Author: Tison Pugh File Type: pdf Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales, Pearl, Amis and Amiloun, and Eger and Grime, Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be claimed only after queerness has been rejected, no matter how appealing such queerness might remain at the storys end. Masculinity itself is thus revealed to be a queer performance, one which heroic protagonists of medieval narratives embody while nonetheless highlighting its constricting limitations.ReviewAdventurous, accessible, and fun, Pughs study certainly qualifies as a must read for any medievalist interested in issues of sexuality and gender.--SpeculumSexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature is an excellent, groundbreaking book and a major contribution to the ongoing project of recuperating the queer in medieval literature. Pughs primary concern is with constructions of heterosexual masculinity, and the ways in which such constructions are enabled by the intercession of the queer. This has always been one of the main projects of Queer Theory, and Pughs book serves as a demonstration of the power of Queer Theory to address pre-modern representations, as well as being an important intervention in the study of medieval literature itself.Robert Sturges, Professor of English, Arizona State University and author of Chaucers Pardoner and Gender Theory and Dialogue and DeviancePughs attention to questions of genre and narrative structure in the book is consistently engagingStudies in the Age of ChaucerAbout the AuthorTison Pugh is Associate Professor, Department of English and Distinguished Researcher, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Central Florida. He is the author of Queering Medieval Genres and the co-editor of Approaches to Teaching Chaucers Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems and Race, Class, and Gender in Medieval Cinema.

Author: Elisa P. Reis File Type: pdf The researchers who have written this volume are clear not only that mass poverty is still the leading humanitarian crisis in developing countries, but that, if effective policies are to be put in place, the national elites who control governments and economies need to be convinced of both the reasons why reducing poverty is in their own and the national interest, and that public action can make a difference. Remarkably, in the rapidly growing literature on poverty, this volume is the first to use survey techniques to explore Third World elites attitudes to poverty. Five cases - intended to be broadly representative of the diversity of situations in developing countries - were chosen Brazil, South Africa, the Philippines, Bangladesh and Haiti. While the authors found major differences in how national elites understand and represent poverty, the classic threats that induced elites in late 19th Century Europe to be concerned with reducing poverty - the fear of crime, epidemics, military weakness or political unrest - do not feature prominently in the consciousness of most Third World elites. Nor do most of them believe that there is a viable solution to poverty through public action. The findings in this book throw light on one reason for the relative ineffectiveness of poverty reduction strategies hitherto, and the huge importance of presenting the problem of poverty in ways that fit more closely with the ways in which national elites understand their world. **

Author: Kristina Ohlsson File Type: epub p itemprop=description In Zweden wordt op een regenachtige zomerse dag een klein meisje uit een overvolle trein ontvoerd. Haar moeder is per ongeluk op het vorige station achtergebleven. De bemanning van de trein was op de hoogte gebracht en zou een oogje op het slapende kind houden. Maar zodra de trein het station van Stockholm inrijdt, is het meisje spoorloos verdwenen. Inspecteur Alex Recht en zijn team, geholpen door onderzoekster Fredrika Bergman, nemen de zaak op zich. Aanvankelijk lijkt het op een ruzie over de voogdij. Maar als het kind dood wordt gevonden met het woord ongewenst op haar voorhoofd, verandert de zaak in de ergste nachtmerrie van het onderzoeksteam de jacht op een briljante en meedogenloze moordenaar Recencie(s) Met dit eerste boek zet de Zweedse schrijfster zichzelf meteen op de kaart waar het om spannende, originele en goed uitgewerkte literaire thrillers gaat. Het verhaal begint met de ogenschijnlijk gemakkelijk op te lossen ontvoering van het kleine meisje Lilian uit een volle trein. Inspecteur Alex Recht en zijn team nemen de zaak op zich, in de veronderstelling dat het om een ouderruzie gaat, maar ontdekken al snel dat ze te maken hebben met een briljante en meedogenloze moordenaar met een moeilijk traceerbaar motief. Het blijft niet bij deze ontvoering alleen. De kracht van het boek zit in het steeds wisselend perspectief en door de goed uitgewerkte karakters van de personages, zoals die van onderzoekster Frederika Bergman en rechercheur Peder Rydh. De lezer wordt al snel meegezogen in het verhaal, dat tot de laatste paginas spannend blijft en nergens ongeloofwaardig wordt. Camilla Lackberg, Ake Edwardson en Unni Lindell hebben er een collega bij. Kristina Ohlsson smaakt absoluut naar meer! Kleine druk.Ria Horter (source Bol.com)

Author: Delyth Edwards File Type: pdf This book offers an empirically informed understanding of how cultural, autobiographical and absent memories of orphanhood interact and interconnect or come into being in the re-telling of a life story and construction of an identity. The volume investigates how care experienced identities are embedded within personal, social and cultural practices of remembering. The book stems from research carried out into the life (hi)stories of twelve undervalued historical witnesses (Roberts, 2002) of orphanhood women who grew up in Nazareth House childrens home in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Several themes are covered, including histories of care in Northern Ireland, narratives and memories, sociologies of home, and self and identity. The result is an impressive text that works to introduce readers to the complexity of memory for care experienced people and what this means for their life story and identity.**About the Author Delyth Edwards is a lecturer in the Sociology of Childhood and Youth at Liverpool Hope University, UK.