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Enameled glass --- Gilt glass --- Glassware, Medieval --- Influence --- Gilded glass --- Glass, Gilded --- Glass, Gilt --- Glass, Enameled --- Glassware --- Enamel and enameling
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Islamic art metal-work --- Art metal-work, Medieval --- Arts du métal islamiques --- Arts du métal médievaux
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"Seeks to explain the causes of ambiguously worded state legislation"--Provided by publisher.
Legislation --- Public policy (Law) --- Legislative bodies --- Legislative process --- Law --- States.
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The Ambivalence of Good' examines the genesis and evolution of international human rights politics since the 1940s. Focusing on key developments such as the shaping of the UN human rights system, decolonization, the rise of Amnesty International, the campaigns against the Pinochet dictatorship, the moral politics of Western governments, or dissidence in Eastern Europe, the book traces how human rights profoundly, if subtly, transformed global affairs. 0Moving beyond monocausal explanations and narratives prioritizing one particular decade, such as the 1940s or the 1970s, The Ambivalence of Good argues that we need a complex and nuanced interpretation if we want to understand the truly global reach of human rights, and account for the hopes, conflicts, and interventions to which this idea gave rise. Thus, it portrays the story of human rights as polycentric, demonstrating how actors in various locales imbued them with widely different meanings, arguing that the political field evolved in a fitful and discontinuous process. This process was shaped by consequential shifts that emerged from the search for a new world order during the Second World War, decolonization, the desire to introduce a new political morality into world affairs during the 1970s, and the visions of a peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War. Finally, the book stresses that the projects pursued in the name of human rights nonetheless proved highly ambivalent. Self-interest was as strong a driving force as was the desire to help people in need, and while international campaigns often improved the fate of the persecuted, they were equally likely to have counterproductive effects.0'The Ambivalence of Good' provides the first research-based synopsis of the topic and one of the first synthetic studies of a transnational political field (such as population, health, or the environment) during the twentieth century.
Human rights --- International relations --- International relations --- Human rights advocacy --- History, Modern --- History, Modern --- History --- History --- History --- History
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"The announcement of a Health and Human Services (HHS) rule requiring insurance providers to cover the costs of contraception as part of the Affordable Care Act sparked widespread political controversy. How did something that millions of American women use regularly become such a fraught political issue? In The Politics of the Pill, Rachel VanSickle-Ward and Kevin Wallsten explore how gender has shaped contemporary debates over contraception policy in the U.S. Within historical context, they examine the impact that women and perceptions of gender roles had on media coverage, public opinion, policy formation, and legal interpretations from the deliberation of the Affordable Care Act in 2009 to the more recent Supreme Court rulings in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Zubic v. Burwell. Their central argument is that representation matters: who had a voice significantly impacted policy attitudes, deliberation and outcomes. While women's participation in the debate over birth control was limited by a lack of gender parity across institutions, women nevertheless shaped policy making on birth control in myriad and interconnected ways. Combining detailed analyses of media coverage and legislative records with data from public opinion surveys, survey experiments, elite interviews, and congressional testimony, The Politics of the Pill tells a broader story of how gender matters in American politics."-- From publisher.
Birth control. --- Population control --- Pregnancy --- Family planning --- Contraception --- Reproductive rights --- Prevention
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Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Contraception --- Gender --- History --- Contraceptive pill --- Politics --- Policy --- Book --- United States of America
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"Superheroes such as Superman and Spider-Man have spread all over the world. As this edited volume shows, many national cultures have created or reimagined the idea of the superhero, while the realm of superheroes now contains many icons whose histories borrow from local folklore and legends. Consequently, the superhero needs reconsideration, to be regarded as part of both local and global culture as well as examined for the rich meanings that such broad origins and re-workings create.This collection stands out as the first concentrated attempt to think through the meanings and significance of the superhero, not only as a product of culture in the United States, but as a series of local, transnational, and global exchanges in popular media. Through analysis of mainly film, television, and computer screens, contributors offer three challenges to the idea of the "American" superhero: transnational reimagining of superhero culture, emerging local superheroes, and the use of local superheroes to undermine dominant political ideologies. The essays explore the shifting transnational meanings of Doctor Who, Thor, and the Phantom, as these characters are reimagined in world culture. Other chapters chart the rise of local superheroes from India, the Middle East, Thailand, and South Korea. These explorations demonstrate how far superheroes have traveled to inspire audiences worldwide"--
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There are now superheroes from every corner of the world, and they are becoming increasingly important within local and global cultures alike. This collection brings together a wide range of film, television and media experts from around the world in discussion of the places and positions that superheroes occupy in local, transnational and global culture. Within local media culture, superheroes occupy everything from subaltern to highly commercialized positions on world screens, in addition to occupying an increasingly central place as the core intellectual properties residing at the heart of American blockbuster multimedia franchises. This collection consequently questions the dominant paradigm of the “American” superhero, offering a nuanced understanding of where and how superhero characters and cultures originate, how they are culturally and linguistically translated, and how they flow within and between the world’s cultures. The collection contains explorations into the global reach of superheroes from the USA, including characters like Thor, Spider-Man and The Phantom. In addition, this collection questions the seeming “American” origins of the superhero, with chapters investigating alternative traditions, origin points and indigenizations of the superhero from India to Thailand. All of these media flows in superhero culture also contain contested ideological, political and gendered meanings, from the appearance of Islamic superheroes to the continual re-invention of the superhero in Indian cinema. In tackling these complex topics, this collection speaks to growing academic and popular interest in superhero characters, attempting to demonstrate how such superheroes have become important contested sites of resistance, commerce, ideology and history.
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