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Women in the metropolis : gender and modernity in Weimar culture
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ISBN: 0520204654 9780520204652 Year: 1997 Volume: 11 Publisher: Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press

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Growing up in a changing urban landscape
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ISBN: 9023232631 Year: 1997 Publisher: Assen Van Gorcum

Poverty and participation in civil society
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ISBN: 9231033689 817017354X 9789231033681 9788170173540 Year: 1997 Publisher: Paris Unesco

Violence and childhood in the inner city
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ISBN: 0521583268 0521587204 0511571011 9780511571015 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The contributors to this book believe that something can be done to make life in American cities safer, to make growing up in the urban ghettos less risky, and to reduce the violence that so often permeates urban childhoods. They consider why there is so much violence, why some people become violent and others do not, and why violence is more prevalent in some areas. Both biological and psychological characteristics of individuals are considered. The authors also discuss how the urban environment, especially the street culture, affects childhood development. They review a variety of intervention strategies, considering when it would be appropriate to use them and towards whom they should be targeted. Drawing upon ethnographic commentary, laboratory experiments, historical reviews, and program descriptions, this book presents a variety of opinions on the causes of urban violence and the changes necessary to reduce it.

Children in a violent society
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ISBN: 157230183X Year: 1997 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Guilford

Household responses to poverty and vulnerability. 4 : Confronting crisis in Chawama, Lusaka, Zambia.
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ISBN: 0821338501 Year: 1997 Publisher: Washington World Bank

Women in the metropolis
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ISBN: 0585079404 052091760X 9780520917606 9780585079400 0520204646 0520204654 9780520204645 9780520204652 Year: 1997 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Bringing together the work of scholars in many disciplines, Women in the Metropolis provides a comprehensive introduction to women's experience of modernism and urbanization in Weimar Germany. It shows women as active participants in artistic, social, and political movements and documents the wide range of their responses to the multifaceted urban culture of Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s. Examining a variety of media ranging from scientific writings to literature and the visual arts, the authors trace gendered discourses as they developed to make sense of and regulate emerging new images of femininity. Besides treating classic films such as Metropolis and Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, the articles discuss other forms of mass culture, including the fashion industry and the revue performances of Josephine Baker. Their emphasis on women's critical involvement in the construction of their own modernity illustrates the significance of the Weimar cultural experience and its relevance to contemporary gender, German, film, and cultural studies.

Youth, the 'underclass' and social exclusion
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ISBN: 0415158303 041515829X 9786610408108 1280408103 0203132998 1134726295 9780415158299 9780415158305 9780203132999 9781280408106 6610408106 9781134726295 9781000136791 1000136795 9781000107562 1000107566 9781000158878 100015887X 9781134726240 9781134726288 1134726287 Year: 1997 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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The idea that Britain, the US and other western societies are witnessing the rise of an underclass of people at the bottom of the social heap, structurally and culturally distinct from traditional patterns of `decent' working-class life, has become increasingly popular in the 1990's. Anti-work, anti-social, and welfare dependent cultures are said to typify this new `dangerous class' and `dangerous youth' are taken as the prime subjects of underclass theories. Debates about the family and single-parenthood, about crime and about unemployment and welfare reforms have all become embroiled in under

Habitat et environnement urbain au Viêt-nam : Hanoi et Hô Chi Minh-Ville
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ISBN: 1281974269 9786611974268 1552504417 9781552504413 9782865377800 2865377806 0889368252 2865377806 9780889368255 Year: 1997 Publisher: Paris : Ottawa, Canada : Karthala ; CRDI,

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This book presents the research findings of four Vietnamese institutions that, in 1992, designed a joint research project on urban poverty with the financial support of Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The first objective was to identify and qualify urban poverty in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh-Ville. This found that poverty in Hanoi is widespread and not well accepted or acknowledged. On the contrary, poverty in Ho Chi Minh-Ville is concentrated on the city's canals where a ""poverty culture"" developed long ago. The researchers' most significant contribution has been their

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