This book is an action : feminist print culture and activist aesthetics / / edited by Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr ; contributors, Jill E. Anderson [and twelve others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460769903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Urbana, [Illinois] : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-252-09790-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 810.9/352042
• Soggetti: American literature - Women authors - History and criticism; Feminism and literature - United States - History - 20th century; Women - United States - Intellectual life - 20th century; Second-wave feminism - United States; Publishers and publishing - United States - History - 20th century; Books and reading - United States - History - 20th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2015.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "The Women's Liberation Movement held a foundational belief in the written word's power to incite social change. In this new collection, Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr curate essays that reveal how second-wave feminists embraced this potential with a vengeance. The authors in This Book Is an Action investigate the dynamic print culture that emerged as the feminist movement reawakened in the late 1960's. The works created by women shined a light on taboo topics and offered inspiring accounts of personal transformation. Yet, as the essayists reveal, the texts represented something far greater: a distinct and influential American literary renaissance. On the one hand, feminists took control of the process by building a network of publishers and distributors owned and operated by women. On the other, women writers threw off convention to venture into radical and experimental ; forms, poetry, and genre storytelling, and in so doing created works that raised the consciousness of a generation. Examining feminist print culture from its structures and systems to defining texts by Margaret Atwood and Alice Walker, This Book Is an Action suggests untapped possibilities for the critical and aesthetic analysis of the diverse range of literary production during feminism's second wave"--

Human Values and Intercultural Competence in Internationalised Universities : The Views of Administrative and Support Staff in Two European Settings / / by Andrea Martínez Celis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910903790103321
• Autore: Martínez Celis Andrea
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024
• ISBN: 9783031692680; 3031692683
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2024.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (0 pages)
• Disciplina: 418; 303.482
• Soggetti: Intercultural communication; Education, Higher; Emigration and immigration - Social aspects; Intercultural Communication; Higher Education; International and Intercultural communication; Sociology of Migration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Part I: Theoretical Elements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Intercultural Competence in the Internationalisation of Higher Education -- Chapter 3: Human Values -- Part II: Data and Overview of Methods -- Chapter 4: Research Design and Methodology -- Chapter 5: Analysis of Questionnaires -- Chapter 6: Analysis of Interviews -- ; Chapter 7: Overview of General Results and Discussion on Main Findings -- Chapter 8: Concluding Remarks.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book investigates the perceptions of the administrative and support staff at two universities (one in Spain, the other in the Netherlands) regarding internationalisation in their institutions and their own perceived intercultural competence within their contexts. Using the Schwartz value system, the author aims also to understand and explore how human values relate to attitudes and intercultural competence more broadly. The book argues for the importance of intercultural competence of administrative and support staff in internationalised universities, as well as their key role as essential agents in promoting internationalisation. The author proposes an interdisciplinary method to evaluate intercultural competence from an emic perspective-through questionnaires and interviews-and from an etic perspective-analysing participants' discursive constructions to reveal their human values. This volume will be of interest to academics and practitioners in fields such as linguistics, intercultural competence, intercultural and cross-cultural studies, internationalisation of higher education, and sociology.This book investigates the perceptions of the administrative and support staff at two universities (one in Spain, the other in the Netherlands) regarding internationalisation in their institutions and their own perceived intercultural competence within their contexts. Using the Schwartz value system, the author aims also to understand and explore how human values relate to attitudes and intercultural competence more broadly. Andrea Martínez Celis is an assistant professor at Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain. She obtained her PhD in English Linguistics from Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Her main area of research focuses on intercultural communication, which involves innovative language teaching methodologies that aim to develop students' intercultural and pragmatic competences. She also collaborates with Small Wide World (SWW) as an intercultural competence trainer, and with Edgar J. Ridley & Associates implementing the symptomatic approach to effectively address the essential issues inherent in intercultural conflict. In 2023, she participated in the United Nations' Science Summit, promoting the importance of intercultural awareness for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).