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  • 1
    ISBN: 9789004522633
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (756 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Historical Materialism Book Ser.
    DDC: 363
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preliminary Observations to Market and Violence -- ‎Chapter 1. On Direct Violence in Pitiless Conditions -- ‎Chapter 2. Armed World Trade -- ‎Robbery and Regulations -- ‎Overseas Trade Monopolies -- ‎Just Another Commodity -- ‎First Theoretical Remark: On Merchants and Capitalists -- ‎Chapter 3. Historical Preconditions for Capitalist Accumulation -- ‎Competition Set Free -- ‎Commercial Freedom Ashore -- ‎Commercial Freedom on the High Seas -- ‎The Pacification of Transport Routes -- ‎The Fight against Highway Robbery -- ‎Fighting Piracy -- ‎The Capital of Industrial Capitalism -- ‎From Merchant Capital to the Trading Capital of Industrial Capitalism -- ‎The Liberation of Wage Labour from Coercive Political Power -- ‎Wage Labour in Germany and Particularly in Prussia -- ‎Wage Labour in France -- ‎Wage Labour in England -- ‎Servitude, Slavery, Free and Unfree Wage Labour in the United States -- ‎Indenture (Temporary Servitude) -- ‎Slavery -- ‎The Living and Working Conditions of Slaves -- ‎Slavery and Profit -- ‎Unfree Wage Labour in the South -- ‎Free Wage Labour Beyond the Former Slave States -- ‎Second Theoretical Remark: The Political Economy of Capitalist Labour -- ‎Chapter 4. Appropriation Abroad -- ‎Forced Trade -- ‎Territorial Sovereignty -- ‎Fiscal Exploitation -- ‎For Example: The Conquest of Financial Sovereignty in India -- ‎Tributes, Poll Taxes and Labour Services -- ‎For Example: Caoutchouc instead of Money -- ‎Limits to Taxation -- ‎Settlement and Expulsion -- ‎Excursus: Justifications -- ‎Practices of Settlement -- ‎Spanish America -- ‎Australia -- ‎North America: United States of America -- ‎Algeria -- ‎Land Grabbing through Colonisation: A Summary -- ‎Teaching a Lesson -- ‎Decisions on Site -- ‎International Experts in Pacification -- ‎Patterns of Recruitment -- ‎With Drill and the Maxim.
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9783846767399
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (224 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 605
    Keywords: Sociology
    Abstract: Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Time and Continuity -- 1.1 What is Time? -- 1.2 Experience of Time and Time Consciousness -- 1.2.1 Time and the Stream of Thought -- 1.2.2 Continuity -- 1.2.3 Inner-Time Consciousness -- 1.3 Time and Memory: Summary -- 2 Trace, Selectivity and Orientation -- 2.1 Current Recourses -- 2.2 Impressions -- 2.3 Predetermined Perception -- 2.3.1 Body and Mind -- 2.3.2 Perception and Memory -- 2.3.3 Memory and the Structure of Relevance -- 2.4 Selectivity and Memory: Summary -- 3 Consciousness of the Past -- 3.1 Schemata of Experience -- 3.2 Forgetfulness -- 3.3 Remember/ing as an Intentional Act? -- 3.3.1 Experiencing and Learning -- 3.3.2 Conscious Remembering -- 3.3.3 Identity as Self-Narration -- 3.3.4 Persistent Memory -- 3.4 Summary and Transition: What is Social with Individual Memory? -- 4 Excursion: On Social Time -- 5 Pioneers of the Sociology of Memory -- 5.1 Collective Memory -- 5.1.1 Solidarity and Collective Consciousness -- 5.1.2 Social Frames of Reference -- 5.2 Pragmatic Remembering -- 5.2.1 Myths and Female Memory -- 5.2.2 Social Remembering -- 5.2.3 The Nature of the Past -- 5.3 Social Phenomenology -- 5.3.1 Subjective Memory Context -- 5.3.2 Social Stock of Knowledge -- 5.4 Summary: Three Pillars of the Sociology of Memory -- 6 Social Theories of Memory -- 6.1 Structural and Differentiation Theories -- 6.1.1 Pattern Maintenance as Function -- 6.1.2 System Memories -- 6.2 Knowledge-Sociological Concepts of Memory -- 6.2.1 The Social Construction of Memory -- 6.2.2 Communicative Memory -- 6.2.3 Remembrance Culture -- 6.2.4 The Formation of Memory -- 6.3 Practice-Theoretical Concepts of Memory -- 6.3.1 Incorporated and Habitual Memory -- 6.3.2 The Memory of Objects -- 6.4 Summary: Social-Theoretical Points of Connection -- 7 Modernisation-Theoretical Perspectives of Social Memory.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9789004468917
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (108 pages)
    Series Statement: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 794.8083
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Playful Trajectories and Experimentations Video Games in the Moral and Political Socialization of Children and Young People -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- Part 1. Methodological, Ethical, and Epistemological Challenges -- 1 Methodological Struggles: Bricolages on the Part of Researchers -- 1.1 An Increasingly Democratic Research Object? -- 1.2 Willful Omissions, or How Methodologies Are Never Called into Question -- 1.3 A Certain Theoretical Understanding of Video Games -- 2 Beyond Play: The Search for Time -- 2.1 Video Games: A Particular Form of Play? -- 2.2 In Search of Lost Time -- 3 A Pathway to Democracy: Play as a Means to Test Oneself and Create a Common World -- 3.1 Emotions as a Tool to Awaken Political Consciousness -- 3.2 Mead: A Scholar Overlooked -- 3.3 Bad Sports and Cheaters: Breaking the Magic Circle or Experiencing Negative Emotions? -- 4 Conclusion: Shifting Boundaries -- Part 2. Video Games: Experiences of Self Here and Elsewhere -- 1 Ludic Inequalities -- 1.1 Are Female Gamers Just Like Any Other Gamer? -- 1.2 Otome Games: Experimenting Romantic Relationships -- 2 Between Agency and Parental Control: The Gradual Assumption of Autonomy by Adolescents within Families -- 2.1 An Ongoing Challenge: Negotiating Play Time -- 2.2 Accessing Online Games: A New Form of Emancipation? -- 2.3 The Agency of Video Games as a Facilitator for the Agency of Children and Teenagers -- 2.4 Play as a Tool for Bonding? Experiencing Friendship and Experiencing Normality -- 3 In Search of Recognition: Educability and Sportivity of Video Games -- 3.1 Violence and Addiction: Denouncing as a Means of Controlling Youth? -- 3.2 The Educability of Video Games to the Aid of Young People -- 3.3 The Sportification of Video Games: The Geek Spectacle -- 4 Conclusion: Unequal Agency? -- Conclusion -- Bibliographical References.
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9789004442351
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (515 pages)
    Series Statement: The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This book is dedicated to Metin Kunt, which primarily examines diverse cases of changes throughout Ottoman history. Both specialist and non-specialist readers will explore and understand the complexities concerning the longevity as well as the tenacity of the Ottoman Empire.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Notes on Contributors -- Metin Kunt: Life and Work -- A Representative List of Metin Kunt's Publications -- Introduction: The Issue of Transformation withinthe Ottoman Empire -- Part 1 Ottoman Historiography and Reflections -- Chapter 1 A Firman Issued by Mustafa the Son of Bayezid I Surnamed Düzme (1422) -- Chapter 2 Imaginary Voyages, Imagined Ottomans: A Gentleman Impostor, the Köprülüs, and Seventeenth-Century French Oriental Romances -- Chapter 3 Practices of Remembrance and Sites of Violence in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: The Beheading of Şeyh İsmâil Ma ʾşûkî (d.1539) -- Chapter 4 Ottoman Artisans in a Changing Political Context: Debates in Historiography -- Part 2 Ottomans - Culture and Careers -- Chapter 5 Türbedar of the Ottoman Sultans: Şevkî Çelebi's Nostalgia for the Bursa of Bayezid Han and Emîr Sultan -- Chapter 6 The Personal Anthology of an Ottoman Litterateur: Celâlzâde Sâlih (d.1565) and His Mecmua -- Chapter 7 Transforming the Abode of War into the Abode of Islam: A Local Grandee in Ottoman Hungary, Osman Ağa, Çelebi and Bey -- Chapter 8 Making Recommendations: Azmîzâde and the Mahzar for Vücûdî Efendi, 1608 -- Chapter 9 A Poet's Warning: Veysî's Poem on the Breakdown of Ottoman Social and Political Life in the Seventeenth Century -- Chapter 10 From the 'Scribe of Satan' to the 'Master of Belâgât': Ottoman Chief Scribes and the Rhetorics of Political Survival in the Seventeenth Century -- Chapter 11 The Compass and the Astrolabe: Empiricismin the Ottoman Empire -- Part 3 Law, Religion and Political Thought -- Chapter 12 In Search of the Ancient Law or Kānûn-i Kadîm: Some Notes on Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Political Thought -- Chapter 13 Between a 'Brilliant Retreat' and a 'Tragic Defeat': Ottoman Narratives of the 1529 and 1683 Sieges of Vienna.
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9789004506725
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (832 pages)
    Series Statement: Critical Understanding in Education Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Electronic books
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  • 6
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Boston : BRILL | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9789004466562
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (414 pages)
    Series Statement: Transnational Migration and Education Ser.
    DDC: 305.800971
    Keywords: Multiculturalism-Canada ; Minorities-Government policy-Canada ; Electronic books
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9789004466630
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (227 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in Critical Social Sciences Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.8450994096
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: In African Australian Marriage Migration: An Ethnography of (Un)happiness, Henrike Hoogenraad offers an account of journeys of marriage migration among couples consisting of an Australian woman and a migrant man from the continent of Africa.
    Abstract: Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 Conceptualizing Marriage Migration -- 2 Marriage Migration as a Happiness Project -- 2.1 Dark Anthropology and an Anthropology of Happiness -- 2.2 Critical Race Theory: A Framework for Obstructions to Happiness in Australia -- 3 Overview of the Book -- Chapter 2 Setting the Scene -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From White Australia to 'Multiculturalism' -- 2.1 Migration from the African Continent to Australia -- 2.2 'African' Men in Adelaide -- 3 Methods of Data Collection -- 3.1 Researcher Positionality -- Chapter 3 Love, Romance and Happiness -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Jacob's Love Story -- 3 Conceptualizing Romantic Love -- 4 Cross-border Love Stories -- 4.1 Recollections of Beautiful Beginnings -- 4.2 Visions of Australia -- 4.3 Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Couples' Experiences with Visa Procedures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 That Gut Feeling -- 3 Genuine Relationships and the (Australian) Border -- 3.1 Defining Genuineness -- 3.2 Applying for a Partner Visa in Australia -- 4 Couples' Experiences with the Visa Application Process -- 4.1 Dealing with Regulations, Time and Money -- 4.2 Accumulating Evidence and Anxiety -- 4.3 And Finally, the Interview -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Cross-border Couples and Everyday Racism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 "Be Careful with African Men" -- 3 Everyday Racism and Everyday Prejudice -- 4 Cross-border Couples' Experiences with Everyday Racism -- 4.1 Men's Experiences with Everyday Racism -- 4.2 Women's Experiences with Everyday Racism -- 4.3 Couples and Australian Relatives -- 4.4 Couples and their African Relatives -- 4.5 African Communities in Australia and Everyday Racism -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Migrant Men and Intimate Relationships -- 1 Introduction.
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  • 8
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Boston : BRILL
    ISBN: 9789004469655
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (448 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in Global Slavery Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.362095
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Introduction Slavery, Slave Trading, and Bonded Labor Studiesin Asia -- Part 1 Conceptualizing Slave Status -- Chapter 1 Slavery and Forced Labour in Asia: Status Quaestionis -- Chapter 2 Between Slave and Disciple in South Asia -- Chapter 3 Gender and Slavery in Asia -- Part 2 Slavery, the State, and Society in East Asia -- Chapter 4 Slavery and the Mongol Empire -- Chapter 5 Economic, Social, and Legal Aspects of Slavery and Indentured Labor in Late Ming China (1550-1645): What the Huizhou Documents Tell Us -- Chapter 6 Human Trafficking in Late Imperial China -- Chapter 7 Korea: A Slave Society -- Chapter 8 The Abolition of Slavery, Constitutional Reforms, and Modernity in Late Qing China -- Part 3 Slavery, Servitude, and European Colonialism -- Chapter 9 Slaves, Weavers, and the Peopling of East India Company Colonies, 1660-1730 -- Chapter 10 Slavery, Conflict, and Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines -- Chapter 11 Pearling and Slavery in the Sulu Zone, 1882-1884: The Letters and Diary of Thomas Henry Haynes -- Chapter 12 Slavery through Missionary Lenses: Timor in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 13 Indebtedness, Socio-cultural Hierarchies, and Unfree Labor on Nineteenth-Century Ceylonese Plantations -- Part 4 Reflections -- Chapter 14 Slavery in Asia and Global Slavery -- Bibliography -- Index.
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9789004467002
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (288 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in Critical Social Sciences Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Hating Girls provides an intersectional perspective that deconstructs the pervasive misogynies and gender-based violence against females and gender non-conforming people. The interdisciplinary analysis exposes the destructive, oppressive beliefs and practices inherent in our society and offers an equitable way forward.
    Abstract: Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Sexual Assault Prosecutions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Intentionally Inclusive Pedagogy: Pedagogical Practice as an Act of Social Justice -- 1 Positionality -- 2 Pedagogy and Student Experiences -- 3 Power and Pedagogy -- 4 Critical Consciousness -- 5 Critical Theories -- 5.1 Queer Theory -- 5.2 Critical Race Theory -- 5.3 Black Girls in School -- 6 Intersectional Black Feminist Pedagogy -- 7 Pedagogy in Practice: Techniques and Strategies in the Classroom -- 7.1 Including Diverse Perspectives -- 7.2 Affirming Students' Cultures and Identities -- 7.3 Exploring the Use of Language -- 7.4 Naming -- 7.5 Building Community -- 7.6 Emphasizing Social Change -- 7.7 Valuing Lived Experience -- 7.8 Disrupting Power through Qualitative Research Strategies -- 8 Accountability and Action -- 8.1 Engaging in Self-work -- 8.2 Practicing De-colonization in Higher Education -- 8.3 Creating Accountability Partnerships -- 9 Discussion and Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 The Dangers of "You Are Not Your Own": How Purity Culture Props Up Rape Culture -- 1 What Is Purity Culture? -- 2 What Is Rape Culture? -- 3 Male Domination, Female Submission, Anti-autonomy -- 4 Objectification and Fragmentation -- 5 Purity Culture and White Supremacy -- 6 Undermining Sexual Violence Prevention and Response -- 7 Anti-pleasure, Anti-desire -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Objectification and Sexualization of Girls: A Case Study -- 1 Objectification and Sexualization of Girls: A Case Study -- 2 Objectification and Sexualization: Religious Dogma -- 3 A Case Study Continued -- 4 Objectification and Sexualization: Grooming Girls -- 5 A Case Study Continued -- 6 Objectification and Sexualization of Girls: The Media.
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9789004459618
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (197 pages)
    Series Statement: Women and Gender: the Middle East and the Islamic World Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.3095692
    Keywords: Rural women-Lebanon-Social conditions ; Rural women-Lebanon-Case studies ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Al-Firzul in Context -- 1 Before the Nineteenth Century -- 2 The Nineteenth Century to the End of World War I -- 3 Post World War I to World War II -- 4 World War II -- 5 The Post-World War II Period -- 6 The Village during the 1970s -- 7 The Civil War -- 8 After the Civil War: The 1990s -- 9 The 2000s -- Chapter 3 Women, Gender, and Families -- 1 Kinship and Residence -- 1.1 Residence -- 1.2 Group Formation -- 1.3 Terminology: Language and Reality -- 2 Views about Marriage -- 3 Finding a Spouse -- 4 Age at Marriage -- 5 Family Structure and Size -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Women, Education, and Work -- 1 Education -- 1.1 Education before the 1970s -- 1.2 Education during the 1970s -- 1.3 Education: The Civil War and Later -- 1.4 Understanding Changes in Education -- 2 Work -- 2.1 Early Twentieth Century -- 2.2 The 1930s and 1940s -- 2.3 The 1950s -- 2.4 Work during the 1970s -- 2.5 Work Post-civil War -- 2.6 Understanding Changes in Attitudes toward Women and Work -- 3 Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Gender and Community -- 1 Kinship -- 2 Organizations -- 2.1 Men's Benevolent and Religious Organizations -- 2.2 Women's Benevolent and Religious Organizations -- 2.3 Youth and Children's Organizations -- 2.4 Political Parties -- 3 Governance and Institutions -- 3.1 Village Governance -- 3.2 The Role of Gender in Secular Governance -- 3.3 Non-governmental Secular Village Institutions -- 3.4 Religious Institutions -- 4 The Internet -- 5 Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Gender Symbolism in Ritual -- 1 Origins of First Communion in al-Firzul -- 2 First Communion in 1973 -- 3 Post-civil War First Communion Observance -- 4 Weddings in 1972-1973 -- 5 Weddings Post-civil War -- 6 Funerals in the 1970s -- 7 Funerals Post-civil War.
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  • 11
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    Online Resource
    Boston : BRILL
    ISBN: 9789004461178
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (197 pages)
    Series Statement: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Old Religion, New Spirituality: Implications of Secularisation and Individualisation in Estonia, edited by Riho Altnurme, discusses the link between the secularity of Estonia and the image of individualised religiosity in this country today.
    Abstract: Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Tables and Maps -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The History of the Marginalisation of Christianity in Estonia (1857-2017) -- 1 Christianity as Self-evident (1857-1918) -- 2 The Struggle for Morality (1918-1940) -- 3 From Norm to Alternative (1940-1991) -- 4 Christianity: Keeper of Cultural Memory and Vicarious Religion (1991-2017) -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 The Lutheran Church in Estonian Society: The Impact of Secularisation and Religious Change -- 1 The Beginning of Independence -- 2 Towards a Closer Cooperation -- 3 Under Hitler and Stalin -- 4 Rise, Fall, and New Rise in Church Popularity -- 5 Religious Change and the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church -- 6 Perspectives for the Future -- 7 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The Orthodox Church in Estonia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives in the Context of the 2011 Population and Housing Census -- Chapter 5 Secular Society, Secular State: Egalitarian Legislation on Religion? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Some Historical Background for the State and Religion Relations in Estonia -- 3 Legislating Religion in a Secular Society -- 4 The Legal Framework for Religious Freedom -- 5 Churches and Congregations Act -- 6 Additional Legislation on Religion -- 7 Discussion -- 8 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Influence of the European Union's Liberal Secularist Policy on Religion upon Religious Authority in Estonia Since 2004 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Religious Authority -- 3 The Politics of Religion of the European Union -- 4 Eurosecularism in the Post-Soviet Context -- 5 Civic Nationalism vs. Ethno-religious Cultural Nationalism -- 6 The Liberalisation of Legal Norms Regulating Sexuality -- 7 Conclusion: What Can Be Generalised?.
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9789004459397
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (296 pages)
    Series Statement: European Expansion and Indigenous Response Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gendering the Portuguese-speaking world
    DDC: 305.30917/569
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Portugal ; Kolonie ; Portugiesen ; Geschichte ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Geschlechtsidentität ; Soziale Situation ; Lebensbedingungen ; Kultur
    Abstract: This book addresses the long-term cultural and social environment of sex definition in different continents. The impact on gender of Portuguese expansion is confronted to local agency and indigenous responses. Historical, literary and anthropological approaches highlight colonial and postcolonial gender fluidity.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- General Series Editor's Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- Part 1: Portugal and Its Empire -- 1. Gendering Medieval Portugal -- 2. Negotiating Patriarchy in Early Modern Portugal -- 1 Women without Men -- 2 Women withstanding Men -- 3 Women Withdrawing from Men -- 4 Conclusion -- 3. Gendering Practices and Possibilities in Portugal and Its Empire during the Early Modern Period -- 1 Exclusions and Legal Rights -- 2 Women's Options -- 3 Colonial Contexts: Race, Slavery, and Informal Families -- 4 Women and the Economy: Literacy, Education and Occupational Training -- 5 Successful Women? -- 6 Women in Dire Straits: Charity -- 7 Conclusions -- 4. Women and Gender in the Portuguese Overseas Empire. Society, Economy and Politics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Women, Gender and Postcolonial Studies -- 3 Local Women Seen through the Eyes of the Sources -- 4 Society: Women's Status and Family Roles -- 5 Women as Economic Agents -- 6 Politics and War: The Role of Women -- 7 Final Remarks -- 5. Language and Gender -- 6. Convents in Lisbon: Practices against Seclusion -- 1 Entrance and Profession -- 2 Socializing -- 3 Wealth -- 4 Writings -- 5 Conclusion -- 7. Gendering Libraries and Reading (a Glimpse at Three Generations of Portuguese Readers) -- 1 The Education of a Woman Reader -- 2 A Reader of Foreign, Forbidden and "Unsuitable" Books -- 3 Languages of the Books in Dona Leonor's Library -- 4 A Reader of Novels -- 5 Women and Novels in the Fronteira Family -- Part 2: Modern and Postcolonial World -- 8. Wily Homosexuals: Notes on the Circulation of Queerness and Homophobia in the Luso-Brazilian -- 1 Wily Homosexuals and Traveling Theory -- 2 The Spectacle of Homosexuality in O crime do Padre Amaro -- 3 Albino's Tangled Belongings.
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9789004466340
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (305 pages)
    Series Statement: Youth in a Globalizing World Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.235
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: In Forms of Collective Engagement in Youth Transitions, renowned and emerging sociologists analyse new phenomena of collectivity among young people around the globe.
    Abstract: Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Bringing Together Forms of Collective Engagement in Youth Transitions: Processes, Practices and Theoretical Perspectives -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Book's Focus -- 3 A Theory Roadmap -- 3.1 Forms of Collective Engagement as Solidarity -- 3.2 Forms of Collective Engagement as Sociality -- 3.3 Forms of Collective Engagement as Assemblage -- 3.4 Forms of Collective Engagement as Mediating between Structure and Agency -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Part 1 Forms of Collective Engagement in (Un)employment, (Lack of) Work, Collaborative Practices -- Chapter 2 Transition Companions: The Role of Peers in German School-to-Work Transitions -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Context, Theory and Definitions -- 3 Background and Methods -- 4 Peers as Transition Companions - A Lacuna in Research -- 5 Peers as Arenas of Comfort -- 6 Peers as Alternative Vocational Orientation Systems -- 7 Peers as Transition Boosters and Barriers -- 8 Peers as Transition Boosters -- 9 Peers as Transition Barriers -- 10 Peer Roles: A Question of Perspective, Interpretation and Transformation -- 11 Nicola: 'We want to try to do everything together' -- 12 Summary and Outlook -- References -- Chapter 3 Early Teen-Work Assemblages and Embedded Dependence -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Scholarship around School-to-Work Transitions -- 3 Dismantling Beliefs in an Independent, Self-Presence of Adulthood -- 3.1 Assemblage -- 3.2 Agency and Becoming -- 3.3 Supplementations and Extensions -- 4 Methodology -- 5 Teen-Work Assemblages and Associated Extensions -- 5.1 Family and Friends -- 5.2 Time, Space, and Bodies -- 5.2 Workplace Tools/Machinery, Practices and Roles -- 5.3 Capitals/Money -- 6 Conclusion: Dependent Agency -- References.
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  • 14
    ISBN: 9789004466852
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (255 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in Critical Social Sciences Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.409561
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Conceptualisation of Ideal Womanhood in Post-2002 Turkey -- 1 The Conceptualisation of Problematic Womanhood and Governmentality -- 2 Changing Patterns of Womanhood in Post-2002 Turkey -- 3 Insights from Foucault's Method -- 4 Selection of the Research Sources -- 5 Structure of the Book -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 2 The Closed Circuits of the Woman's Sexuality and Temperate Seductiveness -- 1 Islamic Virtues on Woman's Sexuality -- 2 The Imagined Population in the New Gender Regime -- 2.1 Islamic Heteronormativity and Its Performances -- 2.2 Contouring Gender Justice -- 3 Intimacy in Public or the Intimacy of the Public? -- 3.1 To Veil or Not to Veil -- 3.2 On the Political Representations of Women -- 3.3 Policing Public Morality -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 3 The Sacred Family Portrait: Balance, Uniformity, Patience and Piety -- 1 Understanding the Family in Its Cooperative Manner -- 2 True Womanhood and Unmanageable Fields of Government -- 2.1 The New Definition of Womanhood -- 2.2 Awakening the Sense of Motherhood -- 2.3 Some Facts: Adultery, Homosexuality, Prostitution, Brothels and the Like -- 3 The Last Sight on Family -- 3.1 Consulting Services for the Betterisation of Family -- 3.2 Divorce as an Impossible Practice -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 4 Reconsidering Violence as a Disciplinary and Regulatory Apparatus -- 1 Statistical Facts and the Hard Truth -- 2 Rape as a Justified Reaction against the Impropriety -- 3 From Crimes of Honour to Crimes of Passion -- 4 Political Reality and the Depoliticisation of Violence -- 4.1 Protective Mechanisms and Legal Applications -- 4.2 Manhood and Violence -- 4.3 Gendered Mediation -- 5 Concluding Remarks.
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  • 15
    ISBN: 9789004461062
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (230 pages)
    Series Statement: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This book shows that childhood was an essential element in the arguments and purposes of authors in medieval Poland from 1050-1300 CE. This role of childhood in medieval mindsets has salient parallels throughout Europe and this is also explored in this volume.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 Historiographical Context -- 2 Description of Contents -- Chapter 2 Child and Hero: The Use of Childhood in the Narrative of Gallus Anonymus -- 1 Who Was Gallus? New Approaches to the Deeds of the Princes of the Poles -- 2 Childhood as a Time of Development and Prophecy -- 3 Age Terminology and Dynastic Status: When Is a Man a Man? -- 4 Vulnerability and Care: From Parents and the Community -- 5 Motherly Care and Female Children -- 6 Comparisons: Cosmas of Prague -- 7 Conclusions -- Chapter 3 Vincent Kadłubek and Thinking with Children -- 1 Vincent's Overlap with Gallus -- 2 Parental Love of Children … and the Virtue of Violating It -- 3 Filial and Familial Piety -- 4 Childishness, a Negative Stereotype Applied to Rulers -- 5 Prophecy and Children -- 6 Child(hood) as a Rhetorical Device -- 7 Conclusions -- Chapter 4 The Henryków Book: The Weight of Future Children and the Threat of Youth -- 1 The Text and Its Purpose -- 2 Youth as Part of Dynasty and Potential Threat -- 3 How Many Roads Must a Man Walk Down: What Is a Responsible Age? -- 4 "Kids These Days": Disappointment in the Next Generation -- 5 Memory and Youth, a New Kind of Remembrance in Poland -- 6 The Care for Children -- 7 Conclusions -- Chapter 5 Children and Childhood in Hagiography -- 1 Are Good Children Serious Children? -- 2 Education Issues: Nature vs. Nurture, God as Teacher, Male vs. Female -- 3 Precious or Burdensome? Children Three Years and Younger -- 4 Children, Childhood, and Descendants in the Canonization Story of St. Stanisław -- 5 The Miracles -- 6 Latin Words Relating to Children in the Miracula: Exceptions and Rules -- 7 Conclusions -- Chapter 6 The Child in the Community of the Dead -- 1 Incidence of Child Burials -- 2 The Problem of Grave Goods in Child Burials.
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    ISBN: 9783657715084
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (178 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 261.835
    Keywords: Theology ; Christianity ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Butler, Religion, and Theology -- Structure of the Book -- A Theology of Vulnerability -- Part A Butler's Philosophy -- Chapter I Preliminary Remarks -- 1 Butler's Understanding of Language and Her Style -- 2 Butler's Understanding of Theory, Object of Intellectual Interest, and Methodology -- 3 Butler as a Recognition Theorist -- Chapter II The Foundations of Butler's Philosophy -- 1 Power, Discourse, and Performativity -- Butler's Notion and Understanding of Discourse -- Performative Praxis: Citing, Repeating, Displacing -- 2 Gender, Norms, and Subject -- Butler's Concept of Norms -- Framework for Butler's Critique of the Subject -- Subjectivation and Gender Norms -- Butler's Response to Criticism of Her Gender Theory -- Resisting the Effects of Norms -- Philosophy of Language: Vulnerability, and Resistance through Language -- 3 Subjectivation as 'Subjection' -- From Gender Theory to a Theory of the Subject -- The Process of Subjectivation -- The Figure of the Trope -- The First Precondition of Subjectivation: the Desire to Exist -- The Second Precondition of Subjectivation: Matrix of Norms and Ideas of Identity -- Melancholy -- Resistance to Power -- Potentiality -- Resistance through Entanglement -- Structural Resistance as Work on the Conceptual Framework -- Chapter III Post-sovereign Subjects -- 1 The Other - Asymmetrical Intersubjectivity -- Readjustment of Recognition: Who Are You? -- Dependence on the Recognition of Others - the Ecstatic Subject -- Transformative Effects -- 2 Vulnerability and Precarity -- Alterity as Exposure to Others - the Vulnerable Subject -- Ontological Vulnerability - Precariousness -- Phenomenology of Vulnerability -- Real Danger - 'Precarity' -- 3 Reflexivity, the Capacity to Act, and Responsibility -- The Limits of Accountability -- Responsibility as Response.
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  • 17
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    ISBN: 9789004438491
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (369 pages)
    Series Statement: Perspectives on Islamicate South Asia Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Women, Islam and Familial Intimacy in Colonial South Asia offers an account of Muslim feminism in an age of nationalism and reform, and how it shaped debates on family, morality and society.
    Abstract: Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1 Women, Islam and Social Reform -- 2 Ethics and the Question of Family -- 3 Urdū Public Sphere -- 4 Gender and Nationalism -- 5 Structure of the Book -- Chapter 1 Familial Ethics and the Critique of Social Reform -- 1 Nineteenth Century Debates on Akhlāq: Ethics as Relationships -- 2 Reformist Censorship and the Battle for Women's Voice -- 3 Fatherhood and Contentious Advice -- 4 Disruption of Social Reform: 'Respectability' as Oppression -- 5 Parent-child Relations, Rights and Social Authority -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Marital Consent and the Discourse of 'Women's Freedom' -- 1 Coercive Marriage and the Vision of Compatibility -- 2 Marital Compatibility as Social Practice -- 3 Marital Consent in Urdū Magazines -- 4 Pardah: Seclusion and/or Participation -- 5 'Women's Freedom' -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Conjugal Sexuality and the Politics of Reproduction -- 1 Bodily Health and Conjugality -- 2 Masculinity and Global "Anti-Vice" Campaigns -- 3 Sexual Pleasure, Female Sexual Desire and Reproduction -- 4 Eugenics and Family -- 5 Niyāz Fatehpūrī: Colonial Knowledge and History of Sexuality -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Polygyny -- 1 Sexuality and 'Legitimate Polygyny' -- 2 Social Reform and Its Advocacy of 'Legitimate Polygyny' -- 3 Critiques of Polygyny -- 4 Muslim Women's Conference, 1918, Lahore -- 5 Polygynous Marriage of Saiyid ʿĀbid Husain and Sāliha ʿĀbid Husain -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Marital Annulment and Separation of Family -- 1 Talāq (Divorce) -- 2 Divorce and Male Authority -- 3 Respectability, Equality and Marital Annulment -- 4 Debating Strategies for Change -- 5 Women's Freedom, Female Apostasy and Marriage.
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  • 18
    ISBN: 9789004465329
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (258 pages)
    Series Statement: The Medieval Mediterranean Ser.
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    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Transcultural Medieval Mediterranean -- Acknowledgement -- Works Cited -- Part 1 Conquests -- Chapter 1 Anomalous al-Andalus: Time, Space, Desire -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 The Masculine Body in the Mediterranean: Queering the Other in El Monserrate and Tirant lo Blanc -- 1 Searching for the Origin of Diego Florel's Physical Attributes: The Classical Epic -- 2 The Masculinity of the Italian, Catalan, and Muslim Characters in El Monserrate -- 3 Responding to the Threat of the Crown of Aragon in Tirant lo Blanc -- 4 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part 2 Femininities -- Chapter 3 Bad Girls and Gender Trouble in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean -- 1 Shajarat al-Durr's Ascendance to the Sultanate of Egypt -- 2 European Chronicles of the Seventh Crusade -- 3 Literary Production in the Middle of the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean -- 4 Contemporary Legacy of "Bad Girls" -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4 Going Between Bodies, Minds, and Spaces: The Alcahueta as the Queer Third Party -- Works Cited -- Part 3 Literatures -- Chapter 5 Perversion and Subversion: Mother Guidance and Illicit Sexuality in Ibn Dāniyāl's Shadow Play -- 1 Complex Framings -- 2 Transgression, Potency and Female Agency -- 3 Sexual Pleasure, Linguistic Pleasure -- 4 In (Dis)praise of Procreation -- 5 The Perils of Stepping Out of Character -- 6 Death and Repentance -- 7 Mother Guidance and the Carnivalesque -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 Queer Names and Experiences in Old French and Romance Literatures -- Works Cited -- Part 4 Captives -- Chapter 7 Beaucaire, "Cartage," Torelore: The Imaginary Mediterranean's Queer Carnival in Aucassin et Nicolette -- Works Cited.
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  • 19
    ISBN: 9789004461390
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (288 pages)
    Series Statement: Inner Asia Book Ser.
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    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Gender, Activism, and International Development Intervention in Kyrgyzstan draws on feminist critiques and ethnographic data to interrogate how development has been implemented in Kyrgyzstan since 1991.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 A Note on Central Asian Women -- 2 Methodology -- 3 Outline -- Chapter 2 Gender and Development in Soviet Kyrgyzstan -- 1 Women in Pre-Soviet Central Asia -- 1.1 Women Warriors -- 2 The Soviet Development Project in Central Asia -- 2.1 Bolshevism and the 'Woman Question' -- 2.1.1 Legislative Reform -- 2.1.2 Hujum -- 2.1.3 The Zhenotdel -- 2.2 The Stalinist Period -- 2.2.1 The Woman Question Is Solved -- 2.2.2 Entry into Education and the Paid Labour Force -- 3 Gender Equality in the Soviet Union Post-Stalin -- 3.1 The Soviet Social Contract -- 3.2 Worker-Mothers -- 3.3 Those Who Did Not Fit -- 3.3.1 Disability in the USSR -- 3.3.2 'There Was No Sex in the Soviet Union' -- 4 Gender Equality and the Gendered Social Contract in the Kirgiz SSR -- 4.1 Education -- 4.2 Employment -- 4.3 Women in Political Life -- 4.4 The Private Sphere -- 5 The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Transition Period -- 5.1 The Transition to a Market Economy -- 5.1.1 Society in Flux -- 5.1.2 Unemployment and the Rolling Back of the State -- 5.1.3 New Possibilities and Opportunities -- 5.2 The Gender Backlash? -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Development and Civil Society in Kyrgyzstan -- 1 Theories of Citizenship -- 1.1 Liberal Citizenship -- 1.2 Citizenship in State Socialist Regimes -- 1.3 Neoliberal Citizenship -- 2 Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society -- 3 Civil Society and Citizenship in Development -- 3.1 Operationalising Civil Society in Development -- 3.2 Active Citizens in Development -- 3.2.1 Operationalising Active Citizenship -- 4 Civil Society and Development in Kyrgyzstan -- 4.1 Accounts of Civil Society in Central Asia -- 4.2 Civil Society in the Soviet Period -- 4.3 The Perestroika and Glasnost' Period -- 4.4 Donor-Driven Civil Society.
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  • 20
    ISBN: 9789004426474
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (447 pages)
    Series Statement: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 307.760944
    Keywords: Cities and towns-France-History ; National characteristics, French-History ; Elite (Social sciences)-France-Historiography ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Dynamics of Local History -- 2 Urban History and the French Kingdom -- 3 The Republic of Letters and the Fortunes of Erudite History -- 4 Urban History: A Preview -- Chapter 1 Writing Urban History -- 1 Historical Writing in Sixteenth-Century Le Mans -- 2 Local Audiences and Historical Traditions -- 3 The Politics of Historical Erudition in the Duchy of Burgundy -- 4 Historical Disagreement and Community Identity in Seventeenth-Century Le Mans -- Chapter 2 Municipal History and Urban Privileges -- 1 Historical Writing at the Hôtel de Ville -- 2 Municipal History in Print -- 3 The Comparative Impulse and Its Effects -- Chapter 3 François de Belleforest, National Sentiment, and Local Scholarship -- 1 Belleforest and the French People -- 2 Local Testimonies, Urban Contacts -- 3 Belleforest, Historian -- 4 Local History in Print -- Chapter 4 Origin Stories -- 1 Origin Stories: Evolution and Persistence -- 2 The Prestige of Classical Antiquity -- Chapter 5 Urban History and Capitalité: The Rivalry between Clermont and Riom -- 1 The Argument from Antiquity and the Debate over Gergovia -- 2 Capitalité and the Rivalry between Clermont and Riom -- 2.1 The Treaty of 1557 and the "County of Clermont" -- 2.2 The "Sénéchaussée d'Auvergne," the Seat of Royal Justice, and Religious Rivalries -- Chapter 6 Ancient History, Sacred History, and French National Sentiment -- 1 Ancient Gaul and the Nature of France -- 2 Roman Aquitaine and the French Church -- 3 Gallic Aristocracy, French Monarchy -- Chapter 7 Genealogical History and Local History: André Duchesne and the History of France -- 1 The Cour de Justice of Guyenne and Historical Investigation -- 2 Duchesne and the "Perfect Topography" of France.
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  • 21
    ISBN: 9789004461376
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (326 pages)
    Series Statement: NIKI Studies in Netherlandish-Italian Art History Ser.
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    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Scholars from ancient and early modern studies, art history, literary criticism, philosophy, and the history of science explore the interplay between nature, science, and art in influential ancient texts and their reception in the Renaissance.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Director's Remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Material World and Its Limits -- Chapter 1 Plato's Attitude toward Painting and Mathematics -- Chapter 2 The Vitruvian Body in De architectura's Third Preface: Architecture and Rhetoric between Nature and Art -- Chapter 3 Cera d'api: la storia naturale di un medium archetipico -- Chapter 4 'We Penetrate the Earth's Innards and Search for Riches': Pliny's Hierarchy of Materials and Its Influence in the Renaissance -- Chapter 5 Moving Wood, Man Immobile: Hero's Automata at the Urbino Court -- Chapter 6 Terremoti artificiali. La sismologia aristotelica nella guerra sotterranea del Rinascimento -- Chapter 7 The Heptaphonon and the Architecture of Echoes -- Chapter 8 A Changing Earth: Strabo and Leonardo's Scientific Humanism -- Chapter 9 Into the Wild: Living Landscape and Wonderment in Renaissance Art -- Chapter 10 Botticelli's Venus and Mars, Lucretius and Empedocles -- Chapter 11 Fantasia and Speciation: Traces of Empedocles in Ancient Poetry and Renaissance Art -- coda Temporality and the Reception of Ancient Culture: An Example from Dürer -- Index of Primary Literary Sources -- Index of Works of Art -- General Index.
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  • 22
    ISBN: 9789004443792
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (211 pages)
    Series Statement: Value Inquiry Book Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 327.1709
    Keywords: International cooperation-Social aspects ; Globalization-Poland ; Globalization-Social aspects-History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Thinking Globally -- Part 1 Cultural Theory of Globalization -- Chapter 1 Generality and Universality in Globalization -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 The Status of Global Studies and Transformations in the Social Sciences -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Musicology and Globalization -- Bibliography -- Part 2 Cultural History of Globalization -- Chapter 4 Towards Historical Performatics?: Gesture as the Origin of Speech. A Case Study -- 1 Apes and Humans -- 2 Deictic Gesture: Pointing -- 3 Iconic Gesture: Pantomiming -- 4 Gesture as the Origin of Language -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 "There Is Neither Barbarian Nor Greek …" : On the Tools of the Globalist Interpretation of History in Medieval Thought. An Example of the Reception of New-Testamental Ideas in the Historiography of the 11th and 12th Centuries -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 Were the Natural Sciences Global in the 19th Century? The Case of Charles Darwin -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 The Spanish "Crisis of the 17th Century" -- 1 The Crisis Myth -- 2 Economic Crisis vs. Cultural Crisis -- 3 "The Crisis of the 17th Century" -- 4 Gold for the Bold -- 5 The End of the Crisis? -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 Nation-Forming Processes in Latin America: A New Integration Model? -- 1 The State and National Culture in Latin-American Tradition -- 2 Models of Nation-Forming Processes in Latin America -- Bibliography -- Part 3 Contemporary Culture and Globalization -- Chapter 9 From Córdoba to Tora Bora: Globalization in the World of Islam, the World of Islam vis-à-vis Globalization -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 Locality and Globality: Various Dimensions of Money -- Bibliography.
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    ISBN: 9789004444744
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (520 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in Critical Social Sciences Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 301.01
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: How to Critique Authoritarian Populism surveys methodologies of the early Frankfurt School in dialectics, psychoanalysis, human subjects research, and media discourse studies, and shows how their techniques can be used to address the rise of authoritarianism today.
    Abstract: Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Frankfurt School Methodologies -- 1 The Contemporary Detente: Positivism, Postmodernism, and Lazy Pragmatism -- 1.1 Positivism -- 1.2 Postmodernism -- 1.3 "Lazy" Pragmatism -- 2 Options from the Early Frankfurt School: Critical Theory as a New Vision for Social Science -- 2.1 Horkheimer's Vision of Critical Theory -- 2.2 Marcuse, Adorno, and the "Ends" of Theory -- 3 Epistemological Underpinnings of Critical Research -- 3.1 The Antinomy of Empirical Research: Tension between Interpretive Philosophy and the Data of Science -- 3.2 The Aporia of Sociology: Tension between Quantitative and Qualitative Methods -- 3.3 The Dialectical Investigation of Society: Tension between Individual and Societal Levels -- 4 The isr's Innovations in Empirical Methodology -- 5 Beyond One- dimensional Social Theory -- 6 The Aesthetic Dimension -- 7 Outline (of This Book) -- 7.1 Part 1: Dialectics -- 7.2 Part 2: Psychoanalysis -- 7.3 Part 3: Human Subjects -- 7.4 Part 4: Media Discourse -- References -- Part 1 Dialectics -- Chapter 1 When History Fails Us: Immanent Critique of Capitalism to the New Right and Beyond -- 1 Immanent Critique: The Hegelian-Marxian Root of Critical Theory -- 2 From Marx to Dialectic of Enlightenment: Critical Theory as Negation -- 3 Market Liberalism Returns: Neoliberal Dedemocratization -- 4 New Right Populism: The Alternative to Neoliberalism? -- 5 History Opens Again: Crises of Capitalism and Immanent Critique Redux -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 2 A Dialectical Constellation of Authoritarian Populism in the United States and Brazil -- 1 Dialectical Constellations -- 2 Populism and Authoritarianism -- 2.1 Typology of Populist Narratives.
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    ISBN: 9789004450233
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (291 pages)
    Series Statement: China Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.8509510905
    Keywords: Families-China-History-21st century ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Inverted Family, Post-Patriarchal Intergenerationality and Neo-Familism -- 1 The Inverted Family -- 2 Post-Patriarchal Intergenerationality -- 3 Neo-Familism -- 4 The Structure of This Book -- References -- Chapter 2 "We Do": Parental Involvement in the Marriages of Urban Sons and Daughters -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Matchmaking in Shanghai's People's Park -- 3 Nuptial Celebrations -- 4 Conclusion: The Inverted Family and Party-State Initatives -- Selected Bibliography -- Chapter 3 The "Leftover" Majority: Why Urban Men and Women Born under China's One-Child Policy Remain Unmarried through Age 27 -- 1 Research Methods -- 2 Remaining Unmarried through the Age of 27 -- 3 Adolescent and Young Adult Fears of Marriage and Childbearing -- 4 Single, Childless Young Adults Living with Their Parents: The Golden Years of Neo Familism -- 5 Ambivalence about Parental and Social Pressures, and Personal Desires in Favor of Marriage and Childbearing -- 6 Conclusion: Redefining the Value and Proper Age of Marriage for a Neo-Familistic Generation -- References -- Chapter 4 United in Suffering: Rural Grandparents and the Intergenerational Contributions of Care -- 1 Site and Methdology -- 2 Suffering and the Chinese Family -- 3 A Short History of the Laboring Rural Family -- 4 "We Are United as a Family" -- 5 "All These Troubles I Bear Myself" -- 6 "That's The Difficulty For Us Women in Our Forties" -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Floating Grandparents: Rethinking Family Obligation and Intergenerational Support -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Neglected Population, Individualization and Family Obligation -- 3 Method -- 4 Reshaped Obligation: Relocation at an Old Age.
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    ISBN: 9789004445581
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (425 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in Critical Social Sciences Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: In Anxiety, Modern Society, and the Critical Method Joel Michael Crombez accounts for the production of anxiety in modern societies and provides a method and theory for its diagnosis and treatment.
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    ISBN: 9789004445994
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (163 pages)
    Series Statement: Value Inquiry Book Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.61
    Keywords: Nonviolence-Philosophy ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Act 1 What Would a Better World Look Like? -- Scene 1 -- Scene 2 -- Scene 3 -- Scene 4 -- Scene 5 -- Act 2 How Violence Spoils a Better World -- Scene 1 -- Scene 2 -- Scene 3 -- Scene 4 -- Scene 5 -- Scene 6 -- Act 3 Nonviolence as an Antidote to Violence -- Scene 1 -- Scene 2 -- Scene 3 -- Scene 4 -- Act 4 Pragmatic Nonviolence -- Scene 1 -- Scene 2 -- Scene 3 -- Scene 4 -- Epilogue Objections and Answers -- Scene 1 -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9789004446212
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (281 pages)
    Series Statement: The Atlantic World Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.362094209032
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    Keywords: Electronic books ; Hochschulschrift ; Electronic books
    Abstract: An account of the emergence of England's earliest chartered Africa companies and their traders. It questions the interaction between company and private interests and their mutual impact on the emerging Atlantic of the seventeenth century and beyond.
    Abstract: Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Foundations -- Bibliography -- Chapter 1 Launching the Guinea Company, 1618-1630 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Members of the Early Guinea Company -- 2.1 Discoverers and Naval Men -- 2.2 Court Connections and Financial Trouble -- 3 The Two Merchants -- 3.1 John Davies -- 3.2 Humphrey Slaney -- 4 The Company in Court -- 5 Internal Strife -- 6 The End of the First Patent -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Fit for Purpose: the Guinea Company in the 1630s and 1640s -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Format of Trade -- 3 John Wood and the Guinea Company of the 1640s -- 4 A 1640s Snapshot -- 5 Early English Slave Trade - Formal and Informal -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 The Honourable Guinea and East India Company, 1640-1663 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Why the Coast of Guinea? -- 3 Potential for Connection -- 4 Renegotiating the Patent -- 4.1 Samuel Vassal's Suggestions and Changes to the Patent -- 4.2 An Unfortunate Gambian Adventure -- 4.3 Gold Mining -- 5 1657 to 1664: the United East India and Guinea Company on the Coast of Africa -- 6 The Loss of the Trade -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 The Official Push to the West: How to Control the Atlantic? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Practices of the Past, the Case of Virginia -- 3 The English Civil War -- 4 A New approach to Colonial Management -- 5 The Restoration -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Royal Adventurers and the Spanish Asiento -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Company of Royal Adventures Trading into Africa -- 3 Securing the Asiento -- 4 Servicing the Asiento -- 5 English Slave Trading under the Asiento -- 6 Winding Up the Company -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
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    ISBN: 9789004429215
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (216 pages)
    Series Statement: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.6
    Keywords: Violence ; Women-Violence against ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures and Table -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Part 1 Contributions to the Conceptualization of Violent Processes -- 'Too Many Women are Dying': the Public Construction of Private Violence in Scotland and New Zealand -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Policy Context in the UK -- 3 A Problem of Definition -- 4 The Problem with Definition -- 5 A Methodological Approach -- 6 Capturing Violence: Defining Abuse -- 7 Risk and Responsibility -- 8 Identifying Victims and Perpetrators -- 9 The Role of the State -- 10 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Songs of Pain: Female Active Survivors in Claudia Llosa's The Milk of Sorrow -- 1 Representing Female Trauma -- 2 The Milk of Sorrow: a Female Perspective on Trauma -- 3 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The Potential for Violence in Helping: Resisting the Neo-Colonialism of Humanitarian Action -- 1 Theoretical/Positional Framework -- 2 Helping within the Linear Lens -- 3 The Helper: Oppression Reinforced -- 4 Sustainable Peace Process: Context for an Ally Model -- 5 Ally Model: A Model for Change -- 6 Educating the Peaceworker as Ally -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Another Face of Violence: Internalized Oppression and Detrimental Contracts -- Bibliography -- Part 2 Historical Processes -- What Was and What Will Be: Denial as a Form of Violence -- Bibliography -- Part 3 Gender Violence -- 'Remaining Men Together': a Critique of Modern Experience through Fighting as a Reminder of the Body in Palahnuik's Fight Club -- Bibliography -- Women's Bodies, Men's War: the Political Economy of Military Rape and Gender Violence -- 1 Violent Submissions: Women, War and Rape -- 2 Noor: Rape as a Military Strategy -- 3 The Political Economy of Rape -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography.
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  • 29
    ISBN: 9789004426337
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (289 pages)
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Ethnology ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Histories of Independence in Côte d'Ivoire offers an in-depth ethnographic study of memory work in Côte d'Ivoire from the 1950s to the present and explores how different practices of recalling the past complement and/or contradict each other.
    Abstract: Intro -- Histories of Independence in Côte d'Ivoire: An Ethnography of the Past -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary of (Ivorian) French Terms and Names -- 1 National-day Celebrations and the Crafting of a Prospective Memory Politics -- 1 14 July and 7 August 1960 two Celebrations, Two Mnemonic Communities, One Narrative -- 2 The Broadcast to the Nation and the Nation of the Future -- 3 The Era of the Fêtes Tournantes Modern Côte d'Ivoire as a Model Nation -- 4 Participants' Voices from the Nation's Past and Future -- 2 Political Turmoil and Performances of Multi-partyism: National-day Celebrations against the Archival Grain -- 1 After Houphouёt-Boigny National-Day Celebrations of an Orphaned Nation -- 2 The Year 2000 as Mnemonic Watershed -- 3 National-day Celebrations as Performances -- 3 Ivorian Historiography as an Art of Memory -- 1 A Short History of Academic Historiography in Côte d'Ivoire -- 2 Agency, Blame and Periodization Africanist and Marxist Historiography -- 3 The Memorial de la Côte d'Ivoire -- 4 Genealogies Back and Forth, or How Histories Talk to One Another -- 4 Oral History, Performance and Custodianship of the Past -- 1 Henriette Diabaté's La Marche des Femmes sur Grand-Bassam -- 2 The Colloquium on the Occasion of the Fortieth Anniversary of the RDA in 1986 -- 3 The History of 'It Was Me' -- 4 Alternative Concepts of Historiology and Power Akan Historians and Sorbonnards -- 5 Memory Politics in 2010: Coping with the Heritage of Houphouёt-Boigny -- 1 The CNOCICI and the Official Commemorative Programme of the Cinquantenaire -- 2 Deconstructing the Good Old Days with Scholarly Rigour the CNOCICI Conferences -- 3 Houphouëtistes all over the Place? -- 6 The Refractory Imaginary of the Poster Child and Performances of Nostalgia and Spiritual Liberation.
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    ISBN: 9789004440180
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (334 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.309
    Keywords: Sex role-History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Feminist Critique and the Museum: Educating for a Critical Consciousness illustrates the potential of feminist adult education and research to critique but equally to encourage imaginative responses to traditionally patriarchal museum exhibition representations and practices.
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    ISBN: 9789004444003
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (304 pages)
    Series Statement: International Comparative Social Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: In Intercultural Friendship: The Case of a Palestinian Bedouin and a Dutch Israeli Jew Daniel J.N. Weishut offers an autoethnographic account of a friendship across the Israeli-Palestinian divide and analyzes divergent value orientations that appear in a series of stories.
    Abstract: Intro -- Intercultural Friendship: The Case of a Palestinian Bedouin and a Dutch Israeli Jew -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue -- Part 1: Autoethnography of an Intercultural Friendship -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1 Writing about Oneself -- 1 Relevance and Intent -- 2 The Two Friends -- 2.1 Ahmad -- 2.2 Daniel -- 2.3 Our Friendship -- 3 A Case Study -- 3.1 Narrative Research -- 3.2 Friendship Research -- 3.3 Case Selection -- 4 Studying Stories -- 4.1 Observations as Data -- 4.2 Methodological Concerns -- 4.3 Cultural Relativism -- 2 When Cultures Meet -- 1 Identity and Value Orientations -- 1.1 Culture and Social Identity -- 1.2 Value Orientations -- 2 The Intercultural Encounter -- 2.1 Intercultural Communication -- 2.2 Intercultural Conflict -- 3 Honor and Aggression -- 3.1 Face and Honor -- 3.2 Aggression -- 3 The Worlds We Live In -- 1 My World -- 1.1 The Dutch -- 1.2 The Israelis -- 2 His World -- 2.1 The Palestinian Arabs -- 2.2 The Bedouins -- 3 Dealing with Conflict -- 3.1 The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- 3.2 Bedouins, Law, and Conflict -- 3.3 The "sulha" -- 4 All about Friendship -- 1 Patterns of Friendship -- 1.1 Characteristics -- 1.2 Gender and Culture -- 2 Intercultural Friendship -- 2.1 Commonalities -- 2.2 Opportunities for Interaction -- 3 Friendship in the Realm of Conflict -- 3.1 Jewish-Arab Dialogue -- 3.2 The Israeli Occupation -- Part 2: Four Cultural Dimensions -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 5 Individualism versus Collectivism -- 1 Perceptions of Friendship -- 1.1 Privacy and Togetherness -- 1.2 Who Is a Friend? -- 2 Getting Acquainted -- 2.1 Names -- 2.2 Greeting Behavior -- 3 Meals and Celebrations -- 3.1 Meals -- 3.2 Celebrations -- 4 Work Attitudes -- 4.1 Labor and Leisure -- 4.2 Child Labor -- 5 Friendship and Politics -- 5.1 The Wrong Side of Society.
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    Boston : BRILL
    ISBN: 9789004431881
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (359 pages)
    Series Statement: Nuncius Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 573.86
    Keywords: Craniometry-History ; Brain ; Race ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Eighteenth-century Onset -- 1 Darker Skin and Brain -- 2 Qualitative and Quantitative Differences -- 3 Speculations and Objections -- Chapter 2 -- Rising Tide -- 1 The "Phrenological Wedge" -- 2 Shrunken Brains -- 3 Materialism and the Recapitulation Theory -- 4 Weighing Empty, Filled Spaces -- 5 The Will to Differentiate -- 6 Early Doubts -- Chapter 3 -- Climax -- 1 Uncertain Certainty: Paris on Stage -- 2 An Intense Decade -- 3 An Urgent Desideratum for Science -- 4 Antinomies and Paradoxes -- 5 Orphans of Broca -- 6 "A Literature by Itself" -- Chapter 4 -- Twentieth-century Epilogue -- 1 Resilience Despite Everything -- 2 Further Views in Conflict -- 3 Innovating Techniques, Popular Science, and Deconstructing Myths -- Summary -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.
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  • 33
    ISBN: 9789004441729
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (375 pages)
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Lüstraeten, Martin, 1985 - [Rezension von: Rituals in early Christianity : New Perspectives on Tradition and Transformation] 2022
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Bradshaw, Paul F., 1945 - [Rezension von: Rituals in early Christianity : New Perspectives on Tradition and Transformation] 2022
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Spinks, Bryan D., 1948 - [Rezension von: Rituals in early Christianity : New Perspectives on Tradition and Transformation] 2021
    Series Statement: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rituals in early Christianity
    DDC: 291.38
    RVK:
    Keywords: Rites and ceremonies ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Frühchristentum ; Ritual ; Ritus ; Brauch ; Frühchristentum
    Abstract: Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Figures -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎New Perspectives on Early Christian Rituals: An Introduction (Vos) -- ‎Chapter 1. A Paradigm Shift in the Study of Early Christian Rituals: Methodological Perspectives (Rouwhorst) -- ‎Chapter 2. The Origins and Transformations of Early Christian Feasts (Rouwhorst) -- ‎Chapter 3. Is the Instruction to Greet One Another with a Holy Kiss a Pauline Transformation? (Voogd) -- ‎Chapter 4. Eucharist and Agapê in the Later Second Century: The Case of the Older Apocryphal Acts and the Pagan Novel (Bremmer) -- ‎Chapter 5. The Terminology of Mystery Cults in Cyril of Alexandria (van Loon) -- ‎Chapter 6. Augustine's Reassessment of the Commemoration Meal: Quod quidem a christianis melioribus non fit (Rose) -- ‎Chapter 7. Ideas of the Afterlife in Christian Grave Inscriptions and Their Context in Contemporaneous Christian Sepulchral Culture in Rome (Dresken-Weiland) -- ‎Chapter 8. Clothes Make the Magistrate: The Birth of Ecclesiastical Dress (Innemée) -- ‎Chapter 9. The Emergence of the Gallic Rogations in a Cognitive Perspective (van Waarden) -- ‎Chapter 10. 'Father, Give Me a Word': Transforming Traditions and Spiritual Direction in Early Christian Monasticism (Vos) -- ‎Chapter 11. Tradition and Innovation: Writing Magic in Christian Egypt (van der Vliet) -- ‎Chapter 12. 'I Will Wash My Hands in Innocence -- so I Will Go around Your Altar' (Ps 26:6): The Washing of Hands in Rabbinic Judaism (Mock) -- ‎Chapter 13. From Justinian I to Mehmed II: Transformation and Continuity of Rituals and Liturgical Disposition in Hagia Sophia (Verhoeven) -- ‎New Perspectives on Early Christian Rituals: Reflections and Connections (Vos) -- ‎Indices.
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  • 34
    ISBN: 9789004422179
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (208 pages)
    Series Statement: Études Sur le Judaïsme Médiéval Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Electronic books
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  • 35
    ISBN: 9789004429734
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (192 pages)
    Series Statement: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 363.47
    Keywords: Pornography-Social aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 The Wings and Barriers of Erotic Desire -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Sexual Friendships: How Ought We Think about and Classify Friends with Benefits? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Lovers, Friends, and Sexual Desire in the Philosophical Literature -- 3 Valuation -- 4 Mutual Care -- 5 Shared Activities -- 6 Intimacy -- 7 Contemporary Philosophical Discussions of fwb s -- 8 Psychological and Sociological Perspectives on fwb -- 9 Friends with Benefits: What's It Good for (and for Whom)? -- 10 "Looping Effects" and Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 The Ethics of Seduction in Phaedrus -- 1 The Chariot Allegory -- 2 The Game of Seduction: Rules -- 3 The Ethics of Seduction -- 4 Capture: a Strategic Delay -- 5 A Flickering Madness -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Representing the 'Eroticised' Girl-Why Not? -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Cannibalising the Politics of Empowerment and the Erotic Potential in Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon and Like Water for Chocolate -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Contextualising Food within Cultural Movements, Literature and Historical Events -- 3 Reclaiming Spaces of Labour and Pleasure and Their Potential As Sites of Knowledge -- 4 Conclusion: the Normative as Chaotic, Containing Gender and Challenging Its Boundaries -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 Where Is the Virgin? Analysing the Contestations around Eroticised Performance and Representation in Commercial Hip Hop Imaging -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Eroticised Bodies in Popular Culture -- 3 The Absence of the "Virgin" in Commercial Hip Hop Videos -- 4 Visuality, Embodiment and Popular Culture -- 5 Positioning, Posturing and Portrayals -- 6 "Keeping It Real" and Creating Stereotypes -- 7 Concluding Thoughts -- Bibliography.
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  • 36
    ISBN: 9789004425095
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (186 pages)
    Series Statement: International Issues in Adult Education Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Electronic books
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  • 37
    ISBN: 9789004437562
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (312 pages)
    Series Statement: The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- The 1720 Imperial Circumcision Celebrations in Istanbul: Festivity and Representation in the Early Eighteenth Century -- Copyright -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- 1 The Reign of Ahmed iii and the 1720 Festival -- 2 Historiographical Framework -- 3 Previous Research on Ottoman Festivals -- 4 This Book -- 1 Preparing the Festival -- 1 In Search of Utensils -- 2 Food Provisioning -- 3 Making Nahils and Candy Gardens -- 4 Registering the Names of Uncircumcised Boys and Performers -- 2 Staging the Festival -- 1 Food-related Events -- 2 Spectacles on Land and Sea -- 3 Gifting -- 3 Representing the Festival -- 1 Commissioning Process of the Illustrated Surnames -- 2 Iconography and Image-making -- 3 Narrating the 1720 Festival in Imagery -- Conclusions -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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  • 38
    ISBN: 9789004442917
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (294 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in Critical Social Sciences Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Electronic books
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  • 39
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    Boston : BRILL
    ISBN: 9789004438545
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (218 pages)
    Series Statement: Women and Gender in China Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Introduction -- 1 The Mixed-Gender Public Space in the Women's Press during the Late Qing and Early Republican Period -- 2 The Mixed-Gender Public Space and the Woman Question -- 3 Women's Writing as a Way to Enlarge Their Discursive Authority -- 4 The Chapters in the Book -- Chapter 1 Articulating the Woman Question: Women's Literary Heritage, Education, and the Nation -- 1 The Mixed-Gender Public Space in Nü xuebao -- 2 Debates on the Cainü Legacy -- 3 Asserting Intellectual Authority in the Public Space -- 4 Ambivalence: a Debate of Linguistic Registers -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Nationalism and Beyond: Nüjie and the Construction of a New Gendered Collective Identity -- 1 The Cure for the Nation: Mobilizing Nüjie -- 2 A Nüjie of Their Own -- 3 Beyond Nationalism: Demanding a Revolution in Nüjie -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 The Manchu Woman Commits Suicide: Ethnicity and the Composition of the New Chinese Woman -- 1 A Sacrificial Martyr for a National Cause -- 2 Making a Manchu Heroine -- 3 Ethnicity and Gender: Manchu Women's Envisioning of Modern Womanhood -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Fashioning Hygienic Womanhood: Women's Health and Bodies in Commercial Women's Journals -- 1 The Mixed-Gender Public Space of the Commercial Women's Journals: Male Editorial Agency and Female Authorial Subjectivity -- 2 The Ideal of "Wise Mothers and Good Wives" -- 3 Women and Weisheng in the Household -- 4 Women's Hygiene and Reproductive Health -- 4.1 Menstruation -- 4.2 Childbirth -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Policing Girl Students -- 1 Female Students in the Late Qing -- 2 The Republican Girl Student -- 3 Debates on Girl Students -- 4 Personal Accounts from Girl Students -- 5 Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.
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  • 40
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    Boston : BRILL
    ISBN: 9789004440258
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (305 pages)
    Series Statement: Islamic History and Civilization Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Mediterranean Captivity through Arab Eyes, 1517-1798 is the first book that examines the Arabic captivity narratives in the early modern period. Based on Arabic sources in archives stretching from Amman to Fez to London and Rome, Matar presents the story of captivity from the perspective of the Arabic-speaking captives who have not been examined in the growing field of captivity studies.
    Abstract: Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎List of Illustrations -- ‎Prologue. 21 June 2019 -- ‎Introduction. Mediterranean Captivities -- ‎1. Writing Captivity in Arabic -- ‎2. Between the Lands of the Christians and the Lands of Islam, Bilād al-Naṣārā and Bilād al-Islām -- ‎Chapter 1. Qiṣaṣ al-Asrā, or Stories of the Captives -- ‎1. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Qaysī (fl. 1485) -- ‎2. Aḥmad ibn al-Qāḍī (1553-1616) -- ‎3. Aḥmad Bābā al-Tinbaktī (1556-1627) -- ‎4. Taʿlīqāt Muṣṭafā ibn Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Karāma (9 July 1606) -- ‎5. Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭayyib al-Tafilātī al-Mālikī (al-Ḥanafī al-Maghribī) -- ‎6. Sayyid ʿAlī ibn al-Sayyid Aḥmad (1713) -- ‎7. Faṭma, 1798 -- ‎8. Ibrāhīm Librīs, 1802 -- ‎9. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 2. Letters -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 3. Divine Intervention: Christian and Islamic -- ‎1. Christian -- ‎2. Muslim -- ‎2.1. ʿĀisha bint [daughter of] Aḥmad al-Idrīsiyya -- ‎2.2. ʿAlī Ḥmamūsh -- ‎2.3. Abū al-Ghayth al-Qashshāsh, Tunis, Early 1600s -- ‎2.4. Shaykh Abū al-Qāsim ibn Khalaf -- ‎2.5. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 4. Conversion and Resistance -- ‎1. Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā al-Zwāwī al-Yūsifī, 1630s -- ‎2. Muḥammad al-Tāzī and Bil-Ghayth al-Drāwī, 1656-1667 -- ‎3. Imam Ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Ṣaʿīdī, 1718 -- ‎4. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 5. Ransom and Return -- ‎1. Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Mahdī al-Ghazzāl (1766) -- ‎2. Ibn ʿUthmān al-Miknāsī (1779-1783) -- ‎3. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 6. Captivity of Books -- ‎Epilogue. Esclaves turcs in European Sculpture -- ‎Postscript. How Should the Sculptures Be Treated? -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index of Captives -- ‎General Index.
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  • 41
    ISBN: 9789004351776
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (386 pages)
    Series Statement: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Electronic books
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  • 42
    ISBN: 9789004434332
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (501 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Cities in Medieval Iran: a Review of Recent Publications -- Jean Aubin's Article "Elements for the Study of Urban Agglomerations in Medieval Iran" in Context -- Iranian Cities: Settlements and Water Management from Antiquity to the Islamic Period -- "From Shahristān to Medina" Revisited -- Why Nishapur? -- Inherited Landscapes in Muslim Bactra -- Among Saints and Poets: The Spiritual Topography of Medieval Shiraz -- The Fortified Landscape of Isfahan -- Yazd: a "Good and Noble City" and an "Abode of Worship" -- Isfahan during the Turko-Mongol Period (11th-15th Centuries) -- Balkh, from the Seljuqs to the Mongol Invasion -- Local Elites and Dynastic Succession: Tabriz prior to, under and following Mongol Rule (Sixth/Twelfth to Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries) -- Medieval Kashan: Crossroads of Commerce and Culture -- The History of Iranian Cities through Their Books: What Ms. Köprülü 01589 Tells Us about 8th/14th Century Shiraz -- Medieval Lexicography on Arabic and Persian Terms for City and Countryside -- Index of Persons and Groups -- Index of Places.
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  • 43
    ISBN: 9789004421721
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (272 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.874072
    Keywords: (Produktform)Electronic book text ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Considers the methodological and ethical implications of child-parent research and the importance of honoring youth voices and co-investigating meaning making.
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  • 44
    ISBN: 9789004441460
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (295 pages)
    Series Statement: Value Inquiry Book Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.3
    Keywords: Gender identity-Cross-cultural studies ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Entanglements and Weavings: Diffractive Approaches to Gender and Love -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Reflections on Theory -- 1 Effects of Materiality in Israelite-Jewish Conceptions of Gender and Love: on a Necessary Synthesis of Constructionist and New Materialist Approaches -- 2 For Love of the World: Material Entanglements in Ecosexual Performance -- 3 "Yet the old woman will not sleep": Reading Motherhood in Ursula K. Le Guin's Writings -- Part 2: Materiality in Creative Texts -- 4 Butch: A Cartography of Desire -- 5 Materiality and Agential Women in Animal Bridegroom Fairy Tales from Europe and Bengal -- 6 Becoming-Woman in Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve -- Part 3: Fluid Identities in Heterotopic Spaces -- 7 Ferzan Özpetek's Cinema: a Post-constructionist Approach to Gender and Love -- 8 Love and Monsters: Gender, Autonomy and Desire in Modern Golem Literature -- 9 Drinking, Dancing and Hooking Up: Young Adults in Sexual Pursuit in the Mainstream Nightlife in Denmark -- Part 4: Social Relata -- 10 Love in Different Climates: Love Care and Practices of Intimacy among Women in Hong Kong and Britain -- 11 New Arrangements of Embodiment, Materiality, Love and Gender in the Kurdistan Workers' Party -- 12 Bound and Entangled: Masculinities, Embodiment and the Materialisation of Gender in the Sexual Field of the bdsm Club -- Part 5: Afterword -- 13 Eve, Adam and the Garden of Earthly Delights -- Index.
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  • 45
    ISBN: 9789004440968
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (209 pages)
    Series Statement: Value Inquiry Book Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 301.01
    Keywords: Anthropology-Philosophy ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Modern and Postmodern Crises of Symbolic Structures: Essays in Philosophical Anthropology -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 How to Reform Humanism in the Post-human Era? -- 2 The Struggles of the Individual in a Nihilistic Age: Kierkegaard's and Jünger's Critiques of Modernity -- 3 The Intertwining of Phenomenology and Philosophical Anthropology: From Husserl to Plessner -- 4 Under Interpellation: Phenomenology, Anthropology and Politics -- 5 Feuerbach's Conception of Theology or Philosophy of Religion as Anthropology -- 6 The Transformative Power of Art in "Richard Wagner in Bayreuth -- 7 The "Distraction" of Contemporary Art according to Yves Michaud -- 8 Czechoslovakia after 1989 through Arendt's Eyes: From Pariahs to Strong Men -- 9 Notes on Phenomenology and Revolution -- 10 Performing the University -- Index of Persons -- Index of Subjects.
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    Boston : BRILL
    ISBN: 9789004434578
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (464 pages)
    Series Statement: The Northern World Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.8423
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Copyright -- All the King's Women: Polygyny and Politics in Europe, 900-1250 -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Libido and Satyriasis -- 2 Scholarship -- 3 'Polygyny' -- 4 Structure -- 5 'Aspects' of Polygyny -- 6 Objective -- 7 Postscript 2020 -- King Harald Fairhair's Women: a Word on the Sources -- 1 ".and then he took her to bed -- 2 "Concubine or Wife? -- 3 On Sources -- 4 Scholarship on the Sagas -- 1 The Generative Aspect -- 1 Thorns, Pigs, and Two Dreams -- 2 Royal Blood -- 3 Danish Particularism polygyny in the Chronicles -- 4 Practices of the Valdemar Era -- 5 Dissenting Voices Sven Aggesen and Saxo Grammaticus -- 6 The 'Generative Aspect' of Polygyny -- 7 Harald, the All-Father -- 8 The 'Good' Bastard King -- 9 The Mill Maid's Tale -- 10 Suitability -- 11 Co-optative Kinship -- 12 Twofold Legitimacy Sverrir of Norway -- 13 Married, Crowned, Unsuccessful -- 14 Low-Born and Successful -- 15 Polygyny as a Guarantor of Parity -- 16 Polygyny without Women? -- 2 The Habitual Aspect -- 1 Models -- 2 Polygyny and Historiography the Oddaverjar -- 3 A Song of Praise -- 4 "Very Susceptible to Love" Jón Loptsson's Women -- 5 A Lovers' Saga? -- 6 Portrait of a Competitor -- 7 Were There Wives? -- 8 'Retrospective Marriage' -- 9 A Vocable for the Ineffable Elja -- 10 The Brother-in-Laws' Confrontation -- 11 What Was at Stake i Bishop Þorlák -- 12 What Was at Stake ii Jón Loptsson -- 13 Resource Polygyny -- 14 Women and Plunder -- 15 From Canterbury to Camelot -- Chapter 3 The Agonistic Aspect -- 1 Snorri Takes a Bath -- 2 Mannjafnað-"Comparison of Men -- 3 Social Rhetoric the Contest for Borghild í Dali -- 4 Women in Mannjafnað -- 5 Renegotiating Status Loss i Saint Olav's Lover -- 6 The Women's Agon -- 4 The Expressive Aspect -- 1 Political Relations? -- 2 What Ælfgifu Means.
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