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Female Circumcision in Africa: Culture, Controversy, and ChangeBettina Shell-Duncan and Ylva Hernlund, editors Though the issue of female genital cutting, or "circumcision," has become a nexus for debates on cultural relativism, human rights, patriarchal oppression, racism, and Western imperialism, the literature has been separated by diverse fields of study. In contrast, this volume brings together contributors from anthropology, public health, political science, demography, history, and More > | |
Global Health Policy, Local Realities: The Fallacy of the Level Playing FieldLinda M. Whiteford and Lenore Manderson, editors International health planners often design programs based on the assumption that recipient nations share the same "level playing field" with regard to conceptions of health, illness, and at-risk populations. This volume challenges that perception, analyzing the outcomes of humanitarian projects that fail to recognize local ethnic and national identities, as well as the tensions between More > | |
Building Democracy in South Asia: India, Nepal, PakistanMaya Chadda This original analysis of South Asia's political experience with democracy in the 1990s assumes that, if democratic norms are to be universalized, they must first absorb the interpretations and experiences of the non-Western countries.
Chadda contends that any discussion of democratization must be founded on mapping its course amid the constraints of state consolidation, national integration, More > | |
India's Nuclear SecurityRaju G. C. Thomas & Amit Gupta, editors The nuclear weapons and ballistic missile tests conducted by India and Pakistan in the late 1990s have substantially altered the security environment, both in the region and globally. Examining the complexities, controversies, and dynamics of this new strategic context, India's Nuclear Security explores India's motivations for becoming a nuclear weapons state, its proposed nuclear and More > | |
Social Democracy and the Challenge of European UnionRobert Ladrech The shift in executive power from the European Union's member states to Brussels raises profound questions for Europe's social democratic parties as they seek to remain relevant within an integrated "Euro-polity." This book analyzes the response to this challenge: an entirely new organizational form of party politics emerging at the European level.
Ladrech shows how social More > | |
Encyclopedia of the European Union, Updated EditionDesmond Dinan, editor The Encyclopedia of the European Union provides in-depth, authoritative discussions of the key concepts, developments, institutions, policies, negotiations, treaties, national interests, personalities, etc., related to European integration. The more than seven hundred easily accessible entries, written by internationally recognized scholars, cover virtually every aspect of the European Union. More > | |
A Feast in the Mirror: Stories by Contemporary Iranian WomenMohammad Mehdi Khorrami and Shouleh Vatanabadi, editors In the present golden era of Iranian fiction, women writers—contrary to what many in the West perceive—are making a powerful contribution to the literary scene. Reflecting this, A Feast in the Mirror captures the diverse voices of contemporary Iranian women, offering glimpses into their lives and into the labyrinths of Iranian society today.
Moving from the framework of their own More > | |
Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa and Other StoriesGhassan Kanafani, translated by Barbara Harlow and Karen E. Riley "Politics and the novel," Ghassan Kanafani once said, "are an indivisible case." Fadl al-Naqib reflected that Kanafani "wrote the Palestinian story, then he was written by it." His narratives offer entry into the Palestinian experience of the conflict that has anguished the people of the Middle East for more than a century.
In Palestine's Children, each story More > | |
The Memory of Stones [a novel]Mandla Langa Ngoza, in KwaZulu-Natal—South Africa's most turbulent province—is transformed when clan leader Baba Joshua dies and his headstrong daughter tackles the age-old shibboleths held by traditionalists and gangsters alike.
The reluctant heroine of this novel, Zodwa, finds support from unlikely quarters. A disenchanted ex-ANC guerrilla and a dyed-in-the-wool white supremacist join forces More > | |
Polarizing Mexico: The Impact of Liberalization StrategyEnrique Dussel Peters Since the end of the 1980s, structural changes have profoundly altered Mexico's economy and society. But has the outcome been a positive one?
Dussel Peters argues that liberalization strategy in Mexico has been successful in achieving its stated, short-term aims. But in looking at fundamental issues of employment and income distribution, foreign trade, and industrial More > |