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Women and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Power, Opportunities, and ConstraintsMarianne Bloch, Josephine A. Beoku-Betts, and B. Robert Tabachnick, editors This volume focuses on gender and education in sub-Saharan Africa, considering in particular the impact formal and nonformal education have had on African women.
A variety of country studies illustrate current theoretical debates in three key areas: postcolonial influences on the forms of education that are privileged; human-capital, socialist-feminist, and post-modern perspectives on the More > | |
Feminism & the Female Body: Liberating the Amazon WithinShirley Castelnuovo and Sharon R. Guthrie This book is about women’s willingness and desire to empower themselves not just mentally, but also physically—and about helping to transform domination related to gender, race, class, age, disability, and sexual orientation.
While recognizing that feminism has been responsible for changing both the ways that society perceives women and how women perceive themselves, Castelnuovo and More > | |
Building Peace in HaitiChetan Kumar Though its national life often has been characterized by violence, Haiti has not been victim of a full-fledged internal conflict, or civil war. Why, then, is the international community conducting "postconflict peacebuilding" operations there? Addressing that question, Chetan Kumar examines the course of international involvement in Haiti through the prism of the country's unique More > | |
The Politics of Peace-MaintenanceJarat Chopra, editor The results of more than fifty years of peacekeeping operations—ranging from diplomatic efforts to so-called peace enforcement (the use of military force)—have made it clear that a new international political capability is required to adequately manage internal conflicts. That capability, peace- maintenance, is introduced and explored in this seminal work.
Varying in degree of More > | |
Lion Mountain [a novel]Mustapha Tlili, translated by Linda Coverdale As a young widow with two boys to raise, Horia El-Gharib struggled to reconcile tradition and change. She dared to take on a man's role in commerce and trade to protect the future of her sons—but now, all is at risk in the midst of the turmoil of the newly independent regime.
Lion Mountain is the unforgettable story of a stubborn old woman, a one-legged Nubian war hero, and a More > | |
Insurrection and Revolution: Armed Struggle in Cuba, 1952-1959Gladys Marel García-Pérez, with a Foreword by Louis Pérez Based on previously untapped primary sources, this book examines the social forces that were released and shaped by the Cuban revolutionary war and, not least, the actions of real men and women attempting to forge a new future.
García's focus on Matanzas province—an area highly representative of Cuba in demographics, racial patterns, economy, and education—allows a More > | |
International Relations on FilmRobert W. Gregg This welcome exploration of the ways in which feature films depict the various aspects of international relations considers the utility of the feature film as a vehicle to dramatize issues and events, challenge conventional wisdom, rouse an audience to anger, and even revise history.
Gregg makes a strong case for the value of films as a window on the real world of international relations. More > | |
Myths, Models, and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Cultural Shaping of Three Cold WarriorsStephen W. Twing In what ways does national culture influence the direction of U.S. foreign policy? What are the mechanisms through which culture shapes policy outcomes? Stephen Twing’s thoughtful analysis illustrates precisely how certain cultural elements influenced the policy preferences and policymaking behaviors of three Cold War-era statesmen, John Foster Dulles, Averell Harriman, and Robert More > | |
China's Security: The New Roles of the MilitaryMel Gurtov and Byong-Moo Hwang This fresh appraisal of China’s military establishment in transition emphasizes the interplay of domestic and external forces.
Showing how economic, technological, bureaucratic, and international factors have substantially reshaped Chinese military thinking and behavior, the authors question the popular perception of a “China threat.” Their closely reasoned analysis underscores More > | |
Prologue to Revolution: Cuba, 1898-1958Jorge Ibarra, translated by Marjorie Moore This landmark study traces economic development, social dynamics, and political processes in Cuba from the end of Spanish colonial rule to the triumph of the 1959 revolution.
Ibarra explores the complex and compelling relationship between North American capital investment and the formation—and deformation—of Cuba's national institutions. Focusing especially on class structures, More > |