The Domestication Of Desire
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Author |
: Suzanne April Brenner |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2012-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400843916 |
ISBN-13 |
: 140084391X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Domestication of Desire by : Suzanne April Brenner
While doing fieldwork in the modernizing Javanese city of Solo during the late 1980s, Suzanne Brenner came upon a neighborhood that seemed like a museum of a bygone era: Laweyan, a once-thriving production center of batik textiles, had embraced modernity under Dutch colonial rule, only to fend off the modernizing forces of the Indonesian state during the late twentieth century. Focusing on this community, Brenner examines what she calls the making of the "unmodern." She portrays a merchant enclave clinging to its distinctive forms of social life and highlights the unique power of women in the marketplace and the home--two domains closely linked to each other through local economies of production and exchange. Against the social, political, and economic developments of late-colonial and postcolonial Java, Brenner describes how an innovative, commercially successful lifestyle became an anachronism in Indonesian society, thereby challenging the idea that tradition invariably gives way to modernity in an evolutionary progression. Brenner's analysis centers on the importance of gender to processes of social transformation. In Laweyan, the base of economic and social power has shifted from families, in which women were the main producers of wealth and cultural value, to the Indonesian state, which has worked to reorient families toward national political agendas. How such attempts affect women's lives and the meaning of the family itself are key considerations as Brenner questions long-held assumptions about the division between "domestic" and "public" spheres in modern society.
Author |
: Michael Pollan |
Publisher |
: Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2002-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780375760396 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0375760393 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Botany of Desire by : Michael Pollan
“Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times “A wry, informed pastoral.” —The New Yorker The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?
Author |
: Renaat Devisch |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9057024225 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789057024221 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Law of the Lifegivers by : Renaat Devisch
Devisch and Brodeur bring together investigations of the Yaka people of Congo, describing the different life-giving or life-threatening roles which function in this society, such as sorcerer, diviner, therapist, and chief.
Author |
: Jeremy Prestholdt |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2008-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520254244 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520254244 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Domesticating the World by : Jeremy Prestholdt
“ Ingeniously stands the study of globalization and trade on its head.”—Edward Alpers, Chair of Department of History, UCLA
Author |
: Suzanne April Brenner |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0691016933 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780691016931 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Domestication of Desire by : Suzanne April Brenner
While doing fieldwork in the modernizing Javanese city of Solo during the late 1980s, Suzanne Brenner came upon a neighborhood that seemed like a museum of a bygone era: Laweyan, a once-thriving production center of batik textiles, had embraced modernity under Dutch colonial rule, only to fend off the modernizing forces of the Indonesian state during the late twentieth century. Focusing on this community, Brenner examines what she calls the making of the "unmodern." Against the social, political, and economic developments of late-colonial and postcolonial Java, Brenner describes how an innovative, commercially successful lifestyle became an anachronism in Indonesian society, thereby challenging the idea that tradition invariably gives way to modernity in an evolutionary progression. Brenner's analysis centers on the importance of gender to processes of social transformation.
Author |
: Nancy Armstrong |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 317 |
Release |
: 1990-02-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199879038 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199879036 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Desire and Domestic Fiction by : Nancy Armstrong
Desire and Domestic Fiction argues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class. Drawing on texts that range from 18th-century female conduct books and contract theory to modern psychoanalytic case histories and theories of reading, Armstrong shows that the emergence of a particular form of female subjectivity capable of reigning over the household paved the way for the establishment of institutions which today are accepted centers of political power. Neither passive subjects nor embattled rebels, the middle-class women who were authors and subjects of the major tradition of British fiction were among the forgers of a new form of power that worked in, and through, their writing to replace prevailing notions of "identity" with a gender-determined subjectivity. Examining the works of such novelists as Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and the Brontës, she reveals the ways in which these authors rewrite the domestic practices and sexual relations of the past to create the historical context through which modern institutional power would seem not only natural but also humane, and therefore to be desired.
Author |
: Casey Brienza |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2016-01-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472595881 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472595882 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Manga in America by : Casey Brienza
Japanese manga comic books have attracted a devoted global following. In the popular press manga is said to have “invaded” and “conquered” the United States, and its success is held up as a quintessential example of the globalization of popular culture challenging American hegemony in the twenty-first century. In Manga in America - the first ever book-length study of the history, structure, and practices of the American manga publishing industry - Casey Brienza explodes this assumption. Drawing on extensive field research and interviews with industry insiders about licensing deals, processes of translation, adaptation, and marketing, new digital publishing and distribution models, and more, Brienza shows that the transnational production of culture is an active, labor-intensive, and oft-contested process of “domestication.” Ultimately, Manga in America argues that the domestication of manga reinforces the very same imbalances of national power that might otherwise seem to have been transformed by it and that the success of Japanese manga in the United States actually serves to make manga everywhere more American.
Author |
: Kathryn Bond Stockton |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804723443 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804723442 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis God Between Their Lips by : Kathryn Bond Stockton
Connecting the cultural domains of religion, sex, and work, this book encompasses aspects of feminist theory, post-structuralist materialisms, Victorian thought, and two prominent 19th-century women's novels (Charlotte Brontë's Villette and George Eliot's Middlemarch)—to understand desire between women as a form of "spiritual materialism."
Author |
: Giti Thadani |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 162 |
Release |
: 2016-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474287043 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474287042 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sakhiyani by : Giti Thadani
The product of many years of research, this unique book presents fascinating perspectives on contemporary lesbian life in India and unravels some of the history of lesbian desire from centuries past. Through detailed examination of mythology, cosmology, ancient art and artefacts and her exegesis of ancient Sanskrit texts, Thadani constructs a tapestry of feminine kinship, genealogy and sexual or erotic bonding between women (sakhiyani) in ancient India. The author offers an historical perspective on the effect of colonization upon lesbian identities in India, showing how women were viewed by Western imperialists either as soft victims or as sexually dangerous, possessing an overgrown clitoris and in need of heterosexual domestication. The second half of the book focuses on contemporary lesbian realities and issues, including lesbian marriages, suicide pacts, forging lesbian space, lesbian human rights, lesbophobia, sexual exile and the different construction of gender, family and possible kinship alliances.
Author |
: Kirsten Belgum |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 1998-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0803212836 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780803212831 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Popularizing the Nation by : Kirsten Belgum
In countless articles on culture, politics, landscape, industry, history, and other topics, the Gartenlaube played an influential role in nineteenth-century Germany's larger effort to forge a national identity for itself. In fact, Belgum argues that the search for, and development of, national identity in Germany was inextricably linked to the writings of the Gartenlaube and other popular magazines. Such publications served both as a public repository of mythic memory for the nation and as a source of new national images for a self-consciously modern Germany.