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Sapphistries
A Global History of Love Between Women
Häftad, 2011
352 kr
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A lyrical and meticulously researched mapping of the ways in which diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and geograhy From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with …
Far Beyond the Moon
A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age
Av David P. D. Munns, Kärin Nickelsen
Inbunden, 2021
508 kr
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From the beginning of the space age, scientists and engineers have worked on systems to help humans survive for the astounding 28,500 days (78 years) needed to reach another planet. They’ve imagined and tried to create a little piece of Earth in a bubble travelling through space, inside of which …
Globalization of Wheat
A Critical History of the Green Revolution
Häftad, 2027
446 kr
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In The Globalization of Wheat, Marci R. Baranski explores Norman Borlaug’s complicated legacy as godfather of the Green Revolution. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his role in fighting global hunger, Borlaug, an American agricultural scientist and plant breeder who worked for the …
Early Modern Privacy
Sources and Approaches
Av Michaël Green, Lars Cyril Nørgaard m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2660 kr
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Privacy is often considered a modern phenomenon. Early Modern Privacy: Sources and Approaches challenges this view. This collection examines instances, experiences, and spaces of early modern privacy, and opens new avenues to understanding the structures and dynamics that shape early modern …
Fat Gay Men
Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma
Inbunden, 2014
902 kr
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To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culturecan be difficult. Despite affectionate in-group monikers for big gay men–chubs,bears, cubs–the anti-fat stigma that persists in American culture at largestill haunts these individuals who often exist at the margins of gaycommunities. In Fat Gay Men, …
Fat Gay Men
Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma
Häftad, 2014
359 kr
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To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culturecan be difficult. Despite affectionate in-group monikers for big gay men–chubs,bears, cubs–the anti-fat stigma that persists in American culture at largestill haunts these individuals who often exist at the margins of gaycommunities. In Fat Gay Men, …
Out in the Country
Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America
Av Mary L. Gray
Inbunden, 2009
973 kr
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Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of Lesbian and Gay AnthropologistsWinner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities SectionWinner of the 2010 Congress Inaugural Qualitative Inquiry Book …
Out in the Country
Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America
Av Mary L. Gray
Häftad, 2009
429 kr
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Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of Lesbian and Gay AnthropologistsWinner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities SectionWinner of the 2010 Congress Inaugural Qualitative Inquiry Book …
Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself
Latina Girls and Sexual Identity
Inbunden, 2012
946 kr
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Exploring young Latina youth's sexual agency, education, and expressionWhile Latina girls have high teen birth rates and are at increasing risk for contracting sexually transmitted infections, their sexual lives are much more complex than the negative stereotypes of them as "helpless" or "risky" …
Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself
Latina Girls and Sexual Identity
Häftad, 2012
376 kr
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Exploring young Latina youth's sexual agency, education, and expressionWhile Latina girls have high teen birth rates and are at increasing risk for contracting sexually transmitted infections, their sexual lives are much more complex than the negative stereotypes of them as "helpless" or "risky" …
One Marriage Under God
The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America
Inbunden, 2012
973 kr
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The meaning and significance of the institution of marriage has engendered angry and boisterous battles across the United States. While the efforts of lesbians and gay men to make marriage accessible to same-sex couples have seen increasing success, these initiatives have sparked a backlash as …
One Marriage Under God
The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America
Häftad, 2012
387 kr
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The meaning and significance of the institution of marriage has engendered angry and boisterous battles across the United States. While the efforts of lesbians and gay men to make marriage accessible to same-sex couples have seen increasing success, these initiatives have sparked a backlash as …
Moral Panics, Sex Panics
Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights
Inbunden, 2009
987 kr
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Finalist for 2010 LGBT Anthology Award from the Lambda Literary AwardsUnwed teen mothers, abortion, masturbation, pornography, gay marriage, sex trafficking, homosexuality, and HIV are just a few in a long line of issues that have erupted into panics. These sexual panics spark moral crusades and …
Moral Panics, Sex Panics
Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights
Häftad, 2009
417 kr
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Finalist for 2010 LGBT Anthology Award from the Lambda Literary AwardsUnwed teen mothers, abortion, masturbation, pornography, gay marriage, sex trafficking, homosexuality, and HIV are just a few in a long line of issues that have erupted into panics. These sexual panics spark moral crusades and …
Bully Society
School Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America's Schools
Av Jessie Klein
Inbunden, 2012
835 kr
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Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013 Through interviews and case studies, Klein develops an explanation for bully behavior in America's schoolsIn today's schools, kids bullying kids is not an occasional occurrence but rather an everyday reality where children learn early that being …
Sperm Counts
Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid
Inbunden, 2007
1194 kr
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2007 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleWinner of the Passing the Torch Award from the Center for Lesbian and Gay StudiesIt has been called sperm, semen, seed, cum, jizz, spunk, gentlemen's relish, and splooge. But however the "tacky, opaque liquid that comes out of the penis" is described, the very …
Sexuality of Migration
Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men
Av Lionel Cantu, Nancy A. Naples m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
973 kr
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Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Section Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award in Latino Studies Honorable Mention from the Latin American Studies AssociationThe Sexuality of Migration provides an innovative study …
Sexuality of Migration
Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men
Av Lionel Cantu, Nancy A. Naples m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
385 kr
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Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Section Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award in Latino Studies Honorable Mention from the Latin American Studies AssociationThe Sexuality of Migration provides an innovative study …
Strip Club
Gender, Power, and Sex Work
Inbunden, 2010
946 kr
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In Strip Club, Kim Price‒Glynn takes us behind the scenes at a rundown club where women strip out of economic need, a place where strippers' stories are not glamorous or liberating, but emotionally demanding and physically exhausting. Strip Club reveals the intimate working lives of not just the …
Strip Club
Gender, Power, and Sex Work
Häftad, 2010
376 kr
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In Strip Club, Kim Price‒Glynn takes us behind the scenes at a rundown club where women strip out of economic need, a place where strippers' stories are not glamorous or liberating, but emotionally demanding and physically exhausting. Strip Club reveals the intimate working lives of not just the …
Tolerance Trap
How God, Genes, and Good Intentions Are Sabotaging Gay Equality
Inbunden, 2014
1229 kr
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From Gleeto gay marriage, from lesbian senators to out gay Marines, we have undoubtedlyexperienced a seismic shift in attitudes about gays in American politics andculture. Our reigning national story isthat a new era of rainbow acceptance is at hand. But dig a bit deeper, and thisseemingly brave …
Sex for Life
From Virginity to Viagra, How Sexuality Changes Throughout Our Lives
Av Laura Carpenter, John DeLamater
Inbunden, 2012
946 kr
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Sexual beliefs, behaviors and identities are interwoven throughout our lives, from childhood to old age. An edited collection of original empirical contributions united through its use of a distinctive, cutting-edge theoretical framework, Sex for Life critically examines sexuality across the entire …
Sex for Life
From Virginity to Viagra, How Sexuality Changes Throughout Our Lives
Av Laura Carpenter, John DeLamater
Häftad, 2012
417 kr
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Sexual beliefs, behaviors and identities are interwoven throughout our lives, from childhood to old age. An edited collection of original empirical contributions united through its use of a distinctive, cutting-edge theoretical framework, Sex for Life critically examines sexuality across the entire …
Sapphistries
A Global History of Love Between Women
Inbunden, 2009
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1265 kr
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A lyrical and meticulously researched mapping of the ways in which diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and geograhy From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with …
Sperm Counts
Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid
Häftad, 2008
361 kr
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2007 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleWinner of the Passing the Torch Award from the Center for Lesbian and Gay StudiesIt has been called sperm, semen, seed, cum, jizz, spunk, gentlemen's relish, and splooge. But however the "tacky, opaque liquid that comes out of the penis" is described, the very …
Field Life
Science in the American West during the Railroad Era
Inbunden, 2016
1059 kr
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Field Life examines the practice of science in the field in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West between the 1860s and the 1910s, when the railroad was the dominant form of long-distance transportation. Grounded in approaches from environmental history and the history of …
Itineraries of Expertise
Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America's Long Cold War
Av Andra B. Chastain, Timothy W. Lorek
Häftad, 2020
552 kr
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Itineraries of Expertise contends that experts and expertise played fundamental roles in the Latin American Cold War. While traditional Cold War histories of the region have examined diplomatic, intelligence, and military operations and more recent studies have probed the cultural dimensions of the …
Gone to Ground
A History of Environment and Infrastructure in Dar es Salaam
Inbunden, 2020
714 kr
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Finalist, 2021 ASA Bethwell A. Ogot Book PrizeGone to Ground is an investigation into the material and political forces that transformed the cityscape of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in the 1970s and early 1980s. It is both the story of a particular city and the history of a global moment of massive …
Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination
Placing Atmospheric Knowledges
Av Martin Mahony, Samuel Randalls
Inbunden, 2020
785 kr
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As global temperatures rise under the forcing hand of humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions, new questions are being asked of how societies make sense of their weather, of the cultural values, which are afforded to climate, and of how environmental futures are imagined, feared, predicted, and remade. …
Transplanting Modernity?
New Histories of Poverty, Development, and Environment
Av Thomas B. Robertson, Jenny Leigh Smith
Inbunden, 2023
855 kr
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In general, “development” denotes movement or growth toward something better in the future. International development—widespread in the decades following World War II—was an effort at purposeful changein landscapes around the world. Contributors to this volume argue that these projects constituted …
