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Contemporary India's political landscape is characterized by a great deal of social upheaval. This is the result of growing democratic consciousness which is increasingly conflicting with the forces of domination, authoritarianism and hegemony. Against this backdrop, this volume…
Gender, race and class in media: a text-reader
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Gender, race, and class in media: a text-reader
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Analyses of mass media - including such forms as talk shows, MTV, the internet, soap operas, television sitcoms, dramatic series, pornography, and advertising - and issues of power related to gender, race, and class are integrated into a wide range of articles examining the econ…
How do men's and women's paths to political office differ? Once in office, are women's powers more constrained that those of men? The number of women in executive leadership positions has grown substantially over the past five decades, and women now govern in vastly different co…
Breaking male dominance in old democracies
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Has male dominance in political life been broken? Will gender balance in elected assemblies soon be reached? Around 100 years after women's suffrage was gained, and in spite of much effort, most countries have not achieved this goal. This book analyses the longitudinal developme…
Gender & caste
by Rao, Anupama
fromIssues in contemporary Indian feminism (London, England)
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Contributed articles on the issues related to Dalit women in India.
"How do gay and lesbian teachers grapple with their professional and sexual identities at work, given that these identities are constructed as mutually exclusive, even indeed as mutually opposed? Using rich interview and ethnographic materials from Texas and California, School's…
Based on extensive couple and individual interviews with young same sex couples who have legally formalized their relationships, this book argues that same sex marriages as they are lived need to be understood in terms of interlinked developments in lesbian and gay life, heteros…
"This textbook is designed to teach undergraduate, and some graduate students about basic concepts and research in the study of social stratification and inequality. Social stratification refers to the unequal distribution of people along measures of well-being such as education…
