Betrayal at Ravenswick
Title | Betrayal at Ravenswick PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Oliver |
Publisher | Historia |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2020-03-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781947915282 |
File clerk, Miss Fiona Fig, desperate for any adventure to help her forget her philandering husband, becomes a spy for British Intelligence during WWI.
Witnessing
Title | Witnessing PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Oliver |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 282 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780816636273 |
Challenging the fundamental tenet of the multicultural movement -- that social struggles turning upon race, gender, and sexuality are struggles for recognition -- this work offers a powerful critique of current conceptions of identity and subjectivity based on Hegelian notions of recognition. The author's critical engagement with major texts of contemporary philosophy prepares the way for a highly original conception of ethics based on witnessing. Central to this project is Oliver's contention that the demand for recognition is a symptom of the pathology of oppression that perpetuates subject-object and same-different hierarchies. While theorists across the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences focus their research on multiculturalism around the struggle for recognition, Oliver argues that the actual texts and survivors' accounts from the aftermath of the Holocaust and slavery are testimonials to a pathos that is "beyond recognition". Oliver traces many of the problems with the recognition model of subjective identity to a particular notion of vision presupposed in theories of recognition and misrecognition. Contesting the idea of an objectifying gaze, she reformulates vision as a loving look that facilitates connection rather than necessitates alienation. As an alternative, Oliver develops a theory of witnessing subjectivity. She suggests that the notion of witnessing, with its double meaning as either eyewitness or bearing witness to the unseen, is more promising than recognition for describing the onset and sustenance of subjectivity. Subjectivity is born out of and sustained by the process of witnessing -- the possibility of address and response -- which puts ethicalobligations at its heart.
Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down
Title | Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Oliver |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 249 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 0231161085 |
The image of a heavily pregnant woman, once considered ugly and indecent, is now common to Hollywood film. No longer is pregnancy a repulsive of shameful condition, but an attractive attribute, often enhancing the romantic or comedic storyline of a female protagonist. Kelly Oliver investigates this curious shift and its reflection of changing attitudes toward women's roles in reproduction and the family.
Noir Anxiety
Title | Noir Anxiety PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Oliver |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 9781452906126 |
Womanizing Nietzsche
Title | Womanizing Nietzsche PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Oliver |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2016-02-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1317959280 |
In Womanizing Nietzsche, Kelly Oliver uses an analysis of the position of woman in Nietzsche's texts to open onto the larger question of philosophy's relation to the feminine and the maternal. Offering readings from Nietzsche, Derrida, Irigaray, Kristeva, Freud and Lacan, Oliver builds an innovative foundation for an ontology of intersubjective relationships that suggests a new approach to ethics.
High Treason at the Grand Hotel
Title | High Treason at the Grand Hotel PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Oliver |
Publisher | A Fiona Figg Mystery |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 2021-01-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781947915909 |
File clerk turned secret agent Fiona Figg is up to her fake eyebrows in missing maids, jewel thieves, double agents, and high treason in 1915 Paris.
Family Values
Title | Family Values PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Oliver |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 298 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780415913669 |
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.