Comment les femmes nigériennes vivent-elles la grossesse et l’accouchement différemment des femmes aux États-Unis ou en Europe ? Barbara M. Cooper entreprend de comprendre l’accouchement dans un pays avec le taux de fécondité le plus élevé au monde et un taux alarmant de mortalité maternelle et infantile. Elle montre comment l’environnement, l’esclavage et l’abolition, le régime militaire français et l’expansion rapide de l’Islam ont tous influencé la natalité et la fécondité au Niger du x...

Writing Through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean interrogates conventional notions of writing. The contributors—whose disciplines include anthropology, art history, education, film, history, linguistics, literature, performance studies, philosophy, sociology, translation, and visual arts—examine the complex interplay between language/literature/arts and the visual and virtual domains of expressive culture. The twen...

**‘Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure’ - Jilly Cooper‘I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym’ - Richard Osman**‘Could one write a book based on one’s diaries over thirty years? I certainly have enough material,’ wroteBarbara Pym. This book, selected from the diaries, notebooks and letters of this much-loved novelist to form a continuous narrative, is indeed a unique autobiography, providing a priv...

Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors.Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or teeter on the brink—and seventy million are women and the children wh...

BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORINTRODUCED BY JILLY COOPER'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN'I devoured all her books, but Jane and Prudence remains my favourite' JILLY COOPER'Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' ANNE TYLERIf Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem ...

As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work to reinforce one another. Understanding Inequality provides students and academics with the ba...

Pensavo di sapere cosa fosse l’amore…Mi chiamo Hunter Willis e credo di aver trovato l’amore. Il problema? Non sono sicuro di essere pronto a confessare al resto del mondo che mi sono innamorato del mio migliore amico. Tutti sanno che Max è gay. E io? Pensano tutti che sia completamente etero. Lo pensavo anch’io, fino a tre mesi fa, quando ho baciato Max e tutte le mie sicurezze sono saltate.Ora, in vacanza in Florida, a miglia di distanza da occhi indiscreti, sono pronto a...

As teaching is socially, culturally, and politically constructed, it is important that teacher educators committed to social justice attempt to create secure environment where all voices are heard and teacher candidates can inquire into personally and socially challenging topics within a safe and caring classroom culture. Relationships of trust are fundamental to teaching about social justice and to being receptive as learners in such classes. Mindfulness on the part of teacher educators a...

The twentieth century witnessed an explosion of new nations carved out of existing ramshackle empires and multiethnic states. Many observers contend that the creation of new states will continue indefinitely, with the two hundred of today becoming the four hundred of tomorrow as more groups seek independence. This provocative and compelling book explores the impact of globalization and terrorism on this trend, arguing convincingly that the era of national self-determination has finally com...

Although there are encyclopedias and biographical dictionaries of contemporary British film and theatre actors, most lack the intimacy of face-to-face interviews. Typically drawn from secondary sources, collections of interviews often repeat tired anecdotes about an actor’s film or stage roles, with very little nuance or fresh insights.Great Britons of Stage and Screen: In Conversation features interviews with some of the leading actors of the last fifty years and more. In this col...

L’uomo che gli è accanto fa meno paura di quello che lo fissa dallo specchio.Le credenziali da vero macho di Hunter Willis sono tutte in regola, come il motore della sua Harley. Da bravo ragazzo del Midwest, ogni giorno si mette in sella a quella moto da vero duro per andare a lavorare in cantiere e magari farsi qualche birra con gli amici. I suoi weekend da single sono ravvivati da hockey e baseball.Poi però il caldo dell’estate lo ha stregato e lo ha fatto innamorare del ...

BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORINTRODUCED BY JILLY COOPER'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN'I devoured all her books, but Jane and Prudence remains my favourite' JILLY COOPER'Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' ANNE TYLERIf Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem ...