1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910811716203321

Titolo

Taking risks : feminist activism and research in the Americas / / edited by Julie Shayne ; foreword by Margaret Randall ; Marisela Fleites-Lear [and thirteen others], contributors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, New York : , : State University of New York Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4384-5247-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Collana

SUNY Series, Praxis : Theory in Action

Disciplina

305.42097

Soggetti

Feminism - History - North America

Feminism - History - South America

Social justice - History - North America

Social justice - History - South America

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments -- About the cover -- Monument to civilians massacred at Plaza de Mayo / Nora Patrich -- Foreword -- The thing about taking risks / Margaret Randall -- Introduction -- Research, risk, and activism : feminists' stories of social justice / Julie Shayne and Kristy Leissle -- Section onepart one: texts, stories, and activism -- Writing and activism / Carmen Rodríguez -- Absence in memories : reading stories of survival in Argentina / Mahala Lettvin -- Chilean exiles and their feminist stories / Julie Shayne -- Navigating the Cuban ideological divide : research on the independent libraries movement / Marisela Fleites-Lear -- Section twopart two: performed stories of social justice -- We also built the city of Medellín : Deplazadas' family albums as feminist archival activism / Tamera Marko -- Who owns the archive? : community media in contemporary Venezuela / Robin Garcia -- Echoes of injustice : performative activism and the femicide plaguing Ciudad Juárez / Christina Marín -- Section threepart three: activist stories from the grassroots -- Feminist tensions : race, sex work, and women/s activism in Bahia / Erica Lorraine Williams -- Latina battered immigrants, citizenship and inequalities : reflections on activist



research / Roberta Villalón -- Rural feminism and revolution in Nicaragua : voices of the Compañeras / Shelly Grabe -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Mother's day / Julie Shayne -- About the authorscontributors -- Index.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966853303321

Autore

Dong Madeleine Yue <1964->

Titolo

Republican Beijing : the city and its histories / / Madeleine Yue Dong ; with a foreword by Thomas Bender

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

9786612356575

9780585456321

9780520927636

052092763X

9781282356573

1282356577

9781597348621

1597348627

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (406 p.)

Collana

Asia--local studies/global themes ; ; 8

Disciplina

951/.15604

Soggetti

Beijing (China) History

China History Republic, 1912-1949

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 (p. 345-363) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. The City of Planners -- PART II. The City of Experience -- PART III. The Lettered City -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980's. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering apartment buildings, nostalgia for the old city is booming. Madeleine Yue Dong offers the first comprehensive history of Republican Beijing, examining how the capital acquired its



identity as a consummately "traditional" Chinese city. For residents of Beijing, the heart of the city lay in the labor-intensive activities of "recycling," a primary mode of material and cultural production and circulation that came to characterize Republican Beijing. An omnipresent process of recycling and re-use unified Beijing's fragmented and stratified markets into one circulation system. These material practices evoked an air of nostalgia that permeated daily life. Paradoxically, the "old Beijing" toward which this nostalgia was directed was not the imperial capital of the past, but the living Republican city. Such nostalgia toward the present, the author argues, was not an empty sentiment, but an essential characteristic of Chinese modernity.