1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453841403321

Autore

Lang Sharon D.

Titolo

Sharaf politics : honor and peacemaking in Israeli-Palestinian society / / Sharon D. Lang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

0-415-88407-1

0-203-95875-6

1-135-47808-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (489 p.)

Collana

Middle East studies : history, politics, and law

Disciplina

305.48/8927405694

Soggetti

Men - Israel - Social conditions

Men - Israel - Psychology

Honor - Israel

Conflict management - Israel

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Entering the community -- Murder in the name of family Sharaf -- Sulha politics and peacemaking -- The power of the jaha: constructing political authority in an egalitarian world -- Indigenous and official politics: dialectics of a multi-faceted relationship -- Israeli Palestinians: discrimination and the dilemmas of a double minority.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the Arabic conflict resolution method known as ""sulha."" In this process, notable male elders mediate conflicts between and within Arab communities. A lengthy process of political jockeying culminates in a ceremony that peaks when ""enemies"" shake hands and publicly forgive the crimes of the other. The reality of actual sulha deviates considerably from the ideal, but both the official framework and the actual events point to a deep seated valorization of peace and reconciliation in Israeli-Palestinian society.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797320603321

Autore

DeLucia JoEllen

Titolo

A feminine enlightenment : British women writers and the philosophy of progress, 1759-1820 / / JoEllen DeLucia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-4744-2315-9

1-4744-0867-2

0-7486-9595-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism

Classificazione

HG 260

Disciplina

820.9928709033

Soggetti

English literature - Women authors - History and criticism

English literature

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2016).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-201) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: A feminine enlightenment? -- The progress of feeling: The Ossian poems and Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments -- Ossiania history and Bluestocking feminism -- Queering progress: Anna Seward and Llangollen Vale -- Poetry, paratext, and history in Radcliffe's gothic -- Stadial fiction or the progress of taste -- Epilogue: Women writers in the age of Ossian.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on original archival research, A Feminine Enlightenment argues that women writers shaped Enlightenment conversations regarding the role of sentiment and gender in the civilizing process. By reading women's literature alongside history and philosophy and moving between the eighteenth century and Romantic era, JoEllen DeLucia challenges conventional historical and generic boundaries. Beginning with Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), she tracks discussions of 'women's progress' from the rarified atmosphere of mid-eighteenth-century Bluestocking salons and the masculine domain of the Scottish university system to the popular Minerva Press novels of the early nineteenth century. Ultimately, this study positions feminine genres such as the Gothic romance and Bluestocking poetry,



usually seen as outliers in a masculine Age of Reason, as essential to understanding emotion's role in Enlightenment narratives of progress. The effect of this study is twofold: to show how developments in women's literature reflected and engaged with Enlightenment discussions of emotion, sentiment, and commercial and imperial expansion; and to provide new literary and historical contexts for contemporary conversations that continue to use 'women's progress' to assign cultures and societies around the globe a place in universalizing schemas of development.    Key Features:   * Establishes the centrality of gender to Enlightenment discussions of social and historical development   *  Uncovers evidence of women writers' participation in the Scottish Enlightenment's theorization of sentiment and historical progress   *Provides literary and historical background for ongoing discussions of the history of emotion and the study of affect