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Feminist Media
While feminists have long recognised the importance of self-managed, alternative media to transport their messages, to challenge the status quo, and to spin novel social processes, this topic has been an under-researched area. Hence, this book explores the processes of women's and feminist media production in the context of participatory spaces, technology, and cultural citizenship. The collection is composed of theoretical analyses and critical case studies. It highlights contemporary alternative feminist media in general as well as blogs, zines, culture jamming, and street art.
War Isn't Hell, It's Entertainment
Real war is a cruel theater of death, yet it is also an exciting narrative exploited for national, political and commercial purposes and turned into numerous films, television shows, computer games, news stories and reenactment plays. These essays examine the relationship between war, visual media and entertainment from a number of academic perspectives. Key topics include how war is used as an imaginary site to stage dramas; how boundaries between war, media, and entertainment dissolve as new media alters the formal qualities of representation; how entertainment is used to engage audiences; and what effect products of war and entertainment have on consumers of popular culture.
Women in Austria
The position of women in Austrian society, politics, and in the economy follows the familiar trajectory of Western societies. They were expected to accept their "proper place" in a male patriarchal world. Achieving equality in all spheres of life was a long struggle that is still not completed in spite of many advances. The chapters in Women in Austria attest to the growing interest and vibrancy in the area of women's studies in Austria and present a cross-section of new research in this field to an international audience. The volume includes with book reviews on Austrian business history, the Waldheim memoirs, Jews in postwar Austria, and political scandals in twentieth-century Austria. Women in Austria covers a plethora of significant social issues and will be essential to the work of women's studies scholars, sociologists, historians, and Austrian area specialists.
Kant’s Theory of Value
In explicit form, Kant does not speak that much about values or goods. The reason for this is obvious: the concepts of ‘values’ and ‘goods’ are part of the eudaimonistic tradition, and he famously criticizes eudaimonism for its flawed ‘material’ approach to ethics. But he uses, on several occasions, the traditional teleological language of goods and values. Especially in the Groundwork and the Critique of Practical Reason, Kant develops crucial points on this conceptual basis. Furthermore, he implicitly discusses issues of conditional and unconditional values, subjective and objective values, aesthetic or economic values etc. In recent Kant scholarship, there has been a controversy on the question how moral and nonmoral values are related in Kant’s account of human dignity. This leads to the more fundamental problem if Kant should be seen as a prescriptvist (antirealist) or as subscribing to a more objective rational agency account of goods. This issue and several further questions are addressed in this volume.
Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women's Citizenship
Constitutions around the world have overwhelmingly been the creation of men, but this book asks how far constitutions have affirmed the equal citizenship status of women or failed to do so. Using a wealth of examples from around the world, Ruth Rubio-Marín considers constitutionalism from its inception to the present day and places current debates in their vital historical context. Rubio-Marín adopts an inclusive concept of gender and sexuality, and discusses the constitutional gender order as it has been shaped by debates such those around same-sex marriage and the rights of trans persons. Covering a wide range of themes, from reproductive rights to political gender quotas and violence against women, this book offers a comprehensive feminist account of constitutional law. Truly international in scope and ambitious in subject matter, this is an invaluable resource for students and scholars working on gender within multiple disciplines.
Neurosciences - From Molecule to Behavior: a university textbook
Neurosciences – a comprehensive approach This textbook covers neuroscience from cellular and molecular mechanisms to behavior and cognitive processing. We also address evolution of the nervous system, computational neuroscience, the history of neuroscience as a discipline and neurophilosophy – to name but a few. The book provides the newest state-of-the-art knowledge about neuroscience from across the animal kingdom, with particular emphasis on model species commonly used in neuroscience labs across the world: mouse, zebra fish, fruit fly, honeybee, and nematode worm. We aim at university students of neuroscience, psychology, biological sciences, and medical sciences, but also computer scientists, philosophers, or anybody interested in understanding how brains work.
Television and Political Communication in the Late Soviet Union
This study focuses on Soviet television audiences and examines their watching habits and the way they made use of television programs. Kirsten Bönker challenges the common misconception that viewers perceived Soviet television programming and entertainment culture as dull and formulaic. This study draws extensively on archival sources and oral history interviews to analyze how Soviet television involved audiences in political communication and how it addressed audiences’ emotional commitments to Soviet values and the Soviet way of life. Bönker argues that the Brezhnev era influenced political stability and brought an unprecedented rise of the living standards, creating new meanings for consumerism, the idea of the “home,” and private life among Soviet citizens. Exploring the concept of emotional bonding, this study engages broader discussions on the durability of the Soviet Union until perestroika.
Kultur - Medien - Macht
In den letzten Jahren haben sich die Cultural Studies zu einem wichtigen Ansatz der Kommunikations- und Medienforschung entwickelt. Mit dem nun in der erweiterten und überarbeiteten dritten Auflage erschienenen Sammelband werden einerseits grundlegende Konzepte der Cultural Studies vorgestellt, andererseits wird anhand exemplarischer Analysen das Potenzial dieses Ansatzes aufgezeigt. Neben klassischen Texten von Ien Ang, John Fiske und Lawrence Grossberg sind in dem Band Artikel zur Rezeption und Formierung der Cultural Studies in unterschiedlichen akademischen Disziplinen und eine Vielzahl von Kulturanalysen verschiedenster Formen der Medienkommunikation enthalten. Für die dritte Auflage wurden die Beiträge nicht nur überarbeitet und aktualisiert, sondern auch durch eine Reihe von fundierten Aufsätzen renommierter Autorinnen und Autoren ergänzt, um aktuellen Entwicklungen Rechnung zu tragen.
Feministische Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft
Feministische Medienforschung ist in den letzten Jahren zu einem wichtigen Bestandteil kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Forschung geworden. Der Band greift zentrale Aspekte des expandierenden Forschungsfeldes auf und bietet damit einen guten Einblick in die aktuelle Diskussion innerhalb der feministischen Medienforschung. Zu Beginn des Bandes steht eine philosophische Reflexion des Geschlechterbegriffs, der nach wie vor die Grundlage einer feministischen Betrachtung von Kommunikations- und Medienprozessen bildet. Die weiteren Beiträge diskutieren Ansätze, Befunde und Perspektiven der kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Kernbereiche: Öffentlichkeit, Journalismusforschung, Film- und Fernsehforschung sowie Neue Medien.
Blut, Rache, Gewalt. Die Inszenierung von Weiblichkeit in Filmen von Quentin Tarantino
Unser Leben wird durch Geschlechtervorstellungen geprägt und dementsprechend ist es nicht wirklich überraschend, dass auch im Film und Fernsehen präsentierte Geschlechtsrollen Einfluss auf unser Denken nehmen. Gerade für die politikwissenschaftliche Kulturforschung können Filmanalysen sehr wertvoll sein. Diese Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Inszenierung und Darstellung von Weiblichkeit in Filmen von Quentin Tarantino. Die behandelten Filme sind Kill Bill, Teil 1 & 2, Death Proof – Todsicher und Inglourious Basterds. In der Untersuchung spielen primär Geschlechterdarstellungen, Geschlechterverhältnisse und Repräsentationen sowie auch die Aufbrechung derselben eine wichtige Rolle. ...
