251 research outputs found
This Conjuncture: Patriarchy in the digital conjuncture
No full textNew Formations This Conjuncture seminar series.
The fifth of a series of online seminars hosted by the journal New Formations in Autumn 2021, organised by Rebecca Bramall and Jeremy Gilbert. The series marks the publication of the journal’s series of issues published under the title This Conjuncture and dedicated to the memory of Stuart Hall.
Patriarchy in the digital conjuncture
Digital platforms create new opportunities to express misogyny in increasingly extreme ways, intersect with the structures of patriarchy sustained in everyday life. In the form of misogynistic ‘rationalism’, these ideas also permeate the culture of Silicon Valley. Join Sarah Banet-Weiser, Ben Little and Alison Winch to discuss networked misogyny and male victimhood in the context of the growing power and influence of digital platforms.
Speakers:
Sarah Banet-Weiser is Distinguished Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Centre for Collaborative Communication. Her books include Authentic™: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture (2012), and Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny (2018).
Ben Little is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Politics at the University of East Anglia. He is the co-author of The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism (2021) and Russell Brand: Comedy, Celebrity and Politics (2016, with Jane Arthurs).
Alison Winch is Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of East Anglia. Her books include The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism (2021) and Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood (2013). Alison and Ben are the authors of ‘Patriarchy in the digital conjuncture – an analysis of Google’s James Damore’, which was published as part of This Conjuncture
A pilot study assessing the feasibility of a home-based progressive resistance exercise program and trend toward healing rates for patients with venous leg ulcers
No full textVenous leg ulceration is a serious condition affecting 1 – 3% of the population. Decline in the function of the calf muscle pump is correlated with venous ulceration. Many previous studies have reported an improvement in the function of the calf muscle pump, endurance of the calf muscle and increased range of ankle motion after structured exercise programs. However, there is a paucity of published research that assesses if these improvements result in an improvement in the healing rates of venous ulcers. The primary purpose of this pilot study was to establish the feasibility of a homebased progressive resistance exercise program and examine if there was any clinical significance or trend toward healing. The secondary aims were to examine the benefit of a home-based progressive resistance exercise program on calf muscle pump function and physical parameters. The methodology used was a randomised controlled trial where eleven participants were randomised into an intervention (n = 6) or control group (n = 5). Participants who were randomised to receive a 12-week home-based progressive resistance exercise program were instructed through weekly face-to-face consultations during their wound clinic appointment by the author. Control group participants received standard wound care and compression therapy. Changes in ulcer parameters were measured fortnightly at the clinic (number healed at 12 weeks, percentage change in area and pressure ulcer score healing score). An air plethysmography test was performed at baseline and following the 12 weeks of training to determine changes in calf muscle pump function. Functional measures included maximum number of heel raises (endurance), maximal isometric plantar flexion (strength) and range of ankle motion (ROAM); these tests were conducted at baseline, week 6 and week 12. The sample for the study was drawn from the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. Participants with venous leg ulceration who met the inclusion criteria were recruited. The participants were screened via duplex scanning and ankle brachial pressure index (ABPI) to ensure they did not have any arterial complications. Participants were excluded if there was evidence of cellulitis. Demographic data were obtained from each participant and details regarding medical history, quality of life and geriatric depression scores were collected at baseline. Both the intervention and control group were required to complete a weekly exercise diary to monitor activity levels between groups. To test for the effect of the intervention over time, a repeated measures analysis of variance was conducted on the major outcome variables. Group (intervention versus control) was the between subject factor and time (baseline, week 6, week 12) was the within subject or repeated measures factor. Due to the small sample size, further tests were conducted to check the assumptions of the statistical test to be used. The results showed that Mauchly.s Test, the Sphericity assumptions of repeated measures for ANOVA were met. Further tests of homogeneity of variance assumptions also confirmed that this assumption was met. Data analysis was conducted using the software package SPSS for Windows Release 17.0. The pilot study proved feasible with all of the intervention (n=6) participants continuing with the resistance program for the 12 week duration and no deleterious effects noted. Clinical significance was observed in the intervention group with a 32% greater change in ulcer size (p= 0.26) than the control group, and a 10% (p = 0.74) greater difference between the numbers healed compared to the control group. Statistical significance was observed for the ejection fraction (p = 0.05), residual volume fraction (p = 0.04) and ROAM (p = 0.01), which all improved significantly in the intervention group over time. These results are encouraging, nevertheless, further investigations seem warranted to examine the effect exercise has on the healing rates of venous leg ulcers, with a multistudy site, larger sample size and longer follow up period
J Virol Methods
No full textZIKV Detect\u2122 2.0 IgM Capture ELISA (InBios International, Seattle, WA) recently replaced the ZIKV Detect\u2122 IgM Capture ELISA and a number of significant changes have been made to the original version. This study compares data generated from the ZIKV Detect\u2122 2.0 IgM Capture ELISA, to data generated using the original version of the kit. The same sample sets were used in this comparison, and reference test results for these samples were used to assess sensitivity, specificity, accuracy and concordance of results across two laboratories. Average sensitivity increased from 90.4% to 92.5% with the updated kit where the increase was not statistically different, and specificity increased from 79.5% to 97.4%, a statistically-significant difference. Accuracy of the ZIKV Detect\u2122 2.0 IgM Capture ELISA was 89% compared to 63.9% for the original version of the kit, and agreement across the laboratories increased from 79.5% to 97.4%. With secondary dengue virus infections, specificity increased from 9.3% to 82.6% with the updated kit, primarily due to the change in interpretation criteria that no longer includes "Possible Zika positive.
Landscape-painter as landscape-gardener : the case of Alfred Parsons R.A.
No full textIn 2 vols.Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DXN016830 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo
The intimacy which is knowledge : female friendship in the novels of women writers
No full textThe thesis offers a historical account of the
representation of friendship in the novels of English
women writers from the nineteenth century to the
present. Questioning the prevalent understanding of the
history of women's friendship in terms of a single major
rupture, from nineteenth-century 'innocence' to
twentieth-century 'guilt', the thesis identifies
narrative configurations which recur throughout this,
period, and which define friendship as a formative
learning experience integrally related to the
acquisition of gendered identity. It concludes that
there can be no final and 'perfect' representation of
friendship, since the nature of the "knowledge' shared
has continually shifted in relation to changing
understandings of femininity.
Chapter 1 identifies the origins and nature of the
Victorian concept of the "second self", in which the
friend acts as the mirror of, and means of access to, an
idealised female subjectivity. Chapter 2 analyses the
ways in which this concept informs the narrative
patterns and rituals in Victorian fictions of
friendship. Chapter 3 offers a new reading of novels by
Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and Charlotte Bronte, in
which the conventions identified in Chapter 2 are
adapted to question the existing boundaries of feminine
identity. Chapter 4 examines the impact of changes in
women's education upon the representation of friendship
in turn-of-the-century feminist and anti-feminist
novels, and in a new genre, the school story for girls.
Chapter 5 shows that the scientific construct of
lesbianism produced a new distinction between the
'healthy' and the 'unhealthy' relationship, but that the
terms of this distinction were contested; in
twentieth-century novels of the 'gyriaeceum', the
tradition continues, but is newly eroticised. Chapter 6
looks at friendship as 'revision' in recent English and
American novels, in which earlier configurations are
redeployed in the light of contemporary feminist concern
to recuperate and re-imagine the past
The financial imaginary: Dreiser, DeLillo, and abstract capitalism in American literature
No full textThis dissertation examines the representation of capitalism as an abstract phenomenon in American literature at the beginning and end of the “long᾿ twentieth century. Comparing the two most recent ends-of-century—both notorious for the promotion of “new᾿ economic rules and extremes of wealth redistribution—allows us to chart writers’ efforts to find formal strategies adequate to represent changing conditions of economic abstraction. Reading fictions from the period of the American “economic novel᾿ from 1885 to 1912 by William Dean Howells, Henry James, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser, and from contemporary narratives of “late᾿ capitalism from 1998 to 2003 by Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Jane Smiley, and David Denby, I show how texts from these two turns-of-century pose a question of parallel historical urgency: how to find new ways of seeing forces of capitalism that are thought to exceed conventional narrative powers of representation. The financial imaginary thus invites us to consider the novel’s attempts—and its failures—to make late capitalism legible in realist terms. I consider how these texts historicize a particular view of late capital as able to evolve beyond its origins as “real᾿ money and toward new levels of financial immateriality. Exploring the ways in which the representation of capital is reconceived in literature as a problem of historical perception and understanding rather than as an account of a system of material production, I argue that the “financialization᾿ of the novel’s imagination—an expansive projection of cause and effect through the abstract terms of the market—is a literary expression of and a response to the market’s seeming ability to exceed social control. Just as late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century texts seek to define historically viable modes of financial selfhood, late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century texts allow us to track the ways that contemporary narrative returns to the preoccupations of the nineteenth-century economic novel even as it models the inadequacies of such fiction to tell the story of twentieth-century capitalism.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-215)
Tudor women writers fashioning masculinity
No full textThis thesis contributes to the growing interest in early modern masculinity and its literary representations by introducing texts by women writers into dialogue with their male-authored counterparts. It argues for a more nuanced approach that recognises that the concepts of masculinity and femininity can only be fully understood when studied in relation with each other.
The first chapter explores how, notwithstanding the wisdom of conduct books and marriage guides, the demands of the state may not always be commensurate with those of the domestic realm and shows that this conflict necessitates a rethinking of existing definitions of masculinity by focusing on selected writings of the Tudor sisters Mary and Elizabeth and Jane Fitzalan’s *Tragedie of Iphigeneia*. The second chapter identifies how Elizabeth’s unique discursive strategies were designed to elicit support from her male subjects and subdue the belligerence that simmered under polemic like John Stubbs’ *Gaping Gulf*. In her letters to Anjou, the chapter examines how Elizabeth manoeuvred around her position as a beloved and as a monarch to fashion a husband who would not only be sympathetic but also subordinate to her political authority. This chapter also shows how the fabulous world of John Lyly’s *Galatea* consummates the Queen’s desire for the ideal male subject. The final chapter investigates the construction of martial manhood. It juxtaposes Mary Sidney’s *The Tragedy of Antonie* with William Shakespeare’s *Antony and Cleopatra* to determine how the figure of Cleopatra, common to both plays, challenges and revises the martial code of masculinity as embodied by Antony. By examining the authorial position appropriated by Cleopatra in the plays and its impact on the narrative, this chapter also extends this thesis’ interest in the extent to which female characters within texts compete for diegetic control with male protagonists
Placement Podcasts - The University of Huddersfield Experience
No full textTheme: Innovative Projects
Title: Placement Podcasts
The University of Huddersfield Experience
Lisa Ward, TQEF Work Placement and Project Manager, Vice Chancellor’s Office,
University of Huddersfield, [email protected]
Jane Gaffikin, TQEF Project Officer Vice Chancellor’s Office,
University of Huddersfield, [email protected]
Synopsis
Aims and Objectives
The University of Huddersfield is one of the top five providers of sandwich education in the UK. However, like many institutions in the UK, we are aware that as student expectations change, we need to do more to encourage our students to take up the wide variety of sandwich and other work placement opportunities available.
Anecdotal evidence has shown that the best ambassadors for placements are the students who have al-ready benefited from them. Therefore we have instigated an original project entitled ‘Placement Pod casts’ to film and / or audio record students talking about their placement experiences. This material will be used to encourage students to take up placement opportunities and to market the University as a centre of excellence for sandwich placements and other work placement opportunities.
Experiences Covered
The paper addresses the following themes:
• Industry experiences including service, healthcare and other sectors. The students that we are film-ing come from traditional areas of student placements, and newer areas including nursing, social work and careers guidance.
• Best practices: The traditional area of written case studies is well developed. This project looks at moving this forward.
• Enabling Technologies: How we intend to host the finished ‘pod casts’ and ‘videos’ on technolo-gies such as the web and DVD.
Issues to be addressed
We are currently in the early phases of this project. Initial filming has taken place of a group of stu-dents. The paper will discuss technical and practical issues associated with the project. My intention is to showcase a short film showing the work that we have done.
The author will then request audience participation in answering the question: ‘Why and how have stu-dent expectations changed vis-à-vis sandwich programmes, and how does technology like pod casts meet the new expectations?
I come to that point on the wheel
No full textThis translation was first published by Kairos Press, Austin, Texas. Produced on the occasion of Harry Duncan receiving the Jane Geske Award on Feb. 3, 1994 from the Nebraska Center for the Book to recognize his contributions to the book as printer, publisher, author, teacher, and translator. Photograph printed from halftone relief plate for cover illustration.UNL SPEC copy-- No.32 of 250 copies hand set, printed, sewn, and illustrated by Denise Brady using Garamond type, Arches paper, and a photo engraved by Pella Engraving Co., Gila Rayberg and Alison Wilson assisted."" -- pg. [4]; media: letterpress, photo halfton
I come to that point on the wheel
No full textThis translation was first published by Kairos Press, Austin, Texas. Produced on the occasion of Harry Duncan receiving the Jane Geske Award on Feb. 3, 1994 from the Nebraska Center for the Book to recognize his contributions to the book as printer, publisher, author, teacher, and translator. Photograph printed from halftone relief plate for cover illustration.UNL SPEC copy-- No.32 of 250 copies hand set, printed, sewn, and illustrated by Denise Brady using Garamond type, Arches paper, and a photo engraved by Pella Engraving Co., Gila Rayberg and Alison Wilson assisted."" -- pg. [4]; media: letterpress, photo halfton
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