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Author | : Jeffrey C. Benton |
Publisher | : NewSouth Books |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1603062297 |
Respectable and Disreputable describes how Montgomerians spent their increasing leisure time during the four decades preceding the Civil War. Everyday activities included gambling, drinking, sporting, hunting, and voluntary associations--military, literary, self-improvement, fraternal, and civic. The book also includes seasonal activities--religious and national holidays, fairs, balls, horse racing, and summering at mineral springs. Commercial entertainment, which became more prominent in the late antebellum period, included theater, opera, circuses, and minstrel shows. Historian Jeffrey Benton describes not only those everyday, seasonal, and commercial activities, but also shows how antebellum society debated the moral and philosophical questions of how leisure time should be spent. Woven throughout the book are comparisons between Montgomery and other cities and towns in antebellum America. Although the United States may have been increasingly divided economically, on rural-urban experiences, and of course on the issue of slavery, it seems that antebellum Americans--at least those living in or with easy access to urban areas--shared very similar leisure time activities.
Author | : Mike Huggins |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2004-08-26 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1135773092 |
Many historians have claimed that respectability was the sharpest line of social division in Victorian society, even that the line between the 'respectable' and 'unrespectable' was more significant than between rich and poor. This irreverent and revisionist collection argues that they have over-polarised Victorian attitudes and challenges the conventional view that middle-class Victorian leisure had a respectable and serious purpose and approach. Disreputable Pleasures explores the more sinful and unrespectable Victorian male sporting pleasures, demonstrating the complex interrelationships between such value as manliness, muscularity and machismo, or sensuality, virility and hedonism. It sheds light on the ways in which the public rhetoric of Victorian respectability could be rendered problematic by the practical pursuit of private pleasures. It shows that Victorian leisure was much more contested cultural space than has been recognised, a battleground whose contestants ranged from the rational recreationalist to the avowedly hedonistic, and from the sacred to the profane. Disreputable Pleasures poses a powerful challenge to the accepted public image of Victorian society and will greatly add to our present understanding of Victorian Britain.
Author | : Karen Evans |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2002-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134773676 |
A Tale of Two Cities is a study of two major cities, Manchester and Sheffield. Drawing on the work of major theorists, the authors explore the everyday life, making contributions to our understanding of the defining activities of life.
Author | : Victoria W. Wolcott |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780807849668 |
Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit
Author | : Charles Hanson Towne |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2023-08-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 336890616X |
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Author | : Sharon E. Wood |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2006-03-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807876534 |
Gilded Age cities offered extraordinary opportunities to women--but at a price. As clerks, factory hands, and professionals flocked downtown to earn a living, they alarmed social critics and city fathers, who warned that self-supporting women were just steps away from becoming prostitutes. With in-depth research possible only in a mid-sized city, Sharon E. Wood focuses on Davenport, Iowa, to explore the lives of working women and the prostitutes who shared their neighborhoods. The single, self-supporting women who migrated to Davenport in the years following the Civil War saw paid labor as the foundation of citizenship. They took up the tools of public and political life to assert the respectability of paid employment and to confront the demon of prostitution. Wood offers cradle-to-grave portraits of individual girls and women--both prostitutes and "respectable" white workers--seeking to reshape their city and expand women's opportunities. As Wood demonstrates, however, their efforts to rewrite the sexual politics of the streets met powerful resistance at every turn from men defending their political rights and sexual power.
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1922 |
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Author | : Charles Hanson Towne |
Publisher | : New York : Macmillan Company |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1923 |
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Total Pages | : 914 |
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Author | : Evren Savci |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2020-12-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1478012854 |
In Queer in Translation, Evren Savcı analyzes the travel and translation of Western LGBT political terminology to Turkey in order to illuminate how sexual politics have unfolded under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's AKP government. Under the AKP's neoliberal Islamic regime, Savcı shows, there has been a stark shift from a politics of multicultural inclusion to one of securitized authoritarianism. Drawing from ethnographic work with queer activist groups to understand how discourses of sexuality travel and are taken up in political discourse, Savcı traces the intersection of queerness, Islam, and neoliberal governance within new and complex regimes of morality. Savcı turns to translation as a queer methodology to think Islam and neoliberalism together and to evade the limiting binaries of traditional/modern, authentic/colonial, global/local, and East/West—thereby opening up ways of understanding the social movements and political discourse that coalesce around sexual liberation in ways that do justice to the complexities both of what circulates under the signifier Islam and of sexual political movements in Muslim-majority countries.