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At the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, a number of African American and Caribbean intellectuals and immigrants of the African Diaspora with all their apprehensions set out in steamships en route and carried with them a certain presence to the metropoleis of Europe and...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
As we play, we step away from stark reality to conjure up new possibilities for the present and our common future. Today, a new cohort of social activists are using it to create social change and reinvent democratic social relations. In contrast to work or routine, play must be free. To the extent...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
This book presents a compelling range of international research on the issues of gender balance and gender bias in education. The chapters draw on cutting edge work from the US, Latin America, the UK, Ireland and Africa, presenting readers with new insights into how educators and students often...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Throughout the world, the threat of HIV/AIDS to women’s health has become the focus of increased concern. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (2004) reports that almost 20 million women and girls are living with HIV globally, accounting for nearly half of all people living with HIV...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality
Making Gender, Making War is a unique interdisciplinary edited collection which explores the social construction of gender, war-making and peacekeeping. It highlights the institutions and processes involved in the making of gender in terms of both men and women, masculinity and femininity. The...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture
This work examines the dramatic changes in America women's comedy performance in the years 1955-1995.The study focuses on the standup of Phyllis Diller and Roseanne andon the character comedy of Lily Tomlin. As the historical arc of women's comedy unfolds, it outlines a change from the traditional...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Religion and Citizenship
The marginalisation of Muslims in India has recently been the subject of heated public debate. In these discussions, however, Muslim women are often either overlooked or treated as a homogenous group with a common set of interests. Focusing on the narratives of women living in a predominantly...
To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge India
Series: South Asian History and Culture
A comprehensive account of the development of nursing in India from 1907–2007, the book critiques conventional explanations for the low status of nursing as attributable to cultural factors, and shifts the focus to the problematic and neglected relationship between the state and professional...
To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge India
Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series
What does it mean to read from elsewhere? Women Writers in Postsocialist China introduces readers to a range and variety of contemporary Chinese women’s writing, which has seen phenomenal growth in recent years. The book addresses the different ways women’s issues are understood in China and the...
To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
This book provides a rich picture of what everyday life was like for women in Soviet times by presenting the life stories of eight women who were born in the interwar period. The life stories are told through interviews with the women who were well educated and well placed in Soviet society, often...
To Be Published August 5th 2013 by Routledge
