Radical Childhoods - Schooling and the Struggle for Social Change (Hardcover)

This volume marks a new approach to a seminal work of the modern scientific imagination: Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species" (1859). Darwin's central theory of natural selection neither originated nor could be contained, with the parameters of the natural sciences, but continues to shape and challenge our most basic assumptions about human social and political life.
Several new readings, crossing the fields of history, literature, sociology, anthropology and history of science, demonstrate the complex position of the text within cultural debates past and present. Contributors examine the reception and rhetoric of the Origin and its influence on systems of classification, the nineteenth-century women's movement, literary culture (criticism and practice) and Hinduism in India. At the same time, a re-reading of Darwin and Malthus offers a constructive critique of our attempts to map the hybrid origins and influences of the text.
This volume will be the ideal companion to Darwin's work for all students of literature, social and cultural history and history of science.

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Jessica Gerrard
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-9021-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General
LSN:	0-7190-9021-0
Barcode:	9780719090219

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