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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- DRAMATIS PERSONAE -- Introduction -- 1 Winds of the Camdeboo -- 2 Cape of Storms -- 3 London Calling -- 4 Before the Law -- 5 Lost, and Found -- 6 Paris, City of Light -- 7 Ghosts of Sara Baartman -- EPILOGUE Family -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgmen -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I. Gender as Seriality: Thinking about Women as a Social Collective -- CHAPTER II. Asymmetrical Reciprocity: On Moral Respect, Wonder, and Enlarged Thought -- CHAPTER III. Communication and the Other: Beyond Deliberative Democracy -- CHAPTER IV. Punishment, Treatment, Empowerment: Three Approaches to Policy for Pregnant Addicts -- CHAPTER V. Reflections on Families in the Age of Murphy Brown: On Justice, Gender, and Sexuality -- CHAPTER VI. Mothers, Citizenship, and Independence: A Critique of Pure Family Values -- CHAPTER VII. House and Home: Feminist Variations on a Theme -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

Recent scholarship has broadened definitions of war and shifted from the narrow focus on battles and power struggles to include narratives of the homefront and private sphere. To expand scholarship on textual representations of war means to shed light on the multiple theaters of war, and on the many voices who contributed to, were affected by, and/or critiqued German war efforts. Engaged women writers and artists commented on their nations' imperial and colonial ambitions and the events of the tumultuous beginning of the twentieth century. In an interdisciplinary investigation, this volume explores select female-authored, German-language texts focusing on German colonial wars and World War I and the discourses that promoted or critiqued their premises. They examine how colonial conflicts contributed to a persistent atmosphere of Kriegsbegeisterung (war enthusiasm) that eventually culminated in the outbreak of World War I, or a Kriegskritik (criticism of war) that resisted it. The span from German colonialism to World War I brings these explosive periods into relief and challenges readers to think about the intersection of nationalism, violence and gender and about the historical continuities and disruptions that shape such events.

Indian Modernity (first published in 1998) acquires a new meaning today. While it critiques a techno-militaristic model of modernization, it visualizes alternative possibilities to give a distinctively new definition to our modernity. It engages the reader in dreaming of a new path to modernity beyond its present contradictions and paradoxes with its lyrical style, philosophic insights, sensitivity to deep religiosity, life-affirming femininity and, most of all, sociological imagination. This book continues to hold relevance for social science students and researchers, teachers, and visionaries, despite the passage of time. This title is co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

The eternal truth of the future cannot, of course, be the goal of futures studies. Future is full of surprises, uncertainty, trends and trend breaks, irrationality and rationality, and it is changing and escaping from our hands as time goes by. It is also the result of actions made by innumerable more or less powerful actors. In this article, the author describes the general features of futures studies, especially in its impact on societal development and decision making. The aim is also to show that the change in societal development has brought new challenges to the theoretical and methodological aspects of futures studies. Finally, the author discusses the problem of linking scenarios of the future to social and political decision making.

The studies of the human being in health and illness and how he can be cared for is concerned with more than the biological aspects and thus calls for a broader perspective. Social sciences and medical humanities give insight into the context and conditions of being ill, caring for the ill, and understanding disease in a respective socio-cultural frame. This book brings together scholars from various countries who are interested in deepening the interdisciplinary discourse on the subject. This book is the outcome of the 4th global conference on "Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease," h

Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Introduction: Why Rethink Women's and Gender Studies Now? -- Locating Ourselves: Why This Project? And, Why Again? -- Locating the Conversation: Genealogical Work and Self-reflexivity in WGS -- Locating the Reader: What Lies Ahead -- Some Stylistic Notes About This Book -- Section I: Foundational Assumptions -- Chapter 1: Indigenous Feminism -- The First Genealogy -- New Genealogies -- Out of Sync Inclusions -- Inclusion with Harm -- Listen with More Intent -- Chapter 2: Femininity -- Why Rethink Femininity? -- White Notions of Femininity -- Non-White Interventions -- The Messiness of a Black Femininity -- Centering the Black Femme -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Citizenship -- Citizenship: Quintessentially Anti-Intersectional -- The Legacies of Citizenship for WGS -- WGS Against Citizenship -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Inclusion -- Inclusive Stories: Radical Possibilities -- Inclusive Stories: Progress and WGS -- Inclusion: Without Time and in Search of Place -- Note -- Chapter 5: Intersex -- Defining Intersex in WGS -- Against the Fetishization of Intersex Alterity -- Troubling the Special Guest Model: Critical Intersex and Trans Pedagogies -- Frames of Learning -- Chapter 6: Expertise -- The Institutional -- The Pedagogical -- The Personal -- Section II: Ubiquitous Descriptions -- Chapter 7: Belonging -- I -- II -- III -- Chapter 8: The Ph.D. -- Introduction -- Institutionalization and Interdisciplinarity -- Job Prospects and Other Fraught Futures -- Gatekeeping in an Interdiscipline -- Conclusion: Killjoy Futurity -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Nation -- Internationalization of the University and Implications for WGS.

This article reveals the meaning and content of the linguistic and cultural studies integration into social and political science course in the training of future politicians. The article reflects the importance of linguistic and cultural studies for the formation of language competence of students as well as skills of political communication, for understanding the characteristics of the country's social and political issues. The interdisciplinary approach emphasises the relationship in the study of linguistic, cultural, and political agenda, characterises the interdisciplinary essence of regional studies. The critical discourse analysis (CDA) of political texts was chosen as the key methodological strategy for the efficient development of political communication and problem-solving skills. The authors propose the implementation of a special interdisciplinary course for the first-year students majoring in philology and political studies, focused on the studying the political and cultural features of a language-targeted country by means of CDA. We compared the results of students' political communication skills development prior and post- course period and we observed the improvement according to the following criteria: perception of the vocabulary and functional language structures (by 17%); analysis of cultural and political agenda from the explicit and implicit language structures (by 23%); text annotation (by 50%); text production, distribution and target audience analysis (by 10%). Moreover, it was observed that CDA implementation facilitated the development of critical thinking skills as well as the skills of texts decoding.

This article reveals the meaning and content of the linguistic and cultural studies integration into social and political science course in the training of future politicians. The article reflects the importance of linguistic and cultural studies for the formation of language competence of students as well as skills of political communication, for understanding the characteristics of the country's social and political issues. The interdisciplinary approach emphasises the relationship in the study of linguistic, cultural, and political agenda, characterises the interdisciplinary essence of regional studies. The critical discourse analysis (CDA) of political texts was chosen as the key methodological strategy for the efficient development of political communication and problem-solving skills. The authors propose the implementation of a special interdisciplinary course for the first-year students majoring in philology and political studies, focused on the studying the political and cultural features of a language-targeted country by means of CDA. We compared the results of students' political communication skills development prior and post- course period and we observed the improvement according to the following criteria: perception of the vocabulary and functional language structures (by 17%); analysis of cultural and political agenda from the explicit and implicit language structures (by 23%); text annotation (by 50%); text production, distribution and target audience analysis (by 10%). Moreover, it was observed that CDA implementation facilitated the development of critical thinking skills as well as the skills of texts decoding.