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Crafting Gender
This volume initiates a gender-based framework for analyzing the folk art of Latin America and the Caribbean. Defined here broadly as the "art of the people" and as having a primarily decorative, rather than utilitarian, purpose, folk art is not solely the province of women, but folk art by women in Latin America has received little sustained attention. Crafting Gender begins to redress this gap in scholarship. From a feminist perspective, the contributors examine not only twentieth-century and contemporary art by women, but also its production, distribution, and consumption. Exploring the roles of women as artists and consumers in specific cultural contexts, they look at a range of artistic...
Transnational Perspectives on Culture, Policy, and Education
As multinational elites vie for economic and cultural dominance, neoliberal socio-economic policies are, in effect, not only reconfiguring political economies, but the ways in which culture is being produced and represented. In light of the global impact of these forms of domination, this collection of informed international scholarship examines world-hegemonic engagements with culture in all spheres of contemporary cosmopolitan life: the personal, the public, the popular, and the institutional.
Encyclopedia of Women's Folklore and Folklife [2 volumes]
From the stone age to the cyber age, women and men have experienced the world differently. Out of a cosmos of goddesses and she-devils, earth mothers and madonnas, witches and queens, saints and whores, a vast body of women's folklore has come into bloom. International in scope and drawing on more than 130 expert contributors, this encyclopedia reviews the myths, traditions, and beliefs central to women's daily lives. More than 260 alphabetically arranged entries cover the lore of women across time, space, and life. Students of history, religion and spirituality, healing and traditional medicine, literature, and world cultures will value this encyclopedia as an indispensable guide to women's...
Mujer y migración en el Mediterráneo occidental
Esta publicación integra especialmente la migración de la mujer en el Mediterráneo occidental y es fruto del seminario realizado por el Instituto Catalán del Mediterráneo. Con este encuentro se pretendía, más allá del hecho migratorio, aproximarnos a las realidades socioculturales de las que parten las mujeres magrebíes cuando deciden emigrar, sí como los principales cambios que se operan, tanto en sus trayectorias vitales como en su entorno inmediato, una vez franqueado el nuevo destino.
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El folclore progresivo y otros ensayos
Compilados y traducidos por Carles Feixa, los textos recogidos en El folclore progresivo y otros ensayos forman parte de los escritos fundamentales del debate en torno a la cultura subalterna que tuvo lugar en Italia entre 1948 y 1955. El país acababa de pasar por la trágica experiencia del fascismo, derrotado por la intervención aliada y la resistencia de los grupos partisanos. El punto de arranque fue la publicación póstuma de los más de treinta cuadernos que Antonio Gramsci había escrito en la cárcel. La obra de Gramsci —en particular sus observaciones sobre el folclore— suscitó una intensa discusión teórica, metodológica y política, cuya aportación más relevante y dura...
Challenges for Human Rights
Nowadays we are fortunate enough to be experiencing a boom in human rights - an enormous increase of their importance in the international sphere at all levels (political, economic, social, legal and moral). For the first time the condition of the individual as “citizen,” and not just as “subject,” has gained importance. Individuals, and not only states, have now become the subjects of international law, as a result of the boom in humanitarian law and international criminal law. However, although there have been many battles won and goals met concerning human rights, the war against injustice continues and the fight has not ended. It is necessary to stay alert and to avoid a potentia...
