Modernity's gender

Novel;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...RRTA FELSKI, The Gender of Modernity (Cambridge: Harvard University...her important new study, The Gender of Modernity (1). To demonstrate her point...discourse. The second half of The Gender of Modernity focuses, by contrast, on women...

Gender and modernity: perspectives from Asia and the...

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......YUMIKO TOKITA-TANABE (eds). Gender and modernity: perspectives from Asia and...continuities in their lives. Gender and modernity is a collection of nine articles...exploring the intersection of gender and modernity. Is modernity an inherently...

Modernity and the white imaginary in Australian feminist theatre.

Hecate;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...In her book The Gender of Modernity, Rita Feiski argues for...are manifestations of modernity even though concepts of...But neither feminism nor modernity produce a univocal narrative...formatively with other aspects of modernity, in particular colonial...have been excluded from ...

Gender, Modernity and Liberty: Middle Eastern and Western Women's...

The Middle East Journal;  April 1, 2007 ;     155 words ...Gender, Modernity and Liberty: Middle Eastern and Western Women's Writings: A Critical...servitude, and lack of access to education, ideas, or the outside world, Gender, Modernity and Liberty traces an often overlooked dialogue between Western women...

Hinduism and Modernity.(Book Review)

International Bulletin of Missionary Research;  July 1, 2004 ;     474 words ......how the seemingly disparate forces of Hinduism and modernity have interacted with one another. Smith demonstrates...uses to illustrate various themes within Hinduism and modernity. This approach serves him particularly well in part 1 of the book when he is defining Hinduism and modernity and tracing the ...

Mien Alter-Natives in Thai Modernity

Anthropological Quarterly;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......be equally specific to modernity's conceptual schemes. [modernity, modernization, culture...Mien, Thailand] Issues of modernity have increasingly captured...culture, identity, and gender, there is no particular...the matter in question. Modernity may ultimately not have...and theory, ...

MODERNITY'S RESCUE MISSION: Postcolonial Transactions of Disability and...

Canadian Journal of Film Studies;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......a discussion of Mononoke's gender and feralness juxtaposed with...of Yaiwalak Chonchanakun's gender, visual impairment, and prostitute...developed under the auspices of modernity to diagnose, exile, institutionalize...cultural meanings of disability.2 Modernity, in other words, has depended...this ...

Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality

Journal of American Folklore;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......inequality-social, geographic, and temporal-that naturalized this modernity as the triumph of rationalism. Following on Latour...18). The authors do not attempt a full history of modernity and language-nor could they in the span of 321 pages...as well as to some of its lesser moments. Voices of Modernity ...

Technology and the Culture of Modernity in Britain and Germany,...

Canadian Journal of History;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......with Martin Daunton) to the essays in Meanings of Modernity: Britain from the Late-Victorian Era to World War...technological change that characterized understandings of modernity in this period. The explanation offered in the earlier book comes in two forms: the multiple meanings of modernity and ...

Iran: Between Tradition and Modernity

The Middle East Journal;  July 1, 2004 ;     151 words ......Iran's philosophical and political encounters with modernity and the West." The essays in this book consider the false dialectic of tradition and modernity in Iran. They examine the tension between the two...and contemporary contexts in four sections: Thinking Modernity; Theology and Modernity; ...

Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of...

The Americas;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......cities like Oaxaca "in mediating the experience of modernity" (p. 6). As Overmyer-Velzquez carefully explains, modernity is a cultural construct that emerges out of the discursive...of a complex and often convoluted body of theory), modernity's emergence is never simple. In Oaxaca, for example, "elites ...

The Ride to Modernity: The Bicycle in Canada, 1869-1900

Business History Review;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......modernity and carrier wave (of which more below). Modernity as a movement has its philosophical origins in the...situated throughout this book in considerations of modernity. The bicycle was not modern just because it was new...explained in Norcliffe's own words: For practitioners of modernity the ...

The politics of incorporation: masculinity, spatiality and modernity among...

Oceania;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......westernized world of modernity. In so doing, they...respect of the gender relationship, developments...masculinity and modernity in Melanesia. Knauft...the asymmetrical gender relationships that...masculinity and the gender hierarchy is closely...indigenous path to modernity; ...

Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan: Concepts of Tradition and Modernity in...

Rural Sociology;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Implicated are a variety of class, gender, and age dynamics, as well...contemporary Japan. These cases show modernity as an ongoing process that...investigation into national gendered discourses of Thoku. Although...dependent on the processes of modernity. The final chapter by L. Keith...

How Modernity Shaped Early Film Melodrama

Framework;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......emergence within a range of other phenomena associated with modernity in order to point to a wealth of connections between...technological progress that is one of the hallmarks of modernity, but he also shows that sensational film melodrama...process of 'destabliz[ing] traditional ideologies of gender' ...