Body panic [[electronic resource] ] : gender, health, and the selling of fitness / / Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs |
Autore | Dworkin Shari L |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.4/613 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WachsFaye Linda |
Soggetto topico |
Body image - United States
Advertising, Magazine - United States Culture - United States Gender identity - United States Physical fitness - United States Exercise - Psychological aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
Considers
Dworkin Faye Linda Shari Wachs bodies body both come cultural fit in-depth mens more offer order over particular pervasive side-by-side this time trend types understanding womens |
ISBN |
0-8147-8525-5
0-8147-2074-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The nature of body panic culture -- What kinds of subjects and objects? Gender, consumer culture, and convergence -- Size matters : male body panic and the third wave "crisis of masculinity" -- "Getting your body back" : postindustrial fit motherhood and the merger of the second (household labor/child care) and third (fitness) shifts -- From Women's sports & fitness to Self : third wave feminism and the consumption conundrum -- Emancipatory potential, social justice, and the consumptive imperative. |
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Dworkin Shari L
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Brooklyn by name [[electronic resource] ] : how the neighborhoods, streets, parks, bridges, and more got their names / / Leonard Benardo and Jennifer Weiss |
Autore | Benardo Leonard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
Disciplina | 974.7/23 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WeissJennifer |
Soggetto topico | Names, Geographical - New York (State) - New York - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
American
Brooklyns Listing alphabetically book captures current diverse history illustrated maps more most names organized photographs place prominent region richly than threads with |
ISBN |
0-8147-3906-7
1-4356-0047-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Northern Brooklyn -- 2. Downtown Brooklyn -- 3. South Brooklyn -- 4. North-Central Brooklyn -- 5. South-Central Brooklyn -- 6. Eastern Brooklyn -- 7. Southwest Brooklyn -- 8. Southeastern and Southern Brooklyn -- Illustration Sources -- Works Consulted -- Index -- About the Authors |
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Benardo Leonard
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Gender myths v. working realities [[electronic resource] ] : using social science to reformulate sexual harassment law / / Theresa M. Beiner |
Autore | Beiner Theresa M |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 344.7301/4133 |
Soggetto topico |
Sexual harassment - Law and legislation - Social aspects - United States
Law and the social sciences - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
Beiner
because behavior behaviors characterized conducive discrimination harassing insight into legal more others people perceive provides scholar science seriously sex sexually social such takes than types valuable what workplaces |
ISBN |
0-8147-3942-3
1-4294-1507-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Making a more realistic assessment of what is sufficiently severe or pervasive to constitute sexual harassment -- The reasonable woman standard : much ado about nothing? -- The conundrum of "unwelcome" sexual harassment -- Conceptualizing sexual harassment as "because of sex" -- Reality bites the Ellerth/Faragher standard for imputing liability to the employers for supervisor sexual harassment -- Making targets whole and deterring defendants -- The new sexual harassment claim. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777605603321 |
Beiner Theresa M
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Getting in the game [[electronic resource] ] : Title IX and the women's sports revolution / / Deborah L. Brake |
Autore | Brake Deborah L |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
Disciplina | 344.73/099 |
Collana | Critical America |
Soggetto topico |
Sex discrimination in sports - Law and legislation - United States
Women athletes - Legal status, laws, etc - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
1972
American Brake Deborah Title analysis assesses athletes challenging circumscribed culture discrimination education enacted extent failures federal first fully gender generally have into landmark laws legal more norms opportunities other people place prohibit requirements society statute statutes succeeded successes that their this understand which womens worked |
ISBN |
0-8147-8979-X
0-8147-8712-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Feminism of Title IX -- 1 Separate Is Equal? -- 2 Integration Rights: Girls Playing with Boys and Boys Playing with Girls -- 3 The Three-Part Test and the Opportunity to Play -- 4 Complicating Equal Participation: What Counts as a Sport, Which Sports Should Women Play, and Which Women Should Play Them? -- 5 Cutting Men’s Opportunities to Help Women? Title IX and Leveling Down -- 6 Treatment as an Equal -- 7 The Dilemma of Difference and the “Problem” of Pregnancy -- 8 Beyond Equal Access: Coaching, and Sexual Harassment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460023703321 |
Brake Deborah L
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Getting in the game [[electronic resource] ] : Title IX and the women's sports revolution / / Deborah L. Brake |
Autore | Brake Deborah L |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
Disciplina | 344.73/099 |
Collana | Critical America |
Soggetto topico |
Sex discrimination in sports - Law and legislation - United States
Women athletes - Legal status, laws, etc - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
1972
American Brake Deborah Title analysis assesses athletes challenging circumscribed culture discrimination education enacted extent failures federal first fully gender generally have into landmark laws legal more norms opportunities other people place prohibit requirements society statute statutes succeeded successes that their this understand which womens worked |
ISBN |
0-8147-8979-X
0-8147-8712-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Feminism of Title IX -- 1 Separate Is Equal? -- 2 Integration Rights: Girls Playing with Boys and Boys Playing with Girls -- 3 The Three-Part Test and the Opportunity to Play -- 4 Complicating Equal Participation: What Counts as a Sport, Which Sports Should Women Play, and Which Women Should Play Them? -- 5 Cutting Men’s Opportunities to Help Women? Title IX and Leveling Down -- 6 Treatment as an Equal -- 7 The Dilemma of Difference and the “Problem” of Pregnancy -- 8 Beyond Equal Access: Coaching, and Sexual Harassment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785183603321 |
Brake Deborah L
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Groundwork [[electronic resource] ] : Local Black Freedom Movements in America |
Autore | Theoharis Jeanne |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : NYU Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
Disciplina | 323.1196/073 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
WoodardKomozi
PayneCharles M |
Soggetto topico |
African American civil rights workers -- Biography
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century United States -- History, Local United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century - United States African American civil rights workers - History - 20th century Civil rights movements |
Soggetto non controllato |
Groundwork
black comprehensive different doing enabled examine forges freedom local more movement movements previous readers several together vision volume |
ISBN | 0-8147-8439-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; List of Abbreviations; Foreword by Charles Payne; Introduction; 1. "They Told Us Our Kids Were Stupid"; 2. "Drive Awhile for Freedom"; 3. Message from the Grassroots; 4. Gloria Richardson and the Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland; 5. We've Come a Long Way; 6. Organizing for More Than the Vote; 7. "God's Appointed Savior"; 8. Local Women and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi; 9. The Stirrings of the Modern Civil Rights Movement in Cincinnati, Ohio,; 10. "We Cannot Wait for Understanding to Come to Us"; 11. "Not a Color, but an Attitude"; 12. Practical Internationalists
13. Inside the Panther Revolution About the Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782061403321 |
Theoharis Jeanne
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International adoption [[electronic resource] ] : global inequalities and the circulation of children / / edited by Diana Marre and Laura Briggs |
Autore | Briggs Laura |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.734 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MarreDiana
BriggsLaura <1964-> |
Soggetto topico |
Intercountry adoption
Adoption |
Soggetto non controllato |
adoption
argument children circulating complex fostering including informal kinship more stranger transnational view |
ISBN |
0-8147-6447-9
0-8147-9590-0 1-4416-1573-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Movement of Children for International Adoption -- 2 International Adoption: Lessons from Hawai’i -- 3 The Social Temporalities of Adoption and the Limits of Plenary Adoption -- 4 The Desire for Parenthood among Lesbians and Gay Men -- 5 Refiguring Kinship in the Space of Adoption -- 6 The Transnational Adoption of a Related Child in Québec, Canada -- 7 Baby-Bearing Storks -- 8 Transnational Connections and Dissenting Views -- 9 International Adoption in Russia -- 10 The Medicalization of Adoption in and from Peru -- 11 Children, Individuality, Family -- 12 “We Do Not Have Immigrant Children at Th is School, We Just Have Children Adopted from Abroad” -- 13 Routes to the Roots -- 14 Return Journeys and the Search for Roots -- 15 Mothers for Others -- 16 Seeking Sisters -- About the Contributors -- Index |
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Briggs Laura
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Law on display [[electronic resource] ] : the digital transformation of legal persuasion and judgment / / Neal Feigenson and Christina Spiesel |
Autore | Feigenson Neal |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (350 p.) |
Disciplina | 347.73/64 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SpieselChristina |
Collana | Ex Machina: Law, Technology, and Society |
Soggetto topico |
Electronic discovery (Law) - United States
Electronic records - Law and legislation - United States Electronic evidence - Law and legislation - United States Evidence, Documentary - United States Video tapes in courtroom proceedings - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
American
Christina Feigenson Neal Spiesel accelerated analysis both change comprehensive culture dependent developing driven environment explain from further have how images largely law legal more moved practice rapidly survey technologies this transforming visual when words-only |
ISBN |
0-8147-2856-1
1-4416-3157-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- 1. The Digital Visual Revolution -- 2. The Rhetoric of the Real -- 3. Teaching the Case -- 4. Picturing Scientific Evidence -- 5. Multimedia Arguments -- 6. Into the Screen -- 7. Ethics and Justice in the Digital Visual Age -- Notes -- Index -- About the Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455114503321 |
Feigenson Neal
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Law on display [[electronic resource] ] : the digital transformation of legal persuasion and judgment / / Neal Feigenson and Christina Spiesel |
Autore | Feigenson Neal |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (350 p.) |
Disciplina | 347.73/64 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SpieselChristina |
Collana | Ex Machina: Law, Technology, and Society |
Soggetto topico |
Electronic discovery (Law) - United States
Electronic records - Law and legislation - United States Electronic evidence - Law and legislation - United States Evidence, Documentary - United States Video tapes in courtroom proceedings - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
American
Christina Feigenson Neal Spiesel accelerated analysis both change comprehensive culture dependent developing driven environment explain from further have how images largely law legal more moved practice rapidly survey technologies this transforming visual when words-only |
ISBN |
0-8147-2856-1
1-4416-3157-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- 1. The Digital Visual Revolution -- 2. The Rhetoric of the Real -- 3. Teaching the Case -- 4. Picturing Scientific Evidence -- 5. Multimedia Arguments -- 6. Into the Screen -- 7. Ethics and Justice in the Digital Visual Age -- Notes -- Index -- About the Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778529603321 |
Feigenson Neal
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Local democracy under siege [[electronic resource] ] : activism, public interests, and private politics / / Dorothy Holland ... [et al.] |
Autore | Holland Dorothy |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
Disciplina | 320.809756 |
Altri autori (Persone) | HollandDorothy C |
Soggetto topico |
Political participation - North Carolina
Political anthropology - North Carolina Political culture - North Carolina Democracy - North Carolina |
Soggetto non controllato |
This
active book changes decades democratic difficult economic have illustrates last made making more others participation possible routes social some three while |
ISBN | 0-8147-9088-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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? |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782024603321 |
Holland Dorothy
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