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Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern AmericaIt is commonly acknowledged that sexual abuse of children is a grave and pervasive problem and that child molesters are predators who compulsively repeat their crimes and have little hope of cure. Yet as recently as twenty years ago many experts viewed the problem...
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The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist MovementInspired by the idealism of the civil rights movement, the women who launched the radical second wave of the feminist movement believed, as a bedrock principle, in universal sisterhood and color-blind democracy. Their hopes, however, were soon dashed. To this day, the failure to...
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Max Weber: Selections in TranslationIn this volume, Mr Runciman has selected extracts, from Max Weber's writings which reflect the full range of his major concerns: the nature of domination in human society, the role of ideas in history, the social determinants of religion, the origin and impact of...
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Career Theory, Development, and Appraisal: A Guide for Human ServicesIn this text, students and career practitioners will gain an introduction to career theory, development, and appraisal. This reader-friendly guide is unique in that it covers issues experienced by diverse clients, and practical career service approaches for entry-level practitioners. This text is an excellent...
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Toward a Recognition of AndrogynyIn this quietly provocative book, Carolyn G. Heilbrun opens our eyes to the ways in which the concept of androgyny--the realization of man in woman and woman in man--has run, like a hidden river, from its source in pre-Hellenic myth through the literature of...
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Women Without Class: Girls, Race, and IdentityIn this ethnographic examination of Mexican-American and white girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory on its head, asking what cultural gestures are involved in the performance of class, and how class subjectivity is constructed in relationship to...
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Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered ProstitutesIn this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called travestis in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador. Travestis are males who, often beginning at ages as young as ten, adopt female names, clothing styles,...
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The Eros of Everyday Life: Essays on Ecology, Gender and SocietyIn her award-winning examination of the nature of war, A Chorus of Stones, critically acclaimed author and feminist Susan Griffin showed new ways of thinking about society and war, about private and public lives. In The Eros of Everyday Life, she once again takes...
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Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man Volume 8In a book that will both enlighten and provoke, Daniel Boyarin offers an alternative to the prevailing Euroamerican warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the gentle, receptive male. The Western notion of the aggressive, sexually dominant male and the passive...
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Einstein's Essays in ScienceHis name is synonymous with genius, but these essays by the renowned physicist and scholar are accessible to any reader. In addition to outlining the core of relativity theory in everyday language, Albert Einstein presents fascinating discussions of other scientific fields to which he...
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When Egypt Ruled the EastHere, adequately presented for the first time in English, is the fascinating story of a splendid culture that flourished thirty-five hundred years ago in the empire on the Nile: kings and conquests, gods and heroes, beautiful art, sculpture, poetry, architecture. Significant archeological discoveries are...
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Self Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative SocietyGardner's is not a 'how-to-do-it' book for the conduct of modern society. It is something rarer these days and more basic: a 'why-to-do-it' book. Its impact on many readers is bound to be challenging and stimulating and even inspirational. Clark Kerr, ScienceAuthor: John W....
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In Defense of ElitismFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our devotion to the largely unexamined myth of egalitarianism lies at the heart of the ongoing "dumbing of America." Americans have always stubbornly clung to the...
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Boystown: Sex and Community in ChicagoFrom neighborhoods as large as Chelsea or the Castro, to locales limited to a single club, like The Shamrock in Madison or Sidewinders in Albuquerque, gay areas are becoming normal. Straight people flood in. Gay people flee out. Scholars call this transformation assimilation, and...
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Caught Up: Girls, Surveillance, and Wraparound Incarceration Volume 2From home, to school, to juvenile detention center, and back again. Follow the lives of fifty Latina girls living forty miles outside of Los Angeles, California, as they are inadvertently caught up in the school-to-prison pipeline. Their experiences in the connected programs between "El...
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic AnthropologistFrom a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, prominent forensic anthropologist Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was dispatched, and, ultimately, the identity of the killer. In...
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Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society: The New Science of MemesFans of Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Bennet, and Richard Dawkins (as well as science buffs and readers of Wired Magazine) will revel in Aaron Lynch's groundbreaking examination of memetics -- the new study of how ideas and beliefs spread. What characterizes a meme is its...
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A Practical Guide to Evaluation, Second EditionEvaluation of social and education services leads to better practice, however many practitioners find the language of evaluation difficult to conceptualize. A Practical Guide to Evaluation presents the mechanisms and processes of evaluation with a clear eye toward the impact evaluation has for the...
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Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of GatheringsErving Goffman effectively extends his argument in favor of a diagnosis of deviant behavior which takes account of the whole social situation.Author: Erving GoffmanPublisher: Free PressPublished: 09/01/1966Pages: 248Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.54h x 5.49w x 0.63dISBN: 9780029119402About the AuthorGoffman, Erving: - Erring Goffman was...
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South Bronx Battles: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and RenewalCommunity activist Carolyn McLaughlin takes us on a journey of the South Bronx through the eyes of its community members. Facing burned-out neighborhoods of the 1970s, the community fought back. McLaughlin illustrates the spirit of the community in creating a vibrant, diverse culture and...
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