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This book, written by the late Ann Louise Gilligan, presents a bold hypothesis: the social transformation at the heart of feminist theory will be concretised only when women, and men, use their imaginations to empower new ways of being in and understanding our world

This book explores the representation of masculinity as a literary concept in Decadent literature to demonstrate how the movement both appropriated and subverted patriarchal assumptions surrounding reading and writing. The book opens up fresh ground for the appraisal and analysis of gender in French studies and beyond.

Why do we read? What exactly thrills us in the text? Drawing on the work of Roland Barthes, this collection explores the notion of readerly enjoyment, between form and content, emotion and reason, and escapism and knowledge seeking, to understand how literary and ideological pleasures intersect.

Kipling's use of superior knowledge as the basis for deception and practical jokes is discussed in this book within the wider social context of his time. His writing is examined for what it reveals about a complex, self-conscious but powerful range of values, including his criticisms of British colonial rule and Victorian practices.

This book proposes an alternative, Dominican Thomist vision of a procedurally secular society that comprises three realms, namely sacred, secular and profane. Derived from experience and classroom research into dialogic RE interventions; a socially productive pedagogy is advocated as a starting point for the development of a procedurally secular society.

Abbas Khider has established himself as one of the leading literary voices of refugees and marginalised communities in Germany today.Born in Baghdad, Iraq, hs novels probe important questions related to political, cultural, and linguistic identity. This volume represents the first collection of essays devoted to Khider's works to date.

Hermann Hesse once stated that his Japanese readers understood him best. This book examines his reception in Japan and of Japan in the context of a transcultural reception process. It analyses the different phases of Hesse's reception in Japan, the influence of Wilhelm Gundert as well as his epistolary exchange with his Japanese readers.

The Picture Postcard, a new window into Edwardian Ireland uses the material culture of the picture postcard as a lens through which to examine life on the island of Ireland during the Edwardian period (1902-10).

This collection of essays is dedicated to John D. Lyons, Commonwealth Professor of French at the University of Virginia and a preeminent scholar of early modern France and Italy. The book is organized around the key themes of Lyons's research throughout his illustrious career.

This book brings together research perspectives on the theme of European linguistic and cultural identity. Its chapters are the responses of rising European researchers to the challenges of language and identity in the context of a multilingual Europe, particularly in urban settings.

The aim of this short book is to understand which countries do well on key indicators and why. Where in the world is the best place to live and why?

In this book noted economic anthropologist Scott Cook draws on many decades of fieldwork in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Tamaulipas to take on the challenge of crafting an academic memoir designed to provide insights into the role of commodities in his own life and times and especially in his anthropological career.

The Waldensians, members of a dissident religious movement originating in twelfth-century France, are particularly significant for understanding early Church history. This collection discusses the construction and transmission of Waldensian identity through discourse and cultural production at an international level.

The study of scents and all things olfactory is thriving, a sign of our current interest in direct and immediate experiences of reality. This volume contributes to the discussion by focusing on the mediality of smells, the mechanisms by which scents circulate and are diffused, explored across different cultures and historical periods.

This is the untold story of Counteract, the trade union sponsored anti-sectarian unit tackling violent sectarianism in the workplace in the Northern Ireland conflict.

This volume examines the knotty relationship between toleration and religious freedom. Spanning from the early modern period to the present day, it explores how discourses on toleration impact on current debates about religious freedom, and challenges assumptions about the associations between religious ideas and the law.

Medieval liturgical practice had a deep and far-reaching influence on thought and experience of the time. This book argues that Dante's engagement with liturgy is central to the daring and highly original poetic project of the Commedia, shaping its treatment of time, its engagement with theology, and its portrayal of the soul's awakening.

This collection brings together for the first time Peter Fitting's writings about the utopian impulse as expressed in science fiction, fantasy, cinema, architecture, and cultural theory.

This book follows the many echoes of Jean Racine's oeuvre across Europe, from courts to schools to other arts, opening up vistas for further exploration across cultural and political borders.

Marie Nimier's writing exemplifies a contemporary 'return of the subject' in the rich diversity of the fifteen novels she has published since Sirene in 1985, blending fiction and life-writing. This collection of essays explores central aspects of self and subject across her oeuvre and includes an original short story by Nimier.

The language of war is a potent dynamic and key inhibitor of sustainable peace. A case study of the Northern Ireland peace process has been used as a background for research into Sinn Fein political discourses in the period 1969-2019.

This book focuses on the affordances of contemporary, accelerated digital news production, proposing a new conception and connection between long-form journalism and archives. This approach is based on a theoretical framework of the contemporary digital experience which is defined as the 'Digital Landscape'.

Les contributions re¿unies dans cet ouvrage montrent les nombreuses e¿volutions qui ont touche¿ les arme¿es au cours de la dernie¿re de¿cennie en France, notamment depuis leur professionnalisation. Nombre de transformations re¿centes rede¿finissent en effet leurs pe¿rime¿tres d¿action, leurs liens au pouvoir politique, leurs modalite¿s de recrutement, leurs moyens ope¿rationnels, ainsi que le the¿ätre de leurs interventions dans le monde.L¿ouvrage actualise et renouvelle les approches comme les outils de connaissance du monde militaire. Il revient sur les enjeux classiques du champ d¿e¿tude de la sociologie militaire afin d¿entretenir l¿he¿ritage intellectuel et scientifique constitue¿ jusqu¿ici, et montre les proble¿matiques sociales et politiques actuelles qui la concernent au vu de toutes les transformations et adaptations de l¿institution militaire dans la pe¿riode re¿cente. Il ouvre la voie ä des pistes de recherches originales s¿appuyant sur les re¿cents acquis des sciences sociales et politiques.

QUEER(ING) GENDER IN ITALIAN WOMEN'S WRITINGS is the first study of its kind to systematically use queer theory as a theoretical framework of analysis in Italian literature in general, and in Italian women's writings in particular.

Derek Robbins here provides an abridged translation of Vers le style du XXe siecle, and he also examines the background to its production and its influence. How far can change be promoted just in a text? This is the question for our time as we assess competing visions of the 'new normal'.

This volume brings together 15 studies reporting the latest international research on developments and trends in religious education. These studies illustrate recurrent themes affecting the development of religious education in diverse locations.