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Women in Africa

Studies in Social and Economic Change

By: Nancy Hafkin,Edna G. Bay

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Women in Africa

Studies in Social and Economic Change

By: Nancy Hafkin,Edna G. Bay

This collection of papers-all but one previously unpublished-presents the results of recent field research in the disciplines of history, political science, anthropology, sociology, and economics. The chief emphasis here is on change: on viewing African women as agents of change from the first arrival of Europeans to the present; and on seeking to change the perspective from which African women have been studied in the past. The papers encompass settings as diverse as eighteenth-century Senegal and contemporary Mozambique. Politically and socially, too, the local settings are various, including an Igbo village, the marketplaces of Abidjan and Accra, a development scheme in rural Tanzania, the churches of Freetown, and the streets of Mombasa. The contributors are Iris Berger, James L. Brain, George E. Brooks, Jr., Margaret Jean Hay, Barbara C. Lewis, Leith Mullings, Kamene Okonjo, Claire Robertson, Filomina Chioma Steady, Margaret Strobel, and Judith VanAllen.

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Stanford University Press

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080476624X

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Rapture and Melancholy

The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay

By: Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Rapture and Melancholy

The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay

By: Edna St. Vincent Millay

The first publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s private, intimate diaries, providing “a candid self-portrait of the ‘bad girl of American letters’” (Kirkus Reviews) “Endlessly intriguing and illuminating. The publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay's diaries is a major literary event, providing astonishing insight into the great poet’s art and life.”—Chloe Honum, author of The Tulip-Flame The English author Thomas Hardy proclaimed that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper, and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. In these diaries the great American poet illuminates not only her literary genius, but her life as a devoted daughter, sister, wife, and public heroine; and finally as a solitary, tragic figure. This is the first publication of the diaries she kept from adolescence until middle age, between 1907 and 1949, focused on her most productive years. Who was the girl who wrote “Renascence,” that marvel of early twentieth-century poetry? What trauma or spiritual journey inspired the poem? And after such celebrity why did she vanish into near seclusion after 1940? These questions hover over the life and work, and trouble biographers and readers alike. Intimate, eloquent, these confessions and keen observations provide the key to understanding Millay’s journey from small-town obscurity to world fame, and the tragedy of her demise.

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Yale University Press

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0300265514

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9780300265514

Twenty-First Century Workplace Challenges

Perspectives and Implications for Relationships in New Era Organizations

By: Edna Rabenu

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Twenty-First Century Workplace Challenges

Perspectives and Implications for Relationships in New Era Organizations

By: Edna Rabenu

In Twenty-First Century Workplace Challenges, Edna Rabenu examines current and future challenges to psychological relationships in the workplace due to shifting environmental conditions such as mass migration, globalization, the advent of cyber entities, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Rabenu’s incisive analysis offers new solutions for employees, workers, managers, and organizations.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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149858456X

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9781498584562

The Challenges of Minoritized Contingent Faculty in Higher Education

By: Edna Chun,Alvin Evans

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The Challenges of Minoritized Contingent Faculty in Higher Education

By: Edna Chun,Alvin Evans

The Challenges of Minoritized Contingent Faculty in Higher Education offers a probing and unvarnished look at the employment challenges of these faculty members in four-year institutions. With dramatic shifts in the faculty workforce and nearly three-quarters of instructional positions in United States institutions now off the tenure track, contingent faculty have become the essential, frontline workers of higher education. Remarkably little research attention has focused on the experiences of minoritized contingent faculty in this new academic underclass. Based on in-depth interviews coupled with extensive research, the book highlights the double marginalization that can occur due to secondary employment status in the academic hierarchy, and the exclusion resulting from the intersectionality of nondominant social identities including race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability. As the first-person narratives reveal, these faculty often struggle for acceptance, recognition, and rewards in the day-to-day academic environment, and they can face devaluation of their contributions. As a pragmatic and concrete resource, this book offers proactive workforce strategies and key structural and policy recommendations that will assist academic and administrative leaders, including presidents, provosts, department chairs, and chief diversity officers, in building more inclusive working conditions for contingent faculty.

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Purdue University Press

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1612498388

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9781612498386

Faculty Members' Scholarly Learning Across Institutional Types

ASHE Higher Education Report

By: Vicki L. Baker,Aimee LaPointe Terosky,Edna Martinez

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Faculty Members' Scholarly Learning Across Institutional Types

ASHE Higher Education Report

By: Vicki L. Baker,Aimee LaPointe Terosky,Edna Martinez

Explore an important, yet understudied concept: faculty scholarly learning. Taking a broad view, this volume explains how scholarly learning is defined and conceptualized by scholars. The authors synthesize the recent literature and organize the findings according to Boyers four forms of scholarship (discovery, teaching, engagement, and integration). They then offer a counternarrative to faculty scholarly learning and the ways in which it is enacted and supported. Recommendations for developing, supporting, and evaluating faculty scholarly learning are also presented. This volume answers: What does scholarly learning look like at different types of institutions? What contexts and/or supports hinder or help faculty members scholarly learning at the different institutional types? What challenges are noted in the extant literature on faculty work around further study or better understanding of faculty members scholarly learning across institutional types? This is the second issue of the 43rd volume of the Jossey-Bass series ASHE Higher Education Report. Each monograph is the definitive analysis of a tough higher education issue, based on thorough research of pertinent literature and institutional experiences. Topics are identified by a national survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are then commissioned to write the reports, with experts providing critical reviews of each manuscript before publication.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119448190

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9781119448198

Beyond the Fields

Slavery at Middleton Place

By: Barbara Doyle,Mary Edna Sullivan,Tracey Todd

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Beyond the Fields

Slavery at Middleton Place

By: Barbara Doyle,Mary Edna Sullivan,Tracey Todd

An examination of slavery at Middleton Place, a plantation near Charleston, S.C. Provides both general information and details about specific individuals, including a list of slaves owned by the Middleton family from 1738 to 1865.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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0615207235

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9780615207230

Women And Work In Africa

By: Edna G. Bay

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Women And Work In Africa

By: Edna G. Bay

This collection of articles grows out of a symposium on the subject of women and work in Africa held on the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois in the spring of 1979. The organizing committee for that program sought first, to update the field of economic studies of women in Africa and second, to provide a forum for the exchange and stimulation of ideas among scholars and professionals concerned for women in Africa. The publication here of the majority of the symposium papers represents a logical final step in the fulfillment of the objectives of the symposium program committee.

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239

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Routledge

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1000010821

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9781000010824

So Obscure a Person

By: Edna Barney

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So Obscure a Person

By: Edna Barney

So Obscure a Person" is a family history and genealogy of ALEXANDER STINSON Senior of Buckingham County, Virginia and his Virginia descendants. His life spanned almost the entire eighteenth century of Virginia. He is the progenitor of the STINSON family of Buckingham County, including those who went further South after the Revolutionary War. This book is the result of years of research at courthouses and libraries in Virginia and elsewhere. It is extensively documented with both embedded sources and footnotes, and is fully indexed. There is an excursus on the HOOPER family which includes the CABELL and MAYO cousins, relatives of the STINSONs.

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258

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Lulu.com

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1435713281

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9781435713284

Markedness Theory

By: Edna Andrews

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Markedness Theory

By: Edna Andrews

Edna Andrews clarifies and extends the work of Roman Jakobson to develop a theory of invariants in language by distinguishing between general and contextual meaning in morphology and semantics. Markedness theory, as Jakobson conceived it, is a qualitative theory of oppositional binary relations. Andrews shows how markedness theory enables a linguist to precisely define the systemically given oppositions and hierarchies represented by linguistic categories. In addition, she redefines the relationship between Jakobsonian markedness theory and Peircean interpretants. Though primarily theoretical, the argument is illustrated with discussions about learning a second language, the relationship of linguistics to mathematics (particularly set theory, algebra, topology, and statistics) in their mutual pursuit of invariance, and issues involving grammatical gender and their implications in several languages.

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Duke University Press

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0822309599

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9780822309598

Wives of the Leopard

Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey

By: Edna G. Bay

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Wives of the Leopard

Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey

By: Edna G. Bay

Wives of the Leopard explores power and culture in a pre-colonial West African state whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteenth-century Europe and America. Tracing two hundred years of the history of Dahomey up to the French colonial conquest in 1894, the book follows change in two central institutions. One was the monarchy, the coalitions of men and women who seized and wielded power in the name of the king. The second was the palace, a household of several thousand wives of the king who supported and managed state functions. Looking at Dahomey against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade and the growth of European imperialism, Edan G. Bay reaches for a distinctly Dahomean perspective as she weaves together evidence drawn from travelers' memoirs and local oral accounts, from the religious practices of vodun, and from ethnographic studies of the twentieth century. Wives of the Leopard thoroughly integrates gender into the political analysis of state systems, effectively creating a social history of power. More broadly, it argues that women as a whole and men of the lower classes were gradually squeezed out of access to power as economic resources contracted with the decline of the slave trade in the nineteenth century. In these and other ways, the book provides an accessible portrait of Dahomey's complex and fascinating culture without exoticizing it.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813923867

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9780813923864

Lady Unknown

The Life of Angela Burdett-Coutts

By: Edna Healey

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Lady Unknown

The Life of Angela Burdett-Coutts

By: Edna Healey

In 1837, at the age of twenty-three, Angela Burdett-Coutts inherited a vast fortune from her banker grandfather, making her one of the richest and thus potentially powerful women in Victorian England. She moved in the highest social circles: entertaining the rising stars of the political scene, Disraeli and Gladstone; attending scientific lectures with Faraday; pursuing her philanthropic work with Dickens; and falling in love with the aged Duke of Wellington. Her acts of charity were enormous and wide-ranging-establishing a home for 'fallen women', pioneering model housing, battling for sanitary reform, supporting the NSPCC and the RSPCA, and promoting technical education and domestic science. A devout Anglican, she built churches, founded colonial bishoprics and encouraged the missionary work of Livingstone and others. Despite all this activity, Angela remained throughout her life a shy and supremely private person. The full range of her charity will probably never be known, for she often acted through intermediaries such as Dickens, describing herself only as 'lady unknown'. And a 'lady unknown' she has largely remained, her role in Victorian England strangely overlooked or forgotten. Edna Healey has uncovered much new material, including unpublished correspondence from Dickens, Livingstone, Gladstone, Wellington, Faraday and Henry Irving, to provide a fascinating insight into this most remarkable lady.

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266

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A&C Black

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1448207231

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9781448207237

The Attorney-client Privilege and the Work-product Doctrine

By: Edna Selan Epstein

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The Attorney-client Privilege and the Work-product Doctrine

By: Edna Selan Epstein

This third edition has been greatly expanded.There is more pratical guidance, including, for example, precautions that can help ensure, as far as possible, protection of documents from forced discovery.

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American Bar Association

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1570738890

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9781570738890

Who Killed Higher Education?

Maintaining White Dominance in a Desegregating Era

By: Edna B. Chun,Joe R. Feagin

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Who Killed Higher Education?

Maintaining White Dominance in a Desegregating Era

By: Edna B. Chun,Joe R. Feagin

Who Killed Higher Education?: Maintaining White Dominance in a Desegregating Era offers a probing and unvarnished look at the causes of the substantial state defunding of public higher education over the last six decades. With the pandemic and cuts to social services, these challenges have only deepened, especially creating real dilemmas for first-generation, minoritized students seeking to complete a college education. Through extensive analysis of trends in public higher education funding, the book documents and lays bare the ways in which elite, neoliberal decision-makers launched a multi-pronged and attack on public higher education. It highlights the confluence of the enrollment of an increasingly diverse cohort of students in college with the efforts of conservative white legislatures to diminish funding support for public higher education. Who Killed Higher Education? is an important resource for students in courses on higher education, and diversity in education. It will also provide instruction for boards of trustees, institutional leaders, faculty and key campus constituencies in developing long-term strategies that ensure the access and success of a diverse and talented student body.

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Routledge

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1000426254

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9781000426250

The Queen's House

A Social History of Buckingham Palace

By: Edna Healey

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The Queen's House

A Social History of Buckingham Palace

By: Edna Healey

A “lively” tour of the royal residence: Readers “will delight in this well-written chronicle of the House of Windsor.” —Publishers Weekly In this social history of Buckingham Palace, Edna Healey mines the royal archives to take the reader into its moonlit gardens, up the grand staircase, and inside its tapestried walls. Dr. Johnson again holds forth in the library, Queen Victoria encores Mendelssohn in the music room, and Fanny Burney wrestles once more with protocol in the royal chambers. Written with the assistance of the royal family, this lively and colorful biography of a house reveals not only the changing facade of the palace but also the changing face of a nation’s culture, morals, fashions, and tastes.

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Open Road Media

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1453265279

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9781453265277

Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982

By: Ivan Light,Edna Bonacich

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982

By: Ivan Light,Edna Bonacich

A decade in preparation, Immigrant Entrepreneurs offers the most comprehensive case study ever completed of the causes and consequences of immigrant business ownership. Koreans are the most entrepreneurial of America's new immigrants. By the mid-1970s Americans had already become aware that Korean immigrants were opening, buying, and operating numerous business enterprises in major cities. When Koreans flourished in small business, Americans wanted to know how immigrants could find lucrative business opportunities where native-born Americans could not. Somewhat later, when Korean-black conflicts surfaced in a number of cities, Americans also began to fear the implications for intergroup relations of immigrant entrepreneurs who start in the middle rather than at the bottom of the social and economic hierarchy. Nowhere was immigrant enterprise more obvious or impressive than in Los Angeles, the world's largest Korean settlement outside of Korea and America's premier city of small business. Analyzing both the short-run and the long-run causes of Korean entrepreneurship, the authors explain why the Koreans could find, acquire, and operate small business firms more easily than could native-born residents. They also provide a context for distinguishing clashes of culture and clashes of interest which cause black-Korean tensions in cities, and for framing effective policies to minimize the tensions.

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Univ of California Press

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0520911989

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9780520911987

Global Climate Change

A Primer

By: Orrin H. Pilkey,Keith C. Pilkey,Mary Edna Fraser

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Global Climate Change

A Primer

By: Orrin H. Pilkey,Keith C. Pilkey,Mary Edna Fraser

An internationally recognized expert on the geology of barrier islands takes on climate change deniers in an outstanding and much-needed primer on the science of global change and its effects.

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Duke University Press

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0822351099

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9780822351092

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Women in Africa

Women in Africa

Rapture and Melancholy

Rapture and Melancholy

Twenty-First Century Workplace Challenges

Twenty-First Century Workplace Challenges

The Challenges of Minoritized Contingent Faculty in Higher Education

The Challenges of Minoritized Contingent Faculty in Higher Education

Faculty Members' Scholarly Learning Across Institutional Types

Faculty Members' Scholarly Learning Across Institutional Types

Beyond the Fields

Beyond the Fields

Women And Work In Africa

Women And Work In Africa

So Obscure a Person

So Obscure a Person

Markedness Theory

Markedness Theory

Wives of the Leopard

Wives of the Leopard

Lady Unknown

Lady Unknown

The Attorney-client Privilege and the Work-product Doctrine

The Attorney-client Privilege and the Work-product Doctrine

Who Killed Higher Education?

Who Killed Higher Education?

The Queen's House

The Queen's House

Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Global Climate Change

Global Climate Change

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