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This book explores how children engage with sex and sexuality.
Building on a conceptual and legal grounding in sexuality studies
and the new sociology of childhood, the authors debate the age of
consent, teenage pregnany, sexual diversity, sexualisation, sex
education and sexual literacy, paedophilia, and sex in the digital
age. Whilst Moore and Reynolds recognise the necessity of child
protection and safeguarding in the context of risk, danger and
harm, they also argue that where these stifle children's sexual
knowledge, understanding, expression and experience, they
contribute to a climate of fear, ignorance and bad experiences or
harms. What is necessary is to balance safeguarding with enabling,
and encourage judicious understandings that advance from a rigid
developmental model to one that recognises pleasure and excitement
in children's nascent sexual lives. Exploring that balance through
their chosen issues, they seek to encourage changed thinking in
professional, personal and academic contexts, and speculate that
children might teach adults something about the way they think
about sex. Childhood and Sexuality will be of interest to students,
scholars and professionals across a range of subjects and
disciplines including sociology, social work, criminology, and
youth studies.
This book considers the historical and cultural origins of the
gut-brain relationship now evidenced in numerous scientific
research fields. Bringing together eleven scholars with wide
interdisciplinary expertise, the volume examines literal and
metaphorical digestion in different spheres of nineteenth-century
life. Digestive health is examined in three sections in relation to
science, politics and literature during the period, focusing on
Northern America, Europe and Australia. Using diverse
methodologies, the essays demonstrate that the long nineteenth
century was an important moment in the Western understanding and
perception of the gastroenterological system and its relation to
the mind in the sense of cognition, mental wellbeing, and the
emotions. This collection explores how medical breakthroughs are
often historically preceded by intuitive models imagined throughout
a range of cultural productions.
In this book, historian Steven A. Reich examines the economic,
political and cultural forces that have beaten and built America's
black workforce since Emancipation. From the abolition of slavery
through the Civil Rights Movement and Great Recession, African
Americans have faced a unique set of obstacles and prejudices on
their way to becoming a productive and indispensable portion of the
American workforce. Repeatedly denied access to the opportunities
all Americans are to be afforded under the Constitution, African
Americans have combined decades of collective action and community
mobilization with the trailblazing heroism of a select few to pave
their own way to prosperity. This latest installment of the African
American History Series challenges the notion that racial
prejudices are buried in our nation's history, and instead provides
a narrative connecting the struggles of many generations of African
American workers to those felt the present day. Reich provides an
unblinking account of what being an African American worker has
meant since the 1860s, alluding to ways in which we can and must
learn from our past, for the betterment of all workers, however
marginalized they may be. A Working People: A History of African
American Workers Since Emancipation is as factually astute as it is
accessibly written, a tapestry of over 150 years of troubled yet
triumphant African American labor history that we still weave
today.
Since their enslavement in West Africa and transport to plantations
of the New World, black people have made music that has been deeply
entwined with their religious, community, and individual
identities. Music was one of the most important constant elements
of African American culture in the centuries-long journey from
slavery to freedom. It also continued to play this role in blacks'
post-emancipation odyssey from second-class citizenship to full
equality. Lift Every Voice traces the roots of black music in
Africa and slavery and its evolution in the United States from the
end of slavery to the present day. The music's creators, consumers,
and distributors are all part of the story. Musical genres such as
spirituals, ragtime, the blues, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues,
rock, soul, and hip-hop—as well as black contributions to
classical, country, and other American music forms—depict the
continuities and innovations that mark both the music and the
history of African Americans. A rich selection of documents help to
define the place of music within African American communities and
the nation as a whole.
In this book James E. Westheider explores the social and
professional paradoxes facing African-American soldiers in Vietnam.
Service in the military started as a demonstration of the merits of
integration as blacks competed with whites on a near equal basis
for the first time. Military service, especially service in
Vietnam, helped shape modern black culture and fostered a sense of
black solidarity in the Armed Forces. But as the war progressed,
racial violence became a major problem for the Armed Forces as they
failed to keep pace with the sweeping changes in civilian society.
Despite the boasts of the Department of Defense, personal and
institutional racism remained endemic to the system. Westheider
tells this story expertly and accessibly by providing the history
and background of African American participation in the U.S. Armed
Forces then following all the way through to the experience of
African Americans returning home from the Vietnam war.
Based on original research, this book disputes the notion that
information management is a recent phenomenon. It traces its
origins to the period 1945-1951, when the post-war Labour
government, and its media architect, Herbert Morrison, moved from
an idealistic commitment to open communication towards the
pragmatic relationship with the media with which we are now
familiar. In the process this government laid the foundations for
the politics of spin. This book is indispensible to an
understanding of the way contemporary governments communicate.
Sexing Political Culture in the History of France gathers together
several compelling essays that nuance older studies about how
gender and sexual symbols stand in for the nation in its various
incarnations from the Early Modern period to the present. By
combining a long historical trajectory with detailed analyses of
how the state or its opponents have used symbolic meaning to
mobilize political action, clarify or criticize hierarchy, or
simply make sense of social norms, these essays demonstrate the
distinctive power of such symbolism and thus of this area of focus,
which traverses intellectual, social, cultural history as well as
the history of gender and sexuality. This is a cutting-edge
collection that moves coherently from the early modern witch hunt
to race in postcolonial France. - Carolyn J. Dean, John Hay
Professor of International Studies, Brown University.
From solar panels to synthetic biology, an
accessible-yet-authoritative overview of how climate change, the
global Covid-19 pandemic, and emerging technologies are changing
China's relationship with the world, and what it means for
governments, companies, and organizations across the globe. Ever
since China began its ascendancy to great-power status in the
1980s, observers have focused on its growing economic, military,
and diplomatic power. But in recent years, Chinese officials,
businesses, and institutions have increased their visibility and
influence on every major global issue, from climate change and
artificial intelligence to biotechnology and the global Covid-19
pandemic. How have these newer issues changed China's relationship
with the world? And, importantly, how can we prepare for a future
increasingly shaped by China? In China's Next Act, Scott M. Moore
re-envisions China's role in the world, with a focus on
sustainability and technology. Moore argues that these increasingly
pressing, shared global challenges are reshaping China's economy
and foreign policy, and consequently, cannot be tackled without
China. Yet sustainability and technology present opportunities for
intensified economic, geopolitical, and ideological competition-a
reality that Beijing recognizes. The US and other countries must do
the same if they are to meet ecological and technological
challenges in the decades ahead. In some areas, like clean
technology development, competition can be good for the planet. But
in others, it could be catastrophic-only cooperation can lower the
risks of artificial intelligence and other disruptive new
technologies. In this clearly written and accessible overview,
Moore examines how countries like the US must balance cooperation
and competition with China in response to shared challenges. With
an emphasis on opportunities as well as threats, Moore addresses
not only key developments in sustainability and technology within
China, but also their implications for foreign countries,
companies, and other organizations. China's influence on
sustainability and technology is both global and granular-and
twenty-first century China itself looks more like a network than a
nation-state. Featuring original interviews and an in-depth look at
Chinese government policy, China's Next Act provides a unique-and
uniquely balanced-window into these new dimensions of China's
global ascension.
Two Naval Reservists called to duty during the Cuban Missile Crisis
suddenly find themselves caught in a life and death struggle
against an unknown enemy. Are the Russians responsible for their
plight? Or are they fighting someone far more sinister?
Bayard Rustin was a unique twentieth-century American radical
voice. A homosexual, World War II draft resister, and ex-communist,
he made enormous contributions to the civil rights, socialist,
labor, peace, and gay rights movements in the United States,
despite being viewed as an "outsider" even by fellow activists.
Rustin was a humanist who championed the disadvantaged and
oppressed, regardless of identity. In Bayard Rustin: American
Dreamer, Jerald Podair examines the life and career of a man who
shaped virtually every aspect of the modern civil rights movement
as a theorist, strategist, and spokesman. Podair begins by covering
the period from Rustin's 1912 birth in West Chester, Pennsylvania,
to his 1946 release from federal prison, where he served over two
years for draft evasion. After his release, Rustin threw himself
into work on behalf of pacifism and racial integration, two goals
that, at this stage of his career, fit together almost seamlessly.
Podair goes on to examine Rustin's role as the main organizer of
the 1963 March on Washington, the most important civil rights
demonstration in American history. He was a major influence on
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy of nonviolent direct action,
which led to the strategy that changed the course of American race
relations. During the last years of his life, Rustin continued to
champion the causes of socialism, coalition politics, and racial
integration, as he also sought to aid oppressed people and foster
democratic institutions worldwide. Yet for all this, Rustin was
rarely permitted a leading role in the movements he helped to
shape. Because of his sexuality and his background as a former
communist and draft resister, he was forced to do much of his work
on the fringes, offering his organizational, strategic, and
rhetorical skills to public leaders who chose to keep him at arm's
length. Despite this, as Podair makes clear, Bayard Rustin was one
of the most important civil rights leaders and one of the most
important radical leaders in twentieth-century American history.
Documents in this book include excerpts from Rustin's writings,
speeches, and public statements."
The notion of sexual sadism emerged from nineteenth-century
alienist attempts to imagine the pleasure of the torturer or mass
killer. This was a time in which sexuality was mapped to social
progress, so that perversions were always related either to
degeneration or decadence. These ideas were internalized in later
Freudian views of the drives within the self, and of their
repression under the demands of modern European civilization.
Sadism was always presented as the barbarous past that lurked
within each of us, ready to burst forth into murderous violence,
crime, anti-Semitism, and finally genocide. This idea maintained
its currency in European thought after the Second World War as
Freudian-influenced accounts of the history of philosophy
configured the Marquis de Sade as a kind of Kantian "superego" in a
framework that viewed the Western Enlightenment as unraveled by its
own inner demons. In this way, a straight line was imagined from
the late eighteenth century to the Holocaust. These ideas have had
an ongoing legacy in debates about sexual perversion, feminism,
genocide representation, and historical memory of Nazism. However,
recent genocide research has massively debunked assumptions that
perpetrators of mass violence are especially sexually motivated in
their cruelty. This book considers how the late twentieth-century
imagination eroticized Nazism for its own ends, but also how it has
been informed by nineteenth-century formulations of the idea of
mass violence as a sexual problem.
In one of the few book-length treatments of the subject, Nina
Mjagkij conveys the full range of the African American experience
during the "Great War." Prior to World War I, most African
Americans did not challenge the racial status quo. But nearly
370,000 black soldiers served in the military during the war, and
some 400,000 black civilians migrated from the rural South to the
urban North for defense jobs. Following the war, emboldened by
their military service and their support of the war on the home
front, African Americans were determined to fight for equality.
These two factors forced America to confront the impact of
segregation and racism.
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Suspense (Hardcover)
Joseph Conrad; Edited by Gene M. Moore
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R3,163
Discovery Miles 31 630
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Published posthumously in 1925, Suspense is set in Genoa in early
1815. This edition of Conrad's last novel, established through
modern textual scholarship, presents the text in a form more
authoritative than any so far printed. The introduction situates
the novel in Conrad's career and traces its sources and
contemporary reception. The explanatory notes explain literary and
historical references, identify real-life places and indicate
Conrad's main research materials. A glossary of foreign words and
phrases enriches the explanatory matter, as do four illustrations
and a map. A notebook of Conrad's research for the novel and
deleted drafts are published here for the first time. The essay on
the text and apparatus lay out the history of the work's
composition and publication and detail interventions in the text by
Richard Curle, who, as Conrad's de facto literary executor, saw the
novel into print, along with typists, compositors and editors.
This handy pocket book will help veterinary nurses with all types
of calculations. Numerous worked examples are included to delelop
the reader's confidence in carrying out the procedures involved.
Each type of calculation has its own separate section in the book
and the authors have used the simplest possible method in
explaining each one. The book is structured such a way that the
reader can progress from a simple explanation of the arithmetic
principles involved, to the application of these principles to
essential veterinary calculations.
Qualified veterinary nurses and students alike will fine this
book an invaluable reference source, whether performing relevant
veterinary calculations or studying for professional
examinations.
Key Features
Convenient size
Ideal as a self-teaching manual
Accessible and user-friendly style
Includes worked examples, self-test exercises and answers where
appropriate
Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and research, Neil A.
Wynn combines narrative history and primary sources as he locates
the World War II years within the long-term struggle for African
Americans' equal rights. It is now widely accepted that these years
were crucial in the development of the emerging Civil Rights
movement through the economic and social impact of the war, as well
as the military service itself. Wynn examines the period within the
broader context of the New Deal era of the 1930s and the Cold War
of the 1950s, concluding that the war years were neither simply a
continuation of earlier developments nor a prelude to later change.
Rather, this period was characterized by an intense transformation
of black hopes and expectations, encouraged by real socio-economic
shifts and departures in federal policy. Black self consciousness
at a national level found powerful expression in new movements,
from the demand for equality in the military service to changes in
the shop floor to the 'Double V' campaign that linked the fight for
democracy at home for the fight for democracy abroad. As the nation
played a new world role in the developing Cold War, the tensions
between America's stated beliefs and actual practices emphasized
these issues and brought new forces into play. More than a half
century later, this book presents a much-needed up-to-date, short
and readable interpretation of existing scholarship. Accessible to
general and student readers, it tells the story without jargon or
theory while including the historiography and debate on particular
issues.
The Great Depression hit Americans hard, but none harder than
African Americans and the working poor. To Ask for an Equal Chance
explores black experiences during this period and the intertwined
challenges posed by race and class. "Last hired, first fired,"
black workers lost their jobs at twice the rate of whites, and
faced greater obstacles in their search for economic security.
Black workers, who were generally urban newcomers, impoverished and
lacking industrial skills, were already at a disadvantage. These
difficulties were intensified by an overt, and in the South legally
entrenched, system of racial segregation and discrimination. New
federal programs offered hope as they redefined government's
responsibility for its citizens, but local implementation often
proved racially discriminatory. As Cheryl Lynn Greenberg makes
clear, African Americans were not passive victims of economic
catastrophe or white racism; they responded to such challenges in a
variety of political, social, and communal ways. The book explores
both the external realities facing African Americans and individual
and communal responses to them. While experiences varied depending
on many factors including class, location, gender and community
size, there are also unifying and overarching realities that
applied universally. To Ask for an Equal Chance straddles the
particular, with examinations of specific communities and
experiences, and the general, with explorations of the broader
effects of racism, discrimination, family, class, and political
organizing.
This book examines African Americans' strategies for resisting
white racial violence from the Civil War until the assassination of
Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968 and up to the Clinton era.
Christopher Waldrep's semi-biographical approach to the pioneers in
the anti-lynching campaign portrays African Americans as active
participants in the effort to end racial violence rather than as
passive victims. In telling this more than 100-year-old story of
violence and resistance, Waldrep describes how white Americans
legitimized racial violence after the Civil War, and how black
journalists campaigned against the violence by invoking the
Constitution and the law as a source of rights. He shows how,
toward the end of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth,
anti-lynching crusaders Ida B. Wells and Monroe Work adopted a more
sociological approach, offering statistics and case studies to
thwart white claims that a black propensity for crime justified
racial violence. Waldrep describes how the NAACP, founded in 1909,
represented an organized, even bureaucratic approach to the fight
against lynching. Despite these efforts, racial violence continued
after World War II, as racists changed tactics, using dynamite more
than the rope or the gun. Waldrep concludes by showing how modern
day hate crimes continue the lynching tradition, and how the courts
and grass-roots groups have continued the tradition of resistance
to racial violence. A rich selection of documents helps give the
story a sense of immediacy. Sources include nineteenth-century
eyewitness accounts of lynching, courtroom testimony of Ku Klux
Klan victims, South Carolina senator Ben Tillman's 1907 defense of
lynching, and the text of the first federal hate crimes law."
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