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World, Class, Women

Global Literature, Education, and Feminism

By: Robin Truth Goodman

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World, Class, Women

Global Literature, Education, and Feminism

By: Robin Truth Goodman

World, Class, Women begins the extraordinarily important task of bringing a postcolonial, feminist voice to critical pedagogy and, by extension explores how current debates about education could make a contribution to feminist thought. Robin Truth Goodman deftly weaves together the disciplines of literature, postcolonialism, feminism, and education in order to theorize how the shrinking of the public sphere and the rise of globalization influence access to learning, what counts as knowledge, and the possibilities of a radical feminism.

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1134000731

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Policing Narratives and the State of Terror

By: Robin Truth Goodman

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Policing Narratives and the State of Terror

By: Robin Truth Goodman

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, world politics have increasingly mirrored plots of detective novels, with high-profile criminal investigations that cross multiple borders and the internationalized law enforcement practices associated with the "War on Terror." Policing Narratives and the State of Terror examines the relationship between domestic policing and international policy through an analysis of contemporary popular detective fiction, police procedurals, police autobiography, security reports, and chronicles of domestic spying. Robin Truth Goodman connects these accounts of policing to the changing shape of the contemporary nation-state, marked by the denationalization of labor; commercial and criminal laws that jump borders more quickly than civil law protections; and the replacement of legal precedent by unrepeatable, exceptional executive decisions. Working at the intersection of literature, international law, and globalized commerce, Goodman astutely pinpoints how policing has become an increasingly troublesome instrument of empire, particularly in terms of national sovereignty and the growing numbers of mercenary private security forces.

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State University of New York Press

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Gender Commodity

Marketing Feminist Identities and the Promise of Security

By: Robin Truth Goodman

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Gender Commodity

Marketing Feminist Identities and the Promise of Security

By: Robin Truth Goodman

Gender has become a commodity. Today's economy trades in symbols and narratives as much as in objects. As such, gender can be bought and sold, produced as an object, and demands constant work. What makes the commodity object seem alien, mysterious, and even threatening, Marx tells us, is that the worker's social relations - his subjectivity - are taken away from him and stamped into the object which then appears to have a life of its own, disassociated and threatening. Gender Commodity argues that gender is a social relation made into such an alienated object. In today's situation of radical insecurity, people are reaching out and identifying with objects - including symbolic ones - that promise quite falsely that they grant stability, duration, and fulfillment, and gender has been made into one of those. Gender Commodity is an interdisciplinary study that brings literary studies into dialogue with the surrounding mediascape around issues of gender, culture, and economy. It also asks how the symbolic production of gender commodity at home informs an imagination of gender policy as it reaches out globally. As it criticizes gender-affirmative feminism for participating in the culture of the commodity, Gender Commodity also looks to feminism to imagine gender otherwise.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Gender Work

Feminism after Neoliberalism

By: R. Goodman

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Gender Work

Feminism after Neoliberalism

By: R. Goodman

Recently, labor has acquired a re-emergent public relevance. In response, feminist theory urgently needs to reconsider the relationship between labor and gender. This book builds a theoretically-informed politics about changes in the gendered structure of labor by analyzing how the symbolic power of gender is put in the service of neoliberal practices. Goodman traces the cultural contextualization of 'women's work' from its Marxist roots to its current practices. From the income gap to the gendering of industries, Goodman explores and critiques the rise of corporate power under neoliberalism and the ways and whys that femininity has become one of its principle commodities.

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Gender Commodity

Marketing Feminist Identities and the Promise of Security

By: Robin Truth Goodman

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Marketing Feminist Identities and the Promise of Security

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Promissory Notes

On the Literary Conditions of Debt

By: Robin Truth Goodman

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Promissory Notes

On the Literary Conditions of Debt

By: Robin Truth Goodman

There is no doubt that the beginning of the twenty-first century was marked by crises of debt. Less well known is that literature played a historical role in defining and teaching debt to the public. Promissory Notes: On the Literary Conditions of Debt addresses how neoliberal finance has depended upon a historical linking of geopolitical inequality and financial representation that positions the so-called “Third World” as negative value, or debt. Starting with an analysis of Anthony Trollope’s novel, The Eustace Diamonds, Goodman shows how colonized spaces came to inhabit this negative value. Promissory Notes argues that the twentieth-century continues to apply literary innovations in character, subjectivity, temporal and spatial representation to construct debt as the negative creation of value not only in reference to objects, but also houses, credit cards, students, and, in particular, “Third World” geographies, often leading to crisis. Yet, late twentieth century and early twenty-first literary texts, such as Soyinka’s The Road and Ngugi’s Wizard of the Crow, address the negative space of the indebted world also as a critique of the financial take-over of the postcolonial developmental state. Looking to situations like the Puerto Rican debt crisis, Goodman demonstrates how financial discourse is articulated through social inequalities and how literature can both expose and contest the imposition of a morality of debt as a mode of anti-democratic control.

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Lever Press

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Strange Love

Or how We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market

By: Robin Truth Goodman,Kenneth J. Saltman

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Strange Love

Or how We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market

By: Robin Truth Goodman,Kenneth J. Saltman

Seeks to answer the question of how varied cultural forms--in this case, curricula, multicultural literature, and popular films--educate the public ideologically. Interrogates the relationship between the political economy of globalization and the new human rights imperialism and the cultural politics that educate the public into complicity with it through such narratives as family, war, politics, privatization, and innocence. [Introduction].

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742516350

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Gender for the Warfare State

Literature of Women in Combat

By: Robin Truth Goodman

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Gender for the Warfare State

Literature of Women in Combat

By: Robin Truth Goodman

Gender for the Warfare State is the first scholarly investigation into the written works of U.S. women combat veterans in twenty-first century wars. Most recent studies quantify military participation, showing how many women participate in armed services and what their experiences are in a traditionally “male institution.” Many of these treatments regard women as victims solely of enemy fire, even as they are also often victims of their own military apparatus and of their own involvement in global aggression. By applying literary analysis to a sociological question, Gender for the Warfare State views women’s experiences through story and literary traditions that carry meaning into present practices. Goodman shows that women in combat are not just entering and being victimized in “male institutions,” but are also actively changing the story of gender and thus the structure of power that is constructed through gender. Moreover, this book unveils a new narrative of care that affects economic relations more broadly and the contemporary politics of the liberal social contract. Women’s participation in combat is not just a U.S. event but global and therefore has a deeper historical range than current sociological accounts imply. The book compares the political contexts of women’s entry into war now with their prior, twentieth-century contributions to wars in other cultural settings and then uses this comparison to show a variety of meanings at play in the gender of war.

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Policing Narratives and the State of Terror

By: Robin Truth Goodman

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Infertilities

Exploring Fictions of Barren Bodies

By: Robin Truth Goodman

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Infertilities

Exploring Fictions of Barren Bodies

By: Robin Truth Goodman

In today's global market, ideas about family, femininity, and reproduction are traded on as actively as any currency or stock. The connection has a history, one rooted in a conception of feminine identities invented through a science interwoven with the pursuit of empire, the accumulation of goods, and the furtherance of power. It is this history that Robin Truth Goodman exposes in her analysis of literary and political representations of female infertility from the mid-nineteenth century to our day." "Goodman takes Darwin's studies on sterility between species as her starting point, exploring evolutionary science as the intersection of a colonial worldview based on class struggle and the pathologizing of female identities that fall outside of reproductive normalcy. She then examines how Joseph Conrad constructs a vision of feminism as a product of miscegenation, how Alejo Carpentier and Mario Vargas Llosa deploy female figures of miscegenation to recast Latin American literature as "difference," and how ecological devastation in the Brazilian Amazon is envisioned through failures in Indian marriage. Locating points of conjunction between queer, feminist, and postcolonial theories, Infertilities points to the role of lesbian representation and reproductive politics in ongoing critiques of globalism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816634882

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Radical Education (RLE Edu K)

A Critique of Freeschooling and Deschooling

By: Robin Barrow

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Radical Education (RLE Edu K)

A Critique of Freeschooling and Deschooling

By: Robin Barrow

This volume is a comprehensive critique of the radical tradition in educational theory. It traces the development of the key ideas in radical literature from Rousseau to the present day. Two opening chapters set Rousseau’s educational views and arguments in their political perspective, and subject them to an extended critical treatment. Subsequent chapters provide detailed analyses and examination of the ideas of A S Neill, Paul Goodman, Ivan Illich and Everett Reimer, Charles Weingartner and Neil Postman. Each author is treated separately but certain common themes and ideas are extracted and considered without reference to any particular author. Amongst others, the concepts of nature, learning, hidden curriculum and the relativity of knowledge are examined; at the same time broader arguments about the degree and nature of freedom that should be provided to children, deschooling and assessment are pursued.

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1136494677

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Environmental Thought

A Short History

By: Robin Attfield

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Environmental Thought

A Short History

By: Robin Attfield

Environmental thought has a rich and extensive history. Philosopher Robin Attfield guides readers through the key developments and debates that have defined the field from ancient times to the present. Attfield investigates ancient, medieval and early modern environmental contributions; Darwin and his successors; the debate in America involving Thoreau, Marsh, Muir and Pinchot; the foundation of the science of ecology in the Western world; and twentieth century trailblazers like Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson. Central themes of key environmentalist works of the 1970s and 1980s are discussed, along with the major debates in environmental philosophy, including Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis. Attfield then turns to the current environmental emergency, encompassing the crises of climate change, air pollution and biodiversity loss, exploring contemporary intellectual responses to it. Each chapter concludes with a list of recommended readings, selected to invite readers to explore the book’s topics in greater depth. Environmental Thought: A Short History will become a pivotal text in its field, of interest to students and scholars of history, philosophy, ethics, geography, religion, biology and environmental studies.

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John Wiley & Sons

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Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public

Women and the “Re-Privatization” of Labor

By: R. Goodman

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Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public

Women and the “Re-Privatization” of Labor

By: R. Goodman

Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public argues that feminism needs to develop a theory of the public. It responds to a moment when feminism's impetus to reconstitute the private sphere left a huge gap in its political thinking on the public. This inattention to the public is particularly worrisome now when the nation-state and its publics seem to have diminishing power and compromised democratic agency. The waning of power in the public sphere diminishes the influence that citizens can have in deciding on the conditions of life, and therefore minimizes the changes that feminists can envision or enact in the social field to work towards equality, access, deliberation, participation, just distribution, rights, and authority for women.

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0230112951

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Orientalism & Occidentalism

Is Mistranslating Culture Inevitable?

By: Robin D. Gill

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Orientalism & Occidentalism

Is Mistranslating Culture Inevitable?

By: Robin D. Gill

1. Identity - collective -- Japan 2. Orientalism -- Occidentalism 3. Intercultural communication - stereotypes 4. Translation theory - Japanese/English 5. Japanese - sociolinguistics Languages exotic to one another, such as English and Japanese, create false images of their respective speakers which form and confirm stereotypes that can be denied by Cultural Relativism but not disproved, much less vanquished. Being in denial is not the same as being cured. This book, like the author's seven books published in Japan/ese, treats prejudice by uncovering its roots and exposing them to the healthy light of reason. At the same time, it rethinks Orientalism together with Occidentalism by including the Sinosphere's perspective of what is East and West. While students of translation, sociolinguistics and cross-cultural studies may benefit most from the discussion (there are copious notes and indices of names and of ideas), the heart of the work is pure essay, "a work of travel by the path of language" that "leads us through delicious nuances . . . into important mysteries." Robin D. Gill is an American, who began to study Japanese as an adult and published his first seven books in that language while working as an acquisitions editor and translation checker of fine nonfiction for Japanese publishers. His most recent book, and first in English, Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! boasts close to 1000 holothurian haiku. The three most common adjectives used by reviewers describing him and his work are "eclectic," "erudite" and "fun.

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Paraverse Press

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0974261823

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A Field Guide for Immersion Writing

Memoir, Journalism, and Travel

By: Robin Hemley

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A Field Guide for Immersion Writing

Memoir, Journalism, and Travel

By: Robin Hemley

Discusses the various types of immersion writing, including travel, memoir, and journalism, and explains some of the issues that writers encounter in reporting about the factual world and in describing other people and their own inner experiences.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820338508

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The Projective Cast

Architecture and Its Three Geometries

By: Robin Evans

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The Projective Cast

Architecture and Its Three Geometries

By: Robin Evans

Robin Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history, and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing of architectural form. Anyone reviewing the history of architectural theory, Robin Evans observes, would have to conclude that architects do not produce geometry, but rather consume it. In this long-awaited book, completed shortly before its author's death, Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history, and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing of architectural form. He shows that geometry does not always play a stolid and dormant role but, in fact, may be an active agent in the links between thinking and imagination, imagination and drawing, drawing and building. He suggests a theory of architecture that is based on the many transactions between architecture and geometry as evidenced in individual buildings, largely in Europe, from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. From the Henry VII chapel at Westminster Abbey to Le Corbusier's Ronchamp, from Raphael's S. Eligio and the work of Piero della Francesca and Philibert Delorme to Guarino Guarini and the painters of cubism, Evans explores the geometries involved, asking whether they are in fact the stable underpinnings of the creative, intuitive, or rhetorical aspects of architecture. In particular he concentrates on the history of architectural projection, the geometry of vision that has become an internalized and pervasive pictorial method of construction and that, until now, has played only a small part in the development of architectural theory. Evans describes the ambivalent role that pictures play in architecture and urges resistance to the idea that pictures provide all that architects need, suggesting that there is much more within the scope of the architect's vision of a project than what can be drawn. He defines the different fields of projective transmission that concern architecture, and investigates the ambiguities of projection and the interaction of imagination with projection and its metaphors.

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MIT Press

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0262550385

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Child Psychology

Development in a Changing Society

By: Robin Harwood,Scott A. Miller,Ross Vasta

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Child Psychology

Development in a Changing Society

By: Robin Harwood,Scott A. Miller,Ross Vasta

In this comprehensive overview, readers will gain a better understanding of the various theories, perspectives, and research that characterize contemporary themes in child development. The book uses a contextual approach to examine the biological, cognitive, social, and emotional foundations of child development. Special attention is paid throughout to the contexts in which development occurs, including families and the larger culture, and how these intersect with our changing society.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471706493

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Promissory Notes

On the Literary Conditions of Debt

By: Robin Truth Goodman

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On the Literary Conditions of Debt

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Gender for the Warfare State

Literature of Women in Combat

By: Robin Truth Goodman

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Literature of Women in Combat

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Taylor & Francis

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Robin Cook

Three Complete Novels

By: Robin Cook

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Robin Cook

Three Complete Novels

By: Robin Cook

Robin Cook keeps the suspense mounting and the pages turning in these three gripping medical thrillers. Combining cutting-edge technology, rich medical lore, and his signature brand of spellbinding suspense, Cook draws his tales straight out of today's headlines, creating controversy and intrigue with the same broad stroke of his pen.

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Putnam Adult

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039914319X

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Hometown Girl

By: Robin Lee Hatcher

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Hometown Girl

By: Robin Lee Hatcher

Hometown Girl by Robin Lee Hatcher released on Dec 25, 1998 is available now for purchase.

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Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Special Edition 90s

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0373242298

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Fortune's Sisters

By: Robin St Thomas,Robin St. Thomas,Robin S Thomas

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Fortune's Sisters

By: Robin St Thomas,Robin St. Thomas,Robin S Thomas

Bestselling author Robin St. Thomas marches in again, promising good fortune with this sensational new sizzler. Sister against sister. Daughter against mother. In a bitter family rivalry there could be only one winner. And someone was going to have to lose!

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