Author: John Foran File Type: pdf Straddling disciplines and continents, Feminist Futures interweaves scholarship and social activism to explore the evolving position of women in the South.Working at the intersection of cultural studies, critical development studies and feminist theory, the books contributors articulate a radical and innovative framework for understanding the linkages between women, culture and development, applying it to issues ranging from sexuality and the gendered body to the environment, technology and the cultural politics of representation.This revised and updated edition brings together leading academics, as well as a new generation of activists and scholars, to provide a fresh perspective on the ways in which women in the South are transforming our understanding of development.**ReviewProvides a rich perspective on the lived experiences and agencies of women. A highly creative endeavor that will be valuable to activists and academics committed to both agendas of social justice and nuanced understandings of the effects of development. (Leela Fernandes, author of Transnational Feminism in the United States) A candid and hard-hitting agenda for feminist scholarship and activism in the South in the twenty-first century.Patricia Mohammed, University of the West Indies (Patricia Mohammed, University of the West Indies) While providing an unflinching account of the ravages of globalization, the authors uncover visions of radically transformative feminisms that are rooted in womens daily struggles for survival. The women, culture, and development approach that the authors embrace is more prescient and necessary than ever.Amrita Basu, Amherst College (Amrita Basu, Amherst College) This is the second edition of the influential text that established the women, culture, and development (WCD) approach to issues of women and development. The WCD approach links insights from feminist studies, cultural studies, and development studies to critique previous frameworks that privilege economics, narrowly define culture, or reproduce hierarchical gender relations.Yet this book is more than a critique chapters also provide alternative accounts placing the lives and perspectives of women in the Third World at the center of analysis. Contributions are global in scope, interdisciplinary in perspective, and cover a wide range of issues.. . . Highly recommended. (Choice) About the Author Kum-Kum Bhavnani is professor of sociology, global studies, and feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where John Foran is professor of sociology and environmental studies. Priya A. Kurian is associate professor of political science and public policy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, where Debashish Munshi is professor of management communication.

Author: Meister Eckhart File Type: pdf Now available in a single-volume edition, this exhaustive collection has been completely revised and includes a newintroduction by aleading Eckhart scholar. Containing the entire text of all of Eckharts vernacularthe German texts, whichpresenthispersonal reflectionson topics such as the poverty of spirit and the birth of Christ in the soulthis treasury is the authoritative volume of Eckharts enduring legacy to Christianity.**About the Author Meister Eckhart was a German theologian, a philosopher, and one of the most influential Christian mystic writers of the14th century. Bernard McGinn is a professor emeritus at the Divinity School of theUniversity of Chicago and the author of several books, including Early Christian Mystics, The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism, Meister Eckhart The Man from Whom God Hid Nothing, and The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart. He lives in Chicago. Maurice OC Walshe was a professor at the University of NottinghamLeeds and the author of Medieval German Literature.

Author: Perry Miller File Type: epub Two Volumes Bound as OneCritically acclaimed classic lets Puritans speak for themselves in crucial documents covering history, theory of state and society, religion, customs, behavior, biographies and letters, poetry, literary theory, education, science, and more. Regarded by historian Samuel Eliot Morison as the best selection ever made of Puritan literature, point of view and culture.

Author: Claudia Emerson File Type: epub With graceful lines swooping like a bird in flight, Claudia Emersons newest collection explores the harsh realities of aging and the limitations of the human body, as well as the loneliness, fear, and anger that can accompany us as we live. Keenly observed and beautifully executed, these poems move from the grim fa?ade that hides beauty-prosthetic eyes- to the beautiful scene that conceals violence-a rural retreat. Emerson also considers once common things that are fast becoming obsolete cursive writing, telephone booths, barbers. At once hopeful and cognizant of all the reasons why humans might despair, these poems echo with remarkable insight into the true nature of life.**ReviewEach poem in this last work from the late Emerson, who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Late Wife, is a finely detailed portrait. . . . Emersons sensitive and loving treatment of all her poetic material, her precise and provocative descriptions of her subjects thoughts and emotions, and her excellent use of language calls for the highest of accolades. Its a brilliant and original work.--Publishers Weekly Theres something bounteous, almost religious, in the graceful turning and opening of these lines, the way Emersons concentration grows spacious. . . . Open and complex.--Slate The twang of [Emersons] Virginia voice in speech and in song will be missed in the years to come. We can be thankful, however, that we are left with a gift--a body of work to be released posthumously. This first installment is a delight not an easy pleasure, often painful in fact, but as humans we will always wonder about the opposite house, and Emerson has bravely given us the chance to stop and stare.--Hopkins Review Clear-sighted, far-reaching, disturbing, and at times painfully honest, at others humorous. The Opposite House is the most ambitious, most fully realized of Emersons books.--Shenandoah The Opposite House. . . . seems almost magical in its precision and receptivity, as if she were channeling information from the future as well as the past. . . . Powerful, artful, and memorable.--Hollins Critic Emersons ability to capture the mystery found in everyday moments makes these poems eminently readable. . . . Emerson exposes the familiar in a way that makes us wonder how we could have seen the same thing for so long and not realized its critical essence. And when she writes about her personal losses and her own deteriorating condition, we cannot help but feel we are reading about someone we know deeply and personally.--Virginia Living The Opposite House is an excellent collection. The poems will set intelligent readers thinking rather than hurrying on to the next page. There is neither pathos nor bathos in these honest observations of what it means to be mortal in an inconsistent world. --New Orleans Review Emersons verse is grounded in a genuine curiosity, and her undertaking (fueled, perhaps, by the awareness of her own mortality) breathes new life into a tried-and-true subject. . . . The Opposite House is a stark and stoic rumination on death, one that only someone facing it could provide. --Pleiades The Opposite House is an excellent collection. The poems will set intelligent readers thinking rather than hurrying on to the next page. There is neither pathos nor bathos in these honest observations of what it means to be mortal in an inconsistent world. --New Orleans ReviewAbout the Author CLAUDIA EMERSON has published five poetry collections with LSU Press, including Late Wife, Figure Studies, and Secure the Shadow. A professor of English and member of the creative writing faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Emerson has served as the poet laureate of Virginia and won numerous awards for teaching and writing, including the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.