Search Results - "fear"

Historicizing Fear : Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering /

Table of Contents: “…Up to No Good": The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Fear of Black Men in US Society / Henry Santos Metcalf -- 2.Southern Perils: Chinese Views of Their Southern Territories during the Tang Dynasty (618 -- 907 CE) / Adam C. …”
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Kierkegaard as Psychologist / by McCarthy, Vincent A., 1947-

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The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom / by Pugh, Tison

Table of Contents: “…No Sex Please, We're African American: The Cosby Show's Queer Fear of Black Sexuality --…”
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Practically Invisible : Coastal Ecuador, Tourism, and the Politics of Authenticity / by Smith, Kimbra, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Discourse: Fixity -- Practice: Fluidity -- Dispositions: Fear -- Interpracticality: Displacing Fear.…”
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Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs : Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grasslands / by Feldman-Savelsberg, Pamela, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Fertility and the politics of identity in Cameroon -- The short-lived marriage of a king's wife : Paulette's "plugged fertility" and blocked mobility -- Being Bangangte: social organization and identity -- Cooking inside : the symbolic construction of gender, marriage and fertility -- The kitchen plundered : fear of infertility -- Seeking remedies : medical pluralism and the distribution of fear -- "Then we were many" : the search for vitality in a changing context -- Kings of Bangangte.…”
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Our Limits Transgressed : Environmental Political Thought in America / by Taylor, Bob Pepperman

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Preface to paperback edition -- The pastoral and progressive visions -- Scarcity beyond inefficiency: Neo-Malthusian fears -- Liberal reformulations of progressive conservationism -- The spiritualization of nature -- Biocentrism -- Restoring political vision.…”
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Printing and Prophecy : Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 / by Green, Jonathan, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: printing and prophecy -- The Sibyl's book -- Prophets in print -- Prophets and their readers -- Visions of visions: functions of the image in printed prophecy -- Practica teütsch -- Fear, floods, and the paradox of the practica teütsch -- Conclusion: the prophetic reader.…”
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Life Interrupted : Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States / by Brennan, Denise, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Dangerous labor : working without documentation and working in the sex industry -- Chains of fear : the subjectivity of coercion -- Imagining the possible : creating home -- Making the possible possible : settling into home -- Laboring after forced labor.…”
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Blood Ties : Religion, Violence, and the Politics of Nationhood in Ottoman Macedonia, 1878-1908 /

Blood ties : religion, violence, and the politics of nationhood in Ottoman Macedonia, 1878-1908 /

by Yosmaoğlu, İpek

Table of Contents: “…The Ottoman Empire, the Balkans, and the great powers on the road to Mürzsteg -- Education and the creation of nation space -- Territoriality and its discontents -- Fear of small margins -- A leap of faith : disputes over sacred space -- Logic and legitimacy in violence.…”
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Homotopia?: Gay Identity, Sameness & the Politics of Desire / by Kemp, Jonathan, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Refusals -- Against custom : Andre Gide's pedagogic pederasty -- No such things as homosexuals : Marcel Proust and 'la race maudite' -- Beautiful flowers and perverse ruins : Edward Carpenter's Intermediate sex -- A problem in gay heroics : John Addington Symonds and l'amour de l'impossible -- Conclusion. Fear of a gay anus.…”
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The Rise of Democracy : Revolution, War and Transformations in International Politics since 1776 / by Hobson, Christopher (Professor of political science)

Table of Contents: “…Thucydidean themes: democracy in international relations -- 3. Fear and faith: the founding of the United States -- 4. …”
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Stigma Stories : Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness / by Kessler, Molly Margaret

Table of Contents: “…Studying stigma: a rhetorical approach to stories and lived experience ; Rhetoric of stories, stigma, lived experiences ; Studying stigma stories ; Preview of chapters -- Listening for stigma: praxiographic solutions and stigma in practice ; Critiques of stigma research ; Praxiographic solutions ; Stigma in practice ; An ethical case for engaging stigma praxiographically -- Staging stigma: ostomies as worst-case scenarios ; Leaks, stigma, and visceral publics ; Worst-case scenarios: ostomies in public health campaigns ; Ostomies on TV: fear and disgust in popular media ; Staging stigma through fear ; Credibility enhanced through stigma ; Conclusion -- Protesting stigma: disruptive stories, temporality, and ostomies as lifesavers ; Temporality, disability, and progressions of experience ; Rejecting compulsory nostalgia: disruptive ostomy stories as protest ; Disruptive stories, disruptive timelines ; Complicating a two-sided story ; Conclusion -- Managing stigma: visual acts of resistance ; Normalcy, norms, and the impossibility of normalization ; Displaying ostomies and soliciting stares ; Visual rewards and risks: sexualizing disability ; Showing off ostomies and arriving at the destination of normal ; Conclusion -- Thinking with stories: toward stigma interventions ; The value of a praxiographic approach to stories ; Interventional insights ; Conducting entangled research.…”
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Theodor Storm's Craft of Fiction : The Torment of a Narrator / by Bernd, Clifford A.

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Rethinking Poverty : What makes a good society? / by Knight, Barry, 1947-

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Pyrrhic Progress : The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production / by Kirchhelle, Claas, 1987-

Table of Contents: “…The sound of coughing pigs -- Picking one's poisons : antibiotics and the public -- Chemical cornucopia : antibiotics on the farm -- Toxic priorities : antibiotics and the FDA -- A fusion of concerns : antibiotics and the British public -- Bigger, better, faster : antibiotics and British farming -- Typing resistance : antibiotic regulation in Britain -- The public : antibiotics, failed bans, and growing fears -- The agricultural community : hostility in sinking numbers -- The government : failing to regulate -- Yearning for purity -- British farming and the environmental turn -- Swann song : British antibiotic policy after 1969.…”
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Scenes of Sympathy : Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction / by Jaffe, Audrey

Table of Contents: “…Detecting the beggar: Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Mayhew, and the construction of social identity -- Part II. Fear of falling -- ch. 3. Under cover: sympathy and ressentiment in Gaskell's Ruth -- ch. 4. …”
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No Useless Mouth : Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution / by Herrmann, Rachel B.

Table of Contents: “…Black victual warriors and hunger creation -- Fighting hunger, fearing violence after the Revolutionary War -- Learning from food laws in Nova Scotia -- Power waning. …”
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Menacing Environments : Ecohorror in Contemporary Nordic Cinema / by Bigelow, Benjamin (College teacher)

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Prison Area, Independence Valley : American Paradoxes in Political Life and Popular Culture / by Kroes, Rob

Table of Contents: “…Bush administration and European anti-Americanism -- The ascent of the falling man : an iconic image of 9/11 -- Cool hand luck : how America played its hand entertaining the world -- Musical America : staging the U.S.A. to the sounds of music -- A spaghetti southern : landscapes of fear in Quentin Tarantino's Django unchained -- Freaks on display : a tale of empathy and ostracism -- American responses to the Holocaust : atrocity photographs as nomadic objects -- Barack Hussein Obama : two portrait sketches -- Obama and the paradox of American global power : dreams of democracy and the imperial imperative -- Taking exception.…”
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The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema : Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century / by Balanzategui, Jessica

Table of Contents: “…The Child Seer and the Allegorical Moment in Millennial Spanish Horror Cinema; Section Three Our Fear Has Taken on a Life of Its Own: The Uncanny Child in Japanese Horror Film.…”
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