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Since its incorporation into the Japanese nation-state in 1879, Okinawa has been seen by both Okinawans and Japanese as an exotic "South," both spatially and temporally distinct from modern Japan. In The Limits of Okinawa, Wendy Matsumura traces the emergence of this sense of Okinawan difference, showing how local and mainland capitalists, intellectuals, and politicians attempted to resolve clashes with labor by appealing to the idea of a unified Okinawan community. Their numerous confrontations with small producers and cultivators who refused to be exploited for the sake of this ideal produce

Sex, Ethics, and Young People brings together research and practice on sexuality and violence prevention education. Carmody focuses on showing how the challenges faced by young people negotiating their sexual lives can be addressed by a six week interactive skill based Sex and Ethics Program.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- I. David Wong's Pluralistic Moral Relativism -- 1. The Strategy and Style of Wong's Approach: Working Out a Defensible Relativism -- 2. The Three Main Theses of Wong's Pluralistic Relativism -- 3. Wong's Defense of Pluralistic Relativism -- 4. Wong's Moral Relativism and Chinese Philosophy -- II. Central Issues between Wong and His Critics -- 1. A Morality of Humanity Over and Above Moralities of Social Groups? -- 2. Can a Metaethics that Is Naturalistic, Pluralistic, and Relativistic Accommodate a Normative Morality that Is Non-Naturalistic, Monistic, or Universalistic Morality? -- 3. The Principle of Humanity vs. the Principle of Charity: Interpretation of Confucianism -- 4. Naturalism and the Naturalistic Fallacy -- 5. Naturalism, Relativism, and Realism -- 6. Speaker Relativism or Patient Relativism? -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Critical Essays -- 2. Human Morality, Naturalism, and Accommodation -- I. Wong's Pluralistic Relativism -- II. The Universal Element in Morality -- III. Relativism -- IV. Accommodation -- V. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. Naturalism and Pluralistic Relativism -- I. Introduction -- II. Individuating Moralities -- III. From Moral Ambivalence to Pluralistic Relativism? -- IV. Value Monism and Universalism Revisited -- V. Should Wong Allow Non-Naturalistic Moralities to be Adequate? -- VI. Moralities as Practiced Versus Ideal Moralities -- VII. A Problem for Wong's Reciprocity Constraint -- VIII. Wong's Use of Xunzi: A Separate Naturalistic Project? -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- 4. Principle of Humanity vs. Principle of Charity -- I. The Argument -- II. The Rival Principles of Humanity and Charity in Radical Translation -- III. The Role of Comparative Philosophy in the Argument -- IV. Xunzi and Sage Authority.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Growing up in Killeen, Texas -- Politics and the Texas Legislature -- Marriage and Family -- Oveta Joins the Army -- The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps -- The Little Colonel -- Running the -- Mrs. Secretary and the Polio Epidemic -- Retirement and Philanthropy -- Oveta's Legacy -- Time Line -- Notes -- Glossary -- Selected Websites and Resources -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Letters to ONE -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Biography and Self‑Analysis -- Chapter 2: Love, Sex, and Relationships -- Chapter 3: Repression and Defiance -- Chapter 4: Incarceration -- Chapter 5: Representations and Stereotypes -- Notes -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1. Founding the Sciences of Man: The Observational Practices of James Cowles Prichard and William Lawrence -- 2. Ethnology in Transit: Informants, Questionnaires and the Formation of the Ethnological Society of London -- 3. Ethnology at Home: Robert Gordon Latham, Robert Knox and Competing Observational Practices -- 4. The Battle for Mankind: James Hunt, Thomas Huxley and the Emergence of British Anthropology -- 5. Synthesizing the Discipline: Charles Darwin, Edward Burnett Tylor and Developmental Anthropology in the Early 1870s -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface: Rewriting the Break -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: On Rewriting Migration in Canadian Literature -- Part 1: "The Tragic Curve of All Mennonites": Narrating the Break Event -- Narrative and Communal Identity -- Rewriting a Usable Past -- Time, Temporality, and the Strain of Repetition -- Part 2: Literature by Mennonites in Canada/Mennonite Canadian Literature -- The Mennonite Exotic -- Chapter 1 - Mennonite History and/as Literature -- Mennonites in Russia, Russian Mennonites -- Rewriting the Break Event -- On the Politics of the Narrative Arc -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 - Gelassenheit or Exodus: My Harp Is Turnedto Mourning and the Theo-Pedagogical Narrative -- Faith in Fiction -- Exodus versus Gelassenheit -- Fiction, Time, History -- Violence and Repetition -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 - Dreaming das Völklein: Lost in the Steppe and the Ethnic Narrative -- The Mennonite Identity Crisis -- Evidence of Ethnicity -- Faith and the Ethnic Ghost -- A People Apart -- Time and Ethnicity -- "Remembering What Will Happen" -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 - The Individual in the Communal Story: The Russländer and the Trauma Narrative -- The Individual Story in/versus the Communal Narrative -- "Na Ja. And So They Killed Them All": The Russländer asTrauma Narrative -- "Lest the Spirit of the Story Pollute the Air":Trauma and Cultural Identity -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 - The Strain of Diaspora:The Blue Mountains of China and the Meta-Narrative -- "A Stranger Shape of Novel" -- The Threads of Diaspora -- "After the Break": Difference and Repetition -- Meta-Narrative and Time -- On the Way -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: On Reading Migration in Canadian Literature -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.

Sport, physical activity and play are key constituents of social life, impacting such diverse fields as healthcare, education and criminal justice. Over the past decade, governments around the world have begun to place physical activity at the heart of social policy, providing increased opportunities for participation for young people. This groundbreaking text explores the various ways in which young people experience sport, physical activity and play as part of their everyday lives, and the interventions and outcomes that shape and define those experiences.The book covers a r

Intro -- Masked Voices -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. ONE Magazine and Its Readers -- 2. Newsstand Encounters: ONE Magazine's Volunteer Agents and Public Visibility -- 3. Imagining a Gay World: The American Homophile Movement in Global Perspective -- 4. ONE Magazine Letter Archetypes -- 5. "Branded Like a Horse": Homosexuality, the Military, and Work -- 6. Classroom Anxieties: Educators and Homosexuality -- 7. Family Anxieties: Parent and Family Responses to Homosexual Disclosures -- 8. Homosexuals and Marriage under the Shadow of McCarthy -- 9. "I shall always cherish Sunday" -- 10. Unacceptable Mannerisms: Gender, Sexuality, and Swish in Postwar America -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Categories of ONE Correspondence -- Notes -- Sources and Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

CHINA'S AMERICA: The Chinese View the United States, 1900-2000 -- CHINA'S AMERICA: The Chinese View the United States, 1900-2000 -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Romanization -- Illustration Credits -- Introduction -- 1: Statesmen, Scholars, and the Men in the Street, 1900 -1949 -- 2: "Farewell, Leighton Stuart!": Anti-Americanism in the Early 1950s -- 3: Challenging a Taboo: China's Liberal Critics and America in 1957 -- 4: Communist Crusade and Capitalist Stronghold: Mao's Everlasting Revolution and the United States, 1957-1979 -- 5: A Balancing Act: The People's Daily, 1979-1989 -- 6: Chinese Review America: The Dushu Magazine, 1979-1989 -- 7: Popular and Not-So-Popular America: The Chinese Masses and the U.S.A. in the 1980s -- 8: Shall the Twain Ever Meet?: Old Themes and New Trends in the Last Decade of the Century -- Conclusion -- Historiographical Note -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.