(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jan-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503636064)
As developing states adopt neoliberal policies, more and more working-class women find themselves pulled into the public sphere. They are pressed into wage work by a privatizing and unstable job market. Likewise, they are pulled into public roles by...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jan-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503636064)
As developing states adopt neoliberal policies, more and more working-class women find themselves pulled into the public sphere. They are pressed into wage work by a privatizing and unstable job market. Likewise, they are pulled into public roles by...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Apr-2023, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503635517)
Hiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development lifestyle. Whether working for the United Nations, governmental aid agencies, or NGOs such as Oxfam, Save the Children, or World Vision, expatriate aid workers in the developing world...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Apr-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503635517)
Hiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development lifestyle. Whether working for the United Nations, governmental aid agencies, or NGOs such as Oxfam, Save the Children, or World Vision, expatriate aid workers in the developing world...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Feb-2023, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503634268)
A poignant account of everyday polygamy and what its regulation reveals about who is viewed as an "e;Other"e;In the past thirty years, polygamy has become a flashpoint of conflict as Western governments attempt to regulate certain cultural an...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Feb-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503634268)
A poignant account of everyday polygamy and what its regulation reveals about who is viewed as an "e;Other"e;In the past thirty years, polygamy has become a flashpoint of conflict as Western governments attempt to regulate certain cultural an...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Jan-2023, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503634312)
Unruly Speech explores how Uyghurs in China and in the diaspora transgress sociopolitical limits with "e;unruly"e; communication practices in a quest for change. Drawing on research in China, the United States, and Germany, Saskia Witteborn s...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Jan-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503634312)
Unruly Speech explores how Uyghurs in China and in the diaspora transgress sociopolitical limits with "e;unruly"e; communication practices in a quest for change. Drawing on research in China, the United States, and Germany, Saskia Witteborn s...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Nov-2022, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503633742)
Commercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a 2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rife with stereotypes-younger, more physically attractive brides from non-Western countries being paire...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Nov-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503633742)
Commercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a 2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rife with stereotypes-younger, more physically attractive brides from non-Western countries being paire...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Apr-2022, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503631298)
Andrea, Silvia, Ana, and Pamela were impoverished youth when the Sandinista revolution took hold in Nicaragua in 1979. Against the backdrop of a war and economic crisis, the revolution gave them hope of a better future - if not for themselves, then f...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Apr-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503631298)
Andrea, Silvia, Ana, and Pamela were impoverished youth when the Sandinista revolution took hold in Nicaragua in 1979. Against the backdrop of a war and economic crisis, the revolution gave them hope of a better future - if not for themselves, then f...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Jul-2021, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503628069)
In the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the worlds biggest AIDS epidemic by 2000. Though a crisis at this scale never fully materialized, global public health institutions, donors, and the Indian state initiated a massive effort t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Jul-2021, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503628069)
In the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the worlds biggest AIDS epidemic by 2000. Though a crisis at this scale never fully materialized, global public health institutions, donors, and the Indian state initiated a massive effort t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Aug-2020, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503612846)
Challenging the commonly held perception that immigrants lives are shaped exclusively by their sending and receiving countries, Here, There, and Elsewhere breaks new ground by showing how immigrants are vectors of globalization who both produce and...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Aug-2020, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503612846)
Challenging the commonly held perception that immigrants lives are shaped exclusively by their sending and receiving countries, Here, There, and Elsewhere breaks new ground by showing how immigrants are vectors of globalization who both produce and...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Apr-2020, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503612310)
A meditation on the conversions, betrayals, and divine revelations of motherhood.What if Augustines Confessions had been written not by a man, but by a mother? How might her tales of desire, temptation, and transformation differ from his? In this me...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Apr-2020, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503612310)
A meditation on the conversions, betrayals, and divine revelations of motherhood.What if Augustines Confessions had been written not by a man, but by a mother? How might her tales of desire, temptation, and transformation differ from his? In this me...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Mar-2020, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503610989)
Even as beauty pageants have been critiqued as misogynistic and dated cultural vestiges of the past in the US and elsewhere, the pageant industry is growing in popularity across the Global South, and Nigeria is one of the countries at the forefront o...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Mar-2020, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503610989)
Even as beauty pageants have been critiqued as misogynistic and dated cultural vestiges of the past in the US and elsewhere, the pageant industry is growing in popularity across the Global South, and Nigeria is one of the countries at the forefront o...Lasīt vairāk
