Articulations of Difference
Title | Articulations of Difference PDF eBook |
Author | Dominique D. Fisher |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780804729758 |
Drawn from insights of the past twenty years, the essays reflect the renewed approach of gender and sexuality as they relate to homosexuality and its representation, and they rely on models that differentiate between sexuality and gender and between natural inclinations and social constructs. Despite the wide variety of subjects, critical positions, and authors' backgrounds, what these essays have in common is the willingness of the contributors to go beyond a set of rhetorics, a set of limitations that were a defining moment in the struggle of gay liberation, and its reflection in both creative and critical writing.
Derrida, Kristeva, and the Dividing Line
Title | Derrida, Kristeva, and the Dividing Line PDF eBook |
Author | Juliana De Nooy |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2013-08-21 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1134824181 |
Both Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva have made an enormous impact throughout the humanities with their work on signification, identity and difference, and yet the nature of the relation between their theories seems oddly indeterminate: they have sometimes been regarded as more or less indistinguishable and sometimes as incompatible This book aims at establishing precisely how Kristeva's and Derrida's writings may be articulated, tracing intersections and divergences, parallels and discontinuities between them. But how do you compare two theories of the production of difference? What conception of difference do you use to go about it? Any search for a dividing line between Derrida and Kristeva already engages with their preoccupations. Should the juxtaposition of these practices be conceived as a face-to-face confrontation or rather a gap, a hiatus? Could it be a dialectic? or a diff rance? Should it be thought of in terms of Kristeva's work . . . or Derrida's? Accessible and lively, this book studies the theories on their own terms, in terms of one another, and with regard to the literary text, a privileged object of their attention. It demonstrates that the articulation of the theories shifts under different discursive conditions such that a Derridean reading of the relation is unlikely to coincide with a Kristevan interpretation. It shows why there is no single answer to the question of how the two fit together. And it investigates what is at stake in the strategic uses to which their work is put, whether separately or together.
Knowing Others
Title | Knowing Others PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Robertson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Difference (Philosophy) |
ISBN |
Anatomy and Physiology
Title | Anatomy and Physiology PDF eBook |
Author | J. Gordon Betts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-04-25 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781947172807 |
Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You
Title | Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You PDF eBook |
Author | Agustín Fuentes |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2015-05 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0520285999 |
There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; and men and women are truly different in behavior, desires, and wiring. In an engaging and wide-ranging narrative, Agustín Fuentes counters these pervasive and pernicious myths about human behavior. Tackling misconceptions about what race, aggression, and sex really mean for humans, Fuentes incorporates an accessible understanding of culture, genetics, and evolution, requiring us to dispose of notions of “nature or nurture.” Presenting scientific evidence from diverse fields—including anthropology, biology, and psychology—Fuentes devises a myth-busting toolkit to dismantle persistent fallacies about the validity of biological races, the innateness of aggression and violence, and the nature of monogamy and differences between the sexes. A final chapter plus an appendix provide a set of take-home points on how readers can myth-bust on their own. Accessible, compelling, and original, this book is a rich and nuanced account of how nature, culture, experience, and choice interact to influence human behavior.
The Articulations of Speech Sounds Represented by Means of Analphabetic Symbols
Title | The Articulations of Speech Sounds Represented by Means of Analphabetic Symbols PDF eBook |
Author | Otto Jespersen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | Phonetic alphabet |
ISBN |
Anatomy & Physiology
Title | Anatomy & Physiology PDF eBook |
Author | Lindsay Biga |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2019-09-26 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781955101158 |
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