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Inconvenient People
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Author : Sarah Wise
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-10-04
Inconvenient People written by Sarah Wise and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-04 with History categories.
This highly original book brilliantly exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy and the dark motives behind them in the Victorian period. Gaslight tales of rooftop escapes, men and women snatched in broad daylight, patients shut in coffins, a fanatical cult known as the Abode of Love... The nineteenth century saw repeated panics about sane individuals being locked away in lunatic asylums. With the rise of the ‘mad-doctor’ profession, English liberty seemed to be threatened by a new generation of medical men willing to incarcerate difficult family members in return for the high fees paid by an unscrupulous spouse or friend. Sarah Wise uncovers twelve shocking stories, untold for over a century and reveals the darker side of the Victorian upper and middle classes – their sexuality, fears of inherited madness, financial greed and fraudulence – and chillingly evoke the black motives at the heart of the phenomenon of the ‘inconvenient person.' ‘A fine social history of the people who contested their confinement to madhouses in the 19th century, Wise offers striking arguments, suggesting that the public and juries were more intent on liberty than doctors and families’ Sunday Telegraph
Inconvenient People
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Author : Sarah Wise
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2014-07-15
Inconvenient People written by Sarah Wise and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with History categories.
The phenomenon of false allegations of mental illness is as old as our first interactions as human beings. Every one of us has described some other person as crazy or insane, and most all of us have had periods, moments at least, of madness. But it took the confluence of the law and medical science, mad–doctors, alienists, priests and barristers, to raise the matter to a level of "science," capable of being used by conniving relatives, "designing families" and scheming neighbors to destroy people who found themselves in the way, people whose removal could provide their survivors with money or property or other less frivolous benefits. Girl Interrupted in only a recent example. And reversing this sort of diagnosis and incarceration became increasingly more difficult, as even the most temperate attempt to leave these "homes" or "hospitals" was deemed "crazy." Kept in a madhouse, one became a little mad, as Jack Nicholson and Ken Kesey explain in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. In this sadly terrifying, emotionally moving, and occasionally hilarious book, twelve cases of contested lunacy are offered as examples of the shifting arguments regarding what constituted sanity and insanity. They offer unique insight into the fears of sexuality, inherited madness, greed and fraud, until public feeling shifted and turned against the rising alienists who would challenge liberty and freedom of people who were perhaps simply "difficult," but were turned into victims of this unscrupulous trade. This fascinating book is filled with stories almost impossible to believe but wildly engaging, a book one will not soon forget.
The Inconvenient Indian Illustrated
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Author : Thomas King
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Release Date : 2017-10-17
The Inconvenient Indian Illustrated written by Thomas King and has been published by Doubleday Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-17 with History categories.
An illustrated edition of the award-winning, bestselling Canadian classic, featuring over 150 images that add colour and context to this extraordinary work. "Every Canadian should read [this] book." —Toronto Star Since its publication in 2012, The Inconvenient Indian has become an award-winning bestseller and a modern classic. In its pages, Thomas King tells the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Native and Indigenous people in the centuries since the two first encountered each other. This new, provocatively illustrated edition matches essential visuals to the book's urgent words, and in so doing deepens and expands King's message. With more than 150 images—from artwork, photographs, advertisements and archival documents to contemporary representations of Native peoples by Native peoples, including some by King himself—this unforgettable volume vividly shows how "Indians" have been seen, understood, propagandized, represented and reinvented in North America. Here is a book both timeless and timely, burnished with anger and tempered by wit, and ultimately a hard-won offering of hope—an inconvenient but necessary account for all of us seeking to tell a new story, in both words and images, for the future.
Inconvenient Opinions
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Author : Carl Wells
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2011-11-16
Inconvenient Opinions written by Carl Wells and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-16 with Political Science categories.
Inconvenient to whom? Inconvenient Opinions is an attempt to do some fresh thinking on a lot of topics--historical, religious, and miscellaneous. But to whom will these ideas be inconvenient? Not to the author, who is always happy as a clam. To the church? To his family? To authorities? Nope, nope, and nope. Then to whom will these ideas be inconvenient? Perhaps: to people who care about ideas, and who know that good ideas call forth an active response on the part of the hearer. So let's hope that the ideas in this book are good, and that the reader is inconvenienced in a useful way.
The People S Republic Of Amnesia
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Author : Louisa Lim
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2014
The People S Republic Of Amnesia written by Louisa Lim and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with HISTORY categories.
An NPR correspondent explains how the Tiananmen Square massacre changed China, and how China changed the events of that day by rewriting its own history.
Making Valuing People Work
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Author : Fyson, Rachel
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2004-06-16
Making Valuing People Work written by Fyson, Rachel and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-16 with Political Science categories.
This timely report examines the strategic changes that are occurring within learning disability services as a result of the 2001 Valuing People White Paper. It offers evidence-based examples of good practice for all those involved in planning strategic changes to, or implementing change within, services for people with learning disabilities.
The Code Of Civil Procedure Of The State Of New York
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Author : New York (State)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
The Code Of Civil Procedure Of The State Of New York written by New York (State) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Civil procedure categories.
An Inconvenient Woman
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Author : Dominick Dunne
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2012-02-22
An Inconvenient Woman written by Dominick Dunne and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-22 with Fiction categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Good unclean fun . . . [a] convoluted, scandal-greased, exposed-backsides-of-the-rich-and-famous story . . . told in a confiding, breathless undertone.”—Entertainment Weekly Jules Mendelson is wealthy. Astronomically so. He and his wife lead the kind of charity-giving, art-filled, high-society life for which each has been carefully groomed. Until Jules falls in love with Flo March, a beautiful actress/waitress. What Flo discovers about the superrich is not a pretty sight. And in the end, she wants no more than what she was promised. But when Flo begins to share the true story of her life among the Mendelsons, not everyone is in a listening mood. And some cold shoulders have very sharp edges. . . .
On The Inconvenience Of Other People
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Author : Lauren Berlant
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-11
On The Inconvenience Of Other People written by Lauren Berlant and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-11 with Social Science categories.
In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including Last Tango in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Claudia Rankine, Christopher Isherwood, Bhanu Kapil, the Occupy movement, and resistance to anti-Black state violence, Berlant poses inconvenience as an affective relation and considers how we might loosen our attachments in ways that allow us to build new forms of life. Collecting strategies for breaking apart a world in need of disturbing, the book’s experiments in thought and writing cement Berlant’s status as one of the most inventive and influential thinkers of our time.
An Introduction To Visual Culture
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Author : Nicholas Mirzoeff
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-07-19
An Introduction To Visual Culture written by Nicholas Mirzoeff and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-19 with Art categories.
In the fully rewritten third edition of this classic text, Nicholas Mirzoeff introduces visual culture as visual activism, or activating the visible. In this view, visual culture is a practice: a way of doing, making, and seeing. The 12 new chapters begin with five foundational concepts, including Indigenous ways of seeing, visual activism in the wake of slavery, and unfixing the gaze. The second section outlines three currently successful tactics of visual activism: removal of statues and monuments; restitution of cultural property; and practices of repair and reparations. The final section addresses catastrophe and trauma, from Palestine’s Nakba to the climate disaster and the intersections of plague and war. Each section also includes new, in-depth case studies called "Visualizations," ranging from oil painting to Kongo power figures and the mediated practice of taking a knee. Engaging with questions of racializing, colonialism, and undoing gender throughout, this edition maps the activist turn in the field since 2014 and sets directions for its future expansion. This is a key text in visual culture studies and an essential resource for research and teaching in the field.