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TL;DR: Keck and Sikkink as discussed by the authors examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists for them influential not mean a developmental services ihss provider payments on.
Abstract: In Activists beyond Borders, Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists For them influential not mean a developmental services ihss provider payments on. The governor schwarznegger et activists reframe issues cut withholding of the economic. Click on health care services through june 2010. They attract the actual loss of human rights fidh. Activists beyond then states interests and accountability commission on health.
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TL;DR: Gender schemas at work gender begins at home learning about gender biology and behaviour biology and cognition schemas that explain behaviour evaluating women and men effects on the self interpreting success and failure women in the professions women in academia professional performance and human values affirmative action and the law remedies as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Gender schemas at work gender begins - and continues - at home learning about gender biology and behaviour biology and cognition schemas that explain behaviour evaluating women and men effects on the self interpreting success and failure women in the professions women in academia professional performance and human values affirmative action and the law remedies.
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TL;DR: In this article, a collection of essays, written by Dorothy Smith over the past eight years, is a long-awaited treasure by one of the world's foremost social thinkers, turning her wit and common sense on the prevailing discourses of sociology, political economy, philosophy, and popular culture, at the same time developing her own sociological and feminist practice in unexpected and remarkable directions.
Abstract: This collection of essays, written by Dorothy Smith over the past eight years, is a long-awaited treasure by one of the world's foremost social thinkers. In it, Smith turns her wit and common sense on the prevailing discourses of sociology, political economy, philosophy, and popular culture, at the same time developing her own sociological and feminist practice in unexpected and remarkable directions. Shedding the idiom of the sociologist, Smith inquires directly into the actualities of peoples' lives. Her critical investigations of postmodernism, political correctness, university politics, and SNAF (the Standard North American Family) draw on metaphors and examples from a stimulating range of autobiographical, theoretical, historical, political, and humorous resources. Out of an abstract encounter with Bakhtin, for example, comes an analysis of a child learning to name a bird, and a new way of seeing the story of Helen Keller. In introducing a radically innovative approach to the sociology of discourse, even the most difficult points are addressed through ordinary scenes of mothers, cats, and birds, as well as scientists, pulsars, and cell microscopes. Smith's engaged, rebel sociology throws light on a remarkable range of issues and authors, forever changing the way the reader experiences the world. This, her signature work, will delight a wide and varied audience, and enliven university courses for years to come.
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TL;DR: In this paper, Isadore Newman and Carolyn R. Benz argue that the two approaches are neither mutually exclusive nor interchangeable; rather, the actual relationship between the two paradigms is one of isolated events on a continuum of scientific inquiry.
Abstract: Rejecting the artificial dichotomy between qualitative and quantitative research strategies in the social and behavioral sciences, Isadore Newman and Carolyn R. Benz argue that the two approaches are neither mutually exclusive nor interchangeable; rather, the actual relationship between the two paradigms is one of isolated events on a continuum of scientific inquiry. Through graphic and narrative descriptions, Newman and Benz show research to be a holistic endeavor in the world of inquiry. To clarify their argument, they provide a diagram of the "qualitative-quantitative interactive continuum" showing that qualitative analysis with its feedback loops can easily modify the types of research questions asked in quantitative analysis research and that the quantitative analysis results and its feedback can change what will be asked qualitatively. In their model for research - an "interactive continuum" - Newman and Benz emphasize four major points: the research question dictates the selection of research methods; consistency between question and design can lead to a method of critiquing research studies in journals; the interactive continuum model is built around the place of theory; and the assurance of "validity" of research is central to all studies.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue from social facts prefects and geometrics judges and astronomers averages and the realism of aggregates correlation and causes statistics and state - France and Great Britain statistics and the state - Germany and United States the part for the whole - monographs or representative sampling classifying and encoding modelling and adjusting conclusion.
Abstract: Introduction - arguing from social facts prefects and geometrics judges and astronomers averages and the realism of aggregates correlation and the realism of causes statistics and the state - France and Great Britain statistics and the state - Germany and the United States the part for the whole - monographs or representative sampling classifying and encoding modelling and adjusting conclusion - disputing the indisputable.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the consequences of prejudice and discrimination in the context of academic decision making and task performance across social groups, and discuss the importance of cultural context in African American identity and possible Selves.
Abstract: J.K. Swim and C. Stangor, Introduction. Encountering Prejudice: L.F. Barrett and J.K. Swim, Appraisals of Prejudice and Discrimination. J.K. Swim, L.L. Cohen, and L.L. Hyers, Experiencing Everyday Prejudice and Discrimination. M. LaFrance and J.A. Woodzicka, No Laughing Matter: Women's Verbal and Nonverbal Reactions to Sexist Humor. Consequences of Prejudice: J. Aronson, D.M. Quinn, and S.J. Spencer, Stereotype Threat and the Academic Underperformance of Minorities and Women. C. Stangor and G.B. Sechrist, Conceptualizing the Determinants of Academic Choice and Task Performance Across Social Groups. D.M. Quinn and J. Crocker, Vulnerability to the Affective Consequences of the Stigma of Overweight. K.W. Allison, Stress and Oppressed Social Category Membership. K. Truax, D.I. Cordova, A. Wood, E. Wright, and F. Crosby, Undermined? Affirmative Action From the Targets' Point of View. Coping With Prejudice: C.T. Miller and A.M. Myers, Compensating for Prejudice: How Heavyweight People (And Others) Control Outcomes Despite Prejudice. B. Major and T. Schmader, Coping With Stigma Through Psychological Disengagement. N.R. Branscombe and N. Ellemers, Coping with Group-Based Discrimination: Individualistic Versus Group-Level Strategies. W.E. Cross, Jr., and L. Strauss, The Everyday Functions of African American Identity. D. Oyserman and K. Harrison, Implications of Cultural Context: African American Identity and Possible Selves. K. Deaux and K.A. Ethier, Negotiating Social Identity. Index.
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TL;DR: This book discusses the structure and culture of Collective Protest in Germany since 1950, and the Institutionalization of Protest during Democratic Consolidation in Central Europe.
Abstract: Chapter 1 A Movement Society: Contentious Politics for a New Century Chapter 2 The Structure and Culture of Collective Protest in Germany since 1950 Chapter 3 Are the Times A-Changin'? Assessing the Acceptance of Protest in Western Democracies Chapter 4 The Institutionalization of Protest in the United States Chapter 5 Policing Protest in France and Italy: From Intimidation to Cooperation? Donatella della Porta Chapter 6 Institutionalization of Protest during Democratic Consolidation in Central Europe Chapter 7 Democratic Transitions as Protest Cycles: Social Movement Dynamics in Democratizing Latin America Chapter 8 A Movement Takes Office Chapter 9 Stepsisters: Feminist Movement Activism in Different Institutional Spaces Chapter 10 Transnational Advocacy Networks in the Movement Society
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TL;DR: HHerek as discussed by the authors examined the relationship between stereotypes of and attitudes toward Lesbians and Gays in the courtroom and found that the bias against Gay Men and Lesbians in the Courtroom was more prevalent than women and men.
Abstract: Preface - Gregory M Herek Unassuming Motivations - Karen Franklin Contextualizing the Narratives of Antigay Assailants Homophobia in the Courtroom - Drury Sherrod and Peter M Nardi An Assessment of Biases against Gay Men and Lesbians in a Multi-Ethnic Sample of Potential Jurors Do Heterosexual Women and Men Differ in Their Attitudes toward Homosexuality? A Conceptual and Methodological Analysis - Mary E Kite and Bernard E Whitley Jr The Relationship between Stereotypes of and Attitudes toward Lesbians and Gays - Angela Simon Authoritarianism, Values and the Favorability and Structure of Anti-Gay Attitudes - Geoffrey Haddock and Mark P Zanna Civil Liberties, Civil Rights and Stigma - Douglas Alan Strand Voter Attitudes and Behavior in the Politics of Homosexuality Minority Stress among Lesbians, Gay Men and Bisexuals - Joanne Diplacido A Consequence of Heterosexism, Homophobia and Stigmatization Internalized Homophobia, Intimacy and Sexual Behavior among Gay and Bisexual Men - Ilan H Meyer and Laura Dean Developmental Implications of Victimization of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Youths - Anthony R D'Augelli The Postmodern Family - Andrew McLeod and Isiaah Crawford An Examination of the Psychosocial and Legal Perspectives of Gay and Lesbian Parenting Bad Science in the Service of Stigma - Greogory M Herek A Critique of the Cameron Group's Survey Studies
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TL;DR: Gourevitch's book as mentioned in this paper is an anatomy of the war in Rwanda, a vivid history of the tragedy's background, and an unforgettable account of its aftermath, and is one of the most acclaimed books of the year.
Abstract: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon everyone in the Hutu majority to kill each member of the Tutsi minority, and over the next three months 800,000 Tutsis perished in the most unambiguous case of genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews. Philip Gourevitch's haunting work is an anatomy of the war in Rwanda, a vivid history of the tragedy's background, and an unforgettable account of its aftermath. One of the most acclaimed books of the year, this account will endure as a chilling document of our time.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide guidance for researchers and research sponsors in the form of reports of promising research information on the state of the technology and reflections on the challenges of linking social science and remotely sensed data.
Abstract: This volume is concerned with the use of remote sensing in social science research. "It offers some guidance for researchers and research sponsors in the form of reports of promising research information on the state of the technology and reflections on the challenges of linking social science and remotely sensed data." Chapters are included on land use and population dynamics modeling urban attributes famine early warning and health applications. (EXCERPT)
TL;DR: McCarthy, C.McPhail and J.Crist as mentioned in this paper discuss the relationship of political opportunities to the form of collective action and the European Union as a channel of globalization of political conflicts.
Abstract: Table of Contents Social Movements in a Globalizing World: an Introduction D.della Porta & H.Kriesi PART I: NATIONAL MOBILIZATION WITHIN A GLOBALIZING WORLD Alternative Types of Cross-national Diffusion in the Social Movement Arena D.A.Snow & R.D.Benford The Gendering of Abortion Discourse: Assessing Global Feminist Influence in the United States and Germany M.Marx Ferree & W.A.Gamson A Comparison of Protests against the Gulf War in Germany, France and the Netherlands R.Koopmans The Diffusion and Adoption of Public Order Management Systems J.D.McCarthy, C.McPhail & J.Crist PART II: MOBILIZATION BEYOND THE NATION-STATE On the Relationship of Political Opportunities to the Form of Collective Action: The Case of the European Union G.Marks & D.McAdam The Europeanization of Movements? Contentions Politics and the European Union, October 1983 - March 1995 D.Imig & S.Tarrow Injustice and Adversarial Frames in a Supranational Political Context: Farmer's Protest in the Netherlands and Spain B.Kandermans, M. de Weerd, J-M.Sabucedo & M.Costa Supranational Political Opportunities as a Channel of Globalization of Political Conflicts. The Case of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples F.Passy Global Politics and Transnational Social Movements Strategies: The Transnational Campaign Against International Trade in Toxic Wastes J.Smith International Campaigns in Context: Collective Action Between the Local and the Global C.Lahusen The Transnationalization of Social Movements: Trends, Causes, Problems D.Rucht Bibliography Index
TL;DR: Differences in Medicine advances earlier studies on medicine’s social diversity and regional variations to expose significant differences in the presumptions and decisions that affect patients’ lives, and marks a dramatic development in both the study of medicine and in science studies generally.
Abstract: Western medicine—especially in contrast with non-Western traditions of medical practice—is widely thought of as a coherent and unified field in which beliefs, definitions, and judgments are shared. Marc Berg and Annemarie Mol debunk this myth with an interdisciplinary and intercultural collection of essays that reveals the significantly varied ways practitioners of “conventional” Western medicine handle bodies, study test results, configure statistics, and converse with patients .
Combining theoretical work with interviews and direct observation of the activities and interactions of doctors, nurses, technicians, and patients, the contributors to this volume provide comparative studies of specific cases. Individual chapters explore topics such as the contested domain of fetal surgery in a California hospital, the construction of gender identity before transsexual surgery in Germany, and differences in the treatment and definition of pain by two clinics in France. Differences in Medicine advances earlier studies on medicine’s social diversity and regional variations to expose significant differences in the presumptions and decisions that affect patients’ lives, and marks a dramatic development in both the study of medicine and in science studies generally.
Revealing the ways in which the bodies and lives of people are constructed as medical objects by practitioners, technologies, and textbooks, this collection calls for and initiates new, more textured investigations and theories of the body in medicine and the practice of science. It will open new discussions among medical and healthcare professionals as well as scholars in medical anthropology, science studies, sociology, philosophy, and the history of medicine.
Contributors. Isabelle Baszanger, Marc Berg, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Monica J. Casper, Charis M. Cussins, Nicolas Dodier, Stefan Hirschauer, Annemarie Mol, Vicky Singleton, Susan Leigh Star, Stefan Timmermans, Dick Willems
TL;DR: The Gospel of Germs in the Age of AIDS as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the history of AIDS, focusing on the early stages of the AIDS pandemic and the development of AIDS.
Abstract: Preface: Memories of Disease Past Introduction: The Gospel of Germs Part I: The Gospel Emergent, 1870-1890 Apostles of the Germ Whited Sepulchers Entrepreneurs of the Germ Part II: The Gospel Triumphant, 1890-1920 Disciples of the Laboratory Tuberculosis Religion The Domestication of the Germ Part III: The Gospel in Practice, 1900-1930 Antisepticonscious America The Wages of Dirt Were Death The Two-Edged Sword Part IV: The Gospel in Retreat The Waning of Enthusiasm Epilogue: The Gospel of Germs in the Age of AIDS Notes Acknowledgments Index
TL;DR: In this paper, Solnick argues that the Soviet system did not fall victim to stalemate at the top, or to a revolution from below, but rather to opportunism from within.
Abstract: What led to the breakdown of the Soviet Union? Steven Solnick argues, contrary to most current literature, that the Soviet system did not fall victim to stalemate at the top, or to a revolution from below, but rather to opportunism from within. In three case studies on the Communist Youth League, the system of job assignments for university graduates, and military conscription, Solnick makes use of rich archival sources and interviews to tell the story from a new perspective, and to employ and test Western theories of the firm in the Soviet environment. He finds that even before Gorbachev, mechanisms for controlling bureaucrats in Soviet organizations were weak, allowing these individuals great latitude in their actions. Once reforms began, they translated this latitude into open insubordination by seizing the very organizational assets they were supposed to be managing. Thus, the Soviet system, Solnick argues, suffered the organizational equivalent of a colossal bank run. When the servants of the state stopped obeying orders from above, the state's fate was sealed. By incorporating economic theories of institutions into a political theory of Soviet breakdown and collapse, this book offers an account of the most important international political event of the later 20th century.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present high profile case studies that were selected for their notoriety and their ability to connect the reader to fundamental ethical questions, such as torture (Abu Ghraib), impeachment (Clinton), competence (FEMA), electoral violation (DeLay), and historical corruption (machine politics).
Abstract: This book is designed to show readers how ethics can constrain improper behavior. To demonstrate the relationship of ethics to good government, the author presents high profile case studies that were selected for their notoriety and their ability to connect the reader to fundamental ethical questions. Themes of public interest, natural law, and rule of law provide a framework for the case studies, which include torture (Abu Ghraib), impeachment (Clinton), competence (FEMA), electoral violation (DeLay), and historical corruption (machine politics). The chapters discuss concepts that help to define responsible behavior in terms of behavior in elections, honesty and competence, and international law.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a collection of reflections on dissociation, reality, and psychoanalytic listening in the context of the Internet and its effects on the human body.
Abstract: References Bromberg, Philip. 1994. "Speak that I May See You: Some Reflections on Dissociation, Reality, and Psychoanalytic Listening." Psychoanalytic D alogues 4 (4): 517-47. Dennett, Daniel. 1991. Consciousness Explained. Boston: Little, Brown. Erikson, Erik. [1950] 1963. Childhood and Society, 2nd Ed. New York: Norton. Haraway, Donna. 1991. "The Actors are Cyborg, Nature is Coyote, and the Geography is Elsewhere: Postscript o 'Cyborgs at Large."' In Technoculture, edited by Constance Penley and Andrew Ross. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Gergen, Kenneth. 1991. The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life. New York: Basic Books. Lifton, Robert Jay. 1993. The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation. New York: Basic Books. Martin, Emily. 1994. Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in America Culture from the Days of Polio to the Days of AIDS. Boston: Beacon Press. Minsky, Martin. 1987. The Society of Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster. Turkle, Sherry. [1978] 1990. Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution. 2nd Ed. New York: Guilford Press. . 1984. The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. New York: Simon & Schuster. . 1995. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster.
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of the Faridabad stone quarries and the new Untouchable proletariat is presented. And the question of reservation: lives and careers of some scheduled castes MPs and MLAs.
Abstract: Glossary 1. Who are the Untouchables? 2. The question of the 'Harijan atrocity' 3. Religion, politics and the Untouchables from the nineteenth century to 1956 4. Public policy I: adverse discrimination and compensatory discrimination 5. Public policy II: the anti-poverty programs 6. The new Untouchable proletariat: a case study of the Faridabad stone quarries 7. Untouchable politics and Untouchable politicians since 1956 8. The question of reservation: lives and careers of some scheduled castes MPs and MLAs 9. Subordination, poverty and the state in modern India Bibliography Index.
TL;DR: Crisis And Adaptation: An Introduction as discussed by the authors The Depression Experience and Adaptation Adaptations to Economic Deprivation Coming Of Age In The Depression, Adapting to Economic Decline, and Adapting Adaptation in Adaptive Adaptation.
Abstract: Crisis And Adaptation: An Introduction * The Depression Experience * Adaptations to Economic Deprivation Coming Of Age In The Depression * Economic Deprivation and Family Status * Children in the Household Economy * Family Relations * Status Change and Personality The Adult Years * Earning a Living: Adult Lives of the Oakland Men * Leading a Contingent Life: Adult Lives of Oakland Women * Personality in Adult Experience The Depression Experience In Life Patterns * Children of the Great Depression * Beyond Children of the Great Depression
TL;DR: A history of the Gay and Lesbian Movement in Spain can be found in this paper, with a focus on the Dutch Lesbian and Gay Movement and the politics of accommodation of the Dutch women's movement.
Abstract: 1. Introduction - the Editors 2. Moral Regulation and the Disintegrating Canadian State - Barry D Adam 3. Gay and Lesbian Movements in the United States: Dilemmas of Identity, Diversity, and Political Strategy - Steven Epstein 4. "More Love and More Desire": The Building of a Brazilian Movement - James N. Green 5. Democracy and Sexual Difference: The Lesbian and Gay Movement in Argentina - Stephen Brown 6. The Lesbian and Gay Movement in Britain: Schisms, Solidarities and Social Worlds - Ken Plummer 7. The Dutch Lesbian and Gay Movement: The Politics of Accommodation - Judith Schuyf and Andre Krouwell 8. Gay and Lesbian Activism in France: Between Integration and Community-Oriented Movements - Olivier Fillieule and Jan Willem Duyvendak 9. Passion for Life: A History of the Lesbian and Gay Movement in Spain - Ricardo Llamas and Fefa Vila, Translated from the Spanish by Stephen Brown 10. Gay and Lesbian Movements in Eastern Europe: Romania, Hungary, and the Czech Republic - Scott Long 11. Emerging Visibility of Gays and Lesbians in Southern Africa: Contrasting Contexts - Mai Palmberg 12. Japan: Finding Its Way - Wim Lunsing 13. The Largest Street Party in the World: The Gay and Lesbian Movement in Australia - Geoffrey Woolcock and Dennis Altman 14. Gay and Lesbian Movements Beyond Borders? National Imprints of a Worldwide Movement - the Editors About the Contributors Index
TL;DR: In this article, Vasseleu discusses the self, identity, and body in the virtual world in the age of virtual identities and virtual reality. But the subject of virtual reality is not defined as an ontology of digital domains, but as an Ontology of Digital Domains.
Abstract: Introduction PART ONE: THE SELF, IDENTITY AND BODY IN THE AGE OF THE VIRTUAL Virtual Identity - David Holmes Communities of Broadcast, Communities of Interactivity Virtual Worlds/Virtual Bodies - Cathryn Vasseleu Beyond Being Digital - Nicola Green The Semiotics of Technics An Ontology of Digital Domains - Chris Chesher The Subject of Virtual Reality - Simon Cooper Plenitude vs Alienation This Abstract Body - Paul James and Freya Carkeek PART TWO: POLITICS AND COMMUNITY IN VIRTUAL WORLDS Virtual Urban Futures - Michael Ostwald Community in the Abstract - Michele Willson A Political and Ethical Dilemma? What Space Is Cyberspace? - Mark Nunes The Internet and Virtuality Always Already Virtual - Patricia Wise Feminist Politics in Cyberspace Virtual Reality and the New Age - Chris Zigiuras The Technologisation of the Sacred Cyberdemocracy - Mark Poster Internet and the Public Sphere
TL;DR: The Making of the Unborn Patient examines two important and connected events of the second half of the 20th century: the emergence of foetal surgery as a new medical specialty and the debut of the unborn patient.
Abstract: 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 involved in foetal surgery? How do reproductive politics seep into the operating room, and how do medical definitions and meanings flow out of medicine and into other social spheres? How are ethical issues defined in this practice and who defines them? Is foetal surgery the kind of medicine we want? What is involved in reframing foetal surgery as a women's health issue, rather than simply a paediatric concern? In this ethnographic study of the social, cultural and historical aspects of foetal surgery, Monica Casper addresses these questions. ""The Making of the Unborn Patient"" examines two important and connected events of the second half of the 20th century: the emergence of foetal surgery as a new medical specialty and the debut of the unborn patient. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Casper shows how biomedical work has intersected with reproductive politics for three decades to generate new cultural meanings of foetuses, women and medicine itself. Since its inception, foetal surgery has been controversial both inside and outside of medicine precisely because it transgresses a number of boundaries, challenging our most cherished assumptions about pregnancy, maternal sacrifice, foetal life and death, and the limits of technology. Like many other medical innovations, especially those at the beginnings and ends of human life, foetal surgery is proceeding rapidly but without careful reflection about what it means and without public debate about its consequences. Foetal surgery is risky, expensive and fraught with peril for both women and their foetuses. This book offers a critical social and cultural analysis of this nascent yet significant innovation in biomedicine. Analyzing original data, Casper explores early foetal surgery efforts and the emergence of the unborn patient in the 1960s. She examines several related practices, including foetal physiology, diagnostic technologies, animal experimentation, and foetal wound healing research, and the ways in which they have shaped foetal surgery. She presents ethnographic data collected at one of the premier US foetal treatment facilities, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the various kinds of work involved in operating on human foetuses. She also examines the many ethical dilemmas involved in research on human subjects in experimental foetal surgery. Perhaps most significantly, the book draws attention to the many ways in which foetal surgery affects women's health.
TL;DR: For instance, this article studied how people negotiate the virtual and the real as they represent themselves on computer screens linked through the Internet, and found that people are more likely to see themselves differently as they catch sight of their images in the mirror of the machine.
Abstract: We come to see ourselves differently as we catch sight of our images in the mirror of the machine. Over a decade ago, when I first called the computer a "second self" (1984), these identitytransforming relationships were most usually one-on-one, a person alone with a machine.1 This is no longer the case. A rapidly expanding system of networks, collectively known as the Internet, links millions of people together in new spaces that are changing the way we think, the nature of our sexuality, the form of our communities, our very identities. In cyberspace, we are learning to live in virtual worlds. We may find ourselves alone as we navigate virtual oceans, unravel virtual mysteries, and engineer virtual skyscrapers. But increasingly, when we step through the looking glass, other people are there as well. Over the past decade, I have been engaged in the ethnographic and clinical study of how people negotiate the virtual and the "real" as they represent themselves on computer screens linked through the Internet. For many people, such experiences challenge what they have traditionally called "identity," which they are moved to recast in terms of multiple windows and parallel lives. Online life is not the only factor that is pushing them in this direction; there is no simple sense in which computers are causing a shift in notions of identity. It is, rather, that today's life on the screen dramatizes and concretizes a range of cultural trends that encourage us to think of identity in terms of multiplicity and flexibility.
TL;DR: For Batter or for Worse Rural Patriarchy, Crime and Criminal Justice Woman Battering and criminal justice Policing Rural woman battering The Compromised Enforcement of Law Courting Revictimization The Courts and Rural Woman Bashing Regulating Rural Women The Patriarchal State Rural Battering as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: For Batter or for Worse Rural Patriarchy, Crime and Criminal Justice Woman Battering and Criminal Justice Policing Rural Woman Battering The Compromised Enforcement of Law Courting Revictimization The Courts and Rural Woman Battering Regulating Rural Women The Patriarchal State Rural Battering and Social Policies