Books about Politicized from Amazon.com

Appropriating Gender explores the paradoxical relationship of women to religious politics in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh Contrary to the hopes of feminists, many women have responded to religious nationalist appeals; contrary to the hopes of religious nationalists, they have also asserted their gender, class, caste, and religious identities; contrary to the hopes of nation states, they have often challenged state policies and practices. Through a comparative South Asia perspective, Appropriating Gender explores the varied meanings and expressions of gender identity through time, by location, and according to political context.

The first work to focus on women's agency and activism within the South Asian context, Appropriating Gender is an outstanding contribution to the field of gender studies..
Price: $29.13 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The empowerment of women is a broadly endorsed strategy for solving a host of difficult problems, from child poverty to gender violence to international development. The seventeen international scholars in this multi-disciplinary volume offer thoughtful critiques of the notion of empowerment based on their studies in twenty countries in all regions of the world. The comparative introduction places concepts of empowerment in the context of models of the market and of community, showing how contradictions in these models as they are enacted on the ground provide both spaces and constraints for women. The chapters consider opportunities for women in the context of globalization, resurgent nationalism and politicized religion, cultures of masculinity, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa. They show how initiatives at national or global levels are transformed by local cultures and power structures, and demonstrate the fruitfulness of tensions between universal values of human rights and contextualized understandings. This landmark, multi-disciplinary collection of original studies by distinguished international feminist scholars will be an essential addition to the fields of Political Science, Women’s Studies, Economics, Sociology, International Development, and Environmental Studies.

.
Price: $57.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The Berlin Wall was coming down, the Soviet Union was dissolving, Communist China was well on its way down the capitalist path; the world was witnessing political and social transformations without precedent Artists, seeing it all firsthand, responded with a revolution of their own. What form this revolution took--how artists in the 1980s marked their societies' traumatic transition from decaying socialism to an insecure future--emerges in this remarkable volume. With in-depth perspectives on art and artists in the former Soviet Union, the Balkans and Mitteleuropa, China, and Cuba--all from scholars and art critics who were players in the tumultuous cultural landscapes they describe--this stunningly illustrated collection captures a singular period in the history of world art, and a critical moment in the cultural and political transition from the last century to our own.

Authors Ales Erjavec, Gao Minglu, Boris Groys, Peter Gyorgy, Gerardo Mosquera, and Misko Suvakovic observe distinct national differences in artistic responses to the social and political challenges of the time. But their essays also reveal a clear pattern in the ways in which artists registered the exhaustion of the socialist vision and absorbed the influence of art movements such as constructivism, pop art, and conceptual art, as well as the provocations of western pop culture. Indebted to but not derived from capitalist postmodernism, the result was a unique version of postsocialist postmodernism, an artistic/political innovation clearly identified and illustrated for the first time in these pages..
Price: $25.87 [Notify me when price goes down.]

.
Price: $23.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on January 31, 2001. The length of the article is 482 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: La justicia se politizó.(TT: Justice was politicized.)
Author: Sergio Samiento
Publication:Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: January 31, 2001
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 47 Issue: 2485 Page: 11

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
Price: $5.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

This digital document is an article from American Journal of Agricultural Economics, published by American Agricultural Economics Association on November 1, 1996. The length of the article is 4687 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Key words: adoption, bST, emerging technologies, uncertainty.

Citation Details
Title: Adoption of a politicized technology: bST and Wisconsin dairy farmers. (bovine somatotropin)
Author: Bradford L. Barham
Publication:American Journal of Agricultural Economics (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1996
Publisher: American Agricultural Economics Association
Volume: v78 Issue: n4 Page: p1056(8)

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
Price: $5.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

This digital document is an article from Bilingual Review, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2003. The length of the article is 5212 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Language and politicized spaces in U.S. Latino prison poetry: 1970-1990.
Author: Patricia Sanchez-Flavian
Publication:Bilingual Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 27 Issue: 2 Page: 114(11)

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
Price: $5.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Politicized Economies illuminates the high tide of mercantilism in England and the entrenchment of controls in the French and Spanish economies between 1540 and 1640. Ekelund and Tollison subject mercantilist foreign trade to neoclassical-neoinstitutional analysis, examining the general economic organization of the mercantile companies and focusing on the economic inner workings of the East India Company. The authors probe for the origins of the modern corporation in the early joint stock companies of England and analyze the effects of regulatory forms on the business organizations that emerged to engage in foreign trade..
Price: $39.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]