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Breast Cancer - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Breast Cancer - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic provides an innovative look at the social and political contexts of breast cancer and examines how this illness has become a social problem. This is not a book about breast cancer as a biological disease, its diagnosis and treatment, or the latest research to cure it. Rather, it looks at how economics, politics, gender, social class, and race-ethnicity have deeply influenced the science behind breast cancer research, spurred the growth of a breast cancer industry, generated media portrayals of women with the disease, and defined and influenced women''s experiences with breast cancer. The contributors address the social construction of breast cancer as an illness and as an area of scientific controversy, advocacy, and public policy. Chapters on the history of breast cancer, the health care system, the environment, and the marketing of breast cancer, among others, tease apart the complex social forces that have shaped our collective and individual responses to breast cancer.

DKK 423.00
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Transforming Shakespeare - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Transforming Shakespeare - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

A surprisingly large number of women writers, directors, and performers have created works that talk back to Shakespeare, or to most earlier and more traditional interpretations of his plays, in the late 20th century. For example, Jane Smiley''s A Thousand Acres, which rewrites King Lear, and Marina Warner''sIndigo, which rewrites The Tempest, protest biases against women and racist and imperialist attitudes that Shakespeare''s plays have come to symbolize. In this collection, feminist critics--and Jane Smiley herself--explore a range of such rewritings, as well as recent Shakespeare performances directed by women.

DKK 349.00
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Reconfiguring Modernism - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Reconfiguring Modernism - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Reconfiguring Modernism explores the relationship between modern literature and modern art. Spanning the high modernist period between the late-nineteenth century and World War 2, the cultural interrelationships between painters such as Manet, Gauguin, Cezanne, and Picasso, and writers such as James, Conrad, Eliot and Joyce are explored. The influence of African, Asian and Pacific cultures on European modernism is also examined. Schwarz considers texts - visual and written - of the modern period as a contoured textual field without absolute borders, crucial to our understanding of modernism in the last years of the twentieth century.

DKK 434.00
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China Profiled - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

China Profiled - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Series Header: The SYB FactBook Series This is an exciting new series of books for the general reader from the editor and publishers of one of the world''s most respected reference books--The Statesman''s Yearbook. The FactBooks present everything you need to know about the places, people, and practices of each country in an easy-to-browse format. Complete with key city maps, useful addresses and web sites, these first four country profiles are ideal for the traveler, business person, student, or anyone with an interest in learning about a given country.

DKK 222.00
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Dancing With Bigotry - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Dancing With Bigotry - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

One of the most pressing challenges facing educators in the US is the specter of an "ethnic and cultural war"--a code phrase that engenders our society''s licentiousness toward racism. In Dancing with Bigotry, Donaldo Macedo and Lilia Bartolome use examples from the mass media, popular culture, and politics to illustrate the larger situations facing educators and how this type of argument is ignored in much of the academic research and rhetoric. They also examine why it is essential to take on the sources of "mass public education." By shunning the mass media, educators are missing the obvious--more public education is done by the media than by teachers, professors, or anyone else. This book sheds light on the ideological mechanisms that shape and maintain the racist social order, while moving the discussion beyond the reductionist of white versus black impasse.

DKK 423.00
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Activists Speak Out - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Activists Speak Out - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

In Activists Speak Out, a group of 15 American activists speak candidly about how and why they struggle for change. Their causes and strategies vary--in the areas of civil rights, gay and lesbian rights, the environment, women''s issues, health, youth, education, labor, freedom of expression, and the arts. But the lessons learned resonate across geographic and ideological boundaries. Whether working as grass-roots organizers or corporate insiders, in cities or in rural areas, the through-line of their observations is constant: Change is slow, and may take shape in unexpected ways. Small victories count. And, whatever the initial motivation to become engaged in the struggle for change--anger, compassion, frustration--the very process of engagement is itself transformative. You cross that line, and nothing is ever the same.

DKK 349.00
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Method Acting Reconsidered - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Method Acting Reconsidered - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Method Acting is one of the most popular and controversial approaches to acting in the United States. It has not only shaped important schools of acting, but has been a fundamental constant of all American acting. This insightful volume explores Method Acting from a broad perspective, focusing on a point of equilibrium between the principles of the Method and its relationship to other theories of performance. David Krasner has gathered together some of the most well-known theater scholars and acting teachers to look at the Method. By concentrating on three areas of the Method--its theory, practice, and future application--the collection will serve to inform and teach us how to approach acting and acting theory in the 21st century.

DKK 581.00
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Culture and Politics - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Culture and Politics - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Political culture is one of the central, but most difficult, concepts in political science. Culture and Politics: A Reader explores this concept by compiling previously-published works that focus on the core themes of political culture research: Concepts and Applications, Culture and Globalization, Popular Culture, Civil Society and Social Capital, Social Movements and Collective Identity, Culture and Political Change, and Culture and Rationality. Each section includes general and article introductions as well as a "suggested reading" list. Taken together, these features make Culture and Politics: A Reader a handy resource for students and teachers at both the graduate and the under-graduate level.

DKK 473.00
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Managing the Press - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Managing the Press - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Managing the Press re-examines the emergence of the 20th century media president, whose authority to govern depends largely on his ability to generate public support by appealing to the citizenry through the news media. From 1897 to 1933, White House successes and failures with the press established a foundation for modern executive leadership and helped to shape patterns of media practices and technologies through which Americans have viewed the presidency during most of the 20th century. Author Stephen Ponder shows how these findings suggest a new context for contemporary questions about mediated public opinion and the foundations of presidential power, the challenge to the presidency by an increasingly adversarial press, the emergence of "new media" formats and technologies, and the shaping of presidential leadership for the 21st century. Managing the Press explores the rise of the media presidency through the lens of the late 20th century, when the relationship between the president and the press is relevant to more important issues than ever before in the context of American politics.

DKK 352.00
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Realizing Human Rights - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Realizing Human Rights - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

At the dawn of a new era, this book brings together leading activists, policy-makers and critics to reflect upon fifty years of attempts to improve respect for human rights. Authors include President Jimmy Carter, who helped inject human rights concerns into US policy; Wei Jingsheng, who struggled to do so in China; Louis Henkin, the modern "father" of international law, and Richard Goldstone, the former chief prosecutor for the Yugoslav and Rwandan war crimes tribunals. A half-century since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the time is right to assess how policies and actions effect the realization of human rights and to point to new directions and challenges that lie ahead. A must have for everyone in the human rights community and the broader foreign policy community as well as the reader who is increasingly aware of the visibility of human rights concerns on the public stage.

DKK 397.00
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States of Confinement - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

States of Confinement - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world; 70 percent of the nearly two million incarcerated in prisons and immigration detention centers are people of color. States of Confinement uncovers the political, social, and economic biases in policing and punishment. The distinguished contributors- Angela Y. Davis, Manning Marable, Gary Marx, Robert Meeropol, Julie Su, and Judi Bari-discuss abuses of police powers in American society. They expose racial profiling and sentencing disparities that target African Americans and Latinos, the sexual exploitation of women, racist and homophobic violence, the policing of Asian Americans and Arabs, the conditions of HIV-positive prisoners, the use of the Grand Jury and police to undermine political activity, and environmental activism.

DKK 397.00
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Italy and Its Discontents - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Italy and Its Discontents - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

A major bestseller in Italy, Paul Ginsborg''s account of this most recent and dynamic period in Italy''s history is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand contemoprary Italy. Ginsborg chronicles a period that witnessed a radical transformation in the country''s social, economic and political landscape, creating a fascinating and definitve account of how Italy has coped or failed to cope as it moves from one century to the next. With particular emphasis on its role in italian life, work and culture Ginsborg shows how smaller families, longer lives and greater generation crossover have had significant effects on Italian society. Ginsborg looks at the 2000 elections, the influence of the Mafia, the decline of both Communism and Catholicism, and the change in national identity. This is modern history at its best.

DKK 689.00
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Globalization, Gender, and Religion - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Globalization, Gender, and Religion - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

In the early 1970s, accompanying the current wave of globalization, conservative nationalist religious movements began using religion to oppose non-democratic and often Western oriented regimes. Reasserting patriarchal gender relations presumably authorized by religion has been central to these movements. At the Fourth United Nations Congress on Women in Beijing in 1995, Muslim and Catholic delegations from diverse countries united to oppose provisions on sexuality, reproductive rights, women?s health, and women?s rights as human rights. Scholars from eight different Muslim and Catholic communities analyze the political strategies that women are employing in these contexts ranging from acceptance of traditional doctrines to various forms of resistance, religious reinterpretation, innovation, and political action toward change and equal rights.

DKK 358.00
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Challenging Aid in Africa - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Challenging Aid in Africa - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

This is a startling and controversial investigation into the international assistance given to countries at war. Marriage points to the similarities in the psychological and political dimensions of international aid and the violence this assistance is supposed to relieve. Looking at the "game" that large aid organizations play by appealing to a moral argument of rights and principles, this book investigates the gap between principle and practice in humanitarian assistance in Africa.

DKK 434.00
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The Craft of Religious Studies - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

The Craft of Religious Studies - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Unlike other humanistic disciplines, the academic study of religion must contend with a phenomenon that touches every dimension of human experience. For scholars so engaged, the study of religion often becomes a cross-cultural as well as a necessarily interdisciplinary endeavor. In this collection of original essays, Jon R. Stone has brought together the intellectual autobiographies of fourteen senior scholars--all with national or international reputations in their respective fields--each of whom reflects upon his or her own theoretical assumptions and methodological approaches to the study of religion. Taken together, these essays represent the variety of research methods and interpretive rigor mature scholars bring to the task of examining religious phenomena, religious actions, religious movements, and religious ideas.

DKK 434.00
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Good Parents or Good Workers? - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Good Parents or Good Workers? - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

Good Parents or Good Workers? draws upon new ethnographic studies and longitudinal interviews that are reporting on the daily lives of women and children under new welfare policy pressures. Contributors look at family policy in the context of daily demands and critique new social programs that are designed to strengthen families. The book is divided into three course-friendly sections that deal with the impact of welfare reform on caregiving, the lived experiences of low-income families, and family policy debates. Good Parents or Good Workers? is an important text on the impacts of welfare reform that will be essential reading in a variety of courses in education, sociology, and politics.

DKK 397.00
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The Beatles, Popular Music and Society - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

The Beatles, Popular Music and Society - Na Na - Bog - Palgrave USA - Plusbog.dk

The Beatles'' evolution from a Liverpool rock and roll group into one of the 20th century''s defining images has been repeatedly chronicled but rarely analyzed; a critical appreciation of their music and career, and the issues and debates they provoked, is long overdue. This book provides the first sustained investigation of some of the many historical, cultural, musical, and sociological facets of the group''s career. Written by an international group of scholars, it is essential for those wishing to understand not only the phenomenon of the Beatles, but the broader social contexts which popular music continues to be practiced and studied.

DKK 423.00
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