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UNINA9910454455803321 |
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Massad Joseph Andoni <1963-> |
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Desiring Arabs [[electronic resource] /] / Joseph A. Massad |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
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1-281-96591-X |
9786611965914 |
0-226-50960-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (469 p.) |
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Civilization, Arab |
Arabs - Sexual behavior |
Electronic books. |
Arab countries Foreign public opinion, Western |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-441) and indexes. |
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Introduction -- Anxiety in civilization -- Remembrances of desires past -- Re-orienting desire: the gay international and the Arab world -- Sin, crimes, and disease: taxonomies of desires present -- Deviant fictions -- The truth of fictional desires -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Name index -- Subject index. |
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Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward. Rather than focusing exclusively on how these views developed in the West, in Desiring Arabs Joseph A. Massad reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing fr |
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UNINA9910782024603321 |
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Autore |
Holland Dorothy |
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Local democracy under siege [[electronic resource] ] : activism, public interests, and private politics / / Dorothy Holland ... [et al.] |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2007 |
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1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Political participation - North Carolina |
Political anthropology - North Carolina |
Political culture - North Carolina |
Democracy - North Carolina |
North Carolina Politics and government |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-284) and index. |
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Experimenting with democracy -- Landscapes in transition -- Hope, fear, and political autobiography -- Racial framing -- Public goods for private ends : the redirection of schooling -- Local politics and the contemporary American scene -- Imagining local futures : who sets priorities for the present? -- Public business as usual -- Against American plutocracy : democratizing our communities, one by one -- Counter experiments for democracy : activism on new political terrain -- It's up to us : from local politics to a democratic America? |
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2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Award Complete List of Authors:Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, and Enrique G. Murillo, Jr. What is the state of democracy at the turn of the twenty-first century? To answer this question, seven scholars lived for a year in five North Carolina communities. They observed public meetings of all sorts, had informal and formal interviews with people, and listened as people conversed with each other at bus stops and barbershops, soccer games and |
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UNINA9910694301803321 |
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The District of Columbia Tuition Access Grant Program : hearing before the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, on H.R. 1124, to extend the District of Columbia College Access Act of 1999, March 22, 2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (iii, 75 p.) |
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Student aid - Law and legislation - Washington (D.C.) |
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UNINA9910694099103321 |
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Drug importation : would the price be right? : hearing before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, on examining the price of drug reimportation, focusing on implications for United States consumers, pricing, research and development, and innovation, February 17, 2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (iii, 105 p.) : ill |
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Drug reimportation - United States |
Prescription pricing - United States |
Drugs - Purchasing - United States |
Pharmaceutical policy - United States |
Foreign trade regulation - United States |
Drug reimportation |
Drugs - Purchasing |
Foreign trade regulation |
Pharmaceutical policy |
Prescription pricing |
United States |
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