Lisa M Walsh

This thesis examines the affect the psychological variables of shyness, self-esteem and social self-efficacy have on students’ levels of social functioning. Social functioning occurs when an individual interacts with other individuals and carries out social role behaviours connected to individual or...

Have I Got a Story for You...Did Orion find love in the Everglades? Will a young lemur become the world’s greatest guilt monkey? What actually happened between Gretel and Hansel? What terrible secret is hiding at Graceline Industries? Can an android feel love? Who is the mysterious figure stalking a...

Looking for a fun holiday gift idea for your lady-friends, girlfriends, sisters, mothers, grandmothers, co-workers, under-$20-Secret-Santa-ers, and the like? Look no further! Not only does spending quality time with girlfriends sustain women's friendships, but it also has a lasting and positive impa...

A civilian internee of World War II, a fugitive in Rome from 1941-44, a partisan, and a member of Tito’s Yugoslav army, the author fought against the German occupation of Yugoslavia. After the war, as a foreign editor of the Belgrade daily, Borba, he covered the 1946 Paris Peace Conference, the 1948...

Family didn't seem to be important when I was a child. It was something we took for granted. When children played, there would be two parents watching, throwing a ball around, joking or sitting around the picnic table. Well, when I was a little child toddling around, what I remember most is my time ...

Between the Psyche and the Social is the first collection of its kind to offer original, interdisciplinary essays on questions of social subjectivity. Contributors engage the disciplines of feminism, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, film theory, literary criticism, and philo...

Sylviane Agacinski has never shied away from controversy. Vilified by some--including many feminists--and celebrated by others as a pioneer of gender equality, she has galvanized the French political scene. Her articulation of the theory of "parity" helped inspire a law that went into effect in May ...

Have we entered a historical moment of "post-feminism? " This volume presents a timely and convincing "no." These essays demonstrate that there is a new generation of French women who take up questions of equality and difference from a position distinct from either first or second wave feminism, a p...