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Preliminary Material /Keri E. Iyall Smith and Patricia Leavy -- Chapter One. Hybriddentities: Theoretical examinations /Keri E. Iyall Smith -- Chapter Two. Hybridity, transnationalism, and identity in the US-Mexican borderlands /Patrick Gun Cuninghame -- Chapter Three. Dubois and diasporic identity: The veil and the unveiling project /Judith R. Blau and Eric S. Brown -- Chapter Four. Disturbingly hybrid or distressingly patriarchal? Gender hybridity in a global environment /Fabienne Darling-Wolf -- Chapter Five. Gender and the hybrid identity: On passing through /Salvador Vidal-Ortiz -- Chapter Six. Bridging the theoretical gap: The diasporized hybrid in sociological theory /Melissa F. Weiner and Bedelia Nicola Richards -- Chapter Seven. Geoculture and popular culture: Carnivals, diasporas, and hybridities in the Americas /Keith Nurse -- Chapter Eight. The internal colony hybrid: Reformulating structure, culture, and agency /Roderick Bush -- Chapter Nine. An introduction to empirical examinations of hybridity /Patricia Leavy -- Chapter Ten. Conquest, colonization, and borderland identities: The World Of Ethnic Mexicans In The LOWER Rio Grande Valley, 1900–1930 /Trinidad Gonzales -- Chapter Eleven. Neither black nor white enough – and beyond black or white: The lived experiences of african-american women at predominantly white colleges /Sharlene Hesse-Biber and Emily Brooke Barko -- Chapter Twelve. Creating place from conflicted space: Bi/multi-racial Māori women's inclusion within New Zealand mental health services /Tess Moeke-Maxwell -- Chapter Thirteen. Women occupying the hybrid space: Second-generation Korean-American women negotiating choices regarding work and family /Helen Kim -- Chapter Fourteen. Hybrid identities in the Diaspora: Second-generation west indians in Brooklyn /Bedelia Nicola Richards -- Chapter Fifteen. Hybridized korean identities: The making of korean-americans and Joseonjok /Helene K. Lee -- Chapter Sixteen. One plus one equals three: Legal hybridity in Aotearoa/New Zealand /Alex Frame and Paul Meredith -- Chapter Seventeen. Occupying third space: Hybridity and identity matrices in the multiracial experience /David L. Brunsma and Daniel J. Delgado -- Author biographies /Keri E. Iyall Smith and Patricia Leavy -- References /Keri E. Iyall Smith and Patricia Leavy -- Index /Keri E. Iyall Smith and Patricia Leavy -- Studies In critical social sciences /Keri E. Iyall Smith and Patricia Leavy.

The doctrines of gender. The prevalence of transvestism. Clothing as gender landscape -- Clothing sex, sexing clothes : transvestism, material culture and the sex and gender debate. The importance of sex and gender. Dress and identity : transvestism and material culture. 'Is gender to culture as sex is to nature?' : transvestism and the discourses of sex and gender. Corporeality and the politics of sex. Clothing the brain -- Transvestites in the UK : the dream of fair women. Are those women's clothes? Fieldwork in the UK. Becoming extraordinary : the experience of the transvestite in Western societies. Becoming 'the other.' UK transvestites : interviews with Anthony/Suzanne, John/Joy, Dan/Shelly, Gavin/Gina and Simon/Sandra. The range of possibilities. Clothing choices. Some conclusions about UK transvestites -- Disorder within the pattern : the hijras of India. Fieldwork in India. Hijras in context : who are hijras? Why the hijras? The need to categorise : studies of the hijras. Becoming a hijra. Hijras and the principle of male and female union. Hijras and religion -- Crossing gender boundaries in cultural context : fieldwork comparisons and cultural influences. cross-dressing and clothing choices. Differences in lifestyle. Transvestism within contrasting cosmological contexts -- Dressing up/dressing down : reconsidering sex and gender culture. Woman=soft, man=hard : concepts of language made material. Gendered emotions and the ceremony of naven. Masculine representation of the feminine. Jung and the inner world of opposites. sex, gender or sexuality? Crossing gender as an 'institutionalised' role. The Brazilian travestis. Binary categorisation as 'common sense.' Masculinity, femininity ; genetics and mosaics. The correlates of gender culture-transvestism as material objectification. Cross-cultural evidence and the conceptualisation of gender crossing. Marking gender -- Thinking of themselves : transvestism and concepts of the person. Transvestism as a social phenomenon. Concepts of the person, individual and society in India and England : cultural contexts of transvestites and hijras. Contrasting concepts of self within the Hindu and Western traditions. Individuality and identity. Personhood and transvestism in cross-cultural perspective. Blurring the boundaries : deconstructing theories of the self. Transvestites, constructed selves, and issues of sex and gender. A broader conceptualisation of transvestism. 'This is an absurd ordination for people to live in, in 2002'

Contents: Mitsos, Achilleas: Introduction. - 1. "A lot done, a lot still to do" (Onkelinx, Laurette. - McNally, Eryl Margaret). - 2. Ministerial Round Table (u. a. Prusa, Josef: National Contact Centre "Women and Science" of the Czech Republic. - Hennicot-Schoepges, Erna: Women and Science in Luxembourg. - Bladh, Agneta: Gender and science in Sweden. - Mabandla, Brigitte: Gender and research in South Africa). - 3. FIRST RESULTS FROM THE HELSINKI GROUP ON WOMEN AND SCIENCE. POLICY REVIEW AND INDICATORS (Rees, Teresa: First results from the Helsinki Group on Women and Science. Policy Review. - Springham, Ruth: Design and collection of statistical indicators on woman in science). - 4. GENDER IMPACT ASSESSMENT STUDIES. - Section 1. Quality of life and management of living resources (Bosch, Minneke: Woman, gender and the life sciences. Women's participation in the Quality of life programme. - Klinge, Ineke: Women, gender and the life sciences. Research for and about women. - Maguire, Peggy: Gender equity and health). - Section 2. User-friendly information society (Healy, Adrian: Report on the user-friendly information society Gender Impact Assessment Study). - Section 3. Competitive and sustainable growth (Prista, Luisa: Woman in Growth - Perspectives on gender equality in industrial research). - Section 4. Energy (Clancy, Joy: Engendering energy). - Section 5. Environment and sustainable development (Schultz, Irmgard/Hummel, Diana: Gender Impact Assessment Study on the Environment and sustainable development sub-programme). - Section 6. Confirming the international role of community research (Martin, Charlotte: The Gender Impact Assessment Study on the INCO programme. - Leigh-Williams, Stella: Comments on the INCO Gender Impact Assessment Study). - Section 7. Promotion of innovation and encouragement of participation of SMES (Aguirre, Maria: Gender Impact Assessment Study on "Innovation and SMEs". - Farnworth, Hilary: Women SMEs. Gender issues from WEEN and WomenCraft Projects). - Section 8. Improving Human Research Potential and the Socio-economic Knowledge Base (Braithwaite, Mary: Gender Impact Assessment Study on "Improving human potential and socio-economic knowledge". - Lykke, Nina: Response to the Gender Impact Assessment of "Improving human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base". - Braithwaite, Mary: Gender Impact Assessment Study on "Improving human potential and mobility aspects ...

Largely unexamined until recently, the Asian American Movement has been active for more than two decades. William Wei traces to the late 1960s the initial genesis of an Asian American identity, culture, and activism through which members of this pan-Asian group could assert their right to belong to and be respected as responsible members of this society. Although its antecedents were the civil rights and Black Power movements, the Asian American Movement actually resulted from the protests against the Vietnam War and the emergence of a generation of college-aged Chinese and Japanese Americans. In this definitive study of the Asian American Movement, Wei fills an important gap in our knowledge of ethnic social movements and the struggle to achieve American cultural democracy. Lacking a nationally known leader but confronted by many shared issues and concerns, the Asian American Movement was essentially a middle-class reform effort to achieve racial equality, social justice, and political empowerment. It focused on ethnic solidarity and self-empowerment through political activism, educational and community development, and cultural expressions. While the Movement was most visible on the West Coast, notably at the Third World Strike at San Francisco State College in 1968, it became a vital force simultaneously on campuses and in Asian American communities throughout the country. Wei evaluates the Movement's effort to develop a unique but cohesive ethnic identity and the internal struggles between reformist and revolutionary approaches to social change. He analyzes the Asian American women's movement, the alternative press, Asian American studies programs, community-based organizations, and Maoist sects. His study concludes with an examination of Asian American involvement in electoral politics and the quest for political empowerment. Interviews with many of the key participants in the Movement and photographs of Asian American demonstrations and events enhance Wei's portrayal of the development and breadth of the Movement and the conflicts within it. Exploring regional differences; issues of ethnicity, class, and gender; and the transition from radical to electoral politics, Wei's comprehensive study is the first book to examine systematically the coming-to-consciousness and mobilization of Asian Americans

"Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of a figure who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, where she attended Hunter College and became a labor activist in the 1930s. When she applied to graduate school at the University of North Carolina, where her white great-great-grandfather had been a trustee, she was rejected because of her race. She went on to graduate first in her class at Howard Law School, only to be rejected for graduate study again at Harvard University this time on account of her sex. Undaunted, Murray forged a singular career in the law. In the 1950s, her legal scholarship helped Thurgood Marshall challenge segregation head-on in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. When appointed by Eleanor Roosevelt to the President's Commission on the Status of Women in 1962, she advanced the idea of Jane Crow, arguing that the same reasons used to condemn race discrimination could be used to battle gender discrimination. In 1965, she became the first African American to earn a JSD from Yale Law School and the following year persuaded Betty Friedan to found an NAACP for women, which became NOW. In the early 1970s, Murray provided Ruth Bader Ginsburg with the argument Ginsburg used to persuade the Supreme Court that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution protects not only blacks but also women - and potentially other minority groups - from discrimination. By that time, Murray was a tenured history professor at Brandeis, a position she left to become the first black woman ordained a priest by the Episcopal Church in 1976. Murray accomplished all this while struggling with issues of identity. She believed from childhood she was male and tried unsuccessfully to persuade doctors to give her testosterone. While she would today be identified as transgender, during her lifetime no social movement existed to support this identity. She ultimately used her private feelings of being "in-between" to publicly contend that identities are not fixed, an idea that has powered campaigns for equal rights in the United States for the past half-century."--

"This thought-provoking book conceptualizes femicide as a multifaceted human rights violation and proposes state responsibility for group-related risks of violence against women and girls. In doing so, it reassesses the concept of femicide, analysing it in view of the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, as well as several facets of human rights. Angela Hefti challenges the common definition of femicide, extending it beyond the killing of women due to their gender to include elements of victim blame, sexual abuse, forced marriage and delayed investigations by authorities. Chapters address femicide in the context of the African, Inter-American and European regional and universal human rights systems. Case studies from Iraq, Nigeria and Mexico provide a fundamental understanding of the multidimensional and worldwide nature of femicide. Spanning several key academic debates, the book incorporates underlying feminist legal theory and approaches pertaining to the subordination of women and girls in society, arguing that femicide should qualify as an autonomous human rights violation. Providing an impetus for further research on femicide, particularly on state responsibility for crimes committed by private actors, this book will be a crucial resource for academics in human rights and humanitarian law, criminal law and justice. The book will also be highly valuable to activists, practitioners, and lawyers with an interest in advancing aspects of femicide in international human rights law"--

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I INTRODUCTION -- CHILDHOOD IN THE MUSLIM MIDDLE EAST -- CHILDREN IN THE ARAB GULF STATES: SOME IMPORTANT AND URGENT ISSUES -- PART II GROWING UP -- ADOPTION IN ISLAMIC SOCIETY: A HISTORICAL SURVEY -- CHILDREN OF AMMAN: CHILDHOOD AND CHILD CARE IN SQUATTER AREAS OF AMMAN, JORDAN -- KUWAITI LULLABIES -- CHANGING CHILD-REARING PATTERNS IN AN EGYPTIAN VILLAGE -- LOVE CONQUERS ALL? CHANGING IMAGES OF GENDER AND RELATIONSHIP IN MOROCCO -- SUDANESE LULLABIES AND ADOLESCENT SONGS -- TO MY SON MEHMET, I PRESENT OUR FRUITS -- MY RELIGION SERIES -- TEACH YOUR CHILDREN THE LOVE OF GOD'S MESSENGER -- ORPHANAGES IN EGYPT: CONTRADICTION OR AFFIRMATION IN A FAMILY-ORIENTED SOCIETY -- PART III CHILDREN'S HEALTH -- CHILD CARE AND CHILD HEALTH IN LOW-INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS OF CAIRO -- BODILY MUTILATION OF YOUNG FEMALES Cairo Family Planning Association -- LIFE AND HEALTH OF JORDANIAN CHILDREN -- CHILD MORTALITY AND THE CHANGING DISCOURSE ON CHILDHOOD IN TURKEY -- WOMEN'S LAMENTS FOR CHILDREN WHO HAVE DIE -- PART IV CHILDREN AND WORK -- THE CHILD AS ECONOMIC INVESTMENT: PRELIMINARY REFLECTIONS -- CHILDREN'S CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIAL SECURITY AND THE FAMILY IN EGYPT -- WORKING CHILDREN IN CAIRO: CASE STUDIES -- THE RUNGS OF THE LADDER -- AN UNMARRIED GIRL AND A GRINDING STONE: A TURKISH GIRL'S CHILDHOOD IN THE CITY -- PART V CHILDREN'S EDUCATION -- EARLY EDUCATION IN KUWAIT: A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE NURSERY CURRICULUM -- REVOLUTION FOR CHILDREN IN SAUDI ARABIA -- T U R K I S H F I R S T - G R A D E TEXT -- ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION UNDER THE INTIFADA: THE PALESTINIAN RESPONSE TO ISRAELI POLICY IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES -- CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION IN HIGHLAND NORTH YEMEN -- GENDER ROLES IN IRANIAN PUBLIC SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS -- CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF IRANIAN IDENTITY IN ELEMENTARY TEXTBOOKS -- PART VI CHILDREN, POLITICS, AND WAR -- THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD UNDER ISLAMIC LAW: PROHIBITION OF THE CHILD SOLDIER -- CHILDREN OF FIRE (Ribat al-Fatah) -- GIRLS' PARTICIPATION IN COMBAT: A CASE STUDY FROM LEBANON -- ATTITUDES OF TEENAGE GIRLS TO THE IRANIAN REVOLUTI -- POETRY AND PAGEANTS: GROWING UP IN THE SYRIAN VANGUARD -- PART VII CHILDREN AND PLAY, CHILDREN AND THE ARTS -- CHILDREN'S GAMES AND SONGS IN EGYPT -- PATTERNS OF MUSICAL DEVELOPMENT AMONG CHILDREN IN AFGHANISTAN -- THE SMALL LAMP -- CHILDREN'S GAMES AND SONGS FROM TUNISIA -- THEMES REFLECTED IN PALESTINIAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE -- IFTAH YA SIMSIM (OPEN SESAME) AND CHILDREN IN BAGHDAD -- CONCLUSION -- CONTRIBUTORS

Preface / Rita Kiki Edozie with Glenn Chambers Jr. and Tama Hamilton-Wray -- Mapping the study of the African diaspora : classic trends, new themes, and disciplinary approaches / Glenn Chambers Jr. -- African diaspora studies and the global Black experience : evolving scholarships, expanding fields, and a deepening discipline / Rita Kiki Edozie -- African immigrants and the creation of the neo-diaspora : observing routes, themes, trends, and implications for the US hostland / Baffour Takyi -- "Naija" pride : culturally producing self and community in the new African diaspora / Olaocha Nwabara -- Colored South African consciousness : blurring the lines of identity formation and space / Blair Proctor -- Africana women leaders of African centered education : a portraiture of mothering, Pan-Africanism, and nation-building in Africa / Tiffany Caesar -- Through "the doors of return" : Paul Robeson and Miriam Makeba's "migration" to Africa / Dawne Curry -- The Cape Verdean who emigrates never puts down roots : slavery, colonialism, and transnationalism in shaping Cape Verdean identity / Janelle Edwards -- "Back to Africa" and the heroic black student : activism and identity in post-rebellion Detroit / David Kalonji Walton -- Afro-Brazilian politics and representation : between race neutral and race affirming Black citizenship struggles / Ollie A. Johnson -- Identity, ethno-commodification, and tourism in neoliberal Brazil / Merle Bowen Quilombo -- African diasporas in Brazil react to Nollywood : global cultural flows, scapes, and postcolonial representations / Kamahra Ewing -- Vodou and the Haitian struggle : Afro-Caribbean religion in politics of the oppressed / Nathaniel S. Murrell -- Contextualizing women and distinct religious practices in Oriente Cuba / Jualynne Dodson -- A lesser known diaspora : African American workers and the development of anti-Black immigration sentiment in Honduras (1890-1906) / Glenn Chambers -- Return film narratives of the African diaspora : Haile Gerima's Teza / Tama Hamilton-Wray -- Garifuna in peril : film as critical pedagogy and rights activism in the Garifuna diaspora / Jennifer Goett -- African film festivals : representations and social constructions by African diaspora audiences in the US, Canada, and the UK / Mahomed Bamba -- Artists, activists and ethno-historians : community builders, identity creators and civil rights pioneers in Afro-Peruvian pueblos, 1800s-present / Harcourt Fuller -- "Because the spirits" : visualizing connective consciousness through decolonial and diasporic aesthetic imaginaries / Michael Wilson -- Movements of the female body : re-imagining Black diasporic women's writing / Emilie Diouf -- Revisiting global circuits of Blackness in the African diaspora / Jean Muteba Rahier

1. From Individuals to Group Members: A Dialectic for the Social Sciences -- Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft -- Dialectical Trends in Role Theory -- Dialectical Trends in Personality -- Dialectical Trends in Group Theory -- Conclusions -- 2. The Origin and Maintenance of Social Roles: The Case of Sex Roles -- Social Structures and Intentional Action -- The Case of Sex Roles -- Conclusions -- 3. Social Roles as Interaction Competencies -- Social Action as a Process of Commodity Exchange -- Structural Frames as Conditions of the Possibility of Face-To-Face Interaction -- Social Roles as Sets of Interaction Competencies -- 4. Determinants of Responsiveness in Dyadic Interaction -- The Nature of Responsiveness -- Consequences of Responsiveness -- Personality and Situational Determinants of the Reactions to Unresponsiveness -- Determinants of Responsiveness -- Attention -- Communication Accuracy -- Response Repertoire -- Motivation -- Conclusions -- 5. Personality and Nonverbal Involvement: A Functional Analysis -- Functions of Nonverbal Behavior -- Nonverbal Involvement and Functional Classification -- Personality Correlates of Nonverbal Involvement -- Functional Analysis of Normal Personality Differences -- Summary -- 6. The Forms of Social Awareness -- Awareness of the Social World -- The Representation of Persons in Thought -- The Instigation of Awareness Forms -- The Social Consequences of Awareness Forms -- Conclusion -- 7. Commitment, Identity Salience, and Role Behavior: Theory and Research Example -- Symbolic Interaction and Identity Theory -- Conclusion -- 8. Loss and Human Connection: An Exploration into the Nature of the Social Bond -- Attachment, Grief, and Loss -- Threads of Human Connectedness -- Patterns of Connectedness and Directions for Research -- 9. Changing Roles, Goals, and Self-Conceptions: Process and Results in a Program for Women's Employment -- Nature and Scope of the Problem -- Nature of the Career Options Program at Houston Community College -- Characteristics of the Program Participants -- Results: Changes in Self-Conceptions and Development of Occupational Plans During the Program -- Antecedents of Change in the Self-Conception Dimensions -- Summary, Conclusions, and Implications -- 10. Discretionary Justice: Influences of Social Role, Personality, and Social Situation -- The Phenomenon of Discretionary Justice -- A Framework for Understanding Discretionary Justice -- Research Paradigms for Explaining Discretionary Justice -- Studies of Discretionary Justice -- Concluding Thoughts on Analyzing Discretionary Justice -- 11. A Basic Paradigm for the Study of Personality, Roles, and Social Behavior -- Birth of a Paradigm -- Description of the Paradigm -- Specific Applications -- A Preliminary Evaluation -- Additional Applications and Extensions -- Author Index.

Diese Dissertation besteht aus drei Studien im Bereich der Gesundheitsökonomie, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Gender-Aspekten und öffentlichen Finanzen. Die ersten beiden Papiere untersuchen den Zusammenhang zwischen der Verhandlungsposition von Frauen in Paarbeziehungen und HIV-Prävention im ländlichen Malawi. Laut UNAIDS gehören geschlechtsspezifische Ungleichheiten zu den wichtigsten Treibern der HIV/AIDS Epidemie. Ein besseres Verständnis der Präventionsentscheidungen in Paarbeziehungen ist somit wichtig, um dieser Epidemie Einhalt zu gebieten. Um den Beitrag verschiedener Elemente der Ermächtigung von Frauen (Women's Empowerment) für HIV-Prävention differenziert abbilden zu können, trägt die Analyse sowohl ökonomischen als auch sozialen Dimensionen von Empowerment Rechnung. Die Analyse im ersten Kapitel basiert auf einem Paneldatenset von über 1'200 verheirateten Frauen aus dem ländlichen Malawi von 1998 bis 2008. Während dieses relativ langen Zeitraums ist einerseits die HIV-Prävalenz in der beobachteten Region gestiegen, andererseits fanden mehrere HIV-Präventionskampagnen statt. Die Panelstruktur der Daten erlaubt die Verwendung von fixen Effekten sowie regionen-spezifischen und nationalen Zeittrends. Dies ermöglicht es sowohl individuen-spezifische, unbeobachtbare Heterogenität als auch regionale Unterschiede in der HIV-Prävalenz und der Intensität der Kampagnen zu berücksichtigen. Das zweite Kapitel erweitert diese Analyse um eine systemische Perspektive mittels eines verlinkten Paneldatensets von über 500 verheirateten Paaren aus dem ländlichen Malawi über den Zeitraum von 2004 bis 2008. Alle Informationen wurden auf der Paarebene verlinkt, was es ermöglicht, den Effekt einer relativen Verbesserung der Verhandlungsposition von Frauen in Paarbeziehungen (Intra-Household Bargaining Power) auf die Einstellungen beider Partner in Bezug auf HIV-Prävention zu analysieren. ++. - ++ Gleichzeitig kann in der Analyse für den HIV-Status beider Partner kontrolliert werden. Insgesamt betrachtet zeigen die Resultate der ersten beiden Kapitel, dass adäquate Präventionsstrategien wie die Verwendung von Kondomen und die HIV-bezogene Kommunikation zwischen Ehepartnern besser akzeptiert und verbreitet sind, wenn sich die Verhandlungsposition von Frauen verbessert: beide Analysen finden einen signifikant positiven Effekt von eigenem Einkommen der Frau auf das Präventionsverhalten. Das erste Kapitel zeigt zudem, dass für Frauen das Bewusstsein über Optionen ausserhalb der Ehe sowie Kenntnisse anderer lokaler Sprachen ebenfalls eine relevante Rolle spielen. Die Resultate der Analyse im zweiten Kapitel deuten des Weiteren darauf hin, dass die vermehrte Teilnahme von Frauen an lokalen politischen Veranstaltungen die Akzeptanz von HIV-Präventionsstrategien erhöht. Das dritte Kapitel dieser Dissertation (gemeinsam mit Isabel Martínez und Alma Ramsden) untersucht die Krankenkassen-Prämienverbilligung für Haushalte mit niedrigen Einkommen im Schweizerischen Gesundheitswesen. Die Analyse zielt auf ein besseres Verständnis der Ursachen für die ausgeprägten kantonalen Unterschiede in der Netto-Prämienbelastung ansonsten identischer Haushalte ab (d.h., der Anteil des verfügbaren Einkommens, welchen Haushalte nach Erhalt der Subvention für die Krankenkassenprämien aufwenden müssen). In diesem Kontext sind wir insbesondere daran interessiert, inwiefern die Prämienbelastung der Haushalte mit der finanziellen Situation der Kantone zusammenhängt. Dies ist deshalb von Bedeutung, weil die Prämienverbilligung das Ziel verfolgt, die Prämienbelastung für niedrige Einkommen zu verringern, und damit den universellen Zugang der Bevölkerung zu Gesundheitsversorgung zu tragbaren Kosten sicherzustellen. ++. - ++ Eine unterschiedliche Prämienbelastung sollte somit das kantonsspezifische Niveau der Gesundheits- und Lebenshaltungskosten oder Unterschiede in den sozialpolitischen Präferenzen der Wählerinnen und Wähler reflektieren, nicht jedoch Schwankungen im Kantonshaushalt. Basierend auf kantonalen Vorschriften von 2004 bis 2012 entwickeln wir ein Berechnungsmodell für die Prämienverbilligung in den Schweizer Kantonen. Wir wenden dieses auf Haushalte im Schweizerischen Haushaltspanel an, um den Effekt von kantonaler Budgetknappheit auf die Prämienbelastung der Haushalte zu untersuchen. Für unsere Analyse verwenden wir Panelregressionsmethoden sowie ein Difference-in-differences-Modell, um unbeobachtete Heterogenität und Simultaneität der Entscheidungen zu berücksichtigen. Die Resultate weisen auf einen signifikanten und negativen Zusammenhang zwischen dem Kantonshaushalt und der Prämienbelastung der Haushalte hin. Mit anderen Worten, je besser die finanzielle Lage eines Kantons, umso besser gelingt es ihm, die Prämienbelastung der Haushalte abzuschwächen.

South End Shout: Boston's Forgotten Music Scene in the Jazz Age details the power of music in the city's African American community, spotlighting the era of ragtime culture in the early 1900s to the rise of big band orchestras in the 1930s. This story is deeply embedded in the larger social condition of Black Bostonians and the account is brought to life by the addition of 20 illustrations of musicians, theaters, dance halls, phonographs, and radios used to enjoy the music.

South End Shout is part of an emerging field of studies that examines jazz culture outside of the major centers of music production. In extensive detail, author Roger R. House covers the activities of jazz musicians, jazz bands, the places they played, the relationships between Black and white musicians, the segregated local branches of the American Federation of Musicians (AFL-CIO), and the economics of Boston's music industry. Readers will be captivated by the inclusion of vintage local newspaper reports, classified advertisements, and details of hard-to-access oral history accounts by musicians and residents. These precious documentary materials help to understand how jazz culture evolved as a Boston art form and contributed to the national art form between the world wars.

With this book, House makes an important contribution to American studies and jazz history. Scholars and general readers alike who are interested in jazz and jazz culture, the history of Boston and its Black culture, and 20th century American and urban studies will be enlightened and delighted by this book.

This open access book is a groundbreaking volume that creates a new field within the intersection of "global health" and "LGBTQ health" delineating specific health challenges and resiliencies. There has been increasing awareness of the importance in recognizing LGBTQ health issues and disparities. However, there is a dearth of research and scholarship that examines LGBTQ health through global and comparative perspectives. This book addresses this gap. In the pursuit of scientific inquiry, the disciplines in public health have often emphasized reductionist perspectives that are particularized to a specific locale, municipality, or country. This book's provision of broader perspectives, cross-cutting disparities and issues, and socio-political-cultural contextualization inform the development of new research, policies, interventions, and programs. Students benefit by learning about LGBTQ health research, policies, and programs in various countries and regions. Public health researchers benefit by learning about research conducted in various countries and regions, along with understanding how research has been linked to and impacted by various policies and programs. Policymakers benefit from learning about overarching and comparative perspectives that could inform more effective policies, including those connected to multiple locations. Practitioners learn about various public health practices in multiple countries and regions that could contribute to novel and creative solutions and approaches within the respective contexts. The nine chapters of this volume facilitate greater socio-political-cultural awareness, sensitivity, and competence; undertake an in-depth literature review of health factors and outcomes; and provide recommendations for increasing health-related capacity through development and collaborations between agencies, organizations, and institutions across countries and/or regions. Global LGBTQ Health: Research, Policy, Practice, and Pathways is primarily intended for students and instructors in public health, medicine, nursing, other health professions, psychology, social work, LGBTQ or gender/sexuality studies, human rights, and the social sciences. The book is also a useful resource for public health researchers and practitioners, policymakers, and healthcare and social service providers.

This book describes the methodologies and tools used to conduct social cyber forensic analysis. By applying these methodologies and tools on various events observed in the case studies contained within, their effectiveness is highlighted. They blend computational social network analysis and cyber forensic concepts and tools in order to identify and study information competitors. Through cyber forensic analysis, metadata associated with propaganda-riddled websites are extracted. This metadata assists in extracting social network information such as friends and followers along with communication network information such as networks depicting flows of information among the actors such as tweets, replies, retweets, mentions, and hyperlinks. Through computational social network analysis, the authors identify influential actors and powerful groups coordinating the disinformation campaign. A blended social cyber forensic approach allows them to study cross-media affiliations of the information competitors. For instance, narratives are framed on blogs and YouTube videos, and then Twitter and Reddit, for instance, will be used to disseminate the message. Social cyber forensic methodologies enable researchers to study the role of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the evolution of information campaign and coordination. In addition to the concepts and methodologies pertaining to social cyber forensics, this book also offers a collection of resources for readers including several datasets that were collected during case studies, up-to-date reference and literature surveys in the domain, and a suite of tools that students, researchers, and practitioners alike can utilize. Most importantly, the book demands a dialogue between information science researchers, public affairs officers, and policy makers to prepare our society to deal with the lawless 'wild west' of modern social information systems triggering debates and studies on cyber diplomacy. Samer Al-khateeb is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Journalism, Media and Computing, College of Arts and Sciences, at Creighton University and a former Postdoctorate Research Fellow at the Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (COSMOS) at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UA-Little Rock). He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences, a master's degree in Applied Science, and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science form UA-Little Rock. He studies deviant acts (e.g., deviant cyber flash mobs and cyber propaganda campaigns) on social media that are conducted by deviant groups (e.g., Daesh, Black-hat hackers, and Propagandist) which aim to influence individual's behaviors and provoke hysteria among citizens. He also studies the type of actors these deviant groups use to perform their acts, i.e., are they human (e.g., Internet trolls) or automated actors (e.g., social bots) by leveraging social science theories (e.g., the theory of collective action), social network analysis (e.g., centralities and community detection algorithms), and social cyber forensics (e.g., metadata collection to uncover the hidden relations among these actors across platforms). He has many publications including book chapters, journal papers (e.g., Journal of Defence Strategic Communications; Journal of Digital Forensics, Security, and Law; Journal of Baltic Security; and the IARIA International Journal on Advances in Internet Technology), conferences proceedings, and conferences presentations. He won various awards such as the Staff Achievement Award for Educational Achievements, Excellence in Research Award, Outstanding Graduating Student Award (Master's Level), Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, the Best Paper Award, 2nd Place Most Innovative Award, and 2nd Place Societal Impact Award, among others. Dr. Nitin Agarwal is the Jerry L. Maulden-Entergy Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor of Information Science at University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is the founding director of the Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (COSMOS) at UA Little Rock. His research aims to push the boundaries of our understanding of cyber social behaviors that emerge and evolve constantly in the modern information and communication platforms with applications in defense and security, health, business and marketing, finance, and education. At COSMOS, he is leading projects funded by over $10 million from an array of federal agencies including U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Army Research Office, Air Force Research Lab, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of State, and plays a significant role in the long-term partnership between UA Little Rock and the Department of Homeland Security. He developed publicly available social media mining tools, viz., Blogtrackers, YouTubeTracker, and Focal Structure Analysis used by NATO Strategic Communications and public affairs, among others. Dr. Agarwal participates in the national Tech Innovation Hub launched by the U.S. Department of State to defeat foreign based propaganda. Dr. Agarwal's research contributions lie at the intersection of social computing, behavior-cultural modeling, collective action, social-cyber forensics, AI, data mining, and machine learning. From Saudi Arabian women's right to drive cyber campaigns to Autism awareness campaigns to ISIS' and anti-West/anti-NATO disinformation campaigns, at COSMOS, he is directing several projects that have made foundational and applicational contributions to social and computational sciences. He has published 8 books and over 150 articles in top-tier peer-reviewed forums with several best paper awards and nominations. Dr. Agarwal obtained Ph.D. from Arizona State University with outstanding dissertation recognition in 2009. He was recognized as one of 'The New Influentials: 20 In Their 20s' by Arkansas Business in 2012. He was recognized with the University-wide Faculty Excellence Award in Research and Creative Endeavors by UALR in 2015. Dr. Agarwal received the Social Media Educator of the Year Award at the 21st International Education and Technology Conference in 2015. In 2017 the Arkansas Times featured Dr. Agarwal in their special issue on 'Visionary Arkansans: A Celebration of Arkansans with ideas and achievements of transformative power.' Dr. Agarwal was nominated as International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA) Fellow in 2017, Arkansas Academy of Computing (AAoC) Fellow in 2018, and Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) Fellow in 2018.