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"Cut off in traffic? Bumped without apology on the subway? Forced to listen to a profane conversation in a public space? In today's Western societies, many feel that there has been a noticeable and marked decrease in mutual consideration in both public and private settings. Are we less civil now than in the past? Benet Davetian's Civility: A Cultural History responds to this question through a historical, social, and psychological discussion of the civility practices in three nations - England, France, and the United States." "Davetian's multi-dimensional review of civility from 1200 to the present day provides an in-depth analysis of the social and personal psychology of human interaction and charts a new course for the study and understanding of civility and civil society. Civility addresses major topics in public discourse today regarding the ideals and practices of civility and the possibility of a future civility ethic capable of inspiring cooperation across cultural and national boundaries."--Jacket

Cover -- Ugliness: A Cultural History -- Imprint Page -- Contents -- Introduction: Pretty Ugly: A Question of Culture -- One: Ugly Ones: Uncomfortable Anomalies -- Polyphemus: 'A Monster of a Man' -- Dame Ragnell: 'She was a Loathly One!' -- A Grotesque Old Woman: 'The Ugly Duchess' -- William Hay: 'Never was, Nor will be, a Member of the Ugly Club' -- Julia Pastrana: 'The Ugliest Woman in the World' -- Orlan: 'A Beautiful Woman Who is Deliberately Becoming Ugly' -- Ugly Ones: Uncomfortably Grouped -- Two: Ugly Groups: Resisting Classification -- Monsters and Monstrosities: Bordering Uglies -- Outcasts and Outward Signs: Signifying Uglies -- Primitives and Venuses: Colonizing Uglies -- Broken Faces and Degenerate Bodies: Militarizing Uglies -- Ugly Laws and Ugly Dolls: Legislating Uglies -- Uglies United? Commercializing Ugly Groups -- Three: Ugly Senses: Transgressing Perceived Borders -- Ugly Sight: Seeing is Believing? -- Ugly Sound: Do You Hear What I Hear? -- Ugly Smell: A Nose for Trouble? -- Ugly Taste: Are You What You Eat? -- Ugly Touch: Do Not Touch? -- Sixth Sense: Feeling is Believing? -- Epilogue: Ugly us: A Cultural Quest? -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Acknowledgements -- Index.

One of our bestselling and most respected cultural critics, Naomi Wolf, acclaimed author of The Beauty Myth and The End of America, brings us an astonishing work of cutting-edge science and cultural history that radically reframes how we understand the vagina-and, consequently, how we understand women. A "New Biography," Vagina is at once serious, provocative, and immensely entertaining-a radical and endlessly fascinating exploration of the gateway to female consciousness from a remarkable writer and thinker at the forefront of the new feminism.

A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers a span of 2500 years, tracing how different cultures and societies have thought about, struggled for, developed and sustained peace in different ways and at different times.1. A Cultural History of Peace in Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE)2. A Cultural History of Peace in the Medieval Age (800 - 1450)3. A Cultural History of Peace in the Renaissance (1450 - 1648)4. A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment (1648 - 1815)5. A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Empire (1815 - 1920)6. A Cultural History of Peace in the Modern Age (1920 - present)Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters:1. Definitions of Peace2. Human Nature, Peace and War3. Peace, War and Gender4. Peace, Pacifism and Religion5. Representations of Peace6. Peace as Integration7. Peace Movements8. Peace, Security and DeterrenceThis structure offers readers a broad overview of a period within each volume or the opportunity to follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter across volumes.Generously illustrated, the full six-volume set combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on peace in history.The Cultural Histories SeriesA Cultural History of Peace is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available as hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com.Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com

Darkness divides and enlivens opinion. Some are afraid of the dark, or at least prefer to avoid it, and there are many who dislike what it appears to stand for. Others are drawn to this strange domain, delighting in its uncertainties, lured by all the associations of folklore and legend, by the call of the mysterious and of the unknown. The history of our attitudes toward darkness—toward what we cannot quite make out, in all its physical and metaphorical manifestations—challenges the very notion of a world that we can fully comprehend. In this book, Nina Edwards explores darkness as both a physical feature and cultural image, through themes of sight, blindness, consciousness, dreams, fear of the dark, night blindness, and the in-between states of dusk or fog, twilight and dawn, those points or periods of obscuration and clarification. Taking us across the ages, from the dungeons of Gothic novels to the concrete bunkers of Nordic Noir TV shows, Edwards interrogates the full sweep of humanity's attempts to harness and suppress the dark first through our ability to control fire and, later, illuminate the world with electricity. She explores how the idea of darkness pervades art, literature, religion, and our everyday language. Ultimately, Edwards reveals how darkness, whether a shifting concept or palpable physical presence, has fed our imaginations.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Sport Before High Culture -- 2. Sport Before the Greeks -- 3. Greece -- 4. Spread of the Taste -- 5. Sport in Pre-Industrial High Culture -- 6. Europe, 500-1750 -- 7. England: Land of Sport -- 8. Induced Sport -- 9. American Sport to the 1920s -- 10. The Modern Olympic Games -- 11. American Sport in Recent Times -- 12. The Olympic Games, 1936-1980 -- 13. Sport and Society in the Late Twentieth Century -- 14. Joyous Sport, Beautiful Sport -- Bibliographical Essays -- Index