Download or read book Allergic Intimacies written by Michael Gill and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to explore food allergies in the United States from the perspective of disability and race Are food allergies disabilities? What structures and systems ensure the survival of some with food allergies and not others? Allergic Intimacies is a groundbreaking critical engagement with food allergies in their cultural representations, advocacy, law, and stories about personal experiences from a disability studies perspective. Author Michael Gill questions the predominantly individualized medical approaches to food allergies, pointing out that these approaches are particularly problematic where allergy testing and treatments are expensive, inconsistent, and inaccessible for many people of color. This thought-provoking book explores the multiple meanings of food allergies and eating in the United States, demonstrating how much more is at stake than we realize, at a critical time when food allergies are on the rise: An estimated 32 million Americans, including one in thirteen children, have food allergies. Diagnoses of food allergies in children have increased by 50 percent since 1997. Yet as the author makes clear, the whiteness of the food allergy community and single-identity disability theory is inherently limiting and insufficient to address the complex choices that those with food allergies make. Gill argues that racism and ableism create unique precarity for disabled people of color that food allergic communities are only beginning to address. There is a huge disparity in access to testing and treatment, with African American and Latinx children having higher risk of adverse outcomes than white children, including more rates of anaphylaxis. Food allergy professionals have a responsibility to move beyond individualized approaches to more robust coalitional efforts grounded in disability and racial justice to undo these patterns of exclusion. Allergic Intimacies celebrates the various creative ways food allergic communities are challenging historical and current practice of exclusion, while identifying the depth of work that still needs to be done to shift focus from a white allergic experience toward a more representative understanding of the racial, ethnic, religious, and economic diversity of those in the United States. Gill’s book is a discerning and vital exploration of the key debates about risks, dangers, safety, representations, and political concerns affecting the lives of individuals with food allergies.
Download or read book Allergic Intimacies written by Michael Gill and published by . This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .
Download or read book State Intimacies written by Eva Fiks and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public healthcare system in rural India is chronically under-resourced. It embodies and often perpetuates the wider politics of the Indian state towards its rural communities with provisions of care that are deeply entangled with violence and disgust. For rural women, such care deepens reproductive chronicity while providing temporary relief. Grounded in women’s everyday realities and experiences in sterilization camps and other healthcare settings in rural Rajasthan, State Intimacies examines the mundane workings, ambiguities and fragilities of care in post-colonial rural North India.
Download or read book Virtual Intimacies written by Shaka McGlotten and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual Intimacies tells the stories of gay men, including the author, who navigate social worlds in which the boundaries between real and virtual have been thoroughly confounded. Shaka McGlotten analyzes intimate connection and disconnection across an array of media sites, including mass mediated public sex scandals, online spaces, Do-It-Yourself porn, and smartphone apps in order to show the ordinary ways people challenge and rework sexuality and technology. The book frames "virtual intimacy" in terms of the mocking disapproval that looks at using technology to connect as something shameful or as a means of last resort. However, where many see a dead end, Virtual Intimacies argues on behalf of more extensive understandings of intimacy, thereby contributing to many feminist and queer approaches that seek to expand the scope of what counts as connection, belonging, or love. The author also highlights the creative and resilient ways that queer people build social worlds using spaces and technologies in ways they were not intended.
Download or read book Benign Violence Education in and beyond the Age of Reason written by Ansgar Allen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education is a violent act, yet this violence is concealed by its good intent. Education presents itself as a distinctly improving, enabling practice. Even its most radical critics assume that education is, at core, an incontestable social good. Setting education in its political context, this book, now in paperback, offers a history of good intentions, ranging from the birth of modern schooling and modern examination, to the rise (and fall) of meritocracy. In challenging all that is well-intentioned in education, it reveals how our educational commitments are always underwritten by violence. Our highest ideals have the lowest origins. Seeking to unsettle a settled conscience, Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason is designed to disturb the reader. Education constitutes us as subjects; we owe our existence to its violent inscriptions. Those who refuse or rebel against our educational present must begin by objecting to the subjects we have become.
Download or read book Time written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women and Persona Performance written by Kim Barbour and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book works to unpack and explicate women’s personas. Drawing on global gender studies and feminist research, the author examines how ‘woman’ has been constructed socially, culturally, and politically throughout different historical periods and feminist movements. Case studies look at how women in different personal and professional settings construct, enact, and navigate their personas against a backdrop of shifting discourses on gender relations, continued patriarchal dominance, and western neoliberal capitalism. Chapters also delve into how women’s personas are constructed online through activism and community building. The author examines the diversity, flexibility, and slipperiness of the ways being a woman is experienced and strategically performed. This book will be useful for scholars and students in Gender Studies, Sociology, Psychology, and Media Studies.
Download or read book Wrong Is Not My Name written by Erica N. Cardwell and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as a means to explore loss, legacy, and the reclamation of life through art. At the age of twenty-one, Erica Cardwell finds herself in New York City, reeling from the loss of her mother and numb to the world around her. She turns inward instead, reading books and composing poetry, eventually falling into the work of artists such as Blondell Cummings, Lorna Simpson, Lorraine O’Grady, and Kara Walker. Through them, she communes with her mother’s spirit and legacy, and finds new ways to interrogate her writing and identity. Wrong Is Not My Name weaves together autobiography, criticism, and theory, and considers how Black women create alternative, queer, and “hysterical” lives through visual culture and performance. In poetic, interdisciplinary essays—combining analytical and lyrical stream-of-consciousness—Cardwell examines archetypes such as the lascivious Jezebel, the caretaking Mammy, and the elusive Sapphire to formulate new and inventive ways to write about art. Pioneering and inquisitive, Wrong Is Not My Name celebrates Black womanhood, and illuminates the ways in which art and storytelling reside at the core of being human.
Download or read book Oxford American Desk Dictionary Thesaurus written by Oxford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford American Desk Dictionary & Thesaurus Third Edition is a portable, all-in-one reference, seamlessly combining dictionary and thesaurus entries into one text. In addition to finding meanings, synonyms, and antonyms for a word together in one entry, users will appreciate a selection of the most helpful extra features.With up-to-date content backed by Oxford's language research program, and with an open, accessible new interior design, this is the ideal reference source for anyone requiring authoritative lexical information.
Download or read book Pocket Oxford American Dictionary and Thesaurus written by Oxford Languages and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Pocket Oxford American Dictionary & Thesaurus" is the ideal all-in-one portable reference, with a dictionary and thesaurus combined in one handy, integrated volume.
Download or read book A Cup of Comfort for Dog Lovers written by Colleen Sell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone loves a good dog story! In this moving collection, you'll meet more than fifty of the most admirable, adorable dogs on earth, from a loyal canine who comforts his owner John's mother when John passes away, to a mutt who helps ease the isolation his owner Liam suffers as the result of Asperger's syndrome. Sometimes bittersweet, sometimes joyful, but always poignant, these touching true stories of canine love and devotion will touch the heart of you and every dog lover in your life.
Download or read book Best Fiction Fall 2012 Sampler written by Random House and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Random House of Canada Limited, a must-read collection of this fall’s best fiction. It is our richest season yet, and we’re thrilled to share a taste of some of our most dazzling, engaging, and compelling fiction titles with you. Be transported from the boulangerie-lined streets of Paris to the tension and uncertainty of the Vietnam War to the magical coast of East Africa; see moments in time through the grey eyes of Aristotle’s daughter, a day in the life of a woman longingly awaiting her adventurer husband’s return home, and the reflections of Mary, years after her son’s crucifixion; experience suspense like never before in thrillers so deliciously chilling, they’ll stay with you long after the last page is read; and, get to know a new generation of Canlit humour that will take you from the most famous address in the country to a place beyond this world—and every place in-between. Boasting only the best in fiction from literary stars like Governor General Award–winning Linda Spalding, Annabel Lyon, Colm Tóibín, Ian McEwan, Vincent Lam, Justin Cronin, and Shauna Singh Baldwin, as well as showcasing some of Canada’s brightest voices, among them Kim Thúy, Linwood Barclay, Terry Fallis, CS Richardson, Christine Pountney, Tanis Rideout, and Linda Svendsen, Best of Fiction Fall 2012 will capture your imagination and spark your curiosity, and introduce you to some of this season’s most charming, haunting, and enjoyable reads.
Download or read book Everybody Has Everything written by Katrina Onstad and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several chaotic, poignant, and life-changing weeks pose a fraught question to a most unusual family in this moving, emotionally gripping novel: Can everyone be a parent? After years of unsuccessful attempts at conceiving a child, Ana and James become parents overnight, when a terrible accident makes them guardians to 2 year-old Finn. Suddenly, two people who were struggling to come to terms with childlessness are thrust into the opposite situation—they are completely responsible for a small toddler, whose mother's survival is in question. Finn's crash-landing in their tidy, urban lives throws into high-relief some troubling truths about Ana and James's deepest selves, both separately and as a couple.
Download or read book Windy Arbours written by Aidan Higgins and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to his novels and stories, Aidan Higgins--one of Ireland's most respected contemporary writers--has written a large body of criticism. Windy Arbours includes pieces written between 1970-1990 and is the first collection of his reviews to be published. Incredibly well-read, Higgins covers writers from around the world, from relatively well-known authors such as William Faulkner, Djuna Barnes, and Jorge Luis Borges, to more obscure writers such as Ralph Cusack and Dorothy Nelson. Serving as an informative guidebook about contemporary fiction, Higgins's criticism is always insightful, and oftentimes entertainingly acerbic.
Download or read book Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus written by Maurice Waite and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus is the perfect language resource, combining a dictionary and thesaurus text. This means that you only have to reach for one book when you need language help. In this edition the dictionary and thesaurus texts are integrated so that the thesaurus entry for a word follows the dictionary entry directly. This is based on market research into user preferences making the dictionary accessible, clear, and easy to use. New to this edition is a centre section for crossword enthusiasts and puzzle solvers, containing hundreds of thematic word lists. With 300,000 definitions, synonyms, and antonyms, this really is the ultimate tool for anyone who loves language-based quizzes and puzzles. The Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus also features usage notes to help you deal with tricky vocabulary and improve your writing style. The ultimate reference tool for your shelf - but not designed to stay there!
Download or read book Another Love written by Asma Abbas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time when our loves feel conscripted and exhausted by what we often do not remember desiring, Another Love: A Politics of the Unrequited explores the form, method, imperatives, and inflections of love in the global post colony, and offers a way to re-apprehend and re-inscribe love in an anticolonial, materialist, and nonfascist politics and aesthetics. The figure of “the unrequited” is invoked as a symptom of a brutally loveless yet effusively sentimentalized era, and also as an ineluctable yet very concrete political location in the face of both the intensifying external realities of war, occupation, apartheid, austerity, and terror, as well as the increasingly normalized internalizations of ordinary imperialism, nationalism, neoliberalism, fascism, and colonialism—all of which seem bent on extinguishing the possibility of relation itself. The book asks that we look at practices of love and other material labors that yield and sustain these realities within complex lifeworlds; indeed, those which sustain entire systems of our subjection, extraction, and disposability—such as colonialism, capitalism, liberalism, and fascism—as lifeworlds, especially when given, dominant, forms of recognition, affection, embrace, and belonging are unacceptable or even repulsive. Distancing itself from shortcuts afforded by love’s abstract forms deployed in ethical and moral discourses that at once elevate it yet wholly reduce it to a timeless, apolitical, essence, Another Love sees love as a material and political relation to time and space, signaling willed and unwilled shifts in historical reality in societies juggling various wars and annihilations. It maintains that love is something in and with which we confess our complicities not only with but also against hegemonic notions of belonging, devotion, martyrdom, hospitality, publicity, collectivity, and solidarity nurtured and harvested under capital and colony. The longing and the love—missed by the pernicious and reactionary politics both of liberal democracy and the incidental fascisms that it claims to set out to fix—can give us clues into past, present, and future, moments of rebellion, resistance, rejection, and redemption that are crucial to a liberatory, anticolonial, and antifascist politic, and to rethinking attachment, desire, and relation itself.
Download or read book A Winter Sowing written by Adrian Caesar and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Young is a divorced Vietnam veteran, an artist and a gardener. He is trying to come to terms with the trauma of war through his painting. With every brush-stroke he seeks to transform the moments of brutality, the memories of violence that plague his nights and haunt his days. At the same time, he is trying to manage a fractious relationship with his feisty sixteen-year-old daughter, Josie. When a single mum and her son move into the flat next door, further complications enter David’s life. As he tries to find a way forward, Josie enters a downward spiral. David believes his trauma is somehow becoming hers. When his daughter’s life threatens to spin out of control, he must do everything he can to save her … A Winter Sowing is a moving exploration of the unspeakable and a compelling story of one man’s quest for redemption through art and love. Praise for Adrian Caesar’s other books: ‘The White is an exceptionally rich and moving experience . . .’ — Michael McGirr, Australian Book Review ‘Caesar has done something remarkable . . . It is compulsive reading’ — Christopher Bantick on The White in The Canberra Times ‘This imagined re-creation of the two most unforgettable Antarctic disasters tells brutal stories but manages to do so with great tenderness and grace. Adrian Caesar’s literary high-wire act works wonderfully well, adding a vivid humanity to landscapes scattered only with stiffly written memoirs and black, ice-cold memorials.’ — Simon Winchester on The White Adrian Caesar is an award-winning novelist, critic and poet.
