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- Accessible essays that are designed to serve as a touchstone for
discussion in the classroom both at postgraduate and advanced
undergraduate levels. - Addresses historical anti-feminisms as a
means of framing, situating, and interrogating the relationship
between contemporary feminisms and anti-feminist manipulations and
denigrations. - Engages with the quandary of how to define feminism
and live feminist lives in relation to a dense web of pejorative
language and concepts that flourish in popular culture. - Actively
explores feminist struggles to acknowledge and incorporate people
of color, anti-racist and LGBTQIA+ individuals and politics, and
relates this to the ways anti-feminists have strategically deployed
these debates to thwart the associated movements.
- Accessible essays that are designed to serve as a touchstone for
discussion in the classroom both at postgraduate and advanced
undergraduate levels. - Addresses historical anti-feminisms as a
means of framing, situating, and interrogating the relationship
between contemporary feminisms and anti-feminist manipulations and
denigrations. - Engages with the quandary of how to define feminism
and live feminist lives in relation to a dense web of pejorative
language and concepts that flourish in popular culture. - Actively
explores feminist struggles to acknowledge and incorporate people
of color, anti-racist and LGBTQIA+ individuals and politics, and
relates this to the ways anti-feminists have strategically deployed
these debates to thwart the associated movements.
Thoughtful, witty, and illuminating, in this book Michele White
explores the ways normative masculinity is associated with
computers and the Internet and is a commonly enacted online gender
practice. Through close readings and a series of case studies that
range from wedding forums to men's makeup video tutorials, White
considers the ways masculinities are structured through people's
collaborations and contestations over the establishment of
empowered positions, including debates about such key terms and
positions as "the nice guy," "nerd," "bro," and "groom." She
asserts that cultural notions of masculinity are reliant on
figurations of women and femininity, and explores cultural
conceptions of masculinity and the association of normative white
heterosexual masculinity with men and women. A counterpart to her
earlier book, Producing Women, White has crafted an excellent
primer for scholars of gender, media, and Internet studies.
The greatest story ever told was honed like any good
performance, on the road in front of audiences. Acclaimed scholar
L. Michael White challenges us to read the gospels as they were
intended--as performed stories of faith, not factual accounts--and
illuminates the agendas that motivated each of their authors. A
fresh account of the gospels that have shaped centuries of
Christian belief, "Scripting Jesus" offers important insight into
how we can understand Jesus's story today.
The first major publication in more than thirty years on
contemporary artist Chryssa, an innovator of light art Chryssa
& New York offers a timely reassessment of Greek-born artist
Chryssa (Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali, 1933-2013). Chryssa was a
leading figure in the postwar New York art world and in the use of
signage, text, and neon, yet her work, which bridges Pop,
Conceptual, and Minimalist approaches to art making, remains
under-recognized. Focusing on the artist's early career, in
particular her time in New York from the 1950s to the 1970s, this
book charts the emergence of her singular aesthetic, especially her
formal innovations with neon, and culminates in the development of
her monumental and rarely seen installation The Gates to Times
Square (1964-66). Essays situate Chryssa's art alongside that of
other New York-based practitioners in the 1950s and 1960s, consider
her work through the lenses of queer theory and the Greek diaspora,
and uncover her crucial influence on light art today. Rounding out
the volume, a conversation on the technical aspects of her practice
and a comprehensive chronology make this the definitive publication
on Chryssa for years to come. Distributed for Dia Art Foundation
and the Menil Collection, Houston Exhibition Schedule: Dia Chelsea,
New York (March 2-July 23, 2023) Menil Collection, Houston
(September 29, 2023-March 10, 2024) Wrightwood 659, Chicago (May
1-August 15, 2024)
Producing Women examines the ways femininity is produced through
new media. Michele White considers how women are constructed,
produce themselves as subjects, form vital production cultures on
sites like Etsy, and deploy technological processes to reshape
their identities and digital characteristics. She studies the means
through which women market traditional female roles, are viewed,
and produce and restructure their gendered, raced, eroticized, and
sexual identities. Incorporating a range of examples across
numerous forms of media-including trash the dress wedding
photography, Internet how-to instructions about zombie walk brides,
nail polish blogging, DIY crafting, and reborn doll
production-Producing Women elucidates women's production cultures
online, and the ways that individuals can critically study and
engage with these practices.
According to traditional accounts, Newton was the first modern
scientist. As creator of the theory of gravity, calculus, modern
theories of light and devisor of the three laws of mechanics, his
methods are perceived as the genesis of modern science. Yet the
traditional version of his life fails to tell the full story. How,
for example, could Newton's apparent empiricism be married with his
interest in alchemy and magic? What had inspired him in his
discoveries? How did he reconcile his scientific discoveries with
his religious faith? Who was this man who, historians tell us,
remained a virgin all his life and who seemed to be an
argumentative egomaniac on the one hand, and a kindly old man on
the other?
Thinking German Translation is a comprehensive practical course in
translation for advanced undergraduate students of German and
postgraduate students embarking on Master's translation programmes.
Now in its third edition, this course focuses on translation as a
decision-making process, covering all stages of the translation
process from research, to the 'rewriting' of the source text in the
language of translation, to the final revision process. This third
edition brings the course up to date, referencing relevant research
sources in Translation Studies and technological developments as
appropriate, and balancing the coverage of subject matter with
examples and varied exercises in a wide range of genres from both
literary and specialised material. All chapters from the second
edition have been extensively revised and, in many cases,
restructured; new chapters have been added-literary translation;
research and resources-as well as suggestions for further reading.
Offering around 50 practical exercises, the course features
material from a wide range of sources, including: business,
economics and politics advertising, marketing and consumer texts
tourism science and engineering modern literary texts and popular
song the literary canon, including poetry A variety of translation
issues are addressed, among them cultural differences, genre
conventions, the difficult concept of equivalence, as well as some
of the key differences between English and German linguistic and
textual features. Thinking German Translation is essential reading
for all students seriously interested in improving their
translation skills. It is also an excellent foundation for those
considering a career in translation. A Tutor's Handbook offers
comments and notes on the exercises for each chapter, including not
only translations but also a range of other tasks, as well as some
specimen answers. It is available to download from
www.routledge.com/9781138920989.
Maps of Narrative Practice provides brand new practical and
accessible accounts of the major areas of narrative practice that
White has developed and taught over the years, so that readers may
feel confident when utilizing this approach in their practices. The
book covers each of the five main areas of narrative
practice-re-authoring conversations, remembering conversations,
scaffolding conversations, definitional ceremony, externalizing
conversations, and rite of passage maps-to provide readers with an
explanation of the practical implications, for therapeutic growth,
of these conversations. The book is filled with transcripts and
commentary, skills training exercises for the reader, and charts
that outline the conversations in diagrammatic form. Readers both
well-versed in narrative therapy as well as those new to its
concepts, will find this fresh statement of purpose and practice
essential to their clinical work.
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