Claudia Card
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195145083
- eISBN:
- 9780199833115
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195145089.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics
Against activists who advocate extending marriage to same‐sex couples, this chapter supports skepticism regarding the very institutions of marriage and motherhood by arguing that these institutions ...
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Against activists who advocate extending marriage to same‐sex couples, this chapter supports skepticism regarding the very institutions of marriage and motherhood by arguing that these institutions facilitate the evils of terrorism in the home, just as the institution of slavery facilitates the evil of torture. Insofar as marriage and motherhood shelter and enable domestic violence and child abuse, granting abusers enforceable intimate access to victims and extensive control over information about victims, thereby making abuse difficult to prove (or even detect) and placing obstacles in the way of holding perpetrators accountable, these institutions are themselves evils. More flexible intimate partnerships and more communal or distributed forms of childrearing, such as the distributed care envisioned by Bell Hooks and Eva Feder Kittay, might be improvements over current mainstream institutions of marriage and motherhood.Less
Against activists who advocate extending marriage to same‐sex couples, this chapter supports skepticism regarding the very institutions of marriage and motherhood by arguing that these institutions facilitate the evils of terrorism in the home, just as the institution of slavery facilitates the evil of torture. Insofar as marriage and motherhood shelter and enable domestic violence and child abuse, granting abusers enforceable intimate access to victims and extensive control over information about victims, thereby making abuse difficult to prove (or even detect) and placing obstacles in the way of holding perpetrators accountable, these institutions are themselves evils. More flexible intimate partnerships and more communal or distributed forms of childrearing, such as the distributed care envisioned by Bell Hooks and Eva Feder Kittay, might be improvements over current mainstream institutions of marriage and motherhood.
Felicity Colman
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231169738
- eISBN:
- 9780231850605
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231169738.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This book addresses the core concepts and arguments created or used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakers. It references the work of Dudley Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Mary Ann Doane, ...
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This book addresses the core concepts and arguments created or used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakers. It references the work of Dudley Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Mary Ann Doane, Miriam Hansen, bell hooks, Siegfried Kracauer, Raul Ruiz, P. Adams Sitney, Bernard Stiegler, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. The book takes the position that film theory is a form of writing that produces a unique cinematic grammar. It argues that film theory, like all grammars, forms part of the system of rules that govern a language, and is thus applicable to wider range of media forms. It describes how film theories create authorial trends, identify the technology of cinema as a creative force and produce films as aesthetic markers. It argues that film theories therefore contribute an epistemological resource that connects the technologies of filmmaking and film composition. The book then explores these connections through film theorisations that address processes related to the diagrammatisation (the systems, methodologies, concepts, histories) of cinematic matters.Less
This book addresses the core concepts and arguments created or used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakers. It references the work of Dudley Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Mary Ann Doane, Miriam Hansen, bell hooks, Siegfried Kracauer, Raul Ruiz, P. Adams Sitney, Bernard Stiegler, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. The book takes the position that film theory is a form of writing that produces a unique cinematic grammar. It argues that film theory, like all grammars, forms part of the system of rules that govern a language, and is thus applicable to wider range of media forms. It describes how film theories create authorial trends, identify the technology of cinema as a creative force and produce films as aesthetic markers. It argues that film theories therefore contribute an epistemological resource that connects the technologies of filmmaking and film composition. The book then explores these connections through film theorisations that address processes related to the diagrammatisation (the systems, methodologies, concepts, histories) of cinematic matters.
Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813178790
- eISBN:
- 9780813178806
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813178790.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Social Groups
From the earliest oral traditions to print accounts of frontier exploration, from local color to modernism and postmodernism, from an exuberant flowering in the 1970s to its high popular and critical ...
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From the earliest oral traditions to print accounts of frontier exploration, from local color to modernism and postmodernism, from an exuberant flowering in the 1970s to its high popular and critical profile in the twenty-first century, Appalachian literature can boast a long tradition of delighting and provoking readers. Yet, locating an anthology that offers a representative selection of authors and texts from the earliest days to the present can be difficult. Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd have produced an anthology to meet this need. Simultaneously representing, complicating, and furthering the discourse on the Appalachian region and its cultures, this anthology works to provides the historical depth and range of Appalachian literature that contemporary readers and scholars seek, from Cherokee oral narratives to fiction and drama about mountaintop removal and prescription drug abuse. It also aims to challenge the common stereotypes of Appalachian life and values by including stories of multiple, often less heard, viewpoints of Appalachian life: mountain and valley, rural and urban, folkloric and postmodern, traditional and contemporary, Northern and Southern, white people and people of color, straight and gay, insiders and outsiders—though, on some level, these dualisms are less concrete than previously imagined.Less
From the earliest oral traditions to print accounts of frontier exploration, from local color to modernism and postmodernism, from an exuberant flowering in the 1970s to its high popular and critical profile in the twenty-first century, Appalachian literature can boast a long tradition of delighting and provoking readers. Yet, locating an anthology that offers a representative selection of authors and texts from the earliest days to the present can be difficult. Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd have produced an anthology to meet this need. Simultaneously representing, complicating, and furthering the discourse on the Appalachian region and its cultures, this anthology works to provides the historical depth and range of Appalachian literature that contemporary readers and scholars seek, from Cherokee oral narratives to fiction and drama about mountaintop removal and prescription drug abuse. It also aims to challenge the common stereotypes of Appalachian life and values by including stories of multiple, often less heard, viewpoints of Appalachian life: mountain and valley, rural and urban, folkloric and postmodern, traditional and contemporary, Northern and Southern, white people and people of color, straight and gay, insiders and outsiders—though, on some level, these dualisms are less concrete than previously imagined.
Thomas Alan Holmes (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813178790
- eISBN:
- 9780813178806
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813178790.003.0708
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Social Groups
Although Appalachia and its authors resist political definition and economic category, one can say that twenty-first century Appalachian writers attempt to define what changes and what endures in a ...
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Although Appalachia and its authors resist political definition and economic category, one can say that twenty-first century Appalachian writers attempt to define what changes and what endures in a rapidly globalizing world. As Pulitzer Prize finalist Maurice Manning has noted, at the core of Appalachian literature is a tension between an appreciation of the region and an “anxiety for legitimacy”; this observation reflects the challenges facing authors from a region still often seen as “other” by the broader American culture. Some contemporary Appalachian authors explore which traditions are worth preserving and which ones should fall by the wayside, while others consider how to preserve and expand their Appalachian identity, a process that they sometimes connect with preservation and innovation in literary style. In short, many twentieth-century Appalachian authors cultivate in their readers an appreciation of Appalachian perspectives from a self-aware otherness that is sometimes tradition tethered yet is willing to go far beyond received notions about the region.Less
Although Appalachia and its authors resist political definition and economic category, one can say that twenty-first century Appalachian writers attempt to define what changes and what endures in a rapidly globalizing world. As Pulitzer Prize finalist Maurice Manning has noted, at the core of Appalachian literature is a tension between an appreciation of the region and an “anxiety for legitimacy”; this observation reflects the challenges facing authors from a region still often seen as “other” by the broader American culture. Some contemporary Appalachian authors explore which traditions are worth preserving and which ones should fall by the wayside, while others consider how to preserve and expand their Appalachian identity, a process that they sometimes connect with preservation and innovation in literary style. In short, many twentieth-century Appalachian authors cultivate in their readers an appreciation of Appalachian perspectives from a self-aware otherness that is sometimes tradition tethered yet is willing to go far beyond received notions about the region.
