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Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 178
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ISBN: 1257839926

Intimate Activism

Intimate Activism
Author: Cymene Howe
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2013-09-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822378965

Intimate Activism tells the story of Nicaraguan sexual-rights activists who helped to overturn the most repressive antisodomy law in the Americas. The law was passed shortly after the Sandinistas lost power in 1990 and, to the surprise of many, was repealed in 2007. In this vivid ethnography, Cymene Howe analyzes how local activists balanced global discourses regarding human rights and identity politics with the contingencies of daily life in Nicaragua. Though they were initially spurred by the antisodomy measure, activists sought to change not only the law but also culture. Howe emphasizes the different levels of intervention where activism occurs, from mass-media outlets and public protests to meetings of clandestine consciousness-raising groups. She follows the travails of queer characters in a hugely successful telenovela, traces the ideological tensions within the struggle for sexual rights, and conveys the voices of those engaged in "becoming" lesbianas and homosexuales in contemporary Nicaragua.

Historiofagia

Historiofagia
Author: Damian Arias - Matos
Publisher: Palibrio
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2012-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1463303203

"Esta compilaciaon de artaiculos que fueron publicados por el autor en los diarios, La Informaciaon de Santiago, Diario Libre y en 'Clave Digital' entre Julio de 2007 hasta la desapariciaon de este aultimo en Agosto de 2010, contiene una selecciaon de temas nacionales e internacionles."

THE WINGS OF CREATION. LAS ALAS DE LA CREACIÓN. 創造の翼

THE WINGS OF CREATION. LAS ALAS DE LA CREACIÓN. 創造の翼
Author: Yaxkin Melchy Ramos-Yupari
Publisher: Cactus del Viento
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2023-12-25
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 4867950211

Hay que tener una gran sensibilidad, humildad y valentía para escribir poemas así. ¡Qué las flores y las aves les saluden en hermandad, reconociéndonos todos en Cristo, hijos de un mismo cielo y de una misma tierra, hijos del mismo soplo del Espíritu que a todos nos anima y nos abraza, por fuera y por dentro! Writing poems like this requires great sensitivity, humility, and courage. May the flowers and birds greet you in brotherhood, recognizing us all in Christ, children of the same heaven and the same earth, children of the same breath of the Spirit that encourages and embraces us all, outside, and inside! 書いてる詩は凄く繊細で、人間的で、勇敢である。花たちと鳥た ちが兄弟愛であなたを迎えてくれるように、キリストにあって私 たち全員を認識しています。同じ天国と地上に生きる子どもた ち、同じ励ましの霊の息をする子どもたち、そして、外から内面 へ、私たち全員を抱きます! Pedro Favaron

Democracy and Sovereignty in Spain

Democracy and Sovereignty in Spain
Author: Francisco J. Bellido
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2023-03-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000846679

This book delves into the conceptual changes produced by the Spanish constitutional debate held between 27 August and 9 December 1931. Taking place at the beginning of Spain’s Second Republic, those parliamentary deliberations brought about significant novelties in the political vocabulary. Concepts such as democracy, sovereignty, reform, revolution, and freedom, among others, were re-signified. This study investigates the conceptual contributions made by Spanish MPs in the course of the constitutional debate of 1931 by assuming, as a research approach, an interdisciplinary stance combining conceptual history, political theory, and parliamentary constitutional history. By doing so, it selects five determining issues: the pervasive discussion about two competing meanings of a democratic state; the rhetorical uses of reform and revolution; conceptual controversies about religious freedom; the disputed idea of property rights; and the functions of parliament and the president of the republic in a semi-presidential regime. The constitutional debate was largely inspired by interwar European constitutionalism which constituent representatives used to update the Spanish constitutional tradition. With that goal in mind, this book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students and scholars working in the fields of conceptual history, political philosophy, parliamentary history, European political history, and European constitutionalism. Licence line: The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Print Culture through the Ages

Print Culture through the Ages
Author: Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2016-06-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1443896616

Print Culture Through the Ages: Essays on Latin American Book History, is a compendium of specialized essays by renowned scholars from Mexico, the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, France, and Colombia that focuses on various topics involving the evolution of printing, reading publics, the publishing process and literary development during periods of political and cultural change in Latin America. The volume has four primary areas of concern, namely “Labors of the Printing Press, Typography and Editing”; “Books and Readers in the Colonial Period”; “New Forms of Literary Consumption”; “The Press and Its Readers”. It will be of particular interest to scholars in the areas of literature, book history, print culture and images.

The Anatomy of a Moment

The Anatomy of a Moment
Author: Javier Cercas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2012-01-05
Genre: Spain
ISBN: 1408822105

In February 1981, just as Spain was finally leaving Franco's dictatorship and during the first democratic vote in parliament for a new prime minister - Colonel Tejero and a band of right-wing soldiers burst into the Spanish parliament and began firing shots. Only three members of Congress defied the incursion and did not dive for cover,: Adolfo Suarez the then outgoing prime minister, who had steered the country away from the Franco era, Guttierez Mellado, a conservative general who had loyally served democracy, and Santiago Carillo, the head of the Communist Party, which had just been legalised. In The Anatomy of a Moment, Cercas examines a key moment in Spanish history, just as he did so successfully in his Spanish Civil War novel, Soldiers of Salamis. This is the only coup ever to have been caught on film as it was happening, which, as Cercas says, 'guaranteed both its reality and its unreality'. Every February a few seconds of the video are shown again and Spaniards congratulate themselves for standing up for democracy, but Cercas says that things were very quiet that afternoon and evening while all over Spain people stayed inside waiting for the coup to be defeated .... or to triumph.

Carpentier's Proustian Fiction

Carpentier's Proustian Fiction
Author: Sally Harvey
Publisher: Tamesis
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1994
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781855660342

Critical study of Cuban novelist and Proust's influence on selected works.

Inspiring Stories to Be a Brave and Happy Girl

Inspiring Stories to Be a Brave and Happy Girl
Author: Araceli Ortega-Diaz
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2024-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

As young females we are taught physics, mathematics, biology, in case you go to school; in case not, at least parents taught us our duties, transmit values and their fears, but no one gives us classes on how to manage our feelings, we are left in silence with our own thoughts, sometimes, at home, there are no explanation on how to handle disappointments, racism, misogynist mates. Parents have their own traditions, the love for us , and at the same time the ignorance of a changing world may result in our question increasing their fears and our doubts. If adults refuse to answer, and we ask our siblings they might not know, so we should investigate in various sources, books, videos, prestigious conferences, now we can find things from the most prestigious universities. But when we are kids, we learn through stories, in this book you will find many answers that different women, from childhood to youth have had, and they learnt from living their challenges and surpassing their obstacles. I hope these stories resonate in some or other way with you, and start writing your own. You will be taken to different worlds in which many different women have lived their life, from North to South, from poverty and wealth, traditions and breaking patterns, these paths are just some o many females walk and open doors to live better.