Your Search Results(showing 14697)

    • Trusted Partner
      The Arts
      December 2024

      Horizontal together

      Art, dance, and queer embodiment in 1960s New York

      by Paisid Aramphongphan

      Horizontal together tells the story of 1960s art and queer culture in New York through the overlapping circles of Andy Warhol, underground filmmaker Jack Smith and experimental dance star Fred Herko. Taking a pioneering approach to this intersecting cultural milieu, the book uses a unique methodology that draws on queer theory, dance studies and the analysis of movement, deportment and gesture to look anew at familiar artists and artworks, but also to bring to light queer artistic figures' key cultural contributions to the 1960s New York art world. Illustrated with rarely published images and written in clear and fluid prose, Horizontal together will appeal to specialists and general readers interested in the study of modern and contemporary art, dance and queer history.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      April 2021

      Catholic nuns and sisters in a secular age

      Britain, 1945–90

      by Carmen M. Mangion

      This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life. It draws on archival materials and a remarkable set of eighty interviews to place Catholic sisters and nuns at the heart of the turbulent 1960s, integrating their story of social change into a larger British and international one. Shedding new light on how religious bodies engaged in modernisation, it addresses themes such as the Modern Girl and youth culture, '1968', generational discourse, post-war modernity, the voluntary sector and the women's movement. Women religious were at the forefront of the Roman Catholic Church's movement of adaptation and renewal towards the world. This volume tells their stories in their own words.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      November 2021

      Anti-racist scholar-activism

      by Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Laura Connelly

    • Trusted Partner
    • Trusted Partner
      Political ideologies
      February 2014

      The IRA 1956–69

      Rethinking the Republic

      by Matt Treacy

      While there have been many books written about the IRA since 1916, comparatively little attention has been paid to the organisation during the 1960s, despite the fact that the internal divisions culminating in the 1969 split are often seen as key to the conflict which erupted that year. This book, newly available in paperback, redresses that vacuum and through an exhaustive survey of internal and official sources, as well as interviews with key IRA members, provides a unique and fascinating insight into radical Republican politics which will be of interest to those interested in Irish history and politics. The author looks at the root of the divisions which centred on conflicting attitudes within the IRA on armed struggle, electoral participation and socialism. He argues that while the IRA did not consciously plan the northern 'Troubles', the internal debate of the 1960s had implications for what happened in 1969.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      March 2025

      Teenage intimacies

      Young women, sex and social life in England, 1950-80

      by Hannah Charnock

      Teenage Intimacies offers a new account of 'sexual revolution' in mid-twentieth century England. Rather than focusing on 'Swinging London', the book reveals the transformations in social life that took place in school playgrounds, local cinemas, and suburban bedrooms. Based on over 300 personal testimonies, Teenage Intimacies traces the everyday experiences of teenage girls, illuminating how romance, sex and intimacy shaped their young lives. The book shows how sex became embedded in ideas about 'growing up' and explores how heterosexuality influenced young women's social lives and vice versa. It offers new explanations of why sexual mores shifted in this period, revealing the pivotal role that young women played in changing sexual values, cultures and practices in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

    • Trusted Partner
      October 2022

      Red Flowers

      by Shui Yunxian is a national first-class writer, a member of the 7th All-Committee of the China Writers Association, and also the honorary president of the Hunan Writers Association. He has been granted a special government allowance.

      Red Flowers tells the story of how, in the late 1960s, a group of college students, including the protagonist, came to the Dehua Electric Motor Manufacturing Factory, learned and practiced in the manufacturing workshop, and achieved personal development. For the protagonist, his master, who was nicknamed "Beard Mo," was both a master and a rival. Conflicts arose almost everywhere between the two. However, the conflicts also reflected their awe of ordinary work, pursuit of perfection, persistence in dreams, and flawless interpretation of the craftsmanship spirit.

    • Trusted Partner
      The Arts
      June 2025

      Counterpractice

      Psychoanalysis, politics and the art of French feminism

      by Rakhee Balaram

      Counterpractice highlights a generation of women who used art to define a culture of experimental thought and practice during the period of the French women's movement or Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (1970-81). It considers women's art in relation to some of the most exciting thinkers to have emerged from the French literature and philosophy of the 1970s - Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva - forcing a timely reconsideration of the full spectrum of revolutionary practices by women in the years following the events of May '68. Lavishly illustrated with over 200 images, the book also features an illuminating foreword by art historian Griselda Pollock.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      May 2024

      Race, bordering and disobedient knowledge

      Activism and everyday struggles in Europe

      by Suvi Keskinen, Aminkeng Atabong Alemanji, Minna Seikkula

      Developing the concept of 'disobedient knowledge', this book provides new perspectives on activism and everyday struggles against racism and bordering. Drawing on empirical material from distinct contexts in Northern, Western and Southern Europe, the chapters explore how different kinds of (b)orders are challenged and possibly also maintained in everyday antiracism, activism and struggles against borders. The book examines resistance and disobedience in relation to borders, social orders, conventional practices and hegemonic discourses. It underscores the importance of studying racism and bordering as intertwined phenomena. With a focus on the historical layers of resistance, disobedient practices and ways of building shared struggles, the book provides invaluable knowledge about postcolonial Europe and its future possibilities.

    • Trusted Partner
    • Trusted Partner
      Social & cultural history
      October 2000

      Women's leisure in England 1920–60

      by Claire Langhame

      This insightful book offers a timely assessment of the complex relationship between women and leisure in England, drawing upon recent feminist theory. Departing from approaches which focus on particular activities or institutions, it places everyday experiences at its centre, presenting a wide-ranging and lively account of changing perceptions, representations and experiences of leisure across the period 1920-60. It addresses the nature of leisure within women's lives, examining shifting understandings of the concept and identifying areas of definitional ambiguity such as the 'family' holiday, shopping and handicrafts. Focusing upon experiences of leisure across the life cycle, it provides a detailed assessment of the particular forms of leisure enjoyed by women at distinct stages of their lives, including cinema-going, dancing, socialising and home-based pursuits. The book demonstrates that experiences and perceptions of leisure were fundamentally structured along life cycle lines: leisure in youth was often characterised by freedom and independence whilst leisure in adulthood became a vehicle for service and duty to others.

    • Trusted Partner
    • Trusted Partner
      The Arts
      December 2024

      Beyond the Happening

      Performance art and the politics of communication

      by Catherine Spencer

      Beyond the Happening uncovers the heterogeneous, uniquely interdisciplinary performance-based works that emerged in the aftermath of the early Happenings. By the mid-1960s Happenings were widely declared outmoded or even 'dead', but this book reveals how many practitioners continued to work with the form during the late 1960s and 1970s, developing it into a vehicle for studying interpersonal communication that simultaneously deployed and questioned contemporary sociology and psychology. Focussing on the artists Allan Kaprow, Marta Minujín, Carolee Schneemann and Lea Lublin, it charts how they revised and retooled the premises of the Happening within a wider network of dynamic international activity. The resulting performances directly intervened in the wider discourse of communication studies, as it manifested in the politics of countercultural dropout, soft power and cultural diplomacy, alternative pedagogies, sociological art and feminist consciousness-raising.

    • Trusted Partner
      September 2021

      Outline of New Family Education

      by Zhu Yongxin

      Professor Zhu Yongxin explained his ideal education from ten aspects, and from these ten aspects, he discussed how to realize the ideal school, the ideal teacher, the ideal principal, the ideal student, the ideal parent, and the ideal moral education. , Ideal intellectual education, ideal physical education, ideal aesthetic education and ideal labor technical education. Through these ten educational ideals, the author traces an ideal educational blueprint. At the same time, the author also discussed a series of forward-looking issues such as the ten major trends of China's basic education reform, the trends and characteristics of China's curriculum reform, the challenges and prospects of China's moral education.

    • Trusted Partner
      September 2020

      Encountered the most beautiful education

      by Shang Nanhua

      A school education essay written by Shang Nanhua, the author of "Oh, Child" and prefaced by Gu Mingyuan. The main reader groups are teachers and parents. Telling stories about children’s school life, as well as some of the wisdom and experience of teachers’ school education, will help young teachers’ career advancement and parents’ understanding of their children’s school life and school education. The book is about 120,000 words, and it is currently planned for four chapters: without love, there is no education; teaching and educating people in the subtleties; without interest, there is no learning; students grow up in activities.

    • Trusted Partner
      The Arts
      May 2010

      A loss of innocence?

      Television and Irish society, 1960–72

      by Robert Savage

      This book explores the evolution of Ireland's national television service during its first tumultuous decade, addressing how the medium helped undermine the conservative political, cultural and social consensus that dominated Ireland into the 1960s. It also traces the development of the BBC and ITA in Northern Ireland, considering how television helped undermine a state that had long governed without consensus. Using a wide array of new archival sources and extensive interviews Savage illustrates how an increasingly confident television service upset political, religious and cultural elites who were profoundly uncomfortable with the changes taking place around them. Savage argues that during this period television was not a passive actor, but an active agent often times aggressively testing the limits of the medium and the patience of governments. Television helped facilitate a process of modernisation that slowly transformed Irish society during the 1960s. This book will be essential for those interested in contemporary Irish political and cultural history and readers interested in media history, and cultural studies. ;

    • Trusted Partner
      January 2021

      A primer on financial intelligence for children

      by SAI Mei

      This book is comprehensive, systematic, detailed, introduces the basic issues and method strategies of wealth of enlightenment education, including "how to understand money" - understand the content of liabilities and understanding of charity. Combined with its own profound financial knowledge and rich practical experience, the author will vividly use the way to understand the way, and appear in the way. sex.

    • Trusted Partner
      September 2021

      Special Education Research in the Republic of China

      by ZHU Zongshun

      The book is the main shaft in the development history of the Republic of China, and the development of blind education and deafness is clues, based on the research ideas of "continuous-cherbine-transformation", on the basis of combing two major educational institutions, Further analyze the development of special education in the Republic of China in the development of institutional, cultural, thinking, aimed at combating the context of the special education of the Republic of China to continue the development of special educational development, inspecting the creative trajectory of special educational institutions during the Republic of China, revealing the modern transformation of the Republic of China The trend, summarizing the historical experience of the special education of the Republic of China, providing a reference for accurate understanding of the development history of special education in the Republic of China.

    Subscribe to our

    newsletter