Provocations

Provocations
Author: Susan Bordo
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 606
Release: 2015-03-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520264223

The first collection of its kind, Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought is historically organized and transnational in scope, highlighting key ideas, transformative moments, and feminist conversations across national and cultural borders. Emphasizing feminist cross-talk, transnational collaborations and influences, and cultural differences in context, this anthology heralds a new approach to studying feminist history. Provocations includes engaging, historically significant primary sources by writers of many nationalities in numerous genres—from political manifestos to theoretical and cultural analysis to poetry and fiction. These texts range from those of classical antiquity to others composed during the Arab Spring and represent Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Western Europe, and the United States. Each section begins with an introductory essay that presents central ideas and explores connections among readings, placing them in historical, national, and intellectual contexts and concluding with questions for discussion and reflection.

Lafcadio Hearn in International Perspectives

Lafcadio Hearn in International Perspectives
Author: Sukehiro Hirakawa
Publisher: Global Oriental
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2007-03-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9004213473

The East-West controversy over the significance and relevance of Lafcadio Hearn as a writer, thinker and interpreter of Japan continues unabated. Not surprisingly, the centenary of his death in 2004 presented an occasion for renewed debate and discussion by both sides of the divide. This volume, edited by one of Hearn’s leading contemporary apologists, in which he is also a significant contributor, presents twenty-two diverse essays drawn from over seventy papers delivered at conferences held in four cities in Japan in 2004, as well as at other international conferences that took place earlier. The contributors are Joan Blythe, John Clubbe, Susan Fisher, Ted Goosen, George Hughes, Yoko Makino, Peter McIvor, Hitobe Nabae, Cody Poulton and Masaru Toda. Their contributions range from Sukehiro Hirakawa’s ‘ A Reappraisal’ to Joan Blythe’s ‘Enduring Value of Lafcadio Hearn’s Tokyo Lectures’.

The Gull

The Gull
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1919
Genre: Ornithology
ISBN:

Harper's New Monthly Magazine

Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Author: Henry Mills Alden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1016
Release: 1890
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.

Dangerous Creole Liaisons

Dangerous Creole Liaisons
Author: Jacqueline Couti
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2016
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1781383014

Dangerous Creole Liaisons examines the neglected corpus of white Creole writers from the French Caribbean and how their discourse has been reappropriated to expose the significant role these men played in the construction of blackness, French nationalism and culture.

Women At A Crossroads

Women At A Crossroads
Author: M. Lewis Renaud
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134385021

HIV ravaged the African continent faster and earlier than any other in the world, spreading primarily through unprotected heterosexual sex. Kaolack, Senegal is a town where travellers and prostitutes converge, and HIV transmission rates have soared, especially among the prostitutes. Going beyond empirical analysis of risk/behaviour data, Women at the Crossroads tells the stories of these women in their own words. The women portrayed keep their profession a secret from their families and friends, but abide by Senegalese law which states that prostitution is legal for those who register with the police and undergo bi-monthly health examinations. By observing one clinic's successful AIDS education campaign, anthropologist Michelle Renaud demonstrates that information presented in a culturally appropriate manner can, in fact, achieve the difficult goal of behaviour change. Although these women claim to be trapped by the social and political forces that have led them to enter prostitution, Renaud argues that they have taken control of their destinies in an inspiring fashion.