Undesirable Practices examines both the intended and the unintended consequences of imperial feminism and British colonial interventions in undesirable cultural practices in northern Ghana.
Although Cora Du Bois began her life in the early twentieth century as a lonely and awkward girl, her intellect and curiosity propelled her into a remarkable life as an anthropologist and diplomat in the vanguard of social and academic change.
In 1919 Charlotte Anita Whitney, a wealthy white woman, received one of the first Communist Labor Party membership cards for the charter group of the northern California Communist Labor Party.
An early modern domestic and spiritual memoir, My First Booke of My Life depicts the life of Alice Thornton (1626-1707), a complex, contradictory woman caught in the changing fortunes and social realities of the seventeenth century.
Violent Inheritance deepens the analysis of settler colonialisms endurance in the North American West and how infrastructures that ground sexual modernity are both reproduced and challenged by publics who have inherited them.
Diversos marcos estratégicos, nacionales y europeos, proponen que, en el contexto laboral posterior a la pandemia, la mejora de la salud y la seguridad estará marcada, en los próximos años, por las transiciones ecológica y digital, los desafíos económicos y demográficos y la evolución de la noción del entorno de trabajo tradicional.
Diese Studie schliet eine Leerstelle kulturwissenschaftlicher Gender Studies: Von Goethe ausgehend bis zur Gegenwart untersuchen exemplarische Lekturen, welche Aussagen literarische Texte uber den diskursiven Zusammenhang von Geschlecht und Arbeitsvermogen treffen.
De rencontres en lectures et de films en souvenirs, ces fragments autobiographiques racontent le siecle passe a la maniere d'un puzzle intime, de la Seconde Guerre mondiale a l'epoque actuelle, d'Oradour au Chili, en passant par Alger et Cuba.
Pourquoi les relations entre les etres humains, et plus particulierement entre les hommes et les femmes, demeurent-elles traversees de conflits malgre l'evolution des normes et des discours sur l'egalite ?
Fort des acquis de l'historiographie sur le negoce des ports europeens de la fin de l'epoque medievale au debut de la periode contemporaine, l'ambition de ce livre est de faire dialoguer l'histoire portuaire et maritime avec l'histoire des femmes et du genre.
Diese Studie schliet eine Leerstelle kulturwissenschaftlicher Gender Studies: Von Goethe ausgehend bis zur Gegenwart untersuchen exemplarische Lekturen, welche Aussagen literarische Texte uber den diskursiven Zusammenhang von Geschlecht und Arbeitsvermogen treffen.
This book analyses one of the many levels of complexity not readily apparent to the reader of Zola's fiction: the question of the author's family secrets.
This book is a written account of a qualitative, narrative-based critical autoethnography exploring the development of leadership identities of women leaders, including the author, working in various educational settings, including K-12 schools, universities, politics, research centers, and community non-profit organizations.
This book is a written account of a qualitative, narrative-based critical autoethnography exploring the development of leadership identities of women leaders, including the author, working in various educational settings, including K-12 schools, universities, politics, research centers, and community non-profit organizations.
Becoming Anne Lister: Diaries, Adaptations, and Afterlives examines Anne Lister’s historical legacy as a prolific diarist, landowner, and queer woman, as well as her representation in transmedia adaptations in neo-Victorian literature, film and television.
Becoming Anne Lister: Diaries, Adaptations, and Afterlives examines Anne Lister’s historical legacy as a prolific diarist, landowner, and queer woman, as well as her representation in transmedia adaptations in neo-Victorian literature, film and television.
In the tradition of educational narrative inquiry, this book explores diverse ways of thinking, writing and theorizing from auto/biographic experience, in language that is rooted in practice yet challenges the authoritative discourses of educational policy, theory and research.
Suffering from manopause and Low T , underemployed and unwilling to grow up, the other guy has emerged as an important figure in modern media masculinity.
Bodily Autonomy in 19th Century American Women's Writing: A Cornucopia of Pharmacopoeia investigates literary and autobiographical texts by nineteenth century American women, examining how women used herbal remedies to maintain bodily autonomy and how that autonomy was progressively eroded with the rise of plant-based tropane solanaceae alkaloids, and later, synthetic and anaesthetic drugs.
This is the first book-length study of the groundbreaking work of Rey Chow, whose work has transformed the fields of postcolonialism, cultural studies, film, ethnicity and gender.
The Fragmented Female Body and Identity explores the symbol of the wounded and scarred female body in selected postmodern, multiethnic American women's novels, namely Toni Morrison's Beloved, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee, Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata, Gayl Jones's Corregidora, Emma Perez's Gulf Dreams, Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, and Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School and Empire of the Senseless.
Following on from the first volume published in 2012, this new volume significantly expands the scope of the study of literary journalism both geographically and thematically.
This is the first book-length study of the groundbreaking work of Rey Chow, whose work has transformed the fields of postcolonialism, cultural studies, film, ethnicity and gender.
Suffering from manopause and Low T , underemployed and unwilling to grow up, the other guy has emerged as an important figure in modern media masculinity.
The French Revolution represents a pivotal moment within the history of personhood in France, where gender and national differences provided the foundations of society.
This book investigates the themes of female entrapment and the feminine gaze, and explores how they function as theatrical metaphors in Samuel Beckett's later plays.
Following on from the first volume published in 2012, this new volume significantly expands the scope of the study of literary journalism both geographically and thematically.
This book is intended to challenge the status quo of music learning and experience by intersecting various musical topics with discussions of spirituality and queer studies.
The French Revolution represents a pivotal moment within the history of personhood in France, where gender and national differences provided the foundations of society.
This book is intended to challenge the status quo of music learning and experience by intersecting various musical topics with discussions of spirituality and queer studies.
The Stranger's Voice examines some of Julia Kristeva's major psychoanalytic texts which focus on themes of women's depression, feminine identity, motherhood, and the need to believe as these themes relate to the power of religious language in a therapeutic relationship.