This study argues that the strong personal voice of Anne Moody in Coming of Age in Mississippi is one that deserves multiple hearings. The paper alludes to Bruce Watson's commentary on the Movement ...and the general search for a peaceful resolution to racial conflict, and concludes that, among memoirs of this time, Moody's is unique.
Two major lines of argument support the notion that Hildegard of Bingen’s metaphysics is peculiarly gynocentric. Contra the standard commentary on her work, the focus is not on the notion ...of viriditas; rather, the first line of argument presents a specific delineation of her ontology, demonstrating that it is a graded hierarchy of beings, many of which present feminine aspects of the divine, and all of which establish the metaphysical notion of interpenetrability. The second line of argument specifically contrasts her thought to that of Aquinas and Meister Eckhart, noting areas of similarity and difference. It is concluded that the visionary origins of Hildegard’s work may have to some extent precluded our understanding of it, and that her work merits consideration not only philosophically and theologically but from the standpoint of its early presentation of a gynocentric worldview.
From the opening of her well-known The Bell Jar, the reader senses that a kind of individualism, cast perhaps in phenomenological terms, will pervade the piece, and that this is one work that cannot ...be read lightly or without attention.1 Plath's psychological states are frequently analyzed in connection with her poetry, and indeed, with respect to at least some of the poems, they cannot be given a full reading without such allusion. Because of this, parts of the work are painful and difficult to endure, and the reader may simply want to put the book down.
Moorhouse notes that, well into the period after independence, some of the features of colonial life were still at work, partly because of the many holdovers in terms of administrative offices and ...partly simply because the plan of the city tended to encourage such activities.8 II It could be argued that part of what drove the architectural plan of Calcutta, even if only unconsciously, was a desire on the part of the colonials to replicate not only the style of their homeland, but the scope and grandeur of what they had encountered in Hindu temple work. What both styles of architecture, if that term may be used, have in common is that they are far from understated. ...an attempt to bring the culture of the West into Calcutta almost invariably involved massive monuments and buildings, on a scale perhaps seldom used or even unnecessary in Britain itself. .16 Although the boundary shifts about which Cotter is writing may, in a sense, be fuller and more fluid, Moorhouse seems to see something of the same happening to the visitor at Raj Bhavan, the Government House at the extreme end of the Maidan.17 This building was intended to be a direct replica of a similar architectural achievement in Derbyshire, and it leaves the visitor dazzled with staircases, statuary in the form of sphinxes and Caesars, and four wings and three floors. Christopher Hitchens, in his recent God is Not Great, is primarily concerned to argue against fundamental interpretations of religion, but has a number of salient cultural points to make as well.19 In his discussion of the disagreements between Hindus and Muslims that led, ultimately, to the truncating of colonial India after independence, Hitchens describes in some detail the gradual decline in colonial power of Great Britain and the resurgence of Hindu culture:
In The Shadows of Youth, Andrew Lewis demarcates the work of various activists, white and black, during the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s. It is part of Lewis's thesis that the efforts of the ...Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and other groups were too often overshadowed by those of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and that the individual sacrifices made by a number of workers -- John Lewis, Diane Nash, Bob Zellner, Robert Moses and others -- have often gone unappreciated. Although Lewis does not specifically focus on the extent to which alliances of black and white radicals were crucial in a number of settings outside the Deep South, it is a matter of record that this occurred, and that, in various locales, these alliances made a critical difference in the kinds of results that were obtained. The focus of the alliances, particularly over a period of time, was often on activity that was driven less by nationalist concerns (from a black point of view), and more by concerns best thought of as generally leftist, and specifically Marxist, in origin. Thus the Black Panthers, for one, started off with a statement of purpose that spelled out their desire to work with a number of oppressed peoples, and that featured extensive reference to other persons of color groups as well as to the white working class. To be sure, some have argued that there was little or no white involvement in key phases of the Movement. Yet, a cursory glance at the history of radical groups and organizations, particularly in urban areas, should put the lie to this contention. It is important to be specific about these matters, as calls for nationalism resonate up to our own time, and often harken to a more or less false view of the past. Adapted from the source document.
Feminist standpoint theory, as a tool for examining women's lives in less developed nations, is scrutinized from the vantage of NGO-driven work and its changes in women's routines. Work from ...Bangladesh and Mexico is cited, and commentary from workers in UN agencies and other non-governmental organizations is used. Adapted from the source document.
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