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Why gender matters in Southeast Asian politics

Playboy and the making of the good life in modern America by Fraterrigo, Elizabeth

Contents: “…"We aren't a 'family magazine'": sex, gender, and the family ideal in postwar America -- "Work hard and play hard, too": modern living and the morality of the Playboy life -- Pads and penthouses: Playboy's urban answer to suburbanization -- The ideal (play)mate: gender, the workplace, and the single girl -- "For us it is the good life": the ascendant Playboy life -- "Casualties of the lifestyle revolution": Playboy, the permissive society and women's liberation -- Epilogue: America's playboy culture.…”

The fourth revolution : transformations in American society from the sixties to the present by Daniels, Robert V. (Robert Vincent), 1926-2010

Contents: “…Introduction : a new kind of revolution -- The terms of revolutionary debate -- A revolutionary world -- Three revolutions in America -- The Great Society and the trajectory of the fourth revolution -- The racial revolution -- The revolution of youth -- The gender revolution -- Revolution and reaction -- Deepening of the revolution -- Extensions of the revolution -- The fourth revolution at the millennium -- A fifth revolution?…”
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America transformed : sixty years of revolutionary change, 1941-2001 by Abrams, Richard M.

Contents: “…"The American century" -- Before the revolutions -- The challenge of power -- The inflation of moral possibilities -- The generational chasm -- Affluence -- From isolation to international hegemonic power -- The rise of the military in American society -- The reorganization of American business -- The revolution in racial relations -- The revolution in gender-based roles -- Revolution in sexual behavior -- The demise of privacy -- Liberalism: ascension and declension -- The liberal democratic coalition -- The failure syndrome -- The rise of the new left and the birth of neoconservatism -- Right-wing ascendancy -- The Reagan revolution -- Summary -- "The new American century".…”
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Asian politics in development : essays in honour of Gordon White by Gordon White Memorial Conference Institute of Development Studies

Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Social Politics, the State, Policy, Comparison: Gordon White's Contribution to China Studies; Gordon White and Development Studies: An Appreciation; Reform and the Role of the State in China; Managing Central-Local Relations During Socialist Marketisation: A Changing Role for the Chinese Communist Party; Treasuring the Word: Mao, Depoliticisation and the Material Present; State Enterprise Reform and Gender: One Step Backwards for Women?; Corporatist Capitalism: The Politics of Accumulation in South India.…”
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Japan : the paradox of harmony by Hirata, Keiko

Making Thatcher's Britain

New poverty studies : the ethnography of power, politics, and impoverished people in the United States

Contents: “…Households headed by women : the politics of class, race and gender / Leith mullings (reprint from Conceiving the new world order. …”
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Wanted women : an American obsession in the reign of J. Edgar Hoover by Strunk, Mary Elizabeth

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