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A captivating collection of essays, Desire delves headfirst into its subject matter and explores the complexity of desire with essays about the things women want, crave, lust after, and covet. An extraordinary group of writers tackle difficult and taboo subjects, from...
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Seal Press
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2011-02-08
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Feminist theory is no longer guiding the development of policy interventions in Australia because it is seen to be irrelevant to modern women. Many leading feminists are locked into a politics that is based on liberal or socialist principles and do not want, or know,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister is the first full-length biography of a Roman aristocrat whose colorful life, as described by her contemporaries, has inspired numerous modern works of popular fiction, art, and poetry. Clodia, widow of the consul Metellus Celer, was...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-01-12
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Die Twentes zogen vermutlich zu Beginn des 13. Jahrhunderts, eventuell aus dem niederländischen Twente nach Osnabrück.Die ersten sicheren urkundlichen Erwähnungen weisen sie als Träger bedeutender Ämter aus, zunächst als Richter und Schöffen, dann als Bürgermeister. Sie...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-12-21
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Eve on Top takes an in-depth look at the position of women in senior positions in the public sector using a case-study approach, based on ten 'successful' women and their background, upbringing, career progression, successes and failures, challenges and experiences....
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Chandos Publishing
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2010-11-25
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Mit Angela Merkel wird 2005 zum ersten Mal eine Frau Bundeskanzlerin in Deutschland. Nach einem nur wenige Monate dauernden Blitzwahlkampf setzte sie sich gegen Amtsinhaber Gerhard Schröder durch. Ein Sieg der Union über Rot-Grün oder der Sieg einer Frau über einen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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Die Mystik kann als zentrale Form christlicher Frömmigkeit gelten. Doch welche spezifischen Kennzeichnungen besitzt sie in und seit der Neuzeit?Die Publikation erörtert diese Frage mit Blick auf die Konzeptionen von Mystikerinnen wie Simone Weil, Edith Stein oder...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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Ziel dieser Arbeit ist, durch eine interdisziplinäre Annäherung an Hermann Hesses Prosa die zentrale Rolle des sinceritas-Konzeptes in der hesseschen Poetik hervorzuheben. Sinceritas erweist sich als dynamischer Begriffskomplex, der immer der Epoche gemäß definiert...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-05
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«Nun meine ich, dass es überhaupt nicht selbstverständlich ist, das Geschlechterverhältnis und damit auch die ‘Konstruktion von Geschlecht’ auf Identitätsfestschreibungen zurückzuführen. Oder nochmals anders ausgedrückt: Es ist überhaupt nicht selbstverständlich, die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-05
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Since 1997, advertisements for lifestyle drugs have saturated the U.S. airwaves, print media, and the Internet. Viewers are asked to see their children’s difficulty in school as attention deficit disorder, their worry as anxiety, and their flagging sex life as...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2010-10-01
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Civilizing Habits explores the life stories of three French women missionaries--Philippine Duchesne, Emilie de Vialar, and Anne-Marie Javouhey--who crossed boundaries, both real and imagined, to evangelize far from France's shores. In so doing, they helped France...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-08-31
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How does feminism relate to motherhood, how has it changed over time, and what does the future of motherhood and feminism look like? These are just some of the questions Amber E. Kinser, PhD, tackles in this latest addition to the Seal Studies Series. Motherhood...
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Seal Press
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2010-05-04
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Seal Studies
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Women, Gender, and Politics brings together both classic and recent readings on central topics in the study of gender and politics, and places an emphasis on comparing developed and developing countries. Genuinely international in its focus, the book is divided into six...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-03-01
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This landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of colorIt has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the...
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Seal Press
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2010-02-24
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We Don’t Need Another Wave is a critique of the ways in which feminism is discussed in the mainstream media. Today’s young feminists are wary of being labeled. They are media-savvy, hyper-aware of being categorized and marginalized, and are here to tell the...
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Seal Press
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2010-02-24
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Celebrated for her style and substance, Michelle Obama has transformed the role of first lady and become a 21st century icon, attracting attention from all over the world. The qualities so admired in her - intelligence, strength and charisma - radiate through her...
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Center Street
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2009-10-28
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Professors and students alike are taking interest in Girls' Studies—the socialization of girls versus boys—and beginning to analyze the impact of media, pop culture, messaging, and more on America's girls. Girls' Studies tackles socialization and...
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Seal Press
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2009-10-06
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Seal Studies
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In 2004, Erin Solaro went to Iraq to study American servicewomen—what they were doing, how well they were doing it, how they were faring in combat.In 2005, she went to Afghanistan on the same mission. Having spent time embedded with combat troops and conducting...
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Seal Press
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2009-05-20
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Few Westerners escape the images, expectations and misperceptions that lead us to see Asia as exotic, sensual, decadent, dangerous, and mysterious. Despite - and because of centuries of East-West interaction, the stereotypes of Western literature, stage, and screen...
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PublicAffairs
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2009-04-29
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