Author: Lindsey Earner-Byrne File Type: pdf This book reframes the Irish abortion narrative within the history of womens reproductive health and explores the similarities and differences that shaped the history of abortion within the two states on the island of Ireland. Since the legalisation of abortion in Britain in 1967, an estimated 200,000 women have travelled from Ireland to England for an abortion. However, this abortion trail is at least a century old and began with women migrating to Britain to flee moral intolerance in Ireland towards unmarried mothers and their offspring. This study highlights how attitudes to unmarried motherhood reflected a broader cultural acceptance that morality should trump concerns regarding maternal health. This rationale bled into social and political responses to birth control and abortion and was underpinned by an acknowledgement that in prioritising morality some women would die. **From the Back Cover The first fully comprehensive, accessible account of Irish womens struggle for bodily autonomy against powerful male-dominated institutions of state and society. It maps the historical context of the island, the prevailing norms and mores over the decades, the similarities and differences in both states, and firmly place womens value and autonomy as citizens within that, highlighting the hypocrisy, misogyny and careless attitudes that prevented and continue to prevent women from determining their own morality. It charts an amazing journey that is far from over, and articulates a narrative that many people will recognise. ul lDawn Purvis, Former Director of Marie Stopes UK, Northern Irelandl ul This book reframes the Irish abortion narrative within the history of womens reproductive health and explores the similarities and differences that shaped the history of abortion within the two states on the island of Ireland. Since the legalisation of abortion in Britain in 1967, an estimated 200,000 women have travelled from Ireland to England for an abortion. However, this abortion trail is at least a century old and began with women migrating to Britain to flee moral intolerance in Ireland towards unmarried mothers and their offspring. This study highlights how attitudes to unmarried motherhood reflected a broader cultural acceptance that morality should trump concerns regarding maternal health. This rationale bled into social and political responses to birth control and abortion and was underpinned by an acknowledgement that in prioritising morality some women would die. About the Author Lindsey Earner-Byrne is Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish History at University College Dublin, Ireland. She has published widely on gender, health and welfare in modern Ireland. Her books include Mother and Child Maternity and Child Welfare in Dublin, 1922-60 (2007) and Letters of the Catholic Poor Poverty in Independent Ireland, 1920-1940 (2017). Diane Urquhart is Professor of Modern Irish History at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, UK. She has published widely on gender, class, women and politics, and marriage. Her books include Women in Ulster Politics, 1890-1940 (2000), The Ladies of Londonderry Women and Political Patronage, 1800-1959 (2007) and her forthcoming monograph on the history of Irish divorce will provide the first comprehensive history of the subject.

Author: Michelle Dean File Type: epub The first book from one of Americas most promising emerging voices in literary journalism, winner of the National Book Critics Circles Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing (previous winners include Ron Charles, Kathryn Schulz, Parul Sehgal, and Daniel Mendelsohn) is sure to garner major review and feature attention.In the tradition of Sarah Bakewells bestselling At The Existentialist Cafe, Sharp is an accessible but erudite history of ten women writersDorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm. These women are united by what Dean calls sharpnessthe ability to make a precise and long-lasting observation through the written word, and in doing so claim a position of authority.Both entertaining and engrossing, Sharp transports the reader into the literary milieu of New York in the mid-century, from meetings of the Algonquin Round Table to literary cocktail parties at which Hannah Arendt might rub shoulders with Mary McCarthy. From their first loves to their divorces, their financial struggles to their breakthrough successes.We have reached out to writers including Rebecca Solnit, Margaret Atwood, Sarah Bakewell, Sheila Heti, Roxane Gay, Eula Biss, and others for blurbs and expect a strong positive reaction.As questions of how women are published become more and more central to our literary conversation, Sharp provides an often dismaying and sometimes amusing history of this subject. Dean shows how women were often treated appallingly by their male counterparts (Norman Mailers troll-like review of The Group in the New York Review of Books is a good example) and portrays how writers like Susan Sontag or Joan Didion related to the feminist movement at the time. There are interesting parallels to be drawn which will help the book get coverage.There is opportunity for potential bookstore display with the works of the writers included. The literary subject matter makes the book an ideal fit for publications from the New Yorker to the Paris Review to Literary Hub. There is perhaps more interest in the history of publishing now than ever before and this book is a powerful exploration of the patronizing and sexist and deeply financially unequal way these women working at the tops of their fields were often treated.Strong potential academic outreach the book is an ideal primer for readers who have not yet read any of the writers included and lends itself to course adoption. Many of the writers who are the focal figures of Sharp worked at times in the world of film criticism and we will conduct outreach to film critics alongside.

Author: Fabio Rambelli File Type: pdf This book draws attention to a striking aspect of contemporary Japanese culture the prevalence of discussions and representations of spirits ( tama or tamashii ). Ancestor cults have played a central role in Japanese culture and religion for many centuries in recent decades, however, other phenomena have expanded and diversified the realm of Japanese animism. For example, many manga, anime, TV shows, literature, and art works deal with spirits, ghosts, or with an invisible dimension of reality. International contributors ask to what extent these are cultural forms created by the media for consumption, rather than manifestations of traditional ancestral spirituality in their adaptations to contemporary society. Spirits and Animism in Contemporary Japan considers the modes of representations and the possible cultural meanings of spirits, as well as the metaphysical implications of contemporary Japanese ideas about spirits. The chapters offer analyses of specific cases of animistic attitudes in which the presence of spirits and spiritual forces is alleged, and attempt to trace cultural genealogies of those attitudes. In particular, they present various modes of representation of spirits (in contemporary art, architecture, visual culture, cinema, literature, diffuse spirituality) while at the same time addressing their underlying intellectual and religious assumptions.Review In recent years, debates about the use of the term animism have resurfaced as the ontological turn has reinvigorated the concept. This timely and diverse collection of essays contributes to these conversations by interrogating how the concepts of animism and spirits have been deployed in modern and contemporary Japan. Barbara R. Ambros, Professor of East Asian Religions, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USAThis thoughtful collection of essays explores ideas and representations about spirits and discourses about animism in modern and contemporary Japan by offering original and thought-provoking contributions. Highlyrecommended. Erica Baffelli, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Manchester, UKThis is an important, timely, and very rich volume. The authors critically examine modern uses of the term animism in Japan, analyse various types of spirit belief in their historical contexts, and offer compelling new interpretations of popular culture, from anime to forest therapy. A much-needed respite from the numerous essentialist celebrations of Japanese Shinto animism in recent academic and media discourse. Aike P. Rots, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, University of Oslo, Norway, author of Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan Making Sacred Forests (Bloomsbury 2017).This is a fascinating collection of perspectives on the place of spirit in modern and contemporary Japan, produced by some of the top scholars in the field. It offers a balance of breadth and nuance that guarantees something of interest for specialists and non-specialists alike. We come away with a vivid, unforgettable sense of how spirit pervades Japanese life - bringing meaning and energy to such diverse areas of life as family, relationships, war, commerce, art, memory, the environment, and peoples sense of hope or dread about the future. A real treat. Chris Harding, Senior Lecturer in Asian History, University of Edinburgh, UK, author of Japan Story In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present (2018) About the Author Fabio Rambelli is Professor of Japanese Religions and International Shinto Foundation Endowed Chair in Shinto Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He is series editor of Bloomsbury Shinto Studies, and his publications include The Sea and the Sacred in Japan (Bloomsbury, 2018) and A Buddhist Theory of Semiotics (2013).

Author: Kendrick Smithyman File Type: epub Described as the sly old fox of New Zealand verse, Kendrick Smithyman is a major New Zealand poet. In Selected Poems passionate commitment to the craft of language and to a sense of place stamp the 100 poems selected by Peter Simpson. Thick with wry wit, unexpected imagery and astonishing fluency, Selected Poems demonstrates Kendrick Smithymans skill and achievement.