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Book The Happiest Days

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Woods
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-07-16
  • ISBN : 100014450X
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book The Happiest Days written by Peter Woods and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, addressed to learning aspects, emphasizes on reality as a social production, on the individual's construction of meanings on a rational basis, on the emergent and negotiated character of interaction, and on how understandings are based on symbols such as mood and laughter.

Book Women in Culture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bonnie Kime Scott
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2016-08-01
  • ISBN : 111854112X
  • Pages : 578 pages

Download or read book Women in Culture written by Bonnie Kime Scott and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thoroughly revised Women in Culture 2/e explores the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, gender identity, and spirituality from the perspectives of diverse global locations. Its strong humanities content, including illustrations and creative writing, uniquely embraces the creative aspects of the field. Each of the ten thematic chapters lead to creative readings, introducing a more Readings throughout the text encourage intersectional thinking amongst students humanistic angle than is typical of textbooks in the field This textbook is queer inclusive and allows students to engage with postcolonial/decolonial thinking, spirituality, and reproductive/environmental justice A detailed timeline of feminist history, criticism and theory is provided, and the glossary encourages the development of critical vocabulary A variety of illustrations supplement the written materials, and an accompanying website offers instructors pedagogical resources

Book The Happiest Days

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Woods
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2005-08-16
  • ISBN : 1135387257
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book The Happiest Days written by Peter Woods and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance

Download or read book Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance written by María Isabel Romero Ruiz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and literary fiction across India, Ireland, Canada, Australia, the US, and the UK. Chapters explore literary and media displays of precarious conditions to examine whether these are exacerbated when intersecting with gender and ethnic identities, thus resulting in structural forms of vulnerability that generate and justify oppression, as well as forms of individual or collective resistance and/or resilience. Substantial insights are drawn from Animal Studies, Critical Race Studies, Human Rights Studies, Post-Humanism and Postcolonialism. This book will be of interest to scholars in Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Culture, Literature and History. Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz is Lecturer in Social History and Cultural Studies at the University of Málaga, Spain. She specialises in the social and cultural history of deviant women and children in Victorian England, as well as in contemporary gender and sexual identity issues in Neo-Victorian fiction. Pilar Cuder-Domínguez is Professor of English at the University of Huelva, Spain, where she teaches the literature and cultures of Great Britain and Anglophone Canada. Her research deals with the intersections of gender, genre, race, and nation. Grant FFI2017-84555-C2-1-P (research Project "Bodies in Transit: Genders, Mobilities, Interdependencies") funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by "ERDF A way of making Europe.".

Book Education in Popular Culture

Download or read book Education in Popular Culture written by Roy Fisher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education in Popular Culture explores what makes schools, colleges, teachers and students an enduring focus for a wide range of contemporary media. What is it about the school experience that makes us wish to relive it again and again? The book provides an overview of education as it is represented in popular culture, together with a framework through which educators can interpret these representations in relation to their own professional values and development. The analyses are contextualised within contemporary, historical and ideological frameworks, and make connections between popular representations and professional and political discourses about education. Through its examination of film, television, popular lyrics and fiction, this book tackles educational themes that recur in popular culture, and demonstrates how they intersect with debates concerning teacher performance, the curriculum and young people’s behaviour and morality. Chapters explore how experiences of education are both reflected and constructed in ways that sometimes reinforce official and professional educational perspectives, and sometimes resist and oppose them. Education in Popular Culture will stimulate critical reflection on the popular myths and professional discourses that surround teachers and teaching. It will serve to deepen analyses of teaching and learning and their associated institutional and societal contexts in a creative and challenging way.

Book The Gender Conversation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edwina Murphy
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2016-05-13
  • ISBN : 1498298958
  • Pages : 439 pages

Download or read book The Gender Conversation written by Edwina Murphy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations about gender, both inside and outside the church, can frequently degenerate into stale and rancorous disputes in which predictable arguments are traded back and forth, or fade awkwardly away into the tense silences of mutual misunderstanding. But the issue is an important one, and calls for a better conversation than either of those alternatives. In September 2015, Morling College hosted a one-day symposium entitled The Gender Conversation. A rich and diverse mix of contributors met to discuss issues of gender, theology, and Christian living, within a shared framework of evangelical conviction. Our aim in hosting the symposium was to deepen mutual understanding and respect, highlight common ground, clarify points of difference, and unite us all in a quest to learn from the Scriptures and live in the light of the gospel. This book brings together the papers presented at the symposium and the contributors' responses to one another, as a resource for further reflection and discussion.

Book The Cultural Production of the Educated Person

Download or read book The Cultural Production of the Educated Person written by Bradley A. Levinson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the ways in which cultural practices and knowledges are produced in and out of schools around the world.

Book We Should All Be Feminists

Download or read book We Should All Be Feminists written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The highly acclaimed, provocative essay on feminism and sexual politics—from the award-winning author of Americanah In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman now—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.

Book British Cultural Memory and the Second World War

Download or read book British Cultural Memory and the Second World War written by Lucy Noakes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few historical events have resonated as much in modern British culture as the Second World War. It has left a rich legacy in a range of media that continue to attract a wide audience: film, TV and radio, photography and the visual arts, journalism and propaganda, architecture, museums, music and literature. The enduring presence of the war in the public world is echoed in its ongoing centrality in many personal and family memories, with stories of the Second World War being recounted through the generations. This collection brings together recent historical work on the cultural memory of the war, examining its presence in family stories, in popular and material culture and in acts of commemoration in Britain between 1945 and the present.

Book The Wedding Spectacle Across Contemporary Media and Culture

Download or read book The Wedding Spectacle Across Contemporary Media and Culture written by Jilly Boyce Kay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interrogates the hyper-visibility and stubborn endurance of the wedding spectacle across media and culture in the current climate. The wide-ranging chapters consider why the symbolic power of weddings is intensifying at a time when marriage as an institution appears to be in decline – and they offer new insights into the shifting and complex gender politics of contemporary culture. The collection is a feminist project but does not straight-forwardly renounce the wedding spectacle. Rather, the diverse contributions offer close analyses of the myriad forms and practices of the wedding spectacle, from reality television and cinematic film to wedding videography and bridal boutiques. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, the chapters illuminate the paradoxes, contradictions, disappointments, cruelties and pleasures that are intimately bound up with the wedding spectacle. Written by leading and emerging feminist scholars, the chapters range across different national and cultural contexts to explore how the gender politics of weddings are changing and adapting to a new cultural and social landscape. This in-depth analysis of the wedding spectacle will appeal to academics and researchers in the fields of gender and mass media, cultural studies, feminist studies, and intercultural communication.

Book White Weddings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chrys Ingraham
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2009-09-10
  • ISBN : 1135928568
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book White Weddings written by Chrys Ingraham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a groundbreaking study of our culture's obsession with weddings. By examining popular films, commercials, magazines, advertising, television sitcoms and even children's toys, this book shows the pervasive influence of weddings in our culture and the important role they play in maintaining the romance of heterosexuality, the myth of white supremacy and the insatiable appetite of consumer capitalism. It examines how the economics and marketing of weddings have replaced the religious and moral view of marriage. This second edition includes many new and updated features including: full coverage of the wedding industrial complex; gay marriage and its relationship to white weddings and heterosexuality and demographics shifts as to who is marrying whom and why, nationally and internationally.

Book Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination

Download or read book Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination written by Laura Eastlake and published by Classical Presences. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination examines Victorian receptions of ancient Rome, with a specific focus on how those receptions were deployed to create useable models of masculinity. Romans in Victorian literature are at once pagan persecutors, pious statesmen, pleasure-seeking decadents, and heroes of empire, and these manifold and often contradictory representations are used as vehicles equally to capture the martial virtue of Wellington and to condemn the deviance and degeneracy of Oscar Wilde. In the works of Thomas Macaulay, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, H. Rider Haggard, and Rudyard Kipling, among others, Rome emerges as a contested space with an array of possible scripts and signifiers which can be used to frame masculine ideals, or to vilify perceived deviance from those ideals, though with a value and significance often very different to ancient Greek models. Sitting at the intersection of reception studies, gender studies, and interdisciplinary literary and cultural studies across discourses ranging from education and politics, this volume offers the first comprehensive examination of the importance of ancient Rome as a cultural touchstone for nineteenth-century manliness and Victorian codifications of masculinity.

Book Sexual Bullying

    Book Details:
  • Author : Neil Duncan
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2012-10-12
  • ISBN : 113465488X
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book Sexual Bullying written by Neil Duncan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bullying is one of the most destructive but common social practices that young people experience in schools, and one of the most difficult for teachers to manage successfully. Sexual bullying is even more difficult to deal with. Most adults can recall the important part sexual reputation played in the hierarchies of peer-group popularity during secondary schooling. The significance of this formative period of our sexual identities seems obvious, but is largely ignored by education policy makers and rarely appears in staff training programmes. This book draws together a number of theories on gender, adolescent behaviour and schooling to examine social interactions in four comprehensive schools. The original research underpinning this book comprises of group and individual interviews with the pupils, case-studies and classroom-practitioner observations over a seven-year period. This book will stimulate interest amongst all concerned with pupil welfare and social change.

Book Culture and Identity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anita Jones Thomas
  • Publisher : SAGE Publications
  • Release : 2016-09-08
  • ISBN : 1506305660
  • Pages : 465 pages

Download or read book Culture and Identity written by Anita Jones Thomas and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and Identity by Anita Jones Thomas and Sara E. Schwarzbaum engages students with autobiographical stories that show the intersections of culture as part of identity formation. The easy-to-read stories centered on such themes as race, ethnicity, gender, class, religion, sexual orientation, and disability tell the real-life struggles with identity development, life events, family relationships, and family history. The Third Edition includes an expanded framework model that encompasses racial socialization, oppression, and resilience. New discussions of timely topics include race and gender intersectionality, microaggressions, enculturation, cultural homelessness, risk of journey, spirituality and wellness, and APA guidelines for working with transgendered individuals.

Book Manliness and the Boys    Story Paper in Britain  A Cultural History  1855   1940

Download or read book Manliness and the Boys Story Paper in Britain A Cultural History 1855 1940 written by K. Boyd and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-11-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering work about the precursor to the comic book, Kelly Boyd traces the evolution of the boys' story paper and its impact on the imaginative world of working-class readers. From the penny dreadful and the Boy's Own Paper to the tales of Billy Bunter and Sexton Blake, this cultural form shaped ideas about gender, race, class and empire in response to social change. This study is an important analysis of a neglected part of popular culture.

Book Midwifery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sally K. Tracy
  • Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
  • Release : 2011-07-22
  • ISBN : 072957928X
  • Pages : 976 pages

Download or read book Midwifery written by Sally K. Tracy and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midwifery Preparation for Practice 2e is the only text which reflects the historical and socio – political environment in which midwives in Australia and New Zealand practice. In addition, it is the only text which incorporates the philosophy and standards endorsed by New Zealand and Australian Colleges of Midwives while also focusing on the partnership between midwives with women and the woman- centred model of midwifery care. The second edition has built on the existing philosophy and structure of Midwifery: Preparation for Practice, though with a greater emphasis on the development of critical thinking and researching skills. Key chapters have been re-written to reflect recent changes in government legislation while current research and pertinent examples are included throughout the text. This new edition is supported by a comprehensive suite of resources for both Instructors and Students using the Evolve website as a platform. These ancillaries will re-enforce the critical thinking elements for students with interactive case studies and scenario based learning exercises as well as the multiple choice questions. Presents unique philosophy and woman-centered approach in line with the standards set by the ACNM and NZCM Key contributors from Australia and New Zealand Key terms, Chapter Overview, Learning Outcomes and Review Questions included in every chapter. Reflective exercises, Critical thinking exercises and Clinical Scenarios to encourage active student learning 2 new Indigenous chapters highlight key health aspects relevant for Midwives working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and Maori women New chapter on Perineal care and repair Increased coverage of anatomy and physiology Instructor and Student resources on Evolve with a focus on critical thinking – Weblinks, interactive case studies, PowerPoints, additional exercises with questions and answers

Book Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures

Download or read book Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures written by Sabrina Petra Ramet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays explores the historical and cultural diversity of the experience of gender reversal over an exceptional geographical and chronological range. Topics cove- red include anthropology, history, literature.