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Being Bollywood
Through engaging media coverage of the public lives of Bollywood actresses, this book unveils understandings of idealized femininity and gender within this cultural context. Beyond its own borders, such a context is unique given the global relevance of content from and about Bollywood with members of the diaspora as well as those culturally Indian individuals that are no longer part of the dias…
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- 978-981-99-5700-2
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- Gender
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- 305.3
The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege
Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindröling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldrön (1699–1769) leveraged her privileged status and overcame significant adversity, including exile during a civil war, to play a central role in the reconstruction of her religious community. Alison Melnick Dyer employs literary and historical analysis, centered on…
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- 9780295750378, 9780295750354
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- 242
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- 959 MEL t
Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence
Winner, 2012 Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award. Women of the Washington Press argues that for nearly two centuries women journalists have persisted in their efforts to cover politics in the nation’s capital in spite of blatant prejudice and restrictive societal attitudes. They have been held back by the difficulties of combining two competing roles – those of women and journa…
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- 9780810166141, 9780810125711
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- 305 BEA w
The Politics of Dating Apps: Gender, Sexuality, and Emergent Publics in Urban…
An examination of dating app culture in China, across user demographics—straight women, straight men, queer women, and queer men. In this exploration of dating app culture in China, Lik Sam Chan argues that these popular mobile apps are not merely a platform for personal relationships but also an emerging arena for gender and queer politics. Chan examines the opportunities dating apps pres…
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- 9780262363389
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- 305.3
Sisters in Spirit: Christianity, Affect, and Community Building in East Afric…
In this pioneering study, historian Andreana Prichard presents an intimate history of a single mission organization, the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), told through the rich personal stories of a group of female African lay evangelists. Founded by British Anglican missionaries in the 1860s, the UMCA worked among refugees from the Indian Ocean slave trade on Zanzibar and among…
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- 9781628952926
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Women's Political and Social Thought An Anthology
Women's Political and Social Thought: An Anthology is the first collection of source readings of women's important writings in political and social theory from ancient times to the twentieth century. It fills a major gap in materials available for teaching the history of political thought and opens paths for exploring the rich and diverse contributions of women as creators of theory. Not confin…
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- 9780253069023
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Cartographies of Differences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
This volume investigates the process of learning how to live with individual and group differences in the twenty-first century and examines the ambivalences of contemporary cosmopolitanism. Engaging with the concept of ‘critical cartography’, it emphasizes the structural impact of localities on the experiences of those living with difference, while trying to develop an account of the counte…
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- 9783035397000; 9783034318594
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- 240
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- New Visions of the Cosmopolitan
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- 306.07 CAR c
Gender and Sustainability: Lessons from Asia and Latin America
This is one of the first books to address how gender plays a role in helping to achieve the sustainable use of natural resources. The contributions collected here deal with the struggles of women and men to negotiate such forces as global environmental change, economic development pressures, discrimination and stereotyping about the roles of women and men, and diminishing access to natural reso…
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- 9780816548439
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- 307 GEN g
Music and Democracy Participatory Approaches
Music and Democracy explores music as a resource for societal transformation processes. This book provides recent insights into how individuals and groups used and still use music to achieve social, cultural, and political participation and bring about social change. The contributors present outstanding perspectives on the topic: From the promise and myth of democratization through music techno…
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- 9783839456576
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Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest
During the thirty year period from 1890 to 1920, the African American club women in Illinois helped establish the largest national network of black club women in the country, The National Association of Colored Women, created hundreds of female associations, organized the only federation of its kind in the state, The Illinois Federation of Colored Women, and cast ballots for the first black ele…
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- 9780253069030
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