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"All those disaster movies you've watched, all the YouTube videos
you've seen with people frying eggs on the pavement, seeing ice
cubes melt in minutes, that's nothing. You've no idea." London,
2022. The heat is rising and things are reaching boiling point. As
the world struggles in an endless heatwave, nineteen-year-old Luke
Spargo believes he's the only one who understands what's really
happening to the sun - and if he's right, he's the only one who can
stop it. But Luke's childhood demons are closing in. With the
arrival of vibrant, turbulent Fee, the precarious balance of Luke's
life shifts irrevocably. As his secrets become harder to control,
Luke must confront the terrible price of protecting them.
Why is a focus on gender so important for interpreting the world in
which we live? Sixteen world-famous scholars have been brought
together to address this question from their respective fields:
Political Theory, Philosophy, Medical Anthropology, Law, Geography,
Islamic Studies, Cultural Studies, Philosophy of Science,
Literature, Psychoanalysis, History of Art, Education and
Economics. The resulting volume covers an extraordinary array of
contexts, ranging from rethinking trans* bodies, to traumatized
tribal communities, to sexualized violence, to assisted
reproductive technologies, to the implications of epigenetics for
understanding gender, and yet they are all connected by their focus
on the importance of gender as a category of analysis. The
publication of this volume celebrates the anniversary of the launch
of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge,
and features contributions from past and future Diane Middlebrook
and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professors to the University.
Dialogue is promoted by its supporters as a pluralising force
capable of accommodating the moral disagreement inevitable in every
sphere of human society, but this promise is widely and vehemently
challenged. How are we to determine the principles upon which the
dialogical exchange should take place? How should we think of
ourselves as interlocutors? Should we associate dialogue with the
desire for consensus? How should we determine decision-making? What
are the gender dynamics of dialogical politics and how much do they
matter? This book brings together internationally recognised expert
authors from the fields of political and social theory, political
philosophy and international relations to consider these
controversial questions anew from a range of theoretical positions.
The differences of opinions and clashes of views make for a
fascinating and highly informative read.
"Gender" is used to classify humans and to explain their behaviour
in predominantly social rather than biological terms. But how
useful is the concept of gender in social analysis? To what degree
does gender relate to sex? How does gender feature in shifts in
familial structures and demography? How should gender be conceived
in terms of contemporary inequality and injustice, and what is
gender's function in the design and pursuit of political
objectives? In this volume a collection of international experts
from the fields of political philosophy, political theory,
sociology, economics, law, psychoanalysis and evolutionary
psychology scrutinize the conceptual effectiveness of gender both
as a mode of analysis and as a basis for envisioning the
transformation of society. Each contributor considers how gender
might be conceived in contemporary terms, offering a variety of
(often conflicting) interpretations of the concept's usefulness for
the future.
This book presents a novel interpretation of the nature, causes,
and consequences of sex inequality in the modern labor market.
Employing a sophisticated new theoretical framework, and drawing on
original fieldwork, the book develops a subtle account of the
phenomenon of sex segregation and offers a major challenge to
existing approaches. In an environment increasingly defined by
attempts to converge and consolidate international policy
objectives, an in-depth understanding of contemporary forms of
inequality is vital to anyone interested in the effective
translation of normative accounts of social justice into practical
policy. While critically engaging the major explanatory theories of
sex segregation, this book draws on the latest methodological
innovations to provide an original empirical analysis of sex
segregation using both quantitative and qualitative approaches.
Why is a focus on gender so important for interpreting the world in
which we live? Sixteen world-famous scholars have been brought
together to address this question from their respective fields:
Political Theory, Philosophy, Medical Anthropology, Law, Geography,
Islamic Studies, Cultural Studies, Philosophy of Science,
Literature, Psychoanalysis, History of Art, Education and
Economics. The resulting volume covers an extraordinary array of
contexts, ranging from rethinking trans* bodies, to traumatized
tribal communities, to sexualized violence, to assisted
reproductive technologies, to the implications of epigenetics for
understanding gender, and yet they are all connected by their focus
on the importance of gender as a category of analysis. The
publication of this volume celebrates the anniversary of the launch
of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge,
and features contributions from past and future Diane Middlebrook
and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professors to the University.
Dialogue is promoted by its supporters as a pluralising force
capable of accommodating the moral disagreement inevitable in every
sphere of human society, but this promise is widely and vehemently
challenged. How are we to determine the principles upon which the
dialogical exchange should take place? How should we think of
ourselves as interlocutors? Should we associate dialogue with the
desire for consensus? How should we determine decision-making? What
are the gender dynamics of dialogical politics and how much do they
matter? This book brings together internationally recognised expert
authors from the fields of political and social theory, political
philosophy and international relations to consider these
controversial questions anew from a range of theoretical positions.
The differences of opinions and clashes of views make for a
fascinating and highly informative read.
"Gender" is used to classify humans and to explain their behaviour
in predominantly social rather than biological terms. But how
useful is the concept of gender in social analysis? To what degree
does gender relate to sex? How does gender feature in shifts in
familial structures and demography? How should gender be conceived
in terms of contemporary inequality and injustice, and what is
gender's function in the design and pursuit of political
objectives? In this volume a collection of international experts
from the fields of political philosophy, political theory,
sociology, economics, law, psychoanalysis and evolutionary
psychology scrutinize the conceptual effectiveness of gender both
as a mode of analysis and as a basis for envisioning the
transformation of society. Each contributor considers how gender
might be conceived in contemporary terms, offering a variety of
(often conflicting) interpretations of the concept's usefulness for
the future.
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