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    How Do We Look..

    How Do We Look..

    Engelstalig, gebonden boek met stofomslag, als nieuw

    The idea of civilisation has always been debated, even fought over. At the heart of those debates lies the big question of how people - from prehistory to the present day - have depicted themselves and others, both human and divine. Distinguished historian Mary Beard explores how art has shaped, and been shaped by, the people who created it. How have we looked at these images.. Why have they sometimes been so contentious.. In Part One, she examines how the human figure was portrayed in some of the earliest art in the world - from the gigantic stone heads carved by the Olmec of Central America to the statues and pottery of the ancient Greeks to the terracotta army of the first emperor of China. And she explains how one particular version of representing the human body, which goes back to the ancient world, still influences (and sometimes distorts) how people in the West see their own culture and that of others. Throughout this story, she is concerned not only with the artists who made images, but with those who have used them, viewed them and interpreted them. In other words How Do We Look.. In Part Two, Mary Beard turns to the relationship between art and religion. For centuries, religion has inspired art: from the Hindu temple at Angkor Wat to the Christian mosaics of Ravenna to the exquisite calligraphy of Islamic mosques. But making the divine visible in the human world has never been simple. All religions have wrestled with idolatry and iconoclasm, destroying art as well as creating it - and asking how to look with The Eye of Faith.

    Mary Beard ;

    € 8,50

    Sex Seen

    Sex Seen

    Paperback, Engels, als nieuw

    Sex Seen provides a complex and intriguing account of the changes that have taken place in the social construction of sexuality during the past century. Focusing on Sacramento, California, at the dawn of the twentieth century, Sharon Ullman juxtaposes early cinema, vaudeville performances, and popular newspapers and magazines with insights drawn from close interpretations of transcripts from Sacramento court cases. She demonstrates how attitudes that emerged in the popular discourse—ideas about gender roles, female desire, prostitution, divorce, and homosexuality—often found complex and contradictory expression in the courts. As judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and juries all weighed in with differing opinions, the courtroom itself became a site of multiple discourses that attempted to make sense of a growing sexual chaos. In tracing the birth of modern sexuality, Ullman chronicles the dynamics of social change during a unique cultural moment and explains the shifts in the sexual ethos of turn-of-the-century America.

    Instead of telling the familiar story of steadily increasing liberation of sexual urges, Ullman chronicles the complex confusions and negotiations of an increasingly public sexual discourse. She relates how laws against cross-dressing gained force at the same time that female impersonation became popular in vaudeville acts, how images of prostitutes were changed by the commercialization of the female body in advertising and film, and how visible expression of female desire was submerged in rape and divorce proceedings.

    Ullman blends social history, textual analysis, and film and performance criticism to explain how sexuality and desire became an essential part of personal identity in this century. Her keen, accessible account of a community on the brink of the modern era offers a provocative interpretation of the seeds of our sexual present.

    Sharon R. Ullman ;

    € 11,50

    The Transfiguring Sword

    The Transfiguring Sword

    Gebonden met omslag, als nieuw. In het Engels. 

    Provides a new understanding of the recurrent rhetorical need to employ conservative rhetoric in support of a radical cause

    The Womens Social and Political Union, the militant branch of the English womens suffrage movement, turned to arson, bombing, and widespread property destruction as a strategy to achieve suffrage for women. Because of its comparative rarity, terrorist violence by reform (as opposed to revolutionary) movements is underexplored, as is the discursive rhetoric that accompanies this violence. Largely because of the moral stance that drives such movements, the need to justify violence is greater for the reformist than for the revolutionary terrorist. The burden of rhetorical justification falls even more heavily on women utilizing violence, an option generally perceived as open only to men.

    The militant suffragettes justified their turn to limited terrorism by arguing that their violence was part of a just war. Appropriating the rhetoric of a just war in defense of reformist violence allowed the suffragettes to exercise a traditional rhetorical vision for the sake of radical action. The concept of a just war allowed a spinning out of a fantasy of heroes, of a gallant band fighting against the odds. It challenged the imagination of the public to extend to women a heroic vision usually reserved for men and to accept the new expectations inherent in that vision. By incorporating the concept of a just war into their rhetoric, the WSPU leaders took the most conventional justification that Western tradition provides for the use of violence and adapted it to meet their unique circumstance as women using violence for political reform.

    This study challenges the common view that the suffragettes use of military metaphors, their vilification of the government, and their violent attacks on property were signs of hysteria and self-destruction. Instead, what emerges is a picture of a deliberate, if controversial, strategy of violence supported by a rhetorical defense of unusual power and consistency.

    Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp ;

    € 22,50

    Bommen in Brussel

    Bommen in Brussel

    Mooi exemplaar. Paperback als nieuw.

    Op 22 maart 2016 ontploffen er bommen op de luchthaven van Zaventem en in het Brusselse metrostation Maalbeek. Na de aanslagen in Parijs en in andere Europese steden ontkomt ook België niet aan de terreur van de Islamitische Staat (IS). De explosies kostten het leven aan 35 mensen. Er vallen meer dan driehonderd gewonden. Journalist Joanie de Rijke en arts Tine Gregoor gaan voor dit boek op zoek naar betrokkenen van deze zwarte dag. Brussel ging op slot, het dreigingsniveau in het land werd verhoogd van drie naar vier. Wie herinnert zich niet meer waar ie was toen het nieuws bekend raakte? Hoe kijken de slachtoffers en hun familie terug op deze dag? Wat vindt de Indiase stewardess Nidhi Chaphekar, wier foto na de aanslagen de wereld rondging, van België? Heeft Beatrice de Lavalette, die op zeventienjarige leeftijd haar onderbenen verloor, de draad weer kunnen opnemen? Hoe verliep de gigantische molen van de hulpverlening die na de aanslagen op gang kwam? En wat hebben de veiligheidsmensen en beleidsmakers uit het 9/11 van België geleerd? Aan de hand van tientallen gesprekken schetsen de Rijke en Gregoor zowel een terug- als een vooruitblik. Of hoe hellhole Brussel destijds werd gedemoniseerd en weer overeind krabbelde. Joanie de Rijke is (oorlogs)journalist voor o.a. Knack en De Morgen. Ze reist hiervoor regelmatig naar Syrië, Irak, Libië, Turkije en Afghanistan. Ze publiceerde eerder In handen van de taliban en Pakistan, het gevaarlijkste land ter wereld. Tine Gregoor is arbeidsarts bij groep IDEWE en consultatie-arts bij Kind en Gezin. Op 22 maart 2016 is ze toevallig in de buurt van metrostation Maalbeek, waar ze een MUG-team bijstaat met de verzorging van de meest zwaargewonde slachtoffers. Ze geeft lezingen over haar ervaring en ontving verschillende onderscheidingen uit erkenning voor haar inzet.

    Joanie de Rijke; Tine Gregoor;

    € 15,00
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