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Women's American Football
Tackle football has been primarily viewed as a male sport, but at a time when men’s participation rates are decreasing, an increasing number of women are entering the gridiron—and they have a long history of doing so. Women’s American Football is a narrative history of girls and women participating in American football in the United States since the 1920s, when a women’s team played at halftime during an early NFL game. The women’s game became more organized in 1974, when the National Women’s Football League was established, with notable teams such as the Dallas Bluebonnets, Toledo Troopers, Oklahoma City Dolls, and Detroit Demons. Today there are two main professional leagues in...
2016
Volume 6 (2016) is an open issue with an emphasis on Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Iceland). Four essays focus on Russia, two on music; other contributions are concerned with Egypt, USA and Korea. Furthermore there are sections on Futurist archives, Futurism in caricatures and Futurism in fiction.
Suomen kultakausi
100 rakkainta taiteen kultakauden teosta upeasti kuvitetussa kirjassa. Ensi kertaa Suomen taiteen kultakauden (n. 1880–1916) kaikki taiteenalat yksissä kansissa. Gallen-Kallela ja Schjerfbeck, jugendtalot ja ateljeehuvilat, Sibelius, Prinsessa Ruususen häämarssi, Minna Canth ja Eino Leino... Taiteen kultakausi ei koskenut vain kuvataiteita, vaan 1800-luvun viimeisten vuosikymmenten ja itsenäistymisen välisenä aikana luotiin iso osa kaikkien taiteenalojen klassikoista. Yksittäisten teosten esittelyn lisäksi kirjassa kerrotaan kultakaudesta yleensä ja eri taiteenaloista erikseen, unohtamatta taiteilijoiden värikkäitä elämänkohtaloita ja keskinäisiä suhteita yli taiderajojen. Vuosisadanvaihteen kuohuttavat yhteiskunnalliset käänteet ja ajan muotivirtaukset näkyvät nekin taiteilijoiden töissä ja elämässä. FT Elina Seppälä ja dosentti Mikko-Olavi Seppälä ovat kulttuurihistorian tutkijoita ja tietokirjailijoita. Työparina he täydentävät toisiaan: Mikko-Olavin aloja ovat teatteri, kirjallisuus ja populaarikulttuuri, Elinan puolestaan taidehistoria, musiikki ja kulttuuridiplomatia.
Progress in Botany
With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present volume includes reviews on genetics, cell biology, physiology, comparative morphology, systematics, ecology, and vegetation science.
The Virgin Mary across Cultures
This book examines women’s relationship to the Virgin Mary in two different cultural and religious contexts, and compares how these relationships have been analyzed and explained on a theological and a sociological level. The figure of the Virgin Mary is a divisive one in our modern culture. To some, she appears to be a symbol of religious oppression, while to others, she is a constant comfort and even an inspiration towards empowerment. Drawing on the author’s own ethnographic research among Catholic Costa Rican women and Orthodox Finnish women, this study relates their experiences with Mary to the folklore and popular religion materials present in each culture. The book combines not on...
Safe and Secure Cities
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2014, held in Turku, Finland, in September 2014. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The core topic is livability and quality of (urban) living with safety and security. The papers address topics such as secure and equal use of information resources, safe and secure work environments and education institutions, cyberaggression and cybersecurity as well as impact of culture on urban safety and security.
The mediated Arctic
The mediated Arctic analyses the multiple relations between geography and cultural production that have long shaped – and are currently transforming – the circumpolar world. It explores how twenty-first-century cultural practitioners imagine and poeticise various elements of Arctic geography, and in doing so negotiate pressing environmental, (geo)political, and social concerns. From the plasmatic force of ice in Disney’s Frozen films to the spatial vocabulary of circumpolar Indigenous hip hop, it addresses Arctic geographical imaginaries in a wide range of media, including literature, cinema, comic books, music videos, and cartographic art. The book brings together a plurality of voices from within and outside the circumpolar North, both in terms of the works analysed and in its own collaborative scholarly practice. The book bridges Indigenous and Southern mediations of the Arctic and combines different epistemologies to do justice to these imaginaries in their diversity.
