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Introduction -- Unit Outline. Week 1 Introduction: Why Study Domestic Culture? ; Week 2 Gender, Class, and the Separation of Spheres ; Week 3 Working-class Domestic Life in the Nineteenth Century ; Week 4 The Garden and the Suburb ; Week 5 Gender, Class, and the Politics of Suburban Domesticity ; Week 6 Domestic Space as Workplace 1: Domestic Service and Domestic Labour ; Week 7 Domestic Space as Workplace 2: Housewives and Homemaking ; Week 8 Domestic Consumption ; Week 9 Representing Class and Domestic Culture ; Week 10 Feminism, Femininity, and Domestic Culture -- Assessment Options -- Further Reading -- Enrichment Materials.

"Forms of institutional governance critically shape the culture, creativity and academic outcomes of higher education. The book provides a new, updated and research based account of the changing face of the governance of British higher education. Historically, British universities were deemed amongst the most, if not the most, autonomous in Europe, with governance rooted in their collegial disciplinary structures. This assessment must now be decisively revised, although the belief systems deriving from it remain buried deep in university culture. Drawing on the authors' investigation of the governance of higher education in the four UK nations, including extensive on-site interviews, and discussions with government policy-makers, the book shows how global, national and system level pressures have changed the face both of the external governance of higher education institutions and how universities govern themselves. Government priorities, new funding methodologies and marketisation have all played a part in this process. Since the mid-1980s, there have been drastic changes in the external environment, reinforced by the increasing diversity within the higher education system as a whole and between the national sub-systems. In addition a new private sector of higher education has been created. New forms of institutional governance are emerging which may have profound effects on research and teaching and on academic creativity and innovation. The study discusses the effects of a state regulated system compared with the more heterarchical system which preceded it. It offers a comparison of the effects of devolved governance to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on the respective higher education systems and their impact on institutional governance. The study concludes that England is becoming increasingly an outlier, and discusses the long term implications for the coherence of a British higher education system"--Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies

Introduction -- Unit Outline. Week 1 Sensory Media: Eighteenth-Century Print Media Cultures ; Week 2 Sensory Media: "New" Media and Nineteenth-Century Urban Cultures ; Week 3 Sensory Media: Media and Experience in the Twentieth Century ; Week 4 Mass Communications and "Mass" Audiences in Interwar Britain ; Week 5 Domestic Consumption of Broadcasting in Interwar Britain ; Week 6 Media Representations of Everyday Life in Interwar Britain ; Week 7 Advertising, Consumer Culture, and National Identity in the Postwar Period ; Week 8 Media, Consumer Culture, and Generation: Childhood and Youth in the Postwar Period ; Week 9 Memory, "The Past," and Everyday Life on Screen -- Assessment Options -- Further Reading.

"The original documentary sources of key British contributions to international law spanning the past 100 years are collected for the first time in this unique anthology (set of 4 books). These range from seminal writings of highly qualified British scholars of international law, judgments of British courts, opinions of British judges on international courts and tribunals and pleadings by British advocates; treaties concluded and statements made by the United Kingdom government, British contributions to international legal drafting, legislation and parliamentary debates; to an imaginative selection of other forms of literature.The Editors' introduction explains why, of all the multifarious British contributions, these are the ones that have had the most enduring impact upon the development of international law, from a global perspective. The sheer quality in these texts speaks for itself; these are the must-read and must-keep classic pieces for all interested in international law and the uniquely British contributions to it. Please also see the following related titles:- https://brill.com/view/title/26889 - British Influences on International Law, 1915-2015 https://brill.com/view/title/26680 - The Role of Legal Advisers in International Law"--

Walking the Gendered Tightrope analyzes the gendered expectations for women in high offices through the examples of British Prime Minister Theresa May and U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Even at their highest positions, and while completing their greatest achievements, both May and Pelosi faced gendered critiques and intraparty challenges to their leadership. While other books have analyzed the barriers to higher office that women face, this book reveals how women in positions of power are still forced to balance feminine stereotypes with the perception of power as masculine in order to prove their legitimacy. By examining intraparty dynamics, this book offers a unique comparison between a majoritarian presidential and Westminster parliamentary system. While their parties promoted Pelosi and May to highlight their progressive values, both women faced continually gendered critiques about their abilities to lead their caucuses on difficult policy issues, such as the Affordable Care Act and two Trump impeachment votes for Nancy Pelosi, or finishing Brexit for Theresa May. Grounded in the legislative literature from the United States and Britain, as well as historical accounts and personal interviews, Walking the Gendered Tightrope contributes to the fields of gender and politics, legislative studies, American politics, and British politics