As with more recent famines, in the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea in the 20th century, cannibalism was turned to as a last resort.Swift's proposal followed a vogue for social "reformers" to propose solutions to poverty . He felt that many of these pronouncements came from men who...
In the common Western imagination, the image of the veiled Muslim woman stands for oppression in the Muslim world. This makes it hard to think about the Muslim world without thinking about women, sets up an "us" and "them" relationship with Muslim women, and ignores the variety of ways of...
Other crucial figures that were instrumental to the growth of religious Medieval literature were St. Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, and John Wycliffe. All three authors were religious reformers in their own right. Martin Luther Thomas Aquinas’ treatises were highly regarded by the Catholic Church. ...
One of Chu's more arresting examples of this tension is the "Chinese house," or tong lau, a tenement typology peculiar to Hong Kong. Early urban reformers in the colony routinely pathologized these buildings, blaming them and their inhabitants for the spread of disease. But tong lau were ...
The Protestant reformers were not only interested in maximizing their own capacity to know by close study of scripture, but were also interested in limiting the access of others to competing knowledge. 2 Gregory Bateson, discussing what parts of bodies one is allowed to look at among certain ...
Despite the high claims made for literacy by Renaissance humanists and Protestant reformers, we find seventeenth-century books and readers, like those in the thirteenth-century, deeply embedded in social contexts which condition the relationship between readers and texts....