Book Description
Explores the relationship between gender and identity in early medieval Germanic societies.
Author : Helene Scheck
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 39,79 MB
Release : 2008-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791478130
Explores the relationship between gender and identity in early medieval Germanic societies.
Author : Isabel Brown Crook
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1442225750
This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read and debated for what it reveals about China's rural dynamics as well as the nature of state power, markets, the military, social relations, and religion. Built on extraordinarily intimate and detailed research in a Sichuan village that Isabel Crook began in 1940, the book provides an unprecedented history of Chinese rural life during the war with Japan. It is an essential resource for all scholars of contemporary China.
Author : Anne Meis Knupfer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 27,71 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1136691804
Examining the encounters between the girls and the new arm of the state in Cook County, Illinois, Anne Meis Knupfer illuminates the origin of American notions of gender and delinquency. Combining rigorous research with passionate writing, Reform and Resistance is a good story about bad girls.
Author : Shirin Akiner
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9788120813717
Tibet exerts a powerful fascination far beyond its borders; remoteness and the deeply pervasive character ot Tibetan Buddhism have provided the setting for countless works of romace adventure and fantasy. Resistance and Reform in Tibet reveals the emergence of a distinctive, modern Tibetan society and the sophistication, creativity and resourcefulness of its people`s responses to Chinese domination. Tibet today is neither a socialist idyll nor a regimented gulag but a rich mixture of traditonal and innovative strategies in an ancient nation`s struggle for survival.
Author : Aminda M. Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2013
Category : China
ISBN : 144221838X
This book offers the first detailed study of the essential relationship between thought reform and the "dangerous classes"--The prostitutes, beggars, petty criminals, and other "lumpenproletarians" the Communists saw as a threat to society and the revolution. Aminda Smith takes readers inside early-PRC reformatories, where the new state endeavored to transform "vagrants" into members of the laboring masses. As places where "the people" were literally created, these centers became testing grounds for rapidly changing ideas and experiments about thought reform and the subjects they produced. Smit.
Author : Louis Menand
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 2010-01-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 0393062759
Sparking a long-overdue debate about the future of American education, "The Marketplace of Ideas" examines traditional university institutions, assessing what is worth saving and what is not
Author : Scott H. Podolsky
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1421415933
During the post-World War II "wonder drug" revolution, antibiotics were viewed as a panacea for mastering infectious disease. This book narrates the far-reaching history of antibiotics, focusing particularly on reform efforts that attempted to fundamentally change how antibiotics are developed and prescribed
Author : Katherine C. Kellogg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0226430014
In 2003, in the face of errors and accidents caused by medical and surgical trainees, the American Council of Graduate Medical Education mandated a reduction in resident work hours to eighty per week. Over the course of two and a half years spent observing residents and staff surgeons trying to implement this new regulation, Katherine C. Kellogg discovered that resistance to it was both strong and successful—in fact, two of the three hospitals she studied failed to make the change. Challenging Operations takes up the apparent paradox of medical professionals resisting reforms designed to help them and their patients. Through vivid anecdotes, interviews, and incisive observation and analysis, Kellogg shows the complex ways that institutional reforms spark resistance when they challenge long-standing beliefs, roles, and systems of authority. At a time when numerous policies have been enacted to address the nation’s soaring medical costs, uneven access to care, and shortage of primary-care physicians, Challenging Operations sheds new light on the difficulty of implementing reforms and offers concrete recommendations for effectively meeting that challenge.
Author : Ian Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 1980-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521229982
Author : James Lull
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135039224
The years following the Cultural Revolution saw the arrival of television as part of China’s effort to ‘modernize’ and open up to the West. Endorsed by the Deng Xiaoping regime as a ‘bridge’ between government and the people, television became at once the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party and the most popular form of entertainment for Chinese people living in the cities. But the authorities failed to realize the unmatched cultural power of television to inspire resistance to official ideologies, expectations, and lifestyles. The presence of television in the homes of the urban Chinese strikingly broadened the cultural and political awareness of its audience and provoked the people to imagine better ways of living as individuals, families, and as a nation. Originally published in 1991, set within the framework of China’s political and economic environment in the modernization period, this insightful analysis is based on ethnographic data collected in China before and after the Tiananmen Square disaster. From interviews with leading Chinese television executives and nearly one hundred families in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Xian, the author outlays how Chinese television fosters opposition to the government through the work routines of media professionals, television imagery, and the role of critical, active audience members.