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2008

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Factory System, Meghan Burke, David Embrick Nov 2008

Factory System, Meghan Burke, David Embrick

Meghan A. Burke

Dr. Burke's additional contributions to this publication include "Colorism" and "Biological Determinism", also coauthored with David G. Embrick.

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Alien Land Acts, Meghan Burke Mar 2008

Alien Land Acts, Meghan Burke

Meghan A. Burke

No abstract provided.

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Double Consciousness, Meghan Burke Mar 2008

Double Consciousness, Meghan Burke

Meghan A. Burke

No abstract provided.

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Vincent Chin, Meghan Burke Mar 2008

Vincent Chin, Meghan Burke

Meghan A. Burke

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Glass Ceiling, Medora Barnes Dec 2007

Glass Ceiling, Medora Barnes

Medora W. Barnes

Whether in the home or in the public arenas of media, work, sports, politics, art or religion, women often become embroiled as subjects in the political, social, and cultural debates in America. People on all areas of the political landscape see women in diverse and conflicting ways—as either too liberated or not liberated enough, or whether and how gender and sexual roles are rooted in either biology or culture. Battleground: Women, Gender, and Sexuality helps readers navigate contemporary issues and debates pertaining to women's lives in the United States and globally. This work examines how science and culture intertwine to …

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Introduction: Intersectional Analyses Of The Family For The 21st Century, Marla Kohlman Dec 2007

Introduction: Intersectional Analyses Of The Family For The 21st Century, Marla Kohlman

Marla Kohlman

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Laboring To Learn: Women's Literacy And Poverty In The Post-Welfare Era., Lorna Rivera Dec 2007

Laboring To Learn: Women's Literacy And Poverty In The Post-Welfare Era., Lorna Rivera

Lorna Rivera

The American adult education system has become an alternative for school dropouts, with some state welfare policies requiring teen mothers and women without high school diplomas to participate in adult education programs to receive aid. Currently, low-income women of color are more likely to be enrolled in the lowest levels of adult basic education. Very little has been published about women's experiences in these mandatory programs and whether the programs reproduce the conditions that forced women to drop out in the first place.

Lorna Rivera bridges the gap with this important study, the product of ten years' active ethnographic research …

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Out-Of-Body Image, Caroline Heldman Dec 2007

Out-Of-Body Image, Caroline Heldman

Caroline Heldman

On a typical day, you might see ads featuring a naked woman's body tempting viewers to buy an electronic organizer, partially exposed women's breasts being used to sell fishing line, or a woman's rear-wearing only a thong-being used to pitch a new running shoe. [...] Dove beauty products launched a much-lauded advertising campaign that used "real women" (i.e., not super-skinny ones) instead of models, but then Dove's parent company, Unilever, put out hypersexual ads for Axe men's body spray that showed the fragrance driving scantily clad women into orgiastic states.

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