This study examines women poets and their poetry in late imperial China. The author explores the poetic forms and devices women poets employed, places their work into the context of the wider literary history of the period, and analyzes how they asserted their own agency to negotiate their literary, social, and political concerns.
This book discusses the causes of women's marginalization in Africa, addressing issues such as time poverty, lack of education, poor governance, human trafficking, and cultural practices such as early marriages and bride price. It provides recommendations on policies and initiatives that would elevate women's livelihood and societal standing in ......
With a focus on Twitter's BlueWave Resistance community of women, Cynthia A. Davidson argues, using rhetorical and political analysis, that political tweeting is an optimistic act--but frames this through engaging Lauren Berlant's claim in Cruel Optimism that what we most desire is also an impediment to our thriving.
This book looks at why Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is either the most inspirational or the cruelest film American cinema has ever produced. It depicts, perhaps unwittingly, an ontological war in which two well-matched adversaries fight a series of pitched battles that neither side can win without producing tragic remainders.
Starting with the experience of wonder, Jose Francisco Morales Torres constructs a new theological anthropology, one that posits a lifeworld saturated by an excessive Generosity and a primordial receptivity in humans through which they commune with, are opened by, and are transformed by the O/other.
Toward a Rehumanization of Health, Education, and Welfare
This book explores how a sense of wonder and the musicality of silence can be a rehumanizing force in education, health and welfare, countering overly anthropocentric and instrumental worldviews. Wonder-in an aesthetic, philosophical, and spiritual sense-brings human beings in resonance with the world again.
The Diaconate in the U.S. Catholic Church, 1968 - 2018
This national study of permanent deacons explores trends in the diaconate as well as current and emerging opportunities and challenges in the ministry. Deacons and their wives, diaconate directors, and bishops share insights about how those trends impact diaconal ministry, today and into the future.
The Diaconate in the U.S. Catholic Church, 1968 - 2018
This national study of permanent deacons explores trends in the diaconate as well as current and emerging opportunities and challenges in the ministry. Deacons and their wives, diaconate directors, and bishops share insights about how those trends impact diaconal ministry, today and into the future.
In Words and Meaning in Metasemantics, Juan Jose Colomina-Alminana argues that language meaning determination requires close attention to the constant interaction between speech communities, speaker's intentions, and the audience's uptakes.
