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Book Sixteenth Annual Yale Harvard Debate  1903

Download or read book Sixteenth Annual Yale Harvard Debate 1903 written by Yale University and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harvard Debating 1892 to 1913

Download or read book Harvard Debating 1892 to 1913 written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Manliness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harvey Claflin Mansfield
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300129939
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Manliness written by Harvey Claflin Mansfield and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited. Yet, historian Jay Winter suggests, alongside the 'major utopians' who murdered millions in their attempts to transform the world were disparate groups of people trying in their own separate ways to imagine a radically better world. This original book focuses on some of the twentieth-century's 'minor utopias' whose stories, overshadowed by the horrors of the Holocaust and the Gulag, suggest that the future need not be as catastrophic as the past. The book is organized around six key moments when utopian ideas and projects flourished in Europe: 1900 (the Paris World's Fair), 1919 (the Paris Peace Conference), 1937 (the Paris exhibition celebrating science and light), 1948 (the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), 1968 (moral indictments and student revolt), and 1992 (the emergence of visions of global citizenship). Winter considers the dreamers and the nature of their dreams as well as their connections to one another and to the history of utopian thought. By restoring minor utopias to their rightful place in the recent past, Winter fills an important gap in the history of social thought and action in the twentieth century.

Book Women and Gender in Islam

Download or read book Women and Gender in Islam written by Jin Xu and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arabia during the period in which Islam was founded to Iraq during the classical age to Egypt during the modern era. The book is now reissued as a Veritas paperback, with a new foreword by Kecia Ali situating the text in its scholarly context and explaining its enduring influence. “Ahmed’s book is a serious and independent-minded analysis of its subject, the best-informed, most sympathetic and reliable one that exists today.”—Edward W. Said “Destined to become a classic. . . . It gives [Muslim women] back our rightful place, at the center of our histories.”—Rana Kabbani, The Guardian

Book The Chosen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jerome Karabel
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780618574582
  • Pages : 748 pages

Download or read book The Chosen written by Jerome Karabel and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on decades of research, Karabel shines a light on the ever-changing definition of "merit" in college admissions, showing how it shaped--and was shaped by--the country at large.

Book A Quiet Revolution

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  • Author : Leila Ahmed
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2011-04-29
  • ISBN : 0300175051
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book A Quiet Revolution written by Leila Ahmed and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A probing study of the veil's recent return—from one of the world's foremost authorities on Muslim women—that reaches surprising conclusions about contemporary Islam's place in the West todayIn Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today, however, the majority of Muslim women throughout the Islamic world again wear the veil. Why, Ahmed asks, did this change take root so swiftly, and what does this shift mean for women, Islam, and the West?When she began her study, Ahmed assumed that the veil's return indicated a backward step for Muslim women worldwide. What she discovered, however, in the stories of British colonial officials, young Muslim feminists, Arab nationalists, pious Islamic daughters, American Muslim immigrants, violent jihadists, and peaceful Islamic activists, confounded her expectations. Ahmed observed that Islamism, with its commitments to activism in the service of the poor and in pursuit of social justice, is the strain of Islam most easily and naturally merging with western democracies' own tradition of activism in the cause of justice and social change. It is often Islamists, even more than secular Muslims, who are at the forefront of such contemporary activist struggles as civil rights and women's rights. Ahmed's surprising conclusions represent a near reversal of her thinking on this topic.Richly insightful, intricately drawn, and passionately argued, this absorbing story of the veil's resurgence, from Egypt through Saudi Arabia and into the West, suggests a dramatically new portrait of contemporary Islam.

Book Yale Alumni Weekly

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1900
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book Yale Alumni Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yale  Her Campus  Class rooms  and Athletics

Download or read book Yale Her Campus Class rooms and Athletics written by Lewis Sheldon Welch and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harvard Alumni Bulletin

Download or read book Harvard Alumni Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Yale Literary Magazine

Download or read book The Yale Literary Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Great American universities

Download or read book Great American universities written by Edwin Emery Slosson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Arena

Download or read book The Arena written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the National Speech Arts Association

Download or read book Proceedings of the National Speech Arts Association written by National Speech Arts Association and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contest ed  Writing

Download or read book Contest ed Writing written by Mary Lamb and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is about writing contests, a vibrant rhetorical practice traceable to rhetorical performances in ancient Greece. In their discussion of contests’ cultural work, the scholars who have contributed to this collection uncover important questions about our practices. For example, educational contests as epideictic rhetoric do indeed celebrate writing, but does this celebration merely relieve educators of the responsibility of finding ways for all writers to succeed? Contests designed to reward single winners and singly-authored works admirably celebrate hard work, but do they over-emphasize exceptional individual achievement over shared goals and communal reward for success? Taking a cultural-rhetorical approach to contests, each chapter demonstrates the cultural work the contests accomplish. The essays in Part I examine contests and riddles in classical Greek and Roman periods, educational contests in eighteenth-century Scotland, and the Lyceum movement in the Antebellum American South. The next set of essays discusses how contests leverage competition and reward in educational settings: medieval universities, American turn-of-the-century women’s colleges, twenty-first century scholarship-essay contests, and writing contests for speakers of other languages at the University of Portsmouth. The last set of essays examines popular contests, including poetry contests in Youth Spoken Word, popular American contests designed by marketers, and twenty-first century podcasting competitions. This collection, then, takes up contests as a cultural marker of our values, assumptions, and relationships to writing, contests, and competition.

Book Pacific Islands Pilot

Download or read book Pacific Islands Pilot written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Harvard Graduates  Magazine

Download or read book The Harvard Graduates Magazine written by W. R. Thayer and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta

Download or read book The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: