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“jane duran”

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  • the clarity of distant things

    by Jane Duran ...
    Jane Duran's new book of two striking sequences takes readers into other worlds—'gridlines,' in which the life and paintings of Agnes Martin are interwoven, and 'miniatures of al-Andalus' inspired by the illuminated Cantigas de Santa María and the art and artefacts of Islamic Iberia. The simple gridlines of Duran's couplets recall Martin's square canvasses, her precisely rendered grids and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Silences from the Spanish Civil War

    by Jane Duran ...
    Jane Duran's father fought in the Spanish Civil War with the Republican army and went into exile after its defeat. This poem-sequence takes as its point of departure her father's silence about the war: 'He lays down his arms. / He raises his arms over his head. / He will not tell.' In a constant search for 'the breath of the unknown', the poems move between the present and the past. Professor Paul ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Feminist Analyses of Applied Ethics

    by Jane Duran ...
    This book forwards a line of argument that indicates how feminist analyses can ameliorate the standard consequential (and occasionally deontological) lines in applied ethics. Drawing on core concepts in feminist philosophy, Feminist Analyses of Applied Ethics investigates five major issues: immigration, environmental preservation, intervention in medical areas, the peace movement, and matters of ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy

    Conversations Between Men and Women Philosophers

    by Karen J. Warren, Therese Boos Dykeman, Eve Browning, Judith Chelius Stark, Jane Duran, Marilyn Fischer, Lois Frankel, Edward Fullbrook, Jo Ellen Jacobs, Vicki Harper0, Joy Laine1, Kate Lindemann2, Elizabeth K. Minnich3, Andrea Nye4, Margaret Simons5, Audun Solli6, Catherine Villanueva Gardner7, Mary Ellen Waithe8, Henry West9 ...
    Gender scholarship during the last four decades has shown that the exclusion of women's voices and perspectives has diminished academic disciplines in important ways. Traditional scholarship in philosophy is no different. The 'recovery project' in philosophy is engaged in re-discovering the names, lives, texts, and perspectives of women philosophers from the 6th Century BCE to the present. Karen ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Women in Political Theory

    by Jane Duran ...
    The first volume to explore comprehensively the intersection of feminism, politics, and philosophy, Women in Political Theory sheds light on the contributions of women philosophers and theorists to contemporary political thought. With close attention to the work of five central thinkers-Sarah Grimké, Anna Julia Cooper, Jane Addams, Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt-this book not only offers ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    by Ernest N. Emenyonu, Janet N. Ndula, Janice Spleth, Jessica C. Hume, Louisa Uchum Egbunike, Maitrayee Misra, Manish Shrivastava, Mary Jane Androne, Oluwole Coker, Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo0, Rose Sackeyfio1, Carol Ijeoma Njoku2, Silvana Carotenuto3, Chikwendu PK Anyanwu4, Cristina Cruz-Gutiérrez5, Edgar Fred Nabutanyi6, Gichingiri Ndigirigi7, Iniobong I. Uko8, Jane Duran9 ...
    Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps and introduced new motifs and narrative styles which have energized contemporary African fiction since her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003). With Half of a Yellow Sun (2007) and The Thing Around Your Neck - Short Stories (2009), she established herself as a preeminent story-teller. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Queenly Philosophers

    Renaissance Women Aristocrats as Platonic Guardians

    by Jane Duran ...
    Recent work on the Platonic notion of the Guardian has focused on the female Guardian, or “Philosopher Queen,” but mainly insofar as the idea is problematic. Okin, Saxonhouse, and others have tried to be more precise about the concepts involved—this work aims to use actual publications by British and continentally-trained women aristocrats of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to fill in the ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Women, Philosophy and Literature

    by Jane Duran ...
    New work on women thinkers often makes the point that philosophical conceptual thought is where we find it, examples such as Simone de Beauvoir and the nineteenth century Black American writer Anna Julia Cooper assure us that there is ample room for the development of philosophy in literary works but as yet there has been no single unifying attempt to trace such projects among a variety of women ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Worlds of Knowing

    Global Feminist Epistemologies

    by Jane Duran ...
    Jane Duran's Worlds of Knowing begins to fill an enormous gap in the literature of feminist epistemology: a wide-ranging, cross-cultural primer on worldviews and epistemologies of various cultures and their appropriations by indigenous feminist movements in those cultures. It is the much needed epistemological counterpart to work on cross-cultural feminist social and political philosophy. This ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Philosophies Of Science

    Feminist Theories

    by Jane Duran ...
    This book presents the feminist critique of science and the philosophy of science in such a way that students of philosophy of science, philosophers, feminist theorists, and scientists will find the material accessible and intellectually rigorous. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    by Gregory Castle ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
    The Literary Theory Handbook introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, showing them how to perform literary analysis, and providing a greater understanding of the historical contexts for different theories.A new edition of this highly successful text, which includes updated and refined chapters, and new sections on contemporary theoriesFar reaching in its inclusion of a ... Read more

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  • A Conflict of Visions

    Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    **The landmark explanation of the competing visions of human nature that lie at the heart of our political conflicts“A classic of a very special kind...Reading it is like looking up at the night sky and discovering a new constellation.” —Christian Science Monitor**Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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