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Freedom's Journal

The First African-American Newspaper

By: Jacqueline Bacon

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Freedom's Journal

The First African-American Newspaper

By: Jacqueline Bacon

Freedom's Journal is a comprehensive study of the first African-American newspaper, which was founded in the first half of the 19th Century. The book investigates all aspects of publication as well as using the source material to extract information about African-American life at that time.

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Lexington Books

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0739118943

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Pastoral Care With Young and Midlife Adults in Long-Term Care

By: Jacqueline Sullivan

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Pastoral Care With Young and Midlife Adults in Long-Term Care

By: Jacqueline Sullivan

Learn how to work with people who are in need of long-term care to achieve a higher quality of life A person living with a disAbling condition has issues and challenges much different from others. Pastoral Care with Young and Midlife Adults in Long-Term Care puts a needed spotlight on various disAbling conditions needing long-term care; the issues facing people who are disAbled individually and collectively; theology available to address concerns; insights into individual spirituality; and practical recommendations for pastoral care staff. Focusing specifically on adults between the ages of 18 to 64 rather than those over that age, this source examines ways to effectively work with those who have disAbling conditions achieve a higher quality of life. Pastoral Care with Young and Midlife Adults in Long-Term Care discusses in-depth the issues which face people with physical or mental disAbling conditions. These include; the fragmentation of family life; health care issues; expenses; rights for people which varying disAbling conditions; labeling; suffering; ethics; sense of self; and coping with the adjustments of needing long-term care. The book contains a bibliography of source material; a glossary; and an annotated list of movies and videos that illuminate pastoral care issues and offer perspectives on death, dying, and grieving. Some issues covered in Pastoral Care with Young and Midlife Adults in Long-Term Care include: disAbling conditions health care of women health care of men economics of disAbility the impact of disAbling conditions upon the family long-term care rights and ethics for people with disAbling conditions language suffering grief acceptance spirituality and faith the faith journey ethics readjustment and more Pastoral Care with Young and Midlife Adults in Long-Term Care is an insightful, important book for pastoral care professionals, counselors, educators, health professionals, psychologists, and anyone with a disAbling condition.

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Routledge

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1136863664

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9781136863660

Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism

By: Jacqueline I. Stone

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Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism

By: Jacqueline I. Stone

Original enlightenment thought (hongaku shiso) dominated Buddhist intellectual circles throughout Japan’s medieval period. Enlightenment, this discourse claims, is neither a goal to be achieved nor a potential to be realized but the true status of all things. Every animate and inanimate object manifests the primordially enlightened Buddha just as it is. Seen in its true aspect, every activity of daily life—eating, sleeping, even one’s deluded thinking—is the Buddha’s conduct. Emerging from within the powerful Tendai School, ideas of original enlightenment were appropriated by a number of Buddhist traditions and influenced nascent theories about the kami (local deities) as well as medieval aesthetics and the literary and performing arts. Scholars and commentators have long recognized the historical importance of original enlightenment thought but differ heatedly over how it is to be understood. Some tout it as the pinnacle of the Buddhist philosophy of absolute non-dualism. Others claim to find in it the paradigmatic expression of a timeless Japanese spirituality. According other readings, it represents a dangerous anti-nomianism that undermined observance of moral precepts, precipitated a decline in Buddhist scholarship, and denied the need for religious discipline. Still others denounce it as an authoritarian ideology that, by sacralizing the given order, has in effect legitimized hierarchy and discriminative social practices. Often the acceptance or rejection of original enlightenment thought is seen as the fault line along which traditional Buddhist institutions are to be differentiated from the new Buddhist movements (Zen, Pure Land, and Nichiren) that arose during Japan’s medieval period. Jacqueline Stone’s groundbreaking study moves beyond the treatment of the original enlightenment doctrine as abstract philosophy to explore its historical dimension. Drawing on a wealth of medieval primary sources and modern Japanese scholarship, it places this discourse in its ritual, institutional, and social contexts, illuminating its importance to the maintenance of traditions of lineage and the secret transmission of knowledge that characterized several medieval Japanese elite culture. It sheds new light on interpretive strategies employed in pre-modern Japanese Buddhist texts, an area that hitherto has received a little attention. Through these and other lines of investigation, Stone problematizes entrenched notions of “corruption” in the medieval Buddhist establishment. Using the examples of Tendai and Nichiren Buddhism and their interactions throughout the medieval period, she calls into question both overly facile distinctions between “old” and “new” Buddhism and the long-standing scholarly assumptions that have perpetuated them. This study marks a significant contribution to ongoing debates over definitions of Buddhism in the Kamakura era (1185–1333), long regarded as a formative period in Japanese religion and culture. Stone argues that “original enlightenment thought” represents a substantial rethinking of Buddhist enlightenment that cuts across the distinction between “old” and “new” institutions and was particularly characteristic of the medieval period.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824827716

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9780824827717

Who Will Care for Us?

Aging and Long-Term Care in Multicultural America

By: Ronald Angel,Jacqueline L. Angel

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Who Will Care for Us?

Aging and Long-Term Care in Multicultural America

By: Ronald Angel,Jacqueline L. Angel

An important contribution to the on-going national dialogue concerning the need for planning for an increasingly aged population and its impact on our social, political, medical, economic institutions." --Wisconsin Bookwatch "Based on their assessments of the levels of need for the long-term care among African-American, Latino, and non-Latino white older persons, the authors offer viable and attractive possible alternatives to institutionalization in the long-term care of the elderly." --Nurse Practitioner "A major contribution. Should be a part of every course on social gerontology, long-term care, the demography of aging, or formal/informal support networks of the elderly." --Robert Joseph Taylor, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan America is getting older. By the year 2010, almost one in five Americans will be 65 years of age or older.The combined forces of low fertility and longer life spans among all racial and ethnic groups have resulted in a disproportionate increase in the number of individuals over 65 and an even faster increase in the proportion of those individuals over eighty-five. As a result, the nation faces an unprecedented challenge in addressing the economic, medical, and long-term care needs of this older population at the same time that it assures the welfare of the young. The growth of the cost of the long-term care of the elderly is one of the major forces behind recent increases in Medicaid expenditures, and any reformed health care financing system will have to find ways of providing high quality long-term care to older Americans at a reasonable cost. In a racially and culturally diverse nation like the United States, official policy regarding the care of the elderly simply cannot be based on the assumption that the elderly are a culturally and socially monolithic population. The cultural, social, and economic situations of the elderly simply differ too greatly and the family's role in their care is affected by important cultural and social factors. In Who Will Care for Us? Ronald J. and Jacqueline L. Angel argue that policies based on the assumption of a homogenous population will fail to take advantage of the opportunities that ethnic and cultural diversity offer for the long-term care of the elderly. The authors examine the great racial and ethnic diversity among the elderly in the contemporary U.S. in terms of living arrangements, economic well-being, and reliance on formal and family-based sources of support. Based on their assessments of the levels of need for long-term care among black, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white older persons, they offer viable and attractive possible alternatives to institutionalization in the long-term care of the elderly.

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NYU Press

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0814706835

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9780814706831

Black Women As Cultural Readers

By: Jacqueline Bobo

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Black Women As Cultural Readers

By: Jacqueline Bobo

A pathbreaking study of African-American women's responses to literature and film. . . . Bobo focuses on a small group of middle-class African-American women as they process literature (by Terry McMillan, Alice Walker) that addresses their own experiences. . . . This work should command the attention of all scholars of American popular culture. -- Choice How do black women react as an audience to representations of themselves, and how do their patterns of consumption differ from other groups? Interviews with ordinary black women from many backgrounds uses novels and films to reveal how black female audiences absorb works. -- Midwest Book Review

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Columbia University Press

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0231083955

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9780231083959

Inheriting As People Think It Should Be

From Money To Mementos

By: Jacqueline J. Goodnow,Jeanette A. Lawrence

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Inheriting As People Think It Should Be

From Money To Mementos

By: Jacqueline J. Goodnow,Jeanette A. Lawrence

What obligations to each other do people have or think they have? That question comes up in relation to family and marriage relationships, to law, and to moral reasoning. This novel and highly readable book takes it up in relation to inheritances: to what people think they should leave or be left, who should receive what, when, how, and why. Making the book novel is its range. Here are views about more than money. Covered are also houses, land and, an often neglected but emotion-laden area, the personal and often indivisible things that mean one is remembered as an individual. Making it novel also is its emphasis throughout on meanings and on what people see as matters of choice or flexibility. Even in countries where the legal codes specify who should receive what after death (many European and most Islamic codes allow far less choice than British-based law does), people still have room for decisions about what they give away to various heirs or spend before death. What makes the book highly readable? One reason is its timeliness. Currently lively, for example, are debates over parents balancing their own needs and wishes against those of their children (“spending the kids’ inheritance”, in one description). Another is the book’s style. The writing is straightforward. Theory is not neglected but there is an absence of jargon. The material is also mostly based on narratives: on people’s own descriptions of arrangements that “worked well” or “did not work well” and on why they thought so. That base makes the book far from dry and far from being an account only of negative feelings, objections, challenges, and family rifts. It also makes it more relevant at times of indecision or misunderstanding. In short, a book for many readers, both within the social sciences and beyond it.

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IAP

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1623962978

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9781623962975

Environmental Activism

A Reference Handbook

By: Jacqueline Vaughn

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Environmental Activism

A Reference Handbook

By: Jacqueline Vaughn

A balanced presentation chronicling both the major events that sparked environmental activism and the nature of that activism in the past century. Beginning with an overview of activism in the past century from 1900 to 2001, Environmental Activism: A Reference Handbook puts organizations and their activities into historical context. This volume offers both an American perspective and a global perspective. It chronicles the major events that sparked environmental actions; aligns individuals with organizations, such as John Muir and the Sierra Club; and presents a balanced treatment of activities in both conservative and liberal political spheres. Separate chapters identify six eras of activism from 1900 to 2001 and include their characteristics, issues, strategies, and advocates. This is followed by summaries of the various types of organizations and their strategies, including direct action (ecoterrorism, monkey wrenching) as well as mainstream activity (lobbying, letter writing).

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1576079023

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9781576079027

American Work

Four Centuries of Black and White Labor

By: Jacqueline Jones

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American Work

Four Centuries of Black and White Labor

By: Jacqueline Jones

[Jones's] painstakingly researched volume is an invaluable antidote to those who argue that our shameful past has no relevance to our perplexing present." --David Kusnet, Baltimore Sun

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393318338

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9780393318333

Migration Miracle

Faith, Hope, and Meaning on the Undocumented Journey

By: Jacqueline Maria HAGAN,Jacqueline Maria Hagan

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Migration Miracle

Faith, Hope, and Meaning on the Undocumented Journey

By: Jacqueline Maria HAGAN,Jacqueline Maria Hagan

Migration Miracle humanizes the immigration controversy by exploring the harsh realities of the migrants’ desperate journeys. Drawing on over 300 interviews with men, women, and children, Hagan focuses on an unexplored dimension of the migration undertaking—the role of religion and faith in surviving the journey.

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Harvard University Press

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0674038134

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9780674038134

A Rule for Children and Other Writings

By: Jacqueline Pascal

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A Rule for Children and Other Writings

By: Jacqueline Pascal

Jacqueline Pascal (1625-1661) was the sister of Blaise Pascal and a nun at the Jansenist Port-Royal convent in France. She was also a prolific writer who argued for the spiritual rights of women and the right of conscientious objection to royal, ecclesiastic, and family authority. This book presents selections from the whole of Pascal's career as a writer, including her witty adolescent poetry and her pioneering treatise on the education of women, A Rule for Children, which drew on her experiences as schoolmistress at Port-Royal. Readers will also find Pascal's devotional treatise, which matched each moment in Christ's Passion with a corresponding virtue that his female disciples should cultivate; a transcript of her interrogation by church authorities, in which she defended the controversial theological doctrines taught at Port-Royal; a biographical sketch of her abbess, which presented Pascal's conception of the ideal nun; and a selection of letters offering spirited defenses of Pascal's right to practice her vocation, regardless of patriarchal objections.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226648346

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9780226648347

The Gothic Screen

Space, Sculpture, and Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, Ca.1200-1400

By: Jacqueline E. Jung

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The Gothic Screen

Space, Sculpture, and Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, Ca.1200-1400

By: Jacqueline E. Jung

This book reveals how Gothic choir screens, through both their architecture and sculpture, were vital vehicles of communication and shapers of community within the Christian church.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107022959

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9781107022959

Poetry as Window and Mirror

Positioning the Poet in Hellenistic Poetry

By: Jacqueline Klooster

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Poetry as Window and Mirror

Positioning the Poet in Hellenistic Poetry

By: Jacqueline Klooster

Hellenistic Poetry has enjoyed a notable re-appreciation in recent years and received ample scholarly discussion, especially focusing on its reception and innovation of Greek poetic tradition. This book wishes to add to our picture of how Hellenistic poetry works by looking at it from a slightly different angle. Concentrating on the interaction between contemporary poets, it attempts to view the dynamics of imitation and reception in the light of poetical self-positioning. In the courtly Alexandrian surroundings, choosing a poetic model and affiliation determines one's position in the cultural field. This book sets out to chart, not only the well-known complexities of handling the poetic past, but especially their relation to the poetic interaction of the Hellenistic, in particular Alexandrian poets.

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BRILL

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9004210091

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9789004210097

Twenty Questions for the Writer

A Rhetoric with Readings

By: Jacqueline Berke

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Twenty Questions for the Writer

A Rhetoric with Readings

By: Jacqueline Berke

TWENTY QUESTIONS FOR A WRITER is structured around twenty questions most often used by writers for finding and developing their topics. This basic structure creates a versatility that sheds light ion the writing process.

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Wadsworth Publishing Company

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0155924052

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9780155924055

Migrating to the Movies

Cinema and Black Urban Modernity

By: Jacqueline Najuma Stewart

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Migrating to the Movies

Cinema and Black Urban Modernity

By: Jacqueline Najuma Stewart

The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of African Americans to the urban 'land of hope'. Discussing early films and illuminating black urban life in this period, this text presents a look at the early relationships between African Americans and cinema.

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Univ of California Press

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0520233492

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9780520233492

The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine

By: Jacqueline L. Longe

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The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine

By: Jacqueline L. Longe

Presents a four-volume alphabetically-arranged medical reference set that examines a variety of supplemental therapies and herbal remedies along with treatments for certain conditions and diseases.

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Gale Cengage

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0787674281

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9780787674281

Two Buddhas Seated Side by Side

A Guide to the Lotus Sūtra

By: Donald S. Lopez (Jr.),Jacqueline I. Stone

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Two Buddhas Seated Side by Side

A Guide to the Lotus Sūtra

By: Donald S. Lopez (Jr.),Jacqueline I. Stone

An essential companion to a timeless spiritual classic The Lotus Sūtra is among the most venerated scriptures of Buddhism. Composed in India some two millennia ago, it asserts the potential for all beings to attain supreme enlightenment. Donald Lopez and Jacqueline Stone provide an essential reading companion to this inspiring yet enigmatic masterpiece, explaining how it was understood by its compilers in India and, centuries later in medieval Japan, by one of its most influential proponents. In this illuminating chapter-by-chapter guide, Lopez and Stone show how the sūtra's anonymous authors skillfully reframed the mainstream Buddhist tradition in light of a new vision of the path and the person of the Buddha himself, and examine how the sūtra's metaphors, parables, and other literary devices worked to legitimate that vision. They go on to explore how the Lotus was interpreted by the Japanese Buddhist master Nichiren (1222–1282), whose inspired reading of the book helped to redefine modern Buddhism. In doing so, Lopez and Stone demonstrate how readers of sacred works continually reinterpret them in light of their own unique circumstances. An invaluable guide to an incomparable spiritual classic, this book unlocks the teachings of the Lotus for modern readers while providing insights into the central importance of commentary as the vehicle by which ancient writings are given contemporary meaning.

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Princeton University Press

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0691174202

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9780691174204

Women Writing Opera

Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution

By: Jacqueline Letzter,Robert Adelson

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Women Writing Opera

Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution

By: Jacqueline Letzter,Robert Adelson

At the same time it demonstrates how the Revolution fostered many dreams and ambitions for women that would be doomed to disappointment in the repressive post-Revolutionary era.".

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Univ of California Press

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0520226534

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9780520226531

The Role of the Government

By: Jacqueline Langwith

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The Role of the Government

By: Jacqueline Langwith

Author Jacqueline Langwith provides readers with a fact-filled direct message about the role of the government when confronting global warming. This volume explores government's role in addressing climate change on both a national and international level. It discusses official recognition of climate change such as the Kyoto Protocols. Readers will look at the United States' historical responses to climate change and at efforts to regulate carbon dioxide and reduce emissions through a carbon tax and renewable fuel standard. Readers will explore energy-efficient building, land use policies, and efforts to maintain biological diversity.

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Greenhaven Publishing LLC

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0737754788

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9780737754780

Proust among the Nations

From Dreyfus to the Middle East

By: Jacqueline Rose

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Proust among the Nations

From Dreyfus to the Middle East

By: Jacqueline Rose

Known for her far-reaching examinations of psychoanalysis, literature, and politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent years turned her attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most enduring and apparently intractable conflicts of our time. In Proust among the Nations, she takes the development of her thought on this crisis a stage further, revealing it as a distinctly Western problem. In a radical rereading of the Dreyfus affair through the lens of Marcel Proust in dialogue with Freud, Rose offers a fresh and nuanced account of the rise of Jewish nationalism and the subsequent creation of Israel. Following Proust’s heirs, Beckett and Genet, and a host of Middle Eastern writers, artists, and filmmakers, Rose traces the shifting dynamic of memory and identity across the crucial and ongoing cultural links between Europe and Palestine. A powerful and elegant analysis of the responsibility of writing, Proust among the Nations makes the case for literature as a unique resource for understanding political struggle and gives us new ways to think creatively about the violence in the Middle East.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226725804

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9780226725802

Bracing Accounts

The Literature and Culture of Polio in Postwar America

By: Jacqueline Foertsch

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Bracing Accounts

The Literature and Culture of Polio in Postwar America

By: Jacqueline Foertsch

This work is the textual response to polio from the postwar era to the present. It considers women's magazines, in which polio was both a fitfully treated subject and a frequently important subtext.

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Associated University Presse

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0838641733

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9780838641736

Reproducing the State

By: Jacqueline Stevens

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Reproducing the State

By: Jacqueline Stevens

People are said to acquire their affiliations of ethnicity, race, and sex at birth. Hence, these affiliations have long been understood to be natural, independent of the ability of political societies to define who we are. Reproducing the State vigorously challenges the conventional view, as well as post-structuralist scholarship that minimizes state power. Jacqueline Stevens examines birth-based theories of membership and group affiliations in political societies ranging from the Athenian polis, to tribes of Australia, to the French republic, to the contemporary United States. The book details how political societies determine the kinship rules that are used to reproduce political societies. Stevens analyzes the ways that ancestral and territorial birth rules for membership in political societies pattern other intergenerational affiliations. She shows how the notion of ethnicity depends on the implicit or explicit invocation of a past, present, or future political society. She also shows how geography is used to represent political regions, including continents, as the seemingly natural underpinning for racial taxonomies perpetuated through miscegenation laws and birth certificates. And Stevens argues that sex differences are also constituted through membership practices of political societies. In its chronological and disciplinary range, Reproducing the State will reward the interest of scholars in many fields, including anthropology, history, political science, sociology, women's studies, race studies, and ethnic studies.

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Princeton University Press

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069101714X

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9780691017143

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