"Feminist Mothering goes beyond critiques of patriarchal motherhood to locate and investigate feminist maternal practices as sites for women's empowerment and social change. The contributors see "feminist mothering" as practices of mothering that seek to challenge and change the norms of... More Info

A new ethical concept of democracy as the cultivation and practice of civic virtues in a pluralistic setting is presented in this thoughtful and wide-ranging study. Drawing upon such figures as Aristotle, Montesquieu, Hegel, Dewey, Heidegger, Arendt, and Lefort, Fred Dallmayr emphasizes the need... More Info

A revised translation of Heidegger's most important work.  More Info

Based on an ecologically inspired worldview, defends ethics against skepticism and irrealism. Places ethics into the wider context of religion, God, and evil, and offers postmodern suggestions for environmental, technological, and political reforms.  More Info

Having roots as a specialized philosophical movement at Oxford University in the early 1970s, critical animal studies is not taking shape as a wide-open, mutlidisciplinary endeavor through which scholars across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, and others, are joining together to... More Info

Interrogates the normative heterosexual family from feminist, Jewish, and queer perspectives.  More Info

Entertaining and enlightening interviews with some of today's most important Native Americans.  More Info

An interdisciplinary and contemporary response to Irigaray's work.  More Info

Explores the work of Maurice Kenny, a pivotal figure in American Indian literature from the 1950s to the present.  More Info

As celebrities sporting "baby bumps," politicians, Olympic athletes, and talk show guests, mothers are ubiquitous throughout U.S. media and popular culture. Like lightning rods, these high-profile mothers attract accolades and judgments associated with ideals of female sexuality, gender roles, and... More Info

The story of Lucy Diggs Slowe, a pioneering African American figure in sports and education  More Info

Essays reevaluating and challenging the critiques of the urban studies field  More Info