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Catastrophe, Gender and Urban Experience, 1648-1920
As Enlightenment notions of predictability, progress and the sense that humans could control and shape their environments informed European thought, catastrophes shook many towns to the core, challenging the new world view with dramatic impact. This book concentrates on a period marked by passage from a society of scarcity to one of expenditure and accumulation, from ranks and orders to greater social mobility, from traditional village life to new bourgeois and even individualistic urbanism. The volume employs a broad definition of catastrophe, as it examines how urban communities conceived, adapted to, and were transformed by catastrophes, both natural and human-made. Competing views of gen...
Women in the History of Linguistics
This volume offers a ground-breaking investigation into women's contribution to the description, analysis, and codification of languages across a wide range of linguistic and cultural traditions. The chapters explore a variety of spheres of activity, from the production of dictionaries and grammars to language teaching methods and language policy.
Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches
The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women’s lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church’s ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, Roman Catholic church officials, and Portuguese Inquisitors make clear that women’s daily lives and their opportunities for marriage, education, and religious practice were sharply circumscribed throughout the colonial period. Yet these same documents also provide evocative glimpses of the religious beliefs and practices that were especially cherished or independently developed by women for their own use, constit...
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Education
This handbook offers a global perspective on the historical development of educational institutions, systems of schooling, educational ideas, and educational experiences. Its 36 chapters consider the field's changing scholarship, while examining particular national and regional themes and offering a comparative perspective. Each also provides suggestions for further research and analysis.
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Mulheres, gênero e violência
A partir do debate acadêmico sobre a violência contra as mulheres, em suas diferentes manifestações, nesta coletânea pretendemos refletir sobre as políticas de combate à violência contra as mulheres no Brasil, na Espanha, em Portugal e no México, com especial olhar sobre a educação para a igualdade de gênero sem perder de vista a diversidade de ser mulher (a mulher negra, a mulher deficiente, a lesbiana, a mulher presa estrangeira). Com o objetivo de profundar o debate sobre os estudos de gênero e o papel dos movimentos feministas apomos sua influência tanto na legislação, quanto nas políticas, dentre elas as educacionais, para a superação de preconceitos e discriminaçõe...
