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The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in
science and literature have supported, at various points in history
and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of
human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize
existing hierarchies.
Windtower offers a unique insight into a past way of life,
exploring Dubai's rich and storied past and heritage. This new and
extended edition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the formation
of the United Arab Emirates, diving deeper into the merchant
community's central role in Dubai's pre-oil economy and social
life. This new edition also considers the lessons to be learned
from Dubai's traditional windtowers at a time of global warming and
climate crisis, and how this knowledge might benefit contemporary
urban design. The title features a foreword from His Highness,
Charles, Prince of Wales, who writes: "I do hope this book will
enable other people to join in appreciating the unique nature of
these buildings and that it will encourage an awareness of how
relevant many of their distinctive features are to the modern
challenges of building sustainable communities in a way that
maximizes the use of renewable energy." With exclusive archival
photography, custom maps, as well as original architectural plans
and diagrams, Windtower is a must-have book for anyone interested
in Dubai's architecture, culture and fascinating historical
development.
Long considered marginal in early modern culture, women writers
were actually central to the development of a Protestant literary
tradition in England. Kimberly Anne Coles explores their
contribution to this tradition through thorough archival research
in publication history and book circulation; the interaction of
women's texts with those written by men; and the traceable
influence of women's writing upon other contemporary literary
works. Focusing primarily upon Katherine Parr, Anne Askew, Mary
Sidney Herbert, and Anne Vaughan Lok, Coles argues that the
writings of these women were among the most popular and influential
works of sixteenth-century England. This book is full of prevalent
material and fresh analysis for scholars of early modern
literature, culture and religious history.
All of the essays in this volume capture the body in a particular
attitude: in distress, vulnerability, pain, pleasure, labor,
health, reproduction, or preparation for death. They attend to how
the body's transformations affect the social and political
arrangements that surround it. And they show how apprehension of
the body - in social and political terms - gives it shape.
While interest in migration flows is ever-growing, this has mostly
concentrated on disadvantaged migrants moving from developing to
Western industrialised countries. In contrast, Euro-American mobile
professionals are only now becoming an emergent research topic.
Similarly, debates on the connections between gender and migration
rarely consider these kind of migrants. This volume fills these
gaps by investigating impact of relocation on gender and family
relations among today's transnational professionals.
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development provides a
comprehensive statement and reference point for gender and
development policy making and practice in an international and
multi-disciplinary context. Specifically, it provides critical
reviews and appraisals of the current state of gender and
development and considers future trends. It includes theoretical
and practical approaches as well as empirical studies. The
international reach and scope of the Handbook and the contributors'
experiences allow engagement with and reflection upon these
bridging and linking themes, as well as the examining the politics
and policy of how we think about and practice gender and
development. Organized into eight inter-related sections, the
Handbook contains over 50 contributions from leading scholars,
looking at conceptual and theoretical approaches, environmental
resources, poverty and families, women and health related services,
migration and mobility, the effect of civil and international
conflict, and international economies and development. This
Handbook provides a wealth of interdisciplinary information and
will appeal to students and practitioners in Geography, Development
Studies, Gender Studies and related disciplines.
While interest in migration flows is ever-growing, this has
mostly concentrated on disadvantaged migrants moving from
developing to Western industrialised countries. In contrast,
Euro-American mobile professionals are only now becoming an
emergent research topic. Similarly, debates on the connections
between gender and migration rarely consider these kind of
migrants. This volume fills these gaps by investigating impact of
relocation on gender and family relations among today's
transnational professionals.
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development provides a
comprehensive statement and reference point for gender and
development policy making and practice in an international and
multi-disciplinary context. Specifically, it provides critical
reviews and appraisals of the current state of gender and
development and considers future trends. It includes theoretical
and practical approaches as well as empirical studies. The
international reach and scope of the Handbook and the contributors'
experiences allow engagement with and reflection upon these
bridging and linking themes, as well as the examining the politics
and policy of how we think about and practice gender and
development. Organized into eight inter-related sections, the
Handbook contains over 50 contributions from leading scholars,
looking at conceptual and theoretical approaches, environmental
resources, poverty and families, women and health related services,
migration and mobility, the effect of civil and international
conflict, and international economies and development. This
Handbook provides a wealth of interdisciplinary information and
will appeal to students and practitioners in Geography, Development
Studies, Gender Studies and related disciplines.
Race, in the early modern period, is a concept at the crossroads of
a set of overlapping concerns of lineage, religion, and nation. In
Bad Humor, Kimberly Anne Coles charts how these concerns converged
around a pseudoscientific system that confirmed the absolute
difference between Protestants and Catholics, guaranteed the noble
quality of English blood, and justified English colonial
domination. Coles delineates the process whereby religious error,
first resident in the body, becomes marked on the skin. Early
modern medical theory bound together psyche and soma in mutual
influence. By the end of the sixteenth century, there is a general
acceptance that the soul's condition, as a consequence of religious
belief or its absence, could be manifest in the humoral disposition
of the physical body. The history that this book unfolds describes
developments in natural philosophy in the early part of the
sixteenth century that force a subsequent reconsideration of the
interactions of body and soul and that bring medical theory and
theological discourse into close, even inextricable, contact. With
particular consideration to how these ideas are reflected in texts
by Elizabeth Cary, John Donne, Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare,
Edmund Spenser, Mary Wroth, and others, Coles reveals how science
and religion meet nascent capitalism and colonial endeavor to
create a taxonomy of Christians in Black and White.
An exploration of the landscape of Anglo-Saxon England,
particularly through the prism of place-names and what they can
reveal. The landscape of modern England still bears the imprint of
its Anglo-Saxon past. Villages and towns, fields, woods and
forests, parishes and shires, all shed light on the enduring impact
of the Anglo-Saxons. The essays in this volume explore the richness
of the interactions between the Anglo-Saxons and their landscape:
how they understood, described, and exploited the environments of
which they were a part. Ranging from the earliest settlement period
through to the urban expansion of late Anglo-Saxon England, this
book draws on evidence from place-names, written sources, and the
landscape itself to provide fresh insights into the topic. Subjects
explored include the history of thestudy of place-names and the
Anglo-Saxon landscape; landscapes of particular regions and the
exploitation of particular landscape types; the mechanisms of the
transmission and survival of written sources; and the problems and
potentials of interdisciplinary research into the Anglo-Saxon
landscape. Nicholas J. Higham is Professor of Early Medieval and
Landscape History at the University of Manchester; Martin Ryan
lectures in Medieval History at the University of Manchester.
Contributors: Ann Cole, Linda M. Corrigan, Dorn Van Dommelen, Simon
Draper, Gillian Fellows-Jensen, Della Hooke, Duncan Probert,
Alexander R. Rumble, Martin J. Ryan, Peter A. Stokes, Richard
Watson.
The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in
science and literature have supported, at various points in history
and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of
human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize
existing hierarchies.
Long considered marginal in early modern culture, women writers
were actually central to the development of a Protestant literary
tradition in England. Kimberly Anne Coles explores their
contribution to this tradition through thorough archival research
in publication history and book circulation; the interaction of
women's texts with those written by men; and the traceable
influence of women's writing upon other contemporary literary
works. Focusing primarily upon Katherine Parr, Anne Askew, Mary
Sidney Herbert, and Anne Vaughan Lok, Coles argues that the
writings of these women were among the most popular and influential
works of sixteenth-century England. This book is full of prevalent
material and fresh analysis for scholars of early modern
literature, culture and religious history.
There is a renewed global commitment to 'water for all'. Yet even
though women are usually responsible for domestic water provision,
their needs and voices continue to be marginalized in the
development process. A close analysis of current policy and
practice shows that organizations providing improved water supplies
to poor communities typically neglect the gendered nature of access
to and control over water resources. The resulting gender bias
causes inefficiencies and injustices in water provision and reduces
the effectiveness of well-meant efforts. This book shows how, in
different environmental, historical and cultural contexts, gender
has been an important element in water provision. It draws on a
wide range of first-hand material, analyzed from different
disciplinary perspectives. Case studies include analysis of the
role of water in inhibiting the fight against HIV/AIDS in southern
Africa, and the challenges of taking gender into account in large
water projects in India and Nepal.
All of the essays in this volume capture the body in a particular
attitude: in distress, vulnerability, pain, pleasure, labor,
health, reproduction, or preparation for death. They attend to how
the body's transformations affect the social and political
arrangements that surround it. And they show how apprehension of
the body - in social and political terms - gives it shape.
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