Author: Nikolas Rose
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: twenty, first, century, formation, subjectivity, power, life, itself, biomedicine, politics
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-10-30
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0691121915
ISBN-13: 9780691121918

For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of molecules, cells, and genes, medicine now seeks to manage human vital processes. The Politics of Life Itself offers a much-needed examination of recent developments in the life sciences and biomedicine that have led to the widespread politicization of medicine, human life, and biotechnology. Avoiding the hype of popular science and the pessimism

Author: Alan, J. E. Wolf
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Keywords: studies, descriptive, linguistics, contemporary, expression, second, language, conveying, subjectivity
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2006-06-07
List price: $52.95
ISBN-10: 3039105183
ISBN-13: 9783039105182

Author: Robert Wess
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: literature, culture, theory, postmodernism, subjectivity, burke, rhetoric, kenneth
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 1996-03-29
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 0521422582
ISBN-13: 9780521422581

Kenneth Burke’s influence ranged across history, philosophy and the social sciences. This important study examines Burke’s influence on contemporary theories of rhetoric and the subject, and explains why Burke failed to complete his Motives trilogy. Burke’s own critique of the "isolated unique individual" led him to question the possibility of unique individuation, thereby anticipating important elements of postmodern concepts of subjectivity. This book is both a timely and judicious exposition of Burke’s long career and a crucial intervention in critical debates surrou

Authors:Rosemary Hunter, Sharon Cowa,
Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish
Keywords: law, subjectivity, approaches, critical, engagements, consent, feminist, choice
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 1904385850
ISBN-13: 9781904385851

This current and timely volume presents new thinking and new directions in feminist legal scholarship. Rethinking key concepts in legal feminism, Cowan and Hunter provide a unique examination of key socio-legal concepts in law, jurisprudence and legal and political theory. Written by an international cast of contributors, offering different cultural perspectives as well as doctrinal and theoretical knowledge, this collection of essays presents a dialogue between different feminist positions and approaches to a common theme. It addresses a range of questions, including: Can ’consentR

Authors:Naoki Sakai, Meaghan Morris,
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: public, worlds, nationalism, cultural, subjectivity, japan, translation
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2008-02-01
List price: $25.50
ISBN-10: 0816628637
ISBN-13: 9780816628636

An excursion across the boundaries of language and culture, this provocative book suggests that national identity and cultural politics are, in fact, "all in the translation." Translation, we tend to think, represents another language in all its integrity and unity. Naoki Sakai turns this thinking on its head, and shows how this unity of language really only exists in our manner of representing translation. In analyses of translational transactions and with a focus on the ethnic, cultural, and national identities of modern Japan, he explores the cultural politics inherent in translation. Throu

Authors:Ellen Contini-Morava, Yishai Tobin,
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
Keywords: linguistic, theory, issues, current, subjectivity, controversies
Number of Pages: 397
Published: 2000-04-15
List price: $188.00
ISBN-10: 9027218811
ISBN-13: 9789027218810

Author: Amy Borovoy
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: japan, ethnographic, studies, subjectivity, postwar, nurturance, alcohol, codependency, politics, wife
Number of Pages: 251
Published: 2005-12-29
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0520244524
ISBN-13: 9780520244528

Social drinking is an accepted aspect of working life in Japan, and women are left to manage their drunken husbands when the men return home, restoring them to sobriety for the next day of work. In attempting to cope with their husbands’ alcoholism, the women face a profound cultural dilemma: when does the nurturing behavior expected of a good wife and mother become part of a pattern of behavior that is actually destructive? How does the celebration of nurturance and dependency mask the exploitative aspects not just of family life but also of public life in Japan? The Too-Good Wife follo