2005 IEEE Power Electronics Education Workshop

• Record Nr.: UNISA996204071003316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Place of publication not identified], : I E E E, 2005
• ISBN: 1-5090-9683-3
• Disciplina: 621.31/7
• Soggetti: Electrical & Computer Engineering; Engineering & Applied Sciences; Electrical Engineering
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Gender, rhetoric, and print culture in French Renaissance writing / / Floyd Gray [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780245703321
• Autore: Gray Floyd <1926->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000
• ISBN: 1-107-11980-4; 0-511-01078-8; 1-280-15470-5; 0-511-11847-3; 0-511-15112-8; 0-511-31048-X; 0-511-48577-8; 0-511-04987-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 227 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge studies in French ; ; 63
• Disciplina: 840.9/003
• Soggetti: French literature - 16th century - History and criticism; French literature - 17th century - History and criticism; Sex in literature; Gender identity in literature
• 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 (p. 209-223) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Discourses of misogyny. The rule of rhetoric. The Querelle des femmes: rhetoric or reality? Antifeminism and marriage in Rabelais's Tuers Livre -- ; 2. Irony and the sexual other. Jeanne Flore and erotic desire: feminism or male fantasy? Reading and writing in the tenth story of the Hepatameron -- ; 3. Anonymity and the poetics of regendering. The "I" as another. Pernette du Gullet's Platonism. Louise Labe's Petrarchism -- ; 4. The women in Montaigne's life. Montaigne's women. Marie de Gournay's Montaigne -- ; 5. Sexual marginality. Reading homosexuality. Cross-dressing. The anadrogyne myth. Brantome, medical discourse, and the makings of pornography.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected both by rhetorical conventions and by the commercial requirements of an expanding publishing industry. Focusing on a wide range of discourses on gender issues - misogynist, feminist, autobiographical, homosexual and medical - Gray reveals the extent to which these marginalized texts reflect literary concerns rather than social reality. He then moves from a close analysis of the rhetorical factor in the Querelle des femmes to consider ways in which writing, as a textual phenomenon, inscribes its own, sometimes ambiguous, meaning. Gray offers richly detailed readings of writing by Rabelais, Jean Flore, Montaigne, Louise Labé, Pernette du Guillet and Marie de Gournay among others, challenging the inherent anachronism of those forms of criticism that fail to take account of the rhetorical and cultural conditions of the period.

Women's activism in Latin America and the Caribbean : engendering social justice, democratizing citizenship / / edited by Elizabeth Maier and Nathalie Lebon; foreword by Sonia E. Alvarez

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910964446303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 0-8135-4951-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (397 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MaierElizabeth; LebonNathalie
• Disciplina: 320.98082
• Soggetti: Women - Political activity - Latin America; Women - Political activity - Caribbean Area; Feminism - Latin America; Feminism - Caribbean Area; Women - Latin America - Social conditions; Women - Caribbean Area - Social conditions
• 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: Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword / Alvarez, Sonia E. -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Part I. Setting the Stage -- Introduction / Lebon, Nathalie -- 1. Accommodating the Private into the Public Domain: Experiences and Legacies of the Past Four Decades / Maier, Elizabeth -- Part II. Women, Work, and Families: The Structural Context of Globalization -- 2. Women's Work and Neoliberal Globalization: Implications for Gender Equity / Colón, Alice / Poggio, Sara -- 3. Female-Headed Households and Poverty in Latin America: A Comparison of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic / Safa, Helen -- 4. A "Top-Down"-"Bottom-Up" Model: Four Decades of Women's Employment and Gender Ideology in Cuba / Sarmiento, Marta Núñez -- Part III. Women's Agency for Plural Democracy and Full Citizenship -- 5. The Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo Speak / Marco, Graciela Di -- 6. Gender Politics in Nicaragua: Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Return of Daniel Ortega / Kampwirth, Karen -- 7. Haiti: Women in Conquest of Full and Total Citizenship in ; an Endless Transition / Merlet, Myriam -- 8. From Urban Elite to Peasant Organizing: Agendas, Accomplishments, and Challenges of Thirty-plus Years of Guatemalan Feminism, 1975-2007 / Carrillo, Ana Lorena / Chinchilla, Norma Stoltz -- Part IV. Broadening the Circle of Women's Activism: New Meanings from Intersecting Oppressions -- 9. Women's Movements in Argentina: Tensions and Articulations / Marco, Graciela Di -- 10. Advocating for Citizenship and Social Justice: Black Women Activists in Brazil / Caldwell, Kia Lilly -- 11. Itineraries of Latin American Lesbian Insubordination / Mogrovejo, Norma -- 12. Respect, Discrimination, and Violence: Indigenous Women in Ecuador, 1990-2007 / Prieto, Mercedes / Pequeño, Andrea / Cominao, Clorinda / Flores, Alejandra / Maldonado, Gina -- Part V. Shaping Public Policy with a Gender Perspective -- 13. Peace Begins at Home: Women's Struggles against Violence and State Actions in Costa Rica / Sagot, Montserrat -- 14. New Challenges in Feminist Practice: The Women's Institutes in Mexico / Tarrés, María Luisa -- 15. Women's Struggles for Rights in Venezuela: Opportunities and Challenges / Rakowski, Cathy A. / Espina, Gioconda -- 16. Trickling Up, Down, and Sideways: Gender Policy and Political Opportunity in Brazil / Macaulay, Fiona -- Part VI. The Politics of Scale: Local, Regional, and Global Feminist Agency -- 17. From Insurgency to Feminist Struggle: The Search for Social Justice, Democracy, and Equality between Women and Men / Herrera, Morena -- 18. The Latin American Network of Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir / Navarro, Marysa / Mejía, María Consuelo -- 19. Constructing New Democratic Paradigms for Global Democracy: The Contribution of Feminisms / Vargas, Virginia -- Part VII. Concluding Considerations -- 20. Concluding Reflections: Renegotiating Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean / Maier, Elizabeth -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean brings together a group of interdisciplinary scholars who analyze and document the diversity, vibrancy, and effectiveness of women's experiences and organizing in Latin America and the Caribbean during the past four decades. Most of the expressions of collective agency are analyzed in this book within the context of the neoliberal model of globalization that has seriously affected most Latin American and Caribbean women's lives in multiple ways. Contributors explore the emergence of the area's feminist movement, dictatorships of the 1970's, the Central American uprisings, the urban, grassroots organizing for better living conditions, and finally, the turn toward public policy and formal political involvement and the alternative globalization movement. Geared toward bridging cultural realities, this volume represents women's transformations, challenges, and hopes, while considering the analytical tools needed to dissect the realities, understand the alternatives, and promote gender democracy.