This Book Is an Action

This Book Is an Action

Author: Jaime Harker

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2015-12-30

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0252097904

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The Women's Liberation Movement held a foundational belief in the written word's power to incite social change. In this new collection, Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr curate essays that reveal how second-wave feminists embraced this potential with a vengeance. The authors in This Book Is an Action investigate the dynamic print culture that emerged as the feminist movement reawakened in the late 1960s. The works created by women shined a light on taboo topics and offered inspiring accounts of personal transformation. Yet, as the essayists reveal, the texts represented something far greater: a distinct and influential American literary renaissance. On the one hand, feminists took control of the process by building a network of publishers and distributors owned and operated by women. On the other, women writers threw off convention to venture into radical and experimental forms, poetry, and genre storytelling, and in so doing created works that raised the consciousness of a generation. Examining feminist print culture from its structures and systems to defining texts by Margaret Atwood and Alice Walker, This Book Is an Action suggests untapped possibilities for the critical and aesthetic analysis of the diverse range of literary production during feminism's second wave.


Transforming Social Inquiry, Transforming Social Action

Transforming Social Inquiry, Transforming Social Action

Author: Francine T. Sherman

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1461544033

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John F. Kerry United States Senator If we are to reinvigorate and reinforce civic participation in this country at a time when our society is increasingly fragmented and highly technologically based, we must find a way to unite distinct communities, such as universities, regional and non-profit organizations, and families. We must find ways to link academicians, students, teachers, and professionals with the reality of events and circumstances so that theories and ideas mightily pursued within the "ivory tower" are connected to social reality and useful. As the editors and contributors in this volume point out, the way to bridge theory/practice divide is not merely to interpret and report on circumstances of the real-world; but rather, to deconstruct the separate and distinct communities that exist within our society and actively engage other communities to realize a continuum of mutual understanding, collaboration, and action. It is crucial to include our nation's public schools in this new approach of social inquiry and social action. Improving and creating educational opportunity for all children in the United States has been an ongoing critical federal issue. We know that when children achieve in school they have a much greater chance of living healthy, productive adult lives that will benefit themselves and society, and we know that increasing the base of stakeholders in children's education yields those positive results.


Corporate Governance and Statutory Derivative Actions

Corporate Governance and Statutory Derivative Actions

Author: Lang Thai

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-09-22

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1000958558

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This book is the first comprehensive study of the statutory derivative action in Australia, using the Australian model as a reference point and comparing it with the UK, Canada, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong and USA counterparts. The book includes an empirical study covering over a twenty-year period from the date the statutory framework came into operation, coupled with extensive case law analysis and comparisons with other jurisdictions. It informs the world about the uniqueness of Australia’s statutory derivative action, and what other countries can learn from it as shareholder protection and promotion of good corporate governance. While some countries have statutory derivative action, there are still countries that do not have the statutory framework that are considering introducing it into their corporate law. This book provides insights and suggestions for lawmakers, litigation practitioners and researchers worldwide in reforming their existing model.


Action Learning in Practice

Action Learning in Practice

Author: Mike Pedler

Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780566077951

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Fully revised and updated, this third edition of Action Learning in Practice covers the origins of Reg Revans's ideas, and looks at their development and application today. Over the last decade the move towards action-based organisational training and development has accelerated and action learning is now an established part of the education and development mainstream in large and small organisations.


Early Reading First and Beyond

Early Reading First and Beyond

Author: Susan E. Israel

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2007-12-13

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1452214530

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This reader-friendly resource examines the key elements of Early Reading First to help teachers foster the language, cognitive, and early reading skills critical to young children's success in kindergarten.


Action, Freedom and Responsibility

Action, Freedom and Responsibility

Author: Subasini Barik

Publisher: DK Printworld (P) Ltd

Published: 2022-10-19

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 8124611122

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This book, a work on human doing, analyses and applies three central aspects of human life – Action, Freedom and Responsibility – in the wide spectrum of the Philosophy of Mind. Reflections on these issues and their interconnections have a significant effect on the Philosophy of Value and application of ethical theories in practical life. This book even reconstructs the conceptual connection between action and freedom, on the one hand, and that between freedom and responsibility, on the other. It also puts the concepts of freedom and determinism to critical test and reinterprets them from different angles and perspectives. The conventional doctrine of karma, based on the teachings of the BhagavadgÁtÀ, is relieved from its usual deterministic presentation and a logically reasonable explanation is offered. Human actions and human agency are central concepts in the philosophy of mind and action. Free will and responsibility constitute the bedrock of the moral life of the human agents and the book pinpoints that freedom is meant to undertake the goal-oriented actions. It is, therefore, focused on the enquiry into the various aspects of philosophy of mind, as well as the philosophy of value.


The Disobedient Generation

The Disobedient Generation

Author: Alan Sica

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2005-12-15

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0226756254

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The Disobedient Generation collects newly written autobiographies by an international cross-section of well-known sociologists, all of them "children of the '60s". It illuminates the human experience of living through that decade as apprentice scholars and activists, encountering the issues of class, race, the Establishment, the decline of traditional religion, feminism, war, and the sexual revolution. In each case the interlinked crises of young adulthood, rapid change, and nascent professional careers shaped this generation's private and public selves.