Women before the court

Women before the courtThis book is a ground breaking study of women in Britain and British America through two centuries of pivotal changes in the law, economy and empire. It shows how the expansion of womens legal status gave them increased financial independence and undermined patriarchal relationships within the household.

Luis Rocha Antunes here explores the work of well-loved filmmakers Erik Jensen

it describes the implementation of the Poor Law between 1838 and 1843 under the controversial direction of George Nicholls

Wulfstan offered a searing indictment of the moral failings that led to England’s collapse and formulated a vision of an ideal Christian community that would influence English political thought long after the Anglo-Saxon period had ended

bringing back forgotten programmes and places the aesthetics of experimentation within historical contexts

teachers and academic researchers involved with strategies of reading

exploring thirteen-hundred years of social change and asking what stories the North East can tell about itself in the wake of Christianity and coal

the knowledge of ecosystems guides the way

The study critically reclaims participatory art beyond its co-option as a fuzzword of neoliberal governance

opening up the text to questions of feminism

disabled people

This book is a collection of articles focusing on comparative analysis of the development trajectories in the semi-periphery countries of South America and Central and Eastern Europe

accompanied by original texts penned by leading international film scholars and critics and an interview with Marseillais director Robert Guédiguian