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The Escape from Poverty: Breaking the Vicious Cycles Perpetuating Disadvantage
by Olivier De Schutter Hugh Frazer Anne-Catherine Guio Eric MarlierePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND license. The perpetuation of poverty across generations damages lives. It weakens social cohesion and the economy and undermines environmental sustainability. This book examines why poverty is carried on from one generation to the next and what needs to be done to eradicate it. This book draws on a wide variety of sources and academic disciplines (social sciences, economics, law, community development, neuroscience and developmental psychology) along with the lived experience of people in poverty. Challenging the myths and prejudices about poverty that hinder progress, it calls for a comprehensive approach based on ensuring real equality of opportunity for all. It stresses the need to intervene early to combat child poverty and break the vicious cycles that perpetuate poverty and disadvantage.
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (The\princeton Economic History Of The Western World Ser. #94)
by Walter ScheidelThe gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age. Ranging across the entire premodern world, Escape from Rome offers new answers to some of the biggest questions in history: Why did the Roman Empire appear? Why did nothing like it ever return to Europe? And, above all, why did Europeans come to dominate the world?In an absorbing narrative that begins with ancient Rome but stretches far beyond it, from Byzantium to China and from Genghis Khan to Napoleon, Scheidel shows how the demise of Rome and the enduring failure of empire-building on European soil ensured competitive fragmentation between and within states. This rich diversity encouraged political, economic, scientific, and technological breakthroughs that allowed Europe to surge ahead while other parts of the world lagged behind, burdened as they were by traditional empires and predatory regimes that lived by conquest. It wasn’t until Europe "escaped" from Rome that it launched an economic transformation that changed the continent and ultimately the world.What has the Roman Empire ever done for us? Fall and go away.
Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity—and My Journey to Freedom in America
by Francis Bok Edward TivnanIn this groundbreaking modern slave narrative, Francis Bok shares his remarkable story with grace, honesty, and a wisdom gained from surviving ten years in captivity.May, 1986: Selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan, seven year old Francis Bok's life was shattered when Arab raiders on horseback, armed with rifles and long knives, burst into the quiet marketplace, murdering men and women and gathering the young children into a group. Strapped to horses and donkeys, Francis and others were taken north, into lives of slavery under wealthy Muslim farmers. For ten years, Francis lived alone in a shed near the goats and cattle that were his responsibility. Fed with scraps from the table, slowly learning bits of an unfamiliar language and religion, the boy had almost no human contact other than his captor's family. After two failed attempts to escape-each bringing severe beatings and death threats-Francis finally escaped at age seventeen, a dramatic breakaway on foot that was his final chance. Yet his slavery did not end there, for even as he made his way toward the capital city of Khartoum, others sought to deprive him of his freedom. Determined to avoid that fate and discover what had happened to his family on that terrible day in 1986, the teenager persevered through prison and refugee camps for three more years, winning the attention of United Nations officials and being granted passage to America.Now a student and an anti-slavery activist, Francis Bok has made it his life mission to combat world slavery. His is the first voice to speak for an estimated twenty seven million people held against their will in nearly every nation, including our own. Escape from Slavery is at once a riveting adventure, a story of desperation and triumph, and a window revealing a world that few have survived to tell.
Escape from the Staple Trap
by Paul KelloggFrom fur and fish to oil and minerals, Canadian development has often been understood through its relationship to export staples. This understanding, argues Paul Kellogg, has led many political economists to assume that Canadian economic development has followed a path similar to those of staple-exporting economies in the Global South, ignoring a more fundamental fact: as an advanced capitalist economy, Canada sits in the core of the world system, not on the periphery or semi-periphery.In Escape from the Staple Trap, Kellogg challenges statistical and historical analyses that present Canada as weak and disempowered, lacking sovereignty and economic independence. A powerful critique of the dominant trend in Canadian political economy since the 1970s, Escape from the Staple Trap offers an important new framework for understanding the distinctive features of Canadian political economy.
Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad
by Mary Kay RicksOn the evening of April 15, 1848, nearly eighty enslaved Americans attempted one of history's most audacious escapes. Setting sail from Washington, D.C., on a schooner named the Pearl, the fugitives began a daring 225-mile journey to freedom in the North—and put in motion a furiously fought battle over slavery in America that would consume Congress, the streets of the capital, and the White House itself.Mary Kay Ricks's unforgettable chronicle brings to life the Underground Railroad's largest escape attempt, the seemingly immutable politics of slavery, and the individuals who struggled to end it. Escape on the Pearl reveals the incredible odyssey of those who were onboard, including the remarkable lives of fugitives Mary and Emily Edmonson, the two sisters at the heart of this true story of courage and determination.
Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives On Life After Punishment
by Stephen FarrallEscape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life After Punishment addresses the reasons why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated or resettled back into the community. Engaging with, and building upon, renewed criminological interest in this area, Escape Routes nevertheless broadens and enlivens the current debate. First, its scope goes beyond a narrowly-defined notion of crime and includes, for example, essays on religious redemption, the lives of ex-war criminals, and the relationship between ethnicity and desistance from crime. Second, contributors to this volume draw upon a number of areas of contemporary research, including urban studies, philosophy, history, religious studies, and ethics, as well as criminology. Examining new theoretical work in the study of desistance and exploring the experiences of a number of groups whose experiences of life after punishment do not usually attract much attention, Escape Routes provides new insights about the processes associated with reform, resettlement and forgiveness. Intended to drive our understanding of life after punishment forward, its rich array of theoretical and substantive papers will be of considerable interest to criminologists, lawyers, and sociologists.
Escape to Freedom
by Leon RubinsteinAs a ten-year-old child, Leon Rubinstein fled Germany with his parents in 1933, to Luxembourg and then Belgium, which they fled again on the morning of the Nazi invasion. They dwelt quietly as refugees in the south of France until the Vichy government began its roundup of foreign Jews for deportation. After his father's arrest, Leon endeavors to save himself and his mother with a daring journey to the border towns of southeastern France. Disguising their identities, they hitch a ride with German officers. Along the way, courageous French men and women, including a priest, help them cross the Alps into neutral Switzerland. This memoir gives a rare look at the lives of Jewish refugees in Switzerland-the Swiss work camps where Rubinstein toils along with other male refugees; his stint as a teacher at a home for orphaned Jewish children; his rescue by the Red Cross with a scholarship that enables him to complete his education. He also encounters his first great love at the University of Basel, the beautiful Vera, a child of parents lost in the Holocaust. Vera is a passionate Zionist who is determined to make her way to Palestine in the last months of the British mandate. Throughout this deeply felt story is Rubinstein's awareness of his transformation from adolescence to young manhood amid the catastrophic losses and disloca¬tions of the war years in Europe. His personal story resonates with anyone who remembers discovering love, as well as the necessity of choices and sacrifices. Leon Rubinstein studied at the University of Basel where he earned a teaching degree. After the war, he immigrated to the United States where he switched to the business world and had a successful career with a national company. For the past twenty years, he has written op-ed pieces for Florida newspapers and spoken to students throughout the Florida school system about the Holocaust and his own remarkable story of survival. He and his wife live in Jupiter, Florida.
Escape To Freedom: The Underground Railroad
by Barbara Brooks SimonsNIMAC sourced supplemental reading
Escape to Gold Mountain
by David H.T. WongThis is a vivid graphic history of the Chinese experience in North America over the last 150 years, beginning with the immigration of Chinese to "Gold Mountain" (the Chinese colloquialism for North America) in the 1800s that resulted in decades of discrimination, subjugation, and separation from loved ones. Based on historical documents and interviews with elders, the book is also the epic story of the Wong family as they traverse these challenges with hope and determination, creating an immigrant's legacy in their new home of North America.David H.T. Wong is an architect and historian.
Escape to Prison
by Michael WelchThe resurrection of former prisons as museums has caught the attention of tourists along with scholars interested in studying what is known as dark tourism. Unsurprisingly, due to their grim subject matter, prison museums tend to invert the "Disneyland" experience, becoming the antithesis of "the happiest place on earth." In Escape to Prison, the culmination of years of international research, noted criminologist Michael Welch explores ten prison museums on six continents, examining the complex interplay between culture and punishment. From Alcatraz to the Argentine Penitentiary, museums constructed on the former locations of surveillance, torture, colonial control, and even rehabilitation tell unique tales about the economic, political, religious, and scientific roots of each site's historical relationship to punishment.
Escaping Japan: Reflections on Estrangement and Exile in the Twenty-First Century (Japan Anthropology Workshop Series)
by Blai Guarné Paul HansenThe idea that Japan is a socially homogenous, uniform society has been increasingly challenged in recent years. This book takes the resulting view further by highlighting how Japan, far from singular or monolithic, is socially and culturally complex. It engages with particular life situations, exploring the extent to which personal experiences and lifestyle choices influence this contemporary multifaceted nation-state. Adopting a theoretically engaged ethnographic approach, and considering a range of "escapes" both physical and metaphorical, this book provides a rich picture of the fusions and fissures that comprise Japan and Japaneseness today.
Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect
by West MickThe Earth is flat, the World Trade Center collapse was a controlled demolition, planes are spraying poison to control the weather, and actors faked the Sandy Hook massacre…. All these claims are bunk: falsehoods, mistakes, and in some cases, outright lies. But many people passionately believe one or more of these conspiracy theories. They consume countless books and videos, join like-minded online communities, try to convert those around them, and even, on occasion, alienate their own friends and family. Why is this, and how can you help people, especially those closest to you, break free from the downward spiral of conspiracy thinking? In Escaping the Rabbit Hole, author Mick West shares over a decade’s worth of knowledge and experience investigating and debunking false conspiracy theories through his forum, MetaBunk.org, and sets forth a practical guide to helping friends and loved ones recognize these theories for what they really are. Perhaps counter-intuitively, the most successful approaches to helping individuals escape a rabbit hole aren’t comprised of simply explaining why they are wrong; rather, West’s tried-and-tested approach emphasizes clear communication based on mutual respect, honesty, openness, and patience. West puts his debunking techniques and best practices to the test with four of the most popular false conspiracy theories today (Chemtrails, 9/11 Controlled Demolition, False Flags, and Flat Earth) — providing road maps to help you to understand your friend and help them escape the rabbit hole. These are accompanied by real-life case studies of individuals who, with help, were able to break free from conspiracism. With sections on:the wide spectrum of conspiracy theories avoiding the “shill” label psychological factors and other complications(and concluding with) a look at the future of debunking, Mick West has put forth a conclusive, well-researched, practical reference on why people fall down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole and how you can help them escape.
Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect (Revised and Updated - Includes Information about 2020 Election Fraud, The Coronavirus Pandemic, The Rise of QAnon, and UFOs)
by Mick WestRevised and updated for the first time in 2023—Now includes strategies for debunking conspiracies regarding the coronavirus pandemic, election fraud, QAnon, UFOs, and more. The Earth is flat, the World Trade Center collapse was a controlled demolition, planes are spraying poison to control the weather, and actors faked the Sandy Hook massacre. All these claims are bunk: falsehoods, mistakes, and in some cases, outright lies. But many people passionately believe one or more of these conspiracy theories. They consume countless books and videos, join like-minded online communities, try to convert those around them, and even, on occasion, alienate their own friends and family. Why is this, and how can you help people, especially those closest to you, break free from the downward spiral of conspiracy thinking? In Escaping the Rabbit Hole, author Mick West shares over a decade&’s worth of knowledge and experience investigating and debunking false conspiracy theories through his forum, MetaBunk.org, and sets forth a practical guide to helping friends and loved ones recognize these theories for what they really are. Perhaps counter-intuitively, the most successful approaches to helping individuals escape a rabbit hole aren&’t comprised of simply explaining why they are wrong; rather, West&’s tried-and-tested approach emphasizes clear communication based on mutual respect, honesty, openness, and patience. West puts his debunking techniques and best practices to the test with the most popular false conspiracy theories today (Chemtrails, The Coronavirus Pandemic, 9/11 Controlled Demolition, Election Fraud, False Flags, Flat Earth, The Rising of QAnon, and UFOs)—providing road maps to help you to understand your friend and help them escape the rabbit hole. These are accompanied by real-life case studies of individuals who, with help, were able to break free from conspiracism. With sections on: the wide spectrum of conspiracy theoriesavoiding the &“shill&” labelpsychological factors and other complications(and concluding with) a look at the future of debunking Mick West has put forth a conclusive, well-researched, practical reference on why people fall down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole and how you can help them escape.
Escaping the World: Women Renouncers among Jains (South Asian History and Culture)
by Manisha SethiThe book attends to a historical question — how to account for the high numbers of renouncers (sadhvis) mentioned in medieval and ancient texts — which has been acknowledged and raised, but left unaddressed within Jain studies. It does so through ethnographic data gathered through extensive fieldwork among the sadhvis in Delhi and Jaipur. The volume foregrounds the primacy of ‘choice’ and ‘agency’— upheld by the nuns themselves, who associate asceticism with autonomy, freedom, joy, spiritual well-being, self-worth and peace, and grihastha (household) with loss of independence, fettered existence, degradation, burdensome familial obligations and social responsibilities. It also examines whether it may be apt to term Jain nuns as practitioners of an ‘indigenous mode of feminism’. The book challenges the existing sociological theories of renunciation and tests the feminist concepts of agency and autonomy by investigating the culturally coded roles ascribed to women in Jainism, which are variegated, and examines how a fractured discourse and reality is resolved in the subjectivities and identities of female ascetics. The very legitimacy of the institution of female asceticism, and the way in which the society (samaj) upholds and sustains it, renders female asceticism into a socially approved alternative institution — albeit one that allows Jain nuns to create spaces of relative and autonomy and even prestige for themselves.
Escapism
by Yi-Fu TuanAcclaimed cultural geographer Yi-Fu Tuan considers humanity's enduring desire to escape reality— and embrace alternatives such as love, culture, and DisneyworldIn prehistoric times, our ancestors began building shelters and planting crops in order to escape from nature's harsh realities. Today, we flee urban dangers for the safer, reconfigured world of suburban lawns and parks. According to geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, people have always sought to escape in one way or another, sometimes foolishly, often creatively and ingeniously. Glass-tower cities, suburbs, shopping malls, Disneyland—all are among the most recent monuments in our efforts to escape the constraints and uncertainties of life—ultimately, those imposed by nature. "What cultural product," Tuan asks, "is not escape?" In his new book, the capstone of a celebrated career, Tuan shows that escapism is an inescapable component of human thought and culture.
Escenas de pudor y liviandad
by Carlos MonsiváisUn libro de revelaciones pudorosas del gran cronista mexicano Carlos Monsiváis. Incluye la crónica que convirtió a Juan Gabriel en un mito La sucesión de escenas (cuadros y carros alegóricos) donde el pondos es la forma más ostentosa de la liviandad, y los hombres de pro, y Columnas del Deber, resultan turiferarios de la Santísima Trivialidad. La pequeña historia en el México del siglo XX: el mural disperso y siempre recién inaugurado donde participan María Félix y los chavos banda, Dolores del Río y los chavos punk, las vedettes y los economistas; Juan Gabriel y la pareja cerúlea en el dancing, Celia Montalbán que anima el hoyo fonqui y el cachudo que dirige a María Condesa. El pudor, la liviandad: los sentimientos extintos en la sociedad que no acaba nunca de ser plenamente moderna. Y, ¿qué melodía se le antoja, patrón?
La esclavitud femenina
by John Stuart MillUn ensayo feminista pionero firmado por uno de los grandes filósofos del siglo XIX. Publicado en 1869, La esclavitud femenina abordó con valentía el problema de la desigualdad entre los sexos, definiéndolo como «uno de los principales obstáculos para el progreso de la humanidad». En opinión de John Stuart Mill, que publicó este tratado cuando las mujeres de su país no podían votar ni disponer de bienes, alcanzar una «igualdad perfecta» en materia legal y social era indispensable para una sociedad más justa, y no cabe duda de que su libro contribuyó a crearla al desmontar con implacable lógica el endeble argumentario de quienes favorecían la opresión histórica de la mujer. Nuestra edición incluye el prólogo de Emilia Pardo Bazán a la primera traducción española, así como una introducción actual de Amelia Valcárcel, que pone en perspectiva la historia del texto y sus ideas.
Escola nova, poble lliure: 1492 dies a educació, disculpeu les molèsties
by Ernest MaragallUn relat senzill, una reflexió personal i una anàlisi breu però suficient del què i el perquè sobre tot allò que es va imaginar, projectar i dur a terme en els quatre anys del mandat transcorregut entre desembre del 2006 i desembre del 2010 al Departament d'Educació del Govern de la Generalitat de Catalunya. A cavall de les memòries, el llibre polític i l’assaig sobre educació, Ernest Maragall, conseller d’Educació en el segon tripartit i el que va ser el seu Secretari de Polítiques Educatives al departament, Francesc Colomer, fan un recorregut pels reptes principals que van haver d’assumir, les reformes que van emprendre, les reticències o les aliances que van trobar. En resulta un llibre que, memòria i anècdota a banda, de fons planteja què es pot fer per millorar la qualitat educativa del nostre sistema; si hi ha un espai i un marge d'actuació des de la responsabilitat política, i si és possible plantejar canvis d'una certa profunditat i exercicis d'autoresponsabilitat als propis actors del sistema.
Escuchar(nos): Hacia la comprensión de los demás y de uno mismo
by Marina Castañeda¿En qué consiste escuchar a alguien? ¿Por qué, a lo largo de la historia, han existido grupos que "no merecen" ser escuchados y cuáles han sido las consecuencias para ellos? ¿Qué ha sucedido con el arte de la conversación? ¿Y con el silencio? Se dice que hay personas dotadas para la escucha, que nacieron con los dones de la empatía y la paciencia. Pero, ¿cómo consiguen estas personas eliminar los obstáculos, conscientes e inconscientes, individuales e interpersonales, sociales y culturales, que impiden que podamos escucharnos? Marina Castañeda analiza las dinámicas psicológicas profundas y, en su mayor parte, inconscientes, de la escucha, así como las relaciones de poder, las reglas de intercambio, los patrones culturales, y aspectos sociales y económicos que la rigen. Aborda el tema de la atención y explica cómo y por qué escuchamos lo que queremos. Recurre a la historia para mostrar por qué se está perdiendo esta vital facultad humana, y dar ejemplos de la escucha ideal; asimismo, expone las expectativas e ilusiones provocadas por la comunicación instantánea y el ciberespacio, así como los retos que plantea la globalización y la necesidad de inventar una nueva ética de la escucha. Además, gracias a su experiencia en este campo, la autora expone las características de la escucha en la psicoterapia, profesión que desde sus inicios ha estudiado el tema y desarrollado técnicas especializadas para lograr una escucha empática y respetuosa, al servicio del otro. Escuchar(nos) invita al lector a reflexionar sobre su capacidad de escuchar con una sección de preguntas y ofrece sugerencias para cultivar este arte y volver, nuevamente, el rostro hacia los demás.
Escudo Americano: El sargento inmigrante que defendió la democracia
by Aquilino Gonell Susan Shapiro&“American Shield&” es una historia típicamente americano sobre el deber y la determinación — maravillosamente contada por un inmigrante, un veterano de guerra, y un patriota.&”Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Emerita de la House of Representatives de los Estados UnidosAquilino Gonell era un jóven cuando llegó a los Estados Unidos de la República Dominicana. Aunque no hablaba inglés, se dedicó a su nueva tierra adoptada, luchando para conseguir el dichoso sueño americano. Su resolución de lograr una vida de éxito le llevó a alistarse en el ejército, como manera de pagar sus estudios universitarios. Tras combatir en Irak, volvió a los EEUU con TEPT, pero siguió con confianza en las promesas del gobierno, y se concentró en su familia y en el proceso de sanarse. Sus labores dieron fruto cuando ganó un puesto muy codiciado con la United States Capitol Police, en la ciudad de Washington DC, y llegó al rango de sargento.Todo cambió para siempre el 6 de enero de 2021. Cuando los insurreccionistas irrumpieron en el Capitolio, con mucha valentía el sargento Gonell no se rindió a los que intentaron frustrar la transferencia pacífica de poder. Las heridas brutales que sufrió aquel día pondría fin a su carrera como agente de policía. Pero justo cuando algunos de los mismos políticos que el sargento defendía intentaron desmentir la verdadera historia de aquel día, él eligió denunciar la injusticia que sufría al igual que el país. Una crónica de lo que significa llevar una vida de principios, una que se adhiere a las mejores nociones de nuestra democracia, American Shield es un testimonio fulgurante del poder la verdad, la justicia y la responsabilidad de la boca de un oficial decorado e inmigrante que ilustra las mejores aspiraciones de una nación agradecida.
Escuela de rebeldes: Cómo un grupo de espíritus libres revolucionó las ideas de raza, sexo y género
by Charles KingLA GRAN AVENTURA DE LOS ANTROPÓLOGOS QUE DESCUBRIERON QUE EL MUNDO SE EQUIVOCABA. «Que las ideas de Boas resultaran radicales y chocantes habla mal de su época; que el libro de King resulte hoy tan oportuno habla mal de la nuestra».The London Review of Books «Magistral. Esta historia es vital para nuestro tiempo».IBRAM X. KENDI La historia de un grupo audaz e inconformista que desmontó los mecanismos del racismo. A inicios del siglo XX las tesis eugenésicas, que defendían la superioridad del hombre blanco, alcanzaban su cénit. El mundo se fragmentaba, un nuevo modelo imperialista entraba en acción y la antropología cultural, una ciencia aún desconocida pero en auge, auspiciaba la división colonizadora. Fue entonces cuando Franz Boas y su círculo de estudiantes, esencialmente mujeres -entre ellas las brillantes Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Ella Deloria y Zora Neale Hurston-, se rebelaron contra el canon imperante, aportaron una base sólida a lo que hoy llamamos «relativismo cultural» y dieron lugar a la antropología moderna. Desde el terreno académico y aplicando el método científico, demostraron que ninguna civilización es superior a otra y que, independientemente de las diferencias en el color de la piel, los hábitos sexuales o las costumbres, la humanidad es una e indivisible. Escuela de rebeldes recorre las vidas de estos hombres y mujeres pioneros, repletas de escándalos, romances, rivalidades y tragedias. En sus viajes -al círculo polar ártico, a las reservas americanas de las grandes llanuras, al Pacífico Sur o al Caribe…- documentaron enfoques radicalmente diferentes sobre el amor, la crianza, la familia y la relación entre hombres y mujeres. Armados de pruebas, aportaron una llave maestra para entender el mundo y la humanidad. Juntos estuvieron «en la primera línea de la batalla moral más importante de nuestro tiempo», y resultaron vencedores. La crítica ha dicho:«Simplemente magnífico, y en muchos sentidos profundamente conmovedor. La prosa de King, increíblemente amena y brillante, es ideal para contar una de las historias más fascinantes del siglo XX».All About History «Hoy más que nunca necesitamos entender la visión alternativa de la humanidad que desarrollaron Boas y sus discípulas».Financial Times «Elegante y caleidoscópico. Este es el momento perfecto para un libro tan humano».The New York Times «Enormemente revelador y adictivo».The Sunday Times «Nadie había contado la historia del ascenso de la antropología a su estatus de llave maestra, y King lo hace con sutileza y garbo. Un relato convincente sobre los precursores intelectuales del multiculturalismo».History Today «La noción de relativismo cultural fue un descubrimiento tan extraordinario en su campo como el de la teoría de la relatividad en el de la física, una revolución de la mente europea. Este libro excepcional explica por qué».Wade Davis «King pone en el centro de la escena a Mead y a sus compañeros de viaje, que fueron pioneros en un campo nuevo, documentaron la diversidad de la humanidad con todos sus matices y con un enfoque positivo, en lugar de divisivo».USA Today
Ese que fui: Expediente de una rebelión corporal
by Candelaria SchamunEn este testimonio íntimo y mordaz puede leerse la fractura de una época que discriminó, torturó y mutiló a las personas nacidas con alguna ambigüedad genital o con características intersex, que no encajaban en el binomio Mujer/Varón. La búsqueda del pasado oculto -con su cáustico señalamiento a los mandatos sociales sobre el cuerpo, el género y el sexo- entraña una mirada compasiva y tierna que permite la reconciliación de una mujer no solo con su pasado, también con su madre. «Si me expongo, es para dejar testimonio del daño irreparable e irreversible que hizo la medicina sobre mi cuerpo. Y es, entre otras razones, para exigir que dejen de mutilar a niños y niñas en nombre de la normalidad médica». Decidida a saber la verdad, la protagonista de Ese que fui se enfrenta con la familia y consigo misma. El rompecabezas hecho de silencios, recuerdos fragmentarios, síntomas físicos, dolores atroces y culpas incomprensibles empieza a encajar cuando por casualidad encuentra una carpeta con su nombre en el fondo de un cajón. Impactada por lo que esos papeles insinúan, escapa de su casa. Pero, como toda fuga, esta es también circular: apenas su madre manifieste los primeros indicios de estar perdiendo la memoria, querrá preguntarle lo que hasta entonces no pudo. Candelaria Schamun, quien trabajó por años como cronista de policiales, inicia una pesquisa en tiempo real que la tiene por presunta víctima. ¿Cuál es el fantasma que la habita? Reclamará legajos en los juzgados; revisará historias clínicas; entrevistará a médicos, parientes, exparejas, activistas y personas con experiencias similares, para denunciar el borramiento del que ha sido objeto. La crítica dijo: «Este libro es muchos libros: una investigación autobiográfica, la denuncia sobre los mecanismos crueles y la moral conservadora de la medicina, una novela apasionante sobre un secreto familiar. Pero sobre todo es la narración conmovedora del encuentro con la verdadera identidad. Pocas veces me emocioné tanto».Luciano Lamberti
ESO14 Bhartiya Samaj me Jaati ki Vyakhya - IGNOU
by IgnouIn this section it highlighted about various of religion Indian societies.
ESO14 Bhartiya Samaj me Varg - IGNOU
by IgnouIn this section 7 we know the thinking of different category of Indian Societies. In this section there are four units and every units describe the different category.
ESO14 Jaatiya Strikaran - IGNOU
by IgnouIn this section after reading we would know about ethnicity of every ethnic group is important in their life. This section is also described in four sections.