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Doris Lessing
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ISBN: 9780719074813 0719074819 0719097347 1847796710 1847793541 1781703272 9781781703274 9781847793546 Year: 2010 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

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In this book, Susan Watkins examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and has recently published what she has announced will be her final novel.


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From provinces into nations : demographic integration in western Europe, 1870-1960
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ISBN: 0691094519 Year: 1991 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,


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Decline of Fertility in Europe.
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ISBN: 1400886694 9781400886692 0691094160 9780691094168 0691101760 9780691101767 0691611033 0691629277 Year: 2017 Publisher: Princeton University Press

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This volume summarizes the major findings of the Princeton European Fertility Project. The Project, begun in 1963, was a response to the realization that one of the great social revolutions of the last century, the remarkable decline in marital fertility in Europe, was still poorly understood.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Contemporary Women's Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
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ISBN: 9781137486509 1137486503 Year: 2020 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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'This is an impressive study, homing in on a notable gap in writing within the apocalyptic tradition. It is engagingly written, extensive in its choice of texts and, throughout, the textual analysis is in productive dialogue with critical theory. Repeatedly, we learn how the fiction of elsewhere and the fiction of the future urgently speak to our here and now.' - Mary Eagleton, author of Clever Girls and the Literature of Women's Upward Mobility (2018) This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction. Since the dawn of the new millennium, there has been an outpouring of writing that depicts the end of the world as we know it, and women writers are no exception to this trend. However, the book argues that their fiction is distinctive. Contemporary women's work in this genre avoids conservatism, a nostalgic mourning for the past, and the focus on restoring what has been lost, aspects key to much maleauthored apocalyptic fiction. Instead, contemporary women writers show readers the ways in which patriarchy and neo-colonialism are intrinsically implicated in the disasters they envision, and offer qualified hope for a new beginning for society, culture and literature after an imagined apocalyptic event. Exploring science, nature and matter, the posthuman body, the maternal imaginary, time, narrative and history, literature and the word, and the post-secular, the book covers a wide variety of writers and addresses issues of nationality, race and ethnicity, as well as gender and sexuality. Susan Watkins is a Professor of Women's Writing at Leeds Beckett University. Her key publications include Twentieth-Century Women Novelists: Feminist Theory into Practice (2001), Doris Lessing (2010) and (as co-editor) Scandalous Fictions: The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere (2006), Doris Lessing: Border Crossings (2009) and The History of British Women's Writing Vol 9: 1945-1975 (2017).


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From Provinces into Nations
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ISBN: 9781400861217 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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From Provinces into Nations : Demographic Integration in Western Europe, 1870-1960
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ISBN: 9781400861217 9780691608235 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Fraught embrace
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ISBN: 0691183201 1400884985 9781400884988 9780691173924 0691173923 0691173923 9780691183206 Year: 2017 Publisher: Princeton

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The complex relationships between altruists, beneficiaries, and brokers in the global effort to fight AIDS in AfricaIn the wake of the AIDS pandemic, legions of organizations and compassionate individuals descended on Africa from faraway places to offer their help and save lives. A Fraught Embrace shows how the dreams of these altruists became entangled with complex institutional and human relationships. Ann Swidler and Susan Cotts Watkins vividly describe the often mismatched expectations and fantasies of those who seek to help, of the villagers who desperately seek help, and of the brokers on whom both Western altruists and impoverished villagers must rely.Based on years of fieldwork in the heavily AIDS-affected country of Malawi, this powerful book digs into the sprawling AIDS enterprise and unravels the paradoxes of AIDS policy and practice. All who want to do good-from idealistic volunteers to world-weary development professionals-depend on brokers as guides, fixers, and cultural translators. These irreplaceable but frequently unseen local middlemen are the human connection between altruists' dreams and the realities of global philanthropy.The mutual misunderstandings among donors, brokers, and villagers-each with their own desires and moral imaginations-create all the drama of a romance: longing, exhilaration, disappointment, heartache, and sometimes an enduring connection. Personal stories, public scandals, and intersecting, sometimes clashing fantasies bring the lofty intentions of AIDS altruism firmly down to earth.Swidler and Watkins ultimately argue that altruists could accomplish more good, not by seeking to transform African lives but by helping Africans achieve their own goals. A Fraught Embrace unveils the tangled relations of those involved in the collective struggle to contain an epidemic.

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Voluntarism --- Antiretroviral agents --- Non-governmental organizations --- HIV infections --- AIDS (Disease) --- Anti-retroviral agents --- Antiretroviral drugs --- Antiretrovirals --- Antiviral agents --- INGOs (International agencies) --- International non-governmental organizations --- NGOs (International agencies) --- Nongovernmental organizations --- Organizations, Non-governmental (International agencies) --- Private and voluntary organizations (International agencies) --- PVOs (International agencies) --- International agencies --- Nonprofit organizations --- HIV (Viruses) infections --- HTLV-III infections --- HTLV-III-LAV infections --- Human T-lymphotropic virus III infections --- Lentivirus infections --- Sexually transmitted diseases --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- Voluntary action --- Volunteer work --- Volunteering --- Volunteerism --- National service --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Social aspects --- Patients --- Services for --- AIDS altruism. --- AIDS enterprise. --- AIDS money. --- AIDS organizations. --- AIDS pandemic. --- AIDS policy. --- AIDS. --- Africa. --- African aid. --- Africans. --- Global Fund. --- HIV virus. --- HIV. --- Malawi. --- Malawian brokers. --- Malawians. --- NGOs. --- PEPFAR. --- Save the Children. --- USAID. --- Unites States. --- aid chain. --- altruism. --- altruists. --- beneficiary. --- bilateral donors. --- brokers. --- career aspirations. --- counseling. --- cultural practices. --- donors. --- economic mobility. --- education. --- epidemic. --- evaluation. --- fighting stigma. --- foreign altruists. --- funders. --- global AIDS system. --- global philanthropy. --- guides. --- harmful practices. --- institutional altruists. --- journalists. --- lock donors. --- malice. --- merit. --- middlemen. --- miracles. --- mutual aid. --- orphans. --- poverty. --- project evaluation. --- routinized activities. --- sexual practices. --- testimonials. --- training. --- villagers. --- vulnerable women.


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Doris Lessing
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ISBN: 1472542401 1282452878 9786612452871 1441121021 9781441121028 9781282452879 9780826424662 082642466X 9781472542403 9781441104168 144110416X 9781441192646 1441192646 Year: 2009 Publisher: London New York Continuum

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Despite winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing has received relatively little critical attention. One of the reasons for this is that Lessing has spent much of her lifetime and her long published writing career crossing both national and ideological borders. This essay collection reflects and explores the incredible variety of Lessing's border crossings and positions her writing in its various social and cultural contexts. Lessing crosses literal national borders in her life and work, but more controversial have been her crossings of genre borders into sci-fi and "space fiction", and her crossing of ideological borders such as moving into and out of the Communist Party and from a colonial into a post-colonial world. This timely collection also considers a number of the most interesting recent critical and theoretical approaches to Lessing's writing, including work on maternity and abjection in relation to The Fifth Child and The Grass is Singing, eco-criticism in Lessing's 'Ifrakan' novels, and postcolonial re-writings of landscape in her African Stories.

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