Author: Alexander Stille
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374709025
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
A masterpiece of literary memory—a powerful exploration of the intersections of family, history, and memory "One evening in May 1948, my mother went to a party in New York with her first husband and left it with her second, my father." So begins the passionate and stormy union of Mikhail Kamenetzki, aka Ugo Stille, one of Italy's most celebrated journalists, and Elizabeth Bogert, a beautiful and charming young woman from the Midwest. The Force of Things follows two families across the twentieth century—one starting in czarist Russia, the other starting in the American Midwest—and takes them across revolution, war, fascism, and racial persecution, until they collide at mid-century. Their immediate attraction and tumultuous marriage is part of a much larger story: the mass migration of Jews from fascist-dominated Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. It is a micro-story of that moment of cross-pollination that reshaped much of American culture and society. Theirs was an uneasy marriage between Europe and America, between Jew and WASP; their differences were a key to their bond yet a source of constant strife. Alexander Stille's The Force of Things is a powerful, beautifully written work with the intimacy of a memoir, the pace and readability of a novel, and the historical sweep and documentary precision of nonfiction writing at its best. It is a portrait of people who are buffeted about by large historical events, who try to escape their origins but find themselves in the grip of the force of things.
The Force of Things
Author: Alexander Stille
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374709025
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
A masterpiece of literary memory—a powerful exploration of the intersections of family, history, and memory "One evening in May 1948, my mother went to a party in New York with her first husband and left it with her second, my father." So begins the passionate and stormy union of Mikhail Kamenetzki, aka Ugo Stille, one of Italy's most celebrated journalists, and Elizabeth Bogert, a beautiful and charming young woman from the Midwest. The Force of Things follows two families across the twentieth century—one starting in czarist Russia, the other starting in the American Midwest—and takes them across revolution, war, fascism, and racial persecution, until they collide at mid-century. Their immediate attraction and tumultuous marriage is part of a much larger story: the mass migration of Jews from fascist-dominated Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. It is a micro-story of that moment of cross-pollination that reshaped much of American culture and society. Theirs was an uneasy marriage between Europe and America, between Jew and WASP; their differences were a key to their bond yet a source of constant strife. Alexander Stille's The Force of Things is a powerful, beautifully written work with the intimacy of a memoir, the pace and readability of a novel, and the historical sweep and documentary precision of nonfiction writing at its best. It is a portrait of people who are buffeted about by large historical events, who try to escape their origins but find themselves in the grip of the force of things.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374709025
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
A masterpiece of literary memory—a powerful exploration of the intersections of family, history, and memory "One evening in May 1948, my mother went to a party in New York with her first husband and left it with her second, my father." So begins the passionate and stormy union of Mikhail Kamenetzki, aka Ugo Stille, one of Italy's most celebrated journalists, and Elizabeth Bogert, a beautiful and charming young woman from the Midwest. The Force of Things follows two families across the twentieth century—one starting in czarist Russia, the other starting in the American Midwest—and takes them across revolution, war, fascism, and racial persecution, until they collide at mid-century. Their immediate attraction and tumultuous marriage is part of a much larger story: the mass migration of Jews from fascist-dominated Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. It is a micro-story of that moment of cross-pollination that reshaped much of American culture and society. Theirs was an uneasy marriage between Europe and America, between Jew and WASP; their differences were a key to their bond yet a source of constant strife. Alexander Stille's The Force of Things is a powerful, beautifully written work with the intimacy of a memoir, the pace and readability of a novel, and the historical sweep and documentary precision of nonfiction writing at its best. It is a portrait of people who are buffeted about by large historical events, who try to escape their origins but find themselves in the grip of the force of things.
Force & Marriage
Author: Iris Haenen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780682525
Category : Forced marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Forced marriages take place all over the world, both in times of peace and in times of conflict. This book provides a comparative perspective on the criminalisation of forced marriage, focusing on the question of whether, and, if so how, the practice of forced marriage should be criminalised under Dutch and international law.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780682525
Category : Forced marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Forced marriages take place all over the world, both in times of peace and in times of conflict. This book provides a comparative perspective on the criminalisation of forced marriage, focusing on the question of whether, and, if so how, the practice of forced marriage should be criminalised under Dutch and international law.
Marriage by Force?
Author: Annie Bunting
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821445499
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
With forced marriage, as with so many human rights issues, the sensationalized hides the mundane, and oversimplified popular discourses miss the range of experiences. In sub-Saharan Africa, the relationship between coercion and consent in marriage is a complex one that has changed over time and place, rendering impossible any single interpretation or explanation. The legal experts, anthropologists, historians, and development workers contributing to Marriage by Force? focus on the role that marriage plays in the mobilization of labor, the accumulation of wealth, and domination versus dependency. They also address the crucial slippage between marriages and other forms of gendered violence, bondage, slavery, and servile status. Only by examining variations in practices from a multitude of perspectives can we properly contextualize the problem and its consequences. And while early and forced marriages have been on the human rights agenda for decades, there is today an unprecedented level of international attention to the issue, thus making the coherent, multifaceted approach of Marriage by Force? even more necessary.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821445499
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
With forced marriage, as with so many human rights issues, the sensationalized hides the mundane, and oversimplified popular discourses miss the range of experiences. In sub-Saharan Africa, the relationship between coercion and consent in marriage is a complex one that has changed over time and place, rendering impossible any single interpretation or explanation. The legal experts, anthropologists, historians, and development workers contributing to Marriage by Force? focus on the role that marriage plays in the mobilization of labor, the accumulation of wealth, and domination versus dependency. They also address the crucial slippage between marriages and other forms of gendered violence, bondage, slavery, and servile status. Only by examining variations in practices from a multitude of perspectives can we properly contextualize the problem and its consequences. And while early and forced marriages have been on the human rights agenda for decades, there is today an unprecedented level of international attention to the issue, thus making the coherent, multifaceted approach of Marriage by Force? even more necessary.
Married by Force
Author: Leila
Publisher: Piatkus Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This testimony exposes the realities of forced marriage. Leila tells of how she was brought up in France by Moroccan-born parents and then forcibly married to a man 15 years her senior whose language she couldn't understand. She tells how she escaped the violence of this marriage to fight back against family tradition.
Publisher: Piatkus Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This testimony exposes the realities of forced marriage. Leila tells of how she was brought up in France by Moroccan-born parents and then forcibly married to a man 15 years her senior whose language she couldn't understand. She tells how she escaped the violence of this marriage to fight back against family tradition.
THE FIORENZA FORCED MARRIAGE
Author: Melanie Milburne
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596685991
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596685991
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Coercive Control
Author: Evan Stark
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195384040
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Drawing on cases, Stark identifies the problems with our current approach to domestic violence, outlines the components of coercive control, and then uses this alternate framework to analyse the cases of battered women charged with criminal offenses directed at their abusers.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195384040
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Drawing on cases, Stark identifies the problems with our current approach to domestic violence, outlines the components of coercive control, and then uses this alternate framework to analyse the cases of battered women charged with criminal offenses directed at their abusers.
The Forced Marriage
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
International Exploration on Forced Marriages
Author: Emma Ratia
Publisher: Wolf Legal Publishers
ISBN: 9789058504630
Category : Forced marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Towards the end of 2008, news audiences in the United Kingdom followed the story of Humayra Abedin, a 33-year-old NHS doctor from East London who was allegedly being held captive in her native Bangladesh by her parents who planned to force her to marry a husband they deemed suitable for her. Abedin sought help, and returned to the United Kingdom on the 16th of December after the High Court had issued an injunction ordering the parents of Abedin to free her. This story does not stand alone: most Western European countries know of similar cases. According to Razack, such cases have signalled the beginning of European legal involvement in the area of forced marriages. Since the 1990s, forced marriage has become a hot political issue in several European countries. The aim of the study was to create an international and actual overview on the policy on forced marriages in Western Europe. Seeing that the study deals with debates and policy it is necessary to emphasise here that the topic of the study was not so much actual cases of forced marriage as the perception of forced marriage in the different countries. The central question was then to examine what is known about the policy and discussions on forced marriages in Belgium, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Instead of focusing exclusively on policy, a choice was made for including the societal context in the form of debates on forced marriage in order to have a more complete overview.
Publisher: Wolf Legal Publishers
ISBN: 9789058504630
Category : Forced marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Towards the end of 2008, news audiences in the United Kingdom followed the story of Humayra Abedin, a 33-year-old NHS doctor from East London who was allegedly being held captive in her native Bangladesh by her parents who planned to force her to marry a husband they deemed suitable for her. Abedin sought help, and returned to the United Kingdom on the 16th of December after the High Court had issued an injunction ordering the parents of Abedin to free her. This story does not stand alone: most Western European countries know of similar cases. According to Razack, such cases have signalled the beginning of European legal involvement in the area of forced marriages. Since the 1990s, forced marriage has become a hot political issue in several European countries. The aim of the study was to create an international and actual overview on the policy on forced marriages in Western Europe. Seeing that the study deals with debates and policy it is necessary to emphasise here that the topic of the study was not so much actual cases of forced marriage as the perception of forced marriage in the different countries. The central question was then to examine what is known about the policy and discussions on forced marriages in Belgium, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Instead of focusing exclusively on policy, a choice was made for including the societal context in the form of debates on forced marriage in order to have a more complete overview.
Ending Child Marriage
Author: Rachel B. Vogelstein
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
ISBN: 0876095635
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Ending child marriage is not only a moral imperative—it is a strategic imperative that will further critical U.S. foreign policy interests in development, prosperity, stability, and the rule of law.
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
ISBN: 0876095635
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Ending child marriage is not only a moral imperative—it is a strategic imperative that will further critical U.S. foreign policy interests in development, prosperity, stability, and the rule of law.
A Practical guide to the law of forced and incapacitous marriages
Author: Adreeja Chatterjee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912687312
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
This is the go-to practitioner's guide on the UK law of forced marriages and scenarios where an individual legally lacks capacity to marry.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912687312
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
This is the go-to practitioner's guide on the UK law of forced marriages and scenarios where an individual legally lacks capacity to marry.