emigration Society, the Women's Emigration Society, the British Women's Emigration Association, and the Church Emigration Society). The study of the strict selection of distressed gentlewomen emigrants is followed by an analysis of their marketing value, and an appraisal of women's imperialism....
This book focuses on the departure of Britain's 'surplus' women to Australia and New Zealand organised by Victorian British female emigration societie...
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Equestrian Cultures in Global and Local Contexts
ISBN: 9783319558851 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Breastfeeding and Media: Exploring Conflicting Discourses That Threaten Public Health
ISBN: 9783319564418 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foss argues that the media's messages play an integral role in setting the standard of public knowledge and attitudes toward breastfeeding, as she traces shifting public perceptions of breastfeeding and their corresponding media constructions from the development of commercial formula through contemporary times.
Foss argues that the media's messages play an integral role in setting the standard of public knowledge and attitudes toward breastfeeding, as she tra...
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Making Multicultural Families in Europe: Gender and Intergenerational Relations
ISBN: 9783319597546 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited collection explores family relations in two types of 'migrant families' in Europe: mixed families and transnational families. Based on in-depth qualitative fieldwork and large surveys, the contributors analyse gender and intergenerational relations from a variety of standpoints and migratory flows. In their examination of family life in a migratory context, the authors develop theoretical approaches from the social sciences that go beyond migration studies, such as intersectionality, the solidarity paradigm, care circulation, reflexive modernization and gender convergence... This edited collection explores family relations in two types of 'migrant families' in Europe: mixed families and transnational families. Based on ... |
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The Gender of Informal Politics: Russia, Iceland and Twenty-First Century Male Dominance
ISBN: 9783319602783 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book argues that the primary political obstacle holding women back in the twenty-first century is a bait and switch promising but simultaneously undercutting gender equality.
This book argues that the primary political obstacle holding women back in the twenty-first century is a bait and switch promising but simultaneously ...
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Knowledge as Resistance: The Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering
ISBN: 9781137527264 / Angielski / Twarda / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing insights from science and technology studies together with social movements and feminist theory, it seeks to examine larger questions about knowledge and expertise in activist engagements with rapidly-developing technologies, as well as explore an important and neglected episode of feminist history.
Bringing insights from science and technology studies together with social movements and feminist theory, it seeks to examine larger questions about k...
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Domestic Violence and Health Care in India: Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9789811061585 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses health care issues related to domestic violence, using extensive case studies from India.
This book discusses health care issues related to domestic violence, using extensive case studies from India.
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Transnational Family Communication: Immigrants and Icts
ISBN: 9781137586438 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the struggles that immigrant women experience when communicating with their transnational families through information and communication technologies (ICTs).
This book explores the struggles that immigrant women experience when communicating with their transnational families through information and communic...
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The Well-Being of the Labor Force in Colonial Bombay: Discourses and Practices
ISBN: 9783319661636 / Angielski / Twarda / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study draws on extensive archival research to explore the social history of industrial labor in colonial India through the lens of well-being. Focusing on the cotton millworkers in Bombay in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book moves beyond trade union politics and examines the complex ways in which the broader colonial society considered the subject of worker well-being. As the author shows, worker well-being projects unfolded in the contexts of British Empire, Indian nationalism, extraordinary infant mortality, epidemic diseases, and uneven urban development.... This study draws on extensive archival research to explore the social history of industrial labor in colonial India through the lens of well-being.... |
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New Approaches in History and Theology to Same-Sex Love and Desire
ISBN: 9783319702100 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a range of interdisciplinary evaluations of the history of same-sex relationships in the Church as they have been understood in different periods and contexts.
This book offers a range of interdisciplinary evaluations of the history of same-sex relationships in the Church as they have been understood in diffe...
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Rape on the Contemporary Stage
ISBN: 9783319708447 / Angielski / Twarda / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mainly focusing on the period from the 1990s to the present, it identifies key feminist debates on rape and gender, and introduces a set of ideas about the function of rape as a form of embodied, gendered violence to the analysis of dramaturgical and performance strategies used in a range of important and/or controversial works.
Mainly focusing on the period from the 1990s to the present, it identifies key feminist debates on rape and gender, and introduces a set of ideas abou...
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