Author: Edgar Masters
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: books, state, prairie, sangamon
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1988-10-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0252060385
ISBN-13: 9780252060380

Author: Sharon Strom
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: women, american, history, moder, origins, gender, class, typewriter
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1994-11-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0252064259
ISBN-13: 9780252064258

Author: Lorna Rivera
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: post, welfare, era, poverty, literacy, learn, women, laboring
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-08-22
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0252075552
ISBN-13: 9780252075551

The American adult education system has become an alternative for school dropouts, with some state welfare policies requiring teen mothers and women without high school diplomas to participate in adult education programs to receive aid. Very little has been published about women’s experiences in these mandatory programs and whether the programs reproduce the conditions that forced women to drop out in the first place. Lorna Rivera bridges the gap with this important study, the product of ten years’ active ethnographic research with formerly homeless women who participated in adult

Authors:Pirkko Moisala, Beverley Diamond,
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: gender, music
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2000-06-05
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0252068653
ISBN-13: 9780252068652

Through the experiences of performers, composers, and ethnomusicologists working in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America, "Music and Gender" explores how the uses and descriptions of music shift in response to rapid political, economic, or technological change. A cross-section of case studies from the Central African Republic, Finland, and Turkey addresses issues of how performance reflects gender and furthers other social goals, such as negotiating identity and transforming consciousness.Articles on Croatian and Serbian popular music and on the changing circumstances of women mu

Author: John S. Haller
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: transition, medicine, american
Number of Pages: 457
Published: 1981-02-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0252008065
ISBN-13: 9780252008061

Author: Karl A. Schleunes
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: german, jews, policy, nazi, road, auschwitz, twisted
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1990-11-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0252061470
ISBN-13: 9780252061479

Author: John H. Lenihan
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: film, illini, book, western, america, confronting, modern, showdown
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1980-04-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0252012542
ISBN-13: 9780252012549
  
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