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Mary Beard ist eine der führenden Intellektuellen weltweit ... Immer wieder mischt sie sich leidenschaftlich, streitbar und humorvoll in aktuelle Debatten ein. Frauenfeindlichkeit und Sexismus sind Themen, die sie seit langem begleiten - auch persönlich - und die sie nicht müde wird anzuprangern. (Verlagstext)

Introduction -- Part I. Bodies: Speaking in Tongues: 1. The Patched-Up Face of Multilingualism -- 2. Organic Metaphors of Language -- 3. Grotesque Body Images -- 4. Body Parts: Tongues and Eyes -- 5. The Embodied Plurilingual Self -- Part II. Family Ties: Infidelity, Bigamy and Incest: 6. Mother-Tongues and Linguistic Family Trees -- 7. Beyond Bilingual Bigamy -- 8. Interlingual Predicaments -- 9. Linguistic Promiscuity and Incestuous Bisexualism -- 10. Adoptive and Stepmother Tongues -- Part III Spaces: The Seas of Plurilingualism: 11. Territorializing National Languages -- 12. The Centrifugal Forces of Variation and Stratification -- 13. Continents and Archipelagos -- 14. The Ocean of Heteroglossia -- 15. Networks and Constellations -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

Klug und provokant, witzig und kompromisslos sind Laurie Pennys herausragende Essays, die sie zu Recht zu einer der wichtigsten und faszinierenden Stimmen des zeitgenössischen Feminismus machen. Vom Schock der Trump-Wahl und den Siegen der extremen Rechten bis zu Cybersexismus und Hate Speech - Penny wirft einen scharfen Blick auf die brennenden Themen unserer Zeit

Part one: An American catastrophe. A summer of insurrections -- Part two: Black lives martyrs. List of victims Black Lives matters claims were murdered or maimed by police ; The cause ; Face of the movement: George Floyd ; How the movement began ; How the movement grew ; How the movement became national ; Five dead cops in Dallas ; The target is the law ; The summer of George Floyd ; The evidence on police shootings, race, and crime -- Part three: Black Lives Matter, Inc.. What kind of movement is this? ; Whose future?

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ecological and Socioeconomic Background to Emergence of Street Gangs -- 3. Sociocultural Factors in the Choloization of the Mexican American Youth Population -- 4. Four Life Histories—Wizard, Geronimo, Freddie, and Henry -- 5. The Gang Subculture as a Lifeway: Structure, Process, and Form -- 6. The Notorious Side of the Gang Subculture -- 7. Psychodynamics of Gangs -- 8. Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- One. Viajes -- Two. Arrivals -- Three. Down and Out -- Four. Assimilations -- Five. La Navidad -- Six. New Millennium -- Seven. Insanity Repeats Itself -- Eight. Migrations -- Nine. Vigilance -- Ten. Endings and Beginnings -- Conclusion -- Epilogue

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Contributor -- Time's American Adventures: American Historians and Their Writing since 1776 -- Economics: Its Direct and Indirect Impact in America, 1776-1976 -- Sociology in America: The Experience of Two Centuries -- Understanding Political Life in America: The Contribution of Political Science -- Anthropology and America -- American Geography: Social Science Emergent -- The Social Sciences in America: Some Comments on Past, Present, and Future