Gift Subscriptions: Underwriting Emergent Agencies in Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas and Agnes Smedley's Daughter of Earth
TL;DR: In this article, the Modernist life narrative in the context of interwar citizenship policies that exposed women to an increased risk of statelessness on both sides of the Atlantic is explored.
Abstract: This article explores the Modernist life narrative in the context of interwar citizenship policies that exposed women to an increased risk of statelessness on both sides of the Atlantic. Read together, Agnes Smedley’s Daughter of Earth (1929) and Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas (1938) bring this transnational context into view. While access to rights may indicate the ideal endpoint of subject-formation in the traditional Bildungsroman , Woolf and Smedley demonstrate how women’s access to rights comes at the cost of nonnormative desire. Their works use a rhetoric of incivility to mark emergent agencies within and alongside formal structures of citizenship.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the new geography of identity and the future of Feminist Criticism in the Borderlands between Literary Studies and Anthropology, and explore the relationship between gender, race, and identity.
Abstract: List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Locational Feminism3Pt. IFeminism/Multiculturalism15Ch. 1\"Beyond\" Gender: The New Geography of Identity and the Future of Feminist Criticism17Ch. 2\"Beyond\" White and Other: Narratives of Race in Feminist Discourse36Ch. 3\"Beyond\" Difference: Migratory Feminism in the Borderlands67Pt. IIFeminism/Globalism105Ch. 4Geopolitical Literacy: Internationalizing Feminism at \"Home\" - The Case of Virginia Woolf107Ch. 5Telling Contacts: Intercultural Encounters and Narrative Poetics in the Borderlands between Literary Studies and Anthropology132Ch. 6\"Routes/Roots\": Boundaries, Borderlands, and Geopolitical Narratives of Identity151Pt. IIIFeminism/Poststructuralism179Ch. 7Negotiating the Transatlantic Divide: Feminism after Poststructuralism181Ch. 8Making History: Reflections on Feminism, Narrative, and Desire199Ch. 9Craving Stories: Narrative and Lyric in Feminist Theory and Poetic Practice228Notes243References281Index303
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TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of non-state actors on Canada's support for East Timorese self-determination in the 1990s is discussed in the context of the Timor.Timor.
Abstract: Timor. Though this section of the book is not as rich as the others (a point Webster concedes at the outset), it nevertheless usefully sets events within the larger evolution of Canadian attitudes towards decolonization. Webster’s suggestion that the myth of Canada as a helpful mediator has acquired characteristics of a national interest in its own right is especially interesting. His discussion of how transnational networks influenced Canada’s support for East Timorese self-determination in the 1990s offers useful evidence on this point. The influence of nonstate actors, Webster proposes, helps to explain why Canada in this period began to pursue policies that were not strictly determined by alliance concerns and economic interests. For students of the history and politics of Canadian foreign policy since 1945, and for those interested in the influence of state and nonstate actors on that policy, this is an important book.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present loads of the cosmopolitan style modernism beyond the nation book catalogues in this site as the choice of you visiting this page and also join to the website book library that will show you numerous books from any types.
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TL;DR: Moyn as discussed by the authors argues that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice, as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence.
Abstract: Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal's troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post - World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity's moral history, "The Last Utopia" shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
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TL;DR: The age of consent controversy, 1891 as mentioned in this paper is a classic example of a controversy in the history of women's empowerment, where the Ilbert Bill controversy and the native volunteer movement were involved.
Abstract: Reconfiguring hierarchies - the Ilbert Bill controversy, 1883-84 containing crisis - the native volunteer movement, 1885-86 competing masculinities - the Public Service Commission, 1886-87 potent protests - the age of consent controversy, 1891.
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TL;DR: In this paper, Derrida and Dufourmantelle discuss the step of hospitality/no-hospitality in the Foreigner Questionnaire and the step-of-hospitalization in the Step of No-Hospitality.
Abstract: Translator's note 1. Invitation Anne Dufourmantelle 2. Foreigner question Jacques Derrida 3. Step of hospitality/no hospitality Jacques Derrida Notes.
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