Search Results - "Feminism

European others queering ethnicity in postnational Europe / by El-Tayeb, Fatima

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: theorizing urban minority communities in postnational Europe -- "Stranger in my own country" : European identities, migration, and diasporic soundscapes -- Dimensions of diaspora : women of color feminism, black Europe, and queer memory discourses -- Secular submissions : Muslim Europeans, female bodies, and performative politics -- "Because it is our stepfatherland" : queering European public spaces -- Conclusion: "an infinite and undefinable movement".…”
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European others queering ethnicity in postnational Europe / by El-Tayeb, Fatima

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: theorizing urban minority communities in postnational Europe -- "Stranger in my own country" : European identities, migration, and diasporic soundscapes -- Dimensions of diaspora : women of color feminism, black Europe, and queer memory discourses -- Secular submissions : Muslim Europeans, female bodies, and performative politics -- "Because it is our stepfatherland" : queering European public spaces -- Conclusion: "an infinite and undefinable movement".…”
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Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel / by Langbauer, Laurie

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Shari Benstock and Celeste Schenck -- Acknowledgments / Laurie Langbauer -- Introduction -- The romance of history, or Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, sometimes -- Diverting romance : Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote -- An early romance : the ideology of the body in Mary Wollstonecraft's writing -- Streetwalkers and homebodies : Dickens's romantic women -- Recycling patriarchy's garbage : George Eliot's pessimism and the problem of a site for feminism -- Conclusion.…”
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Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel / by Langbauer, Laurie

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Shari Benstock and Celeste Schenck -- Acknowledgments / Laurie Langbauer -- Introduction -- The romance of history, or Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, sometimes -- Diverting romance : Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote -- An early romance : the ideology of the body in Mary Wollstonecraft's writing -- Streetwalkers and homebodies : Dickens's romantic women -- Recycling patriarchy's garbage : George Eliot's pessimism and the problem of a site for feminism -- Conclusion.…”
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Life as politics how ordinary people change the Middle East / by Bayat, Asef

Table of Contents: “…The art of presence -- The quiet encroachment of the ordinary -- The poor and the perpetual pursuit of life chances -- Feminism of everyday life -- Reclaiming youthfulness -- The politics of fun -- Battlefield Tehran -- Streets of revolution -- Does radical Islam have an urban ecology? …”
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Life as politics how ordinary people change the Middle East / by Bayat, Asef

Table of Contents: “…The art of presence -- The quiet encroachment of the ordinary -- The poor and the perpetual pursuit of life chances -- Feminism of everyday life -- Reclaiming youthfulness -- The politics of fun -- Battlefield Tehran -- Streets of revolution -- Does radical Islam have an urban ecology? …”
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Public passions the trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of popular sympathy in Republican China / by Lean, Eugenia, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…The assassin and her revenge: a tale of moral heroism and female self-fashioning in an age of mass communication -- Media sensation: public justice and the sympathy of an urban audience -- Highbrow ambivalence: fear of the masses and feminized sentiment -- The trial: courtroom spectacle and ethical sentiment in the rule of law -- A state pardon: sanctioned violence under Nationalist rule -- Beyond the 1930s: from wartime patriotism to counter-revolutionary sentiment.…”
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A people's history of the European Court of Human Rights by Goldhaber, Michael D. (Michael Dov)

Table of Contents: “…-- Dumb immigrants -- Minos and Jehovah -- Recovered memories -- Mohammed comes to Strasbourg -- The death penalty, mutilation, and the whip -- The original hooded men -- The tortures of Aksoy -- Two faces of Kurdish feminism -- The Chechen challenge -- The Roma challenge -- A constitutional identity for Europe -- Human rights in Europe and America.…”
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First Ladies and the Press : The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age / by Beasley, Maurine Hoffman

Table of Contents: “…Eleanor Roosevelt and the "newspaper girls" -- Early first ladies and the public sphere -- Jackie Kennedy and the construction of Camelot -- First ladies as political helpmates : Lady Bird Johnson and Pat Nixon -- First ladies and feminism : Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter -- First ladies and image-making : Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush -- Hillary Rodham Clinton as media polarizer -- Laura Bush as emblem of national caring -- Looking ahead.…”
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Public passions the trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of popular sympathy in Republican China / by Lean, Eugenia, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…The assassin and her revenge: a tale of moral heroism and female self-fashioning in an age of mass communication -- Media sensation: public justice and the sympathy of an urban audience -- Highbrow ambivalence: fear of the masses and feminized sentiment -- The trial: courtroom spectacle and ethical sentiment in the rule of law -- A state pardon: sanctioned violence under Nationalist rule -- Beyond the 1930s: from wartime patriotism to counter-revolutionary sentiment.…”
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A people's history of the European Court of Human Rights by Goldhaber, Michael D. (Michael Dov)

Table of Contents: “…-- Dumb immigrants -- Minos and Jehovah -- Recovered memories -- Mohammed comes to Strasbourg -- The death penalty, mutilation, and the whip -- The original hooded men -- The tortures of Aksoy -- Two faces of Kurdish feminism -- The Chechen challenge -- The Roma challenge -- A constitutional identity for Europe -- Human rights in Europe and America.…”
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First Ladies and the Press : The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age / by Beasley, Maurine Hoffman

Table of Contents: “…Eleanor Roosevelt and the "newspaper girls" -- Early first ladies and the public sphere -- Jackie Kennedy and the construction of Camelot -- First ladies as political helpmates : Lady Bird Johnson and Pat Nixon -- First ladies and feminism : Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter -- First ladies and image-making : Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush -- Hillary Rodham Clinton as media polarizer -- Laura Bush as emblem of national caring -- Looking ahead.…”
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Orthodox Jews in America by Gurock, Jeffrey S., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Orthodox -- Open and closed to feminism -- Epilogue : the tentative Orthodox of the twenty-first century.…”
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The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / by Berlatsky, Eric L., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…"Memory as forgetting" : historical reference, ethics, and postmodernist fiction -- The pageantry of the past and the reflection of the present : history, reality, and feminism in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts -- "A knife blade called now" : historiography, narrativity, and the "here and now" in Graham Swift's Waterland -- "What's real and what's true" : metaphors, errata, and the shadow of the real in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- "It's enough stories" : truth and experience in Art Spiegelman's Maus -- Expanding the field.…”
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Orthodox Jews in America by Gurock, Jeffrey S., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Orthodox -- Open and closed to feminism -- Epilogue : the tentative Orthodox of the twenty-first century.…”
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The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / by Berlatsky, Eric L., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…"Memory as forgetting" : historical reference, ethics, and postmodernist fiction -- The pageantry of the past and the reflection of the present : history, reality, and feminism in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts -- "A knife blade called now" : historiography, narrativity, and the "here and now" in Graham Swift's Waterland -- "What's real and what's true" : metaphors, errata, and the shadow of the real in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- "It's enough stories" : truth and experience in Art Spiegelman's Maus -- Expanding the field.…”
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Globalizing family values the Christian right in international politics / by Buss, Doris

Table of Contents: “…Divinity, data, destruction : theological foundations to Christian right international activism -- Constructing the global : the United Nations in Protestant thought and prophecy -- Nation, family, church : the Christian right global mission -- The death culture goes global : international population policy and Christian right politics in action -- In defense of the natural family : doctrine, disputes, and devotion at the World Congress of Families II Conference -- The gender agenda : women's rights, radical feminism, and homosexuality.…”
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Body panic gender, health, and the selling of fitness / by Dworkin, Shari L.

Table of Contents: “…Gender, consumer culture, and convergence -- Size matters : male body panic and the third wave "crisis of masculinity" -- "Getting your body back" : postindustrial fit motherhood and the merger of the second (household labor/child care) and third (fitness) shifts -- From Women's sports & fitness to Self : third wave feminism and the consumption conundrum -- Emancipatory potential, social justice, and the consumptive imperative.…”
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Globalizing family values the Christian right in international politics / by Buss, Doris

Table of Contents: “…Divinity, data, destruction : theological foundations to Christian right international activism -- Constructing the global : the United Nations in Protestant thought and prophecy -- Nation, family, church : the Christian right global mission -- The death culture goes global : international population policy and Christian right politics in action -- In defense of the natural family : doctrine, disputes, and devotion at the World Congress of Families II Conference -- The gender agenda : women's rights, radical feminism, and homosexuality.…”
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Body panic gender, health, and the selling of fitness / by Dworkin, Shari L.

Table of Contents: “…Gender, consumer culture, and convergence -- Size matters : male body panic and the third wave "crisis of masculinity" -- "Getting your body back" : postindustrial fit motherhood and the merger of the second (household labor/child care) and third (fitness) shifts -- From Women's sports & fitness to Self : third wave feminism and the consumption conundrum -- Emancipatory potential, social justice, and the consumptive imperative.…”
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