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Performing Politics: Media Interviews, Debates and Press ...

Performing Politics: Media Interviews, Debates and Press ...

Geoffrey Craig

... at the University of Otago. I appreciated the feedback from three anonymous reviewers of the manuscript. And I am grateful, as always, for the love and support of my family: Wendy Parkins, Maddy Parkins-Craig and Gabriel Parkins- Craig.
Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture

Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture

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“The Pleasure of Diversity in Slow Food's Ethics of Taste.” Food, Culture & Society 8, no. 2 (2005): 227–242. Parkins, Wendy, and Geoffrey Craig. Slow Living. Oxford: Berg, 2006. Parkins, Wendy, and Geoffrey Craig. “Culture and the Politics of ...
Gender Politics in Asia: Women Manoeuvring Within Dominant ...

Gender Politics in Asia: Women Manoeuvring Within Dominant ...

Wil Lundström-Burghoorn

Wendy Parkins' edited volume entitled Fashioning the Body Politic is a pioneering anthology which specifically addresses the links between dress and citizenship in world history (Parkins 2002a). Although in recent years there have been a ...
Dress, Law and Naked Truth: A Cultural Study of Fashion and Form

Dress, Law and Naked Truth: A Cultural Study of Fashion and Form

Gary Watt

10 Wendy Parkins acknowledges that dress has the capacity to 'reinforce existing arrangements of power', but that this also means that dress has the power to ' contest' them.11 Parkins cites the example of the female legislators who in ...
The Politics of the Pantry: Stories, Food, and Social Change

The Politics of the Pantry: Stories, Food, and Social Change

Michael Mikulak

Wendy Parkins and Geoffrey Craig refer to this as “time poverty,” which they challenge by emphasizing the irreducibility of time contra the popular notion that time is money. Parkins and Craig, Slow Living, 47. fl Smith and MacKinnon, The ...
Slow Living

Slow Living

Wendy Parkins

This innovative book shows how slow living is about the challenges of living a more mindful and pleasurable life.
Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies

Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies

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WENDY PARKINS is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Otago. She is the co-author of Slow Living (2006) and is currently completing Mobility and Modernity in British Women 's Novels, 1 850s- 1 930s. DOLLIE ...
AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and ...

AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and ...

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Wendy Parkins is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the co-author of Slow Living (Berg and UNSW Press, 2006) and is currently completing a book entitled Mobility and Modernity in  ...
A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural ...

A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural ...

Jacob Edmond

I wrote the rest of this book while based at the University of Otago. I am grateful to my colleagues there, especially those in the ... Wendy Parkins also gave me incisive feedback on a draft of chapter 1. Many other colleagues have offered help, ...
Slow Living

Slow Living

Geoffrey Craig

Geoffrey Craig, Wendy Parkins. other resident scholars ... More recently, at the University of Otago in New Zealand we thank Professor Lyn Tribble for her support and understanding in the final preparation of the manuscript. On the home front, ...
Decadent Image

Decadent Image

Kostas Boyiopoulos

London's Underground Spaces: Representing the Victorian City, 1840–1915 Haewon Hwang Moving Images: Nineteenth-Century Reading and Screen Practices Helen Groth Jane Morris: The Burden of History Wendy Parkins Thomas ...
Further Letters of Joanna Baillie

Further Letters of Joanna Baillie

Joanna Baillie

... Wendy Parkins, Shef Rogers, Paul Tankard, and Lyn Tribble for their advice and support. Liz Lammers, our departmental administrator, has always been helpful and supportive. Thanks to the excellent staff at the University of Otago Library, ...
William Morris and the art of everyday life

William Morris and the art of everyday life

Wendy Parkins

William Morris Victorian socialist, designer, poet, artist and craftsman urged his contemporaries to "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful", foregrounding his belief in the importance of ...
Fashioning the Body Politic: Dress, Gender, Citizenship

Fashioning the Body Politic: Dress, Gender, Citizenship

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Wendy Parkins In her humorous pamphlet entitled 'Infection: A Warning to Anti- Suffragists and Anti-Militants',1 the suffragette Rose Lamartine Yates outlined how the current fashion for and proliferation of commodities in the WSPU colours of ...
When Broadway Was the Runway: Theater, Fashion, and American ...

When Broadway Was the Runway: Theater, Fashion, and American ...

Marlis Schweitzer

On suffragette stereotypes and attempts to refute the same, see Wendy Parkins, “ 'The Epidemic of Purple,White and Green': Fashion and the Suffragette Movement in Britain 1908–14,” in Fashioning the Body Politic: Dress, Gender, ...
Oprah Affect, The: Critical Essays on Oprah's Book Club

Oprah Affect, The: Critical Essays on Oprah's Book Club

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Does the Book Club disempower readers to empower them, or diminish the consideration of reading and writing as political acts? As Wendy Parkins suggests, many critics of therapeutic talk shows have marked them as an unfortunate retreat ...
Ask Wendy: Straight-Up Advice for All the Drama In Your Life

Ask Wendy: Straight-Up Advice for All the Drama In Your Life

Wendy Williams

"Ask Wendy" has become more than just a fan-favorite TV segment; it's her calling card. Wendy has helped her viewers cope with everything from backstabbing girlfriends and deadbeat boyfriends to crazy mothers-in-law and jealous coworkers.
Jane Morris: The Burden of History

Jane Morris: The Burden of History

Wendy (the University of Otago) Parkins

... Aesthetic Philosophy Kate Hext 978 0 7486 4625 8 Hbk London's Underground Spaces: Representing the Victorian City, 1840–1915 Haewon Hwang 978 0 7486 7607 1 Hbk Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions Trish Ferguson 978 0 7486 7324 ...
Wendy's Got the Heat

Wendy's Got the Heat

Wendy Williams

Wendy's Got the Heat is her story -- about growing up in a predominately white suburb, recovering from drug addiction, struggling to launch a successful career in one of the most male-dominated media industries—and it's by turns painful, ...
Brian and Wendy Froud's The Pressed Fairy Journal of ...

Brian and Wendy Froud's The Pressed Fairy Journal of ...

Wendy Froud

Renowned artist/author duo Brian and Wendy Froud present, for the first time, the backstory of Cottington Hall and its intriguing inhabitants: the Cottington family and the faeries living among them.
Chance of Happiness: A Romantic Short Story (San Juan Island ...

Chance of Happiness: A Romantic Short Story (San Juan Island ...

Wendy Lynn Clark

Wendy Lynn Clark. Chance. of. Happiness. San Juan Island Stories #2 by Wendy Lynn Clark ***** Published by: Wendy Lynn Clark Publishing PO Box 1993 Vancouver, WA 98668 ...
Eat Beautiful: Nourish your skin from the inside out

Eat Beautiful: Nourish your skin from the inside out

Wendy Rowe

Foreword by Sienna Miller. World-renowned beauty and make-up expert Wendy Rowe knows skin inside out. In this refreshing beauty book, Wendy will teach you how to keep your skin healthy and let your inner and outer beauty shine.
Fatty Patty: A Romantic Short Story (San Juan Island Stories ...

Fatty Patty: A Romantic Short Story (San Juan Island Stories ...

Wendy Lynn Clark

Wendy Lynn Clark. Fatty. Patty. San Juan Island Stories #1 by Wendy Lynn Clark ***** Published by: Wendy Lynn Clark Publishing PO Box 1993 Vancouver, WA 98668 ...
The Last Present

The Last Present

Wendy Mass

Don't miss the latest entry in the incredible Willow Falls series by Wendy Mass!
The Adventures of Susie The Snail and Wendy The Wasp:

The Adventures of Susie The Snail and Wendy The Wasp:

Michael Willis

Susie is lost and lonely. Then a stranger, Wendy, shows her how you don’t have to know someone to help them.
A Little Girl's War

A Little Girl's War

Wendy Appleton

From the London Blitz to Burnley as an evacuee: the wartime experiences of Wendy Appleton.
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Wendy Mass

Lively characters, surprising twists, and thought-provoking ideas make Wendy Mass's latest novel an unforgettable read.
The Wendy Williams Experience

The Wendy Williams Experience

Wendy Williams

In the dishiest book of the year, the top-rated and controversial radio host delivers the good, the bad, and the ugly on the industry's biggest stars.
The Last Integrationist

The Last Integrationist

Jake Lamar

there was Wendy Hoffman of POL, microphone in hand, camera crew in tow. How the hell had she weaseled her way into the protected area? Melvin and his security detail pushed their way through the police barricades. Wendy Hoffman, with ...
Chanel Bonfire

Chanel Bonfire

Wendy Lawless

"Wendy Lawless' stunning memoir of resilience in the face of an unstable alcoholic and suicidal mother"--

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