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The apron-clad, white, stay-at-home mother. Black bus boycotters in Montgomery, Alabama. Ruth Feldstein explains that these two enduring, yet very different, images of the 1950s did not run parallel merely by ironic coincidence, but were in fact...
Are Minneapolis and St. Paul "Twin Cities" in proximity only? How can two cities, spoken of so often in one breath, differ so greatly in their histories and characteristics? Claiming the City traces the contours of St. Paul's "civic identity" to show...
Gathers the opinions of economists and historians, philosophers and sociologists, writers and literary critics from all generations to debate the current issues which face the People's Republic.
The essays in this collection entertain the question of how scholars may reconfigure ""area-based knowledge"" to respond to social sciences and globalization. The authors demonstrate that local knowledge is vital to understanding rapidly changing global patterns.
Tells the story of two signature developments in the 1950s: the decline of the classical Hollywood cinema and the emergence of that strange creature, the American teenager.
Monuments, Statues, and Commemorations of Women examines the heritage messages presented by statuary monuments, focusing on statues and monuments of women and exploring the challenges involved in depicting the key role played by women across different societies.
Although, for years, women were portrayed as one-dimensional beings, Indian graphic novels have come a long way from solely idealizing the Hindu/Vedic past to contemporary digital comics with augmented reality, where individual stories of women are shared and politicized.
A multidisciplinary, multicultural reassessment of gender and sexuality in the Asian Pacific
Fully updated and expanded throughout, this second edition of Contemporary India: The Basics provides readers with a clear and accessible guide through the richness,... Læs mere
This book integrates people management trends, practices, concepts, and principles from an experienced lens, with theoretical and practical aspects of managing the employee experience in the workplace.
This volume assesses the evolving competition between two Asian powers, India and China, for primacy in the South Asian region.