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Book Synopsis Discourses of Difference by : Sara Mills
Download or read book Discourses of Difference written by Sara Mills and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unravels the complexities of writings by British women of the `high colonial' period. Sara Mills analyses the writings of three women travellers, extending recent post-colonial and cultural theory in an important and inspiring study.
Book Synopsis Missionary Discourses of Difference by : E. Cleall
Download or read book Missionary Discourses of Difference written by E. Cleall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture. The book is organised around three themes: family, sickness and violence, which were key areas of missionary concern, and important axes around which colonial difference was forged.
Book Synopsis Discourses on Difference by : Norman Duncan
Download or read book Discourses on Difference written by Norman Duncan and published by Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society. This book was released on 2002 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rewriting the Renaissance by : Margaret W. Ferguson
Download or read book Rewriting the Renaissance written by Margaret W. Ferguson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986-09-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juxtaposing the insights of feminism with those of marxism, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction, this unique collection creates new common ground for women's studies and Renaissance studies. An outstanding array of scholars—literary critics, art critics, and historians—reexamines the role of women and their relations with men during the Renaissance. In the process, the contributors enrich the emerging languages of and about women, gender, and sexual difference. Throughout, the essays focus on the structures of Renaissance patriarchy that organized power relations both in the state and in the family. They explore the major conequences of patriarchy for women—their marginalization and lack of identity and power—and the ways in which individual women or groups of women broke, or in some cases deliberately circumvented, the rules that defined them as a secondary sex. Topics covered include representations of women in literature and art, the actual work done by women both inside and outside of the home, and the writings of women themselves. In analyzing the rhetorical strategies that "marginalized" historical and fictional women, these essays counter scholarly and critical traditions that continue to exhibit patriarchal biases.
Book Synopsis Gender, Companionship, and Travel by : Floris Meens
Download or read book Gender, Companionship, and Travel written by Floris Meens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last couple of decades there has been a strong academic interest in how individuals interact with each other while en route. Yet, even if various studies have informed us about present-day realities of travel companionships, we know little about the influence of gender both on these realities, as well as on the discourse in which these are being narrated. This book aims to establish an agenda for the study of companionship in travel writing by offering a collection of new essays which study texts that belong to the broad category of pre-modern and modern travel literature. Chapters explore the differences and similarities in the ways that women and men in the past chose to describe their experiences with, and/or their ideas about companionship, and specifically reveals the influence of gender norms, conventions, restrictions, and stereotypes. This is the first book which looks at the long-term, interdisciplinary, and genuinely international history of gendered discourses on companionship in travel writing. It will be of interest to scholars and students from a wide variety of disciplines, including cultural and social history, as well as cultural, literary, gender, travel, and tourism studies.
Book Synopsis Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research by :
Download or read book Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how narratives are deeply embodied, engaging heart, soul, as well as mind, through varying adult learner perspectives. Biographical research is not an isolated, individual, solipsistic endeavor but shaped by larger ecological interactions – in families, schools, universities, communities, societies, and networks – that can create or destroy hope. Telling or listening to life stories celebrates complexity, messiness, and the rich potential of learning lives. The narratives in this book highlight the rapid disruption of sustainable ecologies, not only ‘natural’, physical, and biological, but also psychological, economic, relational, political, educational, cultural, and ethical. Yet, despite living in a precarious, and often frightening, liquid world, biographical research can both chronicle and illuminate how resources of hope are created in deeper, aesthetically satisfying ways. Biographical research offers insights, and even signposts, to understand and transcend the darker side of the human condition, alongside its inspirations. Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research aims to generate insight into people’s fears and anxieties but also their capacity to 'keep on keeping on' and to challenge forces that would diminish their and all our humanity. It provides a sustainable approach to creating sufficient hope in individuals and communities by showing how building meaningful dialogue, grounded in social justice, can create good enough experiences of togetherness across difference. The book illuminates what amounts to an ecology of life, learning and human flourishing in a sometimes tortured, fractious, fragmented, and fragile world, yet one still offering rich resources of hope.
Book Synopsis Rereading the Black Legend by : Margaret R. Greer
Download or read book Rereading the Black Legend written by Margaret R. Greer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phrase “The Black Legend” was coined in 1912 by a Spanish journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other Europeans as a backward country defined by ignorance, superstition, and religious fanaticism, whose history could never recover from the black mark of its violent conquest of the Americas. Challenging this stereotype, Rereading the Black Legend contextualizes Spain’s uniquely tarnished reputation by exposing the colonial efforts of other nations whose interests were served by propagating the “Black Legend.” A distinguished group of contributors here examine early modern imperialisms including the Ottomans in Eastern Europe, the Portuguese in East India, and the cases of Mughal India and China, to historicize the charge of unique Spanish brutality in encounters with indigenous peoples during the Age of Exploration. The geographic reach and linguistic breadth of this ambitious collection will make it a valuable resource for any discussion of race, national identity, and religious belief in the European Renaissance.
Book Synopsis Feminism Unmodified by : Catharine A. MacKinnon
Download or read book Feminism Unmodified written by Catharine A. MacKinnon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Catharine A. MacKinnon, noted feminist and legal scholar, explores and develops her original theories and practical proposals on sexual politics and law. These discourses, originally delivered as speeches, have been brilliantly woven into a book that retains all the spontaneity and accessibility of a live presentation. Through these engaged works on issues such as rape, abortion, athletics, sexual harassment, and pornography, MacKinnon seeks feminism on its own terms, unconstrained by the limits of prior traditions. She argues that viewing gender as a matter of sameness and difference--as virtually all existing theory and law have done--covers up the reality of gender, which is a system of social hierarchy, an imposed inequality of power"--Back cover.
Book Synopsis Discourses on Livy by : Niccolò Machiavelli
Download or read book Discourses on Livy written by Niccolò Machiavelli and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machiavelli saw history in general as a way to learn useful lessons from the past for the present, and also as a type of analysis which could be built upon, as long as each generation did not forget the works of the past. In "Discourses on Livy" Machiavelli discusses what can be learned from roman period and many other eras as well, including the politics of his lifetime. This is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th. The title identifies the work's subject as the first ten books of Livy's Ab urbe condita, which relate the expansion of Rome through the end of the Third Samnite War in 293 BC. Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer. He has often been called the father of modern political science. He was for many years a senior official in the Florentine Republic, with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He served as a secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power.He wrote his most well-known work The Prince in 1513, having been exiled from city affairs.
Download or read book Discourse written by Sara Mills and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara Mills offers an accessible and comprehensive analysis of the term 'discourse' and explores the theoretical assumptions underlying it. This handy, easy to follow pocket guidebook for students provides: straightforward working definitions historical developments of the term studied analysis of Michel Foucault discussion of the appropriation of the term 'discourse' by feminist, colonial and post-colonial discourse theorists examples of literary and non-literary texts to illustrate the use of 'discourse'.
Book Synopsis Off the Beaten Track? Divergent Discourses in Victorian Women’s Travelogues by : Antje Peukert
Download or read book Off the Beaten Track? Divergent Discourses in Victorian Women’s Travelogues written by Antje Peukert and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,1, University of Potsdam (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: Diese Studie untersucht das Zusammenspiel zwischen imperialen und Weiblichkeitsdiskursen in den Reiseberichten britischer Frauen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Im Besonderen werden die Reiseberichte von Lucie Duff Gordon und Amelia Edwards beleuchtet und hinsichtlich ihrer Einordnung in kulturelle, politische und soziale Zusammenhänge analysiert. Das Augenmerk liegt dabei hauptsächlich auf Konstruktionen von Geschlecht und Identität, um aufzuzeigen, dass britischen Mittelstandsfrauen, trotz der strengen patriarchalen Eingrenzung, die Kolonialherrschaft Englands emanzipatorische Auswege aufzeigte. Aufgrund des widersprüchlichen Verhältnisses von imperialen und als maskulin konnotierten Diskursen und Weiblichkeitsdiskursen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts in den Reisetexten von Frauen, lassen sich Konstruiertheit und Instabilität beider Diskurse darstellen. Das erste Kapitel dieser Arbeit gibt einen Überblick über postkoloniale und feministische Ansätze bezüglich der Reiseliteratur von britischen Autorinnen. Es wird vor allem ein theoretischer Rahmen und eine Methode zur Analyse von imperialen Reisetexten herausgearbeitet. Darüberhinaus wird die Position des Kritikers/der Kritikerin dekonstruiert, um die diskursive Einbettung repräsentativer Praktiken zu beleuchten und einen selbst-kritischen Zusammenhang zwischen imperialer Vergangenheit und gegenwärtigen Diskursen zu knüpfen. Im zweiten Kapitel wird auf die konkrete historische und kulturelle Situation von viktorianischen Frauen eingegangen. Der zweite Teil des Kapitels befasst sich dann näher mit der historischen Entwicklung des Reisens und der Tradition von reisenden Frauen im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Zwei konkrete Texte von zwei viktorianischen Autorinnen werden ausführlich im dritten und vierten Kapitel besprochen. Sowohl Amelia Edwards als auch Lucie Duff Gordon reisten in der zweiten Hälfte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts nach Ägypten und verfassten Berichte, die die Bandbreite orientalistischer Diskurse und Diskurse über Weiblichkeit andeuten. Die vorliegende Arbeit will beweisen, dass die Reiseberichte von britischen Frauen der viktorianischen Epoche aktiv in koloniale und patriarchale Diskurse eingriffen und sie modifizierten.
Book Synopsis Discourses on Religious Diversity by : Martin D. Stringer
Download or read book Discourses on Religious Diversity written by Martin D. Stringer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious diversity is an ever present, and increasingly visible, reality in cities across the world. It is an issue of immediate concern to city leaders and members of religious communities but do we really know what ordinary members of the public, the people who live in the city, really think about it? Major news items, inter-religious violence and notorious public events often lead to negative views being expressed, especially among those who would not consider themselves to have a religious identity of their own. Martin Stringer explores the highly complex series of discourses around religion and religious diversity that are held by ordinary members of the city; discourses that are often contradictory in themselves and discourses that show that attitudes to religion vary considerably depending on context and wider local or national narratives. Drawing on examples from UK (particularly Birmingham, one of the UK's most diverse cities), Europe and the United States, Stringer offers some practical suggestions for ways in which discourses of religious diversity can be managed in the future. Students in the fields of religious studies, sociology, anthropology and urban studies; practitioners involved in inter-religious debates; and church and other faith leaders and politicians should all find this book an invaluable addition to ongoing debates.
Book Synopsis Policy Discourses, Gender, and Education by : Elizabeth J. Allan
Download or read book Policy Discourses, Gender, and Education written by Elizabeth J. Allan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite over thirty years of activism and legislation to eliminate discrimination, parity has yet to be achieved for women in academe. Allan's findings reveal how dominant discourses of femininity, access, professionalism, race, and sexuality contribute to constructing women's status in complex and at times, contradictory ways.
Book Synopsis The Body and Physical Difference by : David T. Mitchell
Download or read book The Body and Physical Difference written by David T. Mitchell and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundbreaking perspectives on disability in culture and the arts that shed light on notions of identity and social marginality
Book Synopsis The Discourses of Epictetus by : Epictetus
Download or read book The Discourses of Epictetus written by Epictetus and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Literature Politics & Theory by : Francis Barker
Download or read book Literature Politics & Theory written by Francis Barker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Worlds of Difference by : Cary J. Nederman
Download or read book Worlds of Difference written by Cary J. Nederman and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Europe, with its crusading fervour, is not generally thought of as a place of tolerance; divergence from the norm, whether social, political or religious, was not acceptable.
