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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments / Quinby, Lee -- Introduction. Threshold of Revelation -- 1. Skeptical Revelations of an American Feminist on Patmos -- 2. Teaching on the Threshold: Angels and Skeptics -- 3. Genealogical Skepticism: How Theory Confronts Millennialism -- 4. Millennialist Morality and the Problem of Chastity -- 5. Coercive Purity: The Dangerous Promise of Apocalyptic Masculinity -- 6. Feeling Jezebel: Exposing Apocalyptic Gender Panic and Other Con Games -- Addendum: Circuits of Revelation -- 7. Programmed Perfection, Technoppression, and Cyborg Flesh -- Epilogue: Skepticism as a Way of Life -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Anglo-American Economies and Employee Voice / Freeman, Richard B. / Boxall, Peter / Haynes, Peter -- 1. Can the United States Clear the Market for Representation and Participation? / Freeman, Richard B. -- 2. Say What? Employee Voice in Canada / Campolieti, Michele / Gomez, Rafael / Gunderson, Morley -- 3. What Voice Do British Workers Want? / Bryson, Alex / Freeman, Richard B. -- 4. Employee Voice in the Irish Workplace: Status and Prospect / Geary, John -- 5. Australian Workers: Finding Their Voice? / Teicher, Julian / Holland, Peter / Pyman, Amanda / Cooper, Brian -- 6. Employee Voice and Voicelessness in New Zealand / Boxall, Peter / Haynes, Peter / Macky, Keith -- 7. Employee Voice in the Anglo-American World: What Does It Mean for Unions? / Peetz, David / Frost, Ann -- 8. Why Should Employers Bother with Worker Voice? / Purcell, John / Georgiadis, Konstantinos -- 9. What Should Governments Do? / Kochan, Thomas A. -- Conclusion: What Workers Say in the Anglo-American World / Boxall, Peter / Haynes, Peter / Freeman, Richard B. -- References -- Contributors -- Index

Does the idea of equality for sexual minorities have as strong an influence as the media suggest? How often do politicians come out forthrightly in support of gay rights? Drawing on more than three hundred interviews with activists, politicians, officials, legislative aides, and journalists, David Rayside shows that gays, lesbians, and their political issues are still on the fringe of the political mainstream. His landmark study of political access demonstrates that, despite the overall tempering of anti-gay rhetoric in the 1990s, opponents of equality are formidable, and standing up for sexual minorities is still widely thought to be politically risky.Rayside documents a high-profile controversy in each of three countries: gays and lesbians in the military in the United States, sexual orientation and human rights legislation in Canada, and the age-of-consent battle in the United Kingdom. In addition, in-depth interviews of openly gay elected officials from three countries-U.S. Congressman Barney Frank, Canadian Member of Parliament Svend Robinson, and British M.P. Chris Smith-provide an inside look at the political process: the negotiation of gay and lesbian policy issues on a daily basis, the attitudes of colleagues in various political parties, and the tensions created when grassroots and mainstream activism intersect with each other. The only major book to look at gay and lesbian politics in three culturally similar but politically disparate countries, On the Fringe explores the political workings and impact of a modern social movement

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Lewis, Philip E. -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Walker, Henry A. / Moen, Phyllis / Dempster-McCiain, Donna -- Part One: Diversity And Inequality -- 1. Durable Inequality / Tilly, Charles -- 2. Two Visions of the Relationship between Individual and Society: The Bell Curve versus Social Structure and Personality / Kohn, Melvin L. -- 3. Two Faces of Diversity: Recreating the Stranger Next Door? / Walker, Henry A. -- 4. Gender, Sexuality, and Inequality: When Many Become One, Who Is the One and What Happens to the Others? / Bern, Sandra Lipsitz -- Part Two: The New Demography Of Durable Inequality -- 5. The State of the American Dream: Race and Ethnic Socioeconomic Inequality in the United States, 1970-90 / Hirschman, Charles / Snipp, C. Matthew -- 6. Strangers Next Door: Immigrant Groups and Suburbs in Los Angeles and New York / Alba, Richard / Logan, John / Zhang, Wenquan / Stults, Brian J. -- 7. Jobless Poverty: A New Form of Social Dislocation in the Inner-City Ghetto / Wilson, William Julius -- 8. Persisting Inequality between Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America: Implications for Theory and Policy / Brown, David L. / Lee, Marlene A. -- Part Three: Durable Inequality In American Institutions -- Education -- 9. Do Historically Black Colleges and Universities Enhance the College Attendance of African American Youths? / Ehrenberg, Ronald G. / Rothstein, Donna S. / Olsen, Robert B. -- Military -- 10. Overcoming Race:Army Lessons for American Society / Moskos, Charles / Butler, John Sibley -- 11. War's Legacy in Men's Lives / Elder, Glen H. / Chan, Christopher -- Religion -- 12. Diversity and Consensus: What Part Does Religion Play? / Yinger, J. Milton -- Family -- 13. Diversity in American Families / Treas, Judith -- Mass Media -- 14. Television And Diversity:The Quantum Leap Model / Gibbs, James Lowell -- Part Four:Afterword -- 15. The Reduction of Intergroup Tensions / Williams, Robin M. / Rose, Peter I. -- 16. Long Time Passing: Race, Prejudice, and the Reduction of Intergroup Tensions / Rose, Peter I. -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Bei dieser "Kleinen (Heimat)Geschichte des Rassismus" handelt es sich um das erste Buch überhaupt, das die Entwicklung des Rassismus gezielt aus deutscher Perspektive beleuchtet. Der Herausbildung des an Hautfarben orientierten Rassismus wird dabei ebenso nachgegangen, wie dem Antisemitismus, Antiislamismus, Antislawismus, Antiziganismus und eugenischem Denken. Erst im Verlauf des europäischen Kolonialismus entstanden Formen der Herabminderung, die mit bestimmten Hautfarben verknüpft waren. Sie mündeten schließlich in die von der Aufklärung entwickelte Rassentheorie, wobei deutsche Denker eine bedeutende Rolle spielten. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde das Rassedenken durch antikoloniale Bewegungen, Bürgerrechtskämpfe und schließlich durch Vernetzungen im Rahmen der Globalisierung zwar diskreditiert, die Entwicklung des Antisemitismus, der als Fremdenfeindlichkeit bezeichnete Rassismus gegen Migranten und schließlich der Antiislamismus zeigen jedoch, dass damit der Rassismus nicht am Ende ist, sondern sich wieder verstärkt jener kulturellen Elemente der Diskriminierung bedient, die er schon in seinen Anfängen benutzt hatte

Now revised and updated, this introduction to decision theory is both accessible and comprehensive, covering topics including decision making under ignorance and risk, the foundations of utility theory, the debate over subjective and objective probability, Bayesianism, causal decision theory, game theory, and social choice theory. No mathematical skills are assumed, with all concepts and results explained in non-technical and intuitive as well as more formal ways. There are now over 140 exercises with solutions, along with a glossary of key terms and concepts. This second edition includes a new chapter on risk aversion as well as updated discussions of numerous central ideas, including Newcomb's problem, prisoner's dilemmas, and Arrow's impossibility theorem. The book will appeal particularly to philosophy students but also to readers in a range of disciplines, from computer science and psychology to economics and political science.

El 1 de julio de 1997 el mundo entero tuvo ocasión de seguir la ceremonia de transferencia de soberanía de Hong Kong, una de las joyas de la corona británica, a la República Popular China. Con aplausos de unos y lágrimas contenidas de otros se cerraba una página de la historia y comenzaba un angustioso periodo de incertidumbre para los habitantes de la antigua colonia. Durante los años previos se había ido gestando un complejo acuerdo que permitía el difícil encaje constitucional de Hong Kong -territorio liberal donde los haya- en uno de los pocos países formalmente comunistas que subsisten. Se alumbró así el concepto de Región Administrativa Especial, que al amparo de la fórmula un país, dos sistemas permite el autogobierno de Hong Kong