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Christians as foreigners, to revere fascist dictators like Hitler and Mussolini through changing pedagogy and curriculum in schools and tracing the first ever human ancestry to India (Bunsha, 2006 : 374–5). Unsurprisingly, the VGV programme is run by a militant chauvinistic hard Hindutva nationalistic state propagating the use of alternative medical knowledge systems like Ayurveda combined with yoga and music in a predominantly reproductive-temple-corporate-industrial-complex. The state of Gujarat has, since 2002, also seen a
that the classes were unpaid but rather that she was only required to attend for a few hours per week, with the rest of the work to be done at home. Mothers and governesses sat in on the in-school classes, sewing at the back while the lesson proceeded. The main in-class activity was summarising the week’s lessons to prove that the pupils had worked hard at home. 29 The centre of learning was thus the home, not the school. Upper-class girls’ education emphasised subjects such as art and music, which conferred cultural
matter. The fourth chapter, on pump room politics, presented how cosmopolitanism is evoked in periodicals and correspondences of the second half of the eighteenth century. Two opposite visions coexist: cosmopolitanism is either depicted as an object of threat and complaint or as a safe space for quiet diplomacy and transnational friendships, a cultural hub through which art, music and European ideas could be disseminated into Britain. On the continent, early modern and modern spa towns are regularly pictured as the laboratories of European culture, the ‘cafes of Europe
egg providers Sara Ahmed ( 2007 : 151), a critical race and feminist theorist, has argued whiteness shapes bodies and ‘in turn what it is that bodies “can do”’, meaning that comportment, orientation, and mobility in certain spaces becomes framed as a shared ‘likeness’ (Ahmed, 2007 : 154). In very different contexts, accessing private reproductive medicine in Ecuador (Roberts, 2012 ), dancing to trance music in Goa (Saldanha, 2007 ), or transnational access via the ‘visa whiteness machine’ between South Africa and the UK (Andrucki, 2010 ) are
psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, who used series of 1940s BBC broadcasts to address the psychical effects of World War II on children, especially evacuees and those living apart from their parents. 2 France’s relationship with radio was transformed by the country’s experience of World War II. In the 1930s, the main attractions of French broadcasting were music and drama; coverage of news and current affairs was generally disappointing, especially on the somewhat ponderous public networks. 3 Vichy’s public radio, though it became
same year that Enfances was published, Pierre Bourdieu put all biographers and autobiographers on the defensive with the concept of the ‘biographical illusion’ – the coherence artificially accorded to life events by the conventions of narrative writing. Whereas real life trajectories are determined by a myriad of socio-economic and cultural factors, Bourdieu argued that (auto)biographies tend to highlight narratively seductive but ultimately irrelevant details, such as how their authors had ‘always loved music’ or
, art, music, and literature. 10 Anglo-American histories of medicine and sexuality hastily brought themselves up to date by incorporating HIV/AIDS, often framing it as the latest episode in a long story of stigmatisation hindering socio-medical responses to venereal disease, or medico-moral discourses dominating ideas of sexuality. 11 Feminists recognised yet another iteration of sexism at play in the politics of HIV/AIDS and
Derbyshire can only be tasted during the summer season as a tourist attraction staged with nostalgic narratives of past grandeur, pump room music and cotillon balls. The spas of eighteenth-century Britain were numerous, uneven in size, purpose and success, yet all endowed with ambiguous attraction in the publications that celebrated or criticised them. The experience of treatment extended far beyond the pleasant musical walks in between two glasses at the pump room. It was, at best, disagreeable, often an ordeal. The many layers of society shared the
. ‘Lose or win’ both amplifies the desire to invest more money into another round and the deception brought about by escalating problems. Gambling, therefore, only brings on more gambling, with a new wave of problems amplifying each loss. The second poem printed on the same page, ‘The Resolution’, takes a strategical counterpoint to the attractiveness of gaming: Farewell Quadrille, thou sweet deluding game Parents of slander, female sex's shame! Music
-class women with a degree of leisure time. The magazine contained extracts from novels, book reviews, games and quizzes and articles on fashion, style and art. There were ‘make-do-and-mend’ features explaining how canny housewives could circumvent wartime shortages, such as by making jam without jars. 56 Advertisements included promotions for Linguaphone’s language-learning materials, a course in advertising design at a Parisian art school and Charles Trenet’s music. 57 It had a glossy style, with plenty of pictures and illustrations