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This book offers a cutting-edge overview of mobility, mobility
justice and social justice, with contributions from a broad range
of leading scholars. Mobility justice is understood as a way to
frame the entanglements of power and social exclusion in the
mobilities of humans, things, and ideas, as well as to differential
and unequal access to movement, and the ability to move. The
introductory chapters firmly ground the concept of mobility justice
and social justice, with the proceeding chapters covering a range
of topics from race, sexuality, ferry justice and aeromobility
justice, animal mobilities, design, and food mobilities.
This book offers a cutting-edge overview of mobility, mobility
justice and social justice, with contributions from a broad range
of leading scholars. Mobility justice is understood as a way to
frame the entanglements of power and social exclusion in the
mobilities of humans, things, and ideas, as well as to differential
and unequal access to movement, and the ability to move. The
introductory chapters firmly ground the concept of mobility justice
and social justice, with the proceeding chapters covering a range
of topics from race, sexuality, ferry justice and aeromobility
justice, animal mobilities, design, and food mobilities.
With this endearing book Nancy Farley shares the gift of America
past, lives and times that we can learn from, enjoy and treasure.
She tells of her childhood experiencing the simple pleasures that
today can seem so impossible. She makes known those things that
have been lost as American society became modern, digitized and
commercialized. With each story that makes up this book readers
will be entertained, educated and thankful for the American
heritage we get to enjoy today. Nancy grew up in Northeastern
Kentucky and earned degrees at the University of Kentucky, Morehead
State University and Georgetown College. She spent most of her
teaching career at Kentucky State University a Counselor/English
Instructor. She and her husband, Robert, now live on a farm in
Central Kentucky where they enjoy frequent visits from their
children and grandchildren.
1951, Paris. San Francisco socialite Nancy Cooke meets Luis de
Herrera, a dashing sports car driver from Argentina who is driving
with the American team at Le Mans. It is love at first sight for
the couple, but several obstacles keep them apart. After
heartbreaking separations and months of uncertainty, they finally
marry. Is it happily ever after? Not quite . Nancy's divorce isn't
recognized by the strict Catholic country of Argentina, and she
struggles to be accepted as de Herrera's wife. But as time passes,
Nancy becomes more familiar with the people of Argentina,
especially of Juan Peron and his wife, Evita. She witnesses the
country's fictitious agony over Evita's illness, and the
choreographed, Hollywood-like production mourning her death. Later,
Nancy even participates in the revolution to overthrow Peron. But
while visiting the United States, Nancy and Luis are exposed to
atomic radiation fallout, resulting in Luis's tragic death. Such a
horrific event spurs Nancy's search for answers, and begins a new,
lifelong spiritual quest that continues to this day. With amazing
candor and heartbreaking emotion, "Never Tango with a Stranger"
tells Nancy's bittersweet story of love, loss, and illumination,
and provides a compelling portrait of the power and strength of the
human spirit.
1951, Paris. San Francisco socialite Nancy Cooke meets Luis de
Herrera, a dashing sports car driver from Argentina who is driving
with the American team at Le Mans. It is love at first sight for
the couple, but several obstacles keep them apart. After
heartbreaking separations and months of uncertainty, they finally
marry. Is it happily ever after? Not quite . Nancy's divorce isn't
recognized by the strict Catholic country of Argentina, and she
struggles to be accepted as de Herrera's wife. But as time passes,
Nancy becomes more familiar with the people of Argentina,
especially of Juan Peron and his wife, Evita. She witnesses the
country's fictitious agony over Evita's illness, and the
choreographed, Hollywood-like production mourning her death. Later,
Nancy even participates in the revolution to overthrow Peron. But
while visiting the United States, Nancy and Luis are exposed to
atomic radiation fallout, resulting in Luis's tragic death. Such a
horrific event spurs Nancy's search for answers, and begins a new,
lifelong spiritual quest that continues to this day. With amazing
candor and heartbreaking emotion, "Never Tango with a Stranger"
tells Nancy's bittersweet story of love, loss, and illumination,
and provides a compelling portrait of the power and strength of the
human spirit.
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Representing Rural Women (Paperback)
Whitney Womack Smith, Margaret Thomas-Evans; Contributions by Agatha Beins, Laurie JC Cella, Jim Coby, …
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R1,415
Discovery Miles 14 150
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Representing Rural Women highlights the complexity and diversity of
representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada from the
nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in this
collection offer fresh perspectives on representations of rural
women in literature, popular culture, and print, digital, and
social media. They explore a wide range of time periods, geographic
spaces, and rural women's experiences, including Mormon pioneer
women, rural lesbians in the 1970s, Canadian rural women's
organizations, and rural trans youth. In their stories, these women
and girls navigate the complex realities of rural life, create
spaces for self-expression, develop networks to communicate their
experiences, and challenge misconceptions and stereotypes of rural
womanhood. The chapters in this collection consider the ways that
rural geography allows freedoms as well as imposes constraints on
women's lives, and explore how cultural representations of rural
womanhood both reflect and shape women's experiences.
Faced with an increasingly diverse student population, an expanding
field of gender scholarship, and an academic emphasis on
multidisciplinarity, social science professors often struggle to
address and integrate such a broad array of gender issues in their
courses. This book addresses that challenge by increasing students'
understandings of gender relations in multiple social fields across
time and space. Gender Relations in Global Perspective is truly
multidisciplinary. It is partially drawn from the work of
sociologists, but articles written by gender scholars from the
disciplines of cultural studies, history, political science,
geography, and literary theory are also included. The readings
examine historically persistent, cross-culturally relevant, and
empirically grounded concerns such as men's position in the family
and women's relationship to work, media, and the global economy, as
well as the gendered problems of violence, sexuality and
reproduction, and racism. This book presents an engaging range of
comparative and cross-cultural gender analyses from various world
regions, including the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia,
Europe, the Americas, and Africa. As the articles are dialogically
situated in this text, readers will be able to analyse gender
similarities and differences around the globe and learn about the
diversity of gender experiences across cultures and regions. This
range of analyses demonstrates how a global perspective enriches
feminist analyses. Students will quickly learn that to investigate
gender dynamics adequately, attention must be paid simultaneously
to the processes of racialization, class, colonialism and
imperalism, and sexuality that interweave with gender to produce
complex forms of oppression.
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Representing Rural Women (Hardcover)
Margaret Thomas-Evans, Whitney Womack Smith; Contributions by Agatha Beins, Laurie JC Cella, Jim Coby, …
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R3,488
Discovery Miles 34 880
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Representing Rural Women seeks to highlight the complexity and
diversity of representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada
from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in
the collection offer fresh perspectives on representations of rural
women in literature, popular culture, and print, digital, and
social media. They explore a wide range of time periods, geographic
spaces, and rural women's experiences, including Mormon pioneer
women, rural lesbians in the 1970s, Canadian rural women's
organizations, and rural trans youth. In their stories, these women
and girls navigate multiple settings and address the complex
realities of rural life, create spaces for self-expression, develop
networks to communicate their experiences, and seek to challenge
misconceptions and stereotypes of rural womanhood. The chapters in
this collection consider the ways that rural geography may allow
freedoms as well as impose constraints on women's lives, and
ultimately how cultural representations of rural womanhood both
reflect and shape women's experiences.
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