Search Results - "social reformer"

From the cult of waste to the trash heap of history the politics of waste in socialist and postsocialist Hungary / by Gille, Zsuzsa

Table of Contents: “…-- Toward a social theory of waste -- Discipline and recycle (1948-1974) -- Metallic socialism -- The primitive accumulation of waste in metallic socialism -- Reform and reduce (1975-1984) -- The efficiency model -- The limits of efficiency -- Privatize and incinerate (1985-present) -- The chemical model -- "Building a castle out of shit": the wastelands of the new Europe -- Conclusion.…”
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From the cult of waste to the trash heap of history the politics of waste in socialist and postsocialist Hungary / by Gille, Zsuzsa

Table of Contents: “…-- Toward a social theory of waste -- Discipline and recycle (1948-1974) -- Metallic socialism -- The primitive accumulation of waste in metallic socialism -- Reform and reduce (1975-1984) -- The efficiency model -- The limits of efficiency -- Privatize and incinerate (1985-present) -- The chemical model -- "Building a castle out of shit": the wastelands of the new Europe -- Conclusion.…”
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In the crossfire Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform / by Spencer, John Palmer

Table of Contents: “…Schooling as social reform: racial uplift, liberalism, and the making of a black educator -- Combating cultural deprivation: urban educators and the war on poverty -- Victims, not hoodlums: urban schools and the crisis of liberalism -- Black power, "people power": holding schools accountable for black achievement -- Beyond community control: accountability and achievement in the Oakland public schools -- Epilogue: legacies of the 1960s in American school reform.…”
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In the crossfire Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform / by Spencer, John Palmer

Table of Contents: “…Schooling as social reform: racial uplift, liberalism, and the making of a black educator -- Combating cultural deprivation: urban educators and the war on poverty -- Victims, not hoodlums: urban schools and the crisis of liberalism -- Black power, "people power": holding schools accountable for black achievement -- Beyond community control: accountability and achievement in the Oakland public schools -- Epilogue: legacies of the 1960s in American school reform.…”
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Germans into Jews remaking the Jewish social body in the Weimar Republic / by Gillerman, Sharon, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…"As the family goes, so goes the nation" -- Constructing a Jewish body politic : declining fertility and the development of a Jewish population policy -- "A little state within a larger one" : the expansion of Jewish social work during the Weimar Republic -- Rescuing "endangered youths" : youth welfare and the project of bourgeois social reform -- "Trauma and transference" : war orphans shape a new Jewish nation.…”
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The institutional imperative the politics of equitable development in Southeast Asia / by Kuhonta, Erik Martinez, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction and theory: Introduction ; Institutions and social reform ; pt. 2. Politics of equitable development in Malaysia: From colonialism to independence : a festering crisis ; Reforming state, party, and economy -- pt. 3. …”
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Germans into Jews remaking the Jewish social body in the Weimar Republic / by Gillerman, Sharon, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…"As the family goes, so goes the nation" -- Constructing a Jewish body politic : declining fertility and the development of a Jewish population policy -- "A little state within a larger one" : the expansion of Jewish social work during the Weimar Republic -- Rescuing "endangered youths" : youth welfare and the project of bourgeois social reform -- "Trauma and transference" : war orphans shape a new Jewish nation.…”
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The institutional imperative the politics of equitable development in Southeast Asia / by Kuhonta, Erik Martinez, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction and theory: Introduction ; Institutions and social reform ; pt. 2. Politics of equitable development in Malaysia: From colonialism to independence : a festering crisis ; Reforming state, party, and economy -- pt. 3. …”
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Faith in the Great Physician : Suffering and Divine Healing in American Culture, 1860–1900 / by Curtis, Heather D.

Table of Contents: “…A thorn in the flesh : pain, illness, and religion in mid-nineteenth-century America -- Resisting resignation : the rise of religious healing in the late-nineteenth century -- Acting faith : the devotional ethics and gendered dynamics of divine healing -- The use of means : divine healing as devotional practice -- Houses of healing : sacred space, social geography, and gender in divine healing -- The Lord for the body, the gospel for the nations : divine healing and social reform.…”
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Faith in the Great Physician : Suffering and Divine Healing in American Culture, 1860–1900 / by Curtis, Heather D.

Table of Contents: “…A thorn in the flesh : pain, illness, and religion in mid-nineteenth-century America -- Resisting resignation : the rise of religious healing in the late-nineteenth century -- Acting faith : the devotional ethics and gendered dynamics of divine healing -- The use of means : divine healing as devotional practice -- Houses of healing : sacred space, social geography, and gender in divine healing -- The Lord for the body, the gospel for the nations : divine healing and social reform.…”
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Disarmed the missing movement for gun control in America / by Goss, Kristin A., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Gun-related trends ; Brief case studies of other social-reform movements ; Survey of Million Mom March participants.…”
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Disarmed the missing movement for gun control in America / by Goss, Kristin A., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Gun-related trends ; Brief case studies of other social-reform movements ; Survey of Million Mom March participants.…”
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Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil by Buckley, Eve E.

Table of Contents: “…Development politics and scientific expertise -- Climate and culture: constructing sertanejo marginality in modern Brazil -- Civilizing the sertão: public health in Brazil's hinterland, 1910s -- Engineering the drought zone: the birth of IFOCS, 1909-1930 -- Patronizing the Northeast: IFOCS under Vargas in the 1930s -- Watering Brazil's desert: agronomists and sertão reform, 1932-1955 -- Modernizing a region: economists as development experts, 1948-1964 -- Science, politics, and social reform.…”
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Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil by Buckley, Eve E.

Table of Contents: “…Development politics and scientific expertise -- Climate and culture: constructing sertanejo marginality in modern Brazil -- Civilizing the sertão: public health in Brazil's hinterland, 1910s -- Engineering the drought zone: the birth of IFOCS, 1909-1930 -- Patronizing the Northeast: IFOCS under Vargas in the 1930s -- Watering Brazil's desert: agronomists and sertão reform, 1932-1955 -- Modernizing a region: economists as development experts, 1948-1964 -- Science, politics, and social reform.…”
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Cinema and community : progressivism, exhibition, and film culture in Chicago, 1907-1917 / by Luckett, Moya

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Progressivism, modernity, and transitional cinema -- From crowds to communities: Progressive Era spectatorship theories -- Progressivism and early feature films: textuality, oversight, uplift -- Celebrity, self-awareness, and the consciousness of self -- Private pleasures and public space: community culture and the dominance of neighborhood theaters -- Oversight and regulation: film censorship, local government, and social reform -- Citizenship and black cinema -- Patriotism and patronage: regional and national identity in Chicago's theaters during World War I -- Conclusion.…”
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Cinema and community : progressivism, exhibition, and film culture in Chicago, 1907-1917 / by Luckett, Moya

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Progressivism, modernity, and transitional cinema -- From crowds to communities: Progressive Era spectatorship theories -- Progressivism and early feature films: textuality, oversight, uplift -- Celebrity, self-awareness, and the consciousness of self -- Private pleasures and public space: community culture and the dominance of neighborhood theaters -- Oversight and regulation: film censorship, local government, and social reform -- Citizenship and black cinema -- Patriotism and patronage: regional and national identity in Chicago's theaters during World War I -- Conclusion.…”
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Beyond the Reproductive Body : The Politics of Women's Health and Work in Early Victorian England / by Levine-Clark, Marjorie

Table of Contents: “…Pt 1: Contested body politics: women, health and social reform in the 1830s and 1840s -- The reproductive body, Part 1: Women's work and the biology of reproduction -- The reproductive body, Part 2: The tasks of social reproduction -- Gender, the Poor Law, and the ambiguity of the able-bodied worker -- pt. 2: Living in the body: women's experiences of health and illness -- The evidence of the body: poor women and medical cultures -- Testing the reproductive hypothesis: women's illnesses, the environment, and menstruation -- Health and the material conditions of home: sanitation, poverty, and domesticity -- "Rather a hard life": domestic relationships and health at home -- "She continued at her work": negotiating employment and health -- Conclusion: The politics of women's health and work.…”
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Beyond the Reproductive Body : The Politics of Women's Health and Work in Early Victorian England / by Levine-Clark, Marjorie

Table of Contents: “…Pt 1: Contested body politics: women, health and social reform in the 1830s and 1840s -- The reproductive body, Part 1: Women's work and the biology of reproduction -- The reproductive body, Part 2: The tasks of social reproduction -- Gender, the Poor Law, and the ambiguity of the able-bodied worker -- pt. 2: Living in the body: women's experiences of health and illness -- The evidence of the body: poor women and medical cultures -- Testing the reproductive hypothesis: women's illnesses, the environment, and menstruation -- Health and the material conditions of home: sanitation, poverty, and domesticity -- "Rather a hard life": domestic relationships and health at home -- "She continued at her work": negotiating employment and health -- Conclusion: The politics of women's health and work.…”
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Feminism, sexuality, and politics essays / by Freedman, Estelle B., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Identities, values, and inquiries : a personal history -- Separatism as strategy : female institution building and American feminism, 1870-1930 -- Separatism revisited : women's institutions, social reform, and the career of Miriam Van Waters -- Women's networks and women's loyalties : reflections on a tenure case -- Small group pedagogy : consciousness raising in conservative times -- No turning back : the historical resilience of feminism -- The historical construction of homosexuality in the United States -- Uncontrolled desires : the response to the sexual psychopath, 1920-1960 -- The prison lesbian : race, class, and the construction of the aggressive female homosexual, 1915-1965 -- The burning of letters continues : elusive identities and the historical construction of sexuality -- When historical interpretation meets legal advocacy : abortion, sodomy, and same-sex marriage.…”
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Feminism, sexuality, and politics essays / by Freedman, Estelle B., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Identities, values, and inquiries : a personal history -- Separatism as strategy : female institution building and American feminism, 1870-1930 -- Separatism revisited : women's institutions, social reform, and the career of Miriam Van Waters -- Women's networks and women's loyalties : reflections on a tenure case -- Small group pedagogy : consciousness raising in conservative times -- No turning back : the historical resilience of feminism -- The historical construction of homosexuality in the United States -- Uncontrolled desires : the response to the sexual psychopath, 1920-1960 -- The prison lesbian : race, class, and the construction of the aggressive female homosexual, 1915-1965 -- The burning of letters continues : elusive identities and the historical construction of sexuality -- When historical interpretation meets legal advocacy : abortion, sodomy, and same-sex marriage.…”
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