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Taylor & Francis Power and the Social
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Taylor & Francis Suicide
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1897, this is Durkheim's pioneering attempt to offer a sociological explanation for a phenomenon regarded until then as exclusively psychological and individualistic.Trade Review' - Suicide is one of the great classics of sociology. Although it is now more than a century old, it remains the most significant work on suicide ever produced.''Durkheim's great books are dedicated to the proposition that society transcends the individual: that our beliefs, values, dispositions and desires are often products of social forces and structures we poorly understand.' - Financial Times'One of the acutest and most brilliant sociologists.' - Bronislaw MalinowskiTable of ContentsBook I Extra-Social Factors1.Suicide and Psychopathic States 2.Suicide and normal Psychological Sates-Race Heredity 3.Suicide and Cosmic Factors 4.ImitaionBook II Social Causes and Social Types1.How to Determine Social Causes and Social Types 2.Egoistic Suicide 3. Egoistic Suicide (continued, 4.Altruistic Suicide, 5. Anomic Suicide 6.individual Forms of the Different Types of SuicideBook III General Nature of Suicide as a Social Phenomenon1.The Social Element of Suicide 2.Relations of Suicide with Other Social Phenomena
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Taylor & Francis The Meanings of Violence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender and the Military Women in the Armed Forces
Book SynopsisThis is the first comparative, cross-national study of the participation of women in the armed forces of NATO countries. Along side an analysis of this key topic stands a critique of existing theoretical models and the proposal of a revised analytical framework.Unlike previous works this new study employs mixed-methodological research design combining quantitative and qualitative data - a large N-analysis based on general policies and statistical information concerning every country in the sample with more in-depth case-studies. This volume includes original empirical data regarding the presence of women in the armed forces of NATO countries, proposes an index of âgender inclusivenessâ and assesses the factors that affect womenâs military roles. The book also presents two new key case studies â Portugal and the Netherlands - based on both documentary sources and in-depth interviews of both men and women officers in the two countries.This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of strategic studies, gender and women studies and military history. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Women in the Military: A Global Overview 2. Gender Relations, Gendered Organizations and the Military 3. Social and Political Dilemmas of Women’s Military Service 4. The Military Institution and Social Change 5. Gender Integration in the Armed Forces: A Cross-National Comparison of Policies and Practices in the NATO Countries 6. Portugal and the Netherlands: Military and Social Contexts 7. Interpersonal Dynamics of Gender Integration: The Case of the Officer Corps Concluding Remarks Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The GM Debate Risk Politics and Public Engagement
Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of an unprecedented experiment in public participation: the government-sponsored debate on the possible commercialization of âGMâ crops in the UK. Giving a unique and systematic account of the debate process, this revealing volume sets it within its political and intellectual contexts, and examines the practical implications for future public engagement initiatives.The authors, an experienced team of researchers, produce a conceptually-informed and empirically-based evaluation of the debate, drawing upon detailed observation of both public and behind-the-scenes aspects of the process, the views of participants in debate events, a major MORI-administered survey of public views, and details of media coverage. With innovative methodological work on the evaluation of public engagement and deliberative processes, the authors analyze the design, implementation and effectiveness of the debate process, and provide a critique of its official findings. The book will undoubtedly be of interest to a wide readership, and will be an invaluable resource for researchers, policy-makers and students concerned with cross-disciplinary aspects of risk, decision-making, public engagement, and governance of technology.Table of Contents1. The Origins of the Debate 2. Our Approach to Evaluating the Debate 3. The Unfolding of the Debate and the Implementation of the Evaluation Exercise 4. Process Issues 5. The Issue of Representativeness 6. Participants’ Evaluation Criteria 7. The Management and Translation of Knowledge 8. Other Representations of the Debate 9. Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Capacity to Care Gender and Ethical
Book SynopsisWendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely absent from the topical literature on care. Humans are not born with a capacity to care, and this volume explores how this capacity is achieved through the experiences of primary care, gender development and later, parenting.In this book, the author addresses the assumption that the capacity to care is innate. She argues that key processes in the early development of babies and young children create the capability for individuals to care, with a focus on the role of intersubjective experience and parent-child relations. The Capacity to Care also explores the controversial belief that women are better at caring than men and questions whether this is likely to change with contemporary shifts in parenting and gender relations. Similarly, the sensitive domain of the quality of care and how to consider whether care has broken down are also debated, alongside a consideration of what constitutes a good enough' family.<Trade Review'This book is significant for its scholarly exploration of psychological aspects of caring and compassion, marking an important development in the field.' - Dr Ann Weatherall, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand'Building on her ground-breaking earlier work on gender, subjectivity and method, Wendy Hollway's new book makes an exciting intervention in recent debates about care. It is a wonderful example of how psychoanalytic perspectives can transform social scientific, feminist and public understandings.' – Sasha Roseneil, University of Leeds, UK'Wendy Hollway, one of the foremost psycho-social thinkers of our time, weaves psychic and social reality together in a fascinating account of the development and vicissitudes of the capacity to care.' - Lynne Layton, Harvard Medical School, USA'The Capacity to Care provides a thought-provoking and complex analysis of a subject both long neglected and oversimplified. Hollway creates an urgency to take this topic seriously.' - Leanne R. Parker, PsycCRITIQUESThis book is significant for its scholarly exploration of psychological aspects of caring and compassion, marking an important development in the field. - Dr Ann Weatherall, Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of WellingtonBuilding on her ground-breaking earlier work on gender, subjectivity and method, Wendy Hollway’s new book makes an exciting intervention in recent debates about care. It is a wonderful example of how psychoanalytic perspectives can transform social scientific, feminist and public understandings. – Sasha Roseneil, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of LeedsWendy Hollway, one of the foremost psycho-social thinkers of our time, weaves psychic and social reality together in a fascinating account of the development and vicissitudes of the capacity to care. - Lynne Layton, Faculty, Harvard Medical SchoolTable of Contents1. Introducing the Capacity to Care 2. Care, Ethics and Relational Subjectivity 3. Intersubjectivity In Self Development 4. Maternal Subjectivity and The Capacity to Care 5. The Gender of Parenting, The Gender of Care 6. Difference, Ethics and The Capacity To Care 7. Conclusions. Self, Morality and Acquiring the Capacity to Care
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Citizenship in Nordic Welfare States
Book SynopsisThis book offers an innovative analysis of the ways in which the relationship between citizens and welfare states - social citizenship - becomes more dynamic and multifaceted as a result of Europeanization and individualization.Table of ContentsPart 1: Citizenship in Contemporary Welfare States – Issues and Perspectives 1. Opening Citizenship: Why Do We Need a New Understanding of Social Citizenship? 2. From Active States to Active Citizenship? The Impact of Economic Openness and Transnational Governance 3. What Do We Mean by Active Citizenship? Part 2: Towards a New Balance of Rights and Duties – Activation Reform 4. Nordic Activation Reforms in a European Context: A Distinct Universalistic Model? 5. Individualizing Welfare Provision: The Integrated Approach of the Finnish Activation Reform 6. The Challenges of Decentralized Delivery of Services: The Scope for Active Citizenship in Swedish and Norwegian Activation Policies Part 3: The Increased Scope for Participation and Inclusion of Marginal Groups 7. Claiming Participation Rights: Social Mobilization and Citizenship in Denmark and Norway 8. Capabilities and Participation: Russian Women Immigrants in North Norway 9. Europeanization ‘From Below’: The OMC Process on Social Inclusion in the Swedish Welfare State Part 4: Marketization of Citizenship? Choice, Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights 10. Contrasting Legal Concepts of Active Citizenship: Europe and the Nordic Countries 11. Membership and Migration: Market Citizenship or European Citizenship? 12. Double Discrimination: Human Rights and Immigrant Women in Denmark within the Context of the Nordic Legal Tradition 13. From Disabling Barriers to Participation: The Opportunities Created by the EU Equality Strategy 14. Enlarging Freedom of Choice: Pension Reforms in the Nordic Countries and Germany 15. Conclusions: Remaking Social Citizenship in Nordic Welfare States
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Civil Society Religion and Global Governance
Book SynopsisThis is one of the first books to explore the nexus between civil society, religion, and global governance, their impact on human security and well-being, and significance for current debates in international politics.The contributors examine salient aspects of the secular state whose monopoly on, and control of, institutional violence has reified its use of power to such an extent that the modernistic separation of church and state is being called into question, as institutional limits are sought to the abuse of that power. The volume is clearly divided into six key sections: human security and human rights the politics of civil religion the ethics of civil development civil society and global governance cross-cultural perspectives on institutional development for civil society international civil society. Within these sections the illuminating case studies span a wide geographical extent from Central and ETable of ContentsPreface Lawrence Cram 1. Introduction: Civil Society, Religion and Global Governance - The Power and Persuasiveness of Civil Society Helen James Part 1: Human Security and Human Rights 2. National Security: Proportionality, Restraint and Commonsense Hon. Justice Michael Kirby, AC CMG 3. Human Security, Identity Politics and Global Governance: From Freedom from Fear to Fear of Freedoms Amitav Acharya 4. A Transcivilisational Perspective on Global Issues: A Way to Overcome Euro-America-Centric Discourse on World Affairs in the Twenty-First Century Yasuaki Onuma Part 2: The Politics of Civil Religion 5. The Anglican Church, the State and Modern Warfare Philip Towle 6. Religion and the Destruction of Aboriginal Society: The Paradox of Australian Indigenous Civil Societies Gordon Briscoe, AO 7. Church-State Relations in Post-Communist Countries: The Idea of Path Dependency May Have Something Useful to Tell Us Robert F. Miller Part 3: The Ethics of Civil Development 8. War and the Role of Religion in a Global Civil Society Joseph Runzo 9. Citizenship as Consumption or Citizenship as Agency? The Challenge for Latin American Civil Society Philip Oxhorn 10. Corruption, Governance and Transcultural Interaction Seumas Miller Part 4: Civil Society and Global Governance: Panacea or Problematique? 11. Post-Secular Civil Society Wayne Hudson 12. Christian Custom and the Church as Structure in ‘Weak States’ in Melanesia Bronwen Douglas 13. Governance, Civil Society and Economic Development: A View from the Pacific Ron Duncan Part 5: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Institutional Development for Civil Society 14. Community Development and Globalisation Isagani Serrano 15. Confronting Burma/Myanmar’s Security Dilemma: An Integrated Approach to National and Human Security Issues Zar Ni 16. The Iranian Fertility Transition: The Influences of Religion and Ethnicity Peter McDonald and Md Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi 17. Faith, NGOs and the Politics of Secularism in Bangladesh Bina D’Costa Part 6: International Civil Society: Prospects for Enhancing Human Security 18. Global Civil Society and the International Trade Regime He Baogang and Hannah Murphy 19. Kifaya as Political Culture: The 7 September 2005 Elections in Egypt Jacky Angus 20. Civil Society, Religion and Good Governance: The Indonesian Case Azyumardi Azra 21. Conclusion: Paradigms of a More Civil Society Helen James
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Alternatives to Privatization
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Taylor & Francis Schoolsmart and Motherwise WorkingClass Womens Identity and Schooling Perspectives on Gender
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Fiction of Bioethics Reflective Bioethics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Americans with Disabilities Exploring Implications of the Law for Individuals and Institutions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cosmopolitan Geographies
Book SynopsisThis book highlights the best new interdisciplinary research on the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism, with a special focus on the cosmopolitan literatures of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, from medieval times to the present.Trade Review"Lively, smart, compelling, this book reclaims and redefines cosmopolitanism in a wide range of periods and places. Its first-rate essays will be of keen interest to anyone grappling with questions of transnational and intercultural experience." -- Jahan Ramazani, author of The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English"Cosmopolitan Geographies suggests that the geographical diversity as well as the long history of 'cosmopolitanism' is absolutely vital for imagining a non-ethnocentric international humanism today. The essays in this important volume bring together a rich variety of historical contexts, literary practices, and political imperatives in order to provoke us to rethink the relationship between national cultures and internationalism, and between cultural difference and universalism." -- Ania Loomba, Professor of English, University of Illinois and author of Colonialism/PostcolonialismTable of ContentsIntroduction, Vinay Dharwadker; Chapter 1 The Village of the Liberal Managerial Class, Bruce Robbins; Chapter 2 “The Metropol and the Mayster-Toun”, Robert R. Edwards; Chapter 3 The Cartographic Imagination, David Harvey; Chapter 4 Anne Frank and Hannah Arendt, Universalism and Pathos, Sharon Marcus; Chapter 5 Chinese Cosmopolitanism in Two Senses and Postcolonial National Memory, Pheng Cheah; Chapter 6 Theater and Cosmopolitanism, Una Chaudhuri; Chapter 7 Cosmopolitan Reading, K. Anthony Appiah;
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Taylor & Francis Holocaust City The Making of a Jewish Ghetto
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Future for Everyone Innovative Social
Book SynopsisThe original essays in this timely collection discuss the many ways to foster innovative and unprecedented collaborations leading to more effective partnerships between major institutions and corporations to poor and disenfranchised communities. Many of today''s pressing issues are covered in-depth: bridging the digital divide; community reinvestment; university and corporate partnerships; and corporate responsibility.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction, David Maurrasse I. A Corporate Environment in Transition? Chapter 1: Socially Responsible Business: Global Trends, Jonathan Cohen Chapter 2: Social Responsibility as a Professional Virtue: Law, Bourdieu, and Community, Osagie Kingsley Obasogie Chapter 3: Environmental Results: Corporations, Financial Markets and Environmental Sustainability, Frank Dixon II. Case Studies and the Philanthropic Paradox Chapter 4: Community Voices: A National Initiative to Improve the Health of Underserved Communities, Allan J. Formicola, Walid Michelen, Sandra Harris Chapter 5: Working Together: Corporate and Community Development, Carol Glazer Chapter 6: Latino Nonprofits: The Role of Intermediaries in Organizational Capacity Building, Aida Rodriguez, Joseph A. Pereira, and Shana Brodnax Chapter 7: Spending Policies for Foundations: The Case for Increased Grants Payout, Perry Mehrling III. Ideas and Information/Power and Access Chapter 8: The Digital Divide: Communities and Technology, Tyshammie Cooper Chapter 9: The Media and Social Responsibility: Building Public Will for Change, Heather Bent Tamir Chapter 10: The Future for Economically Distressed Community-Higher Education Partnerships, David N. Cox, Melissa Pearce Conclusion, David Maurrasse About the Authors
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Consuming the Entrepreneurial City Image Memory Spectacle
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Basic Books Play Money
Book SynopsisPlay Money explores the remarkable new phenomenon of MMORPGs, or Massively MultiPlayer Online Role-Playing Games, in which hundreds of thousands of players operate fantasy characters in virtual environments. With city-sized populations, these games generate their own cultures, governments, and social systems and, inevitably, their own economies, which spill over into the real world. The desire for virtual goods-magic swords, enchanted breastplates, and special, hard-to-get elixirs-has spawned a cottage industry of virtual loot farmers: people who play the games just to obtain fantasy goods that they can sell in the real world. The best loot farmers can make between six figures a year and six figures a month . Play Money is an extended walk on the weird side: a vivid snapshot of a subculture whose denizens were once the stuff of mere sociological spectacle but now-with computer gaming poised to eclipse all otherentertainments in dollar volume, and with the lines between play and wo
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Basic Books Captains Of Consciousness Advertising And The Social Roots Of The Consumer Culture
Book SynopsisCaptains of Consciousness offers a historical look at the origins of the advertising industry and consumer society at the turn of the twentieth century. For this new edition Stuart Ewen, one of our foremost interpreters of popular culture, has written a new preface that considers the continuing influence of advertising and commercialism in contemporary life. Not limiting his critique strictly to consumers and the advertising culture that serves them, he provides a fascinating history of the ways in which business has refined its search for new consumers by ingratiating itself into Americans'' everyday lives. A timely and still-fascinating critique of life in a consumer culture.
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Basic Books A Strange Stirring The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
Book SynopsisIn 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique . Women wrote to her by the hundreds to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were and what they were doing when they first read the book. In A Strange Stirring , prominent historian of women and marriage Stephanie Coontz strips away the myths, examining what The Feminine Mystique actually said, and which groups of women were affected. Coontz takes us back to the early 1960s - the age of Mad Men - when the sexual revolution was barely nascent, middle class wives stayed at home, and husbands retained legal control over almost every aspect of family life. Based on extensive research in the magazines and popular culture of the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, as well as interviews with women and men who read The Feminine Mystique shortly after its publication, A Strange Stirring brilliantly illuTrade ReviewKirkus Reviews "A sharp revisiting of the generation that was floored by Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963), and how the book is still relevant today... A valuable education for women and men." Daniel Horowitz, author of Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique "It Changed My Life was the title of the book Betty Friedan wrote after her transformative 1963 The Feminine Mystique. And change she did the lives of American women. Now in her biography of a classic, Stephanie Coontz imaginatively explores the impact of Friedan's book. Weaving a rich fabric from what women said in letters and interviews, from articles in popular magazines, current scholarship, and her own astute reading of the 1963 work, Coontz compellingly reveals how generations of women--from the flappers of the 1920s to the bloggers and helicopter moms of today--have responded to the challenges modern women face." "[An] excellent new social history of the impact of Betty Friedan's landmark book on American women... Coontz is the rare social historian who knows how to weave meticulous research into a compelling narrative of our not-too-distant past... A Strange Stirring is, in many ways, better than the original. Today the problem has been named, and A Strange Stirring offers poignant personal reactions, accessible history and present-day comparisons to give voice to the modern quest for gender equality." BUST "[E]xcellent, eminently readable... Coontz's 'demystifying' of both the era and Friedan is an erudite, even-handed look at the explosive feminist undercurrents of the era." Louis Menand, The New Yorker "[A] useful revisiting of Friedan's book." Bitch Magazine "As the author of several books that challenge the accepted historical narrative of 'traditional' families and institutions... Coontz soberly checks facts, corrects misinformation, and fills in holes in the record. Most important, she shows how assumptions and misinformation about the past are used not only to paint a distorted picture of how things used to be, but to justify insidious policies and legislation like the Defense of Marriage Act. In her latest work...Coontz focuses on a book we've come to take for granted, arguing that it deserves a closer look... [S]he not only explores the actual content of The Feminine Mystique (going well beyond the usual proclamations about its controversiality and importance), but insists that readers (and, presumably, feminists) figure out how to reconcile our idealized version of history with information that complicates it." Publishers Weekly "This perceptive [and] engrossing...book provides welcome context and background to a still controversial bestseller that changed how women viewed themselves." Booklist "Coupling meticulous research with first-person interviews, Coontz challenges a number of Friedan's assumptions and exaggerations while also revisiting the climate in which the work appeared and giving voice to women for whom The Feminine Mystique was nothing short of a lifesaver... As women continue to struggle with the effort to balance life and work, Coontz argues that The Feminine Mystique remains as relevant today as when it first appeared. In tracing the roots of current discontents, which Coontz dubs the 'Supermom Mystique,' her book is no less required reading than Friedan's trailblazer." The Daily Beast, "This Week's Hot Reads" "A thoughtful reappraisal of Betty Friedan's 1960s classic -- and a meditation on the ever-evolving role of women in American society." Christine Whelan, HuffingtonPost New York Times Book Review "[A] timely contribution to the conversation about what constitutes progress for women (and for which women) in these days of mommy wars and mama grizzlies... By considering The Feminine Mystique as one sturdy strand in the complex arguments we're engaged in to this day, Coontz does Friedan the tremendous favor of pulling her down from heaven and up from hell... [I]t's a relief to have the level-headed Coontz providing perspective and taking Friedan's work and legacy for what it was: stirring, strange, complicated and crucial." Salon.com "A Strange Stirring gives voice to women whose lives were transformed by Friedan's book, but most compellingly, it sets the historical record straight as far as its impact on families." Wall Street Journal "[S]ocial historian Stephanie Coontz...takes a fresh look at The Feminine Mystique by examining its effect on the book's original readers... Ms. Coontz usefully debunks some of the myths that have grown up around The Feminine Mystique and Friedan... [A]n illuminating analysis of the book that helped launch the movement that freed women to participate more fully in American society." Christie Hefner, former chairman and chief executive officer of Playboy Enterprises and longest serving female C.E.O. of a U.S. public company "As was written about TheFeminine Mystique, A Strange Stirring is 'a journalistic tour de force, combining scholarship, investigative reporting and a compelling personal voice.' Stephanie Coontz has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the most transformative movement of our lifetimes. Much of what Coontz reports regarding the prevailing ethos of the 1950s as a time of conformity, cultural conservatism and social repressiveness will be fascinating and eye-opening for younger readers. This book is a must read for men as well as for women. And the transformational desire for a work/family balance in life is now reflected not just by gender, but by generation, as both men and women 'need to grow and fulfill their potentialities as human beings,' as Friedan wrote almost a half a century ago." Donna L. Franklin, author of Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African-American Family "This book offers a nuanced perspective on the women's movement by ending the invisibility of African-American women." Nancy F. Cott, Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University "Stephanie Coontz's new book takes you on an engrossing and enlightening tour of the past, with wisdom and meaning for the future." John Bradshaw, author of Reclaiming Virtue and the #1 New York Times bestsellers, Homecoming and Creating Love "Stephanie Coontz continues to amaze me. In her new book, A Strange Stirring, she chronicles the untold story of some of America's greatest pioneers. This is a must read for all who care about our country's growth and maturity. We owe the women described here the same gratitude and respect given to Lewis and Clark and the others who carved out this great nation." Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love "Stephanie Coontz is not just one of the most important historians in America, she is also a personal hero of mine and a brilliant writer. This book--like all her books before it--has been a marvel and education for me to behold. I am awed by the scope of this research, of this thinking, and I am struck once more by how much there is learned (and taught) about the slow, stubborn advancement of women in America over the last one hundred years. I will keep A Strange Stirring in the forefront of my bookshelf forever." Library Journal "Coontz recaptures the impact of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique when it was published in 1963. Although Friedan claimed credit for initiating the modern feminist movement, Coontz places the book more dispassionately in its historical context as one of many factors working against entrenched gender roles. Still, Coontz demonstrates persuasively that women readers from many backgrounds found relief--some called it life-saving--in knowing that they were not crazy and not alone in their need to find some work independent of their family roles."
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Basic Books Postethnic America
Book SynopsisPostethnic America is a bracing reminder of America's universalist promise, and a stirring call for a new form of nationalism.
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Basic Books Shame How Americas Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
Book SynopsisThe United States today is hopelessly polarized the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any sort of progress. Amid the bickering and inertia, the promise of the 1960s,when we came together as a nation to fight for equality and universal justice,remains unfulfilled.As Shelby Steele reveals in Shame , the roots of this impasse can be traced back to that decade of protest, when in the act of uncovering and dismantling our national hypocrisies,racism, sexism, militarism,liberals internalized the idea that there was something inauthentic, if not evil, in the America character. Since then, liberalism has been wholly concerned with redeeming modern American from the sins of the past, and has derived its political legitimacy from the premise of a morally bankrupt America. The result has been a half-century of well-intentioned but ineffective social programs, such as Affirmative Action. Steele reveals that not only have these programs faiTrade ReviewNew York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Wall Street Journal "Shelby Steele is one of the very few writers able to tell home truths about the plight of black Americans... In Shame, an essay on the political polarization of our country and on the want of progress among black Americans, he has produced his most complex and challenging work... The irony here is that Shelby Steele might just be a Tom of a different kind--a black Tom Paine, whose 21st-century common sense could go a long way to bringing his people out of their by now historical doldrums." New York Times Book Review "A spirited polemic...Steele delivers this message in an ardent, readable style...Steele...speaks with passion, eloquence and unremitting honesty." Publishers Weekly, starred review "This timely critique warrants attention from anyone troubled by the persistence of racial discord in American life, from Selma to Ferguson." Kirkus "A conservative analysis of political polarization and race relations in America, more thoughtful and less vitriolic than most volleys from either side." Claremont Review of Books "Steele may well have given us his most important book yet."Table of ContentsChapter One: The Great Divide Chapter Two: A Collision Chapter Three: Hypocrisy Chapter Four: The Moral Asymmetry of Hypocrisy Chapter Five: The Compounding of Hypocrisy Chapter Six: Characterological Evil Chapter Seven: "The Battle of Algiers" Chapter Eight: No Past, No Future Chapter Nine: America's "Characterological Evil": A Pillar of Identity Chapter Ten: The Denouement Chapter Eleven: After Evil, "The Good" Chapter Twelve: The New Liberalism Chapter Thirteen: Dissociation Chapter Fourteen: Relativism and Anti-Americanism Chapter Fifteen: The Culture Chapter Sixteen: Conservatism: The New Counterculture Chapter Seventeen: A Politics of Idealism Chapter Eighteen: Liberalism is Beautiful, but Conservatism is Freedom
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Basic Books Seductions Of Crime Moral And Sensual Attractions In Doing Evil
Book SynopsisIn this startling look at evil behaviour, a UCLA sociologist tries to get inside the criminal psyche to understand what it means or feels, signifies, sounds, tastes, or looks like to do any particular crime.Table of Contents* Introduction * Righteous Slaughter * Sneaky Thrills * Ways of the Badass * Street Elites * Doing Stickup * Action, Chaos, and Control: Persisting with Stickup * Of Hardmen and Bad Niggers: Gender and Ethnicity in the Background of Stickup * Primordial Evil: Sense and Dynamic in Cold-Blooded, Senseless Murder * Seductions and Repulsions of Crime
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LIGHTNING SOURCE INC Modern Capitalism Volume 2
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Random House USA Inc Worn
Book SynopsisA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it is made of—an unparalleled deep-dive into how everyday garments have transformed our lives, our societies, and our planet.“We learn that, if we were a bit more curious about our clothes, they would offer us rich, interesting and often surprising insights into human history...a deep and sustained inquiry into the origins of what we wear, and what we have worn for the past 500 years. —The Washington PostIn this panoramic social history, Sofi Thanhauser brilliantly tells five stories—Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool—about the clothes we wear and where they come from, illuminating our world in unexpected ways. She takes us from the opulent court of Louis XIV to the labor camps in modern-day Chinese-occupied Xinjiang. We see how textiles were once dyed with lichen, shells, bark, saffron, and beetles, displaying distinctive regional weaves and knits, and how the modern Western garment industry has refashioned our attire into the homogenous and disposable uniforms popularized by fast-fashion brands. Thanhauser makes clear how the clothing industry has become one of the planet’s worst polluters and how it relies on chronically underpaid and exploited laborers. But she also shows us how micro-communities, textile companies, and clothing makers in every corner of the world are rediscovering ancestral and ethical methods for making what we wear. Drawn from years of intensive research and reporting from around the world, and brimming with fascinating stories, Worn reveals to us that our clothing comes not just from the countries listed on the tags or ready-made from our factories. It comes, as well, from deep in our histories.
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Clarion Books When My Name Was Keoko
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iUniverse Humanity Our Common Ground Your Guide to Thriving in a Diverse Society
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iUniverse Swift Solutions A Genteel and Ingenious Guide to Social Engineering Accrued from a Compilement of Newly Founded Fragments on Matters o
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iUniverse Social Processes An Introduction to Sociology
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Author Solutions Inc Satans Silence Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt
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iUniverse Autokind vs Mankind An Analysis of Tyranny A Proposal for Rebellion A Plan for Reconstruction
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iUniverse Programmed for Failure a Triptych
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iUniverse Amazement The Realization of Ideas andDreams for a Sleeping Society
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iUniverse The Way of Freedom An Eon Book
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iUniverse Public Secrets as a Phenomenon in Organizational Communication How Public Knowledge Fails to Become Organizational Action
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iUniverse Will I be killed for writing the following contents
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iUniverse The Little Ho Ho Book Volume 3
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iUniverse The New Human Agreement The 5000 Year Plan
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iUniverse This Unbearable Boredom of Being A Crisis of Meaning in America
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iUniverse Haiku of Culture Critique Search for Meaning
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iUniverse The Rise of Selfishness in America Authors Guild Backinprintcom Edition
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iUniverse Village Life in Bengal Hindu Customs in Bengal by Tara krishna Basu and Basanta Coomar Bose
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