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Women of Courage

Jewish and Italian Immigrant Women in New York

By: Rose Laub Coser,Laura S. Anker,Andrew Perrin

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Women of Courage

Jewish and Italian Immigrant Women in New York

By: Rose Laub Coser,Laura S. Anker,Andrew Perrin

In the wake of World War I, a diverse group of women emigrated from Europe to the United States under austere conditions and adapted in different ways to life in the new country. Based on a major new study that includes in-depth interviews with 100 Italian and Jewish women who immigrated to the New York City area in the early 1900s, this volume explores family and work lives led by these women and the relative importance of cultural factors to the two groups' adjustment to American life. The interviews trace the process of adapting to life in the U.S., paying special attention to the specific experiences of women immigrants and the challenges they faced in surmounting gender and cultural barriers both within their families and in their new communities. This innovative, interdisciplinary study uses feminist approaches to explore immigrant women's lives from childhood to old age. The result is a nuanced view of the similarities and differences between the two groups, whose distinct family structures and cultural backgrounds led to different responses to the same pressures and difficulties.

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174

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313030235

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9780313030239

Ecospectrality

Haunting and Environmental Justice in Contemporary Anglophone Novels

By: Laura A. White

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Ecospectrality

Haunting and Environmental Justice in Contemporary Anglophone Novels

By: Laura A. White

Along with humans and animals, ghosts populate the pages of contemporary Anglophone novels. Analysing novels from across the world-including Australia, Nigeria, South Africa, India, and Jamaica, this book explores how these ghosts can help readers to perceive difficult-to-visualise environmental threats and access marginalised environmental knowledge. Instead of prompting fear, these hauntings foster understanding across species and generations to enable inclusive formulations of environmental justice. Drawing on the latest work in postcolonial ecocriticism, hauntology, and environmental philosophy and such literary texts as GraceLand, No Telephone to Heaven, The Rock Alphabet, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Ecospectrality is an essential read for anyone working in the environmental humanities today.

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305

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350091588

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9781350091580

Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature

Transnational Narratives from Joyce to Bolaño

By: Laura Barberán Reinares

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Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature

Transnational Narratives from Joyce to Bolaño

By: Laura Barberán Reinares

At present, the bulk of the existing research on sex trafficking originates in the social sciences. Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature adds an original perspective on this issue by examining representations of sex trafficking in postcolonial literature. This book is a sustained interdisciplinary study bridging postcolonial literature, in English and Spanish, and sex trafficking, as analyzed through literary theory, anthropology, sociology, history, trauma theory, journalism, and globalization studies. It encompasses postcolonial theory and literature’s aesthetic analysis of sex trafficking together with research from social sciences, psychology, anthropology, and economics with the intention of offering a comprehensive analysis of the topic beyond the type of Orientalist discourse so prevalent in the media. This is an important and innovative resource for scholars in literature, postcolonial studies, gender studies, human rights and global justice.

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218

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Routledge

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1317667921

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9781317667926

Stem Cells

By: Gian Paolo Bagnara,Laura Bonsi,Francesco Alviano

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Stem Cells

By: Gian Paolo Bagnara,Laura Bonsi,Francesco Alviano

The main objective of this book is to present a thorough update on stem cell research and the potential therapeutic applications of stem cells. The text is structured following a path that starts from the molecular basics and the biological properties of pluripotent, embryonic or reprogrammed stem cells, and it compares the different degrees of stemness, while describing the adult stem populations residing in the various tissues and organs of the human body. Starting from basic research, the book discusses examples of regenerative medicine that translate the experimental findings into clinical applications of cell therapy. Finally, the book reviews how stem cells represent a model to understand not only the physiological mechanisms that control their fate, but also the pathological mechanisms involved in the aberrant biology of cancer stem cells. Each chapter has been conceived by distinguished researchers in the field who provide detailed and updated contributions that distill knowledge in a very readable text.

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306

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Società Editrice Esculapio

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8835371619

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9788835371618

The Counterhuman Imaginary

Earthquakes, Lapdogs, and Traveling Coinage in Eighteenth-Century Literature

By: Laura Brown

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The Counterhuman Imaginary

Earthquakes, Lapdogs, and Traveling Coinage in Eighteenth-Century Literature

By: Laura Brown

The Counterhuman Imaginary proposes that alongside the historical, social, and institutional structures of human reality that seem to be the sole subject of the literary text, an other-than-human world is everywhere in evidence. Laura Brown finds that within eighteenth-century British literature, the human cultural imaginary can be seen, equally, as a counterhuman imaginary—an alternative realm whose scope and terms exceed human understanding or order. Through close readings of works by Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope, along with lapdog lyrics, circulation narratives that give agency to inanimate objects like coins and carriages, and poetry about the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, Brown traces the ways presence and power of the nonhuman—weather, natural disasters, animals, even the concept of love—not only influence human creativity, subjectivity, and history but are inseparable from them. Traversing literary theory, animal studies, new materialism, ecocriticism, and affect theory, The Counterhuman Imaginary offers an original repudiation of the centrality of the human to advance an integrative new methodology for reading chaos, fluidity, force, and impossibility in literary culture.

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Cornell University Press

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1501772570

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9781501772573

Women of Courage

Jewish and Italian Immigrant Women in New York

By: Rose Laub Coser,Laura S. Anker,Andrew Perrin

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Jewish and Italian Immigrant Women in New York

By: Rose Laub Coser,Laura S. Anker,Andrew Perrin

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Women of Courage

Women of Courage

Ecospectrality

Ecospectrality

Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature

Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature

Stem Cells

Stem Cells

The Counterhuman Imaginary

The Counterhuman Imaginary

Women of Courage

Women of Courage

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