... of psychic development. Invoking the circular logic of cosmic time, Brontë plucks the ludic child from the stifling telos of domesticity and forges instead a future-destroying model of child play that refuses to subordinate itself to the demands of socialization. It is a refusal that leads to a sacred death...

... politics pastoralism domesticity home rule community studies civic politics community movements in the   introductory chapter , I proposed that local civic politics and discourse strongly shaped how biodefense plans were engaged in each of the three communities I studied...

...This chapter examines the depiction of women's domesticity in fictions by Iranian women writers. It compares Simin Daneshvar's A City Like Paradise and Anis with Goli Taraqqi's The Servant and Amineh's Long Journey. The chapter...

...A Taste for Home is a cultural history of the middle-class home in late Ottoman Beirut that is at once global and local. Focusing on the period from the second half of the nineteenth century until World War I, the book shows how middle-class domesticity took form amid changing...