Unruly Figures

Author : Valorie C. Clark
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781797227191

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Unruly Figures by Valorie C. Clark Pdf

A fascinating look at the lives of twenty rebels and rule-breakers throughout history and what made their contributions to society—in science, politics, art, and more—transformative. By the author and host of the popular Unruly Figures Substack newsletter and podcast. Unruly Figures gives you access to the lives and often untold stories of twenty of history's most fascinating individuals. Of all the rebels and revolutionaries who have acted around the world, these are often overlooked. Whether they are a bit familiar or entirely new to you, each of these historical figures provides a vivid example of what it means to live life on one's own terms and have a lasting influence on society. In the first collection of its kind, spotlighting a young historian's fresh view on unheralded rebels, these characters' true stories are brought to life through enthralling narratives of their feats and an original illustration of each. Even those whose names are recognizable—like Jonas Salk—have moments of rebellion that are largely left out of their histories. The diverse cast of unruly figures profiled includes: Kandake Amanirenas, queen of the Kingdom of Kush (modern-day Sudan), who led an army against the invading Romans Manuela Sáenz, revolutionary from Ecuador and collaborator and lover of Simón Bolívar Henry Dunant, Swiss humanitarian and founder of the Red Cross Elaine Sturtevant, known as Sturtevant, a misunderstood American artist who took appropriation and pop art to new heights Dive into this collection of hidden history tales—those of scientists, artists, revolutionaries, activists, heirs to thrones, and so many more—and you are guaranteed to be inspired by how they lived on their own unconventional terms.

Author : Navaneetha Mokkil
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295745565

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Unruly Figures by Navaneetha Mokkil Pdf

The vibrant media landscape in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where kiosks overflow with magazines and colorful film posters line roadside walls, creates a sexually charged public sphere that has a long history of political protests. The 2014 “Kiss of Love” campaign garnered national attention, sparking controversy as images of activists kissing in public and dragged into police vans flooded the media. In Unruly Figures, Navaneetha Mokkil tracks the cultural practices through which sexual figures—particularly the sex worker and the lesbian—are produced in the public imagination. Her analysis includes representations of the prostitute figure in popular media, trajectories of queerness in Malayalam films, public discourse on lesbian sexuality, the autobiographical project of sex worker and activist Nalini Jameela, and the memorialization of murdered transgender activist Sweet Maria, showing how various marginalized figures stage their own fractured journeys of resistance in the post-1990s context of globalization. By bringing a substantial body of Malayalam-language literature and media texts on gender, sexuality, and social justice into conversation with current debates around sexuality studies and transnational feminism in Asian and Anglo-American academia, Mokkil reorients the debates on sexuality in India by considering the fraught trajectories of identity and rights.

Author : Mary Celeste Kearney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135474720

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Girls Make Media by Mary Celeste Kearney Pdf

More girls are producing media today than at any other point in U.S. history, and they are creating media texts in virtually every format currently possible--magazines, films, musical recordings, and websites. Girls Make Media explores how young female media producers have reclaimed and reconfigured girlhood as a site for radical social, cultural, and political agency. Central to the book is an analysis of Riot Grrrl--a 1990s feminist youth movement from a fusion of punk rock and gender theory-and the girl power movement it inspired. The author also looks at the rise of girls-only media education programs, and the creation of girls' studies. This book will be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand contemporary female youth in today's media culture.

Author : Angela Vanhaelen
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271091907

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The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam by Angela Vanhaelen Pdf

This book opens a window onto a fascinating and understudied aspect of the visual, material, intellectual, and cultural history of seventeenth-century Amsterdam: the role played by its inns and taverns, specifically the doolhoven. Doolhoven were a type of labyrinth unique to early modern Amsterdam. Offering guest lodgings, these licensed public houses also housed remarkable displays of artwork in their gardens and galleries. The main attractions were inventive displays of moving mechanical figures (automata) and a famed set of waxwork portraits of the rulers of Protestant Europe. Publicized as the most innovative artworks on display in Amsterdam, the doolhoven exhibits presented the mercantile city as a global center of artistic and technological advancement. This evocative tour through the doolhoven pub gardens—where drinking, entertainment, and the acquisition of knowledge mingled in encounters with lively displays of animated artifacts—shows that the exhibits had a forceful and transformative impact on visitors, one that moved them toward Protestant reform. Deeply researched and decidedly original, The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam uncovers a wealth of information about these nearly forgotten public pleasure parks, situating them within popular culture, religious controversies, global trade relations, and intellectual debates of the seventeenth century. It will appeal in particular to scholars in art history and early modern studies.

Author : Michael Friedman,Wolfgang Schäffner
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783839434048

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On Folding by Michael Friedman,Wolfgang Schäffner Pdf

It is only recently, with the increasing interest in origami and folding in natural sciences and the humanities, that the fold as a new conception in a whole range of disciplines has begun to be conceived in a broader way. Folding as a material and structural process offers a new methodology to think about the close relationship of matter, form and code. It henceforth crosses out old dichotomies, such as the organic and the inorganic or nature and technology, and blurs the boundaries between experimental, conceptual and historical approaches. This anthology aims to unfold this new interdisciplinary field and its disciplinary impact, ranging from materials science, biology, architecture, and mathematics to literature and philosophy.

Author : Chris Danta,Helen Groth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441162526

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Mindful Aesthetics by Chris Danta,Helen Groth Pdf

In the last few decades, literary critics have increasingly drawn insights from cognitive neuroscience to deepen and clarify our understanding of literary representations of mind. This cognitive turn has been equally generative and contentious. While cognitive literary studies has reinforced how central the concept of mind is to aesthetic practice from the classical period to the present, critics have questioned its literalism and selective borrowing of scientific authority. Mindful Aesthetics presents both these perspectives as part of a broader consideration of the ongoing and vital importance of shifting concepts of mind to both literary and critical practice. This collection contributes to the forging of a 'new interdisciplinarity,' to paraphrase Alan Richardson's recent preface to the Neural Sublime, that is more concerned with addressing how, rather than why, we should navigate the increasingly narrow gap between the humanities and the sciences.

Author : Catherine Lester
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350135284

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Horror Films for Children by Catherine Lester Pdf

Children and horror are often thought to be an incompatible meeting of audience and genre, beset by concerns that children will be corrupted or harmed through exposure to horror media. Nowhere is this tension more clear than in horror films for adults, where the demonic child villain is one of the genre's most enduring tropes. However, horror for children is a unique category of contemporary Hollywood cinema in which children are addressed as an audience with specific needs, fears and desires, and where child characters are represented as sympathetic protagonists whose encounters with the horrific lead to cathartic, subversive and productive outcomes. Horror Films for Children examines the history, aesthetics and generic characteristics of children's horror films, and identifies the 'horrific child' as one of the defining features of the genre, where it is as much a staple as it is in adult horror but with vastly different representational, interpretative and affective possibilities. Through analysis of case studies including blockbuster hits (Gremlins), cult favourites (The Monster Squad) and indie darlings (Coraline), Catherine Lester asks, what happens to the horror genre, and the horrific children it represents, when children are the target audience?

Author : Heekyoung Cho
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1037 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000539646

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The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature by Heekyoung Cho Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature consists of 35 chapters written by leaders in the field, who explore significant topics and who have pioneered innovative approaches. The collection highlights the most dynamic current scholarship on Korean literature, presenting rigorous literary analysis, interdisciplinary methodologies, and transregional thinking so as to provide a valuable and inspiring resource for researchers and students alike. This Companion has particular significance as the most extensive collection to date of English-language articles on Korean literature; it both offers a thorough intellectual engagement with current scholarship and addresses a broad range of topics and time periods, from premodern to contemporary. It will contribute to an understanding of literature as part of a broad sociocultural process that aims to put the field into conversation with other fields of study in the humanities and social sciences. While presenting rigorous and innovative academic research that will be useful to graduate students and researchers, the chapters in the collection are written to be accessible to the average upper-level undergraduate student and include only minimal use of academic jargon. In an effort to provide substantially helpful material for researching, teaching, and learning Korean literature, this Companion includes as an appendix an extensive list of English translations of Korean literature.

Author : Timothy Powell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110590357

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The Value of Knowledge by Timothy Powell Pdf

Knowledge is an economic asset of great importance and value to the modern organization; however, it is too often not managed carefully as such. This book presents practical frameworks and methods for the knowledge professional -- and his/her organization -- to identify, actualize, and maximize the economic value of knowledge.

Author : Frederick Edward Saward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Coal trade
ISBN : PSU:000060209870

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Sawards' Coal Freight Circular by Frederick Edward Saward Pdf

Author : Ursula K. Heise,Jon Christensen,Michelle Niemann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317660194

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The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities by Ursula K. Heise,Jon Christensen,Michelle Niemann Pdf

The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while providing insight into exciting new directions for future scholarship. Articulating the significance of humanistic perspectives for our collective social engagement with ecological crises, the volume explores the potential of the environmental humanities for organizing humanistic research, opening up new forms of interdisciplinarity, and shaping public debate and policies on environmental issues. Sections cover: The Anthropocene and the Domestication of Earth Posthumanism and Multispecies Communities Inequality and Environmental Justice Decline and Resilience: Environmental Narratives, History, and Memory Environmental Arts, Media, and Technologies The State of the Environmental Humanities The first of its kind, this companion covers essential issues and themes, necessarily crossing disciplines within the humanities and with the social and natural sciences. Exploring how the environmental humanities contribute to policy and action concerning some of the key intellectual, social, and environmental challenges of our times, the chapters offer an ideal guide to this rapidly developing field.

Author : Rebecca Davis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368819583

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John Andross by Rebecca Davis Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author : Rebecca Harding Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4104445

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John Andross by Rebecca Harding Davis Pdf

Author : Mark Garnett,Gavin Hyman,Richard Johnson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509560974

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Keeping the Red Flag Flying by Mark Garnett,Gavin Hyman,Richard Johnson Pdf

Labour leader Harold Wilson was once asked how difficult he found being prime minister of the United Kingdom. ‘Not half as difficult as being Leader of the Opposition’, he replied. Sadly for the Labour Party, much of the last century has been spent in shadow government. But were these wasted years in the Party’s history? Or did they offer vital opportunities for creation and improvement? In Keeping the Red Flag Flying political historians Mark Garnett, Gavin Hyman and Richard Johnson offer the first in-depth account of Labour’s periods out of office since becoming the Official Opposition in 1922. They argue that, far from being barren periods in the Party’s history, Labour’s opposition years from MacDonald to Starmer have been undervalued and misunderstood. Across the book’s eight chapters they scrutinise Labour’s approach to reforming the party machinery, its development of policy proposals, its success in appealing to the wider electorate and its skill in opposing the government to identify the key hallmarks of successful opposition, as well as common mistakes. As the Labour Party prepares for a long-awaited return to government, this insightful book on Labour’s past has vital lessons for the Party’s future.

Author : Ananya Chatterjea,Hui Niu Wilcox,Alessandra Lebea Williams
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295749563

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Dancing Transnational Feminisms by Ananya Chatterjea,Hui Niu Wilcox,Alessandra Lebea Williams Pdf

Through empowered movement that centers the lives, stories, and dreams of marginalized women, Ananya Dance Theatre has revealed how the practice of and commitment to artistic excellence can catalyze social justice. With each performance, this professional dance company of Black, Brown, and Indigenous gender non-conforming women and femmes of color challenges heteronormative patriarchies, white supremacist paradigms, and predatory global capitalism. Their creative artistic processes and vital interventions have transformed the spaces of contemporary concert dance into sites of empowerment, resistance, and knowledge production. Drawing from more than fifteen years of collaborative dance-making and sustained dialogues based on deep alliances across communities of color, Dancing Transnational Feminisms offers a multigenre exploration of how dance can be intersectionally reimagined as practice, methodology, and metaphor for feminist solidarity. Blending essays with stories, interviews, and poems, this collection explores timely questions surrounding race and performance, gender and sexuality, art and politics, global and local inequities, and the responsibilities of artists toward their communities.