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This article provides an introduction to Irigaray's work, dealing with the questions of cultural difference that a culture of sexual difference raises. It sets out the main elements of Irigaray's thought and work without assuming any prior knowledge of it. It discusses her status as a French thinker and her reception in Anglo-academia, emphasizing the influence of Heidegger and Hegel on her thinking, and questioning her categorization as a `French feminist' and exponent of `feminine writing'. It highlights Irigaray's work in the 1990s, particularly its more political aspects. Her proposals for a democracy based on the man-woman couple are discussed, as is her relation to Italian feminism and her work within the European Parliament to bring about a sexed definition of citizenship. Irigaray is presented as a political philosopher of change who is concerned with a future of justice for everyone.

Vita Sackville-West is now best known as Virginia Woolf's muse, as a horticultural journalist, and as the creator of Sissinghurst's gardens. Yet during her lifetime, her works were translated energetically into German and she was cast in some German literary journals as a leading figure on the European interwar and post-war literary scene. This essay analyses how Sackville-West's short story, Seducers in Ecuador (Hogarth Press, 1924), made its 1929 debut in Germany as 'Verführer in Ecuador' in the journal Die neue Rundschau [The New Review]. This offers an interesting case study not only of how a work could change its medium through translation – from a free-standing novella to a short story in a literary journal – but also its context through the new set of juxtapositions and cultural associations it acquired by being absorbed into German periodical culture. The function of small magazines in promoting new ideas or forms of art has been well researched in the context of British modernist writing, but little attention has been paid to the reception of translations of such work in European journals. Yet they often functioned as important promotional conduits and were influential in shaping how authors gained footholds in foreign markets.

"A passionate celebrator of "sexual difference," Luce Irigaray was never simply after the social equality that her generation so publicly demanded. She was seeking more fundamentally a society that celebrated the differences between the genders and their coming together in a union without hierarchy. As she formulates it in this compellingly readable introduction to her own thought, Irigaray is writing about how "I" and "You" become "We." Exploring along the way women's experiences of motherhood, abortion, the AIDS crisis and the beauty industry, this book presents one of the most important thinkers of our day in her own words."--Jacket

Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- Preface Page -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 How to Use This Book -- 1.2 What Is a Breed? -- 1.3 Genetic Character of Breeds -- 1.4 Why Breeds Are Important -- 1.5 Sustaining Breeds over Time -- 2 Breed Basics -- 2.1 How Breeds Form -- 2.2 Classes of Breeds -- 2.2.1 Landraces -- 2.2.2 Standardized Breeds -- 2.2.3 Modern "Type" and "Designer" Breeds -- 2.2.4 Industrial Strains -- 2.2.5 Feral Populations -- 2.2.6 Dog Breeds -- 2.2.7 Poultry Breeds -- 2.2.8 Summary -- 2.3 How Breeds Are Lost -- 3 Breeds as Gene Pools: Variability and Predictability -- 3.1 Standardized Breeds -- 3.2 Landraces -- 3.3 Subgroups within a Breed: Bloodlines, Strains, and Varieties -- 3.4 Gene Flow into and out of Breeds -- 3.4.1 Upgrading and What It Does -- 3.4.2 Upgrading and Bloodlines -- 4 Defining an Individual Breed -- 4.1 Which Animals to Include -- 4.2 One Breed or Two -- 4.3 Breed Histories -- 4.4 Geography and Source Herds -- 4.5 Recovery of Purebred Animals into Registries -- 4.5.1 Native on Appearance -- 5 Breed Standards -- 5.1 Breed Type -- 5.2 Different Sorts of Breed Standards -- 5.3 Breed Type Reproduces Breed Type -- 5.4 Developing a Breed Standard -- 5.5 Breed Standards and Genetic Diversity -- 5.6 Breed Standards and Breed Loss -- 5.7 Standard Traits That Can Be Detrimental -- 5.8 Qualitative and Quantitative Traits -- 5.9 Changes to the Breed Standard -- 6 Principles of Genetic Management -- 6.1 Linebreeding and Inbreeding -- 6.2 Outcrossing: Crossbreeding and Linecrossing -- 6.3 Defining Matings as "Related" or "Unrelated" -- 6.4 Linebreeding or Outcrossing: Which Is Best? -- 6.5 Rational Crossbreeding -- 7 Selection as a Genetic Management Tool -- 7.1 Degree of Selection -- 7.2 Selection and Breed-Specific Traits -- 7.3 Genetic Drift -- 7.4 Single Gene Traits.

This inviting, visual guide to the world of heritage livestock explains why conserving heritage breeds is important, how to raise the profiled species (including chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, rabbits, pigs, sheep, goats, cattle, donkeys, and horses), and who are the people working to preserve these breeds.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Women in the History of Science: Frameworks, Themes and Contested Perspectives -- From Great Women to a More Nuanced View: Scholarship on Women in Science -- References -- Part II Strategies and Networks -- 2 The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: Nature, Self-Knowing Matter, and the Dialogic Universe -- The Scientific Revolution -- Cavendish's Early Particle Theory: 'Poems and Fancies' and 'Philosophical Fancies' (1653) -- Literary Forms and Cavendish's Later Science -- Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (1666) -- The Blazing World -- Conclusion: Cavendish on Education for Women -- References -- 3 Navigating Enlightenment Science: The Case of Marie Geneviève-Charlotte Darlus Thiroux D'Arconville and Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier De Breteuil and the Republic of Letters -- Enlightenment Cultural Norms: The Nature of Woman -- Scientific Education for a Woman -- Personal Networks of Correspondents and Researchers -- Translations, Commentaries, and Anonymity -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 'A Valuable Gift': The Medical Life of Margaret Mason, Lady Mount Cashell -- A Physician's Life -- 'It Is a Mistake to Suppose the Aid of Men Necessary' -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Janet Taylor (1804-1870): Mathematical Instrument Maker and Teacher of Navigation -- Learning About Mrs. Taylor -- Mrs. Taylor's Early Life -- Janet Taylor-Author -- Mathematical Instrument Manufacturer-And Inventor -- Janet Taylor-Compass Adjuster -- Janet Taylor-A Civil List Pension -- Remembering Mrs. Taylor -- References -- 6 Early Female Geologists: The Importance of Professional and Educational Societies During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Social Context and Attitudes to Scientific Women.

"This new edition of a longstanding, successful textbook explores the complex issues necessary to understand and reform the prison system. Draws from both ethnographic and professional material, and situates the prison experience within both contemporary and historical contexts Features first person accounts from prisoners and staff – both men and women – explaining what it's like to live and work in prison, and in doing so brings the issues alive for students Includes brand new extensive chapters on prison reform, and on supermax correctional facilities – including research on confinement, long-term segregation, and death row Explores topics including the nature of prison as punishment; prisoner personality types and their coping strategies; gang violence; prison officers' public and private custodial duties; and psychological, educational, and work programs offered Develops policy recommendations for the future based on qualitative and quantitative research and evidence-based initiatives"--