137 research outputs found
Jewish women's writing as a new category of affect
No full textThe chapter, "Jewish women's writing as a new category of affect" was written by Richa Dwor (Douglas College Faculty). Bringing together scholars from literary, historical, and religious studies,Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion interrogates the seemingly obvious category of 'religion.' This collection argues that any application of religion engages in complex and relatively modern historical processes. In considering the various ways that nineteenth-century religion was constructed, commodified, and practiced, contributors to this volume 'speak' to each other, finding interdisciplinary links and resonances across a range of texts and contexts. The participle in its title - Constructing - acknowledges that any articulation of nineteenth-century religion is never just a work of the past: scholars also actively construct religion as their disciplinary assumptions (and indeed personal and lived investments) shape their research and findings. Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion newly analyzes the diverse ways in which religion was debated and deployed in a wide range of nineteenth-century texts and contexts. While focusing primarily on nineteenth-century Britain, the collection also contributes to the increasingly transnational and transcultural outlook of postsecular studies, drawing connections between Britain and the United States, continental Europe, and colonial India. Part of the "Literature, religion, and post secular studies" series. --From publisher description.Published
The racial romance of Amy Levy's "Reuben Sachs"
No full textOn its publication in 1888, Reuben Sachs by Amy Levy (1861-1889) was initially received as being anti-Semitic in both the Jewish and the mainstream presses. Many reviews were scathingly critical, and some singled out the author for special abuse ...Peer reviewedFinal article published
Lily Montagu and liberal Judaism
No full textThe chapter, "Lily Montagu and liberal Judaism" was written by Richa Dwor (Douglas College Faculty). Explores the significance of the British fin-de-siècle in Scotland and Ireland, as well as in some regional cities in England. The late nineteenth-century fin de siècle has proved an enduringly fascinating moment in literary and cultural history. It is associated with the emergence of intriguing figures - such as the 'new woman' and 'uranian'; with contradictory impulses - of decadence and decay on the one hand, and of experiment and renewal, on the other; as well as with unprecedented intercultural exchange, especially between Britain and France. The 22 newly-commissioned essays collected here re-examine some of the key concepts taken to define the fin de siècle, while also introducing hitherto overlooked cultural phenomena into the frame, such as the importance of humanitarianism. The impact of recent research in material culture is explored, particularly how the history of the book and the history of performance culture is changing our understanding of this period. A wide range of cultural activities is discussed: from participation in avant-garde theatre to interior decoration and from the writing of poetry to political and religious activism. Together, the essays provide new scholarly insights into British fin de siècle and enrich our understanding of this complex period, while paying particular attention to the importance of regionalism. Part of the "Edinburgh companions to literature" series. --From publisher description.bookPublished
Revealed willingness to pay for conservation across the U.S.
Get PDFThis paper generates new estimates of the benefits of conservation of different kinds of lands at across the entire U.S. with a novel application of choice experiment methodology in which communities reveal themselves willing (or not) to pay for conservation initiatives. We use the local referenda data from Trust for Public Land from 1988 to 2015 over the entire U.S. at the county level and estimate how the communities value different land types and conservation purposes. We analyze 458 referenda to understand how voting behavior changes with referenda attributes and socio-economic characteristics of the participating communities. Because the communities have already voted for conservation referenda, the estimates reveal their actual WTP for different land use types. Using a logit model, we find that communities value open space, recreation, and endangered species more than conservation projects with other characteristics. The results will help conservationists and policy makers alike to understand how the communities value open spaces and use the knowledge for making informed decisions.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2019-12-01The student, Richa Niraula, accepted the attached license on 2017-12-07 at 18:21.The student, Richa Niraula, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2017-12-07 at 18:29.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2017-12-11 at 10:32.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11911 on 2018-03-13 at 09:57:43Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-13T15:28:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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'Grace Aguilar's defence of Jewish difference: Representing women's reading'
No full textAlongside her meditations on Jewish practice and history, Grace Aguilar (1816–47) also wrote stories devoid of Jewish content and advised her female readers to ‘look to [their] English Bibles’. Consequently, contemporaries and critics have claimed that her work assimilates Evangelical literary models. The trope of women’s reading in her fiction, however, and the theorisation of this practice in The Spirit of Judaism (1842) indicates that for Aguilar, valorising women’s capacity for textual interpretation works to defend against apostasy, thus improving the status of the Jews in Protestant England.Peer reviewe
Muddying the Waters: Co-authoring Feminisms Across Scholarship and Activism
No full textIn Muddying the Waters, Richa Nagar embarks on an eloquent and moving exploration of the promises and pitfalls she has encountered during her two decades of transnational feminist work. With stories, encounters, and anecdotes as well as methodological reflections, Nagar grapples with the complexity of working through solidarities, responsibility, and ethics while involved in politically engaged scholarship. Experiences that range from the streets of Dar es Salaam to farms and development offices in North India inform discussion of the labor and politics of coauthorship, translation, and genre blending in research and writing that cross multiple--and often difficult--borders. The author links the implicit assumptions, issues, and questions involved with scholarship and political action, and explores the epistemological risks and possibilities of creative research that bring these into intimate dialogue
Daringly self-conscious, Muddying the Waters reveals a politically engaged researcher and writer working to become radically vulnerable, and the ways in which such radical vulnerability can allow a re-imagining of collaboration that opens up new avenues to collective dreaming and laboring across sociopolitical, geographical, linguistic, and institutional borders.
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Charlotte Montefiore, Marion Hartog, and Jewish women's periodical publishing
No full textAmid the robust market in Victorian Anglo-Jewish periodicals, only two were edited by women: Charlotte Montefiore's Cheap Jewish Library: Dedicated to the Working Classes (1841–49) and Marion Hartog's Jewish Sabbath Journal: A Penny and Moral Magazine for the Young (1855). Their contrasting fortunes reveal the challenges of female editorship of religious periodicals and clarify implicit Anglo-Jewish attitudes about the parameters of Jewish identity. Intolerance toward women's theological interventions and a preference for framing the identity of British Jews in nationalist terms within a wider international Jewish public sphere determined the fates of these two women-edited periodicals.Peer reviewedFinal article published.DC Author's celebration 202
Jewish feeling: Difference and affect in Nineteenth-Century Jewish women's writing
No full text"Dwor argues that Midrash, a classical rabbinic interpretive form, is a site of Jewish feeling and that literary works underpinned by midrashic concepts engage affect in a distinctly Jewish way. The book thus emphasises the theological function of literature and also the new opportunities afforded by nineteenth-century literary forms for Jewish women's theological expression. For authors such as Grace Aguilar (1816-1847) and Amy Levy (1861-1889), feeling is a complex and overlapping category that facilitates the transmission of Jewish ways of thinking into English literary forms. Dwor reads them alongside George Eliot, herself deeply engaged with issues of contemporary Jewish identity. This sheds new light on Eliot by positioning her works in a nexus of Jewish forms and concerns. Ultimately, and despite considerable differences in style and outlook, Aguilar and Levy are shown to deploy Jewish feeling in their ethics of futurity, resistance to conversion and closure, and in their foregrounding of a model of reading with feeling"--From publisher description.BookContents :
Introduction: What is affect? What is Midrash? Midrash and affect. 1. 'The still undercurrent of deep feeling' : history and nation for Grace Aguilar. 'More than usually moved' : representing women's reading -- 'The full gushing tide of rapture' : theorizing women's reading -- 'The Bible, and that nation whose earliest history it so vividly records' : Jewish histories for England's Jews. 2. 'Finer and finer discrimination' : George Eliot's feeling for the Jews. 'Various combinations of common likeness' : fellow feeling and the ethics of form -- 'Absorbing enthusiasm' : education and identity -- 'A people with oriental sunlight in their blood ' : Jewish nationalism. 3. 'A fragment of the eternal truth' : futurity and race for Amy Levy. 'That elaborate misconception' : debating Deronda with George Eliot and Henry James -- 'Startling with excess of truth' : futurity and poetic unfitness -- ' A strange yearning affection' : the racial romance of Amy Levy's Reuben Sachs -- Conclusion: Ester and Judith in London : Jewish feeling as a new category of affect
Managing customers' expectations in E-era: a research on automobile industry
No full textNearly two third of Indian companies fail to satisfy the needs of their customers. The only reason being failing to understand the expectations of the customers. While eera fetches traditional marketing to a new platform, the expectations of customers have also improved on all dimensions. The prerequisite to becoming an emarketing organization, a company needs to be fast, agile, quick in response, proactive and customer oriented too. Automobiles have become a necessity of our life. While taking the example of the automobiles industry the author attempts to find out how customers’ expectations have changed over a period of a decade. The author suggests about what the companies of tomorrow will have to do to manage the customer expectations. An attempt has been made to provide an insight into the same arena with the 3C model of strategic shift in customer expectations
Still Playing with Fire: Intersectionality, Activism, and NGO-ized Feminism
No full textProvocative, timely, and global, this volume offers a critical and grounded engagement with transnational feminism through the lens of praxis—the juncture of theory and practice. In so doing, it grapples with questions of power and representation while remaining deeply committed to radical critiques and agendas of transnational and postcolonial feminisms. Long-time activists and well-known scholars speak to a wide range of issues and practices, including women\u27s studies curricula; NGOs; transnational and LGBTQ studies; feminist methodologies; and film. These essays similarly conceptualize ways to more effectively theorize feminist collaborative practices while subverting such rigid, established dichotomies as theory/practice, academic/activist, individual/collaborative, and the global North/South. A number of transnational projects are highlighted: the Guyanese Red Thread collective; the Ananya Dance Theater; the Philippine Women Center of British Columbia; the Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance; the VIVA! Project; and the Indian organization Sangtin. Comprehensive in scope and rigorous in critical scrutiny, these powerful essays set the twenty-first-century agenda for political engagement through feminist scholarship.
The mix of styles makes for a lively read that is accessible for its extraordinary candor, its combination of theory with firmly grounded empirical examples, and an unflinching confrontation of pain and conflict. It made me think about entirely new things and about familiar things in new ways and to make connections among them. — Louise Fortmann, University of California Berkeley
Amanda Lock Swarr is Assistant Professor of Women Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Richa Nagar is Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author (with Sangtin writers) of Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India. Source: Publisherhttps://scholarworks.smith.edu/swg_books/1017/thumbnail.jp
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