1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455088203321

Titolo

Bewitching women, pious men [[electronic resource] ] : gender and body politics in Southeast Asia / / edited by Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1995

ISBN

1-283-38213-X

9786613382139

0-520-91534-8

0-585-13142-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

OngAihwa

PeletzMichael G

Disciplina

305.3/0959

305.30959

Soggetti

Sex role - Southeast Asia

Power (Christian theology) - Southeast Asia

Power (Mechanics) - Southeast Asia

Power (Philosophy) - Southeast Asia

Power (Social sciences) - Southeast Asia

Power resources - Southeast Asia

Electronic books.

Southeast Asia Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on a conference held at the University of California, Berkeley, in the winter of 1992.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- ONE. Why Women Rule the Roost: Rethinking Javanese Ideologies of Gender and Self-Control -- TWO Narrating Herself: Power and Gender in a Minangkabau Woman's Tale of Conflict -- THREE. Neither Reasonable nor Responsible: Contrasting Representations of Masculinity in a Malay Society -- FOUR. Senior Women, Model Mothers, and Dutiful Wives: Managing Gender Contradictions in a Minangkabau Village -- FIVE. State Versus Islam: Malay Families, Women's Bodies,



and the Body Politic in Malaysia -- SIX. State Fatherhood: The Politics of Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race in Singapore -- SEVEN. Alternative Filipina Heroines: Con tested Tropes in Leftist Feminisms -- EIGHT. Attack of the Widow Ghosts: Gender, Death, and Modernity in Northeast Thailand -- NINE. Narratives of Masculinity and Transnational Migration: Filipino Workers in the Middle East -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the authors provide new ways of understanding how gender intersects with local, national, and transnational forms of knowledge and power. Contributors cut across disciplinary boundaries and draw on fresh fieldwork and textual analysis, including newspaper accounts, radio reports, and feminist writing. Their subjects range widely: the writings of feminist Filipinas; Thai stories of widow ghosts; eye-witness accounts of a beheading; narratives of bewitching genitals, recalcitrant husbands, and market women as femmes fatales. Geographically, the essays cover Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The essays bring to this region the theoretical insights of gender theory, political economy, and cultural studies. Gender and other forms of inequality and difference emerge as changing systems of symbols and meanings. Bodies are explored as sites of political, economic, and cultural transformation. The issues raised in these pages make important connections between behavior, bodies, domination, and resistance in this dynamic and vibrant region.



2.

Record Nr.

UNICASUBO0300258

Autore

Bockris, John O'M.

Titolo

1: Ionics / John O'M. Bockris and Amulya K. N. Reddy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; London, : Plenum Press, 1998

ISBN

0306455544

0306455552

9780306455551

Edizione

[2. ed]

Descrizione fisica

XXXVII, 769, XXXIX-LIV p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Reddy, Amulya K. N.

Disciplina

541.37

Soggetti

Elettrochimica

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789316703321

Autore

Gurski Nick <1980->

Titolo

Coherence in three-dimensional category theory / / Nick Gurski, University of Sheffield [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-23842-0

1-299-39995-9

1-107-33277-X

1-107-33689-9

1-139-54233-8

1-107-33357-1

1-107-33523-X

1-107-33606-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 278 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge tracts in mathematics ; ; 201

Classificazione

MAT018000

Disciplina

512/.55

Soggetti

Tricategories

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Background: Bicategorical background ; Coherence for bicategories ; Gray-categories -- Tricategories: The algebraic definition of tricategory ; Examples ; Free constructions ; Basic structure ; Gray-categories and tricategories ; Coherence via Yoneda ; Coherence via free constructions -- Gray-monads: Codescent in Gray-categories ; Codescent as a weighted colimit ; Gray-monads and their algebras ; The reflection of lax algebras into strict algebras ; A general coherence result.

Sommario/riassunto

Dimension three is an important test-bed for hypotheses in higher category theory and occupies something of a unique position in the categorical landscape. At the heart of matters is the coherence theorem, of which this book provides a definitive treatment, as well as covering related results. Along the way the author treats such material as the Gray tensor product and gives a construction of the fundamental 3-groupoid of a space. The book serves as a comprehensive introduction, covering essential material for any student of coherence



and assuming only a basic understanding of higher category theory. It is also a reference point for many key concepts in the field and therefore a vital resource for researchers wishing to apply higher categories or coherence results in fields such as algebraic topology or theoretical computer science.

4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780966303321

Titolo

Rethinking rights [[electronic resource] ] : historical, political, and philosophical perspectives / / edited by Bruce P. Frohnen and Kenneth L. Grasso

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8262-6652-5

Descrizione fisica

ix, 271 p

Collana

The Eric Voegelin Institute series in political philosophy

Altri autori (Persone)

FrohnenBruce

GrassoKenneth L

Disciplina

323.09

Soggetti

Human rights - History

Human rights

Civil rights - History

Civil rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction: Rights in a multicultural age / Bruce P. Frohnen, Kenneth L. Grasso -- Historical roots of modern rights: before Locke and after / Brian Tierney -- Natural rights and social contract in Burke and Bellarmine / Gary D. Glenn -- Natural law, natural rights, and the Declaration of Independence / George W. Carey -- Individual and group rights: self-government and claims of right in historical practice / Bruce P. Frohnen -- ; The ontology of rights / Kenneth L. Schmitz -- ; The historical and communal roots of legal rights and the erosion of the state / Paul Gottfried -- Reintegrating rights: Catholicism, social ontology, and contemporary rights discourse / Kenneth L. Grasso -- Toward a social pluralist theory of institutional rights / Jonathan



Chaplin -- ; Epilogue: Toward an integrative vision / Bruce P. Frohnen.

Sommario/riassunto

"Essays retrace the historical development of rights in the West, assessing the influence of Locke, Burke, and the authors of the Declaration of Independence to clarify the experience of rights within the Western tradition, showing that rights need to be rethought so that they may again truly serve the human good"--Provided by publisher.