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Naimattomia, yksinasuvia ja parisuhteettomia läpi historian. Jännittävä sukellus naimattomuuden historiaan ja sen syihin historian eri aikoina. Sinkku, vanhapiika, poikamies, uraohjus... Länsimaisen yhteiskunnan historia on rakentunut pitkälti avioliiton, perheen ja parisuhteiden ympärille. Silti naimattomia, yksinasuvia ja parisuhteettomia on ollut aina, vain nimitykset ovat vaihdelleet. Luostarit tarjosivat keskiajalla naisille ja miehille vaihtoehdon avioliitolle. Rengit ja piiat olivat naimattomia, opettajilta ja sairaanhoitajilta edellytettiin kutsumusta ja naimattomuutta. Populaarikulttuuri on luonut kuvaa sinkkuudesta bilettävänä pintaliitona tai epätoivoisena kumppanin met...
Käsissäsi on kokoelma tekstejä, joissa pääosassa ovat unettomuus ja valvominen. Unettomuus on henkilökohtainen, ruumiissa koettu asia. Se on kuitenkin myös ilmiö, joka muuttuu ajassa. Sekä unettomuus että valvominen ovat moninaisia, ristiriitaisiakin asioita, joita on eri aikoina sanallistettu eri tavoin. Teos avaa ikkunoita unettomuuden maailmaan: historiaan, nykyhetkeen, yksityiseen ja henkilökohtaiseen kokemukseen sekä kulttuurisiin käsityksiin. Unettomuudesta hyödyntää erilaisia kirjallisuuden lajityyppejä kuten esseetä, proosarunoa, spekulatiivista fiktiota, kirjettä ja päiväkirjatekstiä, ja pohtii samalla niiden antia kulttuurihistorialle. Kirjan lopussa on "Tehtäväkirja", johon on koottu kysymyksiä ja pohdintatehtäviä, joita myös lukija voi hyödyntää.
This first in-depth study of women’s politeness examines the complex relationship individuals had with the discursive ideals of polite femininity. Contextualising women’s autobiographical writings (journals and letters) with a wide range of eighteenth-century printed didactic material, it analyses the tensions between politeness discourse which aimed to regulate acceptable feminine identities and women’s possibilities to resist this disciplinary regime. Ylivuori focuses on the central role the female body played as both the means through which individuals actively fashioned themselves as polite and feminine, and the supposedly truthful expression of their inner status of polite femininity.
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Digital history is an emerging field that draws on digital technology and computational methods. A global enterprise that invites scholars worldwide to join forces, it presents exciting and novel ways we might explore, understand and represent the past. Hannu Salmi provides the most compelling introduction to digital history to date. Beginning with an examination of the origins of the digital study of history, he goes on to discuss the question of how history exists in a digitized form. He introduces basic concepts and ideas in digital history, including databases and archives, interdisciplinarity and public engagement. Outlining the problems and methods in the study of big data, both textual and visual, particular attention is paid to the born-digital era: the contemporary age that exists primarily in digital form. What is Digital History? is essential reading for students of history and other humanities fields, as well as anyone interested in how digitization and digital cultures are transforming the study of history.
Made in Finland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, culture, and musicology of twentieth and twenty-first century popular music in Finland. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars in the field, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Finland. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book is organized into five thematic sections: Emerging Foundations of Popular Music in Finland; Environments, Borderlines, Minorities; Transnationalisms; Sounds from the Underground; and Redefining Finnishness.
An amazing, award-winning speculative fiction debut novel by a major new talent, in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin. Global warming has changed the world’s geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the power state of New Qian. In this far north place, seventeen-year-old Noria Kaitio is learning to become a tea master like her father, a position that holds great responsibility and great secrets. Tea masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria’s father tends, which once provided water for her whole village. But secrets do not stay hidden forever, and after her father’s death the army starts watching their town—and Noria. And as water becomes even scarcer, Noria must choose between safety and striking out, between knowledge and kinship. Imaginative and engaging, lyrical and poignant, Memory of Water is an indelible novel that portrays a future that is all too possible.
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Hugo and Locus Award Finalist An Economist Best Book of the Year A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2018 “An amazing and engrossing history...Insightful, entertaining, and compulsively readable.” — George R. R. Martin Astounding is the landmark account of the extraordinary partnership between four controversial writers—John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and L. Ron Hubbard—who set off a revolution in science fiction and forever changed our world. This remarkable cultural narrative centers on the figure of John W. Campbell, Jr., whom Asimov called “the most powerful force in science fiction ever.” Campbell, who has never been the subject of a biography unt...