Unruly People
Author: Robert J. Antony
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2016-08-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9888208950
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Unruly Bodies
Author: Susannah B. Mintz
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009-01-05
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0807877638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first critical study of personal narrative by women with disabilities, Unruly Bodies examines how contemporary writers use life writing to challenge cultural stereotypes about disability, gender, embodiment, and identity. Combining the analyses of disability and feminist theories, Susannah Mintz discusses the work of eight American autobiographers: Nancy Mairs, Lucy Grealy, Georgina Kleege, Connie Panzarino, Eli Clare, Anne Finger, Denise Sherer Jacobson, and May Sarton. Mintz shows that by refusing inspirational rhetoric or triumph-over-adversity narrative patterns, these authors insist on their disabilities as a core--but not diminishing--aspect of identity. They offer candid portrayals of shame and painful medical procedures, struggles for the right to work or to parent, the inventive joys of disabled sex, the support and the hostility of family, and the losses and rewards of aging. Mintz demonstrates how these unconventional stories challenge feminist idealizations of independence and self-control and expand the parameters of what counts as a life worthy of both narration and political activism. Unruly Bodies also suggests that atypical life stories can redefine the relation between embodiment and identity generally.
Unruly Places
Author: Alastair Bonnett
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 054410157X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlastair Bonnett explores extraordinary, off-grid, offbeat places including micro-nations, moving villages, secret cities, and no man's lands. Consider Sealand, an abandoned gun platform off the English coast that a British citizen claimed as his own sovereign nation, issuing passports and making his wife a princess. Or Baarle, a patchwork city of Dutch and Flemish enclaves where crossing the street can involve traversing national borders. Or Sandy Island, which appeared on maps well into 2012 despite the fact it never existed.
The Unruly PhD
Author: R. Peabody
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-02-09
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1137319461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection features former graduate students who speak frankly about the challenges and decisions they faced along the way to their doctorates. Peabody leaves no doubt that there are as many right ways to get through a PhD, and as many right career tracks on the other side, as there are students willing to forge their own paths.
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud
Author: Anne Helen Petersen
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0399576851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou know the type: the woman who won't shut up, who's too brazen, too opinionated - too much. She's the unruly woman, and she embodies one of the most provocative and powerful forms of womanhood today. In Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, popular BuzzFeed columnist Anne Helen Petersen examines this phenomenon, using the lens of 'unruliness' to discuss the ascension of pop culture powerhouses like Amy Schumer, Nicki Minaj, and Caitlyn Jenner, and why the public loves to love (and hate) these controversial figures.
Petitions and Power
Author: Xing Ying
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-06-14
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0429875940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing the way of storytelling, this book examines the petitions of the migrants of a dam in China. With the intensive and thorough analysis of the unique logic behind the petitions, it explores the complex relationship between Chinese peasants and governments, where people may find the key to the mysteries of Chinese society. As the first academic monograph which systematically studies petition, the peculiar Chinese social phenomenon, this book describes the collective action of the rural migrants who had fallen into poverty due to the construction of a dam in China’s Three Gorges area. By investigating the ups and downs of the petitions, it reveals the operating mechanism of Chinese counties, the conflicts between the officials and the masses, as well as Chinese political culture, especially the subtle process of the contest of powers. It observes that the peasants’ pursuit of justice not only temporarily maintains the balance of interests, but also makes the legitimacy of the party-state been reproduced. With substantial first-hand materials and empirical analyses, this book will be a valuable reference for scholars and students to study Chinese politics and society.
Imagining the People
Author: Joshua A. Fogel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-07-24
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1000161250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile much attention has been focused on the rise of the modern Chinese nation, little or none has been directed at the emergence of citizenry. This book examines thinkers from the period 1890-1920 in modern China, and shows how China might forge a modern society with a political citizenry.
This Person Is You
Author: Christopher Markert
Publisher: Branden Books
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 68
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Author: George Crabb
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Published: 1837
Total Pages: 552
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Author: Lin Huihuang
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-04-21
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9811902682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the petition(信访), a political system with Chinese characteristics. It is an important form of political participation for people at the bottom and an effective means of supervising officials at the grassroots level for the higher-level government. Through a half-year fieldwork of the Public Security Bureau, the author found that the operational logic of the petition seems to be different from the past, and it is the change of petition logic that leads to the dilemma that “the cost of petitioning is reduced but the road of rights safeguarding is narrowed,” or in other words, it's easier to make a petition but harder to succeed for those who are truly wronged. This book based on the grassroots of China's legal system is worth reading for those that are interested in studying police and petition as well as political sociology and organizational sociology.
