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Inhabiting Wuthering Heights : Jane Urquhart's Rewriting of Emily Brontë

Jane Urquhart's Changing Heaven (1990) is a contemporary novel that interacts significantly with a Victorian novel, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. It has recently been fashionable for novelists to make metafictional use of their predecessor's work, and Victorian novels have been particularly popular sources. One thinks of John Fowles's bestseller The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), which may well have begun the fashion, along with novels like David Lodge's Nice Work (1988), A.S. Byatt's Possession (1990), Valerie Martin's Mary Reilly (1990), and further back Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). I hope that my discussion of Urquhart's novel will suggest reasons for this general trend, and also for the enormous current popularity of Victorian fiction, both in its original form and in television and film adaptations, but my main concern in this essay is with the particular way in which Urquhart responds to and adapts Emily Bronte's novel. I will look at Changing Heaven in the context of the published criticism of Wuthering Heights, for Urquhart's novel shares many of the preoccupations of the critics, and it can valuably be

Geography staff placements: nice work?

Abstract Although more geography degrees are beginning to include some form of student work placement, less attention has been given to the idea of work placements for staff. This paper considers the possible benefits of this idea and reviews a small pilot scheme and the lessons learned from it.

Enterprise in Higher Education: Nice Work, or Ivory Tower Versus Exchange & Mart?

Abstract Enterprise in Higher Education and related programmes are having an increasing influence upon the curriculum and practice of undergraduate teaching, yet there has been a curious lack of a detailed critique of their underlying principles. Two forms of justification can be found for Enterprise in Higher Education: the ideology of the marketplace, and individual self‐development. The tension between these two justifications lies at the root of the problems with the scheme.

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Nice work for everybody except the patient: Gordon Skinner opens discussion on the future of vaccine development

Preventative medicine is a difficult field in which to work and feint heart never won vaccine product licence. In one Northern town in the UK, the authorities reduced the rate of enteric-borne epidemics to a commendably low level but were then pilloried because there was an epidemic in the following year; the greater the achievement, the greater the expectations. Vaccine production is a particularly delicate issue as vaccine recipients are generally healthy persons who, without vaccination, are not necessarily going to contract disease. Vaccines are not accorded equivalent ‘peer-review’ as are therapeutic drugs; a drug which helps 30% of people in terms of relief of duodenal ulcer symptoms or discomfort from rheumatoid arthritis will probably be considered worth using whilst a completely safe vaccine which protects 30% of people from contracting AIDS will not reach the market. In simple words, vaccines are given too tough a time in comparison to therapeutic drugs or provenly harmful products like cigarettes and alcohol. This commentary considers three current problems and suggest strategies towards their solution. Firstly, large amounts of money are spent on the development of drugs and vaccines pursuing objectives that are not necessary for the safety of the product. Secondly, these objectives arise not from reasonable scientific consideration but from fear. Finally, such factors are seriously hampering the development and availability of safe and efficacious drugs and vaccines particularly in areas where the number of potential recipients is not sufficiently large to ensure the commercial viability of product development.

Relating to Privilege: Seduction and Rejection in the Subordination of White Women and Women of Color

Dans le cadre de la hierarchie sociale aux Etats-Unis, prenant en compte les facteurs de classe, d'ethnicite, de race, et de sexe, etude des relations entre femmes blanches ou de couleur et homme blancs, et de l'impact de ces relations sur le mouvement feministe blanc et de couleur

"Nice Work If You Can Get It": Segmentation of White and Black Women Workers in the Post-War Period

This article examines the convergence of black and white women's incomes, labor force participation rates in capitalist production and the state sector, and convergence of occupational distributions. It is argued that current labor market segmentation theory does not explain the existence and persistence of the racial and sexual division of paid labor. It then considers whether labor market segmentation theory can be refined to explain these changes in the labor market experiences of black and white women in the post WWII period. It is argued that since racism and patriarchy play important roles in the control of labor and the organization of work both historically and theoretically, segmentation theory can only provide an adequate explanation of the development of segmented markets and their racial and gender components by explicitly recognizing racism and patriarchy. Labor market segmentation is the historical process creating labor markets differentiated by race and sex in capitalist and government workplaces.

For and about Women: The Theory and Practice of Women's Studies in the United States

In 1977, a decade after the first women's studies courses appeared across the United States, the National Women's Studies Association was founded to promote and sustain "the educational strategy of a breakthrough in consciousness and knowledge" that would "transform" individuals, institutions, relationships, and, ultimately, the whole of society.' Insisting that the academic is political and the cognitive is affective, the NWSA's constitution clearly reflected the influence of the women's liberation movement on women's studies. Research and teaching at all educational levels and in all academic and community settings would be not

Family Roles, Occupational Statuses, and Achievement Orientations among Black Women in the United States

Previous articleNext article No AccessFamily Roles, Occupational Statuses, and Achievement Orientations among Black Women in the United StatesWalter R. AllenWalter R. Allen Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 4, Number 4Summer, 1979The Labor of Women: Work and Family Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/493656 Views: 9Total views on this site Citations: 11Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1979 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Gail P. Kelly, Ann S. Nihlen Schooling and the Reproduction of Patriarchy: Unequal Workloads, Unequal Rewards †, (May 2017): 41–59.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315174785-5Gail P. Kelly, Ann S. Nihlen Schooling and the reproduction of patriarchy:, (Apr 2017): 162–180.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315227252-5Kelly Coogan-Gehr The Politics of Race in U.S. Feminist Scholarship: An Archaeology, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 37, no.11 (Jul 2015): 83–107.https://doi.org/10.1086/660177LISA BROIDY, ROBERT AGNEW Gender and Crime: A General Strain Theory Perspective, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 34, no.33 (Aug 2016): 275–306.https://doi.org/10.1177/0022427897034003001Meg Wilkes Karraker Socioeconomic or Race Differences?, Urban Education 27, no.11 (Aug 2016): 41–58.https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085992027001005Katherine E. McClelland The Social Management of Ambition, The Sociological Quarterly 31, no.22 (Dec 2016): 225–251.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.1990.tb00326.xRandy albelda "Nice Work If You Can Get It": Segmentation of White and Black Women Workers in the Post-War Period, Review of Radical Political Economics 17, no.33 (Aug 2016): 72–85.https://doi.org/10.1177/048661348501700305Laurie Larwood, Barbara Gutek, Urs E. Gattiker Perspectives on Institutional Discrimination and Resistance to Change, Group & Organization Studies 9, no.33 (Sep 2016): 333–352.https://doi.org/10.1177/105960118400900303Carolyn K Falkowski, William W Falk Homemaking as an occupational plan: Evidence from a national longitudinal study, Journal of Vocational Behavior 22, no.22 (Apr 1983): 227–242.https://doi.org/10.1016/0001-8791(83)90029-5Robert J. Menges, William H. Exum Barriers to the Progress of Women and Minority Faculty, The Journal of Higher Education 54, no.22 (Nov 2016): 123–144.https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.1983.11778167Barbara Strudler Wallston What are the Questions in Psychology of Women? A Feminist Approach to Research, Psychology of Women Quarterly 5, no.44 (Dec 2016): 597–617.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1981.tb00599.x

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article: NICE WORK OR NASTY EMPLOYMENT?: Where Have All The Robots Gone? ‐Worker Dissatisfaction In The '70s: H. L. Sheppard H. Q. Herrick. NICE WORK OR NASTY EMPLOYMENT?: The Struggle For Identity: Roger M. D'Aprix. PEOPLE, JOBS AND ORGANISATIONS: L. Gorman E. Molloy. PERCEPTIONS OF WORK: H. Beynon R. M. Blackburn

Nice work – but wrong label

Review of 
 "Himalayan Botany in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries"
 By S. Noshiro, and K.R. Rajbhandari (eds.)
 The Society of Himalayan Botany Tokyo, Japan, 2002
 212 pp. ISBN 4-9900825-2-4 
 Price not mentioned 
 
 The book cannot claim to be a history of Himalalyan flora for two reasons: first, it basically deals with history of Nepal-Japan collaboration rather than with botanical advancement, and second, the taxonomic development is exclusively confined within the last 40 years' period.
 
 Himalayan Journal of Sciences 1(1): 15-16, 2003
 
 The full text is of this article is available at the Himalayan Journal of Sciences website

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