Discourses of Difference

Discourses of Difference
Title Discourses of Difference PDF eBook
Author Sara Mills
Publisher Routledge
Pages 244
Release 2003-09-02
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1134947410

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Discourses of Difference unravels the complexities of writings by British women travellers of the `high colonial' period. Sara Mills examines the relation of women travellers to colonialism, positioned as they were at the site of conflicting discourses: femininity, feminism, and patriarchal imperialism. Using feminist discourse theory, Sara Mills analyses the writings of three women travellers - Alexandra David-Neel, Mary Kingsley and Nina Mazuchelli. Her examination of agency, identity, and the contemporary social environment, is an important and inspiring step forward in post-colonial cultural and literary theory.

Discourses on Difference

Discourses on Difference
Title Discourses on Difference PDF eBook
Author Norman Duncan
Publisher Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society
Pages 498
Release 2002
Genre Social Science
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Discourse

Discourse
Title Discourse PDF eBook
Author Sara Mills
Publisher Routledge
Pages 240
Release 2006-10-19
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 113483604X

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Sara Mills offers an accessible and comprehensive analysis of the term 'discourse' and explores the theoretical assumptions underlying it. This handy, easy to follow pocket guidebook for students provides: straightforward working definitions historical developments of the term studied analysis of Michel Foucault discussion of the appropriation of the term 'discourse' by feminist, colonial and post-colonial discourse theorists examples of literary and non-literary texts to illustrate the use of 'discourse'.

Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research

Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research
Title Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research PDF eBook
Author Alan Bainbridge
Publisher Research on the Education and
Pages 242
Release 2021
Genre Education
ISBN 9789004465909

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"This book explores how narratives are deeply embodied, engaging heart, soul, as well as mind, through varying adult learner perspectives. Biographical research is not an isolated, individual, solipsistic endeavor but shaped by larger ecological interactions - in families, schools, universities, communities, societies, and networks - that can create or destroy hope. Telling or listening to life stories celebrates complexity, messiness, and the rich potential of learning lives. The narratives in this book highlight the rapid disruption of sustainable ecologies, not only 'natural', physical, and biological, but also psychological, economic, relational, political, educational, cultural, and ethical. Yet, despite living in a precarious, and often frightening, liquid world, biographical research can both chronicle and illuminate how resources of hope are created in deeper, aesthetically satisfying ways. Biographical research offers insights, and even signposts, to understand and transcend the darker side of the human condition, alongside its inspirations. Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research aims to generate insight into people's fears and anxieties but also their capacity to 'keep on keeping on' and to challenge forces that would diminish their and all our humanity. It provides a sustainable approach to creating sufficient hope in individuals and communities by showing how building meaningful dialogue, grounded in social justice, can create good enough experiences of togetherness across difference. The book illuminates what amounts to an ecology of life, learning and human flourishing in a sometimes tortured, fractious, fragmented, and fragile world, yet one still offering rich resources of hope"--

Discourse Across Languages and Cultures

Discourse Across Languages and Cultures
Title Discourse Across Languages and Cultures PDF eBook
Author Carol Lynn Moder
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 378
Release 2004
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9789027230782

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This volume seeks to answers such questions as: how is conscious experience translated into discourse? How are foregrounding and backgrounding accomplished? What is the function of features like lexical choice and referential choice? And many more.

The Invention of Women

The Invention of Women
Title The Invention of Women PDF eBook
Author Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 257
Release 1997-10
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1452903255

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The "woman question", this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western contruction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Oyewumi traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. Her analysis shows the paradoxical nature of two fundamental assumptions of feminist theory: that gender is socially constructed in old Yoruba society, and that social organization was determined by relative age.

The Body and Physical Difference

The Body and Physical Difference
Title The Body and Physical Difference PDF eBook
Author David T. Mitchell
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 322
Release 1997
Genre Eugenics
ISBN 9780472066599

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Groundbreaking perspectives on disability in culture and the arts that shed light on notions of identity and social marginality