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by Maysaa Husam Jaber
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This book fills a gap in both literary and feminist scholarship by offering the first major study of femme fatales in hardboiled crime fiction. Maysaa Jaber shows that the criminal literary figures in the genre open up powerful spaces for imagining female agency in direct opposition to the constraining forces of patriarchy and misogyny.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
With contributions ranging over three centuries, Culture, Capital and Representation explores how literature, cultural studies and the visual arts represent, interact with, and produce ideas about capital, whether in its early phases (the growth of stock markets) or in its late phase (global speculative capital).
Neurofeminism
Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Going beyond the hype of recent fMRI 'findings', thisinterdisciplinary collection examines such questions as: Do women and men have significantly different brains? Do women empathize, while men systematize? Is there a 'feminine' ethics? What does brain research on intersex conditions tell us about sex and gender?
Law and Government in England during the Long Eighteenth Century
From Consent to Command
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents and analyzes these shifts and focuses upon the changing relations between legal authority and the English people.
The Development of Early Childhood Education in Europe and North America
Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
The public provision of early childhood education has developed at different rates across individual countries over the past two centuries. This book provides the historical background to explain how these national differences occurred, with particular reference to welfare and educational systems, to highlight how particular influences grew.
by S. Cleary
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This book is an existential study of romantic loving. It draws on five existential philosophers to offer insights into what is wrong with our everyday ideas about romantic loving, why reality often falls short of the ideal, sources of frustrations and disappointments, and possibilities for creating authentically meaningful relationships.
by Wesley Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger explains how two notoriously opposed German philosophers share a rethinking of the possibility of metaphysics via notions of music and waiting. This is connected to the historical materialist project of social change by way of the radical Italian composer Luigi Nono.
by M. Foucault
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the College de France before his death in 1984. In this course, he continues the theme of the previous year's lectures in exploring the notion of "truth-telling" in politics to establish a number of ethically irreducible conditionsbased on courage and conviction.
Maurice Dobb
Political Economist
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This book explores the life of the man whom even his critics acknowledged was one of the world's most significant Communist economists. From his outpost at the University of Cambridge, where he was a protégé of John Maynard Keynes and mentor to students, Dobb made himself into one of British communism's premier intellectuals.
George Padmore and Decolonization from Below
Pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and the End of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
This book argues that the rising tide of anti-colonialism after the 1930s should be considered a turning point not just in harnessing a new mood or feeling of unity, but primarily as one that viewed empire, racism, and economic degradation as part of a system that fundamentally required the application of strategy to their destruction.
On The Government of the Living
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
With these lectures Foucault inaugurates his investigations of truth-telling in the ethical domain of practices of techniques of the self. How and why, he asks, does the government of men require those subject to power to be subjects who must tell the truth about themselves?
Adorno and Art
Aesthetic Theory Contra Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A comprehensive, critical and accessible account of Theodor W. Adorno's materialist-dialectical aesthetic theory of art from a contemporary perspective, this volume shows how Adorno's critical theory is awash with images crystallising thoughts to such a degree that it has every reason to be described as aesthetic.
Days of Glory?
Imaging Military Recruitment and the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution. It raises questions about how this event re-orientated notions of ‘citizenship’ and of service to ‘la Patrie’. The opening lines of the Marseillaise...
Remembering and Rethinking the GDR
Multiple Perspectives and Plural Authenticities
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Exploring the ways in which the GDR has been remembered since its demise in 1989/90, this volume asks how memory of the former state continues to shape contemporary Germany. Its contributors offer multiple perspectives on the GDR and offer new insights into the complex relationship between past and present.