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Regulating Privacy - Data Protection And Public Policy In Europe And The United States

de Colin J. Bennett

156,82€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The information revolution has brought with it the technology for easily collecting personal information about individuals, a facility that inherently threatens personal privacy. Colin J. Bennett here examines political responses to the data protection issue in four Western democracies, comparing legislation that the United States, Britain...
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Imperialism At Home - Race And Victorian Women'S Fiction

de Susan Meyer

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 The implicit link between white women and "the dark races" recurs persistently in nineteenth-century English fiction. Imperialism at Home examines the metaphorical use of race by three nineteenth-century women novelists: Charlotte BrontÃ«, Emily BrontÃ«, and George Eliot. Susan Meyer argues that each of these domestic novelists uses race...
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Going Public - Women And Publishing In Early Modern France

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 Going Public examines the forces affecting labor and management and the prospects for adopting service-oriented cooperative relationships as a key strategy for meeting the expanded demands on the public sector.
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Reading Gertrude Stein - Body, Text, Gnosis

de Lisa Ruddick

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 Reading Gertrude Stein traces the evolution of the mind and art of Gertrude Stein from Three Lives through The Making of Americans to Tender Buttons.
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Outside The Pale - Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, And The Victorian Woman Writer

de Elsie B. Michie

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 Elsie B. Michie here provides insightful readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Emily and Charlotte Bront, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, writers who confronted definitions of femininity which denied them full participation in literary culture...
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Woman And Modernity - The (Life)Styles Of Lou Andreas-Salome

de Carolyn Biddy A. Martin

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 Woman and Modernity provides what previous studies of SalomÃ© have in large part neglected to offerâ€"a sustained investigation of the literariness of SalomÃ©'s texts and of SalomÃ© as a significant reader of modernity. Focusing on key encounters in...
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Nobody'S Angels - Middle-Class Women And Domestic Ideology In Victorian Culture

de Elizabeth Langland

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 Langland argues that the middle-class wife had a more complex and important function than has previously been recognized: she mastered skills that enabled her to support a rigid class system while unknowingly setting the stage for a feminist revolution.
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Dwelling In Possibility - Women Poets And Critics On Poetry

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 "Dwelling in Possibility is a splendid collaboration between poets and critics. Prins and Shreiber have interwoven sophisticated feminist critical essays with poetic meditations on genre and gender; the dialogues they set up are lyrically elegant as...
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Cartesian Women - Versions And Subversions Of Rational Discourse In The Old Regime

de Erica Harth

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 The little-known writings that Erica Harth examines here reveal a remarkable chapter in the history of Western thought. Drawing upon current theoretical work in gender studies, cultural history, and literary criticism, Harth looks at how women in...
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Postcolonial Representations - Women, Literature, Identity

de Francoise Lionnet

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 Discussing a variety of postcolonial narratives written by women, Lionnet offers a comparative feminist approach that can provide common ground for debates on such issues as multiculturalism, universalism, and relativism.
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Articulate Silences - Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, And Joy Kogewa

de King-Kok Cheung

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 In this pathbreaking book, King-Kok Cheung sheds new light on the thematic and rhetoncal uses of silence in fiction by three Asian American women: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, and JoyKogawa. Boldly articulating the unspeakable, these writers break the silence imposed by families or ethnic communities and defy the dominant culture that...
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The Ethics Of Criticism

de Tobin Siebers

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 Tobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investigates the moral character of contemporary literary theory, assessing a wide range of theoretical approaches in terms of both the ethical presuppositions underlying the critical claims and the attitudes fostered by the approaches...
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Unending Design - The Forms Of Postmodern Poetry

de Joseph M. Conte

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Australian Snakes - A Natural History

de Rick Shine

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 Drawing on years of experience and an impressive grasp of the literature, Richard Shine covers the day-to-day lives of snakes, discussing their anatomy, evolution, and habitat, and describing their behavior, sex habits, life history, and...
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From The Margins Of Empire - Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer

de Louise Yelin

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 Situated at the intersection of the colonial and the postcolonial, the modern and the postmodern, the novelists Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, and Nadine Gordimer all bear witness to this century's global transformations. From the Margins of Empire...
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Dwelling In Possibility - Women Poets And Critics On Poetry

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 "Dwelling in Possibility is a splendid collaboration between poets and critics. Prins and Shreiber have interwoven sophisticated feminist critical essays with poetic meditations on genre and gender; the dialogues they set up are lyrically elegant as...
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Frontier Settlement And Market Revolution - The Holland Land Purchase

de Charles E. Brooks

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 In Frontier Settlement and Market Revolution, Charles E. Brooks explains how the Holland Land Purchaseâ€"in which the Holland Land Company purchased 3.3 million acres of land in western New York Stateâ€"contributed to the development of a frontier region.
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Things Of Darkness - Economies Of Race And Gender In Early Modern England

de Kim F. Hall

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 The "Ethiope," the "tawny Tartar," the "woman blackamoore," and "knotty Africanisms"â€"allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall's eagerly awaited book is the first to view...
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Daily Life Of The Egyptian Gods

de Christine Favard-Meeks e Dimitri Meeks

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 This is the first English translation of a highly appealing volume originally published in French in 1993. Informed by a sense of wonderment at divine doings, it treats the ancient Egyptian gods as if they were an ethnic group that captured the fancy...
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The Foundation Of Rome - Myth And History

de Alexandre Grandazzi

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 At once a historical essay and a self-conscious meditation on the writing of history, The Foundation of Rome takes as its starting point a series of accounts of Rome's origins offered over the course of centuries. Alexandre Grandazzi places these...
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Beyond Consolation - Death, Sexuality, And The Changing Shapes Of Elegy

de Melissa F. Zeiger

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 Using as her starting point the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, Melissa F. Zeiger examines modern transformations of poetic elegy, particularly as they reflect historical changes in the politics of gender and sexuality. Although her focus is primarily...
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Real Knowing - New Versions Of The Coherence Theory

de Linda Martin Alcoff

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 "Real" knowing always involves a political dimension, Linda MartÃn Alcoff suggests. But this does not mean we need to give up realism or the possibility of truth. Recent work in continental philosophy insists on the influence that power and desire...
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Authenticities - Philosophical Reflections On Musical Performance

de Peter Kivy

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 Peter Kivy mounts a philosophical inquiry into the desirability of using or re-creating historical practices in musical performance.
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Nobody'S Angels - Middle-Class Women And Domestic Ideology In Victorian Culture

de Elizabeth Langland

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 Langland argues that the middle-class wife had a more complex and important function than has previously been recognized: she mastered skills that enabled her to support a rigid class system while unknowingly setting the stage for a feminist revolution.
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