Search Results - "gender"

The theory and practice of grading writing : problems and possibilities

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Using key passages to understand literature, theory and culture by Laga, Barry

Contents: “…Becoming a subject -- Scripting identity -- Doing not describing -- Enjoying the carnivalesque -- Reading as writing -- Simulating the real -- Creating a space between -- Performing gender -- Locating trauma -- Intersecting identities -- Locating alterity -- Poaching texts -- Cultivating rhizomes -- Reconciling double consciousness -- Shocking readers -- Joining power and knowledge -- Revealing the uncanny -- Questioning human/non-human boundaries -- Historicizing and contextualizing -- Signifying through time -- Thinking ecologically -- Recognizing conceptual metaphors -- Representing disability -- Losing and recovering our sovereignty -- Resisting the dominant culture -- Adapting and appropriating -- Describing homosocial relationships -- Defamiliarizing the familiar -- Questioning gender binaries -- Building on another's work : identifying key concepts.…”

Social class in the writings of Mary Hallock Foote by Smith, Christie

Contents: “…Foote's cultural moment -- Literary allusions in Foote's Leadville novels -- Gender roles in the Leadville novels -- Class for the kids -- The ground-swell, the new woman, and social class -- The early correspondence of Mary Hallock Foote and Helena de Kay Gilder.…”

The last gamble : betting on the future in four Rocky Mountain mining towns by Jensen, Katherine, 1946-2010

Contents: “…The drive for the legalization of gambling -- Race, gender, and class in the legacy of the gamble -- Stagnation and decay in retrospect -- Gold rush returns -- Historic preservation, facadism, and the fast buck -- Community transformation in the gamble -- Mining quarters : settler camps to gambler traps -- Legalized gambling as a community development quick fix.…”

Families in context by Starbuck, Gene H.

Contents: “…Defining family variation -- Studying the family -- Families in preindustrial context -- Industrialization and families -- Gender, work, and postindustrial families -- Social class and families -- Race/ethnicity and families -- Forming intimate relationships -- Mate selection -- Varieties of sexual scripts -- Population and family planning -- Negotiating marriages -- Parents and children -- Crisis and violence in families -- Divorce and rescripted families -- Family perspectives, policy, and the future -- Glossary.…”

Modern Kenya : social issues and perspectives

Contents: “…Casey -- Cultural Renaissance through the performing arts in Kenya / Linda Lang-Peralta -- Literary nationalism and its intersections with gender, class, and ethnicity / Julie Barak.…”

Making meaning out of mountains : the political ecology of skiing by Stoddart, Mark C. J., 1974-

Homesteading women : an oral history of Colorado, 1890-1950 by Jones-Eddy, Julie

Downriver : into the future of water in the West by Hansman, Heather

The mosquito : a human history of our deadliest predator by Winegard, Timothy C. (Timothy Charles), 1977-

African American women confront the West : 1600-2000

Contents: “…Hudson -- A voice from the oppressed to the friends of humanity -- Chapter 5: Rights of passage: gendered-rights consciousness and the quest for freedom, San Francisco, California, 1850-1870 / Barbara Y. …”
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Scandinavians in Chicago : the origins of white privilege in modern America by Jackson, Erika K., 1978-