Selfish Women

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This book proceeds from a single and very simple observation: throughout history, and up to the present, women have received a clear message that we are not supposed to prioritize ourselves. Indeed, the whole question of "self" is a problem for women – and a problem that issues from a wide range of locations, including, in some cases, feminism itself. When women espouse discourses of self-interest, self-regard, and selfishness, they become illegible. This is complicated by the commodification of the self in the recent Western mode of economic and political organization known as "neoliberalism," which encourages a focus on self-fashioning that may not be identical with self-regard or self-interest. Drawing on figures from French, US, and UK contexts, including Rachilde, Ayn Rand, Margaret Thatcher, and Lionel Shriver, and examining discourses from psychiatry, media, and feminism with the aim of reading against the grain of multiple orthodoxies, this book asks how revisiting the words and works of selfish women of modernity can assist us in understanding our fraught individual and collective identities as women in contemporary culture. And can women with politics that are contrary to the interests of the collective teach us anything about the value of rethinking the role of the individual? This book is an essential read for those with interests in cultural theory, feminist theory, and gender politics.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Lisa Downing
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2019-05-24
File : 198 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781000020618


Pay Attention Be Alert

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If you want to be happy the first thing you have to do is to Pay Attention and Be Alert. This will enhance your ability to see things you could not see before. You will see that we are spiritual beings having a human experience, and that we are, at the same time, mortal and immortal, human and divine. You will also realize how interconnected and interdependent we all are, and this new conscience of our divinity and oneness will liberate you from all your fears, allowing you to live a happy life. Piero Falci was a successful executive at the top of his professional career when an unexpected downturn took him through difficult times and a deep spiritual transformation. During this journey that lasted seven years he paid extreme attention to the voice within and carefully recorded what was being revealed to him. Those life-changing revelations are the core of the book Pay Attention! Be Alert! Today, Piero enjoys a peaceful life centered in the present moment and finds great delight in sharing what he has learned. He is committed to helping others achieve a higher consciousness, convinced that a widespread awareness of our divine nature and oneness is what will pave the way for universal peace and unity. Pay Attention! Be Alert! is the spiritual guide that reveals the route to happiness.

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Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
Author : Piero Falci
Publisher : iUniverse
Release : 2008-11-15
File : 314 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780595634903


Chaucer

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Genre : English poetry
Author : Alexander Chalmers
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Release : 1810
File : 766 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:HN6DI5


Weekly Compilation Of Presidential Documents

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Genre : United States
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Release : 1986
File : 912 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015087530096


Linguistic Semantics

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This volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable introduction to linguistic meaning. While partial to conceptual and typological approaches, the book also presents results from formal approaches. Throughout, the focus is on grammatical meaning -- the way languages delineate universal semantic space and encode it in grammatical form. Subjects covered by the author include: the domain of linguistic semantics and the basic tools, assumptions, and issues of semantic analysis; semantic properties of entities, events, and thematic roles; language and space; tense, aspect, and the internal structure and temporal ordering of events; modality, negation, and the epistemology of the speaker; and modification and attribution. In contrast to most current treatments of semantics, this book is accessible to the beginning student of semantics and linguistics and also useful to the advanced practitioner. A textbook and reference work in a single volume, it can be used in a number of disciplines: psychology, computer science, and anthropology as well as linguistics.

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : William Frawley
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2013-11-05
File : 552 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781135441708


Understanding The Self

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`I judge this book to be something of a triumph. It provides many valuable insights into how social psychologists work within different paradigms and with quite different assumptions.... Throughout, the writing is clear, central issues are constantly re-examined, and sight is never lost of the whole "task" of the book... it addresses central issues both adventurously and provocatively. Students who use it are lucky to have such a feast provided, and they are bound to find the material both challenging and stimulating... there is much more about self issues in this text than in any comparable social psychology text. And that, in itself, is a major achievement' - Self & Society This accessible, broad-based and a

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Genre : Psychology
Author : Richard Stevens
Publisher : SAGE
Release : 1996-02-27
File : 388 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0761950400


Congressional Record

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Genre : Law
Author : United States. Congress
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Release : 1968
File : 1348 Pages
ISBN-13 : MSU:31293011645136


Straight Paths And Crooked Ways

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Author : mrs. Henry H B. Paull
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Release : 1878
File : 368 Pages
ISBN-13 : NLS:V000708522


Flight 488

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Leo was a man from San Diego that had it all. A beautiful wife. Two amazing children. A great career. Good looks. But he always felt like a part of him was missing. That was until he met a stranger on a flight to Miami for work. Leo's curiosity grew. With that curiosity came lies, deceit, and betrayal. Would the decision he made ruin his marriage? His life? Flight into this novel full of passion and rage.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Tara Foust
Publisher : Tara Foust
Release : 2021-09-11
File : Pages
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Belgravia

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Release : 1883
File : 528 Pages
ISBN-13 : UFL:31262098803132