This book traces how the legacy of the Maoist gender project is experienced or contested by particular Chinese women, remembered or forgotten in their lives, and highlighted or buried in their narratives. Xin Huang examines four women?s life stories: an urban woman who lived thr…
Inhaltsverzeichnis: Introduction -- Born into the Mao era : Lin's life story -- The shaming of funü : Dong's life story -- I am a rock : Shitou's life story -- The cosmopolitan daughter of funü : Anne's life story -- Conclusion : the Maoist gender legacy and contemporary feminis…
"Despite the supposed taboo against the practice, many governments, rebels, and terrorists use children in war. Boys and girls are spying and killing for political causes. Tools of War, Tools of State: When Children Become Soldiers reveals the complexity of the problem of child …
"More than half a century after the civil rights era of the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, American society is often characterized as postracial. In other words, that the country has moved away from prejudice based on skin color and we live in a colorblind society. The reality, ho…
In this book, the author argues that gender studies as a mostly white field has taken insufficient account of black contributions, and that more than being an ethnocentric limitation or blind spot, this has represented a structural anti-blackness in the field. Engaging with the …
Against gender. Enslavism and the subjects of feminism -- Abolish property: Black feminist struggles against anti-Blackness -- Gender and the grammar of enslavism -- Abjective returns: the slave's fungibility in white gender studies -- Post gender, post human: Braidotti 's Nietz…
An overview of the book -- Political participation, group consciousness, and the minority group model -- Politics in the new Boston: the majority-minority challenge to the Yankee-Irish political hegemony -- Chicago politics: Black participation and the need for a progressive coa…
This book tells the story of Lebanese immigrant Alfred Nicola, the fortune he began building as a peddler in Louisiana, and the family that founded Al-Kafaat University, an iconic institution serving the underprivileged and disabled of Lebanon, through two centuries of unrest in…