Previous owner's signature on ffep.This important and timely book challenges the direction taken by much recent work in the field of feminist studies. It mounts a powerful defence of humanism - a tradition of which many contemporary feminists have been sharply critical.Many feminists have viewed 'reason' and 'rationality' with deep suspicion. They have argued that reason was constructed by male philosophers in a way that excluded feminine traits: the man of reason was a masculine fiction.But this rejection of humanism assumes that there is only one tradition of humanism and only one conception of the rational individual. By carefully re-examining the texts of a feminist humanist tradition, Karen Green uncovers a different conception of the rational individual - a 'female version of rationality'. She captures the specificity of women's thought through a careful examination of their writings and their differences from the work of their male contemporaries.On this basis, Green argues that we need to reconceptualize both rationality and liberalism. Maintaining the ideal of rationality is quite compatible with understanding ourselves as embodied, emotional creatures whose sense of self is made up of a mixture of reason and feeling. Feminist humanism can provide a firm basis for political action and a compelling defence of equal political representation for women and men.211pp.
Polity Press, 1995, Paperback, Book Condition: Fine, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0745614493

Inventory #25301

Price: £ 10.00 GBP ($ 13.20 approx. - € 11.60 approx.)

Rain gods and their relatives developed out of an earlier tradition of larger hollow clay figurines, the earliest of which was collected at Tesuque Pueblo in 1879. They continue to be produced at Tesuque Pueblo to this day, constituting the longest continuous figurative art tradition in the Southwest. This book traces the evolution of the rain god from tourist art to Indian self-identity and self-expression. Importantly, it studies a popular form that has heretofore failed to earn the serious attention of scholars and collecting institutions and further the discourse on how art is defined and valued.144pp.Rear cover corner slightly creased.
Museum of New Mexico Press, 2002, Paperback, Book Condition: Like New, Jacket Condition: . First Edition. . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

ISBN: 0890134057

Inventory #13356

Price: £ 15.00 GBP ($ 19.80 approx. - € 17.40 approx.)

430pp.Brown embossed cloth with gilt decoration.Some marking to front board.
The Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited, 1908, Decorative Cloth, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No Jacket. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN:

Inventory #28829

Price: £ 15.00 GBP ($ 19.80 approx. - € 17.40 approx.)

This book is intended to provide a bridge between behavioural genetics, psychiatric genetics, developmental psychopathology and developmental psychology. Contents: Incorporating Development in the Search for Etiological Factors in Human Traits; Adaptive and Maladaptive Pathways in Development: A Quantitative Genetic Perspective; Variable Age of Expression: Implications for Developmental Genetic Model.Slightly bumped at tail of spine.252pp.
Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 1999, Cloth, Book Condition: Like New, Jacket Condition: Very Good. . . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

ISBN: 1560724277

Inventory #3397

Price: £ 50.00 GBP ($ 66.00 approx. - € 58.00 approx.)

Tiny tear on bottom of d/j spine.The challenge of this book has been to rethink prevailing ideas about the social map of Jewish society during the rabbinic period in Israel. New insights were made possible by using anthropological theories and tools. The book explores the rich and complex relationships among the sages, priests, and laymen who competed in social, cultural, and political arenas for hegemony. It demonstrates that this struggle was not a simple case of displacement of the priestly elite by a new scholarly elite.In the process of constituting a counter-hegemony of the sages, there was a complex push-pull process: attraction-rejection, imitation-denial, and co-operation-confrontation. They undermined the old order by using the old hegemonic priestly discourse. Whereas the sages proposed a new order based on intellectual achievement, they nevertheless created on top of the earlier hegemonic order a new order of group nepotism, endogamy, ritual purity, and secret knowledge and education provided only to the proper social classes. Ben-Zion concludes that even in the process of resistance and disengagement from the priestly hegemony, the sages could not free themselves from the bondage of the priestly discourse and praxis. 349pp.N.B.Quarter inch closed tear to base of d/j spine.
Academic Studies Press, 2009, Cloth, Book Condition: New, Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 9781934843147

Inventory #19960

Price: £ 30.00 GBP ($ 39.60 approx. - € 34.80 approx.)