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The social construction of same-sex desire: sin, crime, sickness -- Assimilation or liberation, sexuality or gender? -- Queer: a question of being or a question of doing? -- Queer race -- Performance, performativity, parody and politics -- Transsexual empires and transgender warriors -- Queering straight sex -- Community and its discontents -- Sadomasochism as resistance? -- Fetishism(s) and the politics of perversion -- Queering popular culture.

Story of the storyteller -- Working with notions of tradition and culture -- Literary and oral resources -- The dismantling of gender equity -- Marriage, divorce and family life -- The construction of a negative identity -- Foundations of resistance -- Acts of resistance -- Attitudes of resistance -- Our human relations -- Relating to creation -- The individual -- Family -- Community and nation -- Creation -- Nurturing self -- Nurturing the future

Article about the problems of municipal governments related to fiscal consolidation in the Russian regions and the construction of the vertical of power during the first presidency of Vladimir Putin. The author analyzes the impact of the decline of the financial base of the city gov-ernments and offers promising areas of institutional transformation of their powers.

The book examines, among other issues, the emergence of civil war as a result of political struggles. The construction of Africa as the 'other' has meant that factors commonly used to explain war elsewhere have been neglected in SubSaharan Africa. The political power struggle which evolved around the state is at the forefront of the analysis of civil war and societal conflict.

The book describes the construction method for a global accounting framework, referred to as the world accounting matrix (WAM). It shows how a WAM can be used for the analysis of trade and finance in a global context and demonstrates how it can contribute to the solution of the large statistical problems in national and global macroeconomic data.

This tale of two cities - Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile - traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, Janet Finn shows how the development of copper mining set in motion parallel processes involving distinctive constructions of community, class, and gender in the two widely separated but intimately related sites

Vol. 1: Brady, Danièle: De "femmes et dévelopment" à "femmes et genre". - 1993; Vol. 2: Pressoir, Eveline: La discrimination sexuelle, une construction sociale. - 1995; Vol. 3: Sherezada Vicioso, Luisa: Travailler avec plutôt que pour les femmes. - 1995; Vol. 4: Pressoir, Eveline: Les femmes contre elles-mêmes. - 1995; Vol. 5: Sherezada Vicioso, Luisa: Pour une égalité des chances. - 1995

Despite rumors of its demise in literary theory and practice, realism persists. Why this is, and how realism is relevant to current interdisciplinary debates in gender studies and cultural studies, are the questions underlying Spectacles of Realism. With particular reference to nineteenth-century French culture, the contributors explore the role realism has played in the social construction of gender and sexuality

I. The Formulation of the Research Problem and the Choice of the Right Methods -- II. Social Phenomena and Processes -- III. Concepts and Indicators -- IV. Kinds of Propositions -- V. Substantiation of Statements. Empirical Verification of Hypotheses -- VI. Explanation of Events -- VII. Construction of Theories -- VIII. Prediction of Events and Practical Applications of Research Results -- Index of Subjects.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Courtship and Marriage -- 2. Family Life -- 3. Work, Gender, and Status -- 4. Interracial Sexual Contact -- 5. Enforced Separations -- Conclusion -- APPENDIXES -- 1. Criteria Used in the Construction of a Database Relating to the Comments of the South Carolina WPA Respondents -- 2. Interracial Sexual Contact in the WPA Narratives -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cambodia, renowned for its rich history and culture, has experienced significant economic growth over the past two decades, driven by tourism, manufacturing, and construction. However, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted this progress, causing the first economic contraction in the country in twenty-five years. Despite a gradual recovery, the pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in Cambodia's informal sector, which … Continued

AbstractThe paper demonstrates the construction of a stock price stochastic process that aligns with observed option prices, drawing inspiration from a manuscript by Professor Erio Castagnoli that employs the concept of a non-linear monotonic transformation of a standard Brownian motion. The paper includes a detailed numerical example that illustrates the implementation of this straightforward and ingenious idea.

Cet article s'intéresse à l'action du Saint-Siège dans le domaine de la gouvernance migratoire et de l'assistance aux réfugiés, ainsi qu'à ses soubassements idéologiques. Il examine le rôle du Bureau des migrations qu'il établit à Genève pour assister l'International Refugee Organization et s'occuper des displaced persons . Il s'intéresse au processus de (re-)construction d'une légitimité dans le champ humanitaire.

Dans cet épisode d'Afrique 360°, Enrica Picco et Floor Keuleers reçoivent Oumou Sall Seck, maire de la ville malienne de Goundam et ancienne ambassadrice du Mali en Allemagne, et Ornella Moderan, chercheuse spécialisée dans les questions de sécurité et de gouvernance au Sahel, pour parler des inégalités de genre dans la perpétuation des violences et la construction de la paix au Sahel.

Show differing trajectories, depending on coverage, construction. Figure 1: CPI (blue), chained CPI adjusted by author using X-13 (tan), CPI for wage and clerical workers (pink), HICP adjusted by author using X-13 (red), PCE deflator (green), all in logs, 2022M01=0. Source: BLS via FRED, BEA, and author's calculations. Note that PCE uses prices of goods […]