Bøger af Mary Corcoran

Louisa May Alcott, famous authoress of the March Family Saga (Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys) inserted many hidden clues within this trilogy; and now it is Meg March Brooke, recently widowed and increasingly jealous of Sister Jo March Bhaer, who wields the pen. Familiar characters (including Cousin Florence Carrol of the infamous sky-rocket dress, who once toured Europe with "Little Women" Amy March) mingle with new additions (such as Freedwoman Mrs. Tanny and young daughter Olivia, whose dark, tempestuous face seems a moon in eclipse); while the expected settings of the shabby March dwelling and the white-pillared Lawrence mansion across the hedge are a comfortable contrast to the rickety Orchard Theater and also Jasper DeLacy's Penny Arcade. Years of research (Victorian customs, clothing, and verbiage; plus the background of the Alcott/March Family both fact & fiction) add to the story of which this book is volume one of a two-volume novel. Follow the Little Women, now Meg, Jo, Flo, and Amy -- for Beth is now a guardian spirit who watches from afar -- as the March Family comes to the fore and the Bhaers' Plumfield School recedes into the background, in a scenario both joyful and sorrowful, and ever-more mature.

Producing Knowledge, Reproducing Gender gathers essays from scholars across Ireland to investigate just how knowledge itself is created, distributed, and collectively understood in institutional settings, with a sharpened focus on what role gender can play in that process. Gender dynamics and inequality are crucial but often neglected factors in the control and dissemination of knowledge as they play out in the power structures of social institutions ranging from the corporate world to the political sphere. Covering topics like homelessness, sex work, technology cultures, and broadcast media, the contributors to this book demonstrate how knowledge production processes and practices operate within fully gendered domains. Producing Knowledge, Reproducing Gender offers important new insights into the dual and intersecting processes of knowledge production and gender reproduction as they are enacted in institutions and their practices.

As marketisation and privatisation reshape the criminal justice system, this illuminating overview sets out their causes, scale and impacts. With case studies and economic, sociological and criminological perspectives, leading academics consider the evolving roles of public, private and voluntary sectors and possible future reforms.

Since the mid-1990s Ireland has experienced an extraordinary phase of economic and social development. Seeking to understand the impact of these developments, Corcoran, Gray, and Peillon initiated the New Urban Living study, a detailed research project focused on four suburbs of Dublin. This title represents the culmination of that research.