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A generation after the publication of Joan W. Scott's influential essay, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," this volume explores the current uses of the term -- and the ongoing influence of Scott's agenda-setting work in history and other disciplines. How has the study of gender, independently or in conjunction with other axes of difference -- such as race, class, and sexuality -- inflected existing fields of study and created new ones? To what extent has this concept modified or been modified by related paradigms such as women's and queer studies? With what discursive politics does the term engage, and with what effects? In what settings, and through what kinds of operations and transformations, can gender remain a useful category in the 21st century? Leading scholars from history, philosophy, literature, art history, and other fields examine how gender has translated into their own disciplinary perspectives.

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This digital document is an article from Exceptional Children, published by Council for Exceptional Children on February 1, 1988. The length of the article is 4753 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Who leaves and who stays in special education: a 2-year follow-up study. (includes bibliography)
Author: Deborah K. Walker
Publication: Exceptional Children (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 1988
Publisher: Council for Exceptional Children
Volume: v54Issue: n5Page: p393(10)

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A generation after the publication of Joan W. Scott's influential essay, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," this volume explores the current uses of the term -- and the ongoing influence of Scott's agenda-setting work in history and other disciplines. How has the study of gender, independently or in conjunction with other axes of difference -- such as race, class, and sexuality -- inflected existing fields of study and created new ones? To what extent has this concept modified or been modified by related paradigms such as women's and queer studies? With what discursive politics does the term engage, and with what effects? In what settings, and through what kinds of operations and transformations, can gender remain a useful category in the 21st century? Leading scholars from history, philosophy, literature, art history, and other fields examine how gender has translated into their own disciplinary perspectives.

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This digital document is an article from Peer Review, published by Association of American Colleges and Universities on September 22, 2008. The length of the article is 2567 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Liberal Arts Matters at Butler University: an experiment in institutional transformation.(PRACTICE)(Report)
Author: Judith Morrel
Publication: Peer Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2008
Publisher: Association of American Colleges and Universities
Volume: 10Issue: 4Page: 12(4)

Article Type: Report

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Butler continua la reflexion comenzada en El Genero en Disputa sobre el caracter performativo de la sexualidad y del genero y reconsidera sus propios aportes a la teoria critica y feminista durante la ultima decada. En esta obra analiza como aquello que fue excluido de la esfera propiamente dicha del sexo tiene un retorno perturbador que incide radicalmente en el horizonte simbolico segun el cual unos cuerpos importan mas que otros. Al problematizar las categorias de identidad se coloca en el centro de los debates de la teoria feminista y de las politicas QUEER ... Read more

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In this special issue of differences, leading feminist theorists acknowledge Derrida’s contribution to feminist theory, discuss the crucial place of difference in both Derridian deconstruction and feminist theory, and reflect on the ethical, professional, and epistemological implications of Derrida’s thought for the discipline of women’s studies.

In bringing together major feminist critics whose work has been touched by the writings of Derrida, this issue both pays tribute to and reflects upon Derrida’s ideas. Among the essayists included, Jane Gallop considers Derrida’s writings on Levinas; Judith Butler reads Derrida’s final interview in Le Monde in 2004; Elizabeth Grosz signals Derrida as a rare philosopher for whom sexual difference was crucial; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak explores the figure of the mother’s child in Derrida, focusing on the critique of reproductive heteronormativity and the question of agency in feminism; and Joan Wallach Scott argues for the importance of critique in the academy. The issue also includes an edited transcription of a vibrant discussion between feminist theorists and Derrida called “Women in the Beehive: A Seminar with Jacques Derrida,” which took place at Brown University’s Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women in 1984.

Contributors. Fran Bartkowski, Anne-Emmanuelle Berger, Susan Bernstein, Judith Butler, Pheng Cheah, Drucilla Cornell, Jane Gallop, Elizabeth Grosz, Peggy Kamuf, Christie McDonald, Joan Wallach Scott, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ... Read more

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“Verso’s beautifully designed Radical Thinkers series, which bringstogether seminal works by leading left-wing intellectuals, is asophisticated blend of theory and thought.”—Ziauddin Sardar, New StatesmanThis shrinkwrapped set contains twelve Verso Radical Thinkers volumes at a discounted price:

• Machiavelli and Us by Louis Althusser
• Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities by Etienne Balibarand Immanuel Wallerstein
• Passwords by Jean Baudrillard
• The Panopticon Writings by Jeremy Bentham
• Comments on the Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
• Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes) by Hal Foster
• Critique of Economic Reason by Andre Gorz
• Brecht and Method by Fredric Jameson
• The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde by Peter Osborne
• Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory by Edward W. Soja
• Freudian Slip: Psychoanalysis and Textual Criticism by Sebastiano Timpanaro
• Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left by Slavoj Zizek, Ernesto Laclau, and Judith Butler

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Since September 11, public discourse has often been framed in terms of absolutes: an age of innocence gives way to a present under siege, while the United States and its allies face off against the Axis of Evil. This special issue of Social Text aims to move beyond these binaries toward thoughtful analysis. The editors argue that the challenge for the Left is to develop an antiterrorism stance that acknowledges the legacy of U.S. trade and foreign policy as well as the diversity of the Muslim faith and the dangers presented by fundamentalism of all kinds.

Examining the strengths and shortcomings of area, race, and gender studies in the search for understanding, this issue considers cross-cultural feminism as a means of combating terrorism; racial profiling of Muslims in the context of other racist logics; and the homogenization of dissent. The issue includes poetry, photographic work, and an article by Judith Butler on the discursive space surrounding the attacks of September 11. This impressive range of contributions questions the meaning and implications of the events of September 11 and their aftermath. ... Read more

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Another day, another anti-Zionist screed
It is really not worthwhile reading or writing "history" or "analysis" which has the express goal of proving an author's pet political thesis. Shohat rewrites history and the Jewish experience to suit her anti-Zionist proclivities, and treats us to an "alternate reality" in which the Diaspora was really very good to Jews, Jews of Muslim lands had nothing much to do with Jews of Europe (presumably this includes Jews of Spanish descent) and Jewish nationhood ("am Yisrael") as well as all the persecutions and problems of the diaspora are portrayed as figments of Zionist propaganda. In fact, according to Shohat, it seems that the only problem the Eastern Jews ever had was Zionism, and were it not for Zionism, they would be living happily ever after, enjoying the benefits of enlightened and progressive Islamic rule to this day. In Shohat's world, Jews did not say "am Yisrael" (Nation of Israel) before the time of the Zionists, did not pray and wish for return to Zion, and never tried in fact to return. Especially not Sephardic and "Arab" Jews.Ibn Gvirol and Yehuda Halevi and Shabbetai Tzvi did not exist or can be explained away and neglected. Rabbi Alkalai, the Sephardic proto-Zionist, did not exist either, because according to her, it was impossible to conceive of the Jews in any other way except as members of a religious totally divided by the cultures of their separate countries.

Everyone can write propaganda, but only silly people will pay for it. Save your money. This is socio-historical post-rational fiction. ... Read more

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"Lesbians are not women." This (in)famous statement by renowned theorist, writer, and activist Monique Wittig marked a watershed moment in critical understandings of gender and sexuality.Wittig's mise en question of the notion of "woman"--a term she argued was necessarily enmeshed in heterosexual and patriarchal systems of knowing--unsettled seemingly self-evident relationships between language and reality, signification and subjectivity, and even, if not especially, women and feminism. Recalling Wittig's project and practice of lexical disidentification, by which gender and other signs of identity are ruptured and reworked, this special issue of GLQ offers a variety of often conflicting views on Wittig's aesthetic, political, and theoretical work.

Contributors provide critical and disparate snapshots--some more theoretical and abstract, some more experiential and concrete--of debates on, and investments in, Wittig's theoretical legacy. Judith Butler analyzes Wittig's "particular" universalism and offers a careful exposition of her worldview. Diane Crowder studies Wittig within a context of materialist inquiry that has often been ignored or misunderstood. Robyn Wiegman examines the complex nature of memorialization and inquires into Wittig's place in contemporary queer theory. Seth Clark Silberman, calling attention to Wittig's fiction, reverses the usual ascendancy of critique over narrative fiction and produces a formally innovative, if willfully "parasitic," account of Wittig's claim on the contributor's imagination as he watches his mother slowly die of cancer. Alice Jardine, who situates Wittig as a disruptive and disorienting force in a mother-centered feminism, provides an autobiographically charged review of the recent history of feminism, queer studies, and the still uneasy relations between them. The issue also includes a detailed introduction by Brad Epps and Jonathan D. Katz; a brief personal reflection by Sandra Soto, a close friend and colleague of Wittig's; and two texts by Wittig, one critical (with a foreword by Sande Zeig) and the other creative, both previously unavailable in English.

Contributors. Judith Butler, Diane Crowder, Brad Epps, Alice Jardine, Jonathan D. Katz , Seth Clark Silberman, Sandra Soto, Robyn Wiegman, Monique Wittig, Sande Zeig ... Read more

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Now championed as critical habitats for plants, animals, and people because of the environmental service and protection they provide, salt marshes were once considered unproductive wastelands. Salt Marshes, with an emphasis coastal wetlands in the Atlantic and Gulf regions and the San Francisco Bay area, offers readers a wealth of essential information about a variety of flora and fauna, marshes' ecological importance, consequences of human neglect and overdevelopment, and insight into how these wetlands recover. ... Read more

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good reading
I read the first chapter of this book late in the afternoon. I started to just skim, but found it very well-written, informative, and very interesting - so I read every word of the first chapter. I hope I find time tomorrow for the next chapter.

Joyce Elfenbein

Excellent Overview of Tidal Wetlands
Four decades ago, John and Mildred Teal published their seminal study of tidal wetlands, Life and Death of the Salt Marsh (1969). They noted: "Marshes are generally considered useless land that must be made useful as quickly as possible. 'Useful,' of course, means destruction of the marsh in most cases and conversion of the area to ground on which people can stand, and water on which they can float boats." Weis and Butler's book describes the unfortunate results of this traditional view.It also discusses the impact of the recent consensus that salt marshes (the authors' "favorite places for many years") are valuable habitats, worth preserving and restoring.
The book's chapters are divided into salt marshes' natural history (1. ecology, 2. plants, and, 3. animals), and their "unnatural" history -- the impact of humans (4. physical alterations, 5. pollution, 6. introduction of non-indigenous species, 7.restoration and management), closing with a case study of the "Death and Rebirth" of northeastern New Jersey's Hackensack Meadowlands. The book is a worthy successor to the Teals' classic work.It is accessible to the general reader, and would be a valuable resource for any college- or graduate-level course dealing with Ecology, Environmental History, or Urban Studies

Great Book on Salt Marshes
This is a well-written, comprehensive overview of salt marshes, packed with informative writing. If you want to learn about these amazing places, this book is a must-read.

Engaging and Accessible
This book is both engaging and accessible. The quotations heading each chapter set the tone nicely, and the photographs provide further useful information. I'll be keeping this in mind in my work with environmental education.

Readable and Informative
This book is delightful, informative, and READABLE!I will recommend it to everyone!
Here is a book that tells everyone about wetlands, its wildlife, plants, functions...not a dry academic treatise but a delightful, informative and readable book for young adults and adults alike.It may be the only one of its kind and should be added to everyone's nature library. ... Read more