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    How transnational modernity is taking shape in and in relation to AsiaFashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia considers the role of bodily aesthetics in the shaping of Asian modernities and the formation of the so-called "Asian Century." S. Heijin Lee, Christina H. Moon, and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu train our eyes on sites as far-flung, varied, and intimate as Guangzhou and Los Angeles, Saigon and Seoul, New York and Toronto. They map the transregional connections, ever-evolving aspirations and sensibilities, and new worlds and life paths forged through engagements with fashion and beauty.Contributors consider American influence on plastic surgery in Korea, Vietnamese debates about "the fashionable," and the costs and commitments demanded of those who make and wear fast fashion, from Chinese garment workers to Nepalese nail technicians in New York who are mandated to dress "fashionably." In doing so, this interdisciplinary anthology moves beyond common characterizations of Asians and the Asian diaspora as simply abject laborers or frenzied consumers, analyzing who the modern Asian subject is now: what they wear and how they work, move, eat, and shop.

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    av Isaac Weiner
    392 - 1 092,-

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    - NOMOS LXI
     
    720,-

    Containing essays on the political, legal, and philosophical dimensions of political legitimacy, this volume reflects the cutting edge of responses to fundamental philosophical questions, drawing, in the distinctive NOMOS fashion, from political science, philosophy, and law.

  • - A History of Hollywood Prayer from the Silent Era to Today
    av Terry Lindvall
    577 - 1 586,-

  • av Sharon Erickson Nepstad
    509 - 1 432,-

    Providing a concise history of progressively oriented Catholic Social Thought, which conveys the Catholic Church's position on a variety of social justice concerns, this book explains how lay Catholics in the United States have put these ideas into practice through a creative and sometimes provocative political engagement.

  • av Kathryn Schumaker
    273 - 748,-

  • - Atheism in American Culture
    av Jerome P. Baggett
    367 - 1 432,-

  • av Jon B. Gould
    262 - 577,-

  • - Social Violence and Civil Rights in Early America
    av Kelly A. Ryan
    680,-

    Covering 19th-century America, Ryan tells the story of legally and socially dependent people--free and enslaved African Americans, married white women, and servants--who resisted violence in Massachusetts and New York despite lacking formal protection through the legal system.al system.

  • - The Power of Social Influences
    av Cass R. Sunstein
    148 - 720,-

  • - A Developmental Perspective
    av David M. Day & Margit Wiesner
    680 - 1 319,-

  • - A Documentary History
     
    1 092,-

    On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history-depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it.June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing practices and an omnipresent backdrop of homophobia and transphobia, raided the Stonewall Inn, a neighborhood gay bar, in the middle of the night. The raid was met with a series of responses that would go down in history as the most galvanizing period in this country's fight for sexual and gender liberation: a riotous reaction from the bar's patrons and surrounding community, followed by six days of protests.Across 200 documents, Marc Stein presents a unique record of the lessons and legacies of Stonewall. Drawing from sources that include mainstream, alternative, and LGBTQ media, gay-bar guide listings, state court decisions, political fliers, first-person accounts, song lyrics, and photographs, Stein paints an indelible portrait of this pivotal moment in the LGBT movement. In The Stonewall Riots, Stein does not construct a neatly quilted, streamlined narrative of Greenwich Village, its people, and its protests; instead, he allows multiple truths to find their voices and speak to one another, much like the conversations you'd expect to overhear in your neighborhood bar.Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the moment the first brick (or shot glass?) was thrown, The Stonewall Riots allows readers to take stock of how LGBTQ life has changed in the US, and how it has stayed the same. It offers campy stories of queer resistance, courageous accounts of movements and protests, powerful narratives of police repression, and lesser-known stories otherwise buried in the historical record, from an account of ball culture in the mid-sixties to a letter by Black Panther Huey P. Newton addressed to his brothers and sisters in the resistance. For anyone committed to political activism and social justice, The Stonewall Riots provides a much-needed resource for renewal and empowerment.

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    - The Sensationalized Crimes of Mexico's First Female Serial Killer
    av Susana Vargas Cervantes
    343 - 1 432,-

    The surprising true story of Mexico's hunt, arrest, and conviction of its first female serial killer who was responsible for the ghastly deaths of 40 elderly women in a fascinating analysis of what serial killing--often considered "killing for the pleasure of killing"--represents to us.nts to us.

  • - Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York
    av Carl Suddler
    273 - 1 432,-

  • - A History of Reproductive Politics in the United States
    av Rickie Solinger
    509 - 1 432,-

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    - Civilian Power and Police Accountability in Black and Brown Los Angeles
    av Luis Daniel Gascon & Aaron Roussell
    343 - 1 432,-

  • - Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition
    av Melissa E. Sanchez
    401 - 1 092,-

    Putting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, this work reassesses the commonplace view that a modern veneration of sexual monogamy and fidelity finds its roots in Protestant thought.

  • - The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust
    av Elisabeth Gallas
    463,-

    Winner, 2020 JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material, given by the Jewish Book CouncilThe astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the HolocaustIn March 1946 the American Military Government for Germany established the Offenbach Archival Depot near Frankfurt to store, identify, and restore the huge quantities of Nazi-looted books, archival material, and ritual objects that Army members had found hidden in German caches. These items bore testimony to the cultural genocide that accompanied the Nazis' systematic acts of mass murder. The depot built a short-lived lieu de memoire-a "mortuary of books," as the later renowned historian Lucy Dawidowicz called it-with over three million books of Jewish origin coming from nineteen different European countries awaiting restitution. A Mortuary of Books tells the miraculous story of the many Jewish organizations and individuals who, after the war, sought to recover this looted cultural property and return the millions of treasured objects to their rightful owners. Some of the most outstanding Jewish intellectuals of the twentieth century, including Dawidowicz, Hannah Arendt, Salo W. Baron, and Gershom Scholem, were involved in this herculean effort. This led to the creation of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc., an international body that acted as the Jewish trustee for heirless property in the American Zone and transferred hundreds of thousands of objects from the Depot to the new centers of Jewish life after the Holocaust. The commitment of these individuals to the restitution of cultural property revealed the importance of cultural objects as symbols of the enduring legacy of those who could not be saved. It also fostered Jewish culture and scholarly life in the postwar world.

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    - Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture
    av Evan Elkins
    343 - 986

  • - The Cultural Politics of Disease
    av Jeffrey A. Bennett
    367 - 986

  • - A Functional and Dimensional Framework
    av Alejandro Camacho
    748,-

    A pioneering model for constructing and assessing government authority and achieving policy goals more effectively.

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    366,-

    Forty original contributions on games and gaming culture What does Pokémon Go tell us about globalization? What does Tetris teach us about rules? Is feminism boosted or bashed by Kim Kardashian: Hollywood? How does BioShock Infinite help us navigate world-building?From arcades to Atari, and phone apps to virtual reality headsets, video games have been at the epicenter of our ever-evolving technological reality. Unlike other media technologies, video games demand engagement like no other, which begs the question¿what is the role that video games play in our lives, from our homes, to our phones, and on global culture writ large? How to Play Video Games brings together forty original essays from today¿s leading scholars on video game culture, writing about the games they know best and what they mean in broader social and cultural contexts. Read about avatars in Grand Theft Auto V, or music in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. See how Age of Empires taught a generation about postcolonialism, and how Borderlands exposes the seedy underbelly of capitalism. These essays suggest that understanding video games in a critical context provides a new way to engage in contemporary culture. They are a must read for fans and students of the medium.

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    343

    Showcasing the methodological renaissance unfolding in queer scholarship, this volume brings together emerging and esteemed researchers from all corners of the academy who are defining new directions for the field and inspiring readers with innovative ways of thinking about methods and methodologies in queer studies.

  • - Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance
    av Sandra Ruiz
    367 - 1 432,-

  • - Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America
    av Jennifer E. Cobbina
    334 - 1 056,-

  • - Low-Income Parents and the Struggle for Family and Community Ties
    av Sarah Halpern-Meekin
    367 - 1 432,-

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    - A Documentary History
     
    379,-

    On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history-depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it.June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing practices and an omnipresent backdrop of homophobia and transphobia, raided the Stonewall Inn, a neighborhood gay bar, in the middle of the night. The raid was met with a series of responses that would go down in history as the most galvanizing period in this country's fight for sexual and gender liberation: a riotous reaction from the bar's patrons and surrounding community, followed by six days of protests.Across 200 documents, Marc Stein presents a unique record of the lessons and legacies of Stonewall. Drawing from sources that include mainstream, alternative, and LGBTQ media, gay-bar guide listings, state court decisions, political fliers, first-person accounts, song lyrics, and photographs, Stein paints an indelible portrait of this pivotal moment in the LGBT movement. In The Stonewall Riots, Stein does not construct a neatly quilted, streamlined narrative of Greenwich Village, its people, and its protests; instead, he allows multiple truths to find their voices and speak to one another, much like the conversations you'd expect to overhear in your neighborhood bar.Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the moment the first brick (or shot glass?) was thrown, The Stonewall Riots allows readers to take stock of how LGBTQ life has changed in the US, and how it has stayed the same. It offers campy stories of queer resistance, courageous accounts of movements and protests, powerful narratives of police repression, and lesser-known stories otherwise buried in the historical record, from an account of ball culture in the mid-sixties to a letter by Black Panther Huey P. Newton addressed to his brothers and sisters in the resistance. For anyone committed to political activism and social justice, The Stonewall Riots provides a much-needed resource for renewal and empowerment.

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