Rosemary Marangoly George

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A cutting-edge collection of essays explores the ways in which race, nationhood, global economics, gender, sexuality, and class shape domesticity in varied geographical-historical locations. Together, these essays invite us to confront the gaps and erasures in most academic and mainstream accounts of domesticity and to recognize domesticity as a manifestation of larger influences.

Recycling Domesticity

Burning Down The House

Jane Jaquette

The second edition of this pioneering text documents and assesses the remarkable wave of women’s political participation in Latin America over the past two decades. Focusing first on the 1980s, it examines the origins, evolution, and goals of women’s organizations as they worked together to end authoritarian rule. Next it shows how women’s groups have adapted in the 1990s to the day-to-day realities of democratic politics, moving from the often heady challenge of mobilizing opposition to the very different task of working with parties and government bureaucracies in order to maintain and implement their agendas. Seven case studies vividly illustrate the variety of women’s movements in the region and record their political successes and failures.

Participation And Democracy, Second Edition

The Women's Movement In Latin America

Ronald Levant

William Pollack

By synthesizing the latest research, clinical experience, and major theoretical perspectives on men and by figuring in cultural, class, and sexual orientation differences, the authors brilliantly illuminate the many variations of male behavior.

A New Psychology Of Men

Shirley R. Steinberg

Joe Kincheloe

A collection of 14 essays clarifies for parents, educators, media and culture scholars, and general readers some of the icons that marketing and advertising executives use to shape the values and consciousness of children. They argue that while the corporations are ostensibly only engaged in the perfectly legitimate business of emptying parents' pockets through the judgement of their kids, they are also reshaping the experience of childhood itself into a prefabricated product for consumption. Among the targets are Disney movies, Sesame Street, Barney, Beavis and Butt- Head, sports, trading cards and McDonald's. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $19.50. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Corporate Construction Of Childhood

Kinderculture

Laszlo Kurti

Juliet Langman

This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the dynamic interaction of ethnic and national identities in contemporary East and Central Europe. East European and Western contributors—many of them local activists concerned with safeguarding minority rights in their countries—provide a wide range of insights into the current situation of minorities in Poland, Moldova, Bulgaria, Macedonia, the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Slovakia, and Austria. They examine how particular social and cultural characteristics bring about different perceptions of and reactions to minorities, often leading to the strengthening of particular identities.

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