Author: Lisa Pace Vetter File Type: pdf Recovering the powerful and influential contributions of women from the nations formative years. The Political Thought of Americas Founding Feminists traces the significance of Frances Wright, Harriet Martineau, Angelina and Sarah Grimke, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth in shaping American political thinking. These women understood the relationship between sexism, racism, and economic inequality yet, they are virtually unknown in American political thought because they are considered activists, not theorists. Their efforts to expand the reach of Americas founding ideals laid the groundwork not only for womens suffrage and the abolition of slavery, but for the broader expansion of civil, political, and human rights that would characterize much of the twentieth century and continues to unfold today. Drawing on a careful reading of speeches, letters and other archival sources, Lisa Pace Vetter shows the ways in which the early womens rights movement and abolitionism were central to the development of American political thought. The Political Thought of Americas Founding Feministsdemonstrates that early American political thought is incomplete without attention to these important female thinkers, and that an understanding of early American womens movements is incomplete without considering its profound impact on political thought. A complex and thoughtful guide to the indispensable role of women in shaping the American way of life, The Political Thought of Americas Founding Feminists is essential for a comprehensive understanding of the history of American political thought. **

Author: James A. Secord File Type: pdf This book aims at serious goals and achieves all of theirs. It pros ides x fundamentally new interpretation of the Cambrian-Silurian dispute based on exacting research and thoughtful interpretation. It also relates the dispute both to the general social background of British geology and to the distinctive personal experiences of Sedgswick and Murchison. Secord writes clear, rigorous prose and provides plenty of helpful illustrations. One cannot ask for more - William Montgomery, Science Secord gives a dazzlingly detailed account of this scientific trench warfare and its social consequences. One ends up with a marvellous feeling for the major taxonomic enterprises in Darwins younger day mapping, ordering, conquering taming the chaos of the strata. All of these of course had social and imperial ramifications and Secord mentions geologys moral appeal (in supporting a divinely-stratified Creation) to a beleaguered elite intent on subduing the lower orders. We also get a wonderful insight into the bitty slay these taxonomic enterprises progressed. . . . What comes across is how? our supposedly inert taxonomic constructs still reflect their contingent heritage - Adrian Desmond, London Review of Books James Secord provides a fascinating history of one of the most celebrated altercations in 19th-century science-the controversy over the proper boundary between the Cambrian and Silurian divisions in the oldest fossil-bearing rocks. By integrating the social and technical aspects of the conflict, the author opens up a range of new approaches to the history of natural science in the Victorian era. The result is a vivid story of the human effects of scientific partisanship and an important contribution to the study of the actual practice of science - European Journal of Engineering Education [Secords] book must become essential reading for any serious student of the history of the earth-sciences but it also**

Author: Yomota Inuhiko File Type: pdf What might Godzilla and Kurosawa have in common? What, if anything, links Ozus sparse portraits of domestic life and the colorful worlds of anime? In What Is Japanese Cinema? Yomota Inuhiko provides a concise and lively history of Japanese film that shows how cinema tells the story of Japan s modern age.Discussing popular works alongside auteurist masterpieces, Yomota considers films in light of both Japanese cultural particularities and cinema as a worldwide art form. He covers the history of Japanese film from the silent era to the rise of J-Horror in its historical, technological, and global contexts. Yomota shows how Japanese film has been shaped by traditonal art forms such as kabuki theater as well as foreign influences spanning Hollywood and Italian neorealism. Along the way, he considers the first golden age of Japanese film colonial filmmaking in Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan the impact of World War II and the U.S. occupation the Japanese film industrys rise to international prominence during the 1950s and 1960s and the challenges and technological shifts of recent decades. Alongside a larger thematic discussion of what defines and characterizes Japanese film, Yomota provides insightful readings of canonical directors including Kurosawa, Ozu, Suzuki, and Miyazaki as well as genre movies, documentaries, indie film, and pornography. An incisive and opinionated history, What Is Japanese Cinema? is essential reading for admirers and students of Japan s contributions to the world of film.__ReviewNo living scholar-critic of Japanese movies possesses Yomota Inuhikos encyclopedic range and sheer passion for film. What Is Japanese Cinema? is a tour de force of filmic history a concise and spirited account of how Japanese film came to be, illuminating carryovers from native theatrical traditions and the tensions lining the political history of modern East Asia. That Japanese cinema has all along been local, and in its imperial ambitions, aesthetic power, or moral forceglobal in its reach, is a matter that this insightful book brings remarkably to light. (Paul Anderer, author of Kurosawas Rashomon A Vanished City, a Lost Brother, and the Voice Inside His Iconic Films ) A famously rambunctious critic, Inuhiko Yomota proves to be an even better pedagogue. He deftly organizes Japans kaleidoscopic genres and film fashions into a totality you can grasp. Auteurs and stars sparkle above an omnivorous industry that metabolized traditional theater, popular manga, and Hollywood techniques into unmistakably Japanese forms. A swift, truly satisfying summary, What Is Japanese Cinema? is also just as vibrant and searching as its title, because its author is clearly in the thrall of his marvelous subject. (Dudley Andrew, Yale University) What Is Japanese Cinema? goes beyond the auteurist criticism that tells a history of cinema as a compilation of masterpieces. Instead, the work locates cinema in the specific contexts of cultural history as well as technological history. Yomota Inuhikos knowledge of and attentiveness to film theories and histories is incredible. (Daisuke Miyao, University of California, San Diego)About the AuthorYomota Inuhiko is an acclaimed Japanese essayist, cultural critic, and poet, the author of dozens of books on a wide range of subjects. He taught film studies and comparative literature at Meiji Gakuin University. Philip Kaffen is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages and Culture Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Author: Colin Milburn File Type: pdf In Respawn Colin Milburn examines the connections between video games, hacking, and science fiction that galvanize technological activism and technological communities. Discussing a wide range of games, from Portal and Final Fantasy VII to Super Mario Sunshine and Shadow of the Colossus, Milburn illustrates how they impact the lives of gamers and non-gamers alike. They also serve as resources for critique, resistance, and insurgency, offering a space for players and hacktivist groups such as Anonymous to challenge obstinate systems and experiment with alternative futures. Providing an essential walkthrough guide to our digital culture and its high-tech controversies, Milburn shows how games and playable media spawn new modes of engagement in a computerized world. **Review Drawing out the tight historical, aesthetic, and even political connections between sci-fi, video games, and hacking, Colin Milburn offers an engaging and innovative account of how video games give players a place to experiment with speculative futures and to form critical habits of thinking and acting. Respawn is a fantastic book. (Gabriella Coleman, author of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy The Many Faces of Anonymous) Respawn is more than just a book about video games it is an exploration of digital culture at a moment in which games have reached unprecedented popularity. Employing a lively style, anecdotes from online culture, and a deep archive of games,Respawn contributes to a number of fields, including studies of the history of science, fan cultures, science fiction, games, and even cybersecurity. (Patrick Jagoda, cofounder of the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab and author of Network Aesthetics) About the Author Colin Milburn is Gary Snyder Chair in Science and the Humanities and Professor of English, Science and Technology Studies, and Cinema and Digital Media at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Mondo Nano Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter and Nanovision Engineering the Future, both also published by Duke University Press.