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Sexual Violence and Literary Art addresses the complicity of representation in what is represented, and its creative transformations, by re-examining classic poetic, dramatic and fictional texts by men in light of women's philosophical, theoretical and critical responses to them.

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We need a new law of rape. One which puts the focus on the defendant, rather than the victim. Many survivors of rape report that their experience of the criminal courts is that they are on trial. This book argues we need to redefine rape so the focus is on the defendant and his responsibility.

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This new edition of Bryant's book is annotated and set in its appropriate historical context to create a more accessible text for modern readers on the anniversary of this truly world-changing event.

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This new edition of Bryant's book is annotated and set in its appropriate historical context to create a more accessible text for modern readers on the anniversary of this truly world-changing event.

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Strongman Eugen Sandow (18671925) was renowned as the world's "perfect man" at the turn of the 20thcentury. This book examines his fascinating 2-year "world tour" of South Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and China in 19041905, at the peak of European imperialism and rising Asian confidence and nationalism.

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Against an African, African American and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement's backdrop, this book examines six African American writers who use the cultural and historical past to imagine a different present and future.

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Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothics collusion with taxidermy. Focusing on contemporary cultural and material texts, it shows how taxidermys imbrication with Gothic horror is more than skin deep: these are rich discourses stuffed by affinities for corporeal transgressions, the uncanny, and the counterfeit.

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Another view of Russia on the eve of revolutionThe author is an interesting person his own right as an American who became enamored with fascism

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Another view of Russia on the eve of revolutionThe author is an interesting person his own right as an American who became enamored with fascism

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The purpose of this book is to revisit the legacy of David Riesman, author of The Lonely Crowd, the biggest selling sociology book to date, and a highly influential public intellectual during the second half of the twentieth century.

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The Handbook unravels the relationship between AI, soft power and public diplomacy dealing with conflict, culture, governance, narrative, and theory. With chapters by leading authors in the fields of soft power and public diplomacy, and fresh minds, it will be a valuable resource for students, researchers, practitioners, and policy formulators.

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The Breakdown of the Grand Alliance and the Origins of the Cold War, 1942-1946 provides a detailed explanation of the key events and the Allied approaches to them, producing the breakdown of the Grand Alliance. Given the commitment by all three Allies to maintain cooperation over and into the post-war world, an analysis of why that failed.

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The Christian Culture of Islamic Spain is an enquiry into how and why Christian culture survived in medieval Spain in areas under Islamic rule, why it eventually disappeared there and how knowledge of it was recovered from the sixteenth century onwards.

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The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies is concerned with the ways in which literary and cultural criticism are and have been situated in relation to a variety of ideological and institutional structures, including those of world literature, American studies, spatial literary studies, cultural critique, globalization and postmodernity.

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A resurgent liberalism has become hegemonic in Philippine media and academic discourses, which were previously characterized by progressive and nationalist perspectives. While resurgent Philippine liberalism (RPL) has been precipitated by recent and current crises.

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Can biotech conquer death And if so, what would it mean for us as individual human beings, for societies and for the planet A brilliant, thoughtful book on how ending aging will change everything.

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The internationalisation of higher education gives rise to the curious entity of the global university. Like any organisation within an institutional environment undergoing change, the global university is riddled with numerous contradictions and The Ethics of Internationalisation undertakes a critique of the ethical elements.

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This book considers Byrons borrowings from Thomas Moore, Tasso, Percy Shelley, Ugo Foscolo, and Madame de Stael. The conclusion considers how Byrons ironic mode in politics in Greece influenced Adam Mickiewiczs Pan Tadeusz and Pushkins Eugene Onegin, encouraging other authors to imitate him, as he had imitated others.

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This book brings together scholarly and practical, professionally informed reflections on the 2023 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice referendum loss, with a view to informing the future attempts at First Nations structural reform and the practice of Australian democracy.

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The book introduces the concept of the "gig public" to reimagine the public's role in societies increasingly shaped by the dynamics of surveillance capitalism and algorithmic governance, reaffirming foundational critical sociological approaches-particularly its habitual and contractual roots-that are often overlooked by traditional public sphere theories.