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Women, Sexuality, and Empowerment in Philip Roth’s Fiction

by Dr. or Prof. Brittany Hirth ...

A new, post-#MeToo critical approach to reading and recuperating the gendered representations of women in a selection of Roth's novels.Women, Sexuality, and Empowerment in Philip Roth's Fiction intervenes in the current critical conversation about Philip Roth and his depictions of women. Some critics have determined that Roth portrays women in a misogynistic manner. However, these same critics ... Read more

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A new, post-#MeToo critical approach to reading and recuperating the gendered representations of women in a selection of Roth's novels.Women, Sexuality, and Empowerment in Philip Roth's Fiction intervenes in the current critical conversation about Philip Roth and his depictions of women. Some critics have determined that Roth portrays women in a misogynistic manner. However, these same critics
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Turntables in Live Performance

Bricolage, Craft and Plasticity

by Dr. Karin Weissenbrunner ...

This interdisciplinary study offers the first-ever analytical survey of experimental turntablism, highlighting the various ways in which turntables and records have been the starting point for sound experiments.Turntables and records have been the starting point for a multitude of sound experiments – beginning with the use of mechanical phonographic devices and later in the appropriation of ... Read more

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This interdisciplinary study offers the first-ever analytical survey of experimental turntablism, highlighting the various ways in which turntables and records have been the starting point for sound experiments.Turntables and records have been the starting point for a multitude of sound experiments – beginning with the use of mechanical phonographic devices and later in the appropriation of
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Practicing Safer Texts

Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective

by Dr Ken Stone ...

Series series Sexing Scripture: Gender, Sex and Sexuality in Scriptural Traditions and Worlds
In this revised edition of his classic work, Ken Stone uses the ubiquitous comparison between food and sex as a framework for a queer reading of key texts. Stone reflects on these texts in an interdisciplinary fashion, with the help of traditional tools of biblical scholarship alongside less traditional tools such as Queer studies and cultural anthropology.By utilizing a reading lens that relates ... Read more

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In this revised edition of his classic work, Ken Stone uses the ubiquitous comparison between food and sex as a framework for a queer reading of key texts. Stone reflects on these texts in an interdisciplinary fashion, with the help of traditional tools of biblical scholarship alongside less traditional tools such as Queer studies and cultural anthropology.By utilizing a reading lens that relates
... Read more
Revitalizing Decolonization Through Dance Scholarship

Dancing the African Personality

by Dr. Eric Baffour Awuah ...

Series series Black Literary and Cultural Expressions
Situates the Black dancing body as a locus of intellectual labor, historical memory, and resistance, challenging logocentric paradigms that marginalize embodied knowledge.1963 marked a pivotal moment in Ghanaian intellectual history with the inauguration of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, accompanied by Kwame Nkrumah's “African Genius” speech, in which he extolled the ... Read more

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Situates the Black dancing body as a locus of intellectual labor, historical memory, and resistance, challenging logocentric paradigms that marginalize embodied knowledge.1963 marked a pivotal moment in Ghanaian intellectual history with the inauguration of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, accompanied by Kwame Nkrumah's “African Genius” speech, in which he extolled the
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Poverty and Power

The Problem of Structural Inequality

by Edward Royce, Dr. Teresa Gonzales ...

As one of the wealthiest nations in the world, the United States possesses vast economic resources, yet 10% of its population – roughly 36 million people – are systematically denied access to basic necessities such as food, housing, and healthcare.Many Americans are taught to view poverty as a result of individual shortcomings, such as failure of effort, ability, or ambition. Poverty and Power ... Read more

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As one of the wealthiest nations in the world, the United States possesses vast economic resources, yet 10% of its population – roughly 36 million people – are systematically denied access to basic necessities such as food, housing, and healthcare.Many Americans are taught to view poverty as a result of individual shortcomings, such as failure of effort, ability, or ambition. Poverty and Power
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Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick

A Critical Companion

by Dr. Ben Francis ...

Series series Musical Theatre Critical Companions
"Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick formed one of the most significant musical partnerships of the 1960s, creating some of the most beloved and enduring works in musical theater" (Jewish Ledger)The work of American musical theatre writing team Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick has been oddly overlooked by scholars, despite the fact that their most famous show Fiddler on the Roof is an enduring classic ... Read more

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"Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick formed one of the most significant musical partnerships of the 1960s, creating some of the most beloved and enduring works in musical theater" (Jewish Ledger)The work of American musical theatre writing team Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick has been oddly overlooked by scholars, despite the fact that their most famous show Fiddler on the Roof is an enduring classic
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Government Without Newspapers

Local Politics in the Age of News Deserts

by Dr. Thomas C. Ellington ...

At least one-third of local governments in the United States no longer receive regular news coverage of their meetings from even a single reporter. Government Without Newspapers: Local Politics in the Age of News Deserts documents the impact of the decline of local news coverage on the communities that experience it. Thomas Jefferson's letter to Edward Carrington, wrote “[W]ere it left to me to ... Read more

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At least one-third of local governments in the United States no longer receive regular news coverage of their meetings from even a single reporter. Government Without Newspapers: Local Politics in the Age of News Deserts documents the impact of the decline of local news coverage on the communities that experience it. Thomas Jefferson's letter to Edward Carrington, wrote “[W]ere it left to me to
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The Women’s Wood Engraving Revival (1912-65)

A Feminist History of Twentieth-Century Book Illustration

by Dr Abigail Moreshead ...

Series series Bloomsbury Research in Illustration Series
The Women's Wood-Engraving Revival focuses on the lives and work of women illustrators who were instrumental in an artistic revival of wood-engraving as a book illustration technique.As a reaction to the mass-produced engravings churned out by anonymous engravers in the mid-nineteenth century, the revival sought to recapture the perceived authenticity and artistic superiority of wood engraving's ... Read more

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The Women's Wood-Engraving Revival focuses on the lives and work of women illustrators who were instrumental in an artistic revival of wood-engraving as a book illustration technique.As a reaction to the mass-produced engravings churned out by anonymous engravers in the mid-nineteenth century, the revival sought to recapture the perceived authenticity and artistic superiority of wood engraving's
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Amalfi, Pisa and the Islamic World before the Crusades

Cities on the Sea

by Dr David Romney Smith ...

Drawing on textual, art historical and archaeological evidence, this book shows how Italian merchants peacefully entered trade relations with the Islamic world by adopting its conventions, its practices and even its clothing.Using sources from both Italy and the Islamic world, and the Jewish sources preserved in the Cairo Geniza, David Romney Smith reveals that the Italian trade network in the era ... Read more

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Drawing on textual, art historical and archaeological evidence, this book shows how Italian merchants peacefully entered trade relations with the Islamic world by adopting its conventions, its practices and even its clothing.Using sources from both Italy and the Islamic world, and the Jewish sources preserved in the Cairo Geniza, David Romney Smith reveals that the Italian trade network in the era
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Gender, Violence, and Public Policies

When Women Act for Peace

by Dr. Anelise Gregis Estivalet ...

This book is the first publication that comprehensively addresses the Mulheres da Paz Project, implemented throughout Brazil by the federal government, and examines the execution of the program in two different territories in Rio de Janeiro: one dominated by criminal drug trafficking organizations and the other by the presence of militias.Through rich ethnographic study and interviews, Estivalet ... Read more

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This book is the first publication that comprehensively addresses the Mulheres da Paz Project, implemented throughout Brazil by the federal government, and examines the execution of the program in two different territories in Rio de Janeiro: one dominated by criminal drug trafficking organizations and the other by the presence of militias.Through rich ethnographic study and interviews, Estivalet
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China’s Globalized Agribusiness

Capitalist Power and Political Rivalry

by Dr. Tomaz Mefano Fares ...

Challenging conventional views of the Chinese state, this book shows how agribusiness elites actively contest and reshape power, revealing a state defined by rivalry and shifting capitalist alliances.China's political economy is often portrayed as stable and unified under the Communist Party, but this book argues that the reality is more complex. It shows how the rise of capitalist groups has ... Read more

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Challenging conventional views of the Chinese state, this book shows how agribusiness elites actively contest and reshape power, revealing a state defined by rivalry and shifting capitalist alliances.China's political economy is often portrayed as stable and unified under the Communist Party, but this book argues that the reality is more complex. It shows how the rise of capitalist groups has
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Communication and Legal Interpretation

by Dr David Tan ...

Is reading a statute or constitutional provision the same act as reading an email or a text message? This book analyses and develops legal communicative theories which answer in the affirmative – language, not morality or fairness, is the primary consideration for legal interpretation.According to these theories, the aim of legal interpretation is to focus on what was communicated through language ... Read more

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Is reading a statute or constitutional provision the same act as reading an email or a text message? This book analyses and develops legal communicative theories which answer in the affirmative – language, not morality or fairness, is the primary consideration for legal interpretation.According to these theories, the aim of legal interpretation is to focus on what was communicated through language
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