1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966104403321

Autore

Hellman Caroline <1979-, >

Titolo

Domesticity and design in American women's lives and literature : Stowe, Alcott, Cather, and Wharton writing home / / Caroline Chamberlin Hellman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

9786613460547

9781136674808

1136674802

9781283460545

1283460548

9781136674815

1136674810

9780203809341

0203809343

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (147 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; ; 6

Disciplina

813.009/3564

Soggetti

American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Home in literature

Women authors, American - Homes and haunts

Women and literature - United States - History

Personal space in literature

Architecture, Domestic - United States - History

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

Cover; Domesticity and Design in American Women's Lives and Literature; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Frocks, Aprons, and Geographies: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Reconception of Domesticity; 2. A House Multiplied: Louisa May Alcott's Material Feminism; 3. Madpersons in Assorted Attics: Willa Cather's Domestication of Discontent; 4. War on the Interior: Edith Wharton's Cabinet War Rooms in the House of the Homeless; Notes; Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Domesticity and Design in American Women's Lives and Literature explores the ways in which four American women writers from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century inhabited domestic space and portrayed it in their work. Hellman explores independent female authors who had intriguing and autonomous relationships with home, relocating frequently either to begin the creative processes of designing and decorating anew or to avoid domestic obligation altogether by remaining in transit. She also looks at how women authors wrote female characters into existence who had strikingl

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960366303321

Autore

McCowan Tristan <1974->

Titolo

Education as a human right : principles for a universal entitlement to learning / / Tristan McCowan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2013

ISBN

9781472552938

1472552938

9781441118882

1441118888

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

379.2/6

Soggetti

Comparative education

Human rights - Study and teaching

Right to education

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

Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: The Global Education Landscape -- 2. The Right to Education in International Law -- 3. Justifications for the Right to Education -- 4. A Right to What? Inputs, Outcomes and Processes -- 5. Upholding Human Rights within Education -- 6. Is there a Universal Right to Higher Education? -- 7. Contributions of the Capabilities Approach -- 8. Learning Human Rights -- 9. Principles and Implications -- References -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

Education is widely recognized as a fundamental human right, yet the nature of the right remains unclear. Is it an entitlement to go to school, to acquire particular forms of knowledge or develop particular skills or attributes? And why exactly is education so important that we might defend all people's right to it? This book provides a much-needed exploration of this key contemporary issue. Highlighting limitations in the approaches of both the Education for All initiative and existing international law, the book presents a radical new vision of how the right can be understood. As well as basic education, there are discussions of higher and lifelong education, of human rights education, and of the intersection of rights-based approaches with others such Amartya Sen's 'capabilities'. The work serves as a stirring defense of the universal right to education against instrumental conceptions of learning, the inactivity of national governments and the abrogation of responsibility of the international community