'Geographies of Commodity Chains' draws together contributions concerned with the production, circulation & consumption of commodities. Case study examples seek to transcend older understandings of production & consumption, & to tap into public debate on the meanings, origins & biographies of commodities.
'Geographies of Commodity Chains' draws together contributions concerned with the production, circulation & consumption of commodities. Case study exa...
This fascinating study explores the pleasures and torments of love and sexuality as depicted in the works of six important French women writers: Rachilde, Colette, Leduc, Wittig, Cixous and Duras. Historically, erotic literature has been dominated by male writers. Feminist critics have argued that its central motifs of voyeurism, sadomasochism, incest and violence to women's bodies are governed by the unconscious fantasies and prejudices of a patriarchal sociocultural order.
The contributors question how this sociocultural order has affected the erotic writing of the women writers...
This fascinating study explores the pleasures and torments of love and sexuality as depicted in the works of six important French women writers: Ra...
China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated their annEe de la Chine in 2004. Symptomatic of that fascination are the movements into China made by groups as diverse as the Jesuits, who arrived in L'Empire du Milieu in the late seventeenth century, and the Tel Quel intellectuals, whose will to political pilgrimage took them to the People's Republic in 1974. Symptomatic, too, are the narrative and visual representations of China offered by such as Pierre Loti, Victor Segalen, Paul Claudel, Michel Leiris, Simone de Beauvoir, AndrE Malraux, Henri Cartier-Bresson,...
China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated their annEe de la Chine in 2004. Symptomatic of that fascination are the m...
