Author: Fiona Siegenthaler File Type: pdf Siegenthaler, Fiona (2013) Towards an Ethnographic Turn in Contemporary Art Scholarship, in Critical ArtsSouth-North Cultural and Media Studies 27(6), pp. 737-752. Special Issue Revisiting the Ethnographic Turn inContemporary Art, part 2. Guest editors An van. Dienderen, Kris Rutten, Ronald Soetaert*

Author: Amanda Jones File Type: pdf Dog Years is a heartwarming look at the lives and stories of 30 dogs. By presenting portraits of each dog as a puppy and again as an older dog, photographer Amanda Jones reveals the unique spark of personality that lasts a lifetime. These beautiful images of breeds ranging from golden retrievers and Great Danes to pugs and French bulldogs are accompanied by reflections from loved ones on the lives they share with their furry companions. The result is a celebration of each dog and a tribute to the relationships we share with our four-legged friends.**

Author: Victor Malarek File Type: epub On the black market, theyre the third most profitable com- modity, after illegal weapons and drugs-the only difference being that these goods are human, though to their handlers they are wholly expendable. They are women and girls, some as young as 12, from all over the Eastern bloc, where sinister networks of organized crime have become entrenched in the aftermath of the collapse of Communist regimes. In Israel, theyre called Natashas, whether theyre actually from Russia, Bosnia, the Czech Republic, or Ukraine, no matter what their real names may be. Theyre lured into vans and onto airplanes with promises of jobs as waitresses, mod-els, nannies, dishwashers, maids, and dancers. But when they arrive at their destinations, they are stripped of their identifi-cation, and their nightmare begins. They are sold into pros-titution and kept enslaved those who resist are beaten, raped, and sometimes killed as examples. They often have nowhere to turn in many cases, the men who should be res- cuing them-from immigration officials to police officers and international peacekeepers-are among their aggressors.From Publishers WeeklyAward-winning Canadian journalist Malarek reports on the most recent wave in the global sex trade, sparked by the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. According to the U.S. State Department, at least 800,000900,000 impoverished young women, many of them orphans, from Eastern and Central Europe, are lured with promises of jobs as waitresses, nannies or maids in Western Europe or North America. Instead, they find themselves imprisoned in apartments, massage parlors or brothels in countries ranging from South Korea, Bosnia and Japan to Israel and Germany. With ruthless efficiency, in the words of one European official, Russian and other organized crime syndicates control this human trade, which offers high profits with little risk of interference thanks to complacency, complicity, and corruption on the part of national governments and law enforcement. One of the more horrific examples Malarek offers involves sex slaves in Bosnia who serviced NATO and UN peacekeepers after the war in 1995. Malarek recounts the affecting first-person stories of numerous victims. The author has excellent research skills and clearly makes his case with the hope of creating enough outrage to stop this traffic in women. However, his hyperbolic, tabloid style of writing is distracting. The facts are horrendous enough to speak for themselves. Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.

Author: Maxime Foerster File Type: pdf p Segoe UIWhat would love be if heterosexual couples were no longer assigned gender and sexual norms?p Segoe UIMaxime Foerster examines the heterosexual trouble between men and women in nineteenth-century French Romantic and Decadent literature. Key works by authors ranging from George Sand to Charles Baudelaire persistently demonstrate that heterosexuality did not work these authors, and many others, investigated the struggle that men and women alike waged against patriarchal norms. Whereas Romantic fiction dedicated itself to the reinvention of love, Decadence promoted sexual and gender deviance.p Segoe UIIn expertly evaluating the discord afflicting fictional heterosexual couples, male and female dandies, and doctors and their female patients, Foerster shows the crucial role that literature played in the fashioning of alternative identities. A concluding look at Prousts A la recherche du temps perdu traces the legacy of heterosexual trouble in the twentieth century.