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Courting Desire

Author : Rama Srinivasan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978803558

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Inquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexuality, but also on the nature of a private citizen’s engagement with state and law. Through ethnographic research in courtrooms, community,and kinship spaces, the author outlines the transformations in material culture and political economy that have led to renewed negotiations on the institution of marriage in North India, especially in legal spaces. Tracing organically evolving notions of sexual consent and legal subjectivity, Courting Desire underlines how non-normative decisions regarding marriage become possible in a region otherwise known for high instances of honor killings and rigid kinship structures. Aspirations for consensual relationships have led to a tentative attempt to forge relationships that are non-normative but grudgingly approved after state intervention. The book traces this nascent and under-explored trend in the North Indian landscape.

Courting Desire

Author : Aurora North
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781467807944

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Building Successful Online Communities

Author : Robert E. Kraut,Paul Resnick
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262297394

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Building Successful Online Communities by Robert E. Kraut,Paul Resnick Pdf

How insights from the social sciences, including social psychology and economics, can improve the design of online communities. Online communities are among the most popular destinations on the Internet, but not all online communities are equally successful. For every flourishing Facebook, there is a moribund Friendster—not to mention the scores of smaller social networking sites that never attracted enough members to be viable. This book offers lessons from theory and empirical research in the social sciences that can help improve the design of online communities. The authors draw on the literature in psychology, economics, and other social sciences, as well as their own research, translating general findings into useful design claims. They explain, for example, how to encourage information contributions based on the theory of public goods, and how to build members' commitment based on theories of interpersonal bond formation. For each design claim, they offer supporting evidence from theory, experiments, or observational studies.

Schooling Desire

Author : Ursula A. Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135238193

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Ursula A. Kelly draws on radical theories of literacy, culture, identity and pedagogy to frame the culture of pedagogy as it relates to human desire. Examples from (auto)biography, classroom practices, and popular media provide the means by which the author highlights some of the pedagogical dilemmas facing literacy practices which often work to silence the cultural politics of identity and desire.

Courting Justice

Author : Paul L. Tractenberg
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780813561608

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Courting Justice by Paul L. Tractenberg Pdf

Since 1947 a modernized New Jersey Supreme Court has played an important and controversial role in the state, nation, and world. Its decisions in cutting-edge cases have confronted society’s toughest issues, reflecting changing social attitudes, modern life’s complexities, and new technologies. Paul Tractenberg has selected ten of the court’s landmark decisions between 1960 and 2011 to illustrate its extensive involvement in major public issues, and to assess its impact. Each case chapter is authored by a distinguished academic or professional expert, several of whom were deeply involved in the cases’ litigation, enabling them to provide special insights. An overview chapter provides context for the court’s distinctive activity. Many of the cases are so widely known that they have become part of the national conversation about law and policy. In the Karen Ann Quinlan decision, the court determined the right of privacy extends to refusing life-sustaining treatment. The Baby M case reined in surrogate parenting and focused on the child’s best interests. In the Mount Laurel decision, the court sought to increase affordable housing for low- and moderate-income residents throughout the state. The Megan’s Law case upheld legal regulation of sex offender community notification. A series of decisions known as Abbott/Robinson required the state to fund poor urban school districts at least on par with suburban districts. Other less well known cases still have great public importance. Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors reshaped product liability and tort law to protect consumers injured by defective cars; State v. Hunt shielded privacy rights from unwarranted searches beyond federal standards; Lehmann v. Toys ‘R’ Us protected employees from sexual harassment and a hostile work environment; Right to Choose v. Byrne expanded state constitutional abortion rights beyond the federal constitution; and Marini v. Ireland protected low-income tenants against removal from their homes. For some observers, the New Jersey Supreme Court represents the worst of judicial activism; others laud it for being, in its words, “the designated last-resort guarantor of the Constitution's command.” For Tractenberg, the court’s activism means it tends to find for the less powerful over the more powerful and for the public good against private interests, an approach he applauds.

Courting Failure

Author : Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson
Publisher : Law, Politics, and Society
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015073650833

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Courting Failure by Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson Pdf

For the past twenty years, the law and literature movement has been gaining ground. More recently, a feminist perspective has enriched the field. With Courting Failure: Women and the Law in Twentieth-Century Literature, Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson adds a compelling voice to the discussion. Courting Failure critically explores the representation of women, fictional and historical, in conflict with the law. Macpherson focuses on the judicial system and the staging of women's guilt, examining both the female suspect and the female victim in a wide variety of media, including novels like Toni Morrison's Beloved and Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, theatrical plays, movies such as I Want to Live! and Legally Blonde, and the television series Ally McBeal. In these texts and others, canonical or popular, Macpherson exposes the court as an arena in which women often fail, or succeed only by subverting the system. Combining feminist literary theory with the discourse of the law and literature movement, Courting Failure is a highly readable and analytically rigorous study of justice and gender on the page and screen.

Beautiful TV

Author : Greg M. Smith
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292716438

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Offers a different approach to analyzing television series. Starting from the premise that much of television is "drop-dead gorgeous" and that TV should be studied for its formal qualities as well as its social impact, this work analyzes "Ally McBeal" in terms of its aesthetic principles and narrative construction.

Courting Desire

Author : Rama Srinivasan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781978803534

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Courting Desire by Rama Srinivasan Pdf

Courting Desire traces organically evolving ideas on sexual consent and legal subjectivity through a study of marital patterns in North India. Through research in courtrooms and community spaces, it outlines the processes through which eloping couples secure legal validity for their relationships of choice where family-arranged matches are the norm.

Pushkin and the Genres of Madness

Author : Gary Rosenshield
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0299182045

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Pushkin and the Genres of Madness by Gary Rosenshield Pdf

In 1833 Alexander Pushkin began to explore the topic of madness, a subject little explored in Russian literature before his time. The works he produced on the theme are three of his greatest masterpieces: the prose novella The Queen of Spades, the narrative poem The Bronze Horseman, and the lyric "God Grant That I Not Lose My Mind." Gary Rosenshield presents a new interpretation of Pushkin’s genius through an examination of his various representations of madness. Pushkin brilliantly explored both the destructive and creative sides of madness, a strange fusion of violence and insight. In this study, Rosenshield illustrates the surprising valorization of madness in The Queen of Spades and "God Grant That I Not Lose My Mind" and analyzes The Bronze Horseman’s confrontation with the legacy of Peter the Great, a cornerstone figure of Russian history. Drawing on themes of madness in western literature, Rosenshield situates Pushkin in a greater framework with such luminaries as Shakespeare, Sophocles, Cervantes, and Dostoevsky providing an insightful and absorbing study of Russia’s greatest writer.

Courting Moon

Author : Adom Sample
Publisher : Blue Courting Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781958205006

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Perfect for fans of Twilight, Vampire Diaries, and True Blood. A dark and mysterious vampire romance of forbidden love. Where There Is Love . . . Death Follows Those in power are suppressing the truth, and it all stems from the Coven of Vampyres strict law: Human and Vampyre fraternization—strictly forbidden. When living in a society where love, passion, and desire are restricted it isn't long before someone dissents. I just never thought that someone would be me. The day I met him, the vampyre Sebastian of Orias, everything changed. Never in my life did I think someone like him, the son of a Count, would pursue a human like me. But he did. He stalked me . . . and now he wants me. We chose to break the rules, defy the Coven, and embrace this connection, regardless of the dangers that may unfold. However, I fear that our passion may reveal secrets the Coven is willing to kill to protect. A Gothic twist akin to Romeo & Juliet in a world of fantasy. A new twist on vampire romance! Blends elements of paranormal and scifi in this rich new world. Must read!-Sarah ★★★★★ This book is fantastic, I loved reading it.. it kept me interested to the very end.. a wonderful exciting book! -Gloria ★★★★★ The more I read the more I became hooked, readers who like vampire romance will absolutely love this book. - Vanessa ★★★★★ The story is very political as well as romantic. There are lots of government misadventures going in. Great read!- Alison ★★★★★ 1-Click it to start reading this passionate tale you'll never forget!

Desire Reduced to a Petal's Span

Author : William Anthony Rozaitis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P00617541Y

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A Texan Comes Courting

Author : Lass Small
Publisher : Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Desire 90s
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373762631

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A Texan Comes Courting by Lass Small released on Nov 24, 1999 is available now for purchase.

The Arizona Quarterly

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:U183034667559

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Proceedings of the British Academy

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : NYPL:33433090448741

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Trial by Desire

Author : Courtney Milan
Publisher : HQN Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426868924

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In the three years since her husband left her, Lady Kate Carhart has managed to forge a fulfilling life for herself. But when Ned Carhart unexpectedly returns, she finds her tranquility uprooted—and her deepest secrets threatened. Though she has no intention of falling for Ned's charms, Kate can no longer deny the desire that still burns in her heart. Ned is determined to regain his wife's trust by using unbridled seduction. But just as Kate surrenders to Ned's passion, her carefully guarded past threatens to destroy her. Now Kate must place her faith in the only man she's ever loved, and the only one who has ever betrayed her….