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The Perversion of Autonomy
Coercion and Constraints in a Liberal Society, Revised and Expanded Edit
Investigate the contentious intersections of interdependence and autonomy, rights and public responsibility. This title examines the abrasion occurring between America's tradition of personal freedom and privacy, as it rubs against the still valuable if almost vanishing ideals of sacrifice and social order.
ISBN-13: 9780878409068 (Paperback)
Publisher: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Willard Gaylin, Bruce Jennings
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Local release date: 14/05/2003
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Categories: Social issues & processes [JFF]Social welfare & social services [JKS]Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies [JPFK]Public health & preventive medicine [MBN]USA [1KBB]

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Worked to the Bone
Race, Class, Power and Privilege in Kentucky
Worked to the Bone is a provocative examination of race, class and the mechanics of inequality in the United States. Pem Buck illustrates the ways in which constructions of race and the promise of white privilege have been used at specific historical moments in two Kentucky counties.
ISBN-13: 9781583670477 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS
Pem Davidson Buck
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Local release date: 26/05/2002
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Categories: Social issues & processes [JFF]Kentucky [1KBBSK]

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Armed
In a nation where nearly one-half of all households have firearms, the gun control issue has never been more relevant. This study examines the arguments used by advocates and opponents of gun control, identifies crucial factual assumptions behind the arguments, and addresses these assumptions using evidence from the best research.
ISBN-13: 9781573928830 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: PROMETHEUS
Gary Kleck, Don B. Kates
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Local release date: 30/01/2002
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Categories: Peace studies & conflict resolution [GTJ]Social issues & processes [JFF]Politics & government [JP]

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Critical Social Theory
Prophetic Reason, Civil Society, and Christian Imagination
Critical theory explained and espousedSimpson ably introduces critical social theory, the German-born intellectual movement that has spawned sharp criticisms of modernity, its use of reason, and our highly technological, bureaucratic culture. Part 1 recounts the emergence of critical social theory within the Frankfurt School of Social Research and ......
ISBN-13: 9780800629168 (Paperback)
Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
Imprint: AUGSBURG BOOKS
Gary M. Simpson
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Local release date: 06/01/2002
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Categories: Christianity [HRC]Social issues & processes [JFF]

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Watching Rape
Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture
A thorough analysis of depictions of rape in US film, television, and video.
ISBN-13: 9780814766897 (Hardback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sarah Projansky
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AUD $184.00
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Local release date: 31/08/2001
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Categories: Films, cinema [APF]Television [APT]Cultural studies [JFC]Social issues & processes [JFF]

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Watching Rape
Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture
A thorough analysis of depictions of rape in US film, television, and video.
ISBN-13: 9780814766903 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sarah Projansky
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Local release date: 31/08/2001
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Categories: Films, cinema [APF]Television [APT]Cultural studies [JFC]Social issues & processes [JFF]

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The Gun Control Debate
You Decide
At the end of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, gun massacres, especially in schools, have maintained gun control as a peculiarly American, political and cultural debate. This book offers an analysis of the central questions involved in America's debate concerning the further restriction or even prohibition of legally owned guns.
ISBN-13: 9781573928618 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: PROMETHEUS
Lee Nisbet
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Local release date: 30/07/2001
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Categories: Social issues & processes [JFF]

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Interracial Justice
Conflict and Reconciliation in Post-Civil Rights America
Once dominated by black-white relations, discussions of race in the USA are increasingly informed by an awareness of strife between non-white racial groups. Combining race history, legal theory, theology, social psychology and anecdote, this work offers an examination of race and responsibility.
ISBN-13: 9780814796962 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Eric K. Yamamoto
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Local release date: 31/12/2000
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Categories: Social issues & processes [JFF]Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies [JFSL1]Constitutional & administrative law [LND]USA [1KBB]

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Blacks in the Jewish Mind
A Crisis of Liberalism
This title emhasizes the complexities inherent in one distinct white ethnic group's involvement in America's racial dilemma.
ISBN-13: 9780814726815 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Seth Forman
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Local release date: 31/10/2000
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Categories: Judaism [HRJ]Social issues & processes [JFF]Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies [JFSL1]Black & Asian studies [JFSL3]Jewish studies [JFSR1]USA [1KBB]