Demonstrates that between 1880 and 1940, cultural discourses of whiteness and heterosexuality fused to form a new concept of the "normal" American. Building her argument from detailed readings of an array of popular texts and focusing on how sex education for children and marita…
Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the w…
This volume deals with the social legislation of Zhu Yuanzhang, who founded the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), following the era of Mongol rule in China. It recounts the circumstances under which the laws were enacted and what the Emperor claimed he was trying to accomplish - a resto…
"What kind of person is curious? What makes a person or thing an object of curiosity? From Gulliver to Frankenstein, from detectives to hot air baloonists, curious and inquiring characters have been portrayed as themselves curiosities, as social upstarts, and as spectacles to be…
"What kind of person is curious? What makes a person or thing an object of curiosity? From Gulliver to Frankenstein, from detectives to hot air balloonists, curious and inquiring characters have been portrayed as themselves curiosities, as social upstarts, and as spectacles to b…
In this path-breaking book, economists and scholars from other disciplines use standard economic tools to investigate the formation and evolution of normative preferences. The collection's premise is that an adequate understanding of how an economy and society are organized and …
