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161. | | Title: Reconcilable differences: confronting beauty, pornography, and the future of feminism Author: Chancer, Lynn S 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | Women's Studies | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: This volume examines controversial faultlines in contemporary feminism - pornography, the beauty myth, sadomasochism, prostitution, and the issue of rape - from an original and provocative perspective. Lynn Chancer focuses on how, among many feminists, the concepts of sex and sexism became fragmente . . . [more]Similar Items | 162. | | Title: New world disorder: the Leninist extinctionAuthor: Jowitt, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Communism, or as Ken Jowitt prefers, Leninism, has attracted, repelled, mystified, and terrified millions for nearly a century. In his brilliant, timely, and controversial study, New World Disorder , Jowitt identifies and interprets the extraordinary character of Leninist regimes, their political co . . . [more]Similar Items | 163. | | Title: Drug war politics: the price of denialAuthor: Bertram, Eva Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Law | Sociology | Medicine | American StudiesPublisher's Description: Why have our drug wars failed and how might we turn things around? Ask the authors of this hardhitting exposè of U.S. efforts to fight drug trafficking and abuse. In a bold analysis of a century's worth of policy failure, Drug War Politics turns on its head many familiar bromides about drug politics . . . [more]Similar Items | 164. | | Title: Working hard and making do: surviving in small town AmericaAuthor: Nelson, Margaret K 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Politics | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: The economic recovery of the 1990s brought with it a surge of new jobs, but the prospects for most working Americans improved little. Family income rose only slightly and the period witnessed a significant degradation of the quality of work as well as in what people could expect from their waged emp . . . [more]Similar Items | 165. | | | 166. | | Title: Deep politics and the death of JFKAuthor: Scott, Peter Dale Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Popular Culture | United States History | American Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective - that JFK's death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes - Scott examines the deep politics of early 1960s Am . . . [more]Similar Items | 167. | | Title: The fractious nation?: unity and division in contemporary American life Author: Rieder, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Politics | Religion | Sociology | ImmigrationPublisher's Description: What are we to make of the speed with which the new climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look strange against a backdrop of the much-touted divisiveness of American life? In truth, The Fractious Nation? makes clear, the contrast of the time of divisiveness before an . . . [more]Similar Items | 168. | | Title: Battling for American labor: wobblies, craft workers, and the making of the union movementAuthor: Kimeldorf, Howard Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | Sociology | History | United States History | Labor StudiesPublisher's Description: In this incisive reinterpretation of the history of the American labor movement, Howard Kimeldorf challenges received thinking about rank-and-file workers and the character of their unions. Battling for American Labor answers the baffling question of how, while mounting some of the most aggressive c . . . [more]Similar Items | 169. | | Title: The promise of the city: space, identity, and politics in contemporary social thought Author: Tajbakhsh, Kian 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Urban Studies | Sociology | Popular Culture | Social Theory | Geography | PoliticsPublisher's Description: The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structu . . . [more]Similar Items | 170. | | Title: Beyond the neon lights: everyday Shanghai in the early twentieth centuryAuthor: Lu, Hanchao Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Sociology | China | Asian History | Urban Studies | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals - revolution, war, and again revolution - that shook their lives? Even after decades . . . [more]Similar Items | 171. | | Title: Hidden heritage: the legacy of the Crypto-JewsAuthor: Jacobs, Janet Liebman Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Latin American Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Jewish Studies | Sociology | JudaismPublisher's Description: This study of contemporary crypto-Jews - descendants of European Jews forced to convert to Christianity during the Spanish Inquisition - traces the group's history of clandestinely conducting their faith and their present-day efforts to reclaim their past. Janet Liebman Jacobs masterfully combines h . . . [more]Similar Items | 172. | | Title: Broken silence: voices of Japanese feminismAuthor: Buckley, Sandra 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Politics | SociologyPublisher's Description: Broken Silence brings together for the first time many of Japan's leading feminists, women who have been bucking the social mores of a patriarchal society for years but who remain virtually unknown outside Japan. While Japan is often thought to be without a significant feminist presence, these inter . . . [more]Similar Items | 173. | | Title: China and the American dream: a moral inquiryAuthor: Madsen, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Asian Studies | Politics | China | American Studies | Pacific Rim Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: From the "Red Menace" to Tiananmen Square, the United States and China have long had an emotionally tumultuous relationship. Richard Madsen's frank and innovative examination of the moral history of U.S.-China relations targets the forces that have shaped this surprisingly strong tie between two str . . . [more]Similar Items | 174. | | Title: History, religion, and antisemitismAuthor: Langmuir, Gavin I Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Medieval History | Judaism | Sociology | Medieval Studies | Middle Eastern HistoryPublisher's Description: Gavin I. Langmuir's work on the formation and nature of antisemitism has earned him an international reputation. In History, Religion, and Antisemitism he bravely confronts the problems that arise when historians have to describe and explain religious phenomena, as any historian of antisemitism must . . . [more]Similar Items | 175. | | Title: Behind the postmodern facade: architectural change in late twentieth-century America Author: Larson, Magali Sarfatti Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Architecture | Architecture | Philosophy | Politics | American Studies | Sociology | Social TheoryPublisher's Description: Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects - from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, . . . [more]Similar Items | 176. | | Title: The vanishing vision: the inside story of public television Author: Day, James 1918- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Media Studies | American Studies | Sociology | Television and Radio | HistoryPublisher's Description: This spirited, first-ever history of public television offers an insider's account of its topsy-turvy, forty-year odyssey. James Day, a founder of San Francisco's KQED and a past president of New York's WNET, chronicles public television's fascinating evolution from its inauspicious roots in the 195 . . . [more]Similar Items | 177. | | Title: Real Indians: identity and the survival of Native AmericaAuthor: Garroutte, Eva Marie 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | History | American StudiesPublisher's Description: At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and . . . [more]Similar Items | 178. | | Title: No safe place: toxic waste, leukemia, and community actionAuthor: Brown, Phil Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Ecology | Medicine | Technology and SocietyPublisher's Description: Toxic waste, contaminated water, cancer clusters - these phrases suggest deception and irresponsibility. But more significantly, they are watchwords for a growing struggle between communities, corporations, and government. In No Safe Place , sociologists, public policy professionals, and activists w . . . [more]Similar Items | 179. | | Title: The new public management: improving research and policy dialogueAuthor: Barzelay, Michael Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Economics and Business | Social Science | SociologyPublisher's Description: How policymakers should guide, manage, and oversee public bureaucracies is a question that lies at the heart of contemporary debates about government and public administration. In their search for better systems of public management, reformers have looked in particular at the United Kingdom, Austral . . . [more]Similar Items | 180. | | Title: Inventing home: emigration, gender, and the middle class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 Author: Khater, Akram Fouad 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Women's Studies | Sociology | Middle Eastern StudiesPublisher's Description: Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making. Inventing Home delves into the stories of these travels, s . . . [more]Similar Items |
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