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Temple University Press,U.S. Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English
The first comprehensive collection of Vodou sacred literature in bilingual form
£34.20
Temple University Press,U.S. "To Serve a Larger Purpose": Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education
How to return democracy to the heart of a university's mission
£62.10
Temple University Press,U.S. Hope Is Cut: Youth, Unemployment, and the Future in Urban Ethiopia
A detailed look at young men in urban Ethiopia that reveals the impact of economic development and globalization
£25.19
Temple University Press,U.S. The American Dream in the 21st Century
A multidisciplinary conversation on the state of the American Dream
£23.39
Temple University Press,U.S. Cheaper by the Hour: Temporary Lawyers and the Deprofessionalization of the Law
How attorneys' work is deprofessionalized, downgraded, and controlled through part-time and temporary assignments
£24.29
Temple University Press,U.S. AFSCME's Philadelphia Story: Municipal Workers and Urban Power in the Twentieth Century
A history of the largest union in the AFL-CIO and its growth in a major American city.
£54.00
Temple University Press,U.S. Troubling Gender: Youth and Cumbiain Argentina's Music Scene
How cumbia villera and Argentine popular culture reshape and reflect the changes in gender relations among the country's underclass youth
£24.29
Temple University Press,U.S. The Risk Society Revisited: Social Theory and Risk Governance
Risk is a part of life. How we handle uncertainty and deal with potential threats influence decision making throughout our lives. In The Risk Society Revisited, Eugene A. Rosa, Ortwin Renn, and Aaron M. McCright offer the first book to present an integrated theory of risk and governance.The authors examine our sociological understanding of risk and how we reconcile modern human conditions with our handling of risk in our quest for improved quality of life. They build a new framework for understanding risk—one that provides an innovative connection between social theory and the governance of technological and environmental risks and the sociopolitical challenges they pose for a sustainable future.Showing how our consciousness affects risk in the decisions we make—as individuals and as members of a democratic society—The Risk Society Revisited makes an important contribution to the literature of risk research.
£24.29
Temple University Press,U.S. American History Now
A new generation of scholars addresses the current themes and questions in interpreting American history
£30.60
Temple University Press,U.S. Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement
A history of the re-emergence of midwifery in America
£24.29
Temple University Press,U.S. Black Venus 2010: They Called Her "Hottentot"
Analyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the
£69.30
Temple University Press,U.S. The Protestant Ethic Revisited
Essays on the contradictory resurgence of religion and liberalism in the twenty-first century by one of the most important voices in the study of the sociology of religion
£25.19
Temple University Press,U.S. Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship
A provocative critique of transnational, trans-racial adoption from a critical race and feminist perspective and a vision for reform
£69.30
Temple University Press,U.S. Self-Determination without Nationalism: A Theory of Postnational Sovereignty
How do groups - be they religious or ethnic - achieve sovereignty in a post-nationalist world? In Self-Determination without Nationalism, noted philosopher Omar Dahbour insists that the existing ethics of international relations, dominated by the rival notions of liberal nationalism and political cosmopolitanism, no longer suffice.
£69.30
Temple University Press,U.S. The Ethics of Care: A Feminist Approach to Human Security
Applying feminist ethics to a comprehensive reworking of the theory of human security, addressing such issues as poverty, health, environment, conflict and peace building
£23.99
Temple University Press,U.S. For Both Cross and Flag: Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism, and National Security Politics in World War II San Francisco
Against a backdrop of war and anti-Catholic sentiment, one man loses his rights due to false accusations against him
£37.80
Temple University Press,U.S. Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945
A history of a systematic anti-Japanese movement in Hawaii from the time migrant workers were brought to the sugar cane fields until the end of World War II
£26.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Walk the Walk and Talk the Talk: An Ethnography of a Drug Abuse Treatment Facility
Contradictions in philosophy and practice in a residential drug abuse treatment facility
£57.60
Temple University Press,U.S. Women, Islam and the State
£26.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Passion And Power – Sexuality in History
"Passion and Power" brings together some of the most recent and innovative writings on the history of sexuality and explores the experiences, ideas, and conflicts that have shaped the emergence of modern sexual identities. Arguing that sexuality is not an unchanging biological reality or a universal natural force, the essays in this volume discuss sexuality as an integral part of the history of human experience. Articles on sexual assault, homosexuality, birth control, venereal disease, sexual repression, pornography, and the AIDS epidemic examine the ways that sexuality has become a core element of modern social identity in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States. It is only in recent years that historians have begun to examine the social construction of sexuality. This is the first anthology that addresses this issue from a radical historical perspective, examining sexuality as a field of contention in itself and as part of other struggles rooted in divisions of gender, class, and race. Author note: Kathy Peiss is Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and author of "Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-century New York (Temple)". Christina Simmons is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati-Raymond Walters College.
£26.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Social Movements and Political Power – Emerging Forms of Radicalism in the West
Author note: Carl Boggs teaches political science at the University of Southern California.
£26.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Feminist Case Against Bureaucracy
Analyzing bureaucrats and clients as the "second sex"
£35.10
Temple University Press,U.S. The Mirror Dance – Identity in a Women`s Community
"A day draws to a close. Helen worries about when her children will get home; Gloria considers her day at work and, again, thoughts cross her mind about telling them at church that she is a lesbian; Gayle prepares for a meeting at the Women's Shelter...; Ellen gets ready for a class. Chip and Jessica plan another party at their house; Diana paces her kitchen, troubled that Meg still intends to see Bronwyn..." These are some of the people who come to life in this unique book about a lesbian community. It is an experiment, both in women's language and in social science method, and is composed of an interplay of voices that echo, again and again, themes of self and community, sameness and difference, merger and separation, loss and change. Although the method of presentation is unusual, the book is based on solid research. The author lived for a year with the community and then spent two intensive months interviewing 78 women who were either members of the community or importantly associated with it. The author began by addressing several basic questions about privacy that quickly led her to explore dilemmas of identity. In time an even more compelling problem emerged: the loss of sense of self, how it occurs and how it may be dealt with in a social setting. The nature of the community itself raised this issue because it was a community of likeness, intimacy, and ideology. It was also a stigmatized or deviant community - and of women, individuals with life experiences that tended to encourage the giving up of the self to others. The book is organized around particular kinds of situations and relationships in the community where conflicts concerning control over identity are especially prominent. It concludes with an essay on the author's method, "Fiction and Social Science." Author note: Susan Krieger is Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, Stanford University.
£24.29
Temple University Press,U.S. Policy & Politics West Germany
How can we account for the lack of large-scale policy change in West Germany despite changes in the partisan make-up of the federal government? This formulation of "the German Question" differs from the one commonly posed by students of German politics, a version usually focused on Germany's tragic confrontation with modernity and a possible revival of militarism and authoritarianism. Katzenstein here uncovers the political structures that make incremental policy change such a plausible political check against the growing force of government. This book examines in detail how West German policy and politics interrelate in six problem areas: economic management, industrial relations, social welfare, migrant workers, administrative reform, and university reform. Throughout these six case studies, Katzenstein suggests that West Germany's semi-sovereign state provides the answer to the German Question as it precludes the possibility of central authority. Coalition governments, federalism, para-public institutions, and the state bureaucracy are the domestic forces that have tamed power in the Federal Republic. Author note: Peter J. Katzenstein is Professor of Government at Cornell University, as well as a former editor of International Organization.
£28.80
Temple University Press,U.S. Birding the Delaware Valley
All the facts about common and uncommon birds in the Delaware Valley
£22.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Technocapitalism: A Critical Perspective on Technological Innovation and Corporatism
A radical critique of a new phase of capitalism grounded in corporate power and its exploitation of technological creativity
£27.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Women In Latin America
The role of gender and politics in the ever-changing goals and effects of development
£26.99
Temple University Press,U.S. The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements
Herbert Marcuse examined the subjective and material conditions of radical social change and developed the "Great Refusal," a radical concept of "the protest against that which is." The editors and contributors to the exciting new volume The Great Refusal provide an analysis of contemporary social movements around the world with particular reference to Marcuse's revolutionary concept. The book also engages-and puts Marcuse in critical dialogue with-major theorists including Slavoj Žižek and Michel Foucault, among others. The chapters in this book analyze different elements and locations of the contemporary wave of struggle, drawing on the work and vision of Marcuse in order to reveal, with a historical perspective, the present moment of resistance. Essays seek to understand recent uprisings-such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, the Arab Spring, and the Occupy movement-in the context of Marcuse's powerful conceptual apparatus.The Great Refusal also charts contemporary social movements against global warming, mass incarceration, police brutality, white supremacy, militarization, technological development, and more, to provide insights that advance our understanding of resistance today.Contributors include: Kevin B. Anderson, Stanley Aronowitz, Joan Braune, Jenny Chan, Angela Y. Davis, Arnold L. Farr, Andrew Feenberg, Michael Forman, Christian Fuchs, Stefan Gandler, Christian Garland, Toorjo Ghose, Imaculada Kangussu, George Katsiaficas, Douglas Kellner, Sarah Lynn Kleeb, Filip Kovacevic, Lauren Langman, Heather Love, Peter Marcuse, Martin J. Beck Matuštík, Russell Rockwell, AK Thompson, Marcelo Vieta, and the editors.
£80.10
Temple University Press,U.S. Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream
A magisterial overview of the history of the fight for leisure in the United States
£73.80
Temple University Press,U.S. Objectifying Measures: The Dominance of High-Stakes Testing and the Politics of Schooling
Examining the political economy of high-stakes educational testing
£69.30
Temple University Press,U.S. Restructuring the Philadelphia Region: Metropolitan Divisions and Inequality
Looking for regional solutions to local limitations of opportunity in education, jobs and housing
£65.70
Temple University Press,U.S. The New Chicago: A Social and Cultural Analysis
A comprehensive and contemporary view of Chicago, the quintessential American city, that documents its transformation into a postindustrial, global city.
£77.40
Temple University Press,U.S. Chinese St Louis: From Enclave To Cultural Community
Chinese St. Louis offers the first empirical study of a Midwestern Chinese American community from its nineteenth-century origins to the present. As in many cities, Chinese newcomers were soon segregated in an enclave; in St. Louis the enclave was called "Hop Alley." Huping Ling shows how, over time, the community grew and dispersed until it was no longer marked by physical boundaries. She argues that the St. Louis experience departs from the standard models of Chinese settlement in urban areas, which are based on studies of coastal cities. Developing the concept of a cultural community, Ling shows how Chinese Americans in St. Louis have formed and maintained cultural institutions and organizations for social and political purposes throughout the city, which serve as the community's infrastructure.Thus the history of Chinese Americans in St. Louis more closely parallels that of other urban ethnic groups and offers new insight into the range of adaptation and assimilation experience in the United States. Huping Ling is Associate Professor of History at Truman State University and the author of "Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives".
£65.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity
Merengue—the quintessential Dominican dance music—has a long and complex history, both on the island and in the large immigrant community in New York City. In this ambitious work, Paul Austerlitz unravels the African and Iberian roots of merengue and traces its growth under dictator Rafael Trujillo and its renewed popularity as an international music.Using extensive interviews as well as written commentaries, Austerlitz examines the historical and contemporary contexts in which merengue is performed and danced, its symbolic significance, its social functions, and its musical and choreographic structures. He tells the tale of merengue's political functions, and of its class and racial significance. He not only explores the various ethnic origins of this Ibero-African art form, but points out how some Dominicans have tried to deny its African roots.In today's global society, mass culture often marks ethnic identity. Found throughout Dominican society, both at home and abroad, merengue is the prime marker of Dominican identity. By telling the story of this dance music, the author captures the meaning of mass and folk expression in contemporary ethnicity as well as the relationship between regional, national, and migrant culture and between rural/regional and urban/mass culture. Austerlitz also traces the impact of migration and global culture on the native music, itself already a vibrant intermixture of home-grown merengue forms.From rural folk idiom to transnational mass music, merengue has had a long and colorful career. Its well-deserved popularity will make this book a must read for anyone interested in contemporary music; its complex history will make the book equally indispensable to anyone interested in cultural studies.
£28.80
Temple University Press,U.S. Politics and the Class Divide: Working People and the Middle Class Left
Examining the impact of class status on political participation
£28.80
Temple University Press,U.S. Knowledge for Social Change: Bacon, Dewey, and the Revolutionary Transformation of Research Universities in the Twenty-First Century
Employing history, social theory, and a detailed contemporary case study, Knowledge for Social Change argues for fundamentally reshaping research universities to function as democratic, civic, and community-engaged institutions dedicated to advancing learning and knowledge for social change. The authors focus on significant contributions to learning made by Francis Bacon, Benjamin Franklin, Seth Low, Jane Addams, William Rainey Harper, and John Dewey—as well as their own work at Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships—to help create and sustain democratically-engaged colleges and universities for the public good. Knowledge for Social Change highlights university-assisted community schools to effect a thoroughgoing change of research universities that will contribute to more democratic schools, communities, and societies. The authors also call on democratic-minded academics to create and sustain a global movement dedicated to advancing learning for the “relief of man’s estate”—an iconic phrase by Francis Bacon that emphasized the continued betterment of the human condition—and to realize Dewey’s vision of an organic “Great Community” composed of participatory, democratic, collaborative, and interdependent societies.
£12.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Caribbean Currents:: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
First published in 1995, Caribbean Currents has become the definitive guide to the distinctive musics of this region of the world. This third edition of the award-winning book is substantially updated and expanded, featuring thorough coverage of new developments, such as the global spread of reggaeton and bachata, the advent of music videos, the restructuring of the music industry, and the emergence of new dance styles. It also includes many new illustrations and links to accompanying video footage. The authors succinctly and perceptively situate the musical styles and developments in the context of themes of gender and racial dynamics, sociopolitical background, and diasporic dimensions. Caribbean Currents showcases the rich and diverse musics of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad, the French Caribbean, the lesser Antilles, and their transnational communities in the United States and elsewhere to provide an engaging panorama of this most dynamic aspect of Caribbean culture.
£26.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Shades of Black: Diversity in African American Identity
Presents the diversity that has always been the hallmark of Black psychology, exploding the myth that self-hatred is the dominant theme in Black identity
£26.09
Temple University Press,U.S. Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness
This classic text on the nature of deviance, originally published in 1980, is now reissued with a new Afterword by the authors. In this new edition of their award-winning book, Conrad and Schneider investigate the origins and contemporary consequences of the medicalization of deviance. They examine specific cases—madness, alcoholism, opiate addiction, homosexuality, delinquency, and child abuse—and draw out their theoretical and policy implications. In a new chapter, the authors address developments in the last decade—including AIDS, domestic violence, co-dependency, hyperactivity in children, and learning disabilities—and they discuss the fate of medicalization in the 1990s with the changes in medicine and continued restrictions on social services.
£36.00
Temple University Press,U.S. Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris
In the 1800s, urban development efforts modernized Paris and encouraged the creation of brothels, boulevards, cafés, dancehalls, and even public urinals. However, complaints also arose regarding an apparent increase in public sexual activity, and the appearance of “individuals of both sexes with depraved morals” in these spaces. Andrew Israel Ross’s illuminating study, Public City/Public Sex, chronicles the tension between the embourgeoisement and democratization of urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris and the commercialization and commodification of a public sexual culture, the emergence of new sex districts, as well as the development of gay and lesbian subcultures. Public City/Public Sex examines how the notion that male sexual desire required suitable outlets shaped urban policing and development. Ross traces the struggle to control sex in public and argues that it was the very effort to police the city that created new opportunities for women who sold sex and men who sought sex with other men. Placing public sex at the center of urban history, Ross shows how those who used public spaces played a central role in defining the way the city was understood.
£29.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Church and State in the City: Catholics and Politics in Twentieth-Century San Francisco
How Catholic religious activism shaped the language and outcome of San Francisco's debates about over the common good and the public interest
£79.00
Temple University Press,U.S. Camus: A Critical Examination
A comprehensive analysis in English of the thought of Albert Camus from a philosophical perspective
£26.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Ethical Borders: NAFTA, Globalization, and Mexican Migration
A fresh, responsible approach to addressing undocumented Mexican migration through substantial investment in Mexico's infrastructure and economy
£24.29
Temple University Press,U.S. Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic
Money, sex, and love: Are they merely
£23.39
Temple University Press,U.S. Campaign Advertising and American Democracy
Campaign Advertising and American Democracy explores the relationship between exposure to political advertisements and voter behavior. Contrary to widely held beliefs, political ads do not turn people off to politics.
£24.29
Temple University Press,U.S. Just Around The Corner: The Paradox Of The Jobless Recovery
Americans have always believed that economic growth leads to job growth. In this groundbreaking analysis, Stanley Aronowitz argues that this is no longer true. Just Around the Corner examines the state of the American economy as planned by Democrats and Republicans over the last thirty years. Aronowitz finds that economic growth has become \u0022delinked\u0022 from job creation, and that unemployment and underemployment are a permanent condition of our economy. He traces the historical roots of this state of affairs and sees under the surface of booms and busts a continuum of economic austerity that creates financial windfalls for the rich at the expense of most Americans. Aronowitz also explores the cultural and political processes by which we have come to describe and accept economics in the United States. He concludes by presenting a concrete plan of action that would guarantee employment and living wages for all Americans. With both measured analysis and persuasive reasoning, Just Around the Corner provides an indispensable guide to our current economic predicament and a bold challenge to economists and policymakers.
£21.99
Temple University Press,U.S. A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda
Presents a powerful and compelling analysis of the persistent inability of the United States to meet the housing needs of its people
£83.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Tortilleras: Hispanic & U.S. Latina Lesbian Expression
The first anthology to focus exclusively on queer readings of Spanish, Latin American, and US Latina lesbian literature and culture, Tortilleras interrogates issues of gender, national identity, race, ethnicity, and class to show the impossibility of projecting a singular Hispanic or Latina Lesbian. Examining carefully the works of a range of lesbian writers and performance artists, including Carmelita Tropicana and Christina Peri Rossi, among others, the contributors create a picture of the complicated and multi-textured contributions of Latina and Hispanic lesbians to literature and culture. More than simply describing this sphere of creativity, the contributors also recover from history the long, veiled existence of this world, exposing its roots, its impact on lesbian culture, and, making the power of lesbian performance and literature visible. Author note: Lourdes Torres is Associate Professor of Latin American/Latino studies at De Paul University. Inmaculada Perpetusa-Seva is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Kentucky.
£26.09
