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Thumbing a Ride

Hitchhikers, Hostels, and Counterculture in Canada

By: Linda Mahood

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Thumbing a Ride

Hitchhikers, Hostels, and Counterculture in Canada

By: Linda Mahood

In the 1920s, as a national network of roads and youth hostels spread across Canada, so did the practice of hitchhiking. By the 1960s, the Trans-Canada Highway had become the main thoroughfare for thousands of young baby boomers seeking adventure. Thumbing a Ride examines the rise and fall of hitchhiking and hostelling in the 1970s, drawing on records from the time. Many equated adventure travel with freedom, but a counter-narrative emerged of girls gone missing and other dangers. Town councillors, community groups, and motorists called for a nationwide clampdown on a transient youth movement that they believed was spreading hippie sensibilities and anti-establishment nomadism. Linda Mahood unearths good and bad stories and key biographical moments that formed young travellers’ understandings of personal risk, agency, and national identity. Thumbing a Ride asks new questions about hitchhiking as a rite of passage, and about the adult interventions that turned a subculture into a moral and social issue.

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0774837365

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9780774837361

Policing Gender, Class And Family In Britain, 1800-1945

By: Linda Mahood

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Policing Gender, Class And Family In Britain, 1800-1945

By: Linda Mahood

This book is intended for undergraduate courses on modern British history, women's history, courses on family, sexuality and childhood. Women's studies, history of education, sociology.

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Routledge

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1135369275

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The Magdalenes

Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century

By: Linda Mahood

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The Magdalenes

Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century

By: Linda Mahood

The nineteenth century witnessed a discursive explosion around the subject of sex. Historical evidence indicates that the sexual behaviour which had always been punishable began to be spoken of, regulated, and policed in new ways. Prostitutes were no longer dragged through the town, dunked in lakes, whipped and branded. Medieval forms of punishment shifted from the emphasis on punishing the body to punishing the mind. Building on the work of Foucault, Walkowitz, and Mort, Linda Mahood traces and examines new approached emerging throughout the nineteenth century towards prostitution and looks at the apparatus and institutions created for its regulation and control. In particular, throughout the century, the bourgeoisie contributed regularly to the discourse on the prostitution problem, the debate focusing on the sexual and vocational behaviour of working class women. The thrust of the discourse, however, was not just repression or control but the moral reform – through religious training, moral education, and training in domestic service – of working class women. With her emphasis on Scottish 'magdalene' homes and a case study of the system of police repression used in Glasgow, Linda Mahood has written the first book of its kind dealing with these issues in Scotland. At the same time the book sets nineteenth-century treatment of prostitutes in Scotland into the longer run of British attempts to control 'drabs and harlots', and contributes to the wider discussion of 'dangerous female sexuality' in a male-dominated society.

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1136247831

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9781136247835

Becoming a Woman Through Romance

By: Linda K. Christian-Smith

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Becoming a Woman Through Romance

By: Linda K. Christian-Smith

A woman is incomplete without a man, motherhood is a woman’s destiny, and a woman’s place is in the home. These conservative political themes are woven throughout teen romance fiction’s sagas of hearts and flowers. Using the theory and interpretive methods of feminism and cultural studies, Christian-Smith explores the contradictory role that popular culture plays in constructing gender, class, race, age and sexual meanings. Originally published in 1990, Becoming a Woman through Romance combines close textual analyses of thirty-four teen romance novels (written in the United States from 1942-1982) with a school study in three midwestern American schools. Christian-Smith situates teen romance fiction within the rapidly changing publishing industry and the important political and economic changes in the United States surrounding the rise of the New Right. By analysing the structure of the novels in terms of the themes of romance, sexuality and beautification, and the Good/Bad and Strong/Weak dichotomies, she demonstrates how each has shaped the novels’ versions of femininity over forty years. She also shows that although romance fiction is presented as a universal model, it is actually an expression of white middle class gender ideology and tension within this class. This high readable, comprehensive and coherent work was the first to combine in one volume three vital areas of cultural studies research: the political economy of publishing, textual analysis, and a study of readers. The first full-scale study of teen romance fiction, Becoming a Woman through Romance establishes the importance of the study of popular culture forms found in school for understanding the process of school materials in identity formation.

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Routledge

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1000639126

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9781000639124

Making Amends

Atonement in Morality, Law, and Politics

By: Linda Radzik

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Making Amends

Atonement in Morality, Law, and Politics

By: Linda Radzik

It is often assumed that wrongdoing can only be resolved through punishment or forgiveness. But this book explores the responses that wrongdoers can and should make to their own misdeeds, responses such as apology, repentance, reparations, and self-punishment. It examines the possibility of atonement in a broad spectrum of contexts -- from cases of relatively minor wrongs in personal relationships, to crimes, to the historical injustices of our political and religious communities. It argues that wrongdoers often have the ability to earn redemption within the moral community, that respect and trust among victims, communities and wrongdoers can be rebuilt, and that the moral responsibility of wrongdoing groups can be addressed without treating their members unfairly.

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Oxford University Press

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0199767254

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9780199767250

Beckett at 100

Revolving It All

By: Linda Ben-Zvi,Angela Moorjani

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Beckett at 100

Revolving It All

By: Linda Ben-Zvi,Angela Moorjani

The year 2006 marked the centenary of the birth of Nobel-Prize winning playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett. To commemorate the occasion, this collection brings together twenty-three leading international Beckett scholars from ten countries, who take on the centenary challenge of "revolving it all": that is, going "back to Beckett"-the title of an earlier study by critic Ruby Cohn, to whom the book is dedicated-in order to rethink traditional readings and theories; provide new contexts and associations; and reassess his impact on the modern imagination and legacy to future generations. These original essays, most first presented by the Samuel Beckett Working Group at the Dublin centenary celebration, are divided into three sections: (1) Thinking through Beckett, (2) Shifting Perspectives, and (3) Echoing Beckett. As repeatedly in his canon, images precede words. The book opens with stills from films of experimental filmmaker Peter Gidal and unpublished excerpts from Beckett's 1936-37 German Travel Diaries, presented by Beckett biographer James Knowlson, with permission from the Beckett estate. Renowned director and theatre theoretician Herbert Blau follows with his personal Beckett "thinking through." Others in Part I explore Beckett and philosophy (Abbott), the influences of Bergson (Gontarski) and Leibniz (Mori), Beckett and autobiography (Locatelli), and Agamben on post-Holocaust testimony (Jones). Essays in Part II recontextualize Beckett's works in relation to iconography (Moorjani), film theoretician Rudolf Arnheim (Engelberts), Marshall McLuhan (Ben-Zvi), exilic writing (McMullan), Pierre Bourdieu's literary field (Siess), romanticism (Brater), social theorists Adorno and Horkheimer (Degani-Raz), and performance issues (Rodríguez-Gago). Part III relates Beckett's writing to that of Yeats (Okamuro), Paul Auster (Campbell), Caryl Churchill (Diamond), William Saroyan (Bryden), Minoru Betsuyaku and Harold Pinter (Tanaka) and Morton Feldman and Jasper Johns (Laws). Finally, Beckett himself becomes a character in other playwrights' works (Zeifman). Taken together these essays make a clear case for the challenges and rewards of thinking through Beckett in his second century.

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Oxford University Press

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0198043643

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Irony's Edge

The Theory and Politics of Irony

By: Linda Hutcheon

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Irony's Edge

The Theory and Politics of Irony

By: Linda Hutcheon

The edge of irony, says Linda Hutcheon, is always a social and political edge. Irony depends upon interpretation; it happens in the tricky, unpredictable space between expression and understanding. Irony's Edge is a fascinating, compulsively readable study of the myriad forms and the effects of irony. It sets out, for the first time, a sustained, clear analysis of the theory and the political contexts of irony, using a wide range of references from contemporary culture. Examples extend from Madonna to Wagner, from a clever quip in conversation to a contentious exhibition in a museum. Irony's Edge outlines and then challenges all the major existing theories of irony, providing the most comprehensive and critically challengin theory of irony to date.

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1134937547

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Lost Girls

The Invention of the Flapper

By: Linda Simon

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Lost Girls

The Invention of the Flapper

By: Linda Simon

In the glorious, boozy party after the first World War, a new being burst defiantly onto the world stage: the so-called flapper. Young, impetuous, and flirtatious, she was an alluring, controversial figure, celebrated in movies, fiction, plays, and the pages of fashion magazines. But, as this book argues, she didn’t appear out of nowhere. This spirited, beautifully illustrated history presents a fresh look at the reality of young women’s experiences in America and Britain from the 1890s to the 1920s, when the “modern” girl emerged. Linda Simon shows us how this modern girl bravely created a culture, a look, and a future of her own. Lost Girls is an illuminating history of the iconic flapper as she evolved from a problem to a temptation, and finally, in the 1920s and beyond, to an aspiration.

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Reaktion Books

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1780238738

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9781780238739

Doing History

Investigating with Children in Elementary and Middle Schools

By: Linda S. Levstik,Keith C. Barton

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Doing History

Investigating with Children in Elementary and Middle Schools

By: Linda S. Levstik,Keith C. Barton

Now in its fifth edition, Doing History offers a unique perspective on teaching and learning history in the elementary and middle grades. Through case studies of teachers and students in diverse classrooms and from diverse backgrounds, it shows children engaging in authentic historical investigations, often in the context of an integrated social studies curriculum. The premise is that children can engage in valid forms of historical inquiry—collecting and analyzing data, examining the perspectives of people in the past, considering multiple interpretations, and creating evidence-based historical accounts. Grounded in contemporary sociocultural theory and research, the text features vignettes in each chapter showing communities of teachers and students doing history in environments rich in literature, art, writing, discussion, and debate. The authors explain how the teaching demonstrated in the vignettes reflects basic principles of contemporary learning theory. Doing History emphasizes diversity of perspectives in two ways: readers encounter students from a variety of backgrounds, and students themselves look at history from multiple perspectives. It provides clear guidance in using multiple forms of assessment to evaluate the specifically historical aspects of children’s learning.

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1317815688

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9781317815686

Signifying Woman

Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill

By: Linda M. G. Zerilli

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Signifying Woman

Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill

By: Linda M. G. Zerilli

Woman has been defined in classic political theory as elusive yet dangerous, by her nature fundamentally destructive to public life. In the view of Linda M. G. Zerilli, however, gender relations shape the very grammar of citizenship. In deeply textured interpretations of Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Zerilli recasts our understanding of woman as the agent of social chaos and makes a major advance for feminist political theory.

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Cornell University Press

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1501711318

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Anchor of My Life

Middle Class American Mothers and Daughters, 1880-1920

By: Linda W. Rosenzweig

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Anchor of My Life

Middle Class American Mothers and Daughters, 1880-1920

By: Linda W. Rosenzweig

The decades between 1880 and 1920 could represent a watershed in the history of the mother-daughter relationship--a subject ripe for extensive investigation. This study investigates conflict and harmony between the generations before, during, and after this period, drawing on a variety of sources: letters, diaries, autobiographies, prescriptive advice or "self-help" literature, and fiction. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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328

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NYU Press

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0814774555

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9780814774557

Bodily Charm

Living Opera

By: Linda Hutcheon,Michael Hutcheon

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Bodily Charm

Living Opera

By: Linda Hutcheon,Michael Hutcheon

Studies the musical, textual, dramatic, and narrative ways in which opera performers use and give meaning to their physical bodies, and analyzes the ways the audience perceives physicality during performances.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803223854

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9780803223851

Thumbing a Ride

Hitchhikers, Hostels, and Counterculture in Canada

By: Linda Mahood

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Thumbing a Ride

Hitchhikers, Hostels, and Counterculture in Canada

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The Magdalenes

Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century

By: Linda Mahood

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The Magdalenes

Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century

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Policing Gender, Class And Family In Britain, 1800-1945

By: Linda Mahood

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Policing Gender, Class And Family In Britain, 1800-1945

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This book is intended for undergraduate courses on modern British history, women's history, courses on family, sexuality and childhood. Women's studies, history of education, sociology.

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Teaching Social Studies in Middle and Senior High Schools

Decisions! Decisions!

By: Wayne Mahood,Linda Briggs Biemer,William T. Lowe

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Teaching Social Studies in Middle and Senior High Schools

Decisions! Decisions!

By: Wayne Mahood,Linda Briggs Biemer,William T. Lowe

Better for Middle School.

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Pearson College Division

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0675212537

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9780675212533

Linda McCartney

By: Linda McCartney

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Linda McCartney

By: Linda McCartney

This retrospective of Linda McCartney's life and photography contains a brilliant selection from her entire archive of over 200,000 images, and is produced in close collaboration with Paul McCartney and their children. This volume is a limited edition of 2,000 copies, numbered and signed by Paul McCartney.

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3836520893

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