Originally developed to help heterosexual couples, fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization and sperm donation have provided lesbians with new methods for achieving pregnancy during the past two decades. "Queering Reproduction" is an important sociological analysis of lesbians' use of these medical fertility treatments. Drawing on in-depth interviews with lesbians se...(展开全部)

Originally developed to help heterosexual couples, fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization and sperm donation have provided lesbians with new methods for achieving pregnancy during the past two decades. "Queering Reproduction" is an important sociological analysis of lesbians' use of these medical fertility treatments. Drawing on in-depth interviews with lesbians se...(展开全部)

One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly – and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and...(展开全部)

In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Michelle Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neo-liberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the tec...(展开全部)

It has often been claimed that "monsters"--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The Origins of Monsters advances an alternative view. Composite figurations are intriguingly rare and isolated in the art of the prehistoric era. Instead it was with the rise of cities, eli...(展开全部)

Incorporating the most recent scholarship, this book offers a fascinating history of Rome and the Roman peoples during the rule of the first Roman emperor, Augustus. Written in an easily accessible style, making it the ideal introduction to Augustan Rome for those with little previous knowledge Offers compelling insight into the workings of Roman society during this pivotal pe...(展开全部)

杰里米·布莱克（Jeremy Black） 英国埃克塞特大学历史学教授，军事与外交史专家，曾在西点军校、德克萨斯基督教大学和斯蒂尔曼学院担任客座教授。2008年获得美国军事史学会颁发的“塞缪尔·埃利奥特·莫里森奖”。2018年成为英国外交政策研究所的邓普顿研究员。他曾出版100多本历史著作，包括《绘制过去：18世纪英格兰的历史世界》《绘制莎士比亚：通过地图探索莎士比亚的世界》等。

杰里米·布莱克（Jeremy Black） 英国埃克塞特大学历史学教授，军事与外交史专家，曾在西点军校、德克萨斯基督教大学和斯蒂尔曼学院担任客座教授。2008年获得美国军事史学会颁发的“塞缪尔·埃利奥特·莫里森奖”。2018年成为英国外交政策研究所的邓普顿研究员。他曾出版100多本历史著作，包括《绘制过去：18世纪英格兰的历史世界》《绘制莎士比亚：通过地图探索莎士比亚的世界》等。