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This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, is an indispensable blend of key essays in the field with specially commissioned new material by feminist scholars from the UK and the US. It includes a diversity of texts and feminist approaches, a substantial and very illuminating introduction by the editors, and an annotated list of Further Reading, offering preliminary guidance to the reader approaching the topic of gender and medieval literature for the first time. Works and writers covered include: * Chaucer * Margery Kempe * Christine de Pisan * The Katherine group of Saints' Lives * Langland's Piers Plowman * Medieval cycle drama Students of both medieval and feminist literature will find this an essential work for study and reference.
From the acclaimed author of Garden Awakening, We Are the ARK
urgently advocates all home gardeners to bring nature back to their
yards and to be an active part of positive environmental change.
The loss of biodiversity is rapidly reducing the ability of the
earth to maintain clean air and water and to provide food and
habitat for all her creatures - including us. We must take direct
action to alleviate the unjustifiable stress on the individual
plants and animals and other life forms we share our planet with.
But how do we do it? In We are the ARK, award-winning garden
designer Mary Reynolds provides an answer: by restoring nature to
our home gardens and public spaces through acts of restorative
kindness (ARK). So what is an ARK? It's a restored, native
ecosystem, and a thriving patch of native plants and creatures that
have been allowed to re-establish in the earth's intelligent,
successional process of natural restoration. Over time, this land
becomes a habitat for pollinators and wild creatures who are in
desperate need of support. In We Are the ARK, Reynolds details
exactly how home gardeners can play a role, no matter the size of
their space. Readers will be inspired to take part in positive
environmental change and equipped to do so at home. AUTHOR: Mary
Reynolds is a reformed internationally acclaimed landscape
designer. The youngest woman in history to win a gold medal for
garden design at the Chelsea flower show in 2002, she has since
given that all up to be part of the solution to the crisis we are
all living through, the climate and biodiversity collapse. She is
the bestselling author The Garden Awakening, and a motivational
speaker and founder of the global movement We Are The ARK. SELLING
POINTS: . We Are the ARK is equal parts advocacy and instruction.
Reynolds cogently and passionately explains how gardening can make
an impact on the environment and instructs home gardeners on how to
do so on their own property . Mary Reynolds is an award-winning
garden designer and the author of the groundbreaking book Garden
Awakening. Her passionate fans follow her on wearetheark.org. 200
colour illustrations
In recent years there has been a sustained growth of interest in
medieval literary culture, and the range of critical activity
within this field has expanded greatly, largely in response to the
challenges of modern critical theory. Some of the most stimulating
work has tackled the subject of sexual difference and gender
construction in medieval texts.
Reponding to this tendency, editors Rudy Evans and Lesley Johnson
have gathered a singularly effective and impressive collection of
essays ranging from writing on such figures as Margery Kempe,
Christine de Pisan, Langland, and Chaucer. As one of the first
texts ever published on theories of sexual difference and medieval
literature, Evans and Johnson contribute incisively both to the
debate and discussion of sexual difference in pre-modern
literature.
Diverse Spaces of Childhood and Youth focuses on the diverse spaces
and discourses of children and youth globally. The chapters explore
the influence of gender, age and other socio-cultural differences,
such as race, ethnicity and migration trajectories, on the everyday
lives of children and youth in a range of international contexts.
These include the diverse urban environments of Istanbul,
Copenhagen, Helsinki, Toronto, London, and Bratislava and the
contrasting rural settings of Ghana and England. The analyses of
children's, young people's, parents' and professionals' experiences
and discourses provide critical insights into how gender and other
socio-cultural differences intersect. The importance of everyday
practices and performances in the formation of children's and young
people's identities is revealed, through for example, friendships
and everyday sociality, mobilities and movements across space in
both rural and urban environments. The volume shows how discourses
of childhood, particularly those associated with risk, intersect
with difference. The recognition of young people's agency and
participation is central to many of the chapters, whilst also
raising methodological questions about how discourses of childhood
and youth are researched. Overall, the book provides an original
contribution to geographies of children, youth and families and
research on diversity and difference in global contexts. This book
was published as a special issue of Children's Geographies.
This ground-breaking book focuses on the experiences and
perspectives of children and young people who care for a parent
with HIV in the global North and South. Drawing on in-depth
qualitative research from the UK and Tanzania, the book presents a
unique insight into the similarities and differences in children's
and parents' experiences across diverse socio-economic, cultural
and welfare contexts. The book makes a significant contribution to
the growing research evidence on children and young people with
caring responsibilities ('young carers') and the impacts of HIV and
AIDS on families globally. It examines caring relationships within
families affected by HIV and AIDS; the outcomes of caregiving;
children's and families' resilience; the factors influencing
whether children become involved in care work; and local and global
policy responses. It also provides insight into the perspectives of
parents living with HIV and service providers working with
families. This book will be of interest to policy makers and
practitioners in the field of HIV and AIDS, and to researchers,
academics and students concerned with international development,
social policy, human geography, childhood and youth studies, social
work, health and social care, education, children's services and
nursing and palliative care.
Acknowledged by many feminists as the single most important
theoretical work of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's The
Second Sex (1949) nevertheless occupies an anomalous place in the
feminist 'canon'. Yet it has had an undeniable impact, not only on
the development of critiques of sexual politics but on
twentieth-century western thinking about the concept of 'woman' in
general. This collection of six new essays by scholars from the
disciplines of French, English literature, history, cultural
criticism, feminist theory and philosophy makes a valuable
contribution to the task of re-reading and reassessing this
enormously influential text for a new generation of feminist
readers, and also for cultural theorists, for whom the question of
'the feminine' is at the centre of key debates in philosophy and
postmodernity. The contributors provide a significantly new
rethinking of the place of The Second Sex in cultural history and
of women and representation, the role of 'fictions' and the problem
of ethical agency in the work of the leading intellectual woman of
this age. -- .
This ground-breaking book focuses on the experiences and
perspectives of children and young people who care for a parent
with HIV in the global North and South. Drawing on in-depth
qualitative research from the UK and Tanzania, the book presents a
unique insight into the similarities and differences in children's
and parents' experiences across diverse socio-economic, cultural
and welfare contexts. The book makes a significant contribution to
the growing research evidence on children and young people with
caring responsibilities ('young carers') and the impacts of HIV and
AIDS on families globally. It examines caring relationships within
families affected by HIV and AIDS; the outcomes of caregiving;
children's and families' resilience; the factors influencing
whether children become involved in care work; and local and global
policy responses. It also provides insight into the perspectives of
parents living with HIV and service providers working with
families. This book will be of interest to policy makers and
practitioners in the field of HIV and AIDS, and to researchers,
academics and students concerned with international development,
social policy, human geography, childhood and youth studies, social
work, health and social care, education, children's services and
nursing and palliative care.
From Joan of Arc to Britney Spears, the figure of the virgin has
been the subject of considerable scholarly and popular interest.
Yet virginity itself is a paradoxical condition, both perfect and
monstrous, present and absent, often visible only insofar as it is
under threat. Medieval Virginities traces some of the specific
manifestations of virginity in late medieval culture. It shows how
virginity is represented in medical, legal, hagiographical and
historical texts, as well as how the seductive but dangerous figure
of the virgin affects the aims and objectives of these texts.
Because virginity is so often thought of as self-identical and
ahistorical, Medieval Virginities aims to theorize and historicize
its various manifestations and to demonstrate how representations
and discussions of virginity continuously shift and change. The
variety of subjects and disciplines represented here testify both
to the elusiveness of virginity and to its lasting appeal and
importance. Medieval Virginities shows how virginity's inherent
ambiguity highlights the problems, contradictions and
discontinuities lurking within medieval ideologies. It will be
essential reading for anyone interested in questions of gender
identity, conceptions of the body, subjectivity, truth and
representation in medieval culture.
"An excellent and supremely accessible guide to some key issues in
development geography" - Stuart Corbridge, London School of
Economics "Provides a clearly stated, informed and strongly
structured pathway through the key literatures and debates" -
Jonathan Rigg, Durham University Organized around 24 short essays,
Key Concepts in Development Geography is an introductory text that
provides students with the core concepts that form contemporary
research and ideas within the development geography discipline.
Written in a clear and transparent style, the book includes: an
introductory chapter providing a succinct overview of the recent
developments in the field over 24 key concept entries that provide
comprehensive definitions, explanations and evolutions of the
subject excellent pedagogy to enhance students' understanding
including a glossary, figures, diagrams, and further reading.
Organized around five of the most important areas of concern, the
book covers: the meanings and measurement of development; its
theory and practice; work, employment and development; people,
culture and development; and contemporary issues in development.
The perfect companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students
on geography degrees, the book is a timely look at the pressingly
important field of international development studies today.
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Staying Alive: A Survival Manual for the Liberal Arts fiercely
defends the liberal arts in and from an age of neoliberal capital
and techno-corporatization run amok, arguing that the public
university's purpose is not vocational training, but rather the
cultivation of what Fradenburg calls "artfulness," including the
art of making knowledge. In addition to sustained critical and
creative thinking, the humanities develop the mind's capacities for
real-time improvisational communication and interpretation, without
which we can neither thrive nor survive. Humanist pedagogy and
research use play, experimentation and intersubjective exchange to
foster forms of artfulness critical to the future of our species.
From perception to reality-testing to concept-formation and logic,
the arts and humanities teach us to see, hear and respond more
keenly, and to imagine, or "model," new futures and possibilities.
Innovation of all kinds, technological or artistic, depends on the
enhancement of the skills proper to staying alive. Bringing
together psychoanalysis, neuroscience, animal behavioral research,
biology & evolutionary theory, and premodern literarature (from
Virgil to Chaucer to Shakespeare), Fradenburg offers a bracing
polemic against the technocrats of higher education and a vibrant
new vision for the humanities as both living art and new life
science. Contrary to recent polemics that simply urge the
humanities to become more scientistic or technology-focused, to
demonstrate their utility or even trophy their uselessness, Staying
Alive does something remarkably different: it argues for the
humanism of a new scientific paradigm based on complexity theory
and holistic and ecological approaches to knowledge-making. It
urges us to take the further step of realizing not only that we can
promote and enhance neuroplastic connectivity and social-emotional
cognition, but also that the humanities have always already been
doing so. "Nature always exceeds itself in its expressivity" -
which is to say that living is itself an art, and artfulness is
necessary for living: for adaptation and innovation, for forging
rich and varied relationships with other minds, bodies and things,
and thus, for thriving - whether in the boardroom or the art
gallery, the biology lab or the recording studio, the alley or the
playground, the book or the dream. Staying Alive contains companion
essays by Donna Beth Ellard (Rice University), Ruth Evans (Saint
Louis University), Eileen A. Joy (BABEL Working Group), Julie
Orlemanski (University of Chicago), Daniel C. Remein (New York
University), and Michael D. Snediker (University of Houston). TABLE
OF CONTENTS Eileen A. Joy: Prelude: Hands Off Our Jouissance: The
Collaborative Risk of a Shared Disorganization // Chapter 1:
Driving Education: A Crash Course // Fugue 1: Julie Orlemanski: An
Army of Lovers // Chapter 2: Living the Liberal Arts: An Argument
for Embodied Learning Communities // Fugue 2: Daniel C. Remein:
Human-Tongued Basilisks // Chapter 3: Breathing with Lacan's
Seminar X: Expression and Emergence // Fugue 3: Ruth Evans: The
Object Breath // Chapter 4: Life's Reach: Territory, Display,
Ekphrasis // Fugue 4: Donna Beth Ellard: Ekphrastic Beowulf:
Defying Death and Staying Alive in the Academy // Coda: Michael D.
Snediker: Fuzzy Thinking
Historians of sexuality have often assumed that medieval people
were less interested in sex than we are. But people in the Middle
Ages wrote a great deal about sex: in confessors' manuals, in
virginity treatises, and in literary texts. This volume looks
afresh at the cultural meanings that sex had throughout the period,
presenting new evidence and offering new interpretations of known
material. Acknowledging that many of the categories that we use
today to talk about sexuality are inadequate for understanding sex
in premodern times, the volume draws on important recent work in
the historiography of medieval sexuality to address the conceptual
and methodological challenges the period presents. A Cultural
History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages presents an overview of the
period with essays on heterosexuality, homosexuality, sexual
variations, religious and legal issues, health concerns, popular
beliefs about sexuality, prostitution and erotica.
From Joan of Arc to Britney Spears, the figure of the virgin has
been the subject of considerable scholarly and popular interest.
Yet virginity itself is a paradoxical condition, both perfect and
monstrous, present and absent, often visible only insofar as it is
under threat.
"Medieval Virginities" traces some of the specific
manifestations of virginity in late medieval culture. It shows how
virginity is represented in medical, legal, hagiographical and
historical texts, as well as how the seductive but dangerous figure
of the virgin affects the aims and objectives of these texts.
Because virginity is so often thought of as self-identical and
ahistorical, "Medieval Virginities" aims to theorize and
historicize its various manifestations and to demonstrate how
representations and discussions of virginity continuously shift and
change.
The variety of subjects and disciplines represented here testify
both to the elusiveness of virginity and to its lasting appeal and
importance. "Medieval Virginities" shows how virginity's inherent
ambiguity highlights the problems, contradictions and
discontinuities lurking within medieval ideologies. It will be
essential reading for anyone interested in questions of gender
identity, conceptions of the body, subjectivity, truth and
representation in medieval culture.
Drawing from the diverse fields of postcolonial studies, literary
studies, history, anthropology, sociology, political science,
environmental studies, and development studies, among others,
Gender and Sexuality in Senegalese Societies demonstrates the
urgency and necessity of new research in gender and queer studies
in and on Senegalese societies. By focusing on subjects that have
thus far been largely neglected in national and scholarly debates,
the chapters are subversive, complex, and inclusive, centering
within Senegalese studies themes and elements of alternative,
nonbinary, variant, and nonheteronormative gender identities,
sexualities, and voices. Contributors demonstrate that nationalist
and anticolonial discourses propelled by deep and lingering
socioeconomic inequalities have led, in postcolonial Senegal, to
vitriolic scapegoating of individuals and communities with variant
sexual and gender identities. The chapters in this volume look
inward to the voices and experiences of the Senegalese people to
challenge nationalist representations of advocacy for the
liberation of gender and sexual minorities in Senegal as a function
of a Western neocolonialist agenda.
Roadworks: Medieval Britain, medieval roads is a groundbreaking
interdisciplinary study of roads and wayfinding in medieval
England, Wales and Scotland. It looks afresh at the relationship
between the road as a material condition of daily life and the
formation of local and national communities, arguing that the
business of road maintenance, road travel and wayfinding
constitutes social bonds. It challenges the long-held picture of a
medieval Britain lacking in technological sophistication, passively
inheriting Roman roads and never engineering any of its own.
Previous studies of medieval infrastructure tend to be
discipline-specific and technical. This accessible collection draws
out the imaginative, symbolic, and cultural significance of the
road. The key audience for this book is scholars of medieval
Britain (early and late) in all disciplines. Its theoretical
foundations will also ensure an audience among scholars of cultural
studies, especially those in urban studies, transport studies, and
economic history. -- .
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