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Feminist Methodologies for Critical Researchers
Bridging Differences
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
This accessible text on social research methodology teaches students of sociology and related disciplines how standard methods can be adapted toward critical ends. The second edition has been updated throughout to incorporate the latest critical scholarship, enhanced discussion of qualitative methods,...
by Henry A. Giroux, Ramón Flecha, Paulo Freire
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 1999
Essays by some of the world's leading educators provide a revolutionary portrait of new ideas and developments in education that can influence the possibility of social and political change. The authors take into account such diverse terrain as feminism, ecology, media, and individual liberty in their...
Strange Love
Or How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
As Junk Bond felon Michael Milken attempts to transform public education on the model of the HMO, he is hailed in the mainstream press as having "done more to help mankind than Mother Theresa." Even as BP Amoco, a notorious U.S. polluter, is charged with funding and arming paramilitaries...
Cutting Class
Socioeconomic Status and Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
In these vivid, thought-provoking essays, leading scholars draw from their own life experiences to explore the ways in which socio-economic class has shaped their lives and educational practices. Some experienced the sting of poverty as students, while others tell stories of a privileged upbringing...
Dr. Seuss and Philosophy
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Since Theodor Geisel published his first children's book in 1937 under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss, children and adults alike have been captivated by the charming and laconic tales of whimsical characters and imaginative worlds. But Dr. Seuss' stories are more than just catchy poems; they often wrestle...
by Michael Boylan
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2004
A Just Society represents a complete account of Boylan's original worldview theory of ethics and social philosophy. The author sets out the foundation and application of the personal worldview imperative (for ethics) and the shared community worldview imperative (for social philosophy). These form...
The Culture Industry Revisited
Theodor W. Adorno on Mass Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1996
As the culture wars continue to dominate newspaper headlines and conference panels, much of the debate revolves around the value of and values in popular culture. Many opponents of popular culture have cited Theodor W. Adorno, one of the leading figures of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists....
Materializing Poverty
How the Poor Transform Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Poverty is generally defined as a lack of material resources. However, the relationships that poor people have with their possessions are not just about deprivation. Material things play a positive role in the lives of poor people: they help people to build social relationships, address inequalities,...
The Ethics and Mores of Race
Equality after the History of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Preeminent philosopher, Naomi Zack, brings us an indispensable work in the ethics of race through an inquiry into the history of moral philosophy. Beginning with Plato and a philosophical tradition that has largely ignored race, The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy...
The Social Contract Theorists
Critical Essays on Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
This reader introduces students of philosophy and politics to the contemporary critical literature on the classical social contract theorists: Thomas Hobbes (1599-1697), John Locke (1632-1704), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Twelve thoughtfully selected essays guide students through the texts,...
An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy
Conversations Between Men and Women Philosophers
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
Gender scholarship during the last four decades has shown that the exclusion of women's voices and perspectives has diminished academic disciplines in important ways. Traditional scholarship in philosophy is no different. The 'recovery project' in philosophy is engaged in re-discovering the names,...
by Lisa V. Binckes, Charles J. Cavenee, Carol A. Gould
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Approaches to Political Thought raises three important questions concerning traditional political thought: (1) Why study the political writings and ideas of Plato, Machiavelli, and other long-dead writers? (2) Who among the writers, and which of their works, are worth studying? (3) How should they...
The Banana Wars
United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898–1934
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934 offers a sweeping panorama of America's tropical empire in the age spanned by the two Roosevelts and a detailed narrative of U.S. military intervention in the Caribbean and Mexico. In this new edition, Professor Langley provides...
Coming for to Carry Me Home
Race in America from Abolitionism to Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Coming for to Carry Me Home examines the history of the politics surrounding U.S. race relations during the half century between the rise of the abolitionist movement in the 1830s and the dawn of the Jim Crow era in the 1880s. J. Michael Martinez argues that Abraham Lincoln and the Radical Republicans...