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This collection of essays brings together a wide range of Spanish and Portuguese academics and writers exploring the ways in which our encounters with literatures in English inform our assumptions about texts and identities (or texts as identities) and the way we read them. Mapping, examining, reading and re-reading, fashioning and self-fashioning and, especially, weaving appear as appropriate images that convey the complexity and the nature of creative writing. Such a metaphor has been fundamental for the history of world literature since the Roman poet Ovid had included a tale in his Metamorphoses in which weaving, narration, uncertain identities, and the risks of telling uncomfortable truths all figure prominently. As such, these essays trace the intertwined patterns that knit texts together, weaving identities as well as undoing them and, in the process, interrogating established and official truths.
If the child is the father of the man, as William Wordsworth so famously declared, then what of the father that child grows to become? How does a daughter born of her mother’s death, as in the case of Mary Shelley, navigate the politics of production and reproduction within a loaded language of mythological allusion between generational authorships? How do the visual arts perpetuate or challenge cultural agendas, such as portraying patriarchal anxieties about the “effeminization” of homeland by the foreign “other”, or attempting, iconically, to “save the soul” of a nation? How do parents both encode and decode our world? With the rise of the cult of the child in the later 18th ...
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Minnie Smith's (ca. 1874-1933) feminist domestic novel, Is It Just?, is a harsh critique of the injustices perpetuated by male-dominated society and law. Published in 1911, it tells the tragic story of Mary Pierce, who, through the actions of her selfish and lazy husband, loses her land, her social standing, and ultimately her life. In Is It Just?, the conventions of the domestic novel - episodic presentation, stock characters, contrived plots, and romantic conclusions - illustrate the superiority of female values and argue for expanded social, political, and legal rights for women. A critical introduction by Jenny Roth and Lori Chambers frames Smith's specific references to the laws and social geography of British Columbia, situating the novel in relation to its historic and literary importance. This unique work of domestic literature adds to our limited library of Canadian feminist writings of the first wave.
A intenção deste livro é convidar os assistentes sociais para um debate crítico sobre a relação entre Serviço Social e as diretrizes curriculares, o projeto ético político, os direitos e a cidadania, as políticas sociais, a Constituição/88 e a universidade e as influências teóricas polemiza os caminhos percorridos pela profissão pós redemocratização no Brasil. Para entendermos os caminhos percorridos pelo Serviço Social no Brasil consideramos importante resgatar o contexto de emersão da redemocratização no país e como a profissão se inseriu nessa dinâmica, destacando quais foram os elementos políticos e econômicos que consubstanciaram a democracia pós-ditadura civ...
FOOD and interdisciplinary research are the central focus of the 1st International Conference on Food Design and Food Studies: Experiencing Food, Designing Dialogues, reflecting upon approaches evidencing how interdisciplinarity is not limited to the design of objects or services, but seeks awareness towards new lifestyles and innovative ways of dealing with food. This book encompasses a wide range of perspectives on the state of the art and research in the fields of Food and Design, making a significant contribution to further development of these fields. Accordingly, it covers a broad variety of topics from Designing for/with Food, Educating People on Food, Experiencing Food and other Food for Thought.
This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Richard Marsh, and encompasses an unusually wide-ranging number of subjects from hatpin crimes to the development of martial arts for women.
This volume is the outcome of work done in the groundbreaking field of Narrative Medicine by an interdisciplinary research team based at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES) and devoted to the international project Narrative and Medicine since 2009. The articles and essays gathered here, heterogeneous as they may be (such is the natural outcome of research carried out across disciplines), are not only of high caliber when read individually, but also constitute an inval ...
É urgente a disseminação dessa iniciativa implicita no esforço de Julio em buscar sistematizar, ordenar e também teorizar esse campo prático especificado pela expressão "Álcool e outras Drogas" enquanto uma iniciativa proveniente do campo da saúde. Sua ampla experiência, bem estofada tanto prática como teoricamente, produz uma visão de conjunto que dá o devido relevo à multiplicidade de temas que o campo circunscreve, bem como, por lê-lo com a psicanálise, o torna acessível a iniciativas instruídas por ela no campo social, numa clínica estendida. Por esse viés, Julio busca delimitar uma linha de ação para essas pessoas identificadas como "usuárias de droga", que lhes a...
“Històries originals de la vida real” és un llibre d’instruccions per a convertir les joves lectores en ciutadanes virtuoses de la ‘res publica’. La transformació, però, no ve de la mà de la mare o del pare, sinó d’una institutriu; Wollstonecraft trenca amb la fantasia de la mare perfecta, condemna l’essencialisme de les dones com a mares instintives i naturals, i entronitza la figura de la mentora com a guia per al creixement ètic de les joves. “Lliçons per a Fanny” torna a la mare com a primera educadora de les filles i tanca un cercle en què tant les mares com aquelles que puguen fer de mares són assenyalades no com a criadores sinó com a educadores fonamentals de les dones de les noves generacions.