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Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa
This book tracks the conceptual journeying of the term ‘transgender’ from the Global North—where it originated—along with the physical embodied journeying of transgender asylum seekers from countries within Africa to South Africa and considers the interrelationships between the two. The term 'transgender' transforms as it travels, taking on meaning in relation to bodies, national homes, institutional frameworks and imaginaries. This study centres on the experiences and narratives of people that can be usefully termed 'gender refugees', gathered through a series of life story interviews. It is the argument of this book that the departures, border crossings, arrivals and perceptions of...
Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes
"Nineteenth-century writer Karl May wrote novels about a fictionalized American Wild West that count among the most popular books of German literature to this day. His stories left an imprint on German culture, resulting in a variety of Wild West festivals featuring Native Americans and frontier settlers. These Karl May festivals are hosted widely throughout German-speaking countries today. This book, based on years of fieldwork observing and studying the festivals, plays, events, and groups that comprise this subculture, addresses a larger, timely issue: cultural transfer and appropriations. Are Germans dressing up in American Indian costumes paying tribute or offending the cultures they are representing? Avoiding simplistic answers, A. Dana Weber considers the complexity of cultural enactments as they relate both to the distinctly German phenomenon as well as to larger questions of cultural representations in American and European live performance traditions."
Identitti
THE SELLOUT meets INTERIOR CHINATOWN in this satirical debut about race, sexuality and truth. German-Polish-Indian student Nivedita's world is upended when she discovers that her beloved professor who passed for Indian was born white. Nivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a doctoral student who blogs about race with the help of Hindu goddess Kali, is in awe of Saraswati, her outrageous superstar post-colonial and race studies tutor. But Nivedita's life and sense of self begin to unravel when it emerges that Saraswati is actually white. Hours before she learns the truth Nivedita praises her tutor in a radio interview, jeopardising her own reputation and igniting an angry backlash among her peers and o...
How We Love
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys. There is love in this place, just like there is love everywhere we care to look for it. There is beauty and there is hope and there is a boy and there is a mother and there is the past and there is the future but most importantly there is the now, and everything that exists between them that has got them from one moment to the next. The now is where we find the golden glow where, for the briefest of moments, the sky rips open and we see what it is we are made of. Tell me a story, he asked me. And so I began. Clementine Ford is a person who has loved d...
WTF Berlin
It's been a squillion years since Jacinta Nandi arrived in the German capital – and like Jesus, she has suffered, so you don't have to. In this collection of short texts, she'll tell you everything you need to know about stingy male "feminists", oppressive church taxes, unnecessary Anmeldungen – and how to make the perfect German Abendbrot (exhausted cucumbers are key). Why are Berlin house numbers so confusing? Why does everyone love dogs and hate babies? And do you really need to learn German to survive in this city? Join Jacinta on her expatsplaining journey through the German Hauptstadt filled with ketamine and glitter, judgy grannies and scary Beamte, and, of course, Currywurst and pain. A travel guide is nice to have – but this book is essential if you want to survive in Berlin! German Version: Survivaltipps für Berlin: Jacinta Nandi lebt seit 20 Jahren in Berlin. Satyrs erstes englischsprachiges Buch versammelt ihre Erkenntnisse über Kirchensteuer, deutsches Abendbrot, rassistische Beamte und den Geiz männlicher Feministen. – Dieses Buch ist der unverzichtbare humoristische Überlebensratgeber für alle Expats und Berlin-Besucher*innen.
Wir sind gekommen, um zu schreiben
Die deutsche Bühnenliteratur ist bunt! Deutschland ist auch literarisch ein Einwanderungsland. Alle Mitwirkenden dieses Buches verfügen über einen sog. "Migrationshintergrund". Und erst der macht diese Textsammlung so spannend, denn sie ist so vielfältig wie ihre Autorinnen und Autoren, die aufzeigen, welch bunte Blüten zwischen den Welten wachsen. Dieses Buch will Schluss machen mit der leidigen Diskussion um Migration. Millionen Menschen haben hierzulande ihre ureigenen Einwanderungsbiografien. Viel zu oft wird über sie gesprochen, die "Migranten", "Polacken", "Flüchtlinge" oder "Kanaken", statt einfach anzuerkennen, dass sie schon lange Teil unseres Zusammenlebens sind und für sic...
Lost Connections
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: A radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety 'A book that could actually make us happy' SIMON AMSTELL 'This amazing book will change your life' ELTON JOHN 'One of the most important texts of recent years' BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE 'Brilliant, stimulating, radical' MATT HAIG 'The more people read this book, the better off the world will be' NAOMI KLEIN 'Wonderful' HILLARY CLINTON 'Eye-opening' GUARDIAN 'Brilliant for anyone wanting a better understanding of mental health' ZOE BALL 'A game-changer' DAVINA MCCALL 'Extraordinary' DR MAX PEMBERTON Depression and anxiety are now at epidemic levels. Why? Across the world, scientists have uncovered evidence for nine different causes. Some are in our biology, but most are in the way we are living today. Lost Connections offers a radical new way of thinking about this crisis. It shows that once we understand the real causes, we can begin to turn to pioneering new solutions – ones that offer real hope.
Doing It All
'With courage, compassion and generosity, Russell presents an intersectional history which honours single motherhood in all its complexity . . . Bold, revelatory and a joy to read' Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell Women 'Lucid and liberating' Eliane Glaser, author of Motherhood: A Manifesto Nearly a quarter of UK families with dependent children are single-parent families, and around 90% of single parents are women. Yet the single mother is still cast as victim or welfare queen, sexually irresponsible or too independent by half. Tracing a history through Victorian brothels, welfare rights activism and Black feminist traditions of othermothering, Ruby Russell tells a different story: of motherhood defined not by marriage or men, but as a nexus of solidarity beyond the patriarchal status quo. A personal quest for empowerment, Doing It All is also a fierce critique of the structures that leave single mums marginalised and exhausted - and a call to reclaim mothering as the life force of sustainable, connected and radically responsible communities. 'A riveting memoir-cum-cri-de-cœur-cum-manifesto for envisioning motherhood anew' Kirsten Swinth, author of Feminism's Forgotten Fight
Spijt van het moederschap
Een taboedoorbrekend boek over het moederschap, een wereldwijde bestseller. Vrouwen die ervoor kiezen niet moeder te worden, krijgen vaak de waarschuwing dat ze later in hun leven spijt zullen krijgen van deze beslissing. Zelden wordt gesproken over het tegenovergestelde: dat er vrouwen zijn die spijt hebben van het moederschap. Op basis van jarenlang onderzoek en interviews met vrouwen van verschillende achtergronden, beschouwt socioloog Orna Donath spijt als feministische kwestie. Ze spreekt met vrouwen over vrijheden en onvrijheden, frustraties, schuldgevoelens, de liefde voor hun kinderen en wensen die niet in vervulling zijn gegaan. In ‘Spijt van het moederschap’ bevraagt Donath de nog altijd geldende veronderstelling dat elke vrouw bestemd is voor het moederschap. Dit indringende en provocerende boek veroorzaakte internationaal talloze verhitte debatten en verschijnt in een tijdsgewricht waarin de positie van vrouwen nog altijd bevochten moet worden.
Ästhetisches Lernen im DaF-/DaZ-Unterricht
What do aesthetics have to do with foreign language teaching and how can different art forms be integrated in foreign language teaching? These were the questions addressed in 2013 at the congress on “Aesthetic Learning in the Acquisition of German as a Foreign-Language. Literature – Theatre – Fine Arts – Music– Film.” at the UNAM (Universidad Autónoma de México) in Mexico City. The proposition commonly received was that the inclusion of sensory perception in processes of language acquisition enable an open and vivid approach to language and culture that lies beyond the often-predominant focus on competence. The volume at hand gathers in a well-balanced theory-practice proportion selected congress contributions and additional articles in which the different art forms with due regard to their own aesthetics are placed in the center of attention.
