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Women Past and Present
In Western societies, many traditional feminist claims have already been fulfilled both in law and in official discourse. Indeed, legislative steps have already been taken towards securing civil and political rights and equal opportunities for women. This, of course, is not the case in many other regions of the world, as some of the chapters in this book clearly testify. Yet, notwithstanding the gains achieved in Western societies, residual forms of resistance and prejudice still persist in discourses, categories and discriminative practices in this so-called “post-feminist” era. Furthermore, new manifestations of asymmetries in gender relations and new ways of thinking and experiencing subjectivity are currently emerging, as a result of growing globalisation, economic crises, migration patterns, female sex and labour trafficking, trans-nationalism, and new technologies, not to mention the beauty and body sculpting industries.
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Temperance Societies in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
By studying the temperance societies that flourished in late Victorian and Edwardian England, this book opens a window through which we can view middle-class and working-class society. Such societies provided the backbone for temperance both as a social movement and a political lobby. Most temperance societies became aligned with the Liberal Party in support of prohibition by Local Veto. A few allowed members to drink, but most were committed to total abstinence. There were organizations of middle-class men, of workingmen and their wives, of women, and of children and youth. The largest adult society was affiliated with the Church of England, but most societies were identified with Nonconformist denominations.
Evangelical Belief and Enlightenment Morality in the Australian Temperance Movement
This book explores the history of the Australian temperance movement and the ideas that informed it, offering a detailed examination of the beliefs of evangelicals involved. The temperance movement in Australia was large and influential, and played a vital role in shaping the cultural and political life of the emerging nation across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The study focuses on the relationship between evangelicalism and 'Moral Enlightenment' ideas within the temperance movement between 1832 and 1930. It considers the complex and varied ways in which they interacted within the thinking of the movement’s leaders, enriches discussions regarding religion and secularisatio...
The Reformers on War, Peace, and Justice
Conflict and war were common during the Reformation era. Throughout the sixteenth century, rising religious and political tensions led to frequent conflict and culminated in the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48) that devastated much of Germany and killed one-third of its population. Some of the warfare, as in central and southern Europe, was between Christians and Muslims. Other warfare, in central and northwestern Europe, was confessional warfare between Catholics and Protestants. Religion was not the only cause of war during the period. Revolts, territorial ambitions, and the beginnings of the contemporary nation-state system and international order that emerged after the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) also fueled the trauma and tragedy of war. In many ways, the world of the Reformers and Protestant Reformation was a violent world, and it was within such a sociopolitical framework that the Reformers and their followers lived, worked, and died. This book introduces the teachings of the Protestant Reformers on war and peace, in their context, before offering relevant primary source readings.
Looking Back at the Jazz Age
From Britain’s Downton Abbey and Dancing on the Edge to Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris and Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, the Jazz Age’s presence in recent popular culture has been striking and pervasive. This volume not only deepens the reader’s knowledge of this iconic period, but also provides a better understanding of its persistent presence “in our time.” Situating well-known Jazz Age writers such as Langston Hughes in new contexts while revealing the contributions of lesser-known figures such as Fannie Hurst, Looking Back at the Jazz Age brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars who draw on a wide range of academic fields and critical met...
Woman: The Prismatic Gender
The book ‘Woman: The Prismatic Gender’ is exclusively written for housewives, homemakers, working women, socialists as well as feminists of the human society. It reflects various types of stages and events that a woman experiences in her life during her childhood, teenage, adulthood, maturity, social, personal, and professional life. The author has highlighted the frequent phases of womanhood, which most of the school girls, female teenagers, college girls, young women, and mature women undergo. The book covers imperative information about women’s life, such as biology and gender, conscription, gender equality, discrimination, domestic violence, dowry system, economic empowerment, equa...
Mártires Cristãs
Mártires cristãs faz um resgate primoroso da memória de mulheres de Deus que deram a própria vida por amor ao evangelho de Jesus Cristo, com lealdade, resiliência e devoção. São 24 servas de Deus que deram testemunho de sua fidelidade com o próprio sangue ao longo de dois mil anos de cristianismo, desde os dias da igreja primitiva até a terceira década do século 21. É desejo da GodBooks e da Thomas Nelson Brasil que o exemplo dessas gigantas da fé sirva como motivação para que ninguém jamais se acomode na demonstração de sua lealdade ao reino de Deus e no testemunho de seu amor por Jesus — custe o que custar. Sejam homens. Sejam mulheres.
Reformadoras
Reformadoras faz um brilhante trabalho de resgate da memória de filhas de Deus que devotaram a vida à causa do evangelho de Cristo e deram uma contribuição inestimável a um dos movimentos mais importantes da trajetória da Cristandade: a Reforma Protestante. Essas servas do Senhor entregaram por amor a Cristo o intelecto, o coração, o tempo, os esforços e até a própria vida, a fim de cumprir a grande comissão e levar o povo de Deus à maturidade espiritual. Este livro é, também, um memorial que chama a atenção para o valor que seres humanos do sexo feminino tiveram — e ainda têm — na trajetória do reino de Deus na terra. É desejo da GodBooks e da Thomas Nelson Brasil que o exemplo dessas heroínas da fé sirva como motivação para que ninguém jamais se acomode no exercício de seus talentos e dons pela causa do reino de Deus. Sejam homens. Sejam mulheres.
