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Book SynopsisThis text considers how it is possible for a small country to have a distinct information technology strategy in an increasingly globalized economy.
Trade Review'... inspiring and challenging ... I found the clear and distinct thinking that has gone into this analysis quite refreshing.' (Education, Communication & Information) '...This is a very good book...well-researched.' The Information Age '...a carefully argued, empirically substantiated appraisal of digital Wales. It deserves to be widely read, not just in the country which is its focus of attention, but elsewhere as well, for the lessons that can be carried into similar nations with newly devolved powers of governance.' European Journal of Communication.
Table of ContentsPart 1 Sexual/textual consumption - response to papers by Nicholas Watson: consuming passions - gender and sexuality in book VIII of John Gower's "Confessio Amantis", Diane Watt; consuming the body of the working man in the later Middle Ages, Isabel Davis; reproductive rites - Anne Askew and the female body as witness in the "Acts and Monuments", Kimberly Anne Coles; "such stowage as these trinkets" - trading and tasting women in Fletcher and Massinger's "The Sea Voyage" (1622), Teresa Walters; antipodean tricks - travel, gender and monstrousness in Richard Brome's "The Antipodes", Claire Jowitt. Part 2 Monstrous bodies - response to papers by Margo Hendricks: Sheela's voracity and Victorian veracity, Emma L.E. Rees; bloodsuckers - the construction of female sexuality in medieval science and fiction, Bettina Bildhauer; "ant nes he him seolf reclus i maries somebe?" - the anchorhold and the redemption of the monstrous female body, Liz Herbert McAvoy; fountains and strange women in the bower of bliss - Eastern contexts for Acrasia and her community, Marion Hollings; monstrous tyrannical appetite - "and what wonderful monsters have there now lately ben borne in Englande?", Margaret Healy. Part 3 Consuming genders, races, ractions - response to papers by Andrew Hadfield: the monstrous appetites of Albina and her sisters, Ruth Evans; monstrous (m)othering - the representation of the Sowdanesse in Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale", Sue Niebrzydowski; monstrous generation - witchcraft and generation in "Othello", Kirstie Gulick Rosenfield; an Ethiopian history - reading race and skin-colour in early modern versions of Heliodorus's "Aithiopika", Sujata Iyengar.
