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Twenty-Nine Thousand Nights: A Communist Life is an unusual chronicle of the personal journey of young woman named nan Berger through her writings, investigations into government intelligence reports, and visual images. from a wealthy middle-class northern British family, Berger was drawn to the Communist Party in the 1930s. Shocked by the tactics of the police at an anti-fascist meeting, she became a lifelong campaigner for civil liberties. Through the Communist Party and the national Assembly of Women, nan Berger became an early critic of gender inequality, writing Woman Fancy or Free? with Joan Maizels. This intriguing exploration of historical documents from one womans life conveys the many unexpected byways of left political commitment in the twentieth century, bringing to the surface a wider social history. Sheila Rowbotham. Bergers unpublished memoir was uncovered by Glasgow-based artist Ruth ewan, who edited and expanded upon the archival material. ewan is known for context-specific artworks created through found material and historical records, which is grounded in research on social and political histories.
This timely and innovative book provides a detailed history of marketing to children, revealing the strategies that shape the design of toys and have a powerful impact on the way children play. Stephen Kline looks at the history and development of children's play culture and toys from the teddy bear and Lego to the Barbie doll, Care Bears and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He profiles the rise of children's mass media - books, comics, film and television - and that of the specially stores such as Toys 'R' Us, revealing how the opportunity to reach large audiences of children through television was a pivotal point in developing new approaches to advertising. Contemporary youngsters, he shows, ...
A comprehensive analysis and innovative, holistic interpretation of the child's right to development.
Offering a serious and sustained philosophical examination of children's rights, David Archard provides a clear and accessible introduction to the topic. The second edition is fully revised and updated and include a new preface and two new chapters.
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This book is the first archive-based account of the charged debates around race in the women's movement in England during the 'second wave' period. Examining both the white and the Black women's movement through a source base that includes original oral histories and extensive research using feminist periodicals, this book seeks to unpack the historical roots of long-running tensions between Black and white feminists. It gives a broad overview of the activism that both Black and white women were involved in, and examines the Black feminist critique of white feminists as racist, how white feminists reacted to this critique, and asks why the women's movement was so unable to engage with the concerns of Black women. Through doing so, the book speaks to many present day concerns within the women's movement about the politics of race, and indeed the place of identity politics within the left more broadly.
The Geographies of Young People traces the changing scientific and societal notions of what it is to be a young person, and argues that there is a need to rethink how we view childhood spaces, child development and the politics of growing up. This book brings coherency to the growing field of children's geographies by arguing that although most of it does not prescribe solutions to the moral assault against young people, it nonetheless offers appropriate insights into difference and diversity, and how young people are constructed. Other books in the series: Culture/Place/Health (forthcoming) Seduction of Place (forthcoming) Celtic Geographies (forthcoming) Timespace Bodies Mind and Body Spaces Children's Geographies Leisure/Tourism Geographies Thinking Space Geopolitical Traditions Embodied Geographies Animal Spaces, Beastly Places Closet Space Clubbing De-centering Sexualities Entanglements of Power.