Prejudice category: 97 books

"Tagliati la barba" ! Chi è l'uomo barbuto che non si è mai sentito dire questa frase? Oggi la società è colma di pregiudizi e portare la barba comporta diverse seccature. Per molti la barba fa parte della propria personalità e toglierla significa perdere un pezzo di se. Portare la...

Remembering Conquest: Feminist/Womanist Perspectives on Religion, Colonization, and Sexual Violence addresses the issue of sexual violence against women from feminist and womanist theological perspectives. Taken from proceedings of a panel discussion at the 1998 annual meeting of the American Academy...

We live in conflicted times. Our newsfeeds are filled with inequality, division, and fear. We want to make a difference and see justice restored because Jesus calls us to be a peacemaking and reconciling people. But how do we do this? Based on their work with diverse churches, colleges, and other...

La ragazza con gli anfibi delinea un quadro di quello che sono oggi i consumi di sostanze stupefacenti, senza cadere in stereotipi e pregiudizi, facendo prevalere la storia della persona che consuma droga, il rapporto che si crea con quest’ultima e il ruolo che svolge nella vita quotidiana. Pagina...

Two new words for a Tolerance-hungry vocabulary. Homosexuality is now Homonaturality. Heterosexuality is now Heteronaturality. Let's take the sting and abuse out of words that have become too narrow and too negative. - If you are a relative or friend of a gay or lesbian who has just come out to you,...

Romantico, appassionato, crudele, un amore di quelli che non ci sono più, ancora un tabù immenso. Giocato dentro e fuori i campi di calcio, “Il ritiro” è la cruda confessione di una passione, forse un bisogno, che nasce nel loro primo ritiro insieme. Sono calciatori i due protagonisti, due...

Out and About: The LGBT Experience in the Legal Profession is a collaboration between the American Bar Association Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity ("SOGI") and the National LGBT Bar Association ("LGBT Bar"). Both SOGI and the LGBT went to great lengths to identify...

The umbrella from which this tale is drawn is that of HUMAN RIGHTS. It is informed by a mix of social deficiencies, complexities and challenges resulting from; unemployment, unforgiving capitalist system, rampant sex irresponsibility, disregard for “law & order” within the most township, informal...

Having both an intellectual disability and being from an ethnic minority group can make it even more difficult to get good services. If you know someone in this situation, you can use this book to help them to challenge discrimination by service providers. Two encounters are described, but...

Book analyses and addresses current reconciliation thinking in terrorist-torn Northern Ireland by subjecting it to the teaching of the Bible. False reconciliation, argues Dr Lynch, is most dangerous because it creates a false sense of security. Myths around current reconciliation thinking and practice...

Children in immigrant families represent nearly one-fourth of all children living in the United States. As this population of children has increased, so has their representation among children involved in child welfare and related systems. Once immigrant families come to the attention of these systems,...

Angelo ed Elisa sono due fratelli gemelli, tanto legati quanto diversi tra loro. L'una espressione graffiante di anticonformismo e spirito di contraddizione verso le regole, per affermare le ragioni dell'essere sopra qualunque forma perbenista di apparire, l'altro ligio alle attese riposte su di lui,...

David kicked at rocks and empty soda bottles as he walked home from school. Since his parents' divorce, his mother has enlisted Miss Lee, their elderly Chinese-American neighbor, to keep tabs on him. It's embarrassing, to say the least. Yet when he and Miss Lee discover a common interest in word games,...

Cime tempestose è l'unico romanzo scritto da Emily Brontë, pubblicato nel 1847 sotto lo pseudonimo di Elise Bell. Ambientato nelle fredde brughiere dello Yorkshire, narra la tormentata e angosciosa storia d'amore di Catherine, bellissima giovane di famiglia benestante, e Heathcliff, orfanello rude...