Beyond the history wars lies the rebel heart of Australia's past. Snowed under by the banal recollections of conservative historians Australia's rich and varied tradition of non conformism and resistance comes bubbling up from under in this book. The lives of mutineers, anarchis…
Introduction : QueerCrip historical analysis and the rural white anti-idyll -- Harlots from the hollow : eugenic detectives on the lookout for the rural white hovel family -- Curious scenes : the fringes of rural rehabilitation in 1930s documentary photography -- Madness in the …
"Ryan Lee Cartwright's book narrates the queer history of gender, sexual, and social nonconformity in the 20th-century rural United States. Cartwright contends that in that period rural American gossip about queer and peculiar white neighbors was transformed into a popular disco…
Peculiar Places narrates queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity in twentieth-century rural United States. Ryan Lee Cartwright contends that, during the last hundred years, rural American gossip about queer and peculiar white neighbors crystallized into a na…
"From 'soldiering' and sabotage, pilferage and absenteeism to humour and the emergent politics of sexuality in the workplace: the many different forms of subversive behaviour are explored here in the context of the new light they shed on management and organizational processes."…
Superstitio: conceptions of religious deviance in Roman antiquity -- Creation of religious norms in the late Republic -- The role of ethos and knowledge in controlling religious deviance: a Tiberian view of priestly deviance -- De Superstitione: religious experiences best not ha…
Superstitio: conceptions of religious deviance in Roman antiquity -- Creation of religious norms in the late Republic -- The role of ethos and knowledge in controlling religious deviance: a Tiberian view of priestly deviance -- De Superstitione: religious experiences best not ha…
Offers a new reading of the ancient sources in order to find indications for religious deviance practices in the Roman world.
Religious individuality is not restricted to modernity. This book offers a new reading of the ancient sources in order to find indications for the spectrum of religious practices and intensified forms of such practices only occasionally denounced as 'superstition'. Authors from …