O Vol. 2 da Coleção As Pensadoras instiga leitoras e leitores ao resgate e à valorização do pensamento e da prática de mulheres que elevaram sua voz e sua escrita em contextos hostis. Educadoras, escritoras e intelectuais que lançam luz às identidades femininas múltiplas, mestiças e silenciadas, desde o passado distante até os dias atuais. Neste livro, a editora As Pensadoras publica artigos inéditos sobre aspectos da obra de Nísia Floresta, Nadezhda Krúpskaya, Maria Firmina dos Reis, Sandra Harding, Glória Anzaldúa, Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda e Marta Lamas.
Vulnerability, Extremism, and Schooling: Restorative Practices, Policy Enactment, and Managing Risk documents and analyzes efforts by educational policymakers to combat susceptibility to extremism within disadvantaged communities. Schools worldwide are increasingly enlisted in the efforts of nation-states to prevent or counter violent extremism. However, since extremism is a notoriously complex and difficult concept to define, attempts to counter violent extremism are inevitably entangled in issues of political and social power. Through the lens of affective governance—which refers to a style of governing emphasizing the emotional and psychological needs of citizens, as well as their sense of connection and belonging to their community—this book draws attention to how policy enactment can be closely aligned with government agendas revolving around the management of risk. The authors argue that extremism is closely tied to systemic marginalization and, while efforts to combat a susceptibility to extremism are important, so is a continual critique of such efforts. This is especially true when approaches are aimed at populations who are already marginalized.
This diachronic study of Boudica serves as a sourcebook of references to Boudica in the early modern period and gives an overview of the ways in which her story was processed and exploited by the different players of the times who wanted to give credence and support to their own belief systems. The author examines the different apparatus of state ideology which processed the social, religious and political representations of Boudica for public absorption and helped form the popular myth we have of Boudica today. By exploring images of the Briton warrior queen across two reigns which witnessed an act of political union and a move from English female rule (under Elizabeth I) to British/Scottish masculine rule (under James VI & I) the author conducts a critical cartography of the ways in which gender, colonialism and nationalism crystallised around this crucial historical figure. Concentrating on the original transmission and reception of the ancient texts the author analyses the historical works of Hector Boece, Raphael Holinshed and William Camden as well as the canonical literary figures of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. She also looks at aspects of other primary sources not covered in previous scholarship, such as Humphrey Llwyd’s Breuiary of Britayne (1573), Petruccio Ubaldini’s Le Vite delle donne illustri, del regno d’Inghilterra, e del regno di Scotia (1588) and Edmund Bolton’s Nero Caesar (1624). Furthermore, she incorporates archaeological research relating to Boudica.
This volume offers the first critical edition of and thorough introduction to one of medieval Naples’ most notable expressions of local memory and identity and a foundational text in the subsequent development of Neapolitan historiography.
When two women decided to write a book about family, they asked friends and relatives to contribute brief stories. But soon, word-of-mouth spread and hundreds of stories flooded in from "strangers all over the world! And stories are "still coming. In "Power of Family Love, co-authors Samantha Glen and Mary Pesaresi share the best of these collected stories. Any reader, any member of a family, will relate to the 60 testimonies that vividly reveal the joy, heart-ache and wisdom that come along with belonging to a family. - U.S. Olympic Gold Medal winner Mark Hendersen teaching children (in a big brother sort of way) to believe in themselves - A 32-year-old stockbroker crediting his mother for teaching him what life's all about - Through his father's passion for horses, a man learns the value of "truly living life - Watching time afflict the body and mind of her father, a woman realizes the cycles of life - A 15-year-old daughter complimenting her mother and father's "differences - A man reflecting on his big brothers; they tease him to death, but sure loved him A tribute to parents, grandparents, siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, and friends, "Power of Family Love celebrates an institution often taken for granted in today's hectic world--The institution of family. Just in time for the holidays, it comes along to restore faith in humanity and to let readers know there really "are a lot of decent people out there ... people who are members of families! About the Authors Samantha Glen is co-author of "Out of Harm's Way (Pocket) and has written numerous articles for Writer's Digest and Organic Gardening. Mary B. Pesaresi is an accomplishedplaywright and has provided scripts for the American Bankers Association's conventions. "Power of Family Love has been awarded the Family Channel Seal of Quality Award--a new standard for excellence in the entertainment industry! An independent panel of family entertainment writers identifies worthy products for their positive, wholesome nature and their rich, enduring entertainment value. To see other Family Channel Seal of Quality items--theatrical releases, television programs, video and computer games, on-line services, CD-ROMs, videos, music, live entertainment and vacation sites, visit /The Family Channel.
This study of kingship and the court in fourteenth-century Italy connects the style of rule of Robert of Naples to the changing issues of the fourteenth century and charts its legacy among other late-medieval rulers and Renaissance commentators.
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