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In Hidden Depths, Professor Penny Spikins explores how our emotional connections have shaped human ancestry. Focusing on three key transitions in human origins, Professor Spikins explains how the emotional capacities of our early ancestors evolved in response to ecological changes, much like similar changes in other social mammals. For each transition, dedicated chapters examine evolutionary pressures, responses in changes in human emotional capacities and the archaeological evidence for human social behaviours. Starting from our earliest origins, in Part One, Professor Spikins explores how after two million years ago, movement of human ancestors into a new ecological niche drove new types of collaboration, including care for vulnerable members of the group. Emotional adaptations lead to cognitive changes, as new connections based on compassion, generosity, trust and inclusion also changed our relationship to material things. Part Two explores a later key transition in human emotional capacities occurring after 300,000 years ago. At this time changes in social tolerance allowed ancestors of our own species to further reach out beyond their local group and care about distant allies, making human communities resilient to environmental changes. An increasingly close relationship to animals, and even to cherished possessions, appeared at this time, and can be explained through new human vulnerabilities and ways of seeking comfort and belonging. Lastly, Part Three focuses on the contrasts in emotional dispositions arising between ourselves and our close cousins, the Neanderthals. Neanderthals are revealed as equally caring yet emotionally different humans, who might, if things had been different, have been in our place today. This new narrative breaks away from traditional views of human evolution as exceptional or as a linear progression towards a more perfect form. Instead, our evolutionary history is situated within similar processes occurring in other mammals, and explained as one in which emotions, rather than 'intellect', were key to our evolutionary journey. Moreover, changes in emotional capacities and dispositions are seen as part of differing pathways each bringing strengths, weaknesses and compromises. These hidden depths provide an explanation for many of the emotional sensitivities and vulnerabilities which continue to influence our world today.

In Hidden Depths, Professor Penny Spikins explores how our emotional connections have shaped human ancestry.
Focusing on three key transitions in human origins, Professor Spikins explains how the emotional capacities of our early ancestors evolved in response to ecological changes, much like similar changes in other social mammals. For each transition, dedicated chapters examine evolutionary pressures, responses in changes in human emotional capacities and the archaeological evidence for human social behaviours.
Starting from our earliest origins, in Part One, Professor Spikins explores how after two million years ago, movement of human ancestors into a new ecological niche drove new types of collaboration, including care for vulnerable members of the group. Emotional adaptations lead to cognitive changes, as new connections based on compassion, generosity, trust and inclusion also changed our relationship to material things. Part Two explores a later key transition in human emotional capacities occurring after 300,000 years ago. At this time changes in social tolerance allowed ancestors of our own species to further reach out beyond their local group and care about distant allies, making human communities resilient to environmental changes. An increasingly close relationship to animals, and even to cherished possessions, appeared at this time, and can be explained through new human vulnerabilities and ways of seeking comfort and belonging. Lastly, Part Three focuses on the contrasts in emotional dispositions arising between ourselves and our close cousins, the Neanderthals. Neanderthals are revealed as equally caring yet emotionally different humans, who might, if things had been different, have been in our place today.
This new narrative breaks away from traditional views of human evolution as exceptional or as a linear progression towards a more perfect form. Instead, our evolutionary history is situated within similar processes occurring in other mammals, and explained as one in which emotions, rather than 'intellect', were key to our evolutionary journey. Moreover, changes in emotional capacities and dispositions are seen as part of differing pathways each bringing strengths, weaknesses and compromises. These hidden depths provide an explanation for many of the emotional sensitivities and vulnerabilities which continue to influence our world today.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Search and Recover -- PART 1 Rethinking political theory -- 1 The Politics of the Canon: Gatekeepers and Gate-Crashers -- 2 The Politics of Ignorance: Christine de Pizan -- 3 The Politics of Form: Sei Shōnagon -- PART 2 Doing political theory -- 4 Community: Mary Wollstonecraft and Anna Julia Cooper -- 5 Revolution: Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls -- 6 Childhood: Emma Goldman -- 7 Power: Mary Astell -- 8 Equality: Quilted Voices -- References -- Index

Part I: Introducing the Child and Feminist Perspectives. Chapter 1: Who/What Is a Child?-- Chapter 2: Why Feminist Reflections on Childhood? -- Part II: On Voice and Silence. Interlude: The Stories -- Chapter 3: The Everyday Silencing of Children and the Feminist Politics of Voice -- Part III: Historical Threads. Interlude: The Stories -- Chapter 4: Reflections on Childhood in the History of Feminist Thought: Tyranny and Resistance -- Chapter 5: Two Models of Feminist Childhoods: Emma Goldman and Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Bridging Historical and Contemporary Reflections. Chapter 6: Feminist Manifestos: Childhood on Feminist Agendas -- Part IV: Contemporary Threads. Interlude: The Stories -- Chapter 7: Learning from Feminist Epistemology -- Chapter 8: Learning from Feminist Disability Theory -- Chapter 9: Learning from Queer Theory -- Bridging Historical and Contemporary Reflections. Chapter 10: Childhood in Feminist Dystopias and Utopias.

Women, smoking and visual culture, 1880-1980 : an introduction -- Invisible women smokers, 1880-1919 -- The feminization of smoking, 1920-1950 -- Modern and emancipated women -- The sexual promise -- Respectable smoking : a class act -- Look at me smoking : revealing portraits? -- Mixed messages, 1950-1980.

Intro -- Halftitle -- About the Author -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Glossary -- Notes -- Haus Curiosities.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Making Rights Work - The South African Experience -- 2 The Struggle for Women's Rights in South Africa -- 3 Afrikaner Perceptions of Self-Determination -- 4 The Protection of Language Rights in South Africa's Interim Constitution -- 5 Lessons from the Demise of Bophuthatswana -- 6 Making Rights Work -- 7 The Genesis of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms -- 8 Anti-Discrimination Laws in Canada: Human Rights Commissions and the Search for Equality -- 9 Gender Equality and the Canadian Charter: Making Rights Work for Women? -- 10 Rainbow's End: Getting Gay Rights Right -- 11 The Genesis of a European Law for the Protection of Minorities -- 12 Limiting the Freedom to Protest: Legal Responses to Direct Action -- 13 Rapporteur: Perspectives on 'Making Rights Work'

Britain has a fine tradition of writing about supervision practice. This book connects to this by organising reflection around the practice taken from the author's sixteen years experience as a practitioner. Taking three broad sets of tasks of supervision as an organising frame, the book weaves examples of professional experience with current research and other reflective writing. From a broadly humanistic perspective, it examines the developmental journey of a supervisor interested in the overlap of the personal and the professional.