Honest, vivid, and diverse, the essays collected in Women's Untold Stories reveal women's narratives that have largely gone unheard--stories of women of different ages, races, sexual orientations and ethnicities. These stories are outside the "master narrative", describing experiences that have been ...
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<P>"Bollywood" - once a tongue-in-cheek term used by the English-language media in India - has become the dominant global term to refer to the prolific Hindi language film industry located in Bombay (renamed Mumbai in 1995). Characterized by music, dance routines, melodrama, lavish production values ...
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Astrologer Gary Goldschneider combines astrology with aspects of numerology and tarot to come up with personology. In this uniquely illustrated volume, designed by Joost Elffers, he charts the personality traits associated with each day of the year--366 in all--and offers guidance on spiritual issue ...
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For the past 50 years, the easy availability of prostitutes to American servicemen in South Korea has been a matter of policy between the U.S. military and the Korean government. Focusing on the early 1970s, when the Nixon Doctrine threatened a sharp reduction of U.S. military presence in Asia, this ...
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Originally published in 1529, the Declamation of the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex argues that women are more than equal to men in all things that really matter, including the public spheres from which they had long been excluded. Rather than directly refuting prevailing wisdom, Agrippa ...
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An updated resource for arrowhead collectors incorporates more than twelve thousand black-and-white and color photographs, divided into ten geographic regions including Alaska, to help readers identify and classify their collections, along with information on stone tools, grading tips, buying advice ...
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In this study, musicologist Peter Manual explores Indo-Caribbean musical culture, focusing on baithak gana, an East Indian song heritage that evolved in the West Indies. By relating the history of this musical tradition, Manual also illuminates the social and cultural development of millions of East ...
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An intelligent foray into the problems inherent in family law and adoption, Bartholet provides forceful arguments for a system that will take care of orphans who fall through bureaucratic cracks.
One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani v ...
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Fifty-plus interviews with professional women in the sex industry represent the sociological foundations of Chapkins's seven essays on the rights of prostitutes and performers to participate in various forms of "erotic labor".