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)

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)

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。

The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take in a culture permeated by scientific and technical modes of thought. They attempt to identify certain very basic types of questions that seem to escape scientific resolution and call for, in Gadamer's view, philosophical reflection of a hermeneutic sort.In effect, Gadam...(展开全部)

This bold reappraisal of science and society explores the different ways that women's reproduction is seen in American culture. "Spectacular. There is no better study of the power of metaphor in modern medicine." —Thomas W. Laqueur, author of Making Sex "One of the greatest strengths of this fascinating book is Martin's careful analysis of how medical language about women's bod...(展开全部)