wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility
ISBN: 9780814716779 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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 century. The authors examine bodies, both actual and symbolic, in a variety of arenas: pornography, fashion, sports, medicine, photography, cinema, sex work, labor, migration,... 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 c... |
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388,27 zł |
Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility
ISBN: 9780814716786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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 century. The authors examine bodies, both actual and symbolic, in a variety of arenas: pornography, fashion, sports, medicine, photography, cinema, sex work, labor, migration, medical... 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 c... |
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125,87 zł |
The Making of the Unborn Patient: A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery
ISBN: 9780813525167 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Making of the Unborn Patient: Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery, Monica J. Casper, It is now possible for physicians to recognize that a pregnant woman's foetus is facing life-threatening problems, perform surgery on the foetus, and if it survives, return it to the woman's uterus to finish gestation. Although foetal surgery has existed in various forms for three decades, it is only just beginning to capture the public's imagination. These still largely experimental procedures raise all types of medical, political and ethical questions. Who is the patient? What are the technical difficulties...
The Making of the Unborn Patient: Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery, Monica J. Casper, It is now possible for physicians to recognize that a pregnant wo...
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171,21 zł |
Babylost: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z
ISBN: 9781978825956 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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650,61 zł |
Synthetic Planet: Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life
ISBN: 9780415933551 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From chemistry sets to chemical weapons, from plastics to pesticides and from air pollution to Agent Orange, industrial chemicals have transformed the way we live. Industrial chemicals have brought many good things to life, but at what cost? This timely collection of original essays traces the migration of synthetic chemicals from the laboratory to the factory and then into our environment, bodies and communities. The impact these chemicals have on our ecosystems, human health and political processes is addressed by the the contributors, focusing on the production and distribution of these...
From chemistry sets to chemical weapons, from plastics to pesticides and from air pollution to Agent Orange, industrial chemicals have transformed the...
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104,88 zł |
Babylost: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z
ISBN: 9781978825949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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125,87 zł |
Synthetic Planet: Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life
ISBN: 9780415933544 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Recent surveys indicate that 10 per cent of children starting primary school are now regarded as alarmingly overweight, increasing to 15 per cent among school leavers. Doctors fear that this could lead to three out of four Britons being labelled obese within the next 15 years. This volume looks at the increasingly low levels of physical activity in our daily lives in the UK. There is also a chapter on the benefits of exercise. The information presented here comes from a wide variety of sources and includes government reports and statistics, newspaper reports, features, magazine articles and...
Recent surveys indicate that 10 per cent of children starting primary school are now regarded as alarmingly overweight, increasing to 15 per cent amon...
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760,80 zł |
Becoming a Woman: And Other Essays in 19th and 20th Century Feminist History
ISBN: 9780814706350 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 351 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Spanning two decades of research and writing, this volume presents the influential and insightful work of Sally Alexander, one of Britain's most reputed feminist historians. Whether analyzing women's factory work, the emergence of the Victorian women's movement, or women's voices during the Spanish civil war, or charting the lives of women in the inter-war years, Alexander's accounts are original and thoughtful. Moving from a discussion of class and sexual difference to a reading of subjectivity informed by psychoanalysis, Alexander exposes the relationship between memory, history,... Spanning two decades of research and writing, this volume presents the influential and insightful work of Sally Alexander, one of Britain's most re... |
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550,56 zł |
The Body: Social and Cultural Dissections
ISBN: 9780415821964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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, cultural, and political contexts, with emphasis on multiple, contested meanings of the body, body parts, and systems. Case studies, examples, and discussion questions are both US-based and international....
This college-level handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of sociological and cultural perspectives on the human body. Organized alon...
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251,80 zł |
The Body: Social and Cultural Dissections
ISBN: 9780415821957 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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, cultural, and political contexts, with emphasis on multiple, contested meanings of the body, body parts, and systems. Case studies, examples, and discussion questions are both US-based and... This college-level handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of sociological and cultural perspectives on the human body. Organized a... |
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944,43 zł |
Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9781479896561 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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 lend richness and a sense of deeper understanding to this burgeoning field of inquiry. The original essays within this collection cover topics such as female suicide bombers from the...
Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thre...
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388,27 zł |
Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9781479822515 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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 lend richness and a sense of deeper understanding to this burgeoning field of inquiry. The original essays within this collection cover topics such as female suicide bombers from the...
Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thre...
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131,12 zł |