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  • Gendered Spaces

    by Daphne Spain ...
    In hundreds of businesses, secretaries — usually women — do clerical work in “open floor” settings while managers — usually men — work and make decisions behind closed doors. According to Daphne Spain, this arrangement is but one example of the ways in which physical segregation has reinforced women’s inequality. In this important new book, Spain shows how the physical and symbolic barriers that ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Constructive Feminism

    Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in the American City

    by Daphne Spain ...
    In Constructive Feminism**, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's second wave, a social movement dedicated to reconfiguring power relations between women and men.** Placing the women's movement of the 1970s in the context of other social movements that have changed the use of urban space, Spain argues that reform feminists used the legal system to ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces

    Literary and Visual Narratives of the New Millennium

    Edited by Maria C. DiFrancesco, Debra J. Ochoa ...
    Series series Hispanic Urban Studies
    This edited collection examines the synergistic relationship between gender and urban space in post-millennium Spain. Despite the social progress Spain has made extending equal rights to all citizens, particularly in the wake of the Franco regime and radically liberating Transición, the fact remains that not all subjects—particularly, women, immigrants, and queers—possess equal autonomy. The book ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • Invitation to Law & Society

    An Introduction to the Study of Real Law

    by Kitty Calavita ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    Research and real-life examples that "lucidly connect some of the divisive social issues confronting us today to that thing we call 'the law'" ( Law and Politics Book Review).Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ethnicity, Inc.

    by John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity?Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Stories of Culture and Place

    An Introduction to Anthropology, Second Edition

    by Michael G. Kenny, Kirsten Smillie ...
    Stories of Culture and Place makes use of one of anthropology's most enduring elements—storytelling—to introduce students to the excitement of the discipline. The authors invite students to think of anthropology as a series of stories that emerge from cultural encounters in particular times and places. References to classic and contemporary ethnographic examples—from Coming of Age in Samoa to ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition

    Edited by Bruce Burgett, Glenn Hendler ...
    Series Book 11 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories for American Studies and Cultural Studies in an updated editionSince its initial publication, scholars and students alike have turned to Keywords for American Cultural Studies as an invaluable resource for understanding key terms and debates in the fields of American studies and cultural studies. As scholarship has continued to ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • No Study Without Struggle

    Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education

    by Leigh Patel ...
    Examines how student protest against structural inequalities on campus pushes academic institutions to reckon with their legacy built on slavery and stolen Indigenous landsUsing campus social justice movements as an entry point, Leigh Patel shows how the struggles in higher education often directly challenged the tension between narratives of education as a pathway to improvement and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • History and Power in the Study of Law

    New Directions in Legal Anthropology

    Edited by June Starr, Jane F. Collier ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    Building on earlier work in the anthropology of law and taking a critical stance toward it, June Starr and Jane F. Collier ask, "Should social anthropologists continue to isolate the 'legal' as a separate field of study?" To answer this question, they confront critics of legal anthropology who suggest that the subfield is dying and advocate a reintegration of legal anthropology into a renewed ... Read more

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  • Institutions, Property Rights, and Economic Growth

    The Legacy of Douglass North

    Edited by Sebastian Galiani, Itai Sened ...
    This volume showcases the impact of the work of Douglass North, winner of the Nobel Prize and father of the field of new institutional economics. Leading scholars contribute to a substantive discussion that best illustrates the broad reach and depth of Professor North's work. The volume speaks concisely about his legacy across multiple social sciences disciplines, specifically on scholarship ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Our History Has Always Been Contraband

    In Defense of Black Studies

    Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    "The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We’re ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win." —Colin KaepernickSince its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been Contraband was born out of an ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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  • Territories of Poverty

    Rethinking North and South

    by Ananya Roy, Emma Shaw Crane, Jamie Peck, Bill Maurer, Rebecca Peters, Christina Gossman, Alyosha Goldstein, Nik Theodore, Erica Kohl-Arenas0, Hiba Bou Akar1, Stephanie Ullrich2, Luis Flores3, Anh-Thi Le4, Ju Hui Judy Han5, Vincanne Adams6, Stuart Schrader7, Loïc Wacquant8, Teddy Cruz9, Akhil Gupta0, Somaya Abdelgany1, Michael Katz2 ...
    Series Book 24 - Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
    Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD