The Awakening of Women
The Awakening of Women

Author: Frances Swiney

Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC

Published: 2014-03-29

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9781497833142

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1899 Edition.

Essays on Women in Western Esotericism
Essays on Women in Western Esotericism

Author: Amy Hale

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-01-21

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 3030768899

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This book is the first collection to feature histories of women in Western Esotericism while also highlighting women’s scholarship. In addition to providing a critical examination of important and under researched figures in the history of Western Esotericism, these fifteen essays also contribute to current debates in the study of esotericism about the very nature of the field itself. The chapters are divided into four thematic sections that address current topics in the study of esotericism: race and othering, femininity, power and leadership and embodiment. This collection not only adds important voices to the story of Western Esotericism, it hopes to change the way the story is told.

Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins
Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins

Author: Denis R. Alexander

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2010-05-15

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 0226608425

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Over the course of human history, the sciences, and biology in particular, have often been manipulated to cause immense human suffering. For example, biology has been used to justify eugenic programs, forced sterilization, human experimentation, and death camps—all in an attempt to support notions of racial superiority. By investigating the past, the contributors to Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins hope to better prepare us to discern ideological abuse of science when it occurs in the future. Denis R. Alexander and Ronald L. Numbers bring together fourteen experts to examine the varied ways science has been used and abused for nonscientific purposes from the fifteenth century to the present day. Featuring an essay on eugenics from Edward J. Larson and an examination of the progress of evolution by Michael J. Ruse, Biology and Ideology examines uses both benign and sinister, ultimately reminding us that ideological extrapolation continues today. An accessible survey, this collection will enlighten historians of science, their students, practicing scientists, and anyone interested in the relationship between science and culture.

The Educated Woman
The Educated Woman

Author: Katharina Rowold

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-02-09

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1134625847

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The Educated Woman is a comparative study of the ideas on female nature that informed debates on women’s higher education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in three western European countries. Exploring the multi-layered roles of science and medicine in constructions of sexual difference in these debates, the book also pays attention to the variety of ways in which contemporary feminists negotiated and reconstituted conceptions of the female mind and its relationship to the body. While recognising similarities, Rowold shows how in each country the higher education debates and the underlying conceptions of women’s nature were shaped by distinct historical contexts.

The Gender of Modernity
The Gender of Modernity

Author: Rita FELSKI

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0674036794

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In an exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, this work challenges conventional male-centred theories of modernity. It examines the gendered meanings of such notions as nostalgia, consumption, feminine writing, the popular sublime, evolution, revolution and perversion.