Dislocating Cultures

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Dislocating Cultures

Dislocating Cultures written by Uma Narayan and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Philosophy categories.

Discussing the notions of nation, identity and tradition, this text shows how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped and perpetuated these misrepresentations since colonial times, the author inspects the underlying problems which culture poses for the respect of difference and cross-cultural understanding.--Publisher's description.

Immovable Laws Irresistible Rights

Immovable Laws Irresistible Rights written by Christine Pierce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Law categories.

Same-sex partnerships. Pregnancy through in vitro fertilization. Ending one's own life in dignity. All are deemed inherently wrong by the standards of natural law ethics, but for many people they represent legitimate life choices that are morally right. Now a leading feminist critic of the natural law tradition explores the ongoing confrontation between natural law and moral rights to argue that rights constitute a more solid grounding for ethics in human affairs—and for feminist thought. In this volume, Christine Pierce's important essays—including the celebrated "Natural Law Language and Women"—expand, reflect, and refine this central controversy. Reaching back to Aristotle and Aquinas and drawing on modern papal encyclicals and Supreme Court cases, Pierce demonstrates that the natural law tradition, with its doctrine of a supposed hierarchy of natural purpose, has served to mystify women's nature and thereby justify restricting women to a predetermined social stratum. Addressing issues that concern not only feminism but legal theory as well, she defends her views on equality and universalization against a growing postmodern critique and presents rights theory as an alternative to an ethics of responsibility based on Aristotelian notions of friendship and trust. Through tightly constructed arguments presented in engaging prose, Pierce conveys her deep knowledge of legal philosophy and her passion for rights as she takes on such issues as AIDS, gay marriage, animal liberation, and feminist separatism. She combats the prevailing view of Plato as sexist and explores Sartre's views of "holes and slime." She also examines the work of contemporary authors in ecology, biology, sociobiology, and religion to reveal their reliance on nature for ethical conclusions, and she criticizes recent efforts to root a feminist natural law in Thomism. With natural law concepts now in fashion with many conservatives and even some Supreme Court justices, Pierce's essays offer a necessary perspective on where current legal and ethical thinking is headed. Immovable Laws, Irresistible Rights is invigorating reading for all scholars, students, and interested readers who seek a better understanding of these arguments and the issues affected by them.

The Book Review

The Book Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Books categories.

Cultural Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology written by Conrad Phillip Kottak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Social Science categories.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "25 succinct video clips, each corresponding to a chapter in the textbook. Each clip is accompanied by a text overview and probing questions to exercise the student's critical thinking skills."--Page 4 of cover.

Michigan Journal Of International Law

Michigan Journal Of International Law written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with International law categories.

Representing Culture

Representing Culture written by Claudia Alvares and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with POLITICAL SCIENCE categories.

The essays collected in this volume are interdisciplinary in nature, defying the traditional boundaries that compartmentalise and contain knowledge within particular camps. Heir to the â ~undiscipliningâ (TM) legacy of cultural studies, they attempt to transcend the restrictive frameworks of pre-established discourse, engaging in new and fruitful combinations of theories and methodologies. The general aim of the book is to indicate new perspectives for the exercise of cultural criticism on the basis of the major issues that confront us today, rather than articulate any canonical viewpoint on traditional cultural studies. These essays thus share a common denominator in that they seek to explore the field of current â ~experienceâ (TM) through the exercise of critique. The recontextualisation of cultural studies that this book attempts occurs along the vectors of identity politics, visual culture and technology. The collection draws attention to the fact that these vectors do not consist in delimited â ~campsâ (TM), but rather in axes that intersect with each other at each instance.

Arizona Journal Of International And Comparative Law

Arizona Journal Of International And Comparative Law written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Comparative law categories.

Apa Newsletters

Apa Newsletters written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with African American philosophy categories.

Bearing Culture Wielding Culture

Bearing Culture Wielding Culture written by Dygert, Holly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Ethnology categories.

Theorizing Feminisms

Theorizing Feminisms written by Elizabeth Hackett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Philosophy categories.

Providing a survey of approaches to theoretical issues raised by the quest for gender justice, this text is for use in interdisciplinary feminist theory courses. With an aim to provide an overview of feminist responses to, including a critique of these questions, its organising questions are: What is sexist oppression? What must be done about it?