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  • - Women and Chronic Illness in Ecuador
    af Ann Miles
    249,95 kr.

    Enriched with ethnographic stories of Ecuadorian women who struggle with the autoimmune disorder, lupus erythematosus, this book is one of the first to explore the meanings and experiences of medically managed chronic illness in the developing world.

  • - Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado
    af Carole M. Counihan
    348,95 kr.

    An innovative portrait of a small Colorado town based on a decade's worth of food-centered life histories from nineteen of its female residents.

  • - Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Adoption Practice
    af Christine Ward Gailey
    283,95 - 508,95 kr.

    An examination of race, class, and gender issues surrounding kinship and family formation in America, seen through the lens of adoption.

  • - An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War
    af Margaret E. Ward
    263,95 kr.

    While adding an engrossing new chapter to the story of the Salvadoran civil war and its long aftermath, Missing Mila, Finding Family deepens our understanding of the issues involved in international adoptions and the desire of birth families to find their disappeared sons and daughters.

  • - From a Child's World to Award-Winning Television
    af Aida Barrera
    263,95 kr.

    In this engagingly written memoir, creator-producer Aida Barrera describes how the mythical world of Carrascolendas grew out of her real-life experiences as a Mexican American child growing up in the Valley of South Texas.

  • - Making and Exporting Arpilleras Under Pinochet
    af Jacqueline Adams
    371,95 - 613,95 kr.

  • - Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
    af Carole A. Myscofski
    413,95 kr.

    Writing Brazilian women back into history, this book presents the first comprehensive study in English of how women experienced and understood their lives within the society created by the Portuguese imperial government and the colonial era Roman Catholic

  • - Building a Second Life in the Andes of Ecuador
    af Judy Blankenship
    263,95 kr.

    This compelling memoir by the author of Canar: A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador vividly describes an American couple's experience of making a second home in a rural Andean community in which they are the only outsiders.

  • - Pass Well over the Earth
    af Christine Eber & Antonia
    233,95 - 553,95 kr.

    Offers a vivid and nuanced picture of working for social justice while trying to remain true to people's traditions

  • - Colonel, Cabinet Member, Philanthropist
    af Debra L. Winegarten
    158,95 kr.

    This young adult biography introduces middle school readers to a remarkable woman who founded the Women's Army Corps, served as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and ran a media empire that included the Houston Post newspaper and radio and TV s

  • - The Twentieth-Century Experience
    af Judith N. McArthur
    343,95 kr.

    Combining scholarly research with vivid, first-person accounts, this lively history for the first time tells the story of women's experiences in twentieth-century Texas, with an inclusive focus on rural women, working-class women, and women of color.

  • - A Life's Journey
    af Susan J. Tweit
    250,95 kr.

    A beautifully written, moving memoir about how the diagnosis of a terminal illness led to a perilous journey of self-awareness that not only restored the author's health but also taught her the healing power of love and of our connection to the natural wo

  • - The Path to Peace
     
    430,95 kr.

    A sweeping examination of Afghanistan's most vulnerable individuals and the myriad of problems that confront them, Children of Afghanistan not only explores the host of crises that has led the United Nations to call the country "the worst place on earth t

  • - The Educational Journey of Mexican Americans from K-12 to College and Beyond
     
    320,95 kr.

    This much-needed volume provides a comprehensive empirical study of the school experiences of Mexican Americans and those who help them succeed.

  • - Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families
    af Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman
    273,95 kr.

  • - Medicine, Marginality, and Health Care Reform in Northeastern Brazil
    af Jessica Scott Jerome
    198,95 kr.

    This ethnographic study of a low-income neighborhood in the northeastern state of Ceara analyzes the complicated and compromised realities of Brazil's universal health care system, pointing the way toward more successful planning of future reforms.

  • - The Path to Peace
     
    508,95 kr.

    A sweeping examination of Afghanistan's most vulnerable individuals and the myriad of problems that confront them, Children of Afghanistan not only explores the host of crises that has led the United Nations to call the country "the worst place on earth t

  • - Re-Imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border
    af Edward S. Casey
    348,95 kr.

    Using the U.S. wall at the border with Mexico as a focal point, two experts examine the global surge of economic and environmental refugees, presenting a new vision of the relationships between citizen and migrant in an era of "Juan Crow," which systemati

  • - Four Plays for Family Audiences
    af Steven Dietz
    253,95 kr.

    This anthology gathers four plays for youth and families, including Still Life with Iris, by Steven Dietz, one of America's most widely produced and published contemporary playwrights.

  • - Displaced Catholics in Highland Chiapas
    af Christine Kovic
    188,95 kr.

    How the Maya define and defend their human rights in Southern Mexico.

  • af Blenda Femenias
    483,95 kr.

    Why people wear clothes, why people make art, and why those things matter in a war-torn land.

  • - Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas
     
    413,95 kr.

    In this timely ethnographic study, nine Mexican and U.S. anthropologists examine the achievements of and challenges facing women participating in the Zapatista movement.

  • - Texas Wisewomen Speak
    af PJ Pierce
    263,95 kr.

    In this collection of interviews conducted by PJ Pierce, twenty-five Texas women ranging in age from 53 to 93 share the wisdom they've acquired through living unconventional lives.

  • - Stories of Domestic Violence from a Mayan Community in Belize
    af Laura McClusky
    413,95 kr.

    How Mayan women endure, escape, and avoid abuse.

  • - Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898-1944
    af David Jr. Carey
    483,95 kr.

    This study of the Guatemalan legal system during the regimes of two of Latin America's most repressive dictators reveals the surprising extent to which Maya women used the courts to air their grievances and defend their human rights.

  • - Love and Death in Mexico
    af Alma M. Reed
    318,95 kr.

    The long-lost romantic memoir of Alma Reed, an American journalist and companion of Mexican martyr Felipe Carrillo Puerto.

  • - Three Decades of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
     
    413,95 kr.

    A comprehensive overview of women's playwriting in English and a celebration of the most respected award given to women playwrights.

  • - Letters of Friendship and Exile
    af Marjorie Agosin
    188,95 kr.

    This collection of letters chronicles a remarkable, long-term friendship between two women who, despite differences of religion and ethnicity, have followed remarkably parallel paths from their first adolescent meeting in their native Chile to their curre

  • - More Than a Prayer
    af Juliane Hammer
    359,95 - 508,95 kr.

    Examining the intellectual output of female American Muslim writers and scholars since 1990, Hammer demonstrates that the themes at the heart of women's writings are central to the debates of modern Islam worldwide

  • - A Biography of Edith Wharton
    af Shari Benstock
    753,95 kr.

    A biography of the noted author, tracing her evolution from shy debutante to the social chronicler of her age.