Author: Simi Linton File Type: pdf I read My Body Politic with admiration, sometimes for the pain that all but wept on the page, again for sheer exuberant friendships, for self-discovery, political imagination, and pluck. . . . Wonderful! In a dark time, a gift of hope. -Daniel Berrigan, S.J. The struggles, joys, and political awakening of a firecracker of a narrator. . . . Linton has succeeded in creating a life both rich and enviable. With her crackle, irreverence, and intelligence, its clear that the author would never be willing to settle. . . . Wholly enjoyable. -Kirkus Reviews Linton is a passionate guide to a world many outsiders, and even insiders, find difficult to navigate. . . . In this volume, she recounts her personal odyssey, from flower child . . . to disability-rightshuman rights activist. -Publishers Weekly Witty, original, and political without being politically correct, introducing us to a cast of funny, brave, remarkable characters (including the professional dancer with one leg) who have changed the way that walkies understand disability. By the time Linton tells you about the first time she was dancing in her wheelchair, you will feel like dancing, too. ---Carol Tavris, author of Anger The Misunderstood Emotion This astonishing book has perfect pitch. It is filled with wit and passion. Linton shows us how she learned to absorb disability, and to pilot a new and interesting body. With verve and wonder, she discovers her bodys pleasures, hungers, surprises, hurts, strengths, limits, and uses. -Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, author of Extraordinary Bodies Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature An extraordinarily readable account of life in the fast lane... a brilliant autobiography and a great read. -Sander L. Gilman, author of Fat Boys A Slim Book While hitchhiking from Boston to Washington, D.C., in 1971 to protest the war in Vietnam, Simi Linton was involved in a car accident that paralyzed her legs and took the lives of her young husband and her best friend. Her memoir begins with her struggle to regain physical and emotional strength and to resume her life in the world. Then Linton takes us on the road she traveled (with stops in Berkeley, Paris, Havana) and back to her home in Manhattan, as she learns what it means to be a disabled person in America. Linton eventually completed a Ph.D., remarried, and began teaching at Hunter College. Along the way she became deeply committed to the disability rights movement and to the people she joined forces with. The stories in My Body Politic are populated with richly drawn portraits of Lintons disabled comrades, people of conviction and lusty exuberance who dance, play-and organize--with passion and commitment. My Body Politic begins in the midst of the turmoil over Vietnam and concludes with a meditation on the U.S. involvement in the current war in Iraq and the wars wounded veterans. While a memoir of the authors gradual political awakening, My Body Politic is filled with adventure, celebration, and rock and roll-Salvador Dali, James Brown, and Jimi Hendrix all make cameo appearances. Linton weaves a tale that shows disability to be an ordinary part of the twists and turns of life and, simultaneously, a unique vantage point on the world. **

Author: Alex Scobie File Type: pdf Adolf Hitler admired ancient Rome as the crystallization point of a world empire, a capital with massive public monuments that reflected the supremacy of the State and the political might of the ancient worlds master-race. He also admired the way Mussolini turned the monuments of imperial Rome into validatory symbols of Fascism. Hitler planned a Reich that would be a as durable as the Roman Empire. Its capital, Berlin, would surpass the architectural magnificence of ancient Rome before the advent of Christianity as its official religion. This book examines Hitlers views on Roman imperialism, town planning, and architecture, and shows how Albert Speer, though a self-confessed student of Doric architecture, planned and sometimes built structures that were intended to rival such monuments as Neros Golden House, Hadrians Pantheon, and the Stadium of Herodes Atticus at Athens. Other architects, such as Ludwig Ruff and Casar Pinnau, were to plan structures inspired by the Colosseum and the Baths of Caracalla. The ancient Roman obsession with order, discipline, and the domination of the environment is clearly reflected in the town plans and public buildings conceived by Hitler and his architects. We see that neoclassical state architecture in Nazi Germany was intended to signify more than stability and the persistence of tradition. It was only one aspect of the Nazi attempt to re-create a pagan totalitarian state based on clearly defined forms of hierarchy that divided society into slaves and slave-owners, those with and those without human rights. **

Author: Lisa Jakelski File Type: pdf Making New Music in Cold War Poland presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, one of the most important venues for East-West cultural contact during the Cold War. In this incisive study, Lisa Jakelski examines the festivals institutional organization, negotiations among its various actors, and its reception in Poland, while also considering the festivals worldwide ramifications, particularly the ways that it contributed to the cross-border movement of ideas, objects, and people (including composers, performers, official festival guests, and tourists). This book explores social interactions within institutional frameworks and how these interactions shaped the practices, values, and concepts associated with new music. **

Author: Marea Mitchell File Type: pdf This book examines the representation of female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century, discussing key texts such as Jane Eyre, Pamela, Pride and Prejudice and Arcadia. It focuses on the emerging tensions between moral, social, and generic constraints on female behavior.About the AuthorMarea Mitchell is Senior Lecturer in English at Macquarie University, Australia. Dianne Osland is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Newcastle, Australia.