Impersonation

Author : Sheryl Hamilton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442669642

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Impersonations by Sheryl Hamilton Pdf

Personhood is considered at once a sign of legal-political status and of socio-cultural agency, synonymous with the rational individual, subject, or citizen. Yet, in an era of life-extending technologies, genetic engineering, corporate social responsibility, and smart technology, the definition of the person is neither benign nor uncontested. Boundaries that previously worked to secure our place in the social order are blurring as never before. What does it mean, then, to be a person in the twenty-first century? In Impersonations, Sheryl N. Hamilton uses five different kinds of persons - corporations, women, clones, computers, and celebrities - to discuss the instability of the concept of personhood and to examine some of the ways in which broader social anxieties are expressed in these case studies. She suggests that our investment in personhood is greater now than it has been for years, and that our ongoing struggle to define the term is evident in law and popular culture. Using a cultural studies of law approach, the author examines important issues such as whether the person is a gender-neutral concept based on individual rights, the relationship between personhood and the body, and whether persons can be property. Impersonations is a highly original study that brings together legal, philosophical, and cultural expressions of personhood to enliven current debates about our place in the world.

Author : Heidi Pitlor
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643751085

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Impersonation by Heidi Pitlor Pdf

“By turns revealing, hilarious, dishy, and razor-sharp, Impersonation lives in that rarest of sweet spots: the propulsive page-turner for people with high literary standards.” —Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers Allie Lang is a professional ghostwriter and a perpetually broke single mother to a young boy. Lana Breban is a powerhouse lawyer, economist, and advocate for women’s rights. With aspirations of running for office, Lana and her staff have decided she needs help softening her public image. That’s when Allie is hired to write Lana’s memoir about her life as a mother. Allie believes she knows the drill: she has learned how to inhabit the lives of others and tell their stories better than they can. But soon Allie’s childcare arrangements unravel; she falls behind on her rent; her subject, Lana, is frustratingly aloof; and Allie’s boyfriend decides to go on a road trip toward self-discovery. As a writer for hire and a mother, Allie has gotten too used to being accommodating. At what point will she speak up for all that she deserves? Impersonation tells a timely, insightful, and bitingly funny story of ambition, motherhood, and class.

Author : Carol-Anne Tyler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135245405

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Female Impersonation by Carol-Anne Tyler Pdf

A feminist and psychoanalytic investigation of the contemporary fascination with impersonation. The questions raised by female impersonations in a wide range of contemporary media are considered.

Author : Mark McNicholas
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295806235

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Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China by Mark McNicholas Pdf

Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state. This examination of case records and law codes traces the legal meanings and social and political contexts of small-time swindles that were punished as grave political transgressions.

Author : S. W.. Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590455403

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The Law of Impersonation as Applied to Abstract Ideas and Religious Dogmas by S. W.. Hall Pdf

Author : S W. Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600099235

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The law of impersonation as applied to abstract ideas and religious dogmas by S W. Hall Pdf

Author : E. Phillips Oppenheim
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547745754

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THE GREAT IMPERSONATION (Spy Thriller Classic) by E. Phillips Oppenheim Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE GREAT IMPERSONATION (Spy Thriller Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. German Leopold von Ragastein meets his doppelganger, Englishman Everard Dominey, in Africa, and plans to murder him and steal his identity in order to spy on English high society just prior to World War I. However, doubts of the returned Dominey's true identity begin to arise in this tale of romance, political intrigue, and a (literally) haunting past. E. Phillips Oppenheim, the Prince of Storytellers (1866-1946) was an internationally renowned author of mystery and espionage thrillers. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and intrigue and are precursors of modern-day spy fictions.

Author : Harshita Mruthinti Kamath
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520972230

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Impersonations by Harshita Mruthinti Kamath Pdf

Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance centers on an insular community of Smarta Brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India who are required to don stri-vesam (woman’s guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. Impersonation is not simply a gender performance circumscribed to the Kuchipudi stage, but a practice of power that enables the construction of hegemonic Brahmin masculinity in everyday village life. However, the power of the Brahmin male body in stri-vesam is highly contingent, particularly on account of the expansion of Kuchipudi in the latter half of the twentieth century from a localized village performance to a transnational Indian dance form. This book analyzes the practice of impersonation across a series of boundaries—village to urban, Brahmin to non-Brahmin, hegemonic to non-normative—to explore the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in contemporary South Indian dance.

Author : Jane Gallop
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995-04-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 0253209366

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Pedagogy by Jane Gallop Pdf

Simon suggests that pedagogical roles can be taken on and off at will; Gregory Jay discusses the ethical side of impersonation; and Susan Miller denounces "the personalas a sham.

Author : Harshita Mruthinti Kamath
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520301665

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Impersonations by Harshita Mruthinti Kamath Pdf

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance centers on an insular community of Smarta Brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India who are required to don stri-vesam (woman’s guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. Impersonation is not simply a gender performance circumscribed to the Kuchipudi stage, but a practice of power that enables the construction of hegemonic Brahmin masculinity in everyday village life. However, the power of the Brahmin male body in stri-vesam is highly contingent, particularly on account of the expansion of Kuchipudi in the latter half of the twentieth century from a localized village performance to a transnational Indian dance form. This book analyzes the practice of impersonation across a series of boundaries—village to urban, Brahmin to non-Brahmin, hegemonic to non-normative—to explore the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in contemporary South Indian dance.

Author : Stephen Orgel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996-02-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521568420

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Impersonations by Stephen Orgel Pdf

A provocative exploration of gender in the Renaissance, from theatrical cross-dressing to cultural subversion.

Author : Roger Baker
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780814712542

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Drag by Roger Baker Pdf

A concise history of the drag tradition—from 13th century to today Men have been dressing as women on stage for hundreds of years, dating back to the thirteenth century when the Church forbade the appearance of female actors but condoned that of men and boys disguised as the opposite sex. Forms of transvestism can be traced back to the dawn of theatre and are found in all corners of the world, notably in China and Japan. In recent years, of course, drag has witnessed a dramatic and widespread revival. Newsday recently observed, People are talking about all those fabulous heterosexual film idols who now can't seem to wait to get tarted up in drag and do their screen bits as fishnet queens. Drawing on a cinematic tradition popularized by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot, Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie) and Robin Williams (Mrs. Doubtfire) have each delighted mainstream audiences with their portrayals of women. Even former drag queens have experience newfound fame; witness the recent popularity of the late Divine, renowned for her oddly compelling appearances in underground John Waters films. Music, too, has been profoundly influenced by drag sensibility, from David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Rocky Horror Picture Show to Boy George and RuPaul (the self-proclaimed Supermodel of the World). Tracing drag tradition from the Golden Age of stage transvestism during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I in England to the current quasi-drag inclinations of American grunge bands, Drag is an entertaining overview of this popular and complex medium.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804751862

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Double Agency by Anonim Pdf

In Double Agency, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of subjecthood. By decoupling imposture from impersonation, Chen shows how Asian American performances have often been misinterpreted, read as acts of betrayal rather than multiple allegiance. A central paradox informing the book—impersonation as a performance of divided allegiance that simultaneously pays homage to and challenges authenticity and authority—thus becomes a site for reconsidering the implications of Asian Americans as double agents. In exploring the possibilities that impersonation affords for refusing the binary logics of loyalty/disloyalty, real/fake, and Asian/American, Double Agency attends to the possibilities of reading such acts as "im-personations"—dynamic performances, and a performance dynamics—through which Asian Americans constitute themselves as speaking and acting subjects.

Author : Malinda Lo
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780525555261

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Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo Pdf

Winner of the National Book Award A New York Times Bestseller "The queer romance we’ve been waiting for.”—Ms. Magazine Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible. But America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day. (Cover image may vary.)

Author : Joe Kaplan,Ryan Dunn
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780132701464

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The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming by Joe Kaplan,Ryan Dunn Pdf

“If you have any interest in writing .NET programs using Active Directory or ADAM, this is the book you want to read.” —Joe Richards, Microsoft MVP, directory services Identity and Access Management are rapidly gaining importance as key areas of practice in the IT industry, and directory services provide the fundamental building blocks that enable them. For enterprise developers struggling to build directory-enabled .NET applications, The .NET Developer’s Guide to Directory Services Programming will come as a welcome aid. Microsoft MVPs Joe Kaplan and Ryan Dunn have written a practical introduction to programming directory services, using both versions 1.1 and 2.0 of the .NET Framework. The extensive examples in the book are in C#; a companion Web site includes both C# and Visual Basic source code and examples. Readers will Learn to create, rename, update, and delete objects in Active Directory and ADAM Learn to bind to and search directories effectively and efficiently Learn to read and write attributes of all types in the directory Learn to use directory services within ASP.NET applications Get concrete examples of common programming tasks such as managing Active Directory and ADAM users and groups, and performing authentication Experienced .NET developers—those building enterprise applications or simply interested in learning about directory services—will find that The .NET Developer’s Guide to Directory Services Programming unravels the complexities and helps them to avoid the common pitfalls that developers face.