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Exposing how law both supports and restricts American science and technology, Goldberg considers the role and futures of artificial intelligence, nuclear fusion and genetic engineering to argue for a scientific vision that infuses research with social goals beyond the pure search for truth.
Is there more to the social construction of gender than the social sciences have described? This collection of essays explore the art of constructing gender in symbolic media images; in poetry, photography and montage; in dramatic identity politics; and in contemporary feminism.
The Commonplace Books of William Byrd and Thomas Jefferson and the Gendering of Power in the Eighteenth Century
An examination of the misogynist writings in the commonplace books of William Byrd II and Thomas Jefferson. This work explores the structures, contexts and significance of these writings in the wider historical contexts of gender and power.
An Inquiry into Structures, Incentives, and Outcomes
The second edition of this pathbreaking, highly innovative comparative study in state-building by a major political scientist is a fully updated examination of the problems of making democratic government work. Sartori begins by assessing electoral systems. He attacks the conventional wisdom that their influence cannot be predicted and also ......
Social movements inspired by powerful ideologies continue to define global and national politics, but existing social movement theories either ignore or discredit this influence. By focusing on the temperance movement and the politics of abortion, Soper compares and contrasts the political/evangelical structures of the the U.S. and Great Britian.
Few contributions to the understanding of modern capitalism and its mode of operation and evolution have been more important than those made by Paul Sweezy. The essays in this volume continue and deepen his work of interpretation found in The Theory of Capitalist Development, Monopoly Capital, and The Present as History.
The Jews of the former Soviet Union have always been the subject of intense controversy. In the past 25 years, however, they have become more puzzling. How many of them are there? How strongly so they identify themselves as Jews? How do they perceive antisemetism in their countries? Will they leave, where will they go? Theses ate among the ......
How does one capture the delightful irony of Edith Wharton's prose or the spare lyricism of Kate Chopin's? Kathleen Wheeler challenges the reader to experiment with a more imaginative method of literary criticism in order to comprehend more fully writers of the Modernist and late Realist period. In examining the creative works of seven women ......
How does one capture the delightful irony of Edith Wharton's prose or the spare lyricism of Kate Chopin's? Kathleen Wheeler challenges the reader to experiment with a more imaginative method of literary criticism in order to comprehend more fully writers of the Modernist and late Realist period. In examining the creative works of seven women ......
