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Using a gender-sensitive political economy approach, this book
analyzes the emergence of new migration patterns between Central
Mexico and the East Coast of the United States in the last decades
of the twentieth century, and return migration during and after the
global economic crisis of 2007. Based on ethnographic research
carried out over a decade, details of the lives of women and men
from two rural communities reveal how neoliberal economic
restructuring led to the deterioration of livelihoods starting in
the 1980s. Similar restructuring processes in the United States
opened up opportunities for Mexican workers to labor in US
industries that relied heavily on undocumented workers to sustain
their profits and grow. When the Great Recession hit, in the
context of increasingly restrictive immigration policies, some
immigrants were more likely to return to Mexico than others. This
longitudinal study demonstrates how the interconnections among
class and gender are key to understanding who stayed and who
returned to Mexico during and after the global economic crisis.
Through these case studies, the authors comment more widely on how
neoliberalism has affected the livelihoods and aspirations of the
working classes. This book will be of key interest to scholars,
students and practitioners in migration studies, gender
studies/politics, and more broadly to international relations,
anthropology, development studies, and human geography.
When it is no longer safe to be a witch, they call themselves cunning
1620s Lancashire. Away from the village lies a small hamlet, abandoned since the Plague, where only one family dwells amongst its ruins. Young Sarah Haworth, her mother, brother and little sister Annie are a family of outcasts by day and the recipients of visitors by night. They are cunning folk: the villagers will always need them, quick with a healing balm or more, should the need arise. They can keep secrets too, because no one would believe them anyway.
When Sarah spies a young man taming a wild horse, she risks being caught to watch him calm the animal. And when Daniel sees Sarah he does not just see a strange, dirty thing, he sees her for who she really is: a strong creature about to come into her own. But can something as fragile as love blossom between these two in such a place as this?
When a new magistrate arrives to investigate the strange ends that keep befalling the villagers, he has his eye on one family alone. And a torch in his hand.
Cunning Women is the powerful reckoning of a young woman with her wildness, a heartbreaking tale of young love and a shattering story of the intolerance that reigned during the long shadow of the Pendle Witch Trials, when those who did not conform found persecution at every door.
Using a gender-sensitive political economy approach, this book
analyzes the emergence of new migration patterns between Central
Mexico and the East Coast of the United States in the last decades
of the twentieth century, and return migration during and after the
global economic crisis of 2007. Based on ethnographic research
carried out over a decade, details of the lives of women and men
from two rural communities reveal how neoliberal economic
restructuring led to the deterioration of livelihoods starting in
the 1980s. Similar restructuring processes in the United States
opened up opportunities for Mexican workers to labor in US
industries that relied heavily on undocumented workers to sustain
their profits and grow. When the Great Recession hit, in the
context of increasingly restrictive immigration policies, some
immigrants were more likely to return to Mexico than others. This
longitudinal study demonstrates how the interconnections among
class and gender are key to understanding who stayed and who
returned to Mexico during and after the global economic crisis.
Through these case studies, the authors comment more widely on how
neoliberalism has affected the livelihoods and aspirations of the
working classes. This book will be of key interest to scholars,
students and practitioners in migration studies, gender
studies/politics, and more broadly to international relations,
anthropology, development studies, and human geography.
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A History of Japan (Paperback)
Hisho Saito; Translated by Elizabeth Lee
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R1,103
R705
Discovery Miles 7 050
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This volume presents the Japanese version of the history of Japan
from its origins, through the subjection of Korea, the introduction
of Chinese culture, rebellion in Korea, Buddhism, Taika reforms,
Ainu insurrection, the founding of Kyoto as the capital, the power
of Fujiwara, the founding of the Kamakura Shogunate, Hojo family,
Ashikaga Shogunate, Oda & Toyotomi families, Tokugawa
Shogunate, the beginning of the Meiji, relations with Korea, Russia
and the Chino-Japanese war of 1894, ending with the Russo-Japanese
war of 1904.
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A History of Japan (Hardcover)
Hisho Saito; Translated by Elizabeth Lee
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R4,019
R1,495
Discovery Miles 14 950
Save R2,524 (63%)
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This volume presents the Japanese version of the history of Japan
from its origins, through the subjection of Korea, the introduction
of Chinese culture, rebellion in Korea, Buddhism, Taika reforms,
Ainu insurrection, the founding of Kyoto as the capital, the power
of Fujiwara, the founding of the Kamakura Shogunate, Hojo family,
Ashikaga Shogunate, Oda & Toyotomi families, Tokugawa
Shogunate, the beginning of the Meiji, relations with Korea, Russia
and the Chino-Japanese war of 1894, ending with the Russo-Japanese
war of 1904.
ONE OF GRAZIA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2021 'I loved it. Atmospheric and so
good' MARIAN KEYES 'A dark, bewitching and captivating read that
had my heart in my mouth by the ending' JENNIFER SAINT, author of
ARIADNE Lancashire, 1620. Young Sarah Haworth and her family live
as outcasts. They are 'cunning folk', feared by the local villagers
by day, but called upon under cover of darkness for healing balms
and spells. Against the odds, love blossoms when Sarah meets
Daniel, the local farmer's son. But when a new magistrate arrives
to investigate a spate of strange deaths, his gaze inevitably turns
to Sarah and her family. In a world where cunning women are forced
into darkness by powerful men, can Sarah reckon with her fate to
protect all she holds dear? 'Fans of intensely atmospheric
historical fiction will love this' STYLIST 'Elizabeth Lee's debut
novel is timely in its depiction of hysteria and persecution, and
beautifully evokes a historical period poised between dark
ignorance and long-overdue enlightenment' OBSERVER 'Wonderfully
original . . . devastating . . . and fabulously atmospheric' ELODIE
HARPER, author of THE WOLF DEN
As featured in MariaShriver.com * MindBodyGreen * BooksByWomen *
Named “Spring Book Pick” by Redbook Magazine * POPSUGAR *
Chico’s Inside Chic * San Francisco Book Review * Buzzfeed * The
Berry In 1998, after having been married to Duncan―a bully who'd
been controlling her for the fourteen years they'd been
together―Karen E. Lee thought divorce was in the cards. But ten
months after telling him that she wanted that divorce, Duncan was
diagnosed with cancer―and eight months later, he was gone. Karen
hoped her problems would be solved after Duncan's death―but
instead, she found that, without his ranting, raving, and screaming
taking up space in her life, she had her own demons to face.
Luckily, Duncan had inadvertently left her the keys to her own
salvation and healing―a love of Jungian psychology and a book
that was to be her guide through the following years. In The Full
Catastrophe, Karen explores Jungian analysis, the dreams she had
during this period, the intuitive messages she learned to trust in
order to heal, and her own emotional journey―including romances,
travel adventures, and friends. Insightful and brutally honest, The
Full Catastrophe is the story of a well educated, professional
woman who, after marrying the wrong kind of man―twice―finally
resurrects her life.
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