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Public Feminisms: From Academy to Community
Edited by Carrie N. Baker & Aviva Dove-Viebahn
In this collection, a diverse range of feminist scholar-activists write about the dynamic and varied methods they use to reach beyond traditional classrooms and scholarly journals to share their work with the public.
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Like a Captive Bird: Gender and Virtue in Plutarch
Lunette Warren
Lunette Warren analyzes Plutarch’s ideas about women and gender in Moralia and Lives. The book examines the divergences between real and ideal, the aims and methods of moral philosophy and psychagogic practice as they relate to identity formation, and Plutarch’s theoretical philosophy and metaphysics.
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Democratic Criticism: Poetics of Incitement and the Muslim Sacred
Masood Raja
Raja encourages Western readers to develop a deeper understanding of the meaning-making processes of the Islamic world while at the same time encouraging the Muslim readers to read representations of the Islamic world with a more expansive understanding.
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Meaningful Technologies: How Digital Metaphors Change the Way We Think and Live
Eric Chown and Fernando Nascimento
Uniting approaches from philosophy and the cognitive and computer sciences, the authors focus on the feedback loop between digital metaphors and technology: its meaning, how it changes over time, and how it impacts learning and attention.
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