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Can you feel homesick and at home at the same time? Ever felt lost
for words but full of things to say? Meet Andrea Davidson. In
Eggenwise, Andrea explores moving to a different country, learning
a new language, growing up and falling in love through poems that
notice the remarkable in the everyday: a salted sprig of parsley,
thundering raindrops on windowpanes, and the buzzzZZZzzz of a pesky
pet fly. Through warm and conversational verse, Eggenwise invites
you to step into the author’s new home in Belgium, to roll your
tongue around new words, savour their sound and share your own
story through poetry… Fully illustrated throughout by Amy Louise
Evans.
This book explores how neoliberalism and austerity have affected
older people living within a deindustrialised town, utilising a
Foucauldian approach and an ethnographic methodology. It seeks to
bridge the gap between high sociological theory and a research
focus upon older people. The link between the micro (real people,
within a real place) and macro (abstract processes) is examined,
and a mid-range theory of change is innovatively developed to
highlight how older people are having to negotiate national
transformations at the everyday level. Key themes within this book
include the recreation of human subjectivity, anti-welfarism, the
stigmatisation and exclusion of the poor, the fragmentation of the
working class, and nostalgia. Innovative terms such as
‘stigma-adaptation’ and ‘abnormal abnormality’ are included
to help deepen our knowledge and understanding of the social
sciences, to highlight the injustices caused by current global
processes, and to ultimately inform change. This book will be of
interest to scholars and students across the social sciences,
particularly those studying inequalities in the modern world,
neoliberalism and the economy, social theory, ageing and older
people and community studies, and postgraduates who are seeking to
undertake applied research. It would also be valuable for
policymakers and service providers.
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The King's Beloved Colors (Hardcover)
Amy Louise Altstatt; Illustrated by Amy Louise Altstatt; Contributions by Phillip a Altstatt
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Completely Rainbow (Hardcover)
Amy Louise; Illustrated by Amy Altstatt; Contributions by Phillip Altstatt
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This ground-breaking book reveals the economic reality of ordinary
women between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on
little-known sources, Amy Louise Erickson reconstructs day-to-day
lives, showing how women owned, managed and inherited property on a
scale previously unrecognised. Her complex and fascinating
research, which contrasts the written laws with the actual
practice, completely revises the traditional picture of women's
economic status in pre-industrial England. Women and Property is
essential reading for anyone interested in women, law and the past.
Marriage today is our prime social and legal institution.
Historically, it was also the principal economic institution. This
collection of essays offers a wealth of original research into the
economic, social and legal history of the marital partnership in
northern Europe over a 500-year period. Erickson's introduction
explores the concept of the marital economy and sketches the legal
and economic background across the region. Chapters by A...gren,
Gudrun Andersson, Agnes ArnA(3)rsdA(3)ttir, Inger DA1/4beck,
Elizabeth Ewan, Rosemarie Fiebranz, Catherine Frances, Hanne
Johansen, Ann-Catrin A-stman, Anu PylkkAnen, Hilde Sandvik and Jane
Whittle, are organized according to the three economic stages of
the marital life-cycle: forming the partnership; managing the
partnership; and dissolving the partnership. In conclusion, Michael
Roberts explores how the historical development of modern economic
theory has removed marriage from its central position at the heart
of the economy.
This ground-breaking book reveals the economic reality of ordinary women between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on little-known sources, Amy Louise Erickson reconstructs day-to-day lives, showing how women owned, managed and inherited property on a scale previously unrecognised. Her complex and fascinating research, which contrasts the written laws with the actual practice, completely revises the traditional picture of women's economic status in pre-industrial England. Women and Property is essential reading for anyone interested in women, law and the past. eBook available with sample pages: 0203435931
This title presents public reinforcement of white supremacy. Lynch
mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America often
exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims.
In ""Lynching and Spectacle"", Amy Wood explains what it meant for
white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles
and what they derived from them. Lynching, Wood argues, overlapped
with a wide range of cultural practices and performances, both
traditional and modern, including public executions, religious
rituals, photography, and cinema. The connections between lynching
and these practices encouraged the horrific violence committed and
gave it social acceptability.Wood expounds on the critical role
lynching spectacles played in establishing and affirming white
supremacy at the turn of the century, particularly in towns and
cities experiencing great social instability and change. She also
shows how the national dissemination of lynching images fueled the
momentum of the anti lynching movement and ultimately led to the
decline of lynching. By examining lynching spectacles alongside
both traditional and modern practices and within both local and
national contexts, Wood reconfigures our understanding of
lynching's relationship to modern life.
Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime
control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes. White
southerners relied on them to assert and maintain racial power,
which led to the growth of modern state bureaucracies that eclipsed
traditions of local sovereignty. Friction between the demands of
white supremacy and white southern suspicions of state power
created a distinctive criminal justice system in the South,
elements of which are still apparent today across the United
States. In this collection, Amy Louise Wood and Natalie J. Ring
present nine groundbreaking essays about the carceral system and
its development over time. Topics range from activism against
police brutality to the peculiar path of southern prison reform to
the fraught introduction of the electric chair. The essays tell
nuanced stories of rapidly changing state institutions, political
leaders who sought to manage them, and African Americans who
appealed to the regulatory state to protect their rights.
Contributors: Pippa Holloway, Tammy Ingram, Brandon T. Jett, Seth
Kotch, Talitha L. LeFlouria, Vivien Miller, Silvan Niedermeier, K.
Stephen Prince, and Amy Louise Wood
Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime
control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes. White
southerners relied on them to assert and maintain racial power,
which led to the growth of modern state bureaucracies that eclipsed
traditions of local sovereignty. Friction between the demands of
white supremacy and white southern suspicions of state power
created a distinctive criminal justice system in the South,
elements of which are still apparent today across the United
States. In this collection, Amy Louise Wood and Natalie J. Ring
present nine groundbreaking essays about the carceral system and
its development over time. Topics range from activism against
police brutality to the peculiar path of southern prison reform to
the fraught introduction of the electric chair. The essays tell
nuanced stories of rapidly changing state institutions, political
leaders who sought to manage them, and African Americans who
appealed to the regulatory state to protect their rights.
Contributors: Pippa Holloway, Tammy Ingram, Brandon T. Jett, Seth
Kotch, Talitha L. LeFlouria, Vivien Miller, Silvan Niedermeier, K.
Stephen Prince, and Amy Louise Wood
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