1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457643803321

Autore

Champagne John

Titolo

The ethics of marginality [[electronic resource] ] : a new approach to gay studies / / John Champagne ; foreword by Donald Pease

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1995

ISBN

0-8166-8621-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Disciplina

305.9/0664

Soggetti

Homosexuality - Philosophy

Marginality, Social

Homosexuality and art

Homosexuality and literature

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Subject and/in Ideology; Chapter 2 Gay Pornography and Nonproductive Expenditure; Chapter 3 ""Anthropology-Unending Search for What Is Utterly Precious"": Race, Class, and Tongues Untied; Chapter 4 ""I Just Wanna Be a Rich Somebody"": Experience, Common Sense, and Paris Is Burning; Chapter 5 Conclusion: On the Uses and Disadvantages of a History of the Other-An Untimely Meditation; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An original and timely critique which moves gay studies beyond both identity politics and the "rights" discourse, as it questions whose interests are served in an uncritical celebration of the Other. Champagne uses the work of such critics as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gayatri Spivak, as he establishes a ground-breaking and controversial new theoretical model for studies of the Other.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785500003321

Autore

Cowling Charles

Titolo

The good funeral guide / / Charles Cowling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-282-87398-9

9786612873980

1-4411-3322-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

393.9

Soggetti

Funeral rites and ceremonies - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 What's in this guide?; 2 Take your time; 3 Take charge; 4 Take stock; 5 Why do we have funerals?; 6 What is a green funeral?; 7 Burial or cremation?; 8 Cremation; 9 Burial; 10 Decision time - burial or cremation?; 11 What happens when we die?; 12 Caring for the body - why would you want to?; 13 Caring for the body - what needs to be done?; 14 Caring for the body - doing it all yourself; 15 Embalming; 16 Going to see someone who has died; 17 Decision time - caring for the body; 18 Style your funeral; 19 The crematorium and other funeral venues

20 Who will lead the funeral ceremony?21 A life-centred funeral; 22 Do it your way; 23 Can a funeral be fun?; 24 Set your goals; 25 Choose your ingredients; 26 Create a sense of occasion; 27 Who will be the host?; 28 Decision time - celebrant and ceremony; 29 Construct the ceremony; 30 Tribute-writing tips; 31 Funeral food; 32 Funeral directors - what are they like and what do they know?; 33 Should funeral directors be regulated?; 34 Funeral directors - what do they do?; 35 Funeral directors - what do they cost?; 36 Funeral directors - telling them apart

37 Funeral directors - find out who's out there38 Decision time - buy only what you want; 39 101 coffins and a shroud; 40 Final rides - hearses; 41 Marking the spot - memorials; 42 What to do with the



ashes?; 43 What does dying feel like?; 44 Planning your own death and funeral

Sommario/riassunto

The Good Funeral Guide is the first ever independent consumer guide to the funeral industry. It is for anyone who:   - needs to arrange a funeral for someone now   - has sick or elderly relatives or friends and knows that a funeral is imminent   - wants to find a good funeral director and have some say in the funeral itself   - wants to make future arrangements for their own funeral   - would like to learn about deaths and funerals   Authoritative, impartial and empowering, it is indispensable for those who don't want a conventional religious ceremony and invaluable for those who do. This is a