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  • Missing Bodies

    The Politics of Visibility

    de Monica Casper, Lisa Jean Moore ...
    Series Libro 2 - Biopolitics
    We know more about the physical body—how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes—than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others, and some bodies are not recognized at all. In Missing Bodies, Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore explore the surveillance, manipulations, erasures, and visibility of the body in the twenty-first ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Biopolitics

    An Advanced Introduction

    de Thomas Lemke, Lisa Jean Moore, Monica Casper ...
    Series Libro 5 - Biopolitics
    The first systematic overview of the notion of biopolitics and its relevance in contemporary theoretical debateThe biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of “biopolitics” has been linked to everything from rational ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Body

    Social and Cultural Dissections

    de Lisa Jean Moore, Monica Casper ...
    This college-level handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of sociological and cultural perspectives on the human body. Organized along the lines of a standard anatomical textbook delineated by body parts and processes, this volume subverts the expected content in favor of providing tools for social and cultural analysis.Students will learn about the human body in its social, ... Leer más

    $95.99 USD

  • Babylost

    Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z

    de Monica J. Casper ...
    The U.S. infant mortality rate is among the highest in the industrialized world, and Black babies are far more likely than white babies to die in their first year of life. Maternal mortality rates are also very high. Though the infant mortality rate overall has improved over the past century with public health interventions, racial disparities have not. Racism, poverty, lack of access to health ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Synthetic Planet

    Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life

    Edición de Monica J. Casper ...
    This timely collection of original essays traces the migration of synthetic chemicals from the laboratory to the factory and then into the environment, bodies and communities. Turning our attention to the impact these chemicals have on our ecosystems, human health, social organization and political processes, the contributors break new ground by focusing on the production and distribution of these ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Betrayal U

    The Politics of Belonging in Higher Education

    Edición de Rebecca G. Martínez, Monica J. Casper ...
    Series series The Feminist Wire Books
    Higher education is in trouble, and not only due to a decline of public trust. As a microcosm of our broader culture, universities are inequitable and often harmful, especially for marginalized people. This is despite the democratic promise of higher education as a path for learning and social mobility. Women, people of color, First Gen, disabled, LGBTQ+, and other minoritized groups are ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Critical Trauma Studies

    Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life

    Edición de Monica Casper, Eric Wertheimer ...
    Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thread through human history and prehistory. In Critical Trauma Studies, a diverse group of writers, activists, and scholars of sociology, anthropology, literature, and cultural studies reflects on the study of trauma and how multidisciplinary approaches ... Leer más

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  • Fake Science

    Exposing the Left's Skewed Statistics, Fuzzy Facts, and Dodgy Data

    de Austin Ruse ...
    If you listen to any political argument, you're eventually bound to hear something like: "The science is settled on this." Or: "Just look at the statistics!" Or: "There have been studies that say..."You'd think we were living in the golden age of science and reason. But the truth is far more sinister, says Austin Ruse. We're actually living in the age of the low information voter, easily mislead ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Dispatches from the Abortion Wars

    The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us

    de Carole Joffe ...
    Surprising firsthand accounts from the front lines of abortion provision reveal the persistent cultural, political, and economic hurdles to accessMore than thirty-five years after women won the right to legal abortion, most people do not realize how inaccessible it has become. In these pages, reproductive-health researcher Carole Joffe shows how a pervasive stigma—cultivated by the religious right ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Global Biopolitics of the IUD

    How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies

    de Chikako Takeshita ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users.The intrauterine device (IUD) is used by 150 million women around the world. It is the second most prevalent method of female fertility control in the global South and the third most prevalent in the global North. Over its five decades of use ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Fatal Invention

    How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

    de Dorothy Roberts ...
    An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era.Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Just Babies

    The Origins of Good and Evil

    de Paul Bloom ...
    A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone.From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society—and especially parents—to transform them from little sociopaths into civilized beings. In ... Leer más

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