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Estrin's readings are intricate and persuasive, and revealing. Her writing, at once deeply poetic and nuanced, is extremely clear. She argues for a kind of fluidity of the poetic subject that allows for gender crossings and transgressions, the resulting exploration of male subjectivity and feminine representations is immensely suggestive and potentially provocative."--Elizabeth D. Harvey, University of Western Ontario

International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of international courts and arbitrators, as well as judgements of national courts.

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsA Note about Arabic 1: Method 2: The Nature of Honor 3: The Sense of Honor The Variety of Meanings of the Word 'Honor' The History of the Word 'Honor' The Collapse of Honor 4: Horizontal and Vertical Honor 5: Reflexive Honor 6: The Mediterranean 7: Honor and the Law 8: How to Do Things with Honor The Home The Guarantee Protection 9: Types of Bedouin Honor10: Women11: Dishonor12: Bedouin-European Contrasts Honor and Strati...

This volume brings together prose from three decades of writing by Verena Stefan, one of the most influential contemporary feminist writers in the world. The original 1975 German publication of Shedding-a novella that narrates the radical transformation of a young woman against the backdrop of the early 1970s women's, civil rights, and health care movements-created such a stir that the work has been hailed as "the feminist equivalent to Mao's ...

How do men imagine women? In the poetry of Petrarch and his English successors—Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell—the male poet persistently imagines pursuing a woman, Laura, whom he pursues even as she continues to deny his affections. Critics have long held that, in objectifying Laura, these male-authored texts deny the imaginative, intellectual, and physical life of the woman they idealize. In Laura, Barbara L. Estrin counters this traditional view ...

Foreword by Anthony GiddensPrefacePart 1: Introduction1. Human Nature and the Social Bond2. Micro- and Macroworlds: Community and SocietyPart 2: Understanding: A Verstehende Soziologie3. Meaning, Context, and Interpretation4. Studies of Problem Solving and of Conversation: A Critique and a ProposalPart 3: Implicature and Emotion in Discourse5. Shame and Conformity: The Deference-Emotion System6. Microlinguistics: A Theory of Social Action7. Em...

About the Book Thermodynamics of Materials, Volumes I &II, goes beyond traditional texts to illustrate the applicability of thermodynamics to the specific classes of materials that are part of a curriculum in materials science and engineering. The text is written from both science and engineering perspectives so that students will be able to understand and apply the knowledge generated by scientists and communicate with and serve the needs of ...

Few periods of English history have been so subject to revisionism' as the Tudors and Stuarts. This volume offers a full introduction to the complex historiographical debates currently raging about politics and religion in early modern England. It * draws together thirteen articles culled from familiar and also less accessible sources * embraces revisionist and counter-revisionist viewpoints * combines controversial works on both politics and ...

In Volume 2 of this two-volume publication, the authors identify the appropriate planning approaches to urbanisation and their main social implications.

Copán, one of the most important Classic Maya sites, is renowned for the artistry of its high-relief stelae and altars and for the wealth of detail on its freestanding and architectural sculpture. In Maya Sculpture of Copán: The Iconography, internationally known Mayanist Claude-François Baudez provides a masterful survey of these elaborate and intriguing carved images. In Part I Baudez identifies and deciphers the specific motifs on each m...

Martin Heidegger's impact on contemporary thought is important and controversial. However in France, the influence of this German philosopher is such that contemporary French thought cannot be properly understood without reference to Heidegger and his extraordinary influence.Tom Rockmore examines the reception of Heidegger's thought in France. He argues that in the period after the Second World War, due to the peculiar nature of the humanist F...

J. Peter Euben is Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. John R. Wallach is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hunter College. Josiah Ober is Professor of Ancient History at Princeton University.

John Pemberton is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.

Paradise concentrates on the transformed class system of one community in rural Ontario. In a comparison of the decade following the First World War and the 1980s, Stanley R. Barrett analyses the changing face and structure of a town as it has had to adapt to modern social and economic realities.

An enormously exciting, beautifully written and very moving work. The Paper Canoe comprises a fascinating dialogue with such masters of theatre as Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Craig, Copeau, Brecht, Artand and Decroux.

The report aims to present the discussions at the workshop in a form which should be of interest and practical use to development workers, both in the field and in planning and policy, who are seeking practical and theoretical insights into the problems of integrating a gender perspective into conflict-related work.

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The language of contemporary cultural theory shows remarkable similarities to the patterns of thought which characterized the Victorian's views of race. Far from being marked by a separation from the racialized thinking of the past, "Colonial Desire" illustrates how we are operating "in complicity" with historical ways of viewing "the other, " both sexually and racially. "Colonial Desire" is a controversial and bracing study of the history of ...

By beginning with the 1949 Confederation rather than the activities leading up to it, and by thoroughly documenting areas of agreement, contention, and neglect, Blake writes a solid, contemporary history of Newfoundland's integration into Canada.

Martin Heidegger's impact on contemporary thought is massive and controversial. In France, the prestige of this German philosopher is such that contemporary French thought cannot be properly understood without reference to him. "Heidegger and French" "Philosophy" examines the reception of Heidegger's thought in France. Tom Rockmore argues that in the period after World War II, due to the peculiar nature of the humanist French philosophical tr...