From the inside dust jacket:To what extent have recent experimental societies sought to alter the traditional status and rights of the sexes, and to what extent have they succeeded? Has the twentieth century produced communes where men and women share power equally? Jon Wagner questions the widely held view that communes tend naturally toward sex-role liberalization. In his overview of communal experiences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries he traces the history of these societies and observes a trend toward rigidity. Based on original fieldwork, the six case studies that follow reveal that modern communes often feature inflexible and hierarchical sex-role systems.

Sex Roles in Contemporary American Communes

Self-Help

Wagner, Jon

Indiana Univ. Pr

What could possibly account for the scope and longevity of the Star Trek phenomenon? With legions of impassioned fans and a life span of 30 years and counting, the Star Trek television and film corpus has made Gene Roddenberry's creation nothing less than an American mythology. Deep Space and Sacred Time examines for the first time in book-length form the many ways Star Trek has served as a mythic reference point for American society―and suggests that an understanding of this might help us to see ourselves more clearly as a culture. Moreover, this thoughtful and thought-provoking work posits that Star Trek offers its audience a sense of hope and, in the setting of an orderly cosmos, the possibility for empowerment.
Written to appeal to thoughtful Star Trek viewers, as well as teachers and scholars, Deep Space and Sacred Time examines Trek's humanist creed, with its faith in the human capacity for compassion, growth and self-guidance. Roddenberry's optimistic vision stressed the tolerance of diversity, the central role of friendship and loyalty, an opposition to prejudice, and the rejection of organized religion and divine authority. Employing the framework of contemporary social analysis, authors Jon Wagner and Jan Lundeen reveal the evolving tension between Star Trek's liberalism and its subliminal messages of gender, race and class hegemony; yet they also take issue with the recent wave of critical scholarship that finds only homophobia, sexism, racism, and other oppressive forces dominating the Star Trek mythos. Citing hundreds of examples from the first eight Star Trek feature films and the four television series, the authors consider the ways in which Star Trek invites its audience to explore the nature of the self, the essence of humanity, the construction of gender, the possibility of utopia, and the role of narrative in shaping an intelligible cosmos.

Deep Space and Sacred Time: Star Trek in the American Mythos

Lundeen, Jan

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Praeger Pub Text

Misfits Missionaries

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Sage Publications, Inc.

A longtime bestseller, Politics and Change in the Middle East employs a multidisciplinary approach to comprehensively and evenhandedly study the region�s past, present, and future. Through politics, economics, culture, and history, this text offers a rugged analytical framework that familiarizes students with the Middle East and helps them to critically evaluate contemporary developments. Thematically organized, Politics and Change in the Middle East introduces students to the primary actors and issues that define the region and its role in world politics.

Politics and Change in the Middle East: 10e

Seibert, Robert

Anderson, Roy.

Politics & Government

Routledge

The learner of today has instantaneous access to information virtually anywhere and anytime. Emerging new learning technologies are enabling the rapid growth of Blended Learning systems which expand on the traditional classroom-based delivery to include a richer more varied set of learning experiences. These include virtual classrooms, webinars, social media, wikis, eLearning, simulations, games and others to deliver learning experiences more affordably and with higher retention rates.  This book is focused on Best Practices aimed at supporting the type of Learning Environment just described. These best practices are based on our research of Blended Learning and Virtual Classroom best practices, over 20 years of experience researching virtual and remote team effectiveness and practical experience designing and leading hundreds of virtual meetings, webinars, workshops as well as Virtual Classroom and Blended Learning experiences across the globe.   The book describes 179 Best Practices in the design and delivery of Blended Learning programs with special attention paid to the use of Virtual Classroom technologies and social learning to provide learning designed to address the needs of today's learner who wants the right learning delivered to them through mobile devices just when they need it. The book is targeted at those training and development professionals and manager who are challenged with transitioning from the traditional training approaches to the new Blended Learning environments. It is a pragmatic book of tools which provide very directed advice at the many different critical success factors involved is successful design and delivery.

BEST Practices for the Virtual Classroom and Blended Learning

Milland, Russ

Education & Teaching

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Reality's Written Language

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Cognella Academic Publishing

Reality's Written Language: A Critical Anthology of Classical and Contemporary Film Theory

Spampinato, Denise

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