Author: Amelie Le Renard
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804791376
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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The cities of Saudi Arabia are among the most gender segregated in the world. In recent years the Saudi government has felt increasing international pressure to offer greater roles for women in society. Implicit in these calls for reform, however, is an assumption that the only "real" society is male society. Little consideration has been given to the rapidly evolving activities within women's spaces. This book joins young urban women in their daily lives—in the workplace, on the female university campus, at the mall—to show how these women are transforming Saudi cities from within and creating their own urban, professional, consumerist lifestyles. As young Saudi women are emerging as an increasingly visible social group, they are shaping new social norms. Their shared urban spaces offer women the opportunity to shed certain constraints and imagine themselves in new roles. But to feel included in this peer group, women must adhere to new constraints: to be sophisticated, fashionable, feminine, and modern. The position of "other" women—poor, rural, or non-Saudi women—is increasingly marginalized. While young urban women may embody the image of a "reformed" Saudi nation, the reform project ultimately remains incomplete, drawing new hierarchies and lines of exclusion among women.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465591249
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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La Pentec™te, cette f�te charmante, Žtait arrivŽe; les champs et les bois se couvraient de verdure et de fleurs; sur les collines et sur les hauteurs, dans les buissons et dans les haies, les oiseaux, rendus ˆ la joie, essayaient leurs gaies chansons; chaque prŽ fourmillait de fleurs dans les vallŽes odorantes; le ciel brillait dans une sŽrŽnitŽ majestueuse et la terre Žtincelait de mille couleurs. Noble, le roi des animaux, convoque sa cour; et tous ses vassaux s'empressent de se rendre ˆ son appel en grand Žquipage; de tous les points de l'horizon arrivent maints fiers personnages, LutkŽ la grue et Markart le geai, et tous les plus importants. Car le roi songe ˆ tenir sa cour d'une mani�re magnifique avec tous ses barons; il les a convoquŽs tous ensemble, les grands comme les petits. Nul ne devait y manquer et cependant il en manquait un: Reineke le renard, le rusŽ coquin, qui se garda bien de se rendre ˆ l'appel, ˆ cause de tous ses crimes passŽs. Comme la mauvaise conscience fuit le grand jour, le renard fuyait l'assemblŽe des seigneurs. Tous avaient ˆ se plaindre; ils Žtaient tous offensŽs; et, seul, Grimbert le blaireau, le fils de son fr�re, avait ŽtŽ ŽpargnŽ.
Author: Benjamin Renner
Publisher: First Second
ISBN: 1250172993
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Fox? No one, it seems. The fox dreams of being the terror of the barnyard. But no one is intimidated by him, least of all the hens—when he picks a fight with one, he always ends up on the losing end. Even the wolf, the most fearsome beast of the forest, can’t teach him how to be a proper predator. It looks like the fox will have to spend the rest of his life eating turnips. But then the wolf comes up with the perfect scheme. If the fox steals some eggs, he could hatch the chicks himself and raise them to be a plump, juicy chicken dinner. Unfortunately, this plan falls apart when three adorable chicks hatch and call the fox Mommy. Beautifully rendered in watercolor by Benjamin Renner, The Big Bad Fox is a hilarious and surprisingly tender parable about parenthood that's sure to be a hit with new parents (and their kids too).
Author: Paul Briggs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781693922060
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Sergeant Utley is good at two things in life: playing baseball and fighting Nazis. In Le Renard Argenté, he does both. The vignettes of Le Renard Argenté meld the Los Angeles Dodgers' 2017 and 2018 baseball seasons with the battlefields of World War II for a journey into purely speculative, deeply absurdist alternate history. "Space, the final frontier ... or so I thought, until I traveled to the world of Le Renard Argenté. This project looked deep within my soul, and my soul blinked. Like Chase Utley himself, it emerges from the foggy, hard-bitten quiet into a being of unexpected beauty, a testimony to tenacity and the adaptability of experience. Which is to say, it's a big smile." - Jon Weisman, author, Brothers in Arms: Koufax, Kershaw, and the Dodgers' Extraordinary Pitching Tradition "Ms. Smith hilariously takes you into a different reality to tell a story with perhaps the most unique of perspectives. Surreal and bizarre, ridiculous and hysterical. She turns the ultimate grinder into the ultimate Basterd." - Adam Amin, ESPN Broadcaster "Do I like the book? I mean, I don't dislike it." - Keith Law, Senior Baseball Writer ESPN and Twitter Bon Vivant
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Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520076846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Valued for its comic spirit, its high literary quality, and its clever satire of feudal society, the famous medieval poem about the legendary fox uses animals to represent the members of various classes.
Author: Isabelle Arsenault
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1554983614
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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A New York Times Best Illustrated Book Hélène has been inexplicably ostracized by the girls who were once her friends. Her school life is full of whispers and lies - Hélène weighs 216; she smells like BO. Her loving mother is too tired to be any help. Fortunately, Hélène has one consolation, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Hélène identifies strongly with Jane's tribulations, and when she is lost in the pages of this wonderful book, she is able to ignore her tormentors. But when Hélène is humiliated on a class trip in front of her entire grade, she needs more than a fictional character to see herself as a person deserving of laughter and friendship. Leaving the outcasts' tent one night, Hélène encounters a fox, a beautiful creature with whom she shares a moment of connection. But when Suzanne Lipsky frightens the fox away, insisting that it must be rabid, Hélène's despair becomes even more pronounced: now she believes that only a diseased and dangerous creature would ever voluntarily approach her. But then a new girl joins the outcasts' circle, Géraldine, who does not even appear to notice that she is in danger of becoming an outcast herself. And before long Hélène realizes that the less time she spends worrying about what the other girls say is wrong with her, the more able she is to believe that there is nothing wrong at all. This emotionally honest and visually stunning graphic novel reveals the casual brutality of which children are capable, but also assures readers that redemption can be found through connecting with another, whether the other is a friend, a fictional character or even, amazingly, a fox.
Author: Ahmed Kanna
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501750313
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 89
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Over the nearly two decades that they have each been conducting fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora have regularly encountered exoticizing and exceptionalist discourses about the region and its people, political systems, and prevalent cultural practices. These persistent encounters became the springboard for this book, a reflection on conducting fieldwork within a "field" that is marked by such representations. The three focus on deconstructing the exceptionalist representations that circulate about the Arabian Peninsula. They analyze what exceptionalism does, how it is used by various people, and how it helps shape power relations in the societies they study. They propose ways that this analysis of exceptionalism provides tools for rethinking the concepts that have become commonplace, structuring narratives and analytical frameworks within fieldwork in and on the Arabian Peninsula. They ask: What would not only Middle East studies, but studies of postcolonial societies and global capitalism in other parts of the world look like if the Arabian Peninsula was central rather than peripheral or exceptional to ongoing sociohistorical processes and representational practices? The authors explore how the exceptionalizing discourses that permeate Arabian Peninsula studies spring from colonialist discourses still operative in anthropology and sociology more generally, and suggest that de-exceptionalizing the region within their disciplines can offer opportunities for decolonized knowledge production.
Author: H. V. D. V.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338512297X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Author: J. Delpech
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Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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