Creator: Benno Thoma
Publication date: 2007-11-30
Dewey code: 778
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Review Around the Globe / Bruno Gmunder Verlag Gmbh:Bel Ami's new book is a frenzy of sensuality - the highlight of the season! You've never seen Bel Ami like this! Renowned photographer Benno Thoma took shots of the lads of the world-famous porn company showing Lukas, Sebastian and the rest in perfectly gorgeous photos. They're emotional like never before, set against lavish backdrops and in masterfully composed erotic images. Benno Thoma is undoubtedly an artist - he bathes his models in luxuriously sensual colours. His sense of style makes this 180-page book of photos in opulent large format into a sensually stunning synthesis of art. It is the momentary highpoint of Bel-Ami photo books. A milestone of gay photography!.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1985-09-30
Dewey code: 300
List Price: $85.00
Price: $63.07
Review The Social Relations of Physics, Mysticism, and Mathematics: Studies in Social Structure, Interests, and Ideas (Episteme) / Springer:`Sal Restivo's book is a major achievement in the sociology of science and mathematics. It is exciting to read and constitutes a creative, wide-ranging exploration of the connections between physics and mysticism, between the natural science and the humanities. Of particular interest is his attempt to show the emergence of abstraction and of formal disciplines in science by relating them to the structure of social interests in society. All told, this book challenges the separation of C. P. Snow's `two cultures' and is an original attempt to overcome the chasms between the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. The implications of the book's content certainly go far beyond its title. ' Prof. W. Heydebrand, New York University.
Publication date: 2003-04
Dewey code: 327.172
List Price: $120.00
Price: $112.34
Review Setting the Agenda for Global Peace: Conflict and Consensus Building (Gender in a Global/Local World) / Ashgate Publishing:In this work, Anna Snyder provides a detailed account of the challenges women representatives in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) faced in building bridges across diverse ethnic, racial, national, regional, and ideological backgrounds at the 4th United Nations (UN) Conference on Women. This book traces the process by which women's peace groups set an agenda for global policies in the area of women and armed conflict. This text shows how NGOs use conflict to develop transnational social movements and to build consensus around issues of global concern. Using this conference as a case study, Snyder finds three purposes for social movement conflict: contention arising from policy development; deep-rooted historical conflict; and conflicts over NGO network priorities. Drawing together feminist, conflict resolution, and social movement theories, this comprehensive text analyzes the large scale decision making processes for NGOs and points towards future directions for conflict resolution and consensus building.
Creator: Marsha Pripstein Posusney
Publication date: 2002-12
Dewey code: 305.420956
List Price: $59.95
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Review Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy, and Society / Lynne Rienner Publishers:This original work assesses the impact of globalization on women in Middle Eastern societies. To explore the gendered effects of social change, the authors examine trends within, as well as among, states in the region. Detailed case studies reveal the mixed results of global pressures. For some women, for example, globalization has meant increased access to education and employment; for others, it has resulted in heightened repression under ideologically conservative regimes. The authors' nuanced analyses document how women's responses to these changes are affecting the future of the Middle East.
Publication date: 2002-08
Dewey code: 352.240973
List Price: $59.95
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Review The President's Cabinet: Gender, Power, and Representation / L. Rienner Publishers:Are female office holders most acceptable when they most resemble men? Why has a woman never led the Department of the Treasury, or Defense, or Veterans Affairs? Reflecting on these and similar questions, MaryAnne Borrelli explores women's selection for - and exclusion from - U. S. cabinet positions. Borrelli considers how the rhetoric employed in the selection and confirmation of secretaries-designate establishes gendered expectations for the performance of nominees once they are in office. Analyzing the career paths of secretaries appointed from the 1930s through the first year of the George W. Bush administration, she demonstrates how gender shapes political judgments - by presidents, senators, and the nominees themselves - to reflect consistently masculine ideas about who should rule and how power should be exercised in the United States.
Publication date: 1999-05
Dewey code: 305.4201
List Price: $59.95
Price: $59.95
Review The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy / University of Minnesota Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1984-01-01
Dewey code: 618.97689165
List Price: $72.00
Price: $59.93
Review Expressive Therapy With Elders and the Disabled: Touching the Heart of Life / Routledge:A classic book on the use of expressive therapies with uncommunicative elders and the disabled. This poignant guide explores group and individual therapeutic activities that promote creativity, self-expression, communication, and understanding of one's life. An experienced art therapist relates his insights into the psychosocial dynamics of elders and the disabled and shares his awareness of the sensitivity and understanding required to reach the “unreachable. ” Health care workers will find this illustrated volume rich in therapeutic techniques and processes applicable to the care and growth of psychologically and physically disabled or minimally handicapped adults and elders.
Creator: LAMIA RUSTUM SHEHADEH
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1999-12-30
Dewey code: 305.40956925
List Price: $59.95
Price: $59.95
Review Women and War in Lebanon / University Press of Florida:The authors of this text examine the impact on women of the 1975-90 civil war in Lebanon. While they describe war as a more potent oppressor of women than of men, they also credit it with offering women liberation from all forms of social strictures.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-07-07
Dewey code: 305.486970944
List Price: $60.00
Price: $59.97
Review North African Women in France: Gender, Culture, and Identity / Stanford University Press:In recent decades more Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian women have immigrated to France than men, yet despite their increasing numbers first generation immigrant women are rarely the focus of research. In this sociological study, Caitlin Killian examines how Muslim women construct and manage their identities in the midst of a foreign culture—what they hold on to from their countries of origin and what they decide to embrace in France, why some immigrant women cope better with challenges in their new country than others, and how they raise children who will one day be French. She demonstrates that these women engage in selective acculturation and highlights their ability to resist labels that do not fit with their self perceptions. These findings point to the flexibility of personal identity, even among visible minorities whose self-identification choices were previously thought to be highly constrained.
Publication date: 2008-09-15
Dewey code: 306.766080973
List Price: $59.95
Price: $59.95
Review Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations / Vanderbilt University Press:For three years the author did participant-observation at three nationally prominent queer organizations in Los Angeles-Christopher Street West, which produces L. A. 's queer pride festival; the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, a 37-year-old multi-site organization; and Bienestar, an HIV services organization for gay Latinos. Ward documents the evolution of these organizations, including class and race conflicts within them, but she especially focuses on the misuses of diversity culture. Respectably Queer reveals how neoliberal ideas about difference are becoming embedded in the daily life of a progressive movement and producing frequent conflicts over the meaning of "diversity. " The author shows how queer activists are learning from the corporate model to leverage their differences to compete with other non-profit groups, enhance their public reputation or moral standing, and establish their diversity-related expertise. Ward argues that this instrumentalization of diversity has increased the demand for predictable and easily measurable forms of difference, a trend at odds with queer resistance. Ward traces the standoff between the respectable world of "diversity awareness" and the often vulgar, sexualized, and historically unprofessional world of queer pride festivals. She spotlights dissenting voices in a queer organization where diversity has become synonymous with tedious and superficial workplace training. And she shows how activists fight back when prevailing diversity discourses-the ones that "diverse" people are compelled to use in order to receive funding-simply don't fit.
Publication date: 1999-03-31
Dewey code: 306.85
List Price: $180.00
Price: $171.33
Review Changing Family Values: Difference, Diversity and the decline of Male Order / Routledge:This book is a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. Encompassing politics, social policy, law, sociology and history, the contributors focus on the diverse realities of contemporary family life. They cover the recent backlash against single mothers; lesbian and gay families and the law; men's changing roles within the family; and the future of the nuclear family.
Creator: Davina Cooper
Publication date: 1994-01-01
Dewey code: 305.906640941
List Price: $59.95
Price: $59.95
Review Sexing the City: Lesbian and Gay Politics Within the Activist State / Rivers Oram Press:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2004-04-15
Dewey code: 306
List Price: $65.00
Price: $59.91
Review Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture (Ray and Pat Browne Books) / Popular Press 3:The essays in Goddesses and Monsters recognize popular culture as a primary repository of ancient mythic energies, images, narratives, personalities, icons, and archetypes. Together, they take on the patriarchal myth, where serial killers are heroes, where goddesses-in the form of great white sharks, femmes fatales, and aliens-are ritually slaughtered, and where pornography is the core story underlying militarism, environmental devastation, and racism. They also point to an alternative imagination of female power that still can be found behind the cult devotion given to Princess Diana and animating all the goddesses disguised as popular monsters, queen bitches, mammies, vamps, cyborgs, and sex bombs.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-08-05
Dewey code: 331.4086912095
List Price: $59.95
Price: $59.92
Review Women in Motion: Globalization, State Policies, and Labor Migration in Asia / Stanford University Press:Women make up about half of the world’s migrants, so it is little surprise that the international migration of women has been attracting significant attention in recent years. Most agree that global restructuring increasingly forces a large number of women in developing countries to emigrate to richer countries. But is poverty the only motivating factor? In iI>Women in Motion, Nana Oishi examines the cross-national patterns of international female migration in Asia. Drawing on fieldwork in ten countries—both migrant-sending and migrant-receiving—the author investigates the differential impact of globalization, state policies, individual autonomy, and various social factors. This is the first study of its kind to provide an integrative approach to and a comparative perspective on female migration flows from multiple countries.
Creator: Jeremy Smith
Publication date: 2001-02-01
Dewey code: 809.93353
List Price: $60.95
Price: $59.95
Review Utter Silence: Voicing the Unspeakable / Peter Lang Publishing:Utter Silence explores the shifting boundaries of the unspeakable in twentieth-century Western culture. The contributors probe such taboos as the Holocaust, Marx' legacy, bulimia, and tuberculosis in the context of literature and the picture story book, TV and film, social knowledge, and political science. Charting the unspeakable across disciplines, the contributors give voice to its fear, horror, and joy.
Authors
- G.A. de Bruijne
- I.S.A. Baud
Dewey code: 306.3615091724
List Price: $59.95
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Review Gender, Small-scale Industry and Development Policy / Practical Action:Links the gender perspective on small-scale industry which explicitlyconcentrates on social groups, with economic questions of higher employment and wider distribution of production.
Publication date: 1995-07-05
Dewey code: 306.766
List Price: $110.00
Price: $91.55
Review Sex, Cells, and Same-Sex Desire: The Biology of Sexual Preference (The Research on Homosexuality Series) / Routledge:This fascinating new book explores the myriad aspects of biological theories of sexual preference. Sex, Cells, and Same-Sex Desire describes, reviews, and questions recent biological research on sexual preference from the point of view of knowledgeable scientists and of scholars in the social sciences and humanities representing the emerging field of gay studies. The issues involved have a vibrant history, are wide-ranging, and remain the objects of much controversy. This book demystifies biological research on sexual preference and makes it accessible to readers unfamiliar with biological and medical research.
Edition: annotated edition
Publication date: 2006-08-14
Dewey code: 809.93353
List Price: $59.95
Price: $59.92
Review Literature and Human Equality (Rethinking Theory) / Northwestern University Press:When Achilles dons his armor, gods and readers alike know the outcome, as does the hero himself. But when the commoner becomes the hero, when, as Dr. Johnson remarked in 1750, the heroes of modern fiction are "leveled with the rest of the world" - now that's a different story. In this ambitious work, Stewart Justman ranges across Western literature from the Iliad and the Odyssey through Cervantes and Shakespeare to Dickens, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky to show how such a leveling not only changed the appearance of literature, but made possible new ways of constructing a tale. Only when influenced by the principle of equality does a narrative deliberately deny readers knowledge beyond those they are reading about - privileged knowledge. This book argues that such a turn, in the hands of masters of the novel, changed narrative itself into an exploration of the limits of knowledge; that the portrayal of persons unknown to history transformed the novel into an investigation of the unknown. If the novel is the literary form of limited knowledge, the fullest expression of that form is found in the great fictional experiments of the nineteenth century, the age when the social question - the question of human equality - broke upon the world. Justman looks into some of those experiments for their own sake, but also for the light they cast on the nature and history of the novel. Focusing on "Great Expectations", "War and Peace", "The Death of Ivan Ilych", and "The Brothers Karamazov", Justman explores what happens when we, as readers, are denied knowledge not only for the sake of suspense, but because ignorance belongs to what we have in common, the human condition.
Creator: Sandra L. Dahlberg
Publication date: 2003-04
Dewey code: 378.19826942
List Price: $76.50
Price: $76.50
Review Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America (Teaching/Learning Social Justice) / Temple University Press:"Reclaiming Class" offers essays written by women who changed their lives through the pathway of higher education. Collected, they offer a powerful testimony of the importance of higher learning, as well as a critique of the programs designed to alleviate poverty and educational disparity. The contributors explore the ideologies of welfare and American meritocracy that promise hope and autonomy on the one hand, while also perpetuating economic obstacles and indebtedness on the other. Divided into the three sections, "Reclaiming Class" assesses the psychological, familial, and economic intersections of poverty and the educational process. In the first section, women who left poverty through higher education recall their negotiating the paths of college life to show how their experiences reveal the hidden paradoxes of education. Section two presents first person narratives of students whose lives are shaped by their roles as poor mothers, guardian siblings, and daughters, as well as the ways that race interacts with their poverty. Chapters exploring financial aid and welfare policy, battery and abuse, and the social constructions of the poor woman finish the book. Offering a comprehensive picture of how poor women access all levels of private and public institutions to achieve against great odds, "Reclaiming Class" shows the workings of higher learning from the vantage point of those most subject to the vicissitudes of policy and reform agendas. Vivyan C. Adair is Assistant Professor in the Women's Studies Department at Hamilton College, and Director of The ACCESS Project, which supports low-income parents in their efforts to exit inter-generational poverty through higher education and pre-career employment. [+]Sandra L. Dahlberg is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston-Downtown.
Edition: 4th
Publication date: 2007-01-01
List Price: $59.95
Price: $59.95
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Around the Globe, The Social Relations of Physics, Mysticism, and Mathematics: Studies in Social Structure, Interests, and Ideas (Episteme), Setting the Agenda for Global Peace: Conflict and Consensus Building (Gender in a Global/Local World), Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy, and Society, The President's Cabinet: Gender, Power, and Representation, The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy, Expressive Therapy With Elders and the Disabled: Touching the Heart of Life, Women and War in Lebanon, North African Women in France: Gender, Culture, and Identity, Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations, Changing Family Values: Difference, Diversity and the decline of Male Order, Sexing the City: Lesbian and Gay Politics Within the Activist State, Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture (Ray and Pat Browne Books), Women in Motion: Globalization, State Policies, and Labor Migration in Asia, Utter Silence: Voicing the Unspeakable, Gender, Small-scale Industry and Development Policy, Sex, Cells, and Same-Sex Desire: The Biology of Sexual Preference (The Research on Homosexuality Series), Literature and Human Equality (Rethinking Theory), Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America (Teaching/Learning Social Justice), France Gay et Lesbian 2007 (French Edition)Top headlines: Johnny comes marching home to no job: National Guardsmen are coming home from Iraq to face a new enemy a swooning economy that has landed like a KOd heavyweight on the canvas of their home towns. ›11:55 3 Jul, Fri Mississippi Burning town gets black mayor: Philadelphia, Miss., declares independence from an ugly past. 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Michael is the only parent these kids have known and now he is gone," said People magazines Galina Espinoza. Video: Michael Jackson's last dance: July 2: Michael Jackson's concert promoters released videotape on Thursday that shows Jackson rehearsing on stage at the Staples Center two days before his death. NBC's Lee Cowan reports.(Nightly News) ›22:49 2 Jul, Thu Cool tools for road trippers: Taking a road trip? New Web sites wont get you where youre going any faster, but they can provide plenty of interesting information along the way. ›14:50 2 Jul, Thu McDonalds passes, Taco Bell scores with NBA: Taco Bell has replaced longtime sponsor McDonald's as the NBA's fast-food partner. ›17:24 2 Jul, Thu The cars that will likely set the pace in 2014: Expect these new models to hit the road in the next five years. ›20:32 2 Jul, Thu Car guys retrain but downshift to lower pay: Big, burly and a "car guy" since high school, Tom Persinger worked for years at General Motors. 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NBC's Brian Williams reports.(Nightly News) ›23:07 2 Jul, Thu Cops: Ariz. mom led sons on crime spree: The case of an Arizona mother who allegedly led her sons on a crime spree has outraged authorities and the public and drawn comparisons to "Ma Barker," the infamous mom in the early 1900s. ›13:09 Attending a wedding? Say I do: Deciphering a weddings dress code can be more than a little confusing, and with so many dress styles available, the options are often overwhelming! TODAY style editor Bobbie Thomas offers clarity in the form of fashion tips for all types of affairs. ›12:59 30 Jun, Tue |
