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Format: VI, 449 Seiten.

ISBN: 0-226-46917-4 , 0-226-46918-2

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology , Sociology

Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Verlagsangaben

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Format: 1 online resource(392p.) : , illustrations.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. : Harvard University Press, 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Edition: System requirements: Web browser.

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ISBN: 9780674062900

Content: From Harvard University comes essays sampling topics at the forefront of academia in the twenty-first century. Eminent faculty members invite readers to explore subjects as diverse as religious literacy, cyberspace security, epidemiology, questions in evolution, the dark side of the American Revolution, and the biology of the human mind.

Content: From Harvard University, one of the world’s preeminent institutions of liberal education, comes a collection of essays sampling topics at the forefront of academia in the twenty-first century. Written by faculty members at the cutting edge of their fields, including such luminaries as Steven Pinker, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Harry R. Lewis, these essays offer a clear and accessible overview of disciplines that are shaping the culture, and even the world.The authors, among the most respected members of Harvard’s faculty, invite readers to explore subjects as diverse as religious literacy and Islam, liberty and security in cyberspace, medical science and epidemiology, energy resources, evolution, morality, human rights, global history, the dark side of the American Revolution, American literature and the environment, interracial literature, and the human mind. They summarize key developments in their fields in ways that will both entertain and edify those who seek an education beyond the confines of the classroom.It is sometimes said that youth is wasted on the young. It could also be said that college, too often, is wasted on college students—that only after graduating does a former student come to appreciate learning. To those wishing to revisit the college classroom—as well as to those who never had the opportunity in the first place—this book gives a taste of the modern course at Harvard. The essays are stimulating and informative, and the annotated bibliographies accompanying each chapter provide invaluable guidance to the life-long learner who wants to pursue these fascinating topics in depth.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Contributors -- , Preface -- , Enhancing Religious Literacy in a Liberal Arts Education through the Study of Islam and Muslim Societies / , American Literature and the American Environment: There Never Was an "Is" without a "Where" / , The Internet and Hieronymus Bosch: Fear, Protection, and Liberty in Cyberspace / , Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution: Pattern, Process, and the Evidence / , Global History for an Era of Globalization: An Introduction / , Medical Detectives / , The Human Mind / , Securing Human Rights Intellectually: Philosophical Inquiries about the Universal Declaration / , What Is Morality? / , Energy Resources and the Environment: A Chapter on Applied Science / , Interracial Literature / , "Pursuits of Happiness": Dark Threads in the History of the American Revolution / , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674062900

URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674062900

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Format: 1 online resource(392p.) : , illustrations.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. : Harvard University Press, 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Edition: System requirements: Web browser.

Edition: Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.

ISBN: 9780674062900

Content: From Harvard University comes essays sampling topics at the forefront of academia in the twenty-first century. Eminent faculty members invite readers to explore subjects as diverse as religious literacy, cyberspace security, epidemiology, questions in evolution, the dark side of the American Revolution, and the biology of the human mind.

Content: From Harvard University, one of the world’s preeminent institutions of liberal education, comes a collection of essays sampling topics at the forefront of academia in the twenty-first century. Written by faculty members at the cutting edge of their fields, including such luminaries as Steven Pinker, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Harry R. Lewis, these essays offer a clear and accessible overview of disciplines that are shaping the culture, and even the world.The authors, among the most respected members of Harvard’s faculty, invite readers to explore subjects as diverse as religious literacy and Islam, liberty and security in cyberspace, medical science and epidemiology, energy resources, evolution, morality, human rights, global history, the dark side of the American Revolution, American literature and the environment, interracial literature, and the human mind. They summarize key developments in their fields in ways that will both entertain and edify those who seek an education beyond the confines of the classroom.It is sometimes said that youth is wasted on the young. It could also be said that college, too often, is wasted on college students—that only after graduating does a former student come to appreciate learning. To those wishing to revisit the college classroom—as well as to those who never had the opportunity in the first place—this book gives a taste of the modern course at Harvard. The essays are stimulating and informative, and the annotated bibliographies accompanying each chapter provide invaluable guidance to the life-long learner who wants to pursue these fascinating topics in depth.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Contributors -- , Preface -- , Enhancing Religious Literacy in a Liberal Arts Education through the Study of Islam and Muslim Societies / , American Literature and the American Environment: There Never Was an "Is" without a "Where" / , The Internet and Hieronymus Bosch: Fear, Protection, and Liberty in Cyberspace / , Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution: Pattern, Process, and the Evidence / , Global History for an Era of Globalization: An Introduction / , Medical Detectives / , The Human Mind / , Securing Human Rights Intellectually: Philosophical Inquiries about the Universal Declaration / , What Is Morality? / , Energy Resources and the Environment: A Chapter on Applied Science / , Interracial Literature / , "Pursuits of Happiness": Dark Threads in the History of the American Revolution / , In English.

Language: English

Subjects: Education

Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674062900

URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674062900

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Format: 1 online resource (400 p.)

ISBN: 9781474471770

Content: This new Reader gives students an ideal overview of the historical developments and current controversies within this dynamic area of feminist theory. Wide-ranging articles stress the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary feminist thought and include 'Sexy Bodies' and 'Performing Bodies'.Key FeaturesComprehensive coverage of differing feminist approaches to the bodyGeneral critical introduction puts the issues in contextWide range of contributors, including Donna Haraway and Elizabeth Grosz

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , Acknowledgements -- , Openings on the Body: A Critical Introduction -- , Section 1: Woman as Body? -- , Introduction -- , 1.1 ‘Theories of Gender and Race’ -- , 1.2 ‘Woman as Body: Ancient and Contemporary Views’ -- , 1.3 ‘Bodies and Biology’ -- , 1.4 ‘My Body, Myself: How Does a Black Woman Do Sociology?’ -- , 1.5 ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves: Why We Should Add Old Fashioned Empirical Phenomenology to the New Theories of the Body’ -- , Section 2: Sexy Bodies -- , Introduction -- , 2.1 ‘When Our Lips Speak Together’ -- , 2.2 ‘The Nose’ and ‘Taste’ -- , 2.3 ‘Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence’ -- , 2.4 ‘Body Matters: Cultural Inscriptions’ -- , 2.5 ‘Lesbian Bodies: Tribades, Tomboys and Tarts’ -- , 2.6 ‘F2M: The Making of Female Masculinity’ -- , 2.7 ‘NO BODY is “Doing It”: Cybersexuality’ -- , 2.8 ‘The Hot Rod Bodies of Cybersex’ -- , Section 3: Bodies in Science and Biomedicine -- , Introduction -- , 3.1 ‘A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer’ -- , 3.2 ‘Breast Cancer: An Adventure in Applied Deconstruction’ -- , 3.3. ‘Natural Facts: A Historical Perspective on Science and Sexuality’ -- , 3.4 ‘Menopause: The Storm before the Calm’ -- , 3.5 ‘The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles’ -- , 3.6 ‘Disciplining Mothers: Feminism and the New Reproductive Technologies’ -- , 3.7 ‘The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Determinations of Self in Immune System Discourse’ -- , Section 4: After the Binary -- , Introduction -- , 4.1 ‘Bodies, Identities, Feminisms’ -- , 4.2 ‘Power, Bodies and Difference’ -- , 4.3 ‘Bodies that Matter’ -- , 4.4 ‘Feminism, Foucault and the Politics of the Body’ -- , 4.5 ‘Write Your Body’ and ‘The Body in Theory’ -- , 4.6 ‘Psychoanalysis and the Body’ -- , Section 5: Alter/ed Bodies -- , Introduction -- , 5.1 ‘Forms of Technological Embodiment: Reading the Body in Contemporary Culture’ -- , 5.2 ‘Signs of Wonder and Traces of Doubt: On Teratology and Embodied Differences’ -- , 5.3 ‘Interview from Warrior Marks’ -- , 5.4 ‘The Trials of the Black African Woman’ -- , 5.5 ‘The Economy of Violence: Black Bodies and the Unspeakable Terror’ -- , 5.6 ‘Feminism, Disability, and Transcendence of the Body’ -- , Section 6: BodySpaceMatter -- , Introduction -- , 6.1 ‘Her Body/Her Boundaries’ -- , 6.2 ‘Women and Everyday Spaces’ -- , 6.3 ‘Surviving Rape: A Morning/Mourning Ritual’ -- , 6.4 ‘Bodies-Cities’ -- , 6.5 ‘Mapping the Colonial Body: Sexual Economies and the State in Colonial India’ -- , 6.6 ‘Woman, Nation and Narration in Midnight's Children' -- , Section 7: Performing the Body -- , Introduction -- , 7.1 ‘Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions’ -- , 7.2 ‘The Guilty Pleasures of Female Theatrical Cross- Dressing’ -- , 7.3 ‘Breaking the Boundaries of the Broken Body’ -- , 7.4 ‘Feminine Charms and Outrageous Arms’ -- , 7.5 ‘“My Body is my Art”: Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist Utopia?’ -- , 7.6 ‘“Freud’s Fetishism” and the Lesbian Dildo Debates’ -- , Copyright Acknowledgements -- , Subject Index -- , Name Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781474471770

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474471770

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474471770

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474471770

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474471770