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Book Gender under Construction

Download or read book Gender under Construction written by Ewa Glapka and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender performativity, its variances depending on their historical, social and cultural contexts, and the rituals, representations and institutions involved in gender performances are some of the issues the authors addressed in this collection. Gender under Construction takes a non-essentialist view of gender and provides illustrative examples of gender constructive processes by pursuing them in various contexts and by means of diverse methodologies. In so doing, the book demonstrates that it is unfeasible to consider gender as a fixed biological trait. Instead, the authors propose to look at gender performance as ongoing processes in which femininities and masculinities enter multiple and dynamic intersections with a myriad of categories, including those of nationality, ethnicity, class, sexuality and age. Contributors are Iqbal Akthar, Renata Ćuk, Ewa Glapka, Deirdre Hynes, Borja Ibaseta, Martin King, Ana Cristina Moreira Lima, Mervi Patosalmi, Marcia Bastos de Sá, Andréa Costa da Silva, Vera Helena Ferraz de Siqueira, Christi van der Westhuizen and Isabelle V. Zinn.

Book Societies under Construction

Download or read book Societies under Construction written by Daniel J. Sage and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores building construction as an inspiring, yet often overlooked, place to develop new knowledge about the development of human societies. Eschewing dominant engineering and management perspectives on construction, the book is purposefully broad in its scope, both empirically and theoretically, as reflecting the rich underexplored potential of studies of building construction to inform a wide span of intellectual debates across the social science and humanities. The seven chapters encompass contributions to theories of: spatiotemporal organization with wildlife on building sites; institutional change with building ruins; home with Mexican self-help housing; place with a suburban housing development; socio-materiality with the adaptation of a university library; migrant labour with the Parisian postwar construction boom; and gender with a female site manager in Sweden. This book seeks to develop a new critical sub-area for construction studies that focuses on the actual processes and practices of ‘constructing'. Bringing together diverse members of construction research communities working in a variety of contexts, it develops empirical engagements with building work to challenge its marginalization, relative to architectural studies, to provoke novel understandings of human history, geography and sociology.

Book Trans Youth Stories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dr. Lindsay Herriot
  • Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
  • Release : 2021-08-19
  • ISBN : 0889616256
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Trans Youth Stories written by Dr. Lindsay Herriot and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of its kind, Trans Youth Stories: An Intergenerational Dialogue after the “Trans Tipping Point” is a thematically organized collection of narratives, fiction, nonfiction, letters, poetry, graphics/comics, and visual pieces created by 26 Canadian transgender youth between the ages of 10 and 18. Arranged in sections on childhood, families, bodies, everyday life, schooling, mental health, and acceptance, each section concludes with a response written by a Canadian scholar in transgender studies in conversation with the youth. These responses contextualize the youth pieces with recent scholarship from the field and equip readers with concrete actions for research, activism, and professional practice. Offering a unique and truthful depiction of young trans life and a holistic view of what it might be like to be a young trans person today, this groundbreaking volume will serve as an essential sourcebook for both students and teachers of gender and sexuality studies, trans studies, child and youth studies, counselling, and education. FEATURES: - A unique collection centering the voices of trans youth through firsthand perspectives followed by an extended scholarly response - Includes additional resources and follow-up responses by scholars to help readers contextualize writings of trans youth

Book Colonizing Bodies

Download or read book Colonizing Bodies written by Mary-Ellen Kelm and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using postmodern and postcolonial conceptions of the body and the power relations of colonization, Kelm shows how a pluralistic medical system evolved among Canada's most populous Aboriginal population. She explores the effect which Canada's Indian policy has had on Aboriginal bodies and considers how humanitarianism and colonial medicine were used to pathologize Aboriginal bodies and institute a regime of doctors, hospitals, and field matrons, all working to encourage assimilation. In this detailed but highly readable ethnohistory, Kelm reveals how Aboriginal people were able to resist and alter these forces in order to preserve their own cultural understanding of their bodies, disease, and medicine.

Book Under Construction

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  • Author : Bobbe Harris
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2008-06
  • ISBN : 1425999123
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Under Construction written by Bobbe Harris and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Scorned! Diamond Jones finally thinks she has met her knight in shining armor and her "Mr. Right." She is convinced when she and the handsome Andre Ploushette become "an item" that all the lying and games men play are a thing of the past. However, as their relationship progresses, Diamond learns that her "Mr. Right" not only has some hidden dark secrets but a life that will make her truly see that there is a thin line between love and hate.

Book Motor Age

Download or read book Motor Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Railway Age

Download or read book The Railway Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Under Construction

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  • Author : Marie-Anne Kohl
  • Publisher : MDPI
  • Release : 2021-01-14
  • ISBN : 3038974994
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Under Construction written by Marie-Anne Kohl and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While currently identitarian ideologies and essentialist notions of identity that tend to simplify and reduce life experience to simple factors are globally regaining massive attention, it becomes inevitable to recollect the thorough discussions of identity concepts of the past three decades. It also calls for an ever keener awareness of and capacity to deal with the complexity and diversity of the world we live in. Artists play a major role in the potential reflection and transformation of perceptions and conceptions of the world – musicians, dancers, choreographers, spoken word artists, performance artists, actors, also fine art, installation, media artists or photographers alike. “Performing critical identity” points to performative practices of artists that bring to the fore a critical (self-)awareness and (self-)positioning concerning identification and belonging. Social identities such as gender, sexuality, race, class, dis/ability, age or non/religiosity are closely linked to the historical, social, regional and political dimensions of their formation. From this perspective, identities are hardly one-dimensional but complex and intersectional, and are rather to be thought of as a process of identification and belonging than as a consistent essence. As different, maybe contradictory among themselves, as they are, the performative works of artists such as Lerato Shadi, Liad Hussein Kantorowicz, Nora Chipaumire, Shu Lea Cheang, Zanele Muholi, Ohno Kazuo, Anohni Hegarty, Neo Hülcker, “We’re Muslim. Don’t Panic” or of theatre collectives such as RambaZamba and Thikwa Theater in Berlin or Theater Hora in Zurich, to name but a very small quite random selection of artists, share a critical approach towards hegemonic norms or stereotyping of identities and their representations, and empower diversity. This edition puts a specific focus on the performativity of the aesthetic practices, and wants to explore different artistic approaches, strategies, tactics and perspectives of artists when they address identity issues, when they target power relations and structures of oppression and inequality, when they empower concepts of diversity. This Call for Papers invites academic as well as artistic contributions that delve into case studies of artists performing critical identity or into more general theoretical reflections on the subject. Contributions can relate to, but are not limited to following topics: - intersectionality - subversion - (self-)empowerment - resistance - subalternity - exploitation - manipulation - (anti-)feminism - appropriation - cultural globalisation - transculturality - hybrid identities - collectives - body - stage - audience - de-/construction of the difference of aesthetic genres and of high/popular culture - capitalism - colonialism - (re-)production of exclusion Dr. Marie-Anne Kohl Editor

Book Bus Transportation

Download or read book Bus Transportation written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Time Matter s   Invention and Re Imagination in Built Conservation

Download or read book Time Matter s Invention and Re Imagination in Built Conservation written by Federica Goffi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though the idea of altering an existing building is presently a well established practice within the context of adaptive reuse, when the building in question is a 'mnemonic building', of recognized heritage value, alterations are viewed with suspicion, even when change is a recognized necessity. This book fills in a blind spot in current architectural theory and practice, looking into a notion of conservation as a form of invention and imagination, offering the reader a counter-viewpoint to a predominant western understanding that preservation should be a 'still shot' from the past. Through a micro-historical study of a Renaissance concept of restoration, a theoretical framework to question the issue of conservation as a creative endeavor arises. It focuses on Tiberio Alfarano's 1571 ichnography of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, into which a complex body of religious, political, architectural and cultural elements is woven. By merging past and present temple's plans, he created a track-drawing questioning the design pursued after Michelangelo’s death (1564), opening the gaze towards other possible future imaginings. This book uncovers how the drawing was acted on by Carlo Maderno (1556-1629), who literally used it as physical substratum to for new design proposals, completing the renewal of the temple in 1626. Proposing a hybrid architectural-conservation approach, this study shows how these two practices can be merged in contemporary renovation. By creating hybrid drawings, the retrospective and prospective gaze of built conservation forms a continuous and contiguous reality, where a pre-existent condition engages with future design rejoining multiple temporalities within continuity of identity. This study might provide a paradigmatic and timely model to retune contemporary architectural sensibility when dealing with the dilemma between design and preservation when transforming a building of recognized significance.

Book Automobile Trade Journal

Download or read book Automobile Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book United States Investor

Download or read book United States Investor written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Human Rights and Citizenship Education

Download or read book Human Rights and Citizenship Education written by Dina Kiwan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the philosophical, sociological and legal implications of the distinction between universal human rights accorded to all because of their membership of the human species, and the more particularistic ‘citizenship’ rights, accorded to those who are members of a political community. Contributions come from a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields including education, law and political philosophy, as well as from practitioner perspectives. Contributions address the three themes of firstly whether human rights and citizenship are complementary or competing conceptions, secondly the justifications for human rights, and thirdly human rights and citizenship in different cultural contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Cambridge Journal of Education.

Book In Season and Out

    Book Details:
  • Author : David A. deSilva
  • Publisher : Lexham Press
  • Release : 2019-09-18
  • ISBN : 1683592921
  • Pages : 139 pages

Download or read book In Season and Out written by David A. deSilva and published by Lexham Press. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grow in the Scriptures throughout the church year with David deSilva as your mentor. Beginning with Advent and moving through the church year, David deSilva brings his years of experience as a biblical scholar to the church in the form of sermons delivered to his home congregation throughout the church year, now adapted into a thoughtful and inspiring collection of reflections. These reflections, which draw on readings from the Revised Common Lectionary, will inform and inspire your understanding of Scripture, written with Dr. deSilva's characteristic warmth and wisdom. In Season and Out makes for excellent devotional reading that will feed saints both in front of and behind the pulpit.

Book Heaven the Ultimate Return on Investment

Download or read book Heaven the Ultimate Return on Investment written by Paul Daniel Rodak and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK COVER Heaven The Ultimate Return on Investment Most of us been asked, at one time or another over the course of our careers what our plans for the future are. Recruiters, Human Resource Professionals, and Senior Management probe us for the 'end vision' of our career, but in most cases ironically, not our life goals. There is the so-called one year business plan, the five year plan, and so forth. Emphasis is placed on advancement, success, wealth, and all of the amenities our career and the world will provide us. The business objective is to seek and hire individuals who will enable the corporate plan. In other words, to basically seek what motivates us and see if there is a good 'fit'. This is not meant as a complaint or critique, but merely an observation. The only issue, in my humble opinion, is the process does not cover the main objective we should be seeking before, during, and after, achieving these goals. How do we better integrate Christian Principles with Best Business Practices into our lives. Business-people on deal in what is practical, makes good common sense, and how they can achieve a great return on their investment. If wealth, fame, and prosperity end at the grave, then where is the true Return on Investment? If, on the other hand, we integrate the end vision of Heaven into our daily lives and career objectives we will achieve all of our goals. This book was written to assist people in all walks of business and life to understand that faith in our Lord, Jesus Christ, can be the greatest avenue to personal and financial success. Imagine the beauty and happiness of Hawai'i magnified infinitely, and so much more, for all of eternity, shared with God and our friends and loved ones. Now that is a Heavenly Return on Investment. Don't you agree? Thank you and God bless you.

Book Manual of Financial and Accounting Procedure for Public Bodies  March  1934

Download or read book Manual of Financial and Accounting Procedure for Public Bodies March 1934 written by United States. Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: