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UNINA9910480198203321 |
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Engels Jeremy |
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The politics of resentment : a genealogy / / Jeremy Engels |
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University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations |
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Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States - History |
Resentment - Political aspects - United States - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Democracy and Resentment -- Essay I. Reimagining the People: From Duas Civitates to E Pluribus Unum to E Unibus Duo -- Essay II. The Rise of the Politics of Resentment -- Essay III. The Rhetoric of Violence -- Conclusion: Resentment Ad Hominem and Ad Ratio: A Plea for Rhetorical Criticism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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In the days and weeks following the tragic 2011 shooting of nineteen Arizonans, including congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, there were a number of public discussions about the role that rhetoric might have played in this horrific event. In question was the use of violent and hateful rhetoric that has come to dominate American political discourse on television, on the radio, and at the podium. A number of more recent school shootings have given this debate a renewed sense of urgency, as have the continued use of violent metaphors in public address and the dishonorable state of America’s partisan gridlock. This conversation, unfortunately, has been complicated by a collective cultural numbness to violence. But that does not mean that fruitful conversations should not continue. In The Politics of Resentment, Jeremy Engels picks up this thread, examining the costs of violent political rhetoric for our society and the future of democracy. The |
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Politics of Resentment traces the rise of especially violent rhetoric in American public discourse by investigating key events in American history. Engels analyzes how resentful rhetoric has long been used by public figures in order to achieve political ends. He goes on to show how a more devastating form of resentment started in the 1960s, dividing Americans on issues of structural inequalities and foreign policy. He discusses, for example, the rhetorical and political contexts that have made the mobilization of groups such as Nixon’s “silent majority” and the present Tea Party possible. Now, in an age of recession and sequestration, many Americans believe that they have been given a raw deal and experience feelings of injustice in reaction to events beyond individual control. With The Politics of Resentment, Engels wants to make these feelings of victimhood politically productive by challenging the toxic rhetoric that takes us there, by defusing it, and by enabling citizens to have the kinds of conversations we need to have in order to fight for life, liberty, and equality. |
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UNISA996552361803316 |
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Rusterholz Caroline |
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Women's medicine : sex, family planning and British female doctors in transnational perspective, 1920-70 / / Caroline Rusterholz |
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Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2020 |
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©2020 |
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9781526149114 |
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9781526156556 |
1526156555 |
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1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) : illustrations |
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Social histories of medicine |
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Family planning - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
Women in medicine - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
Women's health services - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Women's medicine highlights British female doctors' key contribution to the production and circulation of scientific knowledge around contraception, family planning and sexual disorders between 1920-70. It argues that women doctors were pivotal in developing a holistic approach to family planning and transmitting this knowledge across borders, playing a more prominent role in shaping scientific and medical knowledge than previously acknowledged. The book locates women doctors' involvement within the changing landscape of national and international reproductive politics. Illuminating women doctors' agency in the male-dominated field of medicine, this book reveals their practical engagement with birth control and later family planning clinics in Britain, their participation in the development of the international movement of birth control and family planning and their influence on French doctors. Drawing on a wide range of archived and published medical materials, Rusterholz sheds light on the strategies British female doctors used and the alliances they made to put forward their medical agenda and position themselves as experts and leaders in birth control and family planning research and practice.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender equality. |
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