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Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II: Fairy- Tale Revival Dramas: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Re

Volume two explores the way a wide range of classic princess tales written by marginalized writers. Rapunzel and Snow White with their pale skin or long ropes of golden hair are particularly popular vehicles for exploring and challenging racialized constructions of beauty. Marriage is the traditional vehicle of a happy ending in Princess tales so marginalized responses to these tales also inherently respond to the doubly colonized position of women in the Anglophone world. The institution of marriage typically exposes the institutional oppression of colonized women. Authors include Charles Chesnutt Jessie Fauset Julia Kavanaugh George Edwards some of the unpublished manuscripts of Jewish-Australian author Joseph Jacobs and the earliest work of Sinèad de Valera as well as fin-de-siècle illustrators such as Harry Clarke and collected oral tales. | Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II: Fairy- Tale Revival Dramas: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Re

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The Uses of Narrative Explorations in Sociology Psychology and Cultural Studies

Social scientists increasingly invoke narrative in their theory and research. This book explores the wide range of work in sociology psychology and cultural studies in which narrative approaches have been used to study meaning subjectivity politics and power in concrete contexts. The Uses of Narrative presents a range of case studies including: Princess Diana's Panorama interview media coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots memoirs of the wives of scientists who made the first atomic bomb popular images of gay marriage and the effect of the Velvet Revolution on writing autobiography. The book brings together contributions from European Australian and North American researchers indicating the diversity and potential of narrative approaches. The editors adopt a distinctive and unique psychosocial approach to narrative and set the individual chapters in the context of three broad themes: culture life histories and discourse. The Uses of Narrative complicates challenges and stimulates-it will be of vital interest to sociologists psychologists social theorists students of cultural studies and others who are interested in the relationships between meaning self and society. | The Uses of Narrative Explorations in Sociology Psychology and Cultural Studies

GBP 130.00

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Untaming Girlhoods Storytelling Female Adolescence

This is an interdisciplinary examination of depictions of girlhoods through a comparative study of foundational fairy tales revised and reimagined in popular narrative film and television adaptations. The success of franchises such as The Hunger Games Twilight and Divergence have re-presented the young heroine as an empowered female and often a warrior hero in her own right. Through a selection of popular culture touchstones this empowerment is questioned as a manipulation of feminist ideals of equality and a continuation of the traditional vision of female awakening centering on issues of personal choice agency physical violence purity and beauty. By investigating re-occurring storytelling frameworks and archetypes Untaming Girlhoods examines different portrayals of girlhoods in the 20th- and 21st-century Anglo-American cultural imaginary that configure modern girlhoods beyond the fairy-tale princess or the damsel in distress into refigurations that venture away from the well-trodden path for a new breakaway path to authentic selfhood. This will be a useful and enlightening text for students and researchers in Girlhood Studies Gender Studies Film Studies Popular Culture and Media Studies. | Untaming Girlhoods Storytelling Female Adolescence

GBP 120.00

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The Yezidis A Study in Survival

First Published in 1987 The Yezidis: A Study in Survival traces the origin of Yezidi community’s religion describes the discovery of the people by Western travellers in the early nineteenth century and details the Yezidi community’s traumatic history and their status in the 80s. The Yezidi religious group is spread out over Iraq Turkey Syria and erstwhile USSR and have retained their identity for over 500 years. The Yezidi’s believe that Lucifer the fallen angel has been forgiven by God and reinstated as chief angel: their history is like their faith characterized by dignity and survival in the face of great odds. Chapters also cover Sultan Abdul Hamid’s cruel but vain efforts to force the Yezidis to embrace Islam leading to the emergence of Mayan Khatun a strong-willed Yezidi princess who ruled the community from 1913-1958. They include vivid account of her rivalry with her brother Ismail and the ill-fated marriage between her son and his daughter. The final chapter describes the community in Soviet Armenia and Georgia. This book is a must read for students of Middle East studies and Middle East history. | The Yezidis A Study in Survival

GBP 105.00

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The British Women's Suffrage Campaign National and International Perspectives

This book brings together twelve chapters from feminist historians from around the world to offer new perspectives on aspects of the campaign for women’s suffrage in Britain. Although the focus is on Britain this volume signals how the women’s suffrage campaign in Britain embraced both national and global aspects. The historical developments and structures that affected women’s lives and suffrage struggles were not limited to national contexts. Early chapters focus on particular individuals both well and lesser known including Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst as well as Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy Princess Sophia Duleep Singh Lady Isabel Margesson and Isabella Ford. Later chapters highlight the interrelationship between the British movement and suffrage campaigns across the globe with reference to Austria Japan New Zealand Australia and the USA. The chapters deal with issues around strategies social class employment religion nationalism empire and race and explore complex issues about women’s roles in campaigning for their democratic right to the parliamentary vote. Offering the reader a broad view of the British women’s suffrage movement this is the ideal volume for students of women’s and political history in both its national and international contexts. | The British Women's Suffrage Campaign National and International Perspectives

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Sufi Women and Mystics Models of Sanctity Erudition and Political Leadership

This book focuses on women’s important contribution to Sufism by analyzing the lives and seminal contributions of six mystic Sufi women to Islamic spirituality. To help reverse the sidelining of Sufi women in the recorded academic literature the author has selected a representative sample of figures from diverse Islamic dynasties with varying backgrounds social status and devotional contributions. Taking a historical approach attentive to specific political contexts readers will be introduced to the contributions of Umm Ali al-Balkhī and Fātima of Nishāpūr in the ninth-century Khurāsān Aisha al-Mannūbiyya of the Hafsid dynasty in Ifrīqya Aisha al-Bā‘ūnīyya of the Mamlūk dynasties of Egypt and Syria the Mughal princess Jahan Ara Begum and the daughter of the Caliph of Sokoto Nana Asma’u. It is argued that these ascetic and Sufi women were recognized by their male and female peers became political leaders in their communities and were honored as examples of sanctity and erudition. Their works influenced mystical discourse hagiographical writings religious language and models of religious authority to secure legacies of Islamic orthopraxis. The book will appeal to anyone interested in Sufism and Sufi history as well as to those wishing to delve into the understudied topic of Muslim women’s spirituality. | Sufi Women and Mystics Models of Sanctity Erudition and Political Leadership

GBP 130.00

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Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe 900–1400

Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides imagined biographies of twenty different figures from all walks of life living in Eastern Europe from 900 to 1400. Moving beyond the usual boundaries of speculative history the book presents innovative and creative interpretations of the people places and events of medieval Eastern Europe and provides an insight into medieval life from Scandinavia to Byzantium. Each chapter explores a different figure and together they present snapshots of life across a wide range of different social backgrounds. Among the figures are both imagined and historical characters including the Byzantine Princess Anna Porphyrogenita a Jewish traveller a slave the Mongol general Sübodei a woman from Novgorod and a Rus’ pilgrim. A range of different narrative styles are also used throughout the book from omniscient third-person narrators to diary entries letters and travel accounts. By using primary sources to construct the lives of and give a voice to the types of people who existed within medieval European history Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides a highly accessible introduction to the period. Accompanied by a new and interactive companion website it is the perfect teaching aid to support and excite students of medieval Eastern Europe. | Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe 900–1400

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Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and her World (1807–1873)

The Russian Great Reforms of the 1860s were the last major modernizing effort by the Romanov dynasty. From 1855 to 1861 Grand Duchess Elena born Princess Charlotte of W¼rttemberg (1807-1873) acted as the spokeswoman for the reform-minded circles of Russian society bringing before her nephew Emperor Alexander II a group of civic-minded experts who formed the core of the committee that prepared the greatest and most complex of the reforms the abolition of serfdom in Russia. The Grand Duchess’s involvement in these crucial events in Russian history highlights the considerable influence aristocratic women had in Russian society quite unlike women of the same class and status in Western Europe. A study of the Grand Duchess Elena of Russia offers a new understanding of Russian and international events of the time the Romanovs’ role in them the degree of autonomy enjoyed by high-born women in Russia and the ways in which new ideas gained ground in the nineteenth-century Russian empire. Based on abundant and largely unused archival sources published documents and literature of the period in French Russian German Italian and English this is the first book about Grand Duchess Elena and it expertly interweaves the story of a woman’s life with that of Imperial Russian high politics. | Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and her World (1807–1873)

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Red Magic The World’s Best Fairy Tales Collected and Arranged by Romer Wilson

With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes as well as the original illustrations by Kay Nielsen this collection of fairy tales originally published by the award-winning Romer Wilson – Green Magic (1928) Silver Magic (1929) and Red Magic (1930) – offers a combination of classic fairy tales alongside lesser known global and diverse tales. Red Magic contains such classics as “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” from the Arabian Nights “A Child’s Dream on a Star” by Dickens and “The Chimera” by Hawthorne. It also contains previously unpublished tales such as “Princess Silver Silk” and “The Enchanted Deer. ” It was Romer Wilson’s intention to combine the familiar with the unknown and to introduce authors and cultures from a variety of countries. As a researcher Wilson uncovered a remarkable amount of stories from other countries that remain unknown today. This collection gives voice to unique and intriguing tales that inspire children to have a better understanding of how people and their stories are alike despite major differences. Through his Preface and commentary Jack Zipes shows how all three books are a means to bring people together in the name of peace and justice. These books will therefore be of interest to anyone researching or studying fairy tales folklore and children’s literature as well as global or comparative literature and social justice. | Red Magic The World’s Best Fairy Tales Collected and Arranged by Romer Wilson