Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Life in the Megalopolis
Mexico City and Sao Paulo
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The modern metropolis has been called 'the symbol of our times', and life in it epitomizes, for many, modernity itself. But what to make of inherited ideas of modernity when faced with life in Mexico City and São Paulo, two of the largest metropolises in the world? Is their fractured reality, their...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
In recent years the concept of ‘diversity’ has gained a leading place in academic thought, business practice and public policy worldwide. Although variously used, ‘diversity’ tends to refer to patterns of social difference in terms of certain key categories. Today the foremost categories shaping...
Queer Iberia
Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 1999
Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers comprise the fascinating mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia. The essays in this volume describe and analyze the sexual diversity that proliferated during the period...
Queer Aging
The Gayby Boomers and a New Frontier for Gerontology
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
As the first generation of gay men enters its autumn years, these men's responses to the physical and emotional tolls of aging promise to be as revolutionary as their advances in AIDS and civil rights activism. Older gay men's approaches to friendship, caregiving, romantic and sexual relationships,...
Alterities in Asia
Reflections on Identity and Regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
This book investigates the politics of identity in Asia and explores how different groups of people inside and outside Asia have attempted to relate to the alterity of the places and cultures in the region through various modes (literary and filmic representation, scholarly knowledge, and so on) and...
Cultural Anthropology
Tribes, States, and the Global System
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
This introductory text introduces basic concepts in cultural anthropology by comparing cultures of increasing scale and focusing on specific universal issues throughout human history. Cultural materials are presented in integrated ethnographic case studies organized by cultural and geographic areas...
Gender, State and Social Power in Contemporary Indonesia
Divorce and Marriage Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This book examines gender, state and social power in Indonesia, focusing in particular on state regulation of divorce from 1965 to 2005 and its impact on women. Indonesia experienced high divorce rates in the 1950s and 1960s, followed by a remarkable decline. Already falling divorce rates were reinforced...
Trans-Status Subjects
Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2002
A Thai foodseller on the streets of Bangkok, a cyclo driver in a Vietnamese village, a Pahari migrant laborer in the Himalayas, a Parsi-Christian professional social worker shuttling back and forth between London and Calcutta—Trans-Status Subjects examines how these and other South and Southeast...
by Giorgio Shani
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2007
Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age examines the construction of a Sikh national identity in post-colonial India and the diaspora and explores the reasons for the failure of the movement for an independent Sikh state: Khalistan. Based on a decade of research, it is argued that the failure...
Interracial Encounters
Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
2013 Honorable Mention, Asian American Studies Association's prize in Literary Studies
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series
Why do black characters appear so frequently in Asian American literary works and Asian characters appear in African American literary works in the...
Home with Hip Hop Feminism
Performances in Communication and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
This book has won the 2015 Top Book Award from the NCA African American Communication and Culture Division (AACCD) of NCA
Home with Hip Hop Feminism brings together popular culture and the everyday experiences of black women from the hip hop generation to highlight the epiphanic moments when...
by Suman Gupta, Richard Allen, Subarno Chattarji
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This book examines the status of English Studies in India, aspirations pinned on the subject by students, teachers, policy-makers and society in general, and how these are addressed at the higher education level. It presents analytical background discussions of the history and policy environment,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Written from within the best traditions of ecocritical thought, this book provides a wide-ranging account of the spatial imagination of landscape and seascape in literary and cultural contexts from many regions of the world. It brings together essays by authors writing from within diverse cultural...
by Carol Dyhouse
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
This compelling and stimulating book explores the gendered social history of students in modern Britain.
From the privileged youth of Brideshead Revisited, to the scruffs at 'Scumbag University' in The Young Ones, representations of the university undergraduate have been decidedly male. But...