Search Results - "gender"
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The theory and practice of grading writing : problems and possibilities
Published: State University of New York Press, 1998Contents:Description: xix, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Book -
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Using key passages to understand literature, theory and culture
Published: Routledge, 2019Contents: “…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.…”Description: vi, 246 pages ; 25 cm.
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Social class in the writings of Mary Hallock Foote
Published: University of Nevada Press, 2009Contents: “…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.…”Description: xvi, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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The last gamble : betting on the future in four Rocky Mountain mining towns
Published: University of Arizona Press, 1998Contents: “…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.…”Description: x, 221 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Families in context
Published: Wadsworth / Thomson Learning, 2002Contents: “…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.…”Description: xxv, 545 pages.
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Modern Kenya : social issues and perspectives
Published: University Press of America, 2000Contents: “…Casey -- Cultural Renaissance through the performing arts in Kenya / Linda Lang-Peralta -- Literary nationalism and its intersections with gender, class, and ethnicity / Julie Barak.…”Description: xxii, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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Making meaning out of mountains : the political ecology of skiing
Published: UBC Press, 2012Description: 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Book -
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Homesteading women : an oral history of Colorado, 1890-1950
Published: Twayne Publishers ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992Description: xiv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Book -
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Downriver : into the future of water in the West
Published: The University of Chicago Press, 2019Description: 221 pages : maps ; 24 cm.Book -
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The mosquito : a human history of our deadliest predator
Published: Dutton, An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019Description: x, 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Book -
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African American women confront the West : 1600-2000
Published: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003Contents: “…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. …”Description: 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Scandinavians in Chicago : the origins of white privilege in modern America
Published: University of Illinois Press, 2019Description: xi, 229 pages ; 23 cm.Book