Kersti bergroth biography of michael jackson

Introduction

Abstract

The following collection of essays will explore the ways in which Europe has been debated in post-1945 fiction. The emphasis will be on responses to the historical conditions of the continent from the Second World War to the twenty-first century as displayed by a wide range of novelists from Europe and elsewhere. While recognising that many authors still function within the specificities of national cultures, the collection will focus on texts that explore areas of experience, belief, activity and identity which have traversed national borders and circulated through Europe and beyond, highlighting the intellectual relations between heterogeneous literary traditions and emphasising the intercontinental roots of the European imaginary. At the heart of the collection will be an interest in the literary (de)construction of Europe and Europeanness. Influenced by the work of Bo Stråth, Gerard Delanty, Luisa Passerini, Zygmunt Bauman, Étienne Balibar and others, the volume will examine Europe not only as a construct under continual revision but also as one that literature has occasionally helped to forge. At the same time, it will analyse the lived experiences of social and political transformation shared by eastern and western populations, as well as the accelerated modernity, globalisation and geopolitical conflict affecting the wider world. In doing so, the essays will raise questions about the forms of power operating across and radiating from Europe, challenging both the institutionalised divisions of the Cold War and the triumphalist narrative of continental unity currently being written in Brussels.

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    Casanova, ‘European Literature: Simply a Higher Degree of Universality?’, in Theo D’haen and Iannis Goerlandt, eds, Literature for Europe? (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009), p. 15. For Anderson’s discussion of the ‘imagined commun

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Centre for Gender History annual public engagement workshop, 1 June 2015 at Glasgow Women's Library. Organized by Dr Andrea Hajek.

In the early 1990s, Susan Faludi - in her prize winning Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (1991) - argued for the existence of a media driven, antifeminist backlash against the 1970s women’s liberation movement. A similar backlash seems to be living a revival, as the recent online social campaign #Women against feminism demonstrates. At the same time, a renewed engagement with feminism has manifested itself in recent years, due in part to the 2008 economic crisis. What does feminism mean in the present day, and to what extent is the current attitude towards feminism different from the way feminism has been seen in the past? What are the legacies of second-wave feminism and what can we still learn from it today? Are younger generations of women aware of the persistence of sexism, sexual violence and gender inequality, and can feminism be useful in tackling these issues?

This workshop brings together academics, activists and professionals engaged in battles for women’s rights and against gender discrimination, sexism and sexual violence, as well as women from the local community. It aims to explore current attitudes towards feminism and its legacy in the present, and promote discussions about the role feminism can play in the struggle for a more equal and less sexist society. 

Organized by Dr Andrea Hajek

Sponsored by the University of Glasgow’s Knowledge Exchange Fund, New Initiatives Fund and the Equality and Diversity Unit 

Podcasts:

  • Panel 1 (keynote lecture by Prof Fiona Mackay followed by response)
  • Panel 2 (paper by Dr Rosemary Elliot followed by response)
  • Panel 3 (papers by Dr Akwugo Emejulu and Dr Sarah Browne, followed by response)

To find out how some of the delegates answered the question, Do we still need feminis

  • Kersti Bergroth (1886–1975, Finland), wr.
  • A key figure in the

    • List of women writers (A–L)

    This is a list of notable women writers.

    Abbreviations: b. (born), c. (circa), ch. (children's), col. (columnist), es. (essayist), fl. (flourished), Hc. (Holocaust), mem. (memoirist), non-f. (non-fiction), nv. (novelist), pw. (playwright), wr. (writer), TV (television), YA (young adult)

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    Aa–Ag

    • Karen Aabye (1904–1982, Denmark), nv. & travel wr.
    • Uma Aaltonen (1940–2009, Finland), YA wr.
    • Jane Aamund (1936–2019, Denmark), col. & nv.
    • Jane Aaron (b. 1951, Wales), wr. & scholar
    • Madiha Abdalla (fl 2010s), Sudanese newspaper editor
    • Masoumeh Abad (b. 1962, Iran/Persia), mem. & academic
    • Mercedes Abad (b. 1961, Spain), fiction wr.
    • Ines Abassi (b. 1982, Tunisia/UAE), poet & travel wr.
    • Florencia Abbate (b. 1976, Argentina), fiction wr., poet & es.
    • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958, United States), poet & fiction wr.
    • Rachel Abbott (b. 1952, England), thriller wr.
    • Shaila Abdullah (b. 1971, Pakistan/United States), fiction & ch. wr.
    • Yassmin Abdel-Magied (b. 1991, Sudan/Australia), wr. & media person
    • Hafsat Abdulwaheed (b. 1952, Nigeria), poet & fiction & non-f. wr.
    • Rreze Abdullahu (b. 1990, Kosovo), wr. & war diarist
    • Louise Abeita (1926–2014, United States), wr.
    • Victorina A. Abellanosa (1903–1968, Philippines), Cebuano pw.
    • Josette Abondio (b. 1949, Ivory Coast), nv. & ch. wr.
    • Sara Aboobacker (1936–2023, India), Kannada wr.
    • Marguerite Abouet (b. 1971, Ivory Coast), comics wr.
    • Leila Aboulela (b. 1964, Sudan), wr.
    • Leila Abouzeid (b. 1950, Morocco), social wr.
    • Abiola Abrams (b. 1976, United States), wr. & filmmaker
    • Liliana Abud (b. 1948, Mexico), TV screenwriter
    • Umayya Abu-Hanna (b. 1961, Palestine/Finland), fiction & non-f. wr.
    • Susan Abulhawa (b. 1970, Palestine/United States), nv.
    • Lama Abu-Odeh (b. 1962, Palestine/United States), wr. on Islamic law
    • Juliet Ace (b. 1938, Wales), pw. & scriptwriter
    • Nora Aceval (b. 1953, Algeria/France), story
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