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Cultural Conundrums Gender, Race, Nation, and the Making of Caribbean Cultural Politics Cultural Conundrums investigates the passions of race, gender, and national identity that make culture a continually embattled public sphere in the Anglophone Caribbean today. Academics, journalists, and ordinary citizens have weighed in on the ideological meanings to be found in the minutiae of cultural life, from the use of skin-bleaching agents in the beauty rituals of working-class Jamaican women to the rise of sexually suggestive costumes in Trinidad's Carnival. Natasha Barnes traces the use of cultural arguments in the making of Caribbean modernity, looking at the cultural performances of the Anglophone Caribbean-- cricket, carnival, dancehall, calypso, and beauty pageants-- and their major literary portrayals. Barnes historicizes the problematic linkage of culture and nation to argue that Caribbean anticolonialism has given expressive culture a critical place in the region's identity politics. Her provocative readings of foundational thinkers C. L. R. James and Sylvia Winters will engender discussion and debate among the Caribbean intellectual community. This impressively interdisciplinary study will make important contributions to the fields of Afro-diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, literary studies, performance studies, and sociology." Postcolonial cultural criticism is celebrated for its mastery of generalization and condemned for its inability to historicize. "Cultural Conundrums" is unique in its ability to find a middle ground. It touches on some of the most important and contentious issues in the field. This book will account for why it was in those small islands that what we now call cultural studies wasinvented." --Simon Gikandi, Princeton University Natasha Barnes is Associate Professor of African American Studies and English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. |
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Paperback, Women in Management: Trends, Issues, and Challenges in Managerial Diversity Presents a comprehensive survey of current research on women in management in the United States, and demonstrates the multiplicity of theoretical approaches being adopted in the study of women managers. --Work, Employment & Society This book makes a substantial contribution to both academic and practitioner audiences. Its 11 chapters and accompanying commentaries present a compendium of strong scholarly works that apply critical analysis to diverse aspects of women in management. . . . Women in Management ambitiously addresses a wide range of subject matter and represents an advance in management as it links together many related but distinct gender issues. . . . One of the contributions of this work is its conceptual clarity and ability to help us organize our thoughts with regard to this complex and many-faceted subject. . . . The relevance of the topics explored are unquestionable. . . . The research is thorough and the emphasis on theory extensive. And, finally, clear direction is given for future wor... |
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Cultural Conundrums Gender, Race, Nation, and the Making of Caribbean Cultural Politics Cultural Conundrums investigates the passions of race, gender, and national identity that make culture a continually embattled public sphere in the Anglophone Caribbean today. Academics, journalists, and ordinary citizens have weighed in on the ideological meanings to be found in the minutiae of cultural life, from the use of skin-bleaching agents in the beauty rituals of working-class Jamaican women to the rise of sexually suggestive costumes in Trinidad’ s Carnival. Natasha Barnes traces the use of cultural arguments in the making of Caribbean modernity, looking at the cultural performances of the Anglophone Caribbean— cricket, carnival, dancehall, calypso, and beauty pageants— and their major literary portrayals. Barnes historicizes the problematic linkage of culture and nation to argue that Caribbean anticolonialism has given expressive culture a critical place in the region’ s identity politics. Her provocative readings of foundational thinkers C. L. R. James and Sylvia Winters will engender discussion and debate among the Caribbean intellectual community. This impressively interdisciplinary study will make important contributions to the fields of Afro-diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, literary studies, performance studies, and sociology.“ Postcolonial cultural criticism is celebrated for its mastery of generalization and condemned for its inability to historicize. "Cultural Conundrums" is unique in its ability to find a middle ground. It touches on some of the most important and contentious issues in the field. This book will account for why it was in those small islands that what we now call cultural studies wasinvented.” --Simon Gikandi, Princeton University Natasha Barnes is Associate Professor of African American Studies and English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. |
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Lesbian Families' Challenges and Means of Resiliency Implications for Feminist Family Therapy An inside look at the unique challenges of the lesbian experienceLesbian Families' Challenges and Means of Resiliency: Implications for Feminist Family Therapy is a unique collection of interdisciplinary feminist examinations of the resiliency of lesbian couples and families. Leading feminist researchers and clinicians discuss parenting within lesbian families, with a focus on personal resiliency. These thought-provoking and insightful articles address the challenges of having and raising children in a society that struggles to accept alternative family structures.Lesbian Families' Challenges and Means of Resiliency examines a wide range of issues facing lesbian couples, with a special focus on parenting and couple violence. The book's contributors examine the unique challenges of lesbian and gay parenting; adversities facing lesbian parents and the coping methods they employ; violence among lesbian couples and the lesbian community's response to domestic violence; and the application of feminist theory to validate, strengthen, and promote resiliency in lesbian couples. The book also includes interviews with single or partnered lesbians who had children through adoption, artificial insemination, or a previous relationship.Topics examined in Lesbian Families' Challenges and Means of Resiliency include: parenting artificial insemination lesbian family therapy family law couple violence lesbian community feminist research feminist couple therapy and much moreLesbian Families' Challenges and Means of Resiliency is a vital professional aid for psychotherapists, family therapists, psychologists, social workers, and counselors. It's an equally valuable resource for academics working in familystudies, women's studies, queer studies, gender studies, and sociology. |
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Lesbian Families' Challenges and Means of Resiliency Implications for Feminist Family Therapy An inside look at the unique challenges of the lesbian experienceLesbian Families' Challenges and Means of Resiliency: Implications for Feminist Family Therapy is a unique collection of interdisciplinary feminist examinations of the resiliency of lesbian couples and families. Leading feminist researchers and clinicians discuss parenting within lesbian families, with a focus on personal resiliency. These thought-provoking and insightful articles address the challenges of having and raising children in a society that struggles to accept alternative family structures.Lesbian Families' Challenges and Means of Resiliency examines a wide range of issues facing lesbian couples, with a special focus on parenting and couple violence. The book's contributors examine the unique challenges of lesbian and gay parenting; adversities facing lesbian parents and the coping methods they employ; violence among lesbian couples and the lesbian community's response to domestic violence; and the application of feminist theory to validate, strengthen, and promote resiliency in lesbian couples. The book also includes interviews with single or partnered lesbians who had children through adoption, artificial insemination, or a previous relationship.Topics examined in Lesbian Families' Challenges and Means of Resiliency include: parenting artificial insemination lesbian family therapy family law couple violence lesbian community feminist research feminist couple therapy and much moreLesbian Families' Challenges and Means of Resiliency is a vital professional aid for psychotherapists, family therapists, psychologists, social workers, and counselors. It's an equally valuable resource for academics working in familystudies, women's studies, queer studies, gender studies, and sociology. |
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Studying Religion An Introduction Through Cases Through the use of thought-provoking case studies, summaries, and review questions, this introductory level text shows students how to engage in the "academic" study of religion and helps instructors address some of the typical problems they encounter when introducing students to the study of religion. Kessler guides students through an unbiased and varied study of religious beliefs and practices such as sacred power, myths and rituals, religious art, the problem of evil, and the relationship between religion and morality. The text also addresses issues of gender and religious institutionalization.. |
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Exploring Christian Spirituality Essays in Honor of Sandra M. Schneiders, IHM Sandra Schneiders commands respect as one of the most significant and influential figures in the emergence of the study of Christian spirituality as an academic discipline, as the focused and disciplined exploration of religious experience. This book honors her contributions to the field by addressing issues that are emerging at the creative "edges" of the discipline. In this volume, colleagues and students of Dr. Schneiders and other collaborators in the academic discipline of Christian spirituality examine crucial issues from their various disciplinary and methodological perspectives. Questions of methodology address the status of spirituality as a discipline, interdisciplinarity, and self-implication. Other essays explore the "edges" of Christian spirituality and biblical spirituality, gender studies, the natural sciences, nature writing, the social sciences, and interfaith issues. This collection of essays will provoke students and scholars of Christian spirituality, as well as practitioners, to continue critically thinking, discussing, writing, and practicing it. |
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From Moon Goddesses to Virgins The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire This is a bold, fascinating, often highly original contribution to the field of Maya studies, and Maya colonial ethnohistory in particular.... Because of its subject matter, it will appeal to both specialists in Latin American history and academic and non-academic readers interested in the study of sexuality. — Susan Kellogg, Associate Professor of History, University of Houston For the preconquest Maya, sexuality was a part of ritual discourse and performance, and all sex acts were understood in terms of their power to create, maintain, and destroy society. As postconquest Maya adapted to life under colonial rule, they neither fully abandoned these views nor completely adopted the formulation of sexuality prescribed by Spanish Catholicism. Instead, they evolved hybridized notions of sexual desire, represented in the figure of the Virgin Mary as a sexual goddess, whose sex acts embodied both creative and destructive components. This highly innovative book decodes the process through which this colonization of Yucatan Maya sexual desire occurred. Pete Sigal frames the discussion around a series of texts, including the Books of Chilam Balam and the Ritual of the Bacabs, that were written by seventeenth and eighteenth century Maya nobles to elucidate the history, religion, and philosophy of the Yucatecan Maya communities. Drawing on the insights of philology, discourse analysis, and deconstruction, he analyzes the sexual fantasies, fears, and desires that are presented, often unintentionally, in the "margins" of these texts and shows how they illuminate issues of colonialism, power, ritual, and gender. |
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Excavating Women A History of Women in European Archaeology Archaeologists are increasingly aware of issues of gender when studying past societies; women are becoming better represented within the discipline and are attaining top academic posts. Until now, however, there has been no study undertaken of the history of women in European archaeology and their contribution to the development of the discipline. From the earliest days of archaeology as a discipline to the present, this book examines women's increased involvement in archaeological work, and why many women found it more acceptable to work outside of their native lands. This critical assessment of women in archaeology reveals how selective the archaeological world has been in recognizing the contributions of those who have shaped its discipline, and how it has been particularly inclined to ignore the achievements of women archaeologists. "Excavating Women" is essential reading for all students, teachers and researchers in archaeology who are interested in the history of their discipline. |
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Hardcover, Fathers and Mothers: Dilemmas of the Work-Life Balance A Comparative Study in Four European Countries This book presents a comparative analysis of the dilemmas faced by working parents with young children in four European countries - France, Italy, Ireland and Denmark - each of which represents a different experience of the evolving gender role process. It was the aim of the study to identify the key issues concerning the reconciliation of work and family roles, with particular emphasis on examining the barriers to men s greater involvement in domestic and family activities. A major purpose of the study was to develop new social indicators to measure issues of work life balance, which could be utilised in other national and cross-national studies. The book provides an overview of the latest research findings in the four countries, as well as a comparison and synthesis of the situations in these countries. It then presents the results of a survey carried out simultaneously in France, Italy, Denmark and Ireland and a comparative analysis of people s dilemmas and coping strategies in these countries. The res... |
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Can I transfer as a junior at stanford university?
Q. The following are my stats: Current university: PSU (Penn state) Major:International relations GPA-3.89 Actives: Allies To help peers by dispelling myths and stereotypes, increasing awareness, and providing support for and about homosexual, bisexual, and trans gender orientation. Black and Latino Student Association (BALA) To help educate peers of all nationalities on social, political and cultural issues, as well as to build academic growth and responsibilities among Black nd Latino students. International Quest Club Studies and discusses other countries and cultures and raises money for an annual international trip. Alternative Spring Break To constructively impact lives through direct service, education, reflection, and cultural… [cont.]
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A. Yes; Stanford does accept transfer students: Your stats look remarkable, but only a Stanford official can give you more insight on the admissions process.
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Q. The following are my stats: Current university: PSU (Penn state) Major:International relations GPA-3.89 Actives: Allies To help peers by dispelling myths and stereotypes, increasing awareness, and providing support for and about homosexual, bisexual, and trans gender orientation. Black and Latino Student Association (BALA) To help educate peers of all nationalities on social, political and cultural issues, as well as to build academic growth and responsibilities among Black nd Latino students. International Quest Club Studies and discusses other countries and cultures and raises money for an annual international trip. Alternative Spring Break To constructively impact lives through direct service, education, reflection, and cultural… [cont.]
Asked by Rich H - Sun Nov 23 17:01:45 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments
A. Yes; Stanford does accept transfer students: Your stats look remarkable, but only a Stanford official can give you more insight on the admissions process.
Answered by kismet - Sun Nov 23 17:09:33 2008
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