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Book Jovial Bigotry

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jana Verhoeven
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2012-03-15
  • ISBN : 1443838225
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Jovial Bigotry written by Jana Verhoeven and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revisits the debate over manners and morals that raged in France, Britain and the United States in the late nineteenth century. It was in essence a debate about gender and sexuality, and one of the foremost figures in the transnational discussions was the French writer and lecturer Paul Blouet, alias Max O’Rell (1847–1903). Although largely forgotten today, O’Rell deserves remembrance as a major phenomenon of the fin-de-siècle publishing and entertainment world. A Frenchman living in England but catering primarily to the American market, he disseminated national and gender stereotypes in an unprecedented way. Admired for the wit deployed in his lectures and his many best-selling books, he is a colorful exemplar of the many bourgeois commentators, male and female; most of them with mainstream political, social and cultural views, who engaged in these discussions, producing dense webs of assertion and opinion across countries and even continents. The elegant French salonnière, the independent but trustworthy English girl, the bitter American spinster activist meddling in public affairs: these are just a few examples of the many caricatural representations of women thrust into the debate. Max O’Rell and his fellow observers commented on women’s position in family and society, their partnership in the couple, their education, their sexual fulfilment, their right to paid work, aspects of social etiquette, feminism, domestic abuse, adultery and prostitution. There were frequent disagreements and sometimes hostile exchanges, but this analysis of the debate reveals a fundamentally common outlook among its participants: an agreement on patriarchy as the foundation of bourgeois society, and on the necessity to confine women in carefully stereotyped roles.

Book The Bigot

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  • Author : Stephen Eric Bronner
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2014-07-01
  • ISBN : 0300163738
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book The Bigot written by Stephen Eric Bronner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Eric Bronner is a prolific author, activist, and one of America’s leading political thinkers. His new book presents bigotry as a systematic, all-encompassing mindset that has a special affinity for right-wing movements. In what will surely prove a seminal study, Bronner explores its appeal, the self-image it justifies, the interests it serves, and its complex connection with modernity. He reveals how prejudice shapes the conspiratorial and paranoid worldview of the true believer, the elitist, and the chauvinist. In the process, it becomes apparent how the bigot hides behind mainstream conservative labels in order to support policies designed to disadvantage the targets of his contempt. Examining bigotry in its various dimensions—anthropological, historical, psychological, sociological, and political—Professor Bronner illustrates how the bigot’s intense hatred of “the other” is a direct reaction to social progress, liberal values, secularism, and an increasingly complex and diverse world. A sobering look at the bigot in the twenty-first century, this volume is essential for making sense of the dangers facing democracy now and in the future.

Book Singing the English

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  • Author : Hannah L. Scott
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2022-03-31
  • ISBN : 1000565920
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Singing the English written by Hannah L. Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late nineteenth-century France was a nation undergoing an identity crisis: the uncertain infancy of the Third Republic and shifting alliances in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War forced France to interrogate the fundamental values and characteristics at the heart of its own national identity. Music was central to this national self-scrutiny. It comes as little surprise to us that Oriental fears, desires, and anxieties should be a fundamental part of this, but what has been overlooked to date is that Britain, too, provided a thinking space in the French musical world; it was often – surprisingly and paradoxically – represented through many of the same racialist terms and musical tropes as the Orient. However, at the same time, its shared history with France and the explosions of colonial rivalry between the two nations introduced an ever-present tension into this musical relationship. This book sheds light on this forgotten musical sphere through a rich variety of contemporary sources. It visits the café-concert and its tradition of ‘Englishing up’ with fake hair, mocking accents, and unflattering dances; it explores the reactions, both musical and physical, to British evangelical bands as they arrived in the streets of France and the colonies; it considers the French reception of, and fascination with, folk music from Ireland and Scotland; and it confronts the culture shock felt by French visitors to Britain as they witnessed British music-making for the first time. Throughout, it examines the ways in which this music allowed French society to grapple with the uncertainty of late nineteenth-century life, providing ordinary French citizens with a means of understanding and interrogating both the Franco-British relationship and French identity itself.

Book Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge

Download or read book Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge written by Joy Damousi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The case study has proved of enduring interest to all Western societies, particularly in relation to questions of subjectivity and the sexed self. This volume interrogates how case studies have been used by doctors, lawyers, psychoanalysts, and writers to communicate their findings both within the specialist circles of their academic disciplines, and beyond, to wider publics. At the same time, it questions how case studies have been taken up by a range of audiences to refute and dispute academic knowledge. As such, this book engages with case studies as sites of interdisciplinary negotiation, transnational exchange and influence, exploring the effects of forces such as war, migration, and internationalization. Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge challenges the limits of disciplinary-based research in the humanities. The cases examined serve as a means of passage between disciplines, genres, and publics, from law to psychoanalysis, and from auto/biography to modernist fiction. Its chapters scrutinize the case study in order to sharpen understanding of the genre’s dynamic role in the construction and dissemination of knowledge within and across disciplinary, temporal, and national boundaries. In doing so, they position the case at the center of cultural and social understandings of the emergence of modern subjectivities.

Book Making sense of Brexit

Download or read book Making sense of Brexit written by Seidler, Victor and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the shock decision to leave the EU in 2016, what can we learn about our divided and increasingly unequal society and the need to listen to each other? This engaging and accessible book addresses the causes and implications of Brexit, exploring this moral anger against political elites and people feeling estranged from a political process and economic system that no longer expressed their will. Seidler argues that we need new political imaginations across class, race, religion, gender and sexuality to engage in issues about the scale and acceleration of urban change and the time people need to adjust to new realities. He suggests we need to listen to people's concerns not only about the impact of immigration and globalisation on their lives but also about the injustice of a capitalist economy that makes them pay through austerity and cuts in social welfare for a financial crisis they were not responsible for. He imagines alternative futures that will allow different generations to still appreciate themselves as Europeans with a future in Europe.

Book Judgment Clay

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  • Author : Ian Jarvis
  • Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
  • Release : 2019-05-08
  • ISBN : 178705425X
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Judgment Clay written by Ian Jarvis and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2019-05-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern-day Sherlock Holmes, Bernie Quist operates as a consultant detective from Baker Avenue in York. His assistant is Watson, although this Watson is a streetwise youth from the Grimpen housing estate and he's definitely no doctor. The mismatched duo take on bizarre cases which invariably lead into the realms of the supernatural, a shadowy world that, thanks to his dark secret, Quist is all too familiar with. The north of England has a new political group headed by Dominic Churchill. The White Rose Party campaign for Yorkshire independence, fairer wages and pensions, and the adoption of Yorkshire Pudding as Britain’s national dish. Unfortunately, white is the appropriate word, for their amiable façade conceals a far right organisation with a sinister racist agenda. Watson’s Jewish girlfriend has been attacked by Churchill’s thugs and Quist is determined to expose these white supremacists and end their rise to power. The detective soon realises that Churchill and his people have been targeted by someone else, a highly dangerous individual with a terrifying supernatural weapon. This man also plans to end White Rose, but his idea of ending is a touch more homicidal and gruesome. A dark and very peculiar game is afoot…

Book Religion and the Clergy in Boccaccio s Decameron

Download or read book Religion and the Clergy in Boccaccio s Decameron written by Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin and published by Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. This book was released on 1984 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hatred  Bigotry  and Prejudice

Download or read book Hatred Bigotry and Prejudice written by Robert M. Baird and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the definitions, origins, and explanations of intolerance, and suggests some possible solutions for dealing with this phenomenon.

Book Fl  gel Schmidt Tangor  Bd  Deutsch Englisch

Download or read book Fl gel Schmidt Tangor Bd Deutsch Englisch written by Immanuel Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book German English

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  • Author : Immanuel Schmidt
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1904
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1032 pages

Download or read book German English written by Immanuel Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book German English

Download or read book German English written by Felix Flügel and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book bd  Deutsch englisch

Download or read book bd Deutsch englisch written by Immanuel Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fl  gel Schmidt Tanger  German English

Download or read book Fl gel Schmidt Tanger German English written by Immanuel Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary of the English and German languages for home and school

Download or read book Dictionary of the English and German languages for home and school written by Felix Flügel and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fl  gel Schmidt Tanger W  rterbuch der englischen und deutschen Sprache

Download or read book Fl gel Schmidt Tanger W rterbuch der englischen und deutschen Sprache written by Immanuel Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fl  gel Schmidt Tanger

Download or read book Fl gel Schmidt Tanger written by Immanuel Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: