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Book Betrayal at Ravenswick

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kelly Oliver
  • Publisher : Historia
  • Release : 2020-03-10
  • ISBN : 9781947915282
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Betrayal at Ravenswick written by Kelly Oliver and published by Historia. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: File clerk, Miss Fiona Fig, desperate for any adventure to help her forget her philandering husband, becomes a spy for British Intelligence during WWI.

Book Womanizing Nietzsche

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kelly Oliver
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780415906821
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Womanizing Nietzsche written by Kelly Oliver and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Knock Me Up  Knock Me Down

Download or read book Knock Me Up Knock Me Down written by Kelly Oliver and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of a heavily pregnant woman, once considered ugly and indecent, is now common to Hollywood film. No longer is pregnancy a repulsive of shameful condition, but an attractive attribute, often enhancing the romantic or comedic storyline of a female protagonist. Kelly Oliver investigates this curious shift and its reflection of changing attitudes toward women's roles in reproduction and the family.

Book High Treason at the Grand Hotel

Download or read book High Treason at the Grand Hotel written by Kelly Oliver and published by A Fiona Figg Mystery. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: File clerk turned secret agent Fiona Figg is up to her fake eyebrows in missing maids, jewel thieves, double agents, and high treason in 1915 Paris.

Book Noir Anxiety

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kelly Oliver
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781452906126
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Noir Anxiety written by Kelly Oliver and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reading Kristeva

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kelly Oliver
  • Publisher : Georgetown University Press
  • Release : 1993-02-22
  • ISBN : 9780253207616
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Reading Kristeva written by Kelly Oliver and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . both an excellent introduction and a thoroughgoing analysis of Kristeva's writing." —Signs "The book is a brilliant combination of a recuperative and a critical reading of Kristeva's work." —Changes: An International Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy " . . . a thorough, detailed, and critical analysis of the writings of Julia Kristeva." —Elizabeth Grosz ". . . the most involved and engaging study of Julia Kristeva's work to date . . ." —The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory This first full-scale feminist interpretation of Kristeva's work situates her within the context of French feminism. Oliver guides her readers through Kristeva's intellectual formation in linguistics, Freud, Lacan, and poetics. This comprehensive introduction to Kristeva makes accessible her important contributions to philosophy, linguistics, and psychoanalytic feminism.

Book Witnessing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kelly Oliver
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780816636273
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Witnessing written by Kelly Oliver and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the fundamental tenet of the multicultural movement -- that social struggles turning upon race, gender, and sexuality are struggles for recognition -- this work offers a powerful critique of current conceptions of identity and subjectivity based on Hegelian notions of recognition. The author's critical engagement with major texts of contemporary philosophy prepares the way for a highly original conception of ethics based on witnessing. Central to this project is Oliver's contention that the demand for recognition is a symptom of the pathology of oppression that perpetuates subject-object and same-different hierarchies. While theorists across the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences focus their research on multiculturalism around the struggle for recognition, Oliver argues that the actual texts and survivors' accounts from the aftermath of the Holocaust and slavery are testimonials to a pathos that is "beyond recognition". Oliver traces many of the problems with the recognition model of subjective identity to a particular notion of vision presupposed in theories of recognition and misrecognition. Contesting the idea of an objectifying gaze, she reformulates vision as a loving look that facilitates connection rather than necessitates alienation. As an alternative, Oliver develops a theory of witnessing subjectivity. She suggests that the notion of witnessing, with its double meaning as either eyewitness or bearing witness to the unseen, is more promising than recognition for describing the onset and sustenance of subjectivity. Subjectivity is born out of and sustained by the process of witnessing -- the possibility of address and response -- which puts ethicalobligations at its heart.

Book Women as Weapons of War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kelly Oliver
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2007-11-02
  • ISBN : 0231512457
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Women as Weapons of War written by Kelly Oliver and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Eve tempted Adam with her apple, women have been regarded as a corrupting and destructive force. The very idea that women can be used as interrogation tools, as evidenced in the infamous Abu Ghraib torture photos, plays on age-old fears of women as sexually threatening weapons, and therefore the literal explosion of women onto the war scene should come as no surprise. From the female soldiers involved in Abu Ghraib to Palestinian women suicide bombers, women and their bodies have become powerful weapons in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. In Women as Weapons of War, Kelly Oliver reveals how the media and the administration frequently use metaphors of weaponry to describe women and female sexuality and forge a deliberate link between notions of vulnerability and images of violence. Focusing specifically on the U.S. campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, Oliver analyzes contemporary discourse surrounding women, sex, and gender and the use of women to justify America's decision to go to war. For example, the administration's call to liberate "women of cover," suggesting a woman's right to bare arms is a sign of freedom and progress. Oliver also considers what forms of cultural meaning, or lack of meaning, could cause both the guiltlessness demonstrated by female soldiers at Abu Ghraib and the profound commitment to death made by suicide bombers. She examines the pleasure taken in violence and the passion for death exhibited by these women and what kind of contexts created them. In conclusion, Oliver diagnoses our cultural fascination with sex, violence, and death and its relationship with live news coverage and embedded reporting, which naturalizes horrific events and stymies critical reflection. This process, she argues, further compromises the borders between fantasy and reality, fueling a kind of paranoid patriotism that results in extreme forms of violence.

Book Psychoanalysis  Aesthetics  and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva

Download or read book Psychoanalysis Aesthetics and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva written by Kelly Oliver and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social and political relevance of Julia Kristeva's work is perhaps the central question in Kristeva studies, and the essays in this collection provide a sustained interrogation of this complicated problematic from a variety of perspectives and across the various contexts and moments of Kristeva's forty-year writing career. Presenting Kristeva's thought as the sustained interrogation of a political problematic, the contributors argue that her use of psychoanalysis and aesthetics offers significant insight into social and political issues that would otherwise remain concealed. The collection addresses the entirety of Kristeva's oeuvre, from her earliest work on poetic language to her most recent work on female genius, and it includes two previously untranslated essays by Kristeva, as well as original contributions from scholars working in several countries and a variety of disciplines.

Book Family Values

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kelly Oliver
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-05-11
  • ISBN : 1317958977
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Family Values written by Kelly Oliver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family Values shows how the various contradictions at the heart of Western conceptions of maternity and paternity problematize our relationships with ourselves and with others. Using philosophical texts, psychoanalytic theory, studies in biology and popular culture, Kelly Oliver challenges our traditional concepts of maternity which are associated with nature, and our conceptions of paternity which are embedded in culture. Oliver's intervention calls into question the traditional image of the oppositional relationship between nature and culture, maternal and paternal. Family Values also undercuts recent returns to the rhetoric of a "battle between the sexes" by analyzing the conceptual basis of these descriptions in biological research and the presuppositions of such suggestions in philosophy and psychoanalysis. By developing a reconception of maternity and paternity, Family Values offers hope for peace in the battle of the sexes.

Book Animal Lessons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kelly Oliver
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0231147279
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book Animal Lessons written by Kelly Oliver and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy reads humanity against animality, arguing that "man" is man because he is separate from beast. Deftly challenging this position, Kelly Oliver proves that, in fact, it is the animal that teaches us to be human. Through their sex, their habits, and our perception of their purpose, animals show us how not to be them. This kinship plays out in a number of ways. We sacrifice animals to establish human kinship, but without the animal, the bonds of "brotherhood" fall apart. Either kinship with animals is possible or kinship with humans is impossible. Philosophy holds that humans and animals are distinct, but in defending this position, the discipline depends on a discourse that relies on the animal for its very definition of the human. Through these and other examples, Oliver does more than just establish an animal ethics. She transforms ethics by showing how its very origin is dependent upon the animal. Examining for the first time the treatment of the animal in the work of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Agamben, Freud, Lacan, and Kristeva, among others, Animal Lessons argues that the animal bites back, thereby reopening the question of the animal for philosophy.

Book Subjectivity Without Subjects

Download or read book Subjectivity Without Subjects written by Kelly Oliver and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, philosopher and feminist theorist, Kelly Oliver, takes a look at aspects of popular culture, film, science and law to examine contemporary notions of paternity and maternity. She studies the role of paternal responsibility, virility and race in such events as the Million Man March and the growth of the Promise Keeper's movement and suggests alternative ways to conceive of self-other relations and the subjective identity at stake in them. In addition, she offers a detailed analysis of particular works by film-makers such as Polanski, Bergman and Varda in developing a theory of identity that opens the subject to otherness or difference.

Book Ethics  Politics  and Difference in Julia Kristeva s Writing

Download or read book Ethics Politics and Difference in Julia Kristeva s Writing written by Kelly Oliver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable intervention in Kristevan scholarship and a significant and exciting contribution in its own right to post-structuralist discussions of ethical and political agency and practice. Contributors: Judith Butler, Tina Chanter, Marilyn Edelstein, Jean Graybeal, Suzanne Guerlac, Alice Jardine, Lisa Lowe, Noelle McAfee, Norma Claire Moruzzi, Kelly Oliver, Tilottma Rajan, Jacqueline Rose, Allison Weir, Mary Bittner Wiseman, Ewa Ziarek

Book The Colonization of Psychic Space

Download or read book The Colonization of Psychic Space written by Kelly Oliver and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver (philosophy, Vanderbilt U.) does not attempt to apply psychoanalysis to oppression. Rather she transforms psychoanalytic concepts such as alienation, melancholy, and shame into social concepts by developing a psychoanalytic theory based on a notion of the individual or psyche that is thoroughly social. The psyche and the social world are so

Book Language and Liberation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christina Hendricks
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 1999-04-01
  • ISBN : 1438406479
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Language and Liberation written by Christina Hendricks and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting new and important scholarship in feminist language theory, this book addresses issues within diverse traditions, bringing together feminist positions, strategies, and styles in an original way. Gathering together authors with different backgrounds and methods, Language and Liberation puts this diverse scholarship into dialogue. The questions and concerns reflected in these essays are presented within the context of their historical background, provided by the editors' comprehensive Introduction. These questions include: Is there a distinction between "female" and "male" language? What is the relationship of feminine/feminist identity to language? What is the value of metaphor for feminist theory and practice?

Book Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche

Download or read book Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche written by Kelly A. Oliver and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book When the Tempest Gathers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Milburn
  • Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
  • Release : 2020-02-08
  • ISBN : 1526750589
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book When the Tempest Gathers written by Andrew Milburn and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the combat experiences of the first Marine to command a special operations task force, recounted against a backdrop of his journey from raw Second Lieutenant to seasoned Colonel and Task Force Commander; from leading Marines through the streets of Mogadishu, Baghdad, Fallujah and Mosul to directing multi-national special operations forces in a dauntingly complex fight against a formidable foe. The journey culminates in the story’s centerpiece: the fight against ISIS, in which the author is able to use the lessons of his harsh apprenticeship to lead the SOF task force under his command to hasten the Caliphate’s eventual demise. Milburn has an unusual background for a US Marine, and this is no ordinary war memoir. Very few personal accounts of war cover such a wide breadth of experience, or with so discerning a perspective. As Bing West comments: “His exceptional skill is telling each story of battle and then knitting them into a coherent whole. By the end of the book, the reader understands what happened on the ground in the wars against terrorists over the past twenty years.” Milburn tells his extraordinary story with self-effacing candor, describing openly his personal struggles with the isolation of command, post-combat trauma and family tragedy. And with the skill and insight of a natural story teller, he makes the reader experience what it’s like to lead those who fight America’s wars.