This Book Is an Action

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
The Other ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The One ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Literary Renaissance ◽  
Foundational Belief

The Women's Liberation Movement held a foundational belief in the written word's power to incite social change. This book investigates the dynamic print culture that emerged as the feminist movement reawakened in the late 1960s. Works created by women shined a light on taboo topics and offered inspiring accounts of personal transformation. Yet, as the chapters reveal, the texts coalesced into something far greater: a distinct and influential American literary renaissance. On the one hand, feminists took control of the process by building a network of publishers and distributors owned and operated by women. On the other, women writers threw off convention to venture into radical and experimental forms, poetry, and genre storytelling, and in so doing created works that raised the consciousness of a generation. Examining feminist print culture from its structures and systems to defining texts by Margaret Atwood and Alice Walker, this book suggests untapped possibilities for analyzing the diverse range of literary production during feminism's second wave.

The Lesbian South

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Harker
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Dorothy Allison ◽  
Gay Liberation ◽  
Southern Women ◽  
A Site ◽  
Literary Renaissance

In this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary renaissance in southern letters. Anchored by a constellation of southern women, the Women in Print movement grew from the queer union of women’s liberation, civil rights activism, gay liberation, and print culture. Broadly influential from the 1970s through the 1990s, the Women in Print movement created a network of writers, publishers, bookstores, and readers that fostered a remarkable array of literature. With the freedom that the Women in Print movement inspired, southern lesbian feminists remade southernness as a site of intersectional radicalism, transgressive sexuality, and liberatory space. Including in her study well-known authors—like Dorothy Allison and Alice Walker—as well as overlooked writers, publishers, and editors, Harker reconfigures the southern literary canon and the feminist canon, challenging histories of feminism and queer studies to include the south in a formative role.

Interpreting law in socio-pragmatic space

Semiotica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (216) ◽  
pp. 109-130
Author(s):  
Vijay K. Bhatia
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Legal Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
The One ◽  
Occupy Central ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Legal Meaning

AbstractUnlike any other form of professional communication, legal discourse, especially in a legislative context, is unique in the sense that it is full of contradictions. Firstly, it is highly depersonalized, as its illocutionary force is independent of any specific writer or reader, and yet it is meant to address a diverse range of audiences. Secondly, it is meant for ordinary citizens, but is written in a style that is meant only for legal specialists. Thirdly, although its primary function is to assign rights and impose obligations to act or prohibit action, it is written in a highly nominal style (language of thinking) rather than verbal style (language of doing). And finally, legislative provisions are meant to be “clear,” “precise,” “unambiguous,” on the one hand, and “all-inclusive,” on the other, which can be seen as a contratdiction in terms. Most of these seeming contradictions make it difficult for the various stakeholders, which include specialists as well as non-specialists, to manage “socio-pragmatic space” in the construction and, more importantly, interpretation of such provisions, particularly when they are interpreted in broadly socio-political contexts. Drawing on some of the contradictory interpretations of certain sections of the Basic Law, widely regarded as the mini-constitution of Hong Kong, this paper will identify and discuss key theoretical issues emerging from a diversity of meanings attributed to somewhat innocuous legislative constructions, which precipitated the “Occupy Central” movement, largely popularized as the symbolic “Umbrella Movement.” The paper thus attempts to highlight two rather different aspects of interpretation of legal meaning, one in the court of law for the negotiation of justice, and the other in wider socio-political and public domains where law is interpreted broadly with wider social implications.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Harker ◽  
Cecilia Konchar Farr
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Cultural Artifacts ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Literary Renaissance

This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to frame and investigate the distinctive feminist culture of letters that emerged with the reawakened women's movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Chapters reflect on the conditions of that culture, its “particularized mechanisms,” and on its specific literary artifacts—a sampling of the diverse range of feminist literary production. Together, the chapters make a case for the importance of the writings of the women's movement, not just as political and cultural artifacts but also as the texts of an influential and inventive American literary renaissance. The remainder of the chapter discusses the literary roots of Women's Liberation, the explosion of feminist print culture, and activist aesthetics. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.

scholarly journals Projected spread of COVID-19’s second wave in South Africa under different levels of lockdown

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisha B. Are ◽  
Caroline Colijn
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Compartmental Model ◽  
The Other ◽  
Rapid Testing ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Lasting Effect ◽  
The One ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Pharmaceutical Interventions

South Africa is currently experiencing a second wave of resurgence in COVID-19 infection. In this modelling study, we use a Bayesian compartmental model to project possible spread of the second wave of COVID-19 in South Africa under various levels of lockdown restrictions. Our model suggests that strict lockdown restrictions will have to be in place up to the end of March 2021 before cases can drop to levels observed, in September to early November 2020, after the first wave. On the one hand, extended lockdown restrictions have negative consequences – albeit effective, they are not sustainable over extended periods. On the other hand, short lockdown restrictions over a few weeks will not have a lasting effect on the spread of the disease. Lockdown restrictions need to be supplemented with increased rapid testing, palliative support for the vulnerable, and implementations of other non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as mask mandate. These multifaceted approaches could help keep cases under control until vaccines are widely available.

scholarly journals The Age of Studies and Reports: Selected Elements Concerning the Background of Encounters Defining the Power of Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-80
Author(s):  
Veronika Tašner ◽  
Slavko Gaber
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Central Place ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Comprehensive Education ◽  
The One ◽  
Second Wave

In the present paper, we discuss the time before the “age of reports”. Besides the Coleman Report in the period of Coleman, the Lady Plowden Report also appeared, while there were important studies in France (Bourdieu & Passeron, 1964; Peyre, 1959) and studies that inaugurated comprehensive education in Nordic countries. We focus on the period after the World War II, which was marked by rising economic nationalism, on the one hand, and by the second wave of mass education, on the other, bearing the promise of more equality and a reduction of several social inequalities, both supposed to be ensured by school. It was a period of great expectations related to the power of education and the rise of educational meritocracy. On this background, in the second part of the paper, the authors attempt to explore the phenomenon of the aforementioned reports, which significantly questioned the power of education and, at the same time, enabled the formation of evidence-based education policies. In this part of the paper, the central place is devoted to the case of socialist Yugoslavia/Slovenia and its striving for more equality and equity through education. Through the socialist ideology of more education for all, socialist Yugoslavia, with its exaggerated stress on the unified school and its overemphasised belief in simple equality, overstepped the line between relying on comprehensive education as an important mechanism for increasing the possibility of more equal and just education, on the one hand, and the myth of the almighty unified school capable of eradicating social inequalities, especially class inequalities, on the other. With this radical approach to the reduction of inequalities, socialist policy in the then Yugoslavia paradoxically reduced the opportunity for greater equality, and even more so for more equitable education.

The Allure of Narrative in Greek Lyric Poetry

2019 ◽  
pp. 36-58
Author(s):  
David Fearn
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Lyric Poetry ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
The Other ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The One ◽  
Literary Narrative

This chapter concerns itself with Greek lyric’s attention to its own allure, through an exploration of the tension between absorption into the narrativity of lyric’s worlds, on the one hand, and, on the other, attentiveness to lyric’s exposition of the artifice and ornamentation of language, and of the intertextualities that constitute the building blocks of lyric narrative. Building on accounts of lyric, literary allure, and literary narrative in recent work in comparative literature as well as hin Classics, the chapter explores the experience of narrative across a diverse range of Greek lyric texts—Stesichorus, Bacchylides, Anacreon, and Pindar—and assesses the range of effects produced and complexities entailed while also drawing out what seems to be distinctively lyrical about all these examples of Greek lyric’s attitudes towards narrative.

Disaster Nation

2019 ◽  
pp. 133-165
Author(s):  
Cynthia A. Kierner
Keyword(s):  
New Hampshire ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
The Other ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
American National Identity ◽  
The One ◽  
National Significance

Americans experienced changes in both the quality and quantity of disasters in the post-revolutionary era. On the one hand, they were increasingly vulnerable to new categories of calamities, as fires and epidemics proliferated in the growing cities of the early republic. On the other hand, they inhabited a print-saturated environment in which such episodes were widely reported and sometimes assumed national significance. Focusing primarily on Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic in 1793 and fires in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Richmond, Virginia, this chapter addresses two related themes: how U.S. leaders envisioned the role of the state in disaster relief and how disaster stories contributed to the creation of an American national identity. It shows that by publicizing private philanthropic efforts that arose in response to disasters, print culture encouraged readers to see themselves as virtuous and charitable, even as their government rejected the British model of state-sponsored humanitarian aid, and that by chronicling the suffering of individuals, increasingly sensational accounts encouraged readers to see disasters as personal tragedies rather than public problems.

Challenging the Limits of Sex

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Leng
Keyword(s):  
Social Identities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Sexual Subjectivity ◽  
Heterosexual Women ◽  
Female Homosexuality ◽  
The One

Sexology opened up new ways of thinking about sexual subjectivity that challenged the male/female binary and its assumed heterosexuality. This chapter analyzes how Anna Rüling, Johanna Elberskirchen, and Rosa Mayreder critically engaged theories of female homosexuality to formulate and espouse non-normative, non-heterosexual subjectivities as legitimate social identities with “natural” needs for social rights and sexual freedoms. All three authors represented their subjects as enjoying a special relationship to the feminist movement and as superior to “normal”—that is, unambiguously feminine and heterosexual—women, who they viewed as limited in their existential possibilities by virtue of their reproductive sexuality. Women sexologists’ insistence that sex was biologically fluid led them on the one hand to argue that sexual diversity ought to be recognized, celebrated, and accepted, and on the other hand to create new hierarchies of political and existential value among different types of women, precisely along lines of sexuality.

From textual orality to oral textuality: The case of voice queries

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 927-941
Author(s):  
Oren Soffer
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cognitive Demands ◽  
Search Queries ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Written Form ◽  
The One

This study analyzes the phenomenon of digital voice search queries against the background of the fluid and changing balance in the orality–literacy osmosis of different historical eras. In attempting to theoretically conceptualize the unique oral characteristics of this new digital feature, this article argues that as the result of technological considerations, voice querying manifests an attempt to discipline oral words – to pronounce them while thinking of their written form. The article also considers the oxymoron of ‘looking up’ information through spoken words; the effect of an interface that stresses the use of the oral words as an event; the devocalization of queries, as they transform into a written form; and the implications of browsing the Internet through oral word searches, especially for young children. It concludes that the integration of these oral features can be explained by the affordances of digital media on the one hand and the ‘revival’ of intuitive preprint features attempting to ease the cognitive demands of print culture on the other hand.

But i nEver Learned To Waltz: the "Real" and Imagined Education of a Courtesan in the Late Qing

NAN Nü ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Zamperini
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Female Subjectivity ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The One ◽  
Chinese Male

AbstractThis article illustrates the complex web of agency, voice, compliance, and resistance that men and women alike wove and unraveled in (re)presenting fictional and nonfictional versions of the education and the life-cycle of courtesans at the turn of last century. On the one hand, it shows how Chinese male novelists appropriate the long-standing cliche of the courtesan to expand (albeit in a limited way) and exoticize the horizons of female subjectivity. On the other hand, it reveals how, thanks to the explosive development of print culture begun in the late nineteenth century, the courtesan herself could step in to redefine those horizons and to problematize her role as a "modern" heroine.

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