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(P/B) EMPIRE AND IMPERIALISM (1842775774)

(P/B) ANTHROPOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT

(P/B) BEYOND US HEGEMONY
In this major new work - the result of a lifetime of intellectual engagement - one of the developing world's most famous thinkers reflects on the times we live in. He argues that US hegemony has reached a dangerous new level under George Bush Jr, and that the US President's hubristic militarism will both lead to a never-ending cycle of wars and block all hopes of social and democratic progress, not just in developing countries, but in the North as well. Samir Amin also rejects the highly ideological notion that the current form of neoliber...
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(P/B) GLOBAL CITIZENS
The dawn of the twenty-first century has been accompanied by an upsurge of anti-capitalist campaigning, challenging the very basis of the New World Economic order. Dramatic events such as the protests from Seattle to Genoa, have captured media headlines. But media headlines leave key questions unanswered, questions about the ultimate significance of the challenges posed by global social movements and the development of civil society, both South and North. This book sets out to explore the lessons from these experiences of social mobilisati...
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(P/B) THE THREE WAVES OF GLOBALIZATION

(P/B) THE DECOLONIZATION OF IMAGINATION

(P/B) WOMEN'S STUDIES AND CULTURE
This introduction to feminist cultural studies provides a synthesis of the feminist critique of culture. It opens with an exploration of feminist academic practice and an overview of the full range of feminist theory. It includes full coverage of the equality/difference debate and the post-modern challenge to that debate. Chapters then examine the impact of women's studies on linguistics; literary theory; popular culture; history; film theory; art history; theatre studies and musicology; psychoanalysis; black criticism and semiotics. (From...
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(P/B) THE TRAFFIC IN WOMEN - HUMAN REALITIES

(P/B) THE GLOBAL WOMEN'S MOVEMENT (1842770179)

(P/B) RADICALLY SPEAKING - FEMINISM RECLAIMED

(P/B) FEMALE WELL BEING
This global survey starts from the assumption that the significant transformations in women's lives deserve to be fully documented and interpreted. Janet Mancini Billson and Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban tackle the complexities of social change by using data from countries in every world region to illustrate the most critical challenges that women faced during the last century - challenges that are also likely to shape the 21st century. Global knowledge and feminism dovetailed in the 20th century, fed by international air travel, telecommunication...
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(P/B) AGAINST EMPIRE
In Against Empire, Zillah Eisenstein extends her critique of neoliberal globalization and its capture of democratic possibilities. Faced with an aggressive American empire hostage to ideological extremism and violently promoting the narrowest of its interests around the globe, Eisenstein urgently looks to a global anti-war movement to counter U.S. power. Looking beyond the distortions of mainstream history, Eisenstein detects the silencing of racialized, sex/gendered and classed ways of seeing. Against Empire insists that 'the' so-called ...
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(P/B) APARTHEID ISRAEL

(P/B) GLOBALIZATION UNMASKED

(P/B) DOING WOMEN'S STUDIES
With the expansion of the EU in 2004 and its inclusion now of 25 European countries, the movement of workers across the Continent will affect the employment opportunities of women. But as this up-to-date investigation across nine countries shows, there remain significant differences amongst specific European countries regarding women's education and employment opportunities. Taking 1945 as its historical starting point, this sociological study, based on some 900 questionnaire responses and more than 300 in-depth interviews, explores the co...
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(P/B) FROM EMPIRE TO REPUBLIC (1842775278)

(P/B) INCLUSIVE CITIZENSHIP
People's understandings of what it means to be a citizen go to the heart of the various meanings of personal and national identity, political and electoral participation, and rights. The contributors to this book seek to explore the difficult questions inherent in the notion of citizenship from various angles. They look at citizenship and rights, citizenship and identity, citizenship and political struggle, and the policy implications of substantive notions of citizenship. They illustrate the various ways in which people are excluded from ...
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(P/B) ISLAM AND LIBERTY - THE HISTORICAL MISUNDERSTANDING

(P/B) EUROPE AND THE ARAB WORLD