Agency in the Margins

Agency in the Margins
Title Agency in the Margins PDF eBook
Author Anne Meade Stockdell-Giesler
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2010
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780838642146

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"This collection of essays studies the rhetoric of Otherness and explores how outsiders to mainstream sites for rhetorical participation find ways to make themselves heard while retaining marginal identities. The question that this collection answers is: how do people who are defined as outsiders create agency-- how do they become agents of change, of social, political, spiritual, and cultural power-- outside of those spaces that we traditionally understand as belonging to the powerful? This collection brings to light the many different ways that politically or socially marginalized people use discourse to garner, access, undermine, or overturn power-- to make themselves seen and heard."--Jacket.

The Agent in the Margin

The Agent in the Margin
Title The Agent in the Margin PDF eBook
Author Clara A.B. Joseph
Publisher Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Pages 218
Release 2008-10-10
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1554582814

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The Agent in the Margin: Nayantara Sahgal’s Gandhian Fiction is a comprehensive study of the literary works of Nayantara Sahgal, daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit—the first woman president of the United Nations General Assembly—and niece of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister. Clara A.B. Joseph introduces Mahatma Gandhi’s political and philosophical to literary analysis and utilizes non-structuralist aspects of Louis Althusser’s theories of ideology to trace how characters marginalized by gender, class, race, and language in Sahgal’s work assume agency, challenging poststructuralist theories of cultural and ideological determinism. She considers how gender complicates autobiography and how the roles of daughter, virgin, wife, widow, and alien serve (often ironically) to highlight human dignity.

Feminist Theory

Feminist Theory
Title Feminist Theory PDF eBook
Author bell hooks
Publisher Routledge
Pages 198
Release 2014-10-03
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317588347

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When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative." Today, the blueprint for feminist movement presented in the book remains as provocative and relevant as ever. Written in hooks's characteristic direct style, Feminist Theory embodies the hope that feminists can find a common language to spread the word and create a mass, global feminist movement.

Responsibility from the Margins

Responsibility from the Margins
Title Responsibility from the Margins PDF eBook
Author David Shoemaker
Publisher
Pages 281
Release 2015
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0198715676

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David Shoemaker develops a novel pluralistic theory of responsibility, motivated by our ambivalence to cases of marginal agency--such as those caused by clinical depression or autism, for instance. He identifies three distinct types of responsibility, each with its own set of required capacities: attributability, answerability, and accountability.

Leadership From the Margins

Leadership From the Margins
Title Leadership From the Margins PDF eBook
Author Serena Cosgrove
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 249
Release 2010-07-23
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0813550408

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Women have experienced decades of economic and political repression across Latin America, where many nations are built upon patriarchal systems of power. However, a recent confluence of political, economic, and historical factors has allowed for the emergence of civil society organizations (CSOs) that afford women a voice throughout the region. Leadership from the Margins describes and analyzes the unique leadership styles and challenges facing the women leaders of CSOs in Argentina, Chile, and El Salvador. Based on ethnographic research, Serena Cosgrove's analysis offers a nuanced account of the distinct struggles facing women, and how differences of class, political ideology, and ethnicity have informed their outlook and organizing strategies. Using a gendered lens, she reveals the power and potential of women's leadership to impact the direction of local, regional, and global development agendas.

The Official Railway Guide

The Official Railway Guide
Title The Official Railway Guide PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 1952
Release 1909
Genre Railroads
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Customs Bulletin and Decisions

Customs Bulletin and Decisions
Title Customs Bulletin and Decisions PDF eBook
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Pages 664
Release 1998
Genre Customs administration
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