1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911099105803321

Autore

Reumann Miriam G. <1966->

Titolo

American sexual character : sex, gender, and national identity in the Kinsey reports / / Miriam G. Reumann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005

ISBN

9786612759215

9781282759213

1282759213

9780520930049

0520930045

9781598755183

1598755188

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Disciplina

306.7/0973

Soggetti

Sex - United States

Gender identity - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-286) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. "Sexual Order In Our Nation" American Sexuality And National Character In The Postwar United States -- Two. "A Missing Sense Of Maleness" Male Heterosexuality, Sexual Behavior In The Human Male, And The Crisis Of American Masculinity -- Three. "Much The Same Desires As Men" Sexual Behavior In The Human Female And The "American Woman" -- Four. "I'M A Much Better Citizen Than If I Were Single" Remaking Postwar Marriage And Reconfiguring Marital Sexuality -- Five. "An Age Of Sexual Ambiguity" Homosexuality And National Character In The Postwar United States -- Epilogue. "All America Is One Big Orgone Box" American Sexual Character Revisited -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

When Alfred Kinsey's massive studies Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female appeared in 1948 and 1953, their detailed data spurred an unprecedented public discussion of the nation's sexual practices and ideologies. As they debated what



behaviors were normal or average, abnormal or deviant, Cold War Americans also celebrated and scrutinized the state of their nation, relating apparent changes in sexuality to shifts in its political structure, economy, and people. American Sexual Character employs the studies and the myriad responses they evoked to examine national debates about sexuality, gender, and Americanness after World War II. Focusing on the mutual construction of postwar ideas about national identity and sexual life, this wide-ranging, shrewd, and lively analysis explores the many uses to which these sex surveys were put at a time of extreme anxiety about sexual behavior and its effects on the nation. Looking at real and perceived changes in masculinity, female sexuality, marriage, and homosexuality, Miriam G. Reumann develops the notion of "American sexual character," sexual patterns and attitudes that were understood to be uniquely American and to reflect contemporary transformations in politics, social life, gender roles, and culture. She considers how apparent shifts in sexual behavior shaped the nation's workplaces, homes, and families, and how these might be linked to racial and class differences.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911115443003321

Titolo

Quante Americhe? : Europei nel Nuovo Mondo prima di Colombo fra storia e invenzione / / a cura di Michael Micci e Federica Favero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano - Italy, : Ledizioni, giugno 2025

Edizione

[Prima edizione.]

Descrizione fisica

226 pages

Disciplina

970

809

305

917

Soggetti

America Discovery and exploration Pre-Columbian

North America Discovery and exploration European

America Discovery and exploration Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Collected essays.



486951 characters

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Tra le pagine di una cronaca milanese del Trecento è sepolto un dettaglio apparentemente marginale: Galvano Fiamma, frate domenicano, menziona una terra sconosciuta chiamata "Marckalada", situata oltre la Groenlandia. Nessun viaggio oltremare, nessuna mappa: eppure, in quel nome si cela un'eco delle saghe islandesi che raccontano l'approdo di navigatori nordeuropei sulle coste americane, quasi cinquecento anni prima di Cristoforo Colombo.

Quante Americhe? prende le mosse da questa attestazione per esplorare la questione della presenza europea nel nuovo continente prima della sua convenzionale "scoperta" nel 1492. Mettendo in dialogo fonti latine e norrene, reperti archeologici, falsi documentari e riscritture contemporanee, il volume indaga il rapporto sempre problematico fra memoria e invenzione, fra evento storico, fonte documentaria e interpretazione. Ne affiora l'immagine di un'America molteplice: luogo reale e immaginato, raccontato e rievocato, secondo visioni e necessità storiche mutevoli. [Testo dell'editore]



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911149103703321

Autore

Aydın Burcu

Titolo

Banking Structure and Credit Growth in Central and Eastern European Countries / / Burcu Aydin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

ISBN

9786612841668

9781462382026

1462382029

9781452795492

1452795495

9781451870732

1451870736

9781282841666

1282841661

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (46 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/215

Disciplina

332.109437

Soggetti

Banks and banking - Europe, Central - Econometric models

Banks and banking - Europe, Eastern - Econometric models

Credit - Europe, Central - Econometric models

Bank credit

Banking

Banks and Banking

Banks and banking

Banks and banking, Foreign

Banks

Credit

Depository Institutions

Foreign banks

Micro Finance Institutions

Monetary economics

Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General

Money and Monetary Policy

Mortgages

State-owned banks

Financial institutions

Financial services



Money

Czech Republic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; Tables; 1: Market Share of Assets of Foreign-Owned Banks in the CEE Countries; II. The Impact of Foreign Bank Ownership; A. Introduction; Figures; 1: Ownership Structure by Regions; B. Data; C. Methodology; D. Concerns about Multicollinearity; E. Results; F. Robustness: Impact of Real Exchange Rate Jumps on the Value of Credit Growth; G. Robustness: Concerns about Endogeneity of the Foreign Ownership Variable; III. The Role of Foreign Parent Banks; A. Introduction; B. Data for Foreign Owned CEE Banks; C. Empirical Model; D. Results

E. Robustness: Do Parent Banks Have Different Managerial Strategies?IV. Conclusion; Appendix; A. Data Sources; 2: Coverage of Dataset as a Percent of Total Banking Assets of each CEE Country; B. Data Analysis; Summary Statistics for CEE Banks; Summary Statistics for CEE Subsidiaries and their Parent Banks; References; 3: Determinants of Bank Credit Growth in the CEE countries; 4: Determinants of Bank Credit Growth in the CEE countries; 5: Replicate of Table 3, Inflation Adjusted Credit Growth as the Dependent Variable

6: Replicate of Table 4, Inflation Adjusted Credit Growth as the Dependent Variable7: Panel Data Probit Estimation Results for Foreign Ownership Variable; 8: Hausman Specification Test for Foreign Ownership Dummy; 9: List of Parent Banks and their Affiliated Companies; 10: Determinants of Bank Credit Growth in the Foreign-Owned CEE Subsidiaries; 11: Determinants of Bank Credit Growth in the Foreign-Owned CEE Subsidiaries; 12: FE Regression Results for Cross-Sectional Varying Coefficients; 2: Credit Growth across Bank Ownership Types in the CEE Countries

13: Test of Different Coefficient Estimates across Affiliated Banks14: Summary Statistics for the CEE Countries; 15: Summary Statistics for Parent Banks and their CEE Subsidiaries

Sommario/riassunto

Recent developments have increased questions about vulnerabilities in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEE) that are experiencing credit booms. This paper analyzes the role of foreign-owned banks in these credit booms. The results show that the CEE countries depend on foreign banks, and these foreign banks depend on interbank funding. Lending by foreign banks seems driven by economic growth and interest rate margins. This lending appears independent of economic but not financial conditions in the foreign bank's home country.