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Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture
At the heart of Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture lies a very personal story, of author Catherine Roach's response to the decision of her life-long best friend to become an exotic dancer. Catherine and Marie grew up together in Canada and moved to the USA to enroll in PhD programs at prestigious universities. For various reasons, Marie left her program and instead chose to work as a stripper.…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781847883476
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- 224
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- Dress, Body, Culture,
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- 300 ROA s
Surveillance | Society | Culture
What only a few decades ago would have been considered a totalitarian nightmare seems to have become reality: Surveillance practices and technologies have infiltrated all aspects of our lives, forcing us to reconsider established notions of privacy, subjectivity, and the status of the individual in society. The United States is central to contemporary concerns about surveillance. American compa…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783631802366, 9783631802373
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- 246
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- Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS), 3
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- 320 SUR s
Human Bondage in the Cultural Contact Zone: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on…
Slavery – the subjection of some human beings to a state of bondage by other, more powerful, people – has been an accepted social institution since ancient times. It is less well known that slavery has also produced cultural contact zones in forcing members of different cultures into sharing the same places – whether in private households, on plantations, in mines and quarries, or indeed …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783830973751
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- -
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- 326 HUM h
The Troika of Adult Learners, Lifelong Learning, and Mathematics
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783319328089
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- 41
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- ICME-13 Topical Surveys
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- 370 SAF t
Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability: A Political Economy Analysis
Food price volatility is one of the major challenges facing the global agricultural system today. This was most vividly illustrated during the global food crisis of 2007–9 when price spikes occurred for key staple food commodities—such as wheat, rice, maize, and soybeans. Given the variety of reactions by governments of countries experiencing similar food price shocks, the 2007–9 crisis o…
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- 9780198718574
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- 544
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- WIDER Studies in Development Economics
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- 338.9 FOO f
Constructing Muslims in France - Discourse, Public Identity, and the Politics…
The standing of French Muslims is undercut by a predominant and persistent elite public discourse that frames Muslims as failed and incomplete French citizens. This situation fosters the very separations, exclusions, and hierarchies it claims to deplore as Muslims face discrimination in education, housing, and employment. In Constructing Muslims in France, Jennifer Fredette provides a deft empi…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781439910290;9781439910306
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- 232
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- -
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- 320 FRE c
India’s democracies: Diversity, Co-optation, Resistance
This volume is about India’s deep and complex relationship with its chosen form of government. It is an interdisciplinary book with approaches drawn from history, anthropology, sociology, political science and social geography. We believe this volume provides new perspectives on how to approach and analyse the complexity of India’s democracy. The book’s unfortunate publishing history also…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9788215026886; 9788215026893
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- 253
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- -
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- 320 IND I
Amherst in the World
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Amherst College, a group of scholars and alumni explore the school’s substantial past in this volume. Amherst in the World tells the story of how an institution that was founded to train Protestant ministers began educating new generations of industrialists, bankers, and political leaders with the decline in missionary ambitions after the Civil War. …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780943184203, 9780943184210
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- 364
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- 378 SAX a
A Comparison of American and Dutch Immigration and Integration Experiences
De serie 'Werkdocumenten' omvat stukken die in het kader van de werkzaamheden van de WRR tot stand zijn gekomen en die op aanvraag door de raad beschikbaar worden gesteld. De verantwoordelijkheid voor de inhoud en de ingenomen standpunten berust bij de auteurs.
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- Ed. 1
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- -
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- 112
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- Werkdocument, 120
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- 353.484 COM c
The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa: Accommodating Workers and …
Housing matters, no matter when or where. This volume of collected essays on housing in colonial and postcolonial Africa seeks to elaborate how and why housing is much more than an everyday practice. The politics of housing unfold in disparate dimensions of time, space and agency. Depending on context, they acquire diverse, often ambivalent, meanings. Housing can be a promise, an unfulfilled dr…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783110598278, 9783110598735
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- 236
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 301 POL p
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