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Is a Universal Basic Income the answer to an increasingly
precarious job landscape? Could it bring greater financial freedom
for women, tackle the issue of unpaid but essential work, cut
poverty and promote greater choice? Or is it a dead-end utopian
ideal that distracts from more practical and cost-effective
solutions? Contributors from musician Brian Eno, think tank Demos
Helsinki, innovators such as California's Y Combinator Research and
prominent academics such as Peter Beresford OBE offer a variety of
perspectives from across the globe on the politics and feasibility
of basic income. Sharing research and insights from a variety of
nations - including India, Finland, Uganda, Brazil and Canada - the
collection provides a comprehensive guide to the impact this
innovative idea could have on work, welfare and inequality in the
21st century.
Women's poetry of the Spanish early modern period. This collection
of fourteen scholarly essays on women's poetry from Spain's early
modern period shows that women did indeed have a Golden Age, and
that they were significant cultural actors in the realms of poetic
production. Thestudies of secular verse demonstrate how female
poets of this period devised strategies to confront the dominant
masculine poetic discourse, while the essays on sacred poetry
explore the multiple manifestations of female piety andmysticism.
The women's words are brought to life and modern readers helped to
understand the socio-cultural, interpersonal, and aesthetic
components of the poets' oeuvre. The volume, a companion to Julian
Olivares' and ElizabethBoyce's revised anthology "Tras el espejo la
musa escribe": Lirica femenina de los Siglos de Oro, constitutes an
authoritative critical enterprise focused on the recuperation of
the female literary voice, and marks an important step forward in
the battle to include women's writing as part of Spain's literary
canon. Contributors: Electa Arenal, Aranzazu Borrachero Mendibil,
Anne J. Cruz, Adrienne L. Martin, Rosa Navarro Duran, Julian
Olivares, Inmaculada Osuna, Amanda Powell, Elizabeth Rhodes, Stacey
Schlau, Lia Schwartz, Alison Weber, Judith Whitenack. JULIAN
OLIVARES is Professor of Spanish at the University of Houston and
editor of Caliope, Journal ofthe Society for Renaissance and
Baroque Hispanic Poetry.
From the mind of Elizabeth Rhodes, author of Walk of Life, a poem,
comes a soul stirring book about the life of a young
African-American teenager, living in deep Southern America. The
story gives an account of how circumstances in life can determine
how we turn out in the end. Or does it?
The noble wives in Mar?a de Zayas's Desenga?os suffer terrible
fates: one is beheaded, another poisoned, one is cemented into a
chimney, while yet another is locked into a tiny wall closet where
she dies. The hallmark of Zayas's aesthetics, these characters are
the central reason why her fiction has increased in popularity
through the ages. Yet their stories pose an apparent contradiction
between the author's pro-female rhetoric and her gusto for killing
model women, then beautifying their mutilated cadavers.
Dressed to Kill reconciles Zayas's Desenga?os with the age in
which it was written, contextualizing the book in baroque poetics,
the Spanish honour code, and fifteenth-century martyr saints'
lives. Elizabeth Rhodes elegantly uncovers Zayas's intention to
reform the Spanish nobility by displaying noble misbehaviour and
its deadly consequences. Her book concludes by detailing the
Desenga?os' intriguing influence on the aesthetic base of Gothic
literature by revealing that its authors were avid readers of
Zayas.
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