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Doctors and the State: The Politics of Health Care in France and the United States
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-28%All advanced health care systems face severe difficulties in financing the delivery of today's sophisticated medical care.
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Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism
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-28%As new medical technologies are developed, more and more human tissues-such as skin, bones, heart valves, embryos, and stem cell lines-are stored and distributed for therapeutic and research purposes.
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Protecting American Health Care Consumers
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-28%Despite the attention to the problem of protecting the health care interests of americans, there is little consensus on what should be done politically or otherwise to address this problem.
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Healthy Markets?: The New Competition in Medical Care
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-28%When federal and state policy makers' efforts to enact sweeping health care reform in the mid-1990s ended in stalemate, the private sector unleashed initiatives that have affected virtually every aspect of health care.
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AIDS TV: Identity, Community, and Alternative Video
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-28%Camcorder aids activism is a prime example of a new form of political expression-an outburst of committed, low-budget, community-produced, political video work made possible by new accessible technologies.
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The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice
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-28%The body multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease.
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Physicians and Hospitals: The Great Partnership at the Crossroads
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-28%Physicians and hospitals addresses an issue of concern and one of fundamental importance to the american health care system.
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House/Garden/Nation: Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literatures by Women
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-28%How ironic, the author thought on learning of the sandinista's electoral defeat, that at its death the revolutionary state left woman, violeta chamorro, located at the center.
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Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy
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-28%The issue of a woman's place-and the possibility that she might stray from it-was one of early modern italy's most persistent social concerns.
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Muslim Fashion: Contemporary Style Cultures
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-28%In the shops of london's oxford street, girls wear patterned scarves over their hair as they cluster around makeup counters.
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Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French
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-28%Black venus is a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century france.
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On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
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-28%What does diversity do?
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Women, State, and Party in Eastern Europe
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-28%These essays, by american, canadian, and east european scholars, provide a comprehensive look at the status of women in eastern europe, with particular emphasis on the postwar situation..
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Secularisms
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-28%At a time when secularism is put forward as the answer to religious fundamentalism and violence, secularisms offers a powerful, multivoiced critique of the narrative equating secularism with modernity, reason, freedom, peace, and progress.
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Latina Activists across Borders: Women's Grassroots Organizing in Mexico and Texas
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-28%Over the past twenty-five years, nongovernment organizations (ngos) run by women and devoted to advancing women's well-being have proliferated in mexico and along both sides of the u.
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The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India
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-28%In the sexual life of english, shefali chandra examines how english became an indian language.
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W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender
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-28%Taking seriously the "w stands for women" rhetoric of the 2004 bush-cheney campaign, the contributors to this collection investigate how "w" stands for women.
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Half Sisters of History: Southern Women and the American Past
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-28%Long relegated to the margins of historical research, the history of women in the american south has rightfully gained prominence as a distinguished discipline.
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Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai
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-28%Street corner secrets challenges widespread notions of sex work in india by examining solicitation in three spaces within the city of mumbai that are seldom placed within the same analytic frame-brothels, streets, and public day-wage labo.
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Economies of Violence: Transnational Feminism, Postsocialism, and the Politics of Sex Trafficking
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-28%Recent human rights campaigns against sex trafficking have focused on individual victims, treating trafficking as a criminal aberration in an otherwise just economic order.
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Surfer Girls in the New World Order
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-28%In surfer girls in the new world order, krista comer explores surfing as a local and global subculture, looking at how the culture of surfing has affected and been affected by girls, from baby boomers to members of generation y.
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Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791
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-28%Winner of the 2002 berkshire prize, presented by the berkshire conference of women historiansfabricating women examines the social institution of the seamstresses' guild in france from the time of louis xiv to the revolut.
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Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
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-28%In sciences from below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar sandra harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be.
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Imagining la Chica Moderna: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917-1936
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-28%In the years following the mexican revolution, visual images of la chica moderna, the modern woman, au courant in appearance and attitude, popped up in mass media across the country.
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Feeling Women's Liberation
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-28%The term women's liberation remains charged and divisive decades after it first entered political and cultural discourse around 1970.
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The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels across Borders
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-28%The book our bodies, ourselves is a feminist success story.
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Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
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-28%Winner, 2013 best first book in women's, gender, and/or sexuality history by the berkshire conference of women historianswinner, 2013 lawrence w.
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South Asian Feminisms
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-28%During the past forty years, south asia has been the location and the focus of dynamic, important feminist scholarship and activism.
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A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000-2010
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-28%A xicana codex of changing consciousness features essays and poems by cherríe l.
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Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives
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-28%Reproduction, globalization, and the state conceptualizes and puts into practice a global anthropology of reproduction and reproductive health.
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Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality
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-28%Light in the dark is the culmination of gloria e.
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En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives
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-28%En-gendering india offers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras.
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The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau
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-28%Santha rama rau was one of the best known south asian writers in postwar america.
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Women's Studies on the Edge
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-28%At many universities, women's studies programs have achieved department status, establishing tenure-track appointments, graduate programs, and consistent course enrollments.
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Transforming the Public Sphere: The Dutch National Exhibition of Women's Labor in 1898
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-28%In 1898, the year queen wilhelmina of the netherlands was inaugurated, five hundred women organized an enormous public exhibition showcasing women's contributions to dutch society as workers in a strikingly broad array of professions.
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Power Lines: On the Subject of Feminist Alliances
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-28%Like the complex systems of man-made power lines that transmit electricity and connect people and places, feminist alliances are elaborate networks that have the potential to provide access to institutional power and to transform relations.
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Zapotec Women: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca
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-28%In this extensively revised and updated second edition of her classic ethnography, lynn stephen explores the intersection of gender, class, and indigenous ethnicity in southern mexico.
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Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art
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-28%In becoming undone, elizabeth grosz addresses three related concepts-life, politics, and art-by exploring the implications of charles darwin's account of the evolution of species.
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Dreaming of a Mail-Order Husband: Russian-American Internet Romance
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-28%In the american media, russian mail-order brides are often portrayed either as docile victims or as gold diggers in search of money and green cards.
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