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How did the creation of the "Other" woman in English narratives contribute to the displacement of sexuality onto the exotic or savage woman? How did this cultural invention reinforce the cult of domesticity at home? What were the social and economic forces driving the process? Among the first books to consider issues of empire in relation to literary texts of the eighteenth century, Torrid Zones offers a compelling revision of the history of feminism in a postcolonial context.

Felicity Nussbaum argues that the need to control women's sexuality in eighteenth-century England intensified as the demands of trade and colonization required an ever-larger, able-bodied population. Describing how women's reproductive labor was harnessed to that task, Nussbaum explores issues such as the production of life, of goods, and of desire. She also considers a variety of cultural practices (usually construed as exotic) in England and the empire, including polygamy, infanticide, prostitution, homoeroticism, and arranged marriages.

Torrid Zones includes new readings of significant texts by and about female subjects, including novels by Defoe, Richardson, Johnson, Cleland, Lennox, Sarah Scott, Frances Sheridan, and Phebe Gibbes. It also considers the more broadly defined texts of culture such as travel narratives, medical documents, legal records, and engravings.

"I take as a central metaphor for the consideration of maternity and sexuality the concept of torrid zones, both the geographical torrid zones of the territory between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, and the torrid zone mapped onto the human body, especially the female body. A premise of my study is that the contrasts among the torrid, temperate, and frigid zones of the globe are formative in imagining that a sexualized woman of empire is distinct from domestic English womanhood. The general category of 'woman' muddles the binaries between mother and whore, self and Other, center and periphery." -- from the Introduction

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Title: Empire Zone incentives drive shopping center development.
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Date: May 19, 2010
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Title: Empire zones face revision.(enterprise zones management)(Brief Article)
Author: Rick Archer
Publication: Westchester County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 28, 2005
Publisher: Westfair Communications, Inc.
Volume: 44Issue: 9Page: 9(1)

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Battle Zones is a new historical series presenting warfare across a variety of historical periods. Every aspect of warfare is explored by looking at the structures of armies and the individual roles of the different ranks within them. Photos and stunningly realistic illustrations show how warfare changed throughout different periods of history. A chronological timeline brings each book to a close, indicating all the main dates and developments in warfare across specific periods. Perfect for research and browsing, these book focus on the structure and politics of war, rather than on grisly details. Supplements school curriculum in history.

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Title: Empire zone means millions for Mount Vernon.(Brief Article)
Author: Alex Philippidis
Publication: Westchester County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 24, 2002
Publisher: Westfair Communications, Inc.
Volume: 41Issue: 25Page: 6(1)

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Title: Despite criticism Empire Zones bring business, jobs.
Author: David J. Glenn
Publication: Westchester County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 19, 2004
Publisher: Westfair Communications, Inc.
Volume: 43Issue: 16Page: 7(1)

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Title: Empire Zones: a model for job creation. (Feature Section: Yonkers Business Week 2003).(economic development in New York)
Author: Charles A. Gargano
Publication: Westchester County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 31, 2003
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Title: State offers attractive Empire Zone benefits. (Yonkers Business Week 2002).(New York State's Empire State Development agency)
Author: Charles A. Gargano
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Date: April 8, 2002
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Title: Budget OKs Mt. Vernon Empire zone: $500m for biotech; IDA fees imposed.(Brief Article)
Author: Alex Philippidis
Publication: Westchester County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 27, 2002
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Title: Chinatown and Nassau County open Empire Zones for business.(INSIDERS OUTLOOK)(Empire Zone urban development program)
Author: Marc Wieder
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Date: September 20, 2006
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Title: Empire Zones: corporate welfare or economic spark?
Author: David J. Glenn
Publication: Westchester County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: Westfair Communications, Inc.
Volume: 43Issue: 12Page: 2(2)

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Title: Empire zones see spending cuts.(economic development zones may receive less funding )
Author: Alex Philippidis
Publication: Westchester County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 10, 2003
Publisher: Westfair Communications, Inc.
Volume: 42Issue: 6Page: 10(1)

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Title: Empire Zones should be expanded. (Viewpoint).(Joseph Bruno intends to enhance program)(Brief Article)
Author: Brian McMahon
Publication: Westchester County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 13, 2002
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Burton's scandalous, opinionated, amusing foray into a topography that he names the Sotadic Zone.It includes both shores of the Mediterranean, embraces Asia Minor, Afghanistan, Sind, the Punjab and Kashmir, Indo-China, China, Japan, the South Sea Islands, and much of the New World at the time of its discovery.He derived "Sotadic" from the name of the Greek poet Sotades, playfully offering "Satodism" as an esoteric substitute for "sexual inversion."He worked before there was a discipline called anthropology. But in this comparative essay he proposed a theory of same sex activity, supposedly more prevalent in areas of what he termed the Sotadic Zone, comprising many places where Burton himself traveled and lived.He defined these as primarily tropical, but areas such as Alaska were included, all "non Western."Many later writers would refer to his ideas and research, for example, John Addington Symonds in Problem in Greek Ethics. ... Read more