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181. | | Title: Nothing about us without us: disability oppression and empowermentAuthor: Charlton, James I Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Public Policy | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities . . . [more]Similar Items | 182. | | Title: Nothing bad happens to good girls: fear of crime in women's livesAuthor: Madriz, Esther 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | Urban Studies | Women's Studies | CriminologyPublisher's Description: "The possibility of being a victim of a crime is ever present on my mind; thinking about it as natural as breathing." - 40-year-old womanThis is a compelling analysis of how women in the United States perceive the threat of crime in their everyday lives and how that perception controls their behavio . . . [more]Similar Items | 183. | | | 184. | | Title: October cities: the redevelopment of urban literature Author: Rotella, Carlo 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Urban Studies | United States History | American Literature | SociologyPublisher's Description: Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. The flourishing industry, culture, and literature that had placed prewar Chicago at center stage in American life were entering a time of crisis. The middle class and economic opportunity were leaving the inn . . . [more]Similar Items | 185. | | Title: Outspoken: free speech storiesAuthor: Levinson, Nan 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Ethnic Studies | United States History | Media Studies | Public Policy | Sociology | Law | Public Policy | Urban Studies | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: With the government granting itself sweeping new surveillance powers, castigating its critics as unpatriotic, and equating differing opinions with abetting "America's enemies," free speech seems an early casualty of the war on terrorism. But as this book brilliantly demonstrates, to sacrifice our fr . . . [more]Similar Items | 186. | | Title: Paradise in ashes: a Guatemalan journey of courage, terror, and hopeAuthor: Manz, Beatriz 1944- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Politics | Ethnic Studies | Sociology | American Studies | Latin American HistoryPublisher's Description: Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manz - an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala . . . [more]Similar Items | 187. | | Title: Passing by: gender and public harassmentAuthor: Gardner, Carol Brooks Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Sociology | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Catcalls, wolf whistles, verbal slurs, pinches, stalking - virtually every woman has experienced some form of unwanted public attention by men. Off the street, in semi-public places such as restaurants and department stores, women often suffer the insult of being passed over by employees eager to se . . . [more]Similar Items | 188. | | Title: Passionate uncertainty: inside the American JesuitsAuthor: McDonough, Peter 1939- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Sociology | NeurosciencePublisher's Description: Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus remains the largest and most controversial religious order of men in Catholicism. Since the 1960s, however, Jesuits in the United States have lost more than half of their members, and they have experienced a massive upheaval in what they belie . . . [more]Similar Items | 189. | | Title: Pathways of power: building an anthropology of the modern worldAuthor: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | SociologyPublisher's Description: This collection of twenty-eight essays by renowned anthropologist Eric R. Wolf is a legacy of some of his most original work, with an insightful foreword by Aram Yengoyan. Of the essays, six have never been published and two have not appeared in English until now. Shortly before his death, Wolf prep . . . [more]Similar Items | 190. | | Title: Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China Author: Harrell, Stevan Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | China | Ethnic Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarly study in a Western language on the Yi in four decades, brings this little-known part of the world to life. Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China . . . [more]Similar Items | 191. | | Title: Pious passion: the emergence of modern fundamentalism in the United States and IranAuthor: Riesebrodt, Martin Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Religion | Sociology | Social Theory | Middle Eastern Studies | American Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Martin Riesebrodt's unconventional study provides an extraordinary look at religious fundamentalism. Comparing two seemingly disparate movements - in early twentieth-century United States and 1960s and 1970s Iran - he examines why these movements arose and developed. He sees them not simply as prote . . . [more]Similar Items | 192. | | Title: Places of inquiry: research and advanced education in modern universitiesAuthor: Clark, Burton R Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Social Science | Sociology | EducationPublisher's Description: A distinguished work by one of America's leading scholars of higher education, Places of Inquiry explores one of the major issues in university education today: the relationship among research, teaching, and study. Based on cross-national research on the university systems of Germany, Britain, Franc . . . [more]Similar Items | 193. | | Title: Political criticism Author: Shapiro, Ian Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Philosophy | SociologySimilar Items | 194. | | | 195. | | Title: Political protest and cultural revolution: nonviolent direct action in the 1970s and 1980sAuthor: Epstein, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Politics | American Studies | United States History | SociologyPublisher's Description: From her perspective as both participant and observer, Barbara Epstein examines the nonviolent direct action movement which, inspired by the civil rights movement, flourished in the United States from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties. Disenchanted with the politics of both the mainstream and th . . . [more]Similar Items | 196. | | Title: Politics, death, and the devil: self and power in Max Weber and Thomas MannAuthor: Goldman, Harvey Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology | Social Theory | European History | Literary Theory and Criticism | Political Theory | PhilosophyPublisher's Description: This sequel to Harvey Goldman's well-received Max Weber and Thomas Mann continues his rich exploration of the political and cultural critiques embodied in the more mature writings of these two authors. Combining social and political thought, intellectual history, and literary interpretation, Goldman . . . [more]Similar Items | 197. | | Title: The politics of duplicity: controlling reproduction in Ceausescu's RomaniaAuthor: Kligman, Gail Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Social Problems | Women's Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies | European Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: The political hypocrisy and personal horrors of one of the most repressive anti-abortion regimes in history came to the world's attention soon after the fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Photographs of orphans with vacant eyes, sad faces, and wasted bodies circled the globe, as did alarmi . . . [more]Similar Items | 198. | | Title: Postindustrial possibilities: a critique of economic discourseAuthor: Block, Fred L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Labor Studies | Sociology | Labor Studies | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: While it is often acknowledged that we live in a "postindustrial" age, our economic concepts have lagged far behind our postmodern sensibility. In this incisive new work, the well-known sociologist, Fred Block, sheds obsolete and shopworn economic analysis by presenting a bold, sweeping reconceptual . . . [more]Similar Items | 199. | | Title: Postsuburban California: the transformation of Orange County since World War IIAuthor: Kling, Rob Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Sociology | United States History | American Studies | California and the West | Urban Studies | Californian and Western HistoryPublisher's Description: Neither a city nor a traditional suburb, Orange County, California represents a striking example of a new kind of social formation. This multidisciplinary volume offers a cogent case study of the "postsuburban" phenomenon. Similar Items | 200. | | Title: Poverty in America: a handbookAuthor: Iceland, John 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Economics and Business | Ethnic Studies | Labor Studies | Politics | Urban Studies | American Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Poverty may have always been with us, but it hasn't always been the same. In an in-depth look at trends, patterns, and causes of poverty in the United States, John Iceland combines the latest statistical information, historical data, and social scientific theory to provide a comprehensive picture of . . . [more]Similar Items |
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