Karen Sayer

Bio: Karen Sayer is an academic researcher from Leeds Trinity University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cultural history & Livestock. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 26 publications receiving 163 citations. Previous affiliations of Karen Sayer include All Saints' College.

Country Cottages: A Cultural History

Abstract: The ideal home the imperfect home the English cottage garden the cottage and national identity middle-class luxury, working-class necessity the country and the city.

Science fiction, critical frontiers

Abstract: Notes on Contributors Introduction J.Moore & K.Sayer PART ONE Novum Is As Novum Does D.Suvin SF: Metaphor, Myth or Prophecy? P.Parrinder Modernity as a Project and as Self-Criticism: The Historical Dialogue between Science Fiction and Utopia G.Paschilidis On Science Fiction, Totality and Agency in the Nineties T.Moylan PART TWO The Monsters of Botany and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein C.Seligo Contending Forces: Racial and Sexual Narratives in Samuel Delaney's Dhalgren J.A.Tucker The Death of the Author and the Power of Addiction in Naked Lunch and Blade Runner G.Pastorino The Informatic Jeremiad: Virtual Frontier and US Cyberculture S.Proietti Doomsday Looms: Gudrun Pausewang's Anti-nuclear Novels S.Tebutt In-Between Subjects: C.L. Moore's No Woman Born R.Baccolini (Re)Productive Fictions: Reproduction, Embodiment and Feminist Science in Marge Piercy's Science Fiction J.Haran The Female State: Science Fiction Alternatives to the Patriarchy: Sheri Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country and Orson Scott Card's Homecoming series L.Jowett Bibliography Index

Women of the Fields: Representations of Rural Women in the Nineteenth Century

Abstract: Part 1 Revolution and the slump 1780-1850: through a Claude glass darkly laborious but healthy occupations all their sweet employments. Part 2 Golden age 1850-1873: utterly shameless women nine out of ten women prefer field labour girls into demons. Part 3 Depression 1873-1901: neither a wise nor a womanly thing a passing notice unstrained dialect a speciality.

Animal Machines : The Public Response to Intensification in Great Britain, c. 1960-c. 1973

Abstract: Though historians have begun to chart the development of intensive agriculture in twentieth-century Great Britain and to seek to understand postwar conceptualizations of the rural, they have paid less attention to the question of public attitudes to and perceptions of intensification. By focusing on the public debate surrounding the publication of Ruth Harrison’s Animal Machines (1964), this article seeks to better understand the impact of the book by exploring the context in which it was published, the extent and nature of reporting in connection with it, and its reception. The article draws on the specialist and farming press from the period, in parallel to the broadsheets and parliamentary debate, and uses battery farming as a case study. It argues that, though materially significant, the rhetorical opposition established in this debate between intensive and traditional systems was representative neither of British agricultural production in the 1960s nor of the established concerns about “factory farming” already being discussed in the countryside at that time.

The greatest benefit to mankind: a medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present

Abstract: the 1960s called for \"new alternatives\" to Hahnemann's past, while the 1970s and 1980s were marked by community outreach, financial crises, and public controversy. The theme of the book as reflected in the title seems somehow misleading and ambiguous. Hahnemann did indeed follow an \"alternative path\" in its first half century but for much of the rest of its history it has scrambled to identify with mainstream medicine. The term \"alternative medicine\" as used today, describes a whole range of therapies that have had no place in Hahnemann's goals or purpose for at least half a century. Naomi Rogers has written perhaps the most detailed history we have of a single medical school. It is chock-full of information about faculty vitae, student life, buildings, curriculums, trustees, and community relations. Despite the cavils, she has made a worthwhile contribution to the literature of medical education.

Perspectives for the treatment of brucellosis in the 21st century: the ioanninarecommendations

Abstract: The authors provide evidence-based guidance on treating human brucellosis, and discuss the future clinical trials that would help address the controversies surrounding treatment.