This study discusses bioethics, with a particular philosophical focus on the tensions and potential dilemmas of “the four principles approach”. It hypothesises that respectful care can be built up to be a leading notion to guide our daily actions and bioethical practices.
Tally offers an inspiring perspective on representations of a new kind of female character who first appeared on US TV in the mid-2000s, the anti-heroine. She studies several TV women and shows, like Homeland, Weeds and Scandal, to show the dominance of the anti-heroine on US TV.
Downscaling Culture
As globalisation makes fixed ideas of culture obsolete, this volume updates intercultural communication theory and practice. It utilises a theory of scales to ‘downscale culture’, showing how it might—or might not—be relevant in any given interaction.
Women Rewriting Boundaries
Inspired by a panel at the 2013 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, this compilation offers fresh insights on how to read travel writing by women. It analyzes the connections between class, gender, physicality, and sexuality as found in 19th-century literature.
Tracing the Path of Tolerance
This work traces the history of tolerance from the wars of religion to the modern age, analysing tolerance in different epochs and places. It considers how words as tolerance and intolerance have developed over time and debates whether they are still relevant today.
The first volume on the studies of queer identities in Europe to adopt a strong focus on the history of the Baltic region, the essays here deal with representations of queer culture over a period of more than one hundred years, with a specific interest in belletristics.
Framed by postcolonial theory, post-tourism and resistance theories, this work is a semantic and semiotic analysis of tourism texts that represent groups of San (or Bushmen) in Botswana. It demonstrates the power that written and visual language can have upon consumers of texts.
International Friendships
This publication considers issues concerning international interpersonal friendships and the influence of society and culture in the different friendship contexts. Efforts to foster international friendships are investigated, as are perspectives of friendship.
This text brings together approaches to, and perspectives on, English, Spanish, and Galician language, literature, and culture from the fields of women’s, gender, and queer studies. It adopts an inclusive attitude to the so-called “others” present in these fields.
Intercultural Horizons Volume IV
Originating from the 4th and 5th Intercultural Horizons conferences, this anthology reflects an array of research, case studies and reflections on intercultural studies. It also explores civic engagement and varied perspectives on migration issues in the Mediterranean region.
Kassis describes American perceptions of the Nordic countries which contributed to the construction of the 19th-century American national identity. He explores how Nordic unity and the Americanisation of Northern Europe link to Americans’ utopian reflection on Nordic societies.
The Politics of Coexistence in the Atlantic World
Parrotta studies the ways that spiritual pluralism, cultural activism, and resilience have been born and nurtured on the islands and coastlines of the Greater Caribbean. She conveys a wide array of stories and perspectives, from land politics to imperial art and women’s rights.
Images and Human Rights
This collection covers issues of creation, distribution, and control of images, questioning its impact on human rights and its ethical implications. It explains how human rights issues take advantage of visual methodologies and how the visual publically communicates these.
Cultural Studies Approaches in the Study of Eastern European Cinema
The “spatial”, the “bodily” and the “memory turn” define this collection’s structure, made of an overview study and 12 case-studies of post-1989 Eastern European film and cinema. Concepts like space representation and construction are explored through national cinemas and films.
The Sexualized Body and the Medical Authority of Pornography
This collection examines pornography as a material practice that eroticises gender inequality and sexual violence towards women. It addresses the complex relationship between pornography and medicine, whereby medicine has afforded pornography great legitimacy and even authority.
Popular Culture and Subcultures of Czech Post-Socialism
Explore Czech culture’s evolution after socialism. This volume reveals the diverse trajectories of popular culture and subcultures, showing what truly changed and what surprisingly endured from the late socialist era.
This work brings together nine papers written within the realms of political science, the humanities, theology and religion, as well as business, economics, and management. They offer unique perspectives to provide a multifaceted take on dissidence in the European context.
Exploring Political and Gender Relations
Offering a contemporary, multicultural approach to the relationship between politics, media and society, this publication investigates such links from various perspectives. It brings to light new ideas, new methodologies and results that could be further developed.
Norton explores the life stories of several female authors, who mirrored Demeter/Persephone’s mythic journey from abduction and rage to reconciliation. She contextualizes trauma as lived experience, to show how writing as ritual may help transform mental and emotional debility.
This work observes vignettes of Montenegro in Anglo-American creative writing and films from the late 18th century until 2016. It follows these vignettes chronologically to point out how their rhetoric dangerously builds a caricature of Montenegro.