""The Princess of the Flaming Womb," the Javanese legend that introduces this study, symbolizes the many ambiguities attached to femaleness in Southeast Asian societies. Yet despite these ambiguities, the relatively egalitarian nature of male-female relations in Southeast Asia i…
""The Princess of the Flaming Womb," the Javanese legend that introduces this study, symbolizes the many ambiguities attached to femaleness in Southeast Asian societies. Yet despite these ambiguities, the relatively egalitarian nature of male-female relations in Southeast Asia i…
Annotation "The Princess of the Flaming Womb," the Javanese legend that introduces this pioneering study, symbolizes the many ambiguities attached to femaleness in Southeast Asian societies. Yet despite these ambiguities, the relatively egalitarian nature of male-female relation…
Challenges modernity on its own terms, using the work of Lacan, Kristeva and Freud, and texts as diverse as Rousseau's Confessions, Richardson's Clarissa, James's What Maisie Knew and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea.
Challenges modernity on its own terms, using the work of Lacan, Kristeva and Freud, and texts as diverse as Rousseau's Confessions, Richardson's Clarissa, James's What Maisie Knew and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea.
Leading historians examine how financial innovations have challenged established institutional arrangements from the seventeenth century to the present.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Collectively, mankind has never had it so good despite periodic economic crises of which the current sub-prime crisis is merely the latest example. Much of this success is attributable to the increasing efficiency of the world's financial institutions as finance has proved to be…
