Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies,
tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the …

A study of the school textbook grounded in historical and comparative perspectives. The
approach is broadly chronological, revealing changes in the theory and practice of textbook …

he rejection of" science" by some feminists has been core to the development of alternative
epistemologies, whether standpoint or postmodern (Harding 1986, 1991; Nicholson 1990) …

Is postmodernism debilitating for feminists approaching science? Is the actor-network
approach, which rejects dualisms and universalism, politically impotent? Or is such a …

This volume brings together leading theorists to discuss the latest thinking on social justice-a
central concern of contemporary politics and political philosophy. Contributors such as …

In a biographical sketch of the writer, Cobbs describes le Carre's relationship with his father,
his often overlooked academic success, his choice of a pseudonym, and his reputation as …

By the nineteen forties, British midwifery had become a highly stratified occupation located
within a hierarchy of health services under the authority of the medical profession. An elite …

With the disintegration of Confucian cosmology after the fall of the imperial system in China,
medical science was introduced as an epistemological foundation for social order. The …

Workers' music: songs to fight injustice, inequality and establish the rights of the working
classes. This was a new, radical genre of music which communist composer, Alan Bush …

This thesis examines the poetry and critical work of Veronica Forrest-Thomson, arguing that
her poetic project is characterised by her 'struggle with forms'. Forrest-Thomson developed …