Unsettling Assumptions

Unsettling AssumptionsIn Unsettling Assumptions, editors Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye examine how tradition and gender come together to unsettle assumptions about culture and its study. Contributors explore the intersections of traditional expressive culture and sex gender systems to question, investigate, or upset concepts like family, ethics, and authenticity. Individual essays consider myriad topics such as Thanksgiving turkeys, rockabilly and bar fights, Chinese

Addressing a broad range of subjects

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the thorny issues with which contemporaries grappled and the claims that were and were not made about freedom of expression

and on to the broader moral and ethical implications of the material

The book provides a timely examination of how gender inequalities were created and structured within U

The book reconsiders the theological

and that such places of responsibility can establish limits on individual and collective action without abandoning legitimate modern achievements such as democracy and science

and the influence of privatization on public employees' earnings

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in political circles

The result is a volume that offers students and interested readers a brief but focused introduction to the role of German businesses and industries in the crimes of Hitler's Third Reich

the book had a much more far-reaching influence