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How Places Make Us
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Author : Japonica Brown-Saracino
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018
How Places Make Us written by Japonica Brown-Saracino and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Science categories.
Maybe we've had enough of studies of gay men and urban centers, tracing out the similarities from one place to the next. Japonica Brown-Saracino bucks the trend, giving us the first in-depth study of lesbians (and bisexual/queer women more generally), showing how four contrasting communal cultures have shaped their identity. Individual lesbian residents shape the culture of sexual identity they embrace, based at the same time on the prevailing culture in the city they inhabit. And the consequence is that the same woman will develop a different version of lesbian identity depending on which of the four cities she moves into. Those cities are: Ithaca, New York; San Luis Obispo, California; Greenfield, Massachusetts; and Portland, Maine. She identifies them in the book (a rare move for ethnographers), thus insuring a coast-to-coast readership, with lots of debate. This book advances, in almost equal measure, sexuality and gender studies, theories of identity, theories of place, and urban sociology. Each city has its own loose bundles or connections between residents, whether it's the taste-based ties in Ithaca, or the ties in San Luis Obispo that cut across demographics, or the conversations about identity that prevail in Portland, or the emphasis Greenfield on other dimensions of the self (e.g., profession, politics, or life stage, such as motherhood). Along the way, Brown-Saracino poses a set of questions from urban sociology about migration, residential choice, and community change processes that students of cities rarely apply to sexual minority populations.
How Places Make Us
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Author : Japonica Brown-Saracino
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-12-13
How Places Make Us written by Japonica Brown-Saracino and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-13 with Social Science categories.
We like to think of ourselves as possessing an essential self, a core identity that is who we really are, regardless of where we live, work, or play. But places actually make us much more than we might think, argues Japonica Brown-Saracino in this novel ethnographic study of lesbian, bisexual, and queer individuals in four small cities across the United States. Taking us into communities in Ithaca, New York; San Luis Obispo, California; Greenfield, Massachusetts; and Portland, Maine; Brown-Saracino shows how LBQ migrants craft a unique sense of self that corresponds to their new homes. How Places Make Us demonstrates that sexual identities are responsive to city ecology. Despite the fact that the LBQ residents share many demographic and cultural traits, their approaches to sexual identity politics and to ties with other LBQ individuals and heterosexual residents vary markedly by where they live. Subtly distinct local ecologies shape what it feels like to be a sexual minority, including the degree to which one feels accepted, how many other LBQ individuals one encounters in daily life, and how often a city declares its embrace of difference. In short, city ecology shapes how one “does” LBQ in a specific place. Ultimately, Brown-Saracino shows that there isn’t one general way of approaching sexual identity because humans are not only social but fundamentally local creatures. Even in a globalized world, the most personal of questions—who am I?—is in fact answered collectively by the city in which we live.
The Temperance Movement
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Author : Winskill P. T.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
The Temperance Movement written by Winskill P. T. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.
Report By Mr Edmunds From The Joint Select Committee Instructed By A Concurrent Resolution Of The Two Houses Of Congress Of October 8 1888 To Investigate The Work Performed Upon The Washington Aqueduct Tunnel With Testimony And Appendix
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Author : United States. Congress. Joint select committee on the Washington aqueduct tunnel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Report By Mr Edmunds From The Joint Select Committee Instructed By A Concurrent Resolution Of The Two Houses Of Congress Of October 8 1888 To Investigate The Work Performed Upon The Washington Aqueduct Tunnel With Testimony And Appendix written by United States. Congress. Joint select committee on the Washington aqueduct tunnel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Water-supply categories.
Literature
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899
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The Death And Life Of Great American Cities
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Author : Jane Jacobs
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-11-17
The Death And Life Of Great American Cities written by Jane Jacobs and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-17 with History categories.
In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on our urban environment. Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusier's Radiant City, they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-contained neighbourhoods, super-blocks, rigid 'scientific' plans and endless acres of grass. Yet they seldom stop to look at what actually works on the ground. The real vitality of cities, argues Jacobs, lies in their diversity, architectural variety, teeming street life and human scale. It is only when we appreciate such fundamental realities that we can hope to create cities that are safe, interesting and economically viable, as well as places that people want to live in. 'Perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning... Jacobs has a powerful sense of narrative, a lively wit, a talent for surprise and the ability to touch the emotions as well as the mind' New York Times Book Review
Annual Report
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Author : New Jersey. Board of Agriculture
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
Annual Report written by New Jersey. Board of Agriculture and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Agriculture categories.
The General Baptist Repository And Missionary Observer Afterw The General Baptist Magazine Repository And Missionary Observer Afterw The General Baptist Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
The General Baptist Repository And Missionary Observer Afterw The General Baptist Magazine Repository And Missionary Observer Afterw The General Baptist Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with categories.
Triumph Of The City
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Author : Edward Glaeser
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-02-10
Triumph Of The City written by Edward Glaeser and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-10 with Social Science categories.
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011 “A masterpiece.” —Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics “Bursting with insights.” —The New York Times Book Review A pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly . . . or are they? In this revelatory book, Edward Glaeser, a leading urban economist, declares that cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in both cultural and economic terms) places to live. He travels through history and around the globe to reveal the hidden workings of cities and how they bring out the best in humankind. Using intrepid reportage, keen analysis, and cogent argument, Glaeser makes an urgent, eloquent case for the city's importance and splendor, offering inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest creation and our best hope for the future.
The Daily Psalms Meditations By The Author Of The Daily Round
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Author : Thomas Benson Pollock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
The Daily Psalms Meditations By The Author Of The Daily Round written by Thomas Benson Pollock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Bible categories.