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Non-elite or marginalized early modern women - among them the poor, migrants, members of religious or ethnic minorities, abused or abandoned wives, servants, and sex workers - have seldom left records of their experiences. Drawing on a variety of sources, including trial records, administrative paperwork, letters, pamphlets, hagiography, and picaresque literature, this volume explores how, as social agents, these doubly invisible women built and used networks and informal alliances to supplement the usual structures of family and community that often let them down. Ten essays, ranging widely in geography from the eastern Mediterranean to colonial Spanish America and in time from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, show how flexible, sometimes ad hoc relationships could provide crucial practical and emotional support for women who faced problems of livelihood, reputation, displacement, and violence.

English literature --- History and criticism. --- Women authors. --- marginalized, religious or ethnic minorities, alliances, social agents. --- Women --- History. --- Social networks

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Spark of Light is a diverse collection of short stories by women writers from the Indian province of Odisha. Originally written in Odia and dating from the late nineteenth century to the present, these stories offer a multiplicity of voices—some sentimental and melodramatic, others rebellious and bold—and capture the predicament of characters who often live on the margins of society. From a spectrum of viewpoints, writing styles, and motifs, the stories included here provide examples of the great richness of Odishan literary culture. In the often shadowy and grim world depicted in this collection, themes of class, poverty, violence, and family are developed. Together they form a critique of social mores and illuminate the difficult lives of the subaltern in Odisha society. The work of these authors contributes to an ongoing dialogue concerning the challenges, hardships, joys, and successes experienced by women around the world. In these provocative explorations of the short-story form, we discover the voices of these rarely heard women.

Short stories, Oriya --- Oriya literature --- Women authors. --- Oriya short stories --- Oriya fiction --- subaltern --- marginalized --- melodrama --- Odia --- world literature --- India --- women --- Short stories, Odia --- Odia literature --- Odia short stories --- Odia fiction --- Indic literature

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Rights and the City takes stock of rights struggles and progress in cities by exploring the tensions that exist between different concepts of rights. Sandeep Agrawal and the volume's contributors expose the paradoxes that planners and municipal governments face when attempting not only to combat discriminatory practices, but also advance a human rights agenda. The authors examine the legal, conceptual, and philosophical aspects of rights, including its various forms-human, Indigenous, housing, property rights, and various other forms of rights. Using empirical evidence and examples, they translate the philosophical and legal aspects of rights into more practical terms and applications. Regionally, the book draws on municipalities from across Canada while also making broad international comparisons. Scholars, policy makers, and activists with an interest in urban studies, planning, and law will find much of value throughout this volume. Contributors: Sandeep Agrawal, Rachelle Alterman, Sasha Best, Alexandra Flynn, Eran S. Kaplinsky, Ola P. Malik, Jennifer A. Orange, Michelle L. Oren, Renée Vaugeois. Afterword by Benjamin Davy

municipal government --- community --- civil society --- collective rights --- Henri Lefebvre --- John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights --- First Nations --- minority --- marginalized --- homeless --- lawyer --- urban planner --- city council --- law --- development --- policy

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Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of "good" music-highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original-and, at the same time, has marginalized music that does not live up to those ideals. In Good Music, John J. Sheinbaum explores these traditional models for valuing music. By engaging examples such as Handel oratorios, Beethoven and Mahler symphonies, jazz improvisations, Bruce Springsteen, and prog rock, he argues that metaphors of perfection do justice to neither the perceived strengths nor the assumed weaknesses of the music in question. Instead, he proposes an alternative model of appreciation where abstract notions of virtue need not dictate our understanding. Good music can, with pride, be playful rather than serious, diverse rather than unified, engaging to both body and mind, in dialogue with manifold styles and genres, and collaborative to the core. We can widen the scope of what music we value and reconsider the conventional rituals surrounding it, while retaining the joys of making music, listening closely, and caring passionately.

Music --- Popular music and art music. --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Bruce Springsteen. --- George Frideric Handel. --- Gustav Mahler. --- Ludwig van Beethoven. --- good music. --- jazz. --- marginalized music. --- progressive rock. --- the Beatles. --- valuing music.

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Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma, Staging Citizenship offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European Union's most marginal and disenfranchised communities. Focusing on "performance" broadly conceived, it follows members of a squatter's settlement in Transylvania as they navigate precarious circumstances in a postsocialist state. Through accounts of music and dance performances, media representations, activism, and interactions with government agencies, author Ioana Szeman grounds broad themes of political economy, citizenship, resistance, and neoliberalism in her subjects' remarkably varied lives and experiences.

Romanies in mass media. --- Culture conflict --- Performing arts --- Romanies --- Political aspects --- Social conditions. --- Romania --- Ethnic relations. --- activism. --- activist. --- case studies. --- citizenship. --- disenfranchised community. --- eastern europe. --- ethnic studies. --- ethnocentrism. --- eu. --- european union. --- interactions. --- international charity. --- marginalized communities. --- marginalized people. --- media representations. --- music and dance. --- neoliberalism. --- new perspective. --- performance art. --- politics and economics. --- postsocialism. --- postsocialist state. --- precarious circumstances. --- psychology. --- rome italy. --- sociology. --- squatter settlement. --- squatters. --- state agencies. --- transylvania.