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The paradigmatic values underlying British and German higher education emphasise personal growth, the wholeness of the individual, intellectual freedom and the pursuit of knowledge, which cumulatively can be viewed as a form of academic essentialism. However, these...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-24
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The question of individual agency lies at the heart of any political and social theory aiming to analyse the social conditions that shape reality. Drawing mainly on the works of Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, this book endeavours to...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-24
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This book investigates a central contradiction in the Enlightenment thinking of emancipatory German women’s writing of the nineteenth century. Ida von Hahn-Hahn, Fanny Lewald, and Ottilie Assing wrote passionate arguments in favor of the emancipation of women, Jews, and...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-20
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The domestic sphere, the ideological as well as physical context of female life during the nineteenth century, featured prominently in German women’s writing of the period. Women writers, such as Fanny Lewald, Ida von Hahn-Hahn and E. Marlitt, who had begun to dominate...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-20
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This book studies the adoption and diffusion of gender quotas in Latin America and beyond. Gender quotas are institutional mechanisms intended to increase the proportion of women rapidly and effectively in key decision-making political posts. Since the 1980s, gender...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-14
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Neoliberalismus ist zweifellos eines der einflussreichsten gesellschaftspolitischen Phänomene unserer Zeit. In Anlehnung an Michel Foucault betrachtet die Studie ihn als eine Rationalität der Menschenführung bzw. der Regierung, die ultimativ auf die Ökonomisierung des...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-01-31
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Seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre ist eine Zunahme bei den Unternehmensgründungen durch Frauen zu erkennen. Diese Entwicklung weckte vor allem auf beschäftigungs- und wirtschaftspolitischer Seite hohe Erwartungen und stellte eine neue Herausforderung für Politik und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-12-08
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Questo libro intende offrire una nuova prospettiva interpretativa di tre romanzi della letteratura femminile italiana scritti tra Ottocento e Novecento: Un matrimonio in provincia (1885) di Marchesa Colombi, Teresa (1886) di Neera e Una donna (1906) di Sibilla Aleramo....
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2011-11-29
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Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its companion (Sentiment and Self) use 80 volumes of his diaries and other archival material along with anecdotes, extracts, and stories to recreate histories of everyday...
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OUP India
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2011-09-15
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This volume is the first book-length study devoted to gossip in early modern France. Whereas many works that focus on other countries and periods have concentrated on the relationship between gossip and women, none has explored the crucial link between gossip and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-12
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This collection of essays celebrates twenty years of Women in French, a network of female academics working in the discipline of French Studies. Based on papers delivered at the group’s tenth biennial conference in Leeds, which was entitled ‘Le parcours’, the volume...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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Alors que les notions d’échange et de changement sont l’objet d’études fréquentes dans les domaines économiques, linguistiques ou encore anthropologiques, elles ne sont que rarement prises en compte per se dans le domaine littéraire. En insistant sur les ambiguïtés, les...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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This book offers a fundamental challenge to a variety of theoretical, social, and political paradigms, ranging from law and justice studies to popular culture, linguistics to political activism. Developing the intellectual project initiated in Queering Paradigms, this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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Dieses Buch beleuchtet die Auswanderung von nahezu 20% der Bevölkerung des Dorfes Wiesbaden-Frauenstein (im heutigen Hessen) nach Australien in den Jahren 1852-54, ausgehend von den Briefen und Tagebüchern der Dorfbewohner ebenso wie von formalen Dokumenten und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-07-08
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Momentary Peace: an examination of the Catholic references in the works of Gertrud Leutenegger examines the way Catholic images, allusions and references are used by Gertrud Leutenegger, a contemporary Swiss writer, in expressing engagement with her faith, a theme...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-07-08
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The story of Rahab (Joshua 2) has traditionally been interpreted as the account of a foreign woman and prostitute who changes the course of her life when she converts to Yahweh. In return for her faithful act of saving the spies sent by Joshua to search the land of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-06-27
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A collection of extraordinary oral histories of American nuns, Habits of Change captures the experiences of women whose lives over the past fifty years have been marked by dramatic transformation. Bringing together women from more than forty different religious...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-06-01
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Beautiful War explores the interdependent political, linguistic, and erotic registers of lesbian feminism in Monique Wittig’s novels, querying in particular how they function collectively to destabilize male hegemony and heterosexism. Beginning with the assertion that...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2011-05-27
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Spanning 15 years of travel, beginning when she is a sophomore in college, Wanderlust documents Elisabeth Eaves's insatiable hunger for the rush of the unfamiliar and the experience of encountering new people and cultures. Young and independent, she crisscrosses five...
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Seal Press
Parution :
2011-05-24
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