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The University of Chicago Press Bereft of Reason On the Decline of Social
Book SynopsisExploring neglected works in 20th-century social thought and philosophy, as well as the work of contemporary writers, this book argues that thought must be framed in a way which encompasses both non-rational forces and critical reason, and it offers an outline here for doing so.Table of Contents1: The Codification of Social Theory 2: Of Life and Social Thought 3: The Cultic Roots of Culture 4: Lewis Mumford's Organic Worldview 5: The Transilluminated Vision of Charles Peirce 6: Jurgen Habermas's Theory of Communicative Etherealization 7: The Neopragmatic Acquiescence: Between Habermas and Rorty 8: The Modern Error and the Renewal of Social Thought Notes Acknowledgments Index
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The University of Chicago Press Modernism Masculinity Mann Wedekind Kadinsky
Book SynopsisThis work argues that a crisis of masculinity among European writers and artists played a key role in the modernist revolution. The author revises the notion that the feminine provided a pre-modern refuge for artists critical of individualism and materialism.Trade Review"The skill, sympathy, and percipience with which Izenberg analyzes the lives and contexts of his subjects are simply outstanding." - Chandak Sengoopta, American Historical Review "This consistently perceptive and thoughtful book both deepens and recasts our understanding of the pre-World War I crisis of masculinity, while simultaneously showing how powerfully that crisis affected the lives and work of three exemplary modernists. Izenberg makes a significant contribution to both cultural history and the history of gender relations." - Jerrold Seigel, author of Bohemian Paris and The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp
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The University of Chicago Press Postmodern Sophistications Philosophy
Book SynopsisKolb discusses postmodern architectural styles and theories within the context of philosophical ideas about modernism and postmodernism. He focuses on what it means to dwell in a world and within a history and to act from or against a tradition.
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The University of Chicago Press The Cultural Territories of Race Black and White Boundaries Emersion Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
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The University of Chicago Press The Laws of Cool Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information
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The University of Chicago Press Cultural Producers in Perilous States Editing
Book SynopsisA collection of ten interviews explore how producers of documentary media - filmmakers, journalists, and artists - located in societies considered marginal to the high-tech global centres respond to local and international audiences in creating their works.Table of ContentsIntroduction George E. Marcus I: Cultural Producers as Journalists 1: Natural Cockroaches Fly: Khaba Mkhize and Communitarian Journalism in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Lesley Fordred 2: The Most Visible Hand: Russian Journalism and Media-Context Thomas C. Wolfe II: Cultural Producers as Filmmakers and Artists 3: Filming Poland: The Ethnographic (Documentary, Narrative) Films of Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz Michael M. J. Fischer 4: Correspondences: A Letter from Germany Gudrun Klein 5: The Accented Style of the Independent Transnational Cinema: A Conversation with Atom Egoyan Hamid Naficy 6: Art and Media-tion: Reflections on Violence and Representation Santiago Villaveces-Izquierdo III: Cultural Producers as "Intellectuals" 7: Mediating Martinique: The "Paradoxical Trajectory" of Raphael Confiant Lucien Taylor 8: Interview with Albert Toro Nancy Sullivan 9: Pueblo Chico, Infierno Grande - Small Town, Large Hell: Toward the Global Village? Julie Taylor IV: Looking Backward and Forward: A Pre(re)view 10: Pescando en Rio Revuelto: The Crisis of Human Rights in Colombia Santiago Villaveces-Izquierdo Contributors Index
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University of Chicago Press Corporate Futures The Diffusion of the
Book SynopsisThis is part of a series of annuals designed to probe cultural, institutional and geopolitical change as the 20th century closes. The books provide in-depth interviews with those closely involved with these changes. This volume focuses on the investment of corporations in the concept of culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction by George E. Marcus I: Governance, Accounting, Planning 1: Corporate Culture Wars Christopher Newfield 2: Making More Matter at the Bottom Line Constance Perin 3: Toward a Higher-Order Merger: A Middle Manager's Story Melissa Cefkin 4: Colombo-Japanese Mixtures amidst a Corporate Reinvention Santiago Villaveces-Izquierdo 5: Storying Corporate Futures: The Shell Scenarios Robbie E. Davis-Floyd II: Speculations and Risks 6: The World as Speculation Gudrun Klein 7: Sixty-five Roses, Pulmozyme, Steve Shak, Genentech, Inc. Michael Fortun III: Opposition, Inc. 8: Making Space, Speaking Truth: The Institute for Policy Studies, 1963-1995 Michael Fortun, Kim Fortun. 9: Citizens, Inc.: Bottom-Up Organizing in Bottom-Line Contexts Kim Fortun 10: Artists Incorporating: Business Savvy Meets Creative Experimentation Laurel George Contributors Index
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University of Chicago Press The Future of Academic Freedom
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The University of Chicago Press Cruising the Dead River
Book SynopsisIn the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers' sexual and social worlds, artists produced work attesting to the radical transformations taking place in New York. Artist and writer David Wojnarowicz was right in the heart of it, documenting his experiences in journal entries, poems, photographs, films, and large-scale, site-specific projects. In Cruising the Dead River, Fiona Anderson draws on Wojnarowicz's work to explore the key role the abandoned landscape played in this explosion of queer culture. Anderson examines how the riverfront's ruined buildings assumed a powerful erotic role and gave the area a distinct identity. By telling the story of the piers as gentrification swept New York and before the AIDS crisis, Anderson unearths the buried histories of violence, regeneration, and LG
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The University of Chicago Press May It Fill Your Soul
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The University of Chicago Press Mother of Writing The Origin and Development of a
Book SynopsisIn February of 1971, in the Laotian village of Nam Chia, a forty-one year old farmer named Shong Lue Yang was assassinated by government soldiers. Shong Lue claimed to have been descended of God and given the mission of delivering the first true Hmong alphabet. Many believed him to be the Hmong people's long-awaited messiah, and his thousands of followers knew him as Mother (Source) of Writing. An anthropological linguist who has worked among the Hmong, William A. Smalley joins Shong Lue's chief disciple, Chia Koua Vang, and one of his associates, to tell the fascinating story of how the previously unschooled farmer developed his remarkable writing system through four stages of increasing sophistication. The uniqueness of Shong Lue's achievement is highlighted by a comparison of Shong Lue's writing system to other known Hmong systems and to the history of writing as a whole. In addition to a nontechnical linguistic analysis of the script and a survey of its current use, Mother of Writi
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The University of Chicago Press Linguistic Diversity National Unity Language
Book SynopsisUnlike other multi-ethnic nations, Thailand has maintained relative stability despite its 80 languages. In this study of the relations among politics, geography and language, Smalley shows how Thailand has maintained national unity through an elaborate social and linguistic hierarchy.Table of ContentsTables Figures Maps Acknowledgments Introduction: Thailand's Sociolinguistic Anomalies Pt. I: Languages of the Nation as a Whole 1: The Languages of Thailand at Home and Abroad 2: Standard Thai: Variations about a Norm 3: Social Dimensions of Standard Thai 4: Multidimensional Varieties: Ranges and Media Pt. II: Major Regional Languages 5: Kammuang (Northern Thai) 6: Lao (Northeastern Thai) 7: Paktay (Southern Thai) and Thaiklang (Central Thai) Pt. III: Marginal Regional Languages 8: Tai Yai (Shan), Sgaw (Karen), Phlow (Karen), plus Non-regional Phlong (Karen) 9: Northern Khmer plus Non-marginal Kuy 10: Pattani Malay Pt. IV: Other Language Categories 11: Development and Displacement of Tai Languages and Dialects 12: Languages of Thai Towns and Cities: Chinese Languages 13: Marginal Languages in the Hierarchy: Mon, Pray, plus Non-marginal Mal 14: Marginal Languages Adapting to the Hierarchy: Hmong (Meo, Miao) 15: Enclave Languages Pt. V: Trans-Language Issues 16: Writing and Education 17: Change and Development 18: Language and Ethnicity 19: Minority Problem as Thai Problem Appendix A: Languages in the Hierarchy Appendix B: Language Population Estimates Appendix C: Symbols Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press About Religion Economies of Faith in Virtual
Book SynopsisTravelling from high culture to pop culture and back again, this book approaches cyberspace and Las Vegas through Hegel and Kant and reads Melville's The Confidence-Man through the film Wall Street.
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The University of Chicago Press Crossing Ocean Parkway
Book SynopsisGrowing up an Italian American in New York, Marianna De Marco associated moving up with Ocean Parkway, a street that divides the working-class Italian neighbourhood from the middle-class Jewish neighbourhood into which she married. This book is her account of crossing cultural boundaries.Table of ContentsPreface Pt. 1: Crossing Ocean Parkway 1: On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst 3 2: Crossing Ocean Parkway 19 3: Slasher Stories 35 4: The College Way 59 Pt. 2: Readings by an Italian American Daughter 5: Dr. Dolittle and the Acquisitive Life 75 6: The Paglia Principle 91 7: The Godfather as the World's Most Typical Novel 109 8: The Politics of the "We" 137 Epilogue
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University of Chicago Press Black Camelot AfricanAmerican Culture Heroes in
Book SynopsisAfter the Kennedy era, a new kind of ethnic hero emerged in African-American popular culture. Pop icons such as Mohammad Ali, James Brown and Pam Grier projected the values and beliefs of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. This text discusses the black heroic in American popular culture.
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University of Chicago Press After Pomp Circumstance High School Reunion as
Book SynopsisHigh school reunions force participants to account for themselves, not only to their own satisfaction, but also to the satisfaction of others. This text explores the ongoing construction of identity in American society, and the narratives we tell ourselves about who we are.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: The Research Site and the Attendees 2: Community, Continuity, and the One-Night Stand 3: Reunions as Social Control 4: Autobiography as a Social Endeavor 5: A Memory of a Collective 6: Encountering a Personal Past 7: Managing Discontinuity 8: Between Situated Identity and Personal Identity Conclusion: Reunions and Beyond Appendix Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Literary Intellectuals and the Dissolution of the
Book SynopsisThis collection of interviews with more than two dozen writers and literary scholars, including several Stasi informants, provides a survey of the motivations, compromises and illusions of East German intellectual life.Table of ContentsPreface Pt. 1: Introduction Pt. 2: The Scholarly Life Norbert Krenzlin Heinz-Uwe Haus Eva Manske Marianne Streisand Frank and Therese Hornigk Simone and Karlheinz Barck Irene Selle Dorothea Dornhof Petra Boden Christa Ebert Brigitte Burmeister Klaus Michael Pt. 3: The Literary Life Hermann Kant Rainer Kirsch Karl Mickel Renate Feyl Richard Pietrass Helga Schubert Christoph Hein Kerstin Hensel Hans Joachim Schadlich Reiner Kunze Katja Lange-Muller Uwe Kolbe Sascha Anderson, I Rainer Schedlinski Bert Papenfuss-Gorek Gerhard Wolf Pt. 4: After the Surprising Revelations Sascha Anderson, II Adolf Endler and Gabriele Dietze Jan Faktor Conclusion Notes Photo Credits Index
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The University of Chicago Press Cop Knowledge Police Power and Cultural
Book SynopsisIn this text, Christopher Wilson examines narratives of police power in crime news, popular fiction and film, showing how they reflect and influence the real strategies of law enforcement on the beat, in the squad room and in urban politics.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Politics and Political Culture in the Court
Book SynopsisPolitics and Political Culture in the Court Masque considers the interconnections of the masque and political culture. It examines how masques responded to political forces and voices beyond the court, and how masques explored the limits of political speech in the Jacobean and Caroline periods.Trade Review“Knowles’s book is a rich, engaging, and deeply thorough study of the court masque and its potential for multifaceted and complicated readings of Jacobean culture … . For musicologists, this provides invaluable background and context for any musical study of the period. … Knowles’s impressive text and its problematization of masque culture is necessary and should serve as a useful starting point for any scholar interested in masques of the period.” (Samantha Bassler, NABMSA Reviews, 2018)“This monograph is a remarkable achievement both for the originality of its approach to the study of the masque and for the breadth of scholarship that is required to meet the demands of that approach.” (Richard Allen Cave, Early Theatre, Vol. 19 (1), June, 2016)“Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque is a splendid achievement. It succeeds in bringing the reader closer to the people who once shaped masquing occasions. The book reveals fascinating glimpses of family ties and political loyalties. Knowles’s forte is his extensive knowledge of archives, which enables him to trace rare copies of masque texts and their provenance. … Masque booklets travelled widely within Britain and abroad; they were read by provincial gentlemen, academics, and antiquarians.” (Barbara Ravelhofer, Review of English Studies, Vol. 67, June, 2016)“This interesting study explores the political culture of the Jacobean and Caroline masques and their relationship to the articulation of political criticism. … Knowles’s book will appeal to those interested in early modern English literature and culture. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (C. S. Cox, Choice, Vol. 53 (8), April, 2016)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Introduction: 'Friends of all Ranks?' Reading the Masque in Political Culture 2. 'Vizarded impudence': challenging the regnum Cecilianum 3. Crack Kisses Not Staves: sexual politics and court masques in 1613-14 4. 'No News': News from the New World and Textual Culture in the 1620s 5. 'Hoarse with Praising': Gypsies Metamorphosed and the politics of masquing 6. 'Tis for kings, / Not for their subjects, to have such rare things': The Triumph of Peace and Civil Culture Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Guide to Higher Education in Africa
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Columbia University Press African American Power and Politics The Political Context Variable Power Conflict and Democracy American Politics Into the 21st Century
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University of Illinois Press Peruvian Lives across Borders
Book SynopsisIn Peruvian Lives across Borders, M. Cristina Alcalde examines the evolution of belonging and the making of home among middle- and upper-class Peruvians in Peru, the United States, Canada, and Germany. Alcalde draws on interviews, surveys, participant observation, and textual analysis to argue that to belong is to exclude. To that end, transnational Peruvians engage in both subtle and direct policing along the borders of belonging. These acts allow them to claim and maintain the social status they enjoyed in their homeland even as they profess their openness and tolerance. Alcalde details these processes and their origins in Peru's gender, racial, and class hierarchies. As she shows, the idea of returnwhether desired or rejected, imagined or physicalspurs constructions of Peruvianness, belonging, and home. Deeply researched and theoretically daring, Peruvian Lives across Borders answers fascinating questions about an understudied group of migrants.Trade Review"Recommended." --Choice"Impressive and highly engaging. Hits all the right notes as it takes up transnational migration, a shifting sense of home, and what Cristina Alcalde persuasively calls exclusionary cosmopolitanism among middle class Peruvians."--Florence E. Babb, author of The Tourism Encounter: Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories"A compelling ethnographic case study of middle- and upper-class Peruvian migration to the United States, Canada, and Germany. Alcalde offers her readers a unique analysis of the gendered and sexuality-driven intricacies of return."--Ulla Berg, author of Mobile Selves: Migration, Race, and Belonging in Peru and the US
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Yale University Press Culture
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Palgrave USA Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity
Book SynopsisGender, Sexuality, and Modernity in the Weimar Republic From Caligari to Dietrich: Sexual, Social, and Cinematic Discourses in Weimar Culture Gender, Subjectivity, and 'New Objectivity' Ambivalent Accomodations with Modernity Boys in Crisis: Discourses of Castration in the Early Stabilized Period The End of Stability: 'Phallic' New Women and Male Intellectuals Girls in Crisis: Women's Perspective in Late Weimar Weimar Culture Now: 'Americanism' and PostmodernityTable of ContentsGender, Sexuality, and Modernity in the Weimar Republic From Caligari to Dietrich: Sexual, Social, and Cinematic Discourses in Weimar Culture Gender, Subjectivity, and 'New Objectivity' Ambivalent Accomodations with Modernity Boys in Crisis: Discourses of Castration in the Early Stabilized Period The End of Stability: 'Phallic' New Women and Male Intellectuals Girls in Crisis: Women's Perspective in Late Weimar Weimar Culture Now: 'Americanism' and Postmodernity
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ABC-CLIO Culture and Customs of Singapore and Malaysia
Book SynopsisExplore the contemporary culture and traditional customs of Singapore and Malaysia in a volume that belongs on shelves in every high school and public library.Trade Review"Koh is a former journalist and writer who specializes in Asian history and culture, and she teams with former history teacher and museum educator Ho to present students and general readers with this survey of the cultures and customs of Singapore and Malaysia. The authors provide chapters on religious thought, the arts, entertainment, housing and architecture, food and fashion, marriage and family life and leisure activities in these two independent yet closely related countries. A concluding chapter on the future of Singapore and Malaysian culture addresses the impact of modernization and globalization as well as this region’s demographic shift toward multiculturalism." - Reference & Research Book News
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Little, Brown & Company Make Love Not War The Sexual Revolution An
Book SynopsisMake Love, Not War is the first full-scale history of how the Sexual Revolution changed life in America forever. A fascinating and frank portrait of private lives and public discourse, it traces changes from the deceptively repressive Fifties, to the first tremors of rebellion in the early Sixties and the sexual rights movement of the mid Sixties, to the heady heyday of the Revolution (1969-73), and the counterrevolution in the early Seventies.
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Palgrave Macmillan Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age
Book SynopsisThe humorous side of Dutch culture of the seventeenth century is obscured by a change that took place around 1670. Religious treatises and books of manners warning against laughter contributed to a new image, that of the humourless, Calvinist Dutch. Mainly based on a manuscript with some two thousand jokes, the lost laughter of the Golden Age is reconstructed and analyzed. Most jokes are crude and obscene, and they throw new light on attitudes towards sexuality, religion and other aspects of life.Trade Review'Dekker's book is an important contribution to the new socio-cultural history which can also be enjoyed by general readers. Written with a light touch, it should do a good deal to undermine the myth of the humourless Dutch.' - Peter Burke FBA, Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge 'Like all humour of the past, that of seventeenth-century Holland is utterly baffling: too obscure, too topical, too coarse by turns; then again startlingly recognizable, modern, universal. In this insightful analysis of the greatest treasure trove of early modern Dutch jokes, Rudolf Dekker has reconstructed the personalities, issues, virtues, and foibles that occasioned discrete smiles and guffawing laughter in the upper echelons of Dutch society. Dekker's comparative historical approach, which ranges well beyond the Netherlands, restores the currency and the flavour of humour in early modern Europe. He made me laugh, too.' - Mariët WestermannTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: The Genesis of the Joke Laughing Dutch Humour in Word and Image Aernout van Overbeke and His Jokes Polarity and Inversion Conclusion: Let's Laugh Again Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Ethnonational Identities
Book SynopsisThe prominence of ethnonational identities and movements is of increasing interest and concern in today's world. Ethnonational Identities breaks significant new ground by exploring the complex dimensions of ethnonational identity claims, their political mobilisation, and a wide variety of comparative contexts in which they are found.Table of ContentsEthnicity, Nation and 'Race': Connections and Disjunctures; S.Fenton & S.May Recognition and National Justice for Québec: A Canadian Conundrum; C.H.Williams Late Arrivals at the Nationalist Games: Romani Mobilisation in the Czech Lands and Slovakia; W.Guy Indigenous Rights and the Politics of Self-Determination: The Case of Aotearoa/New Zealand; S.May Identity Politics and Nationalisms in Colonial India; J.Zavos An Area of Darkness, Still? The Political Evolution of Ethnic Identities in Jammu and Kashmir 1947-2001; V.Hewitt Nationalism in South Asia and its Transnational Impact of the Indian Diaspora in Britain; R.Barot Identitiy in an Ethnically Bifurcated State: Trinidad and Tobago; R.R.Premdas Ethnicity, Malay Nationalism and the Question of Bangsa Malaysia; K.Mariappan Terms of Inclusion: Citizenship and the Shaping of Ethnonational Identities; J.Squires
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Histories of the Future
Book SynopsisAlthough a number of contributions discuss 'mainstream' science fiction, the collection's emphasis is not on any single genre, but rather on the ways in which different histories - technological, cultural, military, ideological - generate and inform different modes of speculation about things to come.Table of ContentsList of Plates Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introducing the Future: The Dawn of Science Fiction Criticism; H.Harrison History in SF: What (Hasn't Yet) Happened in History; K.MacLeod The Ruins of the Future: Macaulay's New Zealander and the Spirit of the Age; R.Dingley Celluloid Scientists: Futures Visualised; R.D.Haynes Losing the Sense and Space: Forster's The Machine Stops and Jameson's Third Machine Age; B.Battaglia Boys, Battleships, Books: The Cult of the Navy in US Juvenile Fiction, 1898-1919; B.Brasington American Dreams and Edwardian Aspirations: Technological Innovation and Temporal Uncertainty in Narratives of Expectation; C.E.Gannon Filing the Future: Reporting on World War Three; D.Seed The Map of the Apocalypse: Nuclear War and the Space of Dystopia in American Science Fiction; B.Baker A New World Made to Order: Making Sense of the Future in a Global Era; A.Spark Sign, Symbol, Power: The New Martian Novel; R.Crossley Starship Troopers, Galactic Heroes, Mercenary Princes: The Military and its Discontents in Science Fiction; T.Shippey Terrible Angels: Science Fiction and the Singularity; D.Broderick Index
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Palgrave Macmillan The Sappho History
Book SynopsisIntroduction Mary Robinson's Attitudes Picturing Sappho Fragments of an Elegy The Woman Poet Sings Sappho's Last Song Poisonous Honey Sappho's Fatal Book Speaking Spaces Epilogue: Virginia's Sapphists Bibliography IndexTrade Review'The Sappho History is a compelling and original account of Sappho's cultural transformations over the past few centuries. At once lucid, learned, and creative, Margaret Reynolds's study powerfully demonstrates why this iconic figure has held such a strong pull on the imagination and emotions of such a wide range of writers, readers, and artists.' - Professor Kate Flint, Department of English, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA 'Sappho as symbol, as poet and muse, as poetic and personal possibility, is wonderfully worked in this subtly allusive, academically exciting and poetically powerfuly study.' The Times '...an extremely interesting book.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Her new book is an enjoyable introduction to what has to become an essential topic for classicists interested in reception, for scholars interested in Hellenism or classicism in European vernacular literature, and especially for feminists historians and queer theorists.' - Emily Wilson, London Review of Books 'This is a beautifully written, passionate and poetic book. It has important things to say about women's writing, about love, about lyric poetry, about myth and celebrity, and about elegy and loss. And it joins a growing number of books that demonstrate that Victorian Hellenism was no dusty, dry affair but complex and fascinating' - Jennifer Wallace, The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction Mary Robinson's Attitudes Picturing Sappho Fragments of an Elegy The Woman Poet Sings Sappho's Last Song Poisonous Honey Sappho's Fatal Book Speaking Spaces Epilogue: Virginia's Sapphists Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women and Nature Beyond Dualism in Gender Body
Book SynopsisWomen and Nature? Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment provides a historical context for understanding the contested relationships between women and nature, and it articulates strategies for moving beyond the dualistic theories and practices that often frame those relationships.In 1974, Françoise d'Eaubonne coined the term ecofeminism to raise awareness about interconnections between women's oppression and nature's domination in an attempt to liberate women and nature from subordination. Since then, ecofeminism has attracted scholars and activists from various disciplines and positions to assess the relationship between the cultural human and the natural non-human through gender reconsiderations. The contributors to this volume present critical and constructive perspectives on ecofeminism throughout its history, from the beginnings of ecofeminism in the 1970s through to contemporary and emerging developments in the field, drawing on animal studies, postcolTrade Review"This innovative and engaging anthology on women and nature reveals the ongoing relevance of ecofeminism in today’s global world by emphasizing postcolonialism, ecocriticism, queer ecology, animality, and feminist materialism. Anyone interested in the nuances and complexities of the women-nature connection across histories, belief-systems, and regions will want to buy this book." — Carolyn Merchant of the University of California at Berkeley has written on the connections between ecofeminism and feminist theory and is the author of Earthcare: Women and the Environment, among other books."The myriad ways that Earthly bodies – both human and nonhuman – continue to be bound by structures of patriarchy and domination requires sustained analysis. This transnational, transdisciplinary volume brings the lens of ecofeminism to bear on timely topics, including transgender studies, animal studies, and the new materialism." — Elizabeth Allison is the Program Chair of Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies."This fresh and exciting collection identifies privileges and invisibilities overlooked in earlier ecofeminist thinking. Authors call for ethical self-reflexivity and deep questioning of heteronormative assumptions reflecting a wide range of interdisciplinary, postcolonial, and cross-cultural perspectives. From ecosickness narratives to borderlands ecofeminism, this set of papers provides a rich and timely offering by deeply thoughtful scholars across the globe." — Stephanie Kaza, Professor Emerita, University of Vermont"Woman and Nature: Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body and Environment provides an innovative and captivating perspective on the continued relevance of ecofeminism, especially given today’s ecological crisis. Contributing to the evolution of ecofeminism and highlighting the movement towards interdisciplinary engagement via the inclusion of contemporary theoretical methods such as transgender studies, animal studies, new materialism, postcolonial studies, and ecocriticism this book is an absolute must for students and scholars across disciplines with particular relevance to those in the environmental humanities, environmental and sustainability studies, philosophy, theology, religious studies, and international relations." - Sarah O'Brien, Drew Theological SchoolTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Contributors Editor’s Foreword Sam MickeyPart I: Overview Introduction Karen Ya-Chu Yang 1. Françoise d’Eaubonne and Ecofeminism: Rediscovering the Link between Women and Nature Luca Valera Part II: Rethinking Animality 2. A Retreat on the "River Bank": Perpetuating Patriarchal Myths in Animal Stories Anja Höing 3. Visual Patriarchy:PETA Advertising and the Commodification of Sexualized Bodies Stephanie Baran 4. Ethical Transfeminism: Transgender Individuals’ Narratives as Contributions to Ethics of Vegetarian Ecofeminisms Anja Koletnik Part III: Constructing Connections 5. The Women-Nature Connection as a Key Element in the Social Construction of Western Contemporary Motherhood Adriana Teodorescu 6. The Relationship of Women’s Body Image and Experience in Nature Denise Mitten and Chiara D’Amore 7. Writing Women into Back-to-the-Land: Feminism, Appropriation, and Identity in the 1970s Feminist Magazine Country Women Valerie Padilla Carroll Part IV: Mediating Practices 8. Bilha Givon as Sartre’s "Third Party" in Environmental Dialogues Shlomit Tamari 9. "Yo soy mujer" ¿yo soy ecologista? Feminist and Ecological Consciousness at the Women’s Intercultural Center Christina Holmes 10. The Politics of Land, Water, and Toxins: Reading the Life-narratives of Three Women Oikos-carers from Kerala R. Sreejith Varma and Swarnalatha Rangarajan 11. Ecofeminism and the Telegenics of Celebrity in Documentary Film: The Case of Aradhana Seth’s Dam/Age (2003) and the Narmada Bachao Andolan Reena Dube 12. AfterwordIzabel F. O. Brandão
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Logic of the Powers
Book SynopsisWhat global future would ensure hope, justice and peace to the human mankind? In view of a fast evolving post-Covid world order, this volume explores a novel Christian post-colonial approach to global affairs. It examines the existing sociology of the powers' theoretical scheme, the debate between Christian realism and Christian pacifism, the method and practice of prophetic witnessing, to elaborate a new Christian approach to statecraft and futurology in terms of theory, methodology and ontology.This book: Uses the COVID-19 pandemic as the background to examine why and how the pandemic has accelerated the US's decline, and to identify the tacit game rules that contributed to the UK government's mishandling of the pandemic; Compares the political systems between China and the West, and engages with selected theoretical narratives from the Global South to envision an alternative shared globalisation' project; Argues why it is important for post-coloTable of Contents1. Introduction: The West’s Decline and Future of Christian Statecraft Part I Theory and Method 2. Outline of a Novel Christian Post-Colonial Approach to Global Affairs 3. Discerning the Realist Spirit: Rules of Christian Post-Colonial Method 4. Being in But not of the Powers: Contours of Prophetic Witnessing Practice Part II Practice and Intervention 5. Risky Great Power Politics: Emerging U.S.-China Nuclear Strategic Instability and Interstellar Prospect 6. Hopeful Small Power Politics: Nuclearisation and Peace-building in the Korean Peninsula 7. Defending Papuan Religious Security under Indonesian National Security: Critique of Two Christian Interventions in Multi-polar Indo-Pacific 8. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport
Book SynopsisWhile efforts to include gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport have received significant attention, it is only recently that we have begun examining the experiences of transgender athletes in competitive sport. This book represents the first comprehensive study of the challenges that transgender athletes face in competitive sport; and the challenges they pose for this sex-segregated institution. Beginning with a discussion of the historical role that sport has played in preserving sex as a binary, the book examines how gender has been policed by policymakers within competitive athletics. It also considers how transgender athletes are treated by a system predicated on separating males from females, consequently forcing transgender athletes to negotiate the system in coercive ways. The book not only exposes our cultureâs binary thinking in terms of both sex and gender, but also offers a series of thought-provoking and sometimes contradictory recommendations for how to make sport more hospitable, inclusive and equitable.Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport is important reading for all students and scholars of the sociology of sport with an interest in the relationship between sport and gender, politics, identity and ethics. Table of ContentsIntroduction[Eric Anderson and Ann Travers]Section I: Individual Stories of Transgender Sporting Experiences1. Advantage Renée?: Renée Richards and Women’s Tennis[Lindsay Parks Pieper] 2. My name is Jay, I Transitioned and I’m a Disabled Young Athlete[Jay Anonymous]3. Becoming Me: Transitioning, Training and Surgery[Riley McCormack and Maylon Hanold]Section II: Research into Transgender Sporting Experiences4. An Introduction to Five Exceptional Trans Athletes from Around the World[Kinnon MacKinnon]5. Between Stigmatization and Empowerment: Meanings of Physical Activity and Sport in the Lives of Transgender People[Agnes Elling and Kiki Collot d’Escury]6. Athletes’ Perceptions of Transgender Eligibility Policies Applied in High-Performance Sport in Canada[Sarah Teetzel]7. Sport and Physical Exercise among Spanish Trans Persons[Victor Manuel Perez Samaniego, Sofía Pereira-García, Elena Lopez-Cañada andJosé Devís-Devís] 8. Honesty and Discipline: Identity Management of Transgender Netballers[Brendon Tagg] 9. The Experiences of Female-to-Male Transgender Athletes[Mark Ogville]10. Media Accounts of the First Transgender Person to Work in the English Premier League[Rory Magrath] Section III: When Policy and Identity Clash11. Subjective Sex: Science, Medicine and Sex Tests in Sports[Vanessa Heggie] 12. Including Transgender Students in United States School-Based Athletics[Helen Carroll] 13. Transgender Athletes in Elite Sport Competitions: Equity and Inclusivity[Eric Vilain, Jonathan Ospina Betancurt, Nereida Bueno-Guerra and Maria Jose Martinez-Patiño] Section IV: Challenging the System 14. From Transsexuals to Transhumans in Elite Athletics: The Implications of Osteology (and Other Issues) in Levelling the Playing Field[Michelle Sutherland, Richard Wassersug and Karen Rosenberg]15. The Tenuous Inclusion of Transgender Athletes in Sport[Adam Love] 16. Queer Genes? The Bio-Amazons Project: A Response to Critics[Claudio Tamburrini]
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Routledge Africa in the Bengali Imagination
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Taylor & Francis Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age Digital
Book SynopsisMedieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repositoryâs digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the online environment. Through contributions from a large group of distinguished international scholars, the volume assesses the impact of being able to access and interpret these early manuscripts in new ways. The focus on Parker on the Web, a world-class digital repository of diverse medieval manuscripts, comes as that site made its contents Open Access. Exploring the uses of digital representations of medieval texts and their contexts, contributors consider manuscripts from multiple perspectives including production, materiality, and reception. In addition, the volume explicates new interdisciplinary frameworks of analysis for the study of the relationship between texts and their physical contexts, while centring on an appreciation of the opportunities and challenges effected by the digital representation of a tangible object. Approaches extend from the codicological, palaeographical, linguistic, and cultural to considerations of reader reception, image production, and the implications of new technologies for future discoveries. Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age advances the debate in manuscript studies about the role of digital and computational sources and tools. As such, the book will appeal to scholars and students working in the disciplines of Digital Humanities, Medieval Studies, Literary Studies, Library and Information Science, and Book History. Table of Contents1. IntroductionBenjamin Albritton and Elaine TreharnePart I. Theory and Practice2. What it is to be a Digitization Specialist: Chasing Medieval Materials in a Sea of PixelsAstrid J. Smith3. From the Divine to the Digital: Digitization as Resurrection and reconstructionKeri Thomas4. A Note on Technology and Functionality in Digital Manuscript StudiesAbigail G. Robertson5. Ways of Seeing Manuscripts: Exploring Parker 2.0Andrew PrescottPart II. Materialities6. A Note on Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 210Orietta Da Rold7. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 367 Part II: A Study in (Digital) CodicologyPeter A. Stokes8. Pocket Change: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 383 and the Value of the Virtual ObjectAnya Adair9. Rolling with It: Navigating Absence in the Digital RealmSiân EchardPart III. Translation and Transmission10. ‘Glocal’ Matters: The Gospels of St Augustine as a Codex in TranslationMateusz Fafinski11. Encyclopaedic Notes in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 320John J. Gallagher12. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 322: Tradition and TransmissionDavid F. Johnson13. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 41 and 286: Digitization as TranslationSharon M. RowleyPart IV. Of Multimedia and the Multilingual14. Fragmentation and Wholeness in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 16A. Joseph McMullen15. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 144 and 402: Mercian Intellectual Culture in pre-Conquest England (and beyond)Lindy Brady16. Philologia and Philology: Allegory, Multilingualism and the Corpus Martianus CapellaElizabeth Boyle17. Remediation and Multilingualism in Corpus Christi College, 402Carla María ThomasPart V. Forms of Reading 18. Living with Books in Early Medieval England: Solomon and Saturn, Bibliophilia, and the Globalist Red Book of DarleyErica Weaver19. Severed Heads and Sutured SkinsCatherine E. Karkov20. Books Consumed, Books Multiplied: Martianus Capella, Ælfric’s Homilies, and the International Image Interoperability FrameworkAlexandra Bolintineanu21. Making a Home for Manuscripts on the InternetMichelle R. Warren
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies
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Taylor & Francis Digital Innovations and the Production of Local
Book SynopsisThis book offers an in-depth analysis of how local community radio practitioners have embraced the digital revolution. Digital Innovations and the Production of Local Content in Community Radio contextualizes the UK model of community radio, before focussing on specific case studies to examine how the use of digital technologies has affected local radio production practices. The book offers an overview of the new technologies, media forms, and platforms in radio production, shedding light on how digitalization is impacting the routines and experiences of a predominantly volunteer-based workforce. The author presents the argument that despite the benefits of digital media, traditional aspects of programme production continue to be of vital importance to the interpersonal relationships and values of community radio.This book will appeal to academics and researchers in the areas of communication, culture, journalism studies, media, and creative industries.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Smartphones Current Events and Mobile Information
Book SynopsisSmartphones and Information on Current Events provides unprecedented insights into young people's news consumption patterns and the ecology of mobile news. Advancing our knowledge of mobile behaviour, the book also highlights the ways in which mobile news impacts the lives of the general public. Using a multi-faceted research model on mobile news consumption behaviour, Oh and Tang examined a wide spectrum of mobile news consumption activities, outlined the key characteristics of mobile news, as well as captured users' near real-time evaluation of and emotional reactions to news stories. The book also shows that the process of using smartphones to receive, read, find, share, and store news stories has resulted in new behavioural patterns that enable people to consume news in a multifaceted way. Analyzing the extent and various methods of mobile news sharing can, Oh and Tang argue, help us understand how such exchanges reshape contemporary society. Demonstrating that mTable of Contents1. Background and Introduction; 2. Mobile News Consumed by Study Participants; 3. Mobile News Consumption Cycle and Activities; 4. Mobile News Reactions: Evaluative Reactions, Affective Reactions; 5. Summary and Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Diagnostic Cultures
Book SynopsisSome studies estimate that each year, around a quarter of the population of Western countries will suffer from at least one mental disorder. Should this be interpreted as evidence for the progress of psychiatry, a discipline that is now able to identify and treat mental illnesses that have always existed, or might it be the case that modern life somehow creates new conditions, or social pathologies? This book argues that in fact something more fundamental has been taking place in recent years: the development of diagnostic cultures. Taking account of the phenomenon of patients themselves ''pushing for'' pathologization - and acknowledging therefore that this is not simply a case of psychiatry pursuing an agenda of ''medicalisation from above'' - this volume examines the emerging trend towards interpreting our sufferings in terms of psychiatric conceptions and diagnostic categories. Drawing on new empirical case studies of psychological diagnoses, including depression and ADHD, and emplTrade Review"A captivating analysis of the ways that use of medical diagnoses to categorize human behavior has altered our inner experience and our everyday social lives." - Donald R. Marks and Larissa Redziniak in PsycCRITIQUES (2016)Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Introducing the Concept of Diagnostic Cultures2. Psychiatric Diagnoses as Epistemic Objects3. Languages of Suffering4. Psychiatric Diagnoses as Semiotic Mediators5. "Do More, Feel Better, Live Longer": Being a Psychiatric Subject6. Interpreting the Epidemics7. Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Mental Disorder8. General ConclusionsBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Existential Importance of the Penis
Book SynopsisThe first of its kind, this book applies existential principles to sexual problems, providing clinicians with the tools to understand male sexuality more deeply.Alighting from the existential psychotherapy tenets of Irvin D. Yalom, Watter introduces the notion that the penis is a conduit for male emotion, and hence regulates their ability to form and experience intimate relationships. Subsequent chapters explore an existential view of male sexual dysfunction, non-sexual trauma, hypersexuality, changing bodies through illness, age, and injury, and examines badly behaved men to understand the meaning of certain behaviors. This book will be an invaluable resource for sex therapists, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and social workers in practice and in training, assisting them to develop the therapeutic skills that will improve their understanding of men's psychological experience.Trade ReviewThe Existential Importance of the Penis is a ground-breaking book by the well-respected sex therapist Dan Watter. Traditionally, male sexuality has been simplified--either placed on a pedestal or demonized. Dr. Watter describes existential sex therapy as a way to understand male sex dysfunction. His detailed, complex case descriptions are of great value. This approach emphasizes the role of anxiety and trauma as well as the importance of careful emotional and sexual assessment. He explores the man’s inability to integrate sexuality into his life and relationship. Watter’s book is a crucial resource for clinicians.Barry McCarthy, professor emeritus of psychology and author of Contemporary Male SexualityOstensibly this is a book about men, their penises, and the stories, meanings and histories that underlie common sexual problems such as erectile unpredictability. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Dan demonstrates beautifully that the penis is most alive in its moments of fallibility, for it is then that the traumas we exiled to our unconscious depths are demanding to be heard and reckoned with. In treating symptoms (sexual or otherwise) we are missing the existential big picture and Dan’s book is not just a tonic to the dessicated solutions-oriented ethos we have all internalized, it is a manifesto and rallying cry to live authentically, work deeply and create meaning. It goes without saying that Dan is a master-therapist. But as this book shows us he is also a gifted reader, writer, poet, philosopher and historian. When the penis speaks, we need to listen. And when Dan writes, we need to read. Ian Kerner, sex therapist and NY Times best-selling author of She Comes FirstWritten in a lively, conversational, empathic, and often witty style, mercifully free from psychobabble, The Existential Importance of the Penis is intended mainly for clinicians and male patients, but it will also be of interest to many others, including aging men who experience a "quiet" penis. Female readers and non-patients will also profit from reading the book. Dr. Watter offers us an intriguing guide to "penis speak." One feels pleasure from reading the book, never Schadenfreude. If the penis could read, it would surely learn much from this wise and compassionate study. Jeffrey Berman, distinguished teaching professor, Department of English, University of Albany, author of Writing the Talking Cure: Irvin D. Yalom and the Literature of PsychotherapyDan Watter has been a leader in the sex therapy field for years. In this long-awaited book, he deftly applies his expertise in existential psychotherapy to tackle sexual issues, especially those of men. Not only is Watter a world class therapist he is a master educator and storyteller, who uses these gifts to support his theory and interventions. He specifically shares with his readers the power of the penis in the mind of man as he struggles to be an authentic human. You will laugh and cry, but it is all worth the ride. Stephen J. Betchen, co-author, Master Conflict Therapy: A New Model for Practicing Couples and Sex therapyThe Existential Importance of the Penis is a profound and deeply moving study of the existential turmoil underlying the confusing, hurtful, and self-defeating sexual behavior of men. Daniel Watter is an extraordinarily gifted psychotherapist who translates the language of the penis into remarkable insights that forever change the way his patients relate to their own sexuality. Weaving together patient stories with literature and philosophy, this compelling and compassionate book challenges us to look beyond moral judgments and little blue pills to find meaning and to restore joy in the sexual lives of our patients. May we never look back.Kathryn Hall, editor, Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy, 6th edition, former president, Society for Sex Therapy and Research, book review editor, Journal of Sex and Marital TherapyDaniel Watter’s The Existential Importance of the Penis is a penetrating examination of the relationship of men’s identity to their sexuality, to their bodily integrity and to their sense of themselves. The book captures the paradox of how a small part of the body, hidden from daily view, is nevertheless central -- how a man’s relationship to his phallus, which seems to be about that single body part, in fact acts as a hologram for his relationship to himself, to those he loves, and to the wider world. For an absolutely new perspective on links between body, mind and the journey of the self through intimate realms, read this book! David E. Scharff, co-founder and former director, The International Psychotherapy Institute; 2021 Winner of the Sigourney Award for the promulgation of psychoanalysis; and author of The Sexual Relationship and Marriage and Family in Modern ChinaThought-provoking and insightful, this volume is an important contribution to our understanding of male sexuality. Watter's illuminating perspective breaks the binary split between the sexual and the existential and dives into the tension and the connection between mind and body, life and death, early loss and sexual behaviors. Watter listens to the ways the internal world voices itself through the sexual body, bringing unconscious material into the surface and with it a new possibility for a fulfilling life. Galit Atlas, faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, author of Emotional inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients and the Legacy of Trauma The Existential Importance Of The Penis by Dr. Daniel Watter is both prescient and trendsetting as it artfully incorporates key wisdom from Existential Psychology and the Human Potential Movement with the practice of modern Sex Therapy. The meaning of both the sexual disorder and its resolution are often, as, if not more important than accomplishing the initial requested behavioral change first sought by the patient. Watter effectively challenges the reader to engage that dialectic in a well-written and accessible manner, that simultaneously explore’s the human condition. It is a pleasure to be able to highly recommend this book for every sex therapist’s library. Michael A. Perelman, co-director, Human Sexuality Program, clinical professor emeritus of Psychology in Psychiatry, former clinical professor of Reproductive Medicine & Urology, Weill Cornell Medicine | NewYork-PresbyterianIn this gem of a book, Dr Watter starts with the idea that a man’s penis is actually his primary conduit for emotion—then shows how conventional sex therapy for men can be transformed into something far deeper. Performance anxiety? Secondary at best. Instead, look for erections to fail following a "relationship-deepening event." Out-of-control sexual behavior? Look for early relational trauma, and don’t be shocked to find death anxiety in the mix. Many male sexual problems are ultimately about vulnerability, loss, and buried yearning—and Watter is a sure-footed guide to this still mostly untraveled territory. Stephen Snyder, author of Love Worth MakingThis book couldn’t be more welcome or timely. To judge from public discourse, we only ever hear about male sexuality when it results in harm. Here is a book that goes well beyond the bounds of the recent foci of research and practice and explores the experience of being a man far more holistically. Importantly, while only a handful of books have ever explored the effects of early sexual abuse on men, this may well be the first book to explore deeply how non-sexual trauma can shape male sexuality. While this book will cater primarily to those working directly with male sexuality, it should have a place in the library of anyone interested in what it means to be a man. David S. Prescott, co-author of Trauma-Informed Care: Transforming Treatment for People Who Have Sexually AbusedOne might well ask oneself, do we really need another book written about the penis? After all, if one does a Google search, literally millions of treatises pertaining to this organ are at one’s fingertips. However, I think that the reader will find Dan Watter’s approach to this topic a surprisingly fresh addition to this repository of literature. No doubt, some readers and scholars may disagree or find his approach somewhat surprising. Never one to shy away from expressing himself in his own way, using his extensive knowledge and clinical experience to shape the readers thinking, Dan has put together a remarkable opus. I found this work fascinating, forcing me to rethink the concept of phallocentricity. As a sexual medicine physician and researcher in this area, this book is a very welcome addition to my book collection, forcing even me to rethink contemporary paradigms in this field. I have little doubt that the reader will come away both entertained and challenged.John P. Mulhall, professor of Urology, director of Sexual & Reproductive medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; editor-in-chief, The Journal of Sexual MedicineThis is an outstanding book in which Dr. Watter imparts his wisdom on the psychotherapy of men’s sexual problems/relationships from an existential vantage point. This is not a lengthy philosophical tomb on death anxiety; it is a satisfying and nourishing journey replete with: snippets of conversation with renowned clinicians like Dr. Irv Yalom, in-depth clinical vignettes, and illustrations from literature, film, song, poetry and culture that highlights Dr. Watter’s clinical perspective. Reading Dr. Watter’s book will significantly transform your clinical perspective leading to more nuanced and sophisticated ways of helping men with their sexual struggles and relationships. Stanley E. Althof, executive director, Center for Marital and Sexual Health of South Florida, professor emeritus, Case Western Reserve University School of MedicineWhat does it mean to be a man? In this brilliant book, sex therapist Dr. Daniel N. Watter allows penises to respond. Writing from an existential perspective, Watter demonstrates that when men refuse to listen to their own inner voices, the messages from their penises prove harder to ignore. You must read this deeply thought-provoking and illuminating book!Peggy J. Kleinplatz, professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, CanadaDan Watter takes us on an intriguing odyssey with his ground-breaking book The Existential Importance of the Penis. He provides an engaging, fresh perspective with respect to male sexuality and the how and why things can often go awry. Not content with snorkeling, he requests we put on our scuba gear and debunk the one-size-fits-all performance anxiety theory often attributed to male sexual problems. Grounded in Yalom’s existential theories as well as fascinating case vignettes, he provides a cogent stance for the utility of existential sex therapy especially when traditional CBT methods fall short. He convincingly suggests we explore the existential inner conflicts and dilemmas that are often at play behind the scenes of the narratives clients present when they walk into our office. Read it slowly as I did, chew on all he unpacks, and allow it to change the way you think about and engage our work.Michael Moran, founder and director of The Center for Relational Fulfillment, New YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Penis Speaks: An Existential View of Male Sexual Dysfunction 2. Existential Psychotherapy and the Work of Irvin D. Yalom, M.D. 3. Death: The Unavoidable Condition 4. Existential Sex Therapy 5. Hypersexuality, Sex Addiction, Out-of-Control Sexual Behavior: A Diagnositc Dilemma? 6. Why Men Behave Badly 7. Aging: The Penis Speaks, But Sometimes it Whispers Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Israeli Masculinity Sex Work and Consumerism
Book SynopsisIsraeli Masculinity, Sex Work, and Consumerism: Heteronormativity and Sexual Repertoires explores the inner world of Israeli sex work consumers and their use of digital technologies on which intense feelings of social togetherness and belonging create a localized form of homosociality and brotherhood.The first of its kind to offer an in-depth analysis of masculine sexual repertoires in the field of sex consumption, this book uses extensive data and observations of online ethnography among a community of Israeli sex consumers operating online. It elucidates the economics of demand in the field of sexual consumption and highlights how the rise of the thriving online communities of sex consumers can function as a platform on which power relations between men themselves are publicly displayed and are constantly challenged.Israeli Masculinity, Sex Work, and Consumerism: Heteronormativity and Sexual Repertoires will be suitable for researchers in Gender and SexTable of ContentsPreface; 1 Introduction: The Consumption of Sex in the Digital Age; 2 The Consumer Sexual Script; 3 The Hunter Sexual Script; 4 The Addict Sexual Script; 5 Moving Beyond the "Client"
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Taylor & Francis Routledge International Handbook of
Book SynopsisCosmopolitanism is about the extension of the moral and political horizons of people, societies, organizations and institutions. Over the past 25 years there has been considerable interest in cosmopolitan thought across the human social sciences.The second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies is an enlarged, revised and updated version of the first edition. It consists of 50 chapters across a broader range of topics in the social and human sciences. Eighteen entirely new chapters cover topics that have become increasingly prominent in cosmopolitan scholarship in recent years, such as sexualities, public space, the Kantian legacy, the commons, internet, generations, care and heritage.This Second Edition aims to showcase some of the most innovative and promising developments in recent writing in the human and social sciences on cosmopolitanism. Both comprehensive and innovative in the topics covered, the Routl
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Practitioner Perspectives on Intangible Cultural
Book SynopsisPractitioner Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage provides an accessible introduction to the Intangible Cultural Heritage field. Summarising the major changes that have taken place over the last two decades, the book explores ongoing debates and changes in thinking about best practice.Drawing on the author's own experience of operationalising the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in a variety of contexts, Orr also incorporates international case studies from practitioners and provides valuable insights about best practices. Demonstrating that the top-down, state-driven hierarchy for the safeguarding of heritage is starting to shift to a model of shared ownership and values driven by communities and practitioners, the book shows that the notion of the expert' is also diversifying to include other forms of transmission of traditional knowledge. Orr argues that these different perspectives provide a platform to enrich undeTable of ContentsChapter One – Introduction; Chapter Two - UNESCO, 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, and the Role of NGOs; Chapter Three – UNESCO Conventions and Recent Changes in the 2003 Convention; Chapter Four - Intellectual Property Rights: Commodification, Creative Industry, and Inclusive Growth; Chapter Five- Sustainable Development and ICH; Chapter Six- The Challenges of Putting the Safeguarding of ICH into Practice; Chapter Seven- Safeguarding ICH in Emergencies; Chapter Eight - ICH in the Museum Context; Chapter Nine- ICH: Repatriation and Decolonisation; Chapter Ten- Final Thoughts on ICH and Our Shared Future; Useful Bibliography.
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries delves into examples of urban imaginaries across multiple media and geographies: from new visions of smart, eco, and resilient cities to urban dystopias in popular culture; from architectural renderings of starchitecture and luxury living to performative activism for new spatial justice; and from speculative experiments in urban planning, fiction, and photography to augmented urban realities in crowd-mapping and mobile apps.The volume brings various global perspectives together and into close dialogue to offer a broad, interdisciplinary, and critical overview of the current state of research on urban imaginaries. Questioning the politics of urban imagination, the companion gives particular attention to the role that urban imaginaries play in shaping the future of urban societies, communities, and built environments. Throughout the companion, issues of power, resistance, and uneven geographical development remTrade Review"This book provides an important introduction to, and comprehensive overview of, contemporary scholarship on urban imaginaries. Lindner and Meissner have compiled an exciting collection of essays, connecting perspectives from the arts, humanities, and social sciences and drawing on cases from a broad range of media and geographical contexts. With its incisive analysis of the political role of the imagination in cities across the world, and an insightful focus on the crafting of urban futures, this book is likely to become a key resource in urban studies teaching and research."Rivke Jaffe, Professor of Cities, Politics and Culture, University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsTable of Contents1 Introduction: Urban imaginaries in theory and practice PART I Eco and resilient 2 Thirsty cities: Who owns the right to water? 3 Rapid adaptation and mitigation planning 4 Urban nature and the ecological imaginary 5 Litter and the urban imaginary: On chewing gum and street art 6 IHM-agining sustainability: Urban imaginaries in spaces of possibility 7 Formal encounters in two tales of toxicity: Bhopal, Animal’s People, Louisville, The Hard Weather Boating Party PART II Smart and digital 8 Smart urban: Imaginary, interiority, intelligence 9 The origin of the smart city imaginary: From the dawn of modernity to the eclipse of reason 10 Construction performance: How the camera charts progress on site 11 Authoritarianism and the transparent smart city 12 Digital urban imaginaries: Space, time and culture wars in the cyber-city 13 Urban exposure: Feminist crowd-mapping and the new urban imaginary 14 Every breath you take: Captured movements in the hyperconnected city PART III Connected and consuming 15 Imagining the open city: (Post-)Cosmopolitan urban imaginaries 16 Beyond East-meets-West: Contemporary Chinese art and urban imaginaries in cosmopolitan Shanghai 17 Toward a photographic urbanism? Images iconizing cities and swaying urban transformation 18 Macau’s materialist milieu: Portuguese pavement stones and the political economy of the Chinese urban imaginary 19 "Like diamonds in the sky": Imaginaries of urban girlhood 20 The city on the highway, revisited PART IV Uneven and divided 21 Brutalism, ruins, and the urban imaginary of gentrification 22 The end of the time of the city? Urbanization and the migrant in British cinema 23 Chicano Park’s urban imaginary: Ethnic ties bonded to place and redistributive urban justice 24 Arts districts and the reimagining of neighborhood through arts and culture-based development 25 Jia Zhangke’s cinematic vision of urban dystopia in contemporary China 26 ICONi©Cities: Global imaginaries of urban dispossession 27 Imagining the entitled middle-class self in the global city: Tiny Times, small-town youth, and the New Shanghainese PART V Speculative and transformative 28 Urban imaginaries and the palimpsest of the future 29 Emergent imaginaries: Place, struggle, and survival 30 Queer urban imaginaries 31 Crafted imagination: Future-builders and the contemporary logic of experimentalism 32 Urban space and the posthuman imaginary
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cosmotechnics
Book SynopsisThis volume is initial reflections on the meaning and the implications of Yuk Hui's notion of cosmotechnics, which opens up an anti-universalist and pluralist perspective on technology beyond the West.Martin Heidegger's famous analysis of the essence of technology as enframing and as rooted in ancient Greek techne has had a crucial influence on the understanding and critique of technological society and culture in the twentieth century. However, it is still unclear to what extent his analysis can also be applied to the development of technology outside of the West', e.g. in China, Africa, and Latin America, particularly against the backdrop of receding Western domination and impending global ecological disaster. Acknowledging the planetary expansion of Western technology already observed by Heidegger, yet also recognizing the existence of non-Western origins of technical relationships to the cosmos, Yuk Hui's notion of cosmotechnics calls for a rethinking in diTable of ContentsPreface: CosmotechnicsYuk HuiIntroduction: Cosmotechnics and the ontological turn in the age of the AnthropocenePieter Lemmens1. Other turnings. Yuk Hui’s pluralist cosmotechnics in between heidegger’s ontological and stiegler’s organological understanding of technology Pieter Lemmens2. Cosmotechnics from an anthropotechnological perspective Marco Pavanini3. Neosubstantivism as Cosmotechnics: Gilbert Simondon versus the Transhumanist SynthesisAndrés Vaccari4. Machine and ecologyYuk Hui5. Noodiversty, technodiversity. Elements of a new economic foundation based on a new foundation for theoretical computer scienceBernard Stiegler and translated by Daniel Ross6. Technics and agency. The pluralism and diversity of technē Jason Tuckwell7. Philosophy in the light of AI. Hegel or LeibnizSjoerd van Tuinen8. Towards a fifth ontology for the AnthropoceneClive Hamilton9. The black angel of history. Afrofuturism’s cosmic techniques Frédéric Neyrat and translated by Daniel Ross10. Equivocations of the body and cosmic arts. An experiment in polyrealism Peter Skafish
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Taylor & Francis Coding and Representation from the Nineteenth
Book SynopsisAn exploration of trends and cultures connected to electrical telegraphy and recent digital communications, this collection emerges from the research project Scrambled Messages: The Telegraphic Imaginary 1866â1900, which investigated cultural phenomena relating to the 1866 transatlantic telegraph. It interrogates the ways in which society, politics, literature and art are imbricated with changing communications technologies, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Contributors consider control, imperialism and capital, as well as utopianism and hope, grappling with the ways in which human connections (and their messages) continue to be shaped by communications infrastructures.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1ANNE CHAPMAN AND NATALIE HUME1 To Be Connected: Perspectives on Autonomy and Risk from the Electric Age 7MANU LUKSCH AND MUKUL PATEL2 Cyborg Imperium, c. 1900 48DUNCAN BELL3 Universal Visual Languages in the Age of Telegraphy 71GRACE BROCKINGTON4 Plotting Passengers at a Metropolitan Station: Paddington in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 96NICOLA K IRKBY5 ‘Some Sentient Creature’. The Cable Body and the Body of Labour: Robert Dudley, William Howard Russell and the 1865 Voyage of the Great Eastern 114KATE FLINT6 Signal Markings in Victorian Miscellanies: Noise and Signal from the Idyll to Aestheticism 137CAROLINE ARSCOTT AND CLARE PETTITT7 ‘Recoding the Sea’: Uneven and Combined Capitalism in the Work of Allan Sekula (Telegraph Version) 161GAIL DAY AND STEVE EDWARDS8 random international 189INTERVIEW BY ANNE CHAPMAN AND NATALIE HUME
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Transformations in Independent TimorLeste
Book Synopsis1999 was a decisive year in the long history of the people of Timor-Leste, whose future was open when they voted for independence in a UN-sponsored referendum. Its results left no doubt that the Timorese considered themselves to be a nation wishing to have their own state, which they would rule.This book examines a vast array of transformations that have taken place over the past decades. It puts forward the idea of cohabitations, which aims at inscribing the mutual influences arising from the existence of distinct social processes not only side by side but in their mutual influences and entanglements, sometimes resulting from effective clashes, some others from peaceful manipulation of social and cultural differences. From this analytical viewpoint of evolving power dynamics of cohabitations, experts in the field investigate issues that have been contentious in the recent past and analyse the challenges that present-day Timor-Leste is facing. Structured in three paTable of ContentsIntroduction: exploring cohabitations in Timor-Leste Susana de Matos and Rui Graça Feijó Part I Contexts for a "revival of custom"1. Returning to origin places in an expanding world: customary ritual in independent Timor-Leste Elisabeth G. Traube2. Hunting and harvesting in the commons: on the cultural politics of custom Andrew McWilliam3. The re-assertion of sacralised authority in post-occupation Uato-Lari Susana Barnes4. Territorialities of the fallen heroes Susana de Matos Viegas and Rui Graça Feijó Part II Land and territory5. The challenges of establishing a land tenure system in a newly independent state Dionisio Babo Soares 6. Navigating without a compass: state transition in Timor-Leste’s formal land tenure system Bernardo Almeida 7. Reconceptualizing land and territory in Oecusse Ambeno’s enclave’s special economic zone Laura S. Meitzner Yoder 8. Exchange, water and motif in an etic genre of narrative David HicksPart III Governance and democracy9. An ecology of governance: rethinking the state and political community M. Anne Brown and Damian Grenfell 10. Managing persons and rituals: economic pedagogy as government tactics Kelly Silva 11. Local administration: a view from Vemasse Michael Leach 12. At home we wear cawat, outside we wear a tie: cohabitation and political legitimacy in grass-roots democracy Rui Graça Feijó 13. Conflict resolution and the making of personhood in Lisadila, Maubara Daniel S. Simião
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Taylor & Francis Postmodernist Fiction
Book SynopsisIn this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertakes to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompasses forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic realism, the French New New Novel, concrete prose and science fiction.Trade Review"This is one of the most lively and lucid studies of contemporary fiction around. Whether or not you agree with his provocative definition of the postmodern, McHale's argument is always engaging, bold and forceful." Linda Hutcheon"Not only does the critical jargon not get in the way of his thesis, but McHale even uses examples you've heard of ... A useful and comprehensive examination of the nature of The Beast."City Limits"McHale ... has written a brilliant, forceful and lucid defence of his own view."John Fletcher, Journal of European StudiesTable of ContentsPart 1: Preliminaries 1. From modernist to postmodernist fiction: change of dominant 2. Some ontologies of fiction Part 2: Worlds 3. In the Zone 4. Worlds in collusion 5. A world next door 6. Real, compared to what? Part 3: Construction 7. Worlds under erasure 8. Chinese-box worlds Part 5. Words 9. Tropological worlds 10. Styled worlds 11. Worlds of discourse Part 5: Groundings 12. Worlds on paper 13. Authors: dead and posthumous 14. Love and death in the post-modernist novel
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