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Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan - Anne Allison - Google Books

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This provocative study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son incest, lunchboxes—or obentos—that mothers ritualistically prepare for…

Women & Guns: Politics and the Culture of Firearms in America - Deborah Homsher - Google Books

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This timely and provocative book looks at contemporary American women and their experiences with guns. Scrupulously balanced, this new paperback edition features a new appendix containing a wealth of primary source documents that help illuminate both the…

"Wer den Wind sät..." | L.I.S.A. WISSENSCHAFTSPORTAL GERDA HENKEL STIFTUNG

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Das Interview mit Michael Lüders haben wir vor den aktuellen Anschlägen von Paris geführt. Anlass dafür war für uns sein bereits im März erschienenes Buch "Wer den Wind sät. Was westliche Politik im Orient anrichtet". Interessiert hat uns dabei die schon…

Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America - Adam Winkler - Google Books

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A provocative history that reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America's cultural divide. Gunfight is a timely work examining America’s four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In…

Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art - Google Books

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Approaching their topic through the lenses of art history and social history, the authors explore a largely unexamined and provocative genre of American art: plantation paintings. The 83 color plates, 19 black-and-white illustrations, and six essays…

The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal - Desmond Morris - Google Books

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FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHORHere is the Naked Ape at his most primal - in love, at work, at war. Meet man as he really is: relative to the apes, stripped of his veneer as we see him courting, making love, sleeping,…

The Happy Stripper: Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque - Jacki Willson - Google Books

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If the burlesque stripper, with her bawdy spirit and unruly insubordination, has emerged for many as a new 'empowering' model for the sexually aware woman, then she also strikes horror in the heard of second wave feminism. Embodied by high profile artists…

Atlanta - Google Books

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Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs,…

Theodor Herzl: From Assimilation to Zionism - Jacques Kornberg - Google Books

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"An original and brilliant thesis, exposing a long misunderstood figure. A great book." -- Bernard Avishai"Excellent... a highly revealing portrait that demolishes Herzl-the-icon." -- Michael Marrus"Other biographers... have illuminated aspects of…

Strange Sounds: Music, Technology & Culture - Timothy Dean Taylor - Google Books

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In Strange Sounds, Timothy D. Taylor explains the wonder and anxiety provoked by a technological revolution that began in the 1940s and gathers steam daily. Taylor discusses the ultural role of technology, its use in making music, and the inevitable…