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Examining the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and romance published since the late 1960s, Disability, Literature, Genre is a major contribution to both cultural disability studies and genre fiction studies. Drawing on recent work on affect and emotion, the book explores how disability makes us feel, and how those feelings shape interpersonal and fictional encounters. Written in a clear and accessible style, Disability, Literature, Genre offers a timely reflection on the rapidly growing body of scholarship on disability representation, as well as an innovative new theorisation of genre. By reconceptualising genre reading as an affective process, Ria Cheyne establishes genre fiction as a key site of investigation for disability studies. She argues that genre fiction's unique combination of affectivity and reflexivity makes it ideally suited to the production of reflexive representations of disability: representations which encourage the reader to reflect upon what they understand about disability, and potentially to rethink it. Examining the affective-and effective-power of disability representations in a wide range of popular genre fiction, this book will be essential reading for academics in disability studies, literary studies, popular culture studies, and the medical humanities.

Disabilities in literature. --- People with disabilities in literature. --- 18.06 Anglo-American literature. --- Handicapped in literature --- Physically handicapped in literature --- Literary Criticism --- Modern --- General

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For some legal philosophers, if a law is procedurally correct, enacted in ways constitutionally recognised and agreed upon, then the content is of no significance. It is a "good" law, no matter what it does or justifies. The question of one's consent or opposition to any particular law is extraneous to the legality and is regarded merely as a political matter. The assumption is that a certain procedure and logic in law creation has taken place, and the law can be altered by a change in political leaders in a subsequent political election. However, this view and assumption obscure an uncomfortable fact. Some laws can be "bad" or "immoral." Critical legal theory suggests that there are often two (or more) sets of laws, and it makes no difference if Lady Justice is blindfolded or not. Laws change in the process of history, in part, because societal norms change. As common understandings of morality evolve, law adapts itself to the new moral environment. Norms can change slowly or rapidly, even within a lifetime. This book examines both social and legal norms and theories of how they are both created. Christine M. Hassenstab investigates how laws on sterilization, birth control and abortion were created, by focusing on the act of legislation; how the law was driven by scientific and social norms during the first and closing decades of the 20th century in the USA (especially in the state of Indiana) and Norway. The primary focus of Body Law and the Body of Law is the sociology of law and how and why the law changes. The author develops the notion "body law" for reproductive policies and uses sociological theories to untie the various strands of social history and legal history and looks at two cases of legislation. The book is divided in to two main sections. The first examines eugenic laws in the USA state of Indiana and Norway during the first decades of 20th century. The second part is about the birth control and abortion debate in both countries throughout the late 1960's and 1970's.Christine M. Hassenstab is a lawyer and sociologist. She served as a criminal defense attorney for 15 years (1987-2001) in Seattle, Washington. Currently, she is an adviser in the EU Grants Office at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.

Law, Politics & Government --- Law, General & Comparative --- Human body --- Abortion --- Eugenics --- Social norms. --- Sterilization --- Law and legislation --- Birth control. --- Bacteriology --- Contamination (Technology) --- Disinfection and disinfectants --- Surgery, Aseptic and antiseptic --- Folkways --- Norms, Social --- Rules, Social --- Social rules --- Manners and customs --- Social control --- Homiculture --- Race improvement --- Euthenics --- Heredity --- Involuntary sterilization --- Abortion, Induced --- Feticide --- Foeticide --- Induced abortion --- Pregnancy termination --- Termination of pregnancy --- Birth control --- Fetal death --- Obstetrics --- Reproductive rights --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Technique --- Surgery --- Law. --- Law --- Anglo-American law --- Law, Anglo-American --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- abortion politics, birth control, eugenics, Indiana, Norway, sociology of law, social norms, sterilization.

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This report summarizes Army deployment statistics to Iraq and Afghanistan through December 2011. It serves as an update to the 2008 report Army Deployments to OIF and OEF (DB-587-A).

Afghan War, 2001- -- Manpower -- United States. --- Deployment (Strategy) -- Measurement. --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Manpower -- United States. --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- Afghan War, 2001 --- -Deployment (Strategy) --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001 --- -Manpower --- Manpower --- United States. --- Operational readiness. --- Personnel management. --- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. --- United States --- Military policy. --- -OEF, 2001- (Operation Enduring Freedom) --- Anglo-American Invasion of Iraq, 2003-2011 --- Dawn, Operation New, 2010-2011 --- Gulf War II, 2003-2011 --- Iraqi Freedom, Operation, 2003-2010 --- New Dawn, Operation, 2010-2011 --- Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003-2010 --- Operation New Dawn, 2010-2011 --- Operation Telic, 2003-2011 --- Persian Gulf War, 2003-2011 --- Telic, Operation, 2003-2011 --- U.S. Army --- US Army --- Terrorism --- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 --- Strategy --- -War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 --- Prevention --- -Terrorism --- -Anglo-American Invasion of Iraq, 2003-2011 --- -Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001 --- Afghan War, 2001-2021 --- Deployment (Strategy) --- -Afghan War, 2001 --- Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001-2014.

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This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation brings together contributions from authors with different legal cultures. It aims to identify the legal issues that arise from the intersection of two disciplines: insurance law and corporate/company law. These legal issues are examined mainly from the perspective of European Union (EU) law. However, there are also contributions from other legal systems, enriching the perspective with which to approach these issues.

International law --- International economic & trade law --- Commercial law --- Company law --- Corporate governance --- Finance --- Insurance undertakings --- Corporate law --- Corporate Governance --- Insurance regulation --- System of governance --- Open Access --- Private international law. --- Conflict of laws. --- International law. --- Comparative law. --- Commercial law. --- European Economic Community. --- Corporation law. --- Common law. --- Corporate governance. --- Private International Law, International and Foreign Law, Comparative Law. --- European Economic Law. --- Commercial Law. --- Common Company Law. --- Corporate Governance. --- Financial Law. --- Law and legislation. --- Governance, Corporate --- Industrial management --- Directors of corporations --- Anglo-American law --- Law, Anglo-American --- Customary law --- Corporations --- Law, Corporation --- Trusts, Industrial --- Business --- Business law --- Commerce --- Law, Commercial --- Mercantile law --- Law --- Law merchant --- Maritime law --- Comparative jurisprudence --- Comparative legislation --- Jurisprudence, Comparative --- Law, Comparative --- Legislation, Comparative --- Law of nations --- Nations, Law of --- Public international law --- Choice of law --- Conflict of laws --- Intermunicipal law --- International law, Private --- International private law --- Private international law --- Legal polycentricity --- Law and legislation --- Civil law

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"The 2008 Battle of Sadr City, which took place in Baghdad nearly 15 months after the beginning of the U.S. "surge" in Iraq, has received relatively little scholarly attention. However, the coalition's defeat of Jaish al-Mahdi after six weeks of high-intensity fighting offers important lessons for the U.S. Army as it prepares for future operations. Using after-action reports, briefings, other primary sources, and interviews with combatants and officials involved in the fighting and its aftermath, the authors describe the battle, analyze its outcome, and derive implications for the conduct of land operations. Their analysis identifies the following factors as critical to the coalition victory: supporting ground maneuver elements with integrated intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities and strike assets; the key roles played by heavy forces, snipers, and special operations forces; decentralized decisionmaking; capable indigenous security forces; and rapid transitions from phase to phase. The authors conclude that the Battle of Sadr City presents a new model for dealing with insurgent control of urban areas: treating an urban area as a wide-area security mission. Unlike previous urban operations against insurgents, in which cities were essentially besieged and then stormed, the objective in this battle was not to take and clear Sadr City but to create conditions that would make it both impossible for the insurgents to operate effectively and possible to restore security to the broader population."--P. [4] of cover.

Counterinsurgency -- Iraq -- Baghdad. --- Iraq War, 2003- -- Campaigns -- Iraq -- Baghdad. --- Iraq War, 2003- -- Urban warfare -- Case studies. --- Sadr City, Battle of, Baghdad, Iraq, 2008. --- Sadr City, Battle of, Baghdad, Iraq, 2008 --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Counterinsurgency --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- Campaigns --- Urban warfare --- Counterguerrilla warfare --- Anglo-American Invasion of Iraq, 2003-2011 --- Dawn, Operation New, 2010-2011 --- Gulf War II, 2003-2011 --- Iraqi Freedom, Operation, 2003-2010 --- New Dawn, Operation, 2010-2011 --- Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003-2010 --- Operation New Dawn, 2010-2011 --- Operation Telic, 2003-2011 --- Persian Gulf War, 2003-2011 --- Telic, Operation, 2003-2011 --- Guerrilla warfare --- Insurgency --- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009