It is generally accepted that Britain was held together during the second world war by a spirit of national democratic consensus'. But whose interests did the consensus serve? And how did it unravel in the years immediately after victory? This well observed and powerfully argued book overturns many of our assumptions about the national spirit of 1939-45. It shows that the current return to right-wing politics in Britain was prefigured by ideologies of change during and immediately after the war.
It is generally accepted that Britain was held together during the second world war by a spirit of national democratic consensus'. But whose interests...
Auto/biography is currently one of the most popular literary genres, widely supposed to illuminate the study of the individual and his or her personal circumstances. Missing Persons suggests that auto/biography is, in fact, based on fictions, both about the person and about what it is possible to know about any one individual. Organised into chapters which consider particular kinds of auto/biographical writing, such as work on the British Royal Family and auto/biographies of twentieth-century men, this book demonstrates the absences and evasions - indeed the missing persons - of...
Auto/biography is currently one of the most popular literary genres, widely supposed to illuminate the study of the individual and his or her personal...
Feminism has a long and complex tradition. These four volumes aim to provide a guide for specialist and non-specialist readers to the many debates and discussions to which feminists have contributed in the past 200 years. The works collected here demonstrate the range of feminist engagement and suggest the part that feminists have played in the development of post-Enlightenment thought. They are arranged chronologically in order to give readers a sense of the history of feminism and the ways in which feminism has changed and developed in particular historical contexts.
Feminism has a long and complex tradition. These four volumes aim to provide a guide for specialist and non-specialist readers to the many debates and...
Since the end of the eighteenth century, the pursuit of 'true love' has been enshrined in the expectations of Western societies. We regard this pursuit as our right, and organize our lives around it. However, the possibility that love is becoming more difficult to achieve in the West has begun to attract considerable attention. The consensus is that love is both deeply desirable and extremely difficult to find.
This highly original book explores two aspects of the nature of the apparently socially essential 'glue' of love. The first theme concerns the sources of our ideas...
Since the end of the eighteenth century, the pursuit of 'true love' has been enshrined in the expectations of Western societies. We regard this pursui...
Since the end of the eighteenth century, the pursuit of 'true love' has been enshrined in the expectations of Western societies. We regard this pursuit as our right, and organize our lives around it. However, the possibility that love is becoming more difficult to achieve in the West has begun to attract considerable attention. The consensus is that love is both deeply desirable and extremely difficult to find.
This highly original book explores two aspects of the nature of the apparently socially essential 'glue' of love. The first theme concerns the sources of our ideas...
Since the end of the eighteenth century, the pursuit of 'true love' has been enshrined in the expectations of Western societies. We regard this pursui...
Throughout the twentieth century, many critics of bureaucratisation have predicted the increasing loss of intellectual creativity through the growth of institutional forms of direction and control. This book argues that this is now occurring in universities - and occurring in ways which suggest that the ability (and space) to think freely will become more and more a matter of access to power and privilege. Mary Evans demonstrates how this is both profoundly anti-democratic and anti-intellectual and provides suggestions for reversing this destructive trend.
Throughout the twentieth century, many critics of bureaucratisation have predicted the increasing loss of intellectual creativity through the growt...
The Old Testament prophets were people who looked at the world and heard God speaking. They looked at the creation and felt God's power. They looked at pain and poverty and felt God's compassion. They looked at oppression, corruption and idolatry and felt God's anger. They looked at faithful believers and felt God's encouragement. They looked to the future and envisaged God's action. They knew doubt, discouragement and rejection but they stood firm because in looking at God's world they had sensed God's love.
They were real people speaking into real situations in a world where people's...
The Old Testament prophets were people who looked at the world and heard God speaking. They looked at the creation and felt God's power. They looke...
This introductory textbook offers a concise and lucid account of the main developments in contemporary feminist thinking, and demonstrates the centrality of feminist thought to all areas of intellectual enquiry.
In a wide-ranging discussion, Evans argues that most accounts of the world since the Enlightenment have been constructed in terms of a distinction between the public and the private which excluded women. Using both historical and more recent examples, she examines the breadth and complexity of feminist thinking, focusing on key themes such as the body, representation,...
This introductory textbook offers a concise and lucid account of the main developments in contemporary feminist thinking, and demonstrates the central...
This accessible introduction to de Beauvoir's life and ideas considers the themes and tensions which inform her work. Highlighting the autobiographical aspects in de Beauvoir's work, Mary Evans presents a new and important analysis of the complex relationship between fact, fiction and autobiography.
This accessible introduction to de Beauvoir's life and ideas considers the themes and tensions which inform her work. Highlighting the autobiographica...
This accessible introduction to de Beauvoir's life and ideas considers the themes and tensions which inform her work. Highlighting the autobiographical aspects in de Beauvoir's work, Mary Evans presents a new and important analysis of the complex relationship between fact, fiction and autobiography.
This accessible introduction to de Beauvoir's life and ideas considers the themes and tensions which inform her work. Highlighting the autobiographica...
