An empire of touch : women's political labor and the fabrication of East Bengal

Women's political labor and the fabrication of East Bengal

Gender and culture

Gender and culture.

Child labor

Global viewpoints

Global viewpoints.

The global problem of child labor. Child labor defined / Indian children make American goods / Myths about child labor abound / Child domestic workers are often mistreated / In South Asia, carpets are made using child labor / Fine carpets are not made using child labor / West African cocoa farmers use child slave labor / For Egyptian children, child labor is a way of life / The dangers of child labor. Kenyan children harvest crops in dangerous conditions / In Southeast Asia and elsewhere, child sex tourism is a significant problem / Columbia's girl prostitutes must be removed from danger / Where there is war, there are child soldiers / Bolivia's children labor in dangerous coal mines / England's working children need more protection / South Asian bonded child laborers suffer a wide range of abuses / Defending child labor. For Uzbekistan's poverty-stricken families, child labor is a necessary evil / Child work serves a need in many impoverished nations / Bangladeshi families suffer due to new child labor laws / Child labor is a necessary step on the way to national prosperity / Efforts to end child labor around the world. "Mainstreaming" is a successful approach to ending child labor / Banning child labor won't solve the problem / Campaigns to end child labor should focus on sending every child to school / Corporations must take responsibility for child labor / Ireland must join the fight against child labor / Brazil is leading the way toward eliminating child labor / The Philippines has taken measures to end the worst forms of child labor / India has begun to address the complex problem of child labor / Organizations to contact.

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Envisioning the Unwatchable / Part I. Violence and Testimony -- 1. Theorizing the Unwatchable -- Unwatchable / The Gaze from Within / The Unwatchable and the Unwatchable / Melting into Visibility / Pro Forma / 2. Spectacles of Destruction -- Terminal Radiance / Unwatched/Unmanned: Drone Strikes and the Aesthetics of the Unseen / Breakaway / The Watchability of the Unwatchable: Television Disaster Coverage / 3. Bearing Witness -- The Incommensurable / Not Seeing Is Believing: The Unwatchable in Advocacy / Even If She Had Been a Criminal: A Past Unwatched / Deframing Evidence: A Transmission from Los ingrávidos / Alan Kurdi{u2019}s Body on the Shore / 4. Visual Regimes of Racial Violence -- Held Helpless in the Breach: On American History X / The Flash of History: On the Unwatchable in Get Out / Nothing Is Unwatchable for All / Empathy .Complicity / 5. Spectacularization and Resistance -- Entertainment Value / Holocausts, Hallowe{u2019}en, and Headdresses / Unwitnessable: Outrageous Ableist Impersonations and Unwitnessed Everyday Violence / Part II. Histories and Genres -- 6. The Tradition of Provocateurs -- The Two Unwatchables / Real Horrorshow / Asymmetries of Desire: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom / Unstomachable: Irréversible and the Extreme Cinema Tradition / 7. Enduring the Avant-Garde -- Unwatchability by Choice: Isou{u2019}s Venom and Eternity / The Refusal of Spectacle: Debord{u2019}s Howls for Sade / Warhol{u2019}s Empire: Unwatched and Unwatchable / Warhol{u2019}s Empire / Watching Paint Dry / 8. Visceral Responses to Horror -- 2Peekaboo3: Thoughts on (Maybe Not) Seeing Two Horror Films / Why I Cannot Watch / Apotropes / 9. Pornography and the Question of Pleasure -- I Am Curious (Butterball) / At the Threshold to the Void / 10. Archives and the Disintegrating Image -- Restoring Blood Money / Turning Garbo Watchable: From Swedish Bread Bun to Hollywood Goddess / Twilight of the Dead / Part III. Spectators and Objects -- 11. Passionate Aversions -- 2Sad!3: Why I Won{u2019}t Watch Antichrist / Transforming Nihilism / Oh, Inventiveness! Oh, Imaginativeness! Precious Cinema and Its Discontents: A Rant / The Biopic Is an Affront to the Cinema / 12. Tedious Whiteness -- White Men Behaving Sadly / 2You Is Kind, You Is Smart, You Is Important3; or, Why I Can{u2019}t Watch The Help / Two Tables and a Ladder: WCGW? / 13. Reality Trumpism -- TV Trumps / The Once and Future Hillary: Why I Won{u2019}t Watch a TV Miniseries about the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election / 14. Pedagogy and Campus Politics -- Why We Can{u2019}t Take a Joke / The Bridge and Unteachable Films / Squirming in the Classroom: Fat Girl and the Ethical Value of Extreme Discomfort / 15. The Triggered Spectator -- What Is an 2Unwatchable3 Film? (With Reference to Amour and Still Alice) / Watch at Your Own Peril / Sects, Fries, and Videotape / Off Watch / Acknowledgments -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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