The Politics of Gender Reform in West Africa: Family, Religion, and the State (Contending Modernities) 026820506X, 9780268205065

Who Are My People?: Love, Violence, and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa (Contending Modernities) 0268202567, 9780268202569

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Governance and Crisis in the State in Africa : The Context and Dynamics of the Conflicts in West Africa 9781906704100

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Playing the Marginality Game: Identity Politics in West Africa 9781789201901

In Guinea, situated against the background of central government struggles, rural elites use identity politics through c

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Militancy and Violence in West Africa: Religion, politics and radicalisation 1138856347, 9781138856349

This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of radicalisation, militancy and violence in West Africa.

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Mining Coal and Undermining Gender: Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West 9780813563695

Though mining is an infamously masculine industry, women make up 20 percent of all production crews in Wyoming’s Powder

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Protecting motherhood: women and the family in the politics of postwar West Germany 9780520079038, 9780520205161

Robert G. Moeller is the first historian of modern German women to use social policy as a lens to focus on society'

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Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China: Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform 9780804794275

This book examines the late Qing reforms from the perspective of the woman writer Xue Shaohui and her reform-minded coll

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Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China 9780804771139

This volume combines the perspective of religion as a constructed category of modernity with the analytic focus and empi

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Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation 9780231519809

Through a case study of Sikhism, Mandair launches an extended critique of religion as a cultural universal. He shows how

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The Politics of Custom: Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa 022651076X, 9780226510767

How are we to explain the resurgence of customary chiefs in contemporary Africa? Rather than disappearing with the tide

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