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      Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity

      Joshua Gamson

      Are talk shows turning everything they touch into freak shows? This book claims that the socially deviant may be featured on-air for ridicule in the public eye, but the result…

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      Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity

      Joshua Gamson

      Are talk shows turning everything they touch into freak shows? This book claims that the socially deviant may be featured on-air for ridicule in the public eye, but the result…

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      Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America

      Joshua Gamson

      Moving from People magazine to publicists’ offices to tours of stars’ homes, this work deals with the larger-than-life terrain of American celebrity culture. It begins with the often-heard criticisms that…

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      The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco

      Professor of Sociology Joshua Gamson

      A journey back through the music, madness, and unparalleled freedom of an era of change–the ‘70s–as told through the life of a pied piper singing in a dazzling falsetto, wearing…

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      Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship

      Joshua Gamson

      A personal, intimate account of the extraordinary ways that today’s families are being created.

      From adoption and assisted reproduction, to gay and straight parents, coupled and single, and multi-parent families…

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      Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship

      Joshua Gamson

      A personal, intimate account of the extraordinary ways that today’s families are being created.

      From adoption and assisted reproduction, to gay and straight parents, coupled and single, and multi-parent families…

      $39.99

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      Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis

      Michael Burawoy,Alice Burton,Ann Arnett Ferguson,Kathryn J. Fox

      In this powerful volume, ten original ethnographies explore two important issues: the ways in which people confront the threats and disruptions of contemporary life, and the ways in which researchers…

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