Author: John Jervi
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: experience, otherness, western, explorations, modern, transgressing
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $50.95
ISBN-10: 0631211101
ISBN-13: 9780631211105

This book provides the most concise, accessible account yet available of modern Western cultural and social explorations of other forms or aspects of life that are devalued or coded as unacceptable, even unthinkable, in the modern ethos. After discussing modernity as a cultural and political project associated with notions of ’progress’ and the shaping of body experiences through the ’civilizing’ of behaviour, the author describes how the body seeks to go beyond the conventional - and characteristically male-oriented - pieties of modern ’rationality’ to unco

Author: Michael Hanchard
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: thought, transgressing, boundaries, political, black, politics, horizons, party
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-08-31
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0195176243
ISBN-13: 9780195176247

In this fascinating treatment of "party" life, Michael Hanchard traces the many different forms of communal expression that underlie black parties. Party/Politics reveals new dimensions to the way we think about the cultural and political sphere, both nationally and transnationally. The author draws broadly on examples from popular culture, literature, social movements, and daily life to explore an array of themes ranging from black ideologies, the demise of Black power and Third Worldism as emancipatory projects for liberation, to more contemporary issues and debates on multiculturalism and t

Authors:Suzan Ilcan, Lynne Philli,
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: household, culture, gender, perspectives, borders, critical, transgressing
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1998-10-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0897896599
ISBN-13: 9780897896597

Transgressing Borders goes beyond conventional popularized notions of the household, gender, and family by destabilizing their boundaries and challenging the codes that govern people’s lives. This edited collection introduces readers to recent debates on familial politics, gendered spaces, nation and community, and household economies.

Authors:Jessica Munns, Penny Richard,
Publisher: University of Delaware Pre
Keywords: eighteenth, century, culture, transgressing, dressing, wear, essays, clothes
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0874136725
ISBN-13: 9780874136722

The meanings inherit in theatrical costuming; the ways in which novels, journals and prints disseminated ideas about fashion, status and gender; and present case studies of cultural practices relating to clothing are examined. The essays range in period from the 1670s to the 1790s and have an international scope.

Author: Louise A. Bree
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: elite, massachusetts, religion, america, puritan, among, bounds, subversive, enterprises, transgressing
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-02-22
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0195138007
ISBN-13: 9780195138009

This study offers a new interpretation of the Puritan "Antinomian" controversy and a skillful analysis of its wider and long term social and cultural significance. Breen argues that controversy both reflected and fostered larger questions of identity that would persist in Puritan New England during the 17th century. Some issues discussed here include the existence of individualism in a society that valued conformity and the response of members of an inward-looking, localistic culture to those among them of a more "cosmopolitan" nature. Central to Breen’s study is the Ancient and Honorabl

Authors:Michael Huspek, Gary P. Radford,
Publisher: State University of New York Pre
Keywords: communication, human, processes, series, voice, discourses, transgressing
Number of Pages: 423
Published: 1997-06-01
List price: $59.50
ISBN-10: 0791433536
ISBN-13: 9780791433539

The basic theme of this volume is excellent. Readers are treated to fascinating explorations of communication at the boundaries between discourses and selves. The essays address important theoretical issues, and do so often by treating significant social issues. Most welcome is the constructive tone that is for the most part maintained throughout the volume, demonstrating an effort to understand, engage, and critically assess different discourses and selves (and others) at once, without valorizing one over the other. An essential theme running through this volume is the idea that our efforts t

Author: Steven A. Epstei
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: studies, university, historical, political, science, hopkins, johns, transgressing, lost, boundaries, eastern, mediterranean, purity
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2006-12-18
List price: $57.00
ISBN-10: 0801884845
ISBN-13: 9780801884849

Purity Lost investigates the porous nature of social, political, and religious boundaries prevalent in the eastern Mediterranean -- from the Black Sea to Egypt -- during the Middle Ages. In this intriguing study, Steven A. Epstein finds that people consistently defied, overlooked, or transcended restrictions designed to preserve racial and cultural purity in order to establish relationships with those different from themselves. These mixed relationships -- among people who did not share language, creed, or skin color -- undermined the pervasive claims of purity. They forced people to reflect o