Lexington Books: 3858 books
Women in Relationships with Bisexual Men
Bi Men By Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Framed by a comprehensive review of international research, literature, and film, this book is an intimate journey into the experiences and insights of 79 Australian women in relationships with bisexual men. It takes us into the daily lives, sexual intimacies, and families of MOREs (mixed-orientation...
Naked Politics
Nudity, Political Action, and the Rhetoric of the Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Naked Politics: Nudity, Political Action, and the Rhetoric of the Body by Brett Lunceford, examines the rhetorical power of the unclothed body as it relates to protest and political action. This study explores what the disrobed body communicates, and how others are invited to make sense of this display....
by Mauro García Triana, Pedro Eng Herrera
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
This book deals with Chinese immigrants' role in the struggle for Cuban liberation and in Cuba's twentieth-century revolutionary social movement; the history of the Chinese economy in Cuba; and the Chinese contribution to Cuban music, painting, food, sport, and language. The centerpiece of the book...
The Implementation of Inclusive Education in Beijing
Exorcizing the Haunting Specter of Meritocracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
The education implementation process in China remains uncharted by researchers. The Implementation of Inclusive Education in Beijing: Exorcizing the Haunting Specter of Meritocracy puts forth a general theory on China’s education programs, encompassing policy processes, actions, and interactions...
A Localized Culture of Welfare
Entitlements, Stratification, and Identity in a Chinese Lineage Village
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Hong Kong has undergone rapid and substantial social, economic, political and demographic changes since the 1970s. This book examines critically the real impact of these changes on a single surname village in rural Hong Kong. It draws on anthropological fieldwork conducted during the late 1990s and...
Professing Feminism
Education and Indoctrination in Women's Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
Feminists have often called Women's Studies the 'academic arm of the women's movement.' But Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge charge that the attempt to make Women's Studies serve a political agenda has led to deeply problematic results: dubious scholarship, pedagogical practices that resemble indoctrination...
China's Unequal Treaties
Narrating National History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
This study, based on primary sources, deals with the linguistic development and polemical uses of the expression Unequal Treaties, which refers to the treaties China signed between 1842 and 1946. Although this expression has occupied a central position in both Chinese collective memory and Chinese...
Hegel's Critique of Modernity
Reconciling Individual Freedom and the Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Hegel's enduring importance lies in the fact that his philosophy sheds light on many contemporary problems; his conception of freedom enables us to reconcile many of the differences that divide liberalism and communitarianism. While liberalism tends to overemphasize the individual and devalue the...
Metaphysical Problems, Political Solutions
Self, State, and Nation in Hobbes and Locke
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
In defiance of the predominant pattern of reading liberal political thought in isolation from the metaphysical and theological investigations of its classic thinkers, Metaphysical Problems, Political Solutions: Self, State, and Nation in Hobbes and Locke seeks to place their writings in context. Asaf...
Challenging Images of Women in the Media
Reinventing Women's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Challenging Images of Women and the Media: Reinventing Women’s Lives, edited by Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell, collects fifteen articles addressing the status of women through an examination of depictions of women in the media. This in-depth study shows how mixed messages from the media muddle...
Evolution of Power
China's Struggle, Survival, and Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Evolution of Power: China's Struggle, Survival, and Success, edited by Xiaobing Li and Xiansheng Tian, brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to provide a comprehensive look at China’s rapid socio-economic transformation and the dramatic changes in its political institution and culture....
Liberty and Liberticide
The Role of America in Nineteenth-Century British Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
America was important to many British radicals. It was a model, an exemplar, a source of inspiration, and American events were believed to have a bearing on reform debates in Britain. Many scholars focus on the positive impressions of the United States that prominent British radicals entertained,...
Terrorism in Africa
The Evolving Front in the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The study, Terrorism in Africa: The Evolving Front in the War on Terrorism, represents a research endeavor aimed at increasing scholarly discourse on the ever-expanding threat of terrorism and terrorist-related violence in the region. It offers the most wide-ranging analysis of the sub-national and...
by George Hawley
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This book examines the state of Christianity in the United States, considering trends in religious beliefs and affiliation over the last forty years. It seeks to explain why so many of America’s largest denominations have witnessed such a dramatic decline during this period. It argues that, although...