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Queer/Adaptation
This collection of essays illuminates the intersection of queer and adaptation. Both adaptation and queerness suffer from the stereotype of being secondary: to identify something as an adaptation is to recognize it in relation to something else that seems more original, more authentic. Similarly, to identify something as queer is to place it in relation to what is assumed to be “normal” or “straight.” This ground-breaking volume brings together fifteen original essays that critically challenge these assumptions about originality, authenticity, and value. The volume is organized in three parts: The essays in Part I examine what happens when an adaptation queers its source text and exp...
In Transition
The first book-length work of its kind, In Transition: Young Adult Literature and Transgender Representation examines the shift in the young adult book market towards increased representation of transgender characters and authors. Through a comprehensive exploration of historical conventions, genres, character diversity, and ideologies of trans representation, Emily Corbett traces the roots of trans literature from its beginnings in a cisgender-dominated publishing world to the recent rise in trans creators, characters, and implied readers. Corbett describes how trans-ness was initially perceived as an issue to be overcome by cisgender authors and highlights the ways in which the market has ...
Interdisciplinary and Global Perspectives on Intersex
This edited collection interrogates how social and cultural representations of individuals with intersex variations impact how they are understood and treated from legal and medical perspectives across the world. Contributors consider how novelists, filmmakers, artists, and medical professionals have represented people with intersex variations, and highlight the importance of ethical representation and autonomy to encourage wider cultural and medical knowledge of intersex variations as a naturally occurring phenomenon. The text also examines the ways in which individuals with intersex variations are represented and viewed in India, Italy, Pakistan and Israel, as well as how this impacts decision making for the individuals, families and medical providers. This book argues that reactions to intersex variations will not change unless they are no longer presented as treatable disorders. It positions representation at the forefront, shifting the emphasis away from a concern for maintaining gender norms to upholding the human rights of intersex people. This volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars in intersex studies as well as policymakers and activists.
Future Vision and Trends on Shapes, Geometry and Algebra
Mathematical algorithms are a fundamental component of Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) systems. This book provides a bridge between algebraic geometry and geometric modelling algorithms, formulated within a computer science framework. Apart from the algebraic geometry topics covered, the entire book is based on the unifying concept of using algebraic techniques – properly specialized to solve geometric problems – to seriously improve accuracy, robustness and efficiency of CAD-systems. It provides new approaches as well as industrial applications to deform surfaces when animating virtual characters, to automatically compare images of handwritten signatures and to improve...
Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing
This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns, and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for understanding and critiquing motherhood and mothering as social phenomena and subjective experiences. The chapters contextualize motherhood and mothering in terms of their particular national and cultural location and analyze narratives about mothers who are firmly placed in one national context, as well as those who are in ...
This Is Not a Feminism Textbook
Feminist scholars from around the world on key debates and concerns ranging from motherhood, home, and family to media, technology, and medicine. This thought-provoking book is written by prominent feminist scholars from around the world. It is engaging and accessible, distilling the highest level of knowledge into fascinating but concise entries. This Is Not A Feminism Textbook offers a clear, straightforward overview of key feminist debates and concerns ranging from motherhood, home, work and family to media, technology, and medicine. This book is a must-read for everyone who is curious about the sex/gender distinction, and the relation between gender and other aspects of identity; and it ...
Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable Development Goals introduces the subject of sustainable development, delving into detail of the framework to address gaps and shortages in different disciplines and sectors. The global drivers of change are analysed and the opportunities and challenges of attainment of development goals are investigated.
Global Opportunities for Entrepreneurial Growth
This book investigates, compares, and contrasts the theoretical and practical elements of business concepts and models that are acclimated to the dynamic changes of our modern era. Furthermore, it describes and analyzes the current cooperative interactions among firms, and evaluates the contribution of knowledge dynamics in coopetition.
2022 IPPC Annual Report – Protecting the world’s plant resources from pests
The 2022 International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Annual Report provides an overview of the IPPC Secretariat's key achievements for the year. It highlights the summary financial report, as well as the progress towards achievement of the IPPC Strategic Framework including in governance, standards setting, implementation, partnerships and communication. The year's milestones include the first International Day of Plant Health, celebrated on 12 May after its adoption at the UN General Assembly, as well as the first International Plant Health Conference attended by more than 500 plant health experts around the world, held in person in London in September 2022.
XING 33 :: Kommt noch was?
Kommt noch was? Und was kommt? Ja, was sollte ein „Fortschritt“ eigentlich sein, fragt Michael Amon. Grundsteine für die Zukunft werden heute gelegt. Etwa im Wohnbau, oder was im Zusammenhang mit „Nachhaltigkeit“ unternommen wird. Dabei wird Konsens darüber hergestellt, welche Ziele erstrebenswert, vorrangig und in der Folge angegangen werden. Ob und wie Wohnraum geschaffen werden soll, lesen wir bei Chiara Lorenzo, ob und wie CO2-Ausstoß verringert werden soll, sind wir beim Thema „Nachhaltigkeit“ mit Lena Berger auf der Spur. Beide Artikel stehen als Beispiele für Bereiche, in denen Heute die Weichen gesellt werden, während andere Themen dem Vergessen anheim fallen.
