Galileo's Pendulum - Science, Sexuality, and the Body-Instrument Link

A volume in the SUNY series in Science, Technology, and Society Sal Restivo and Jennifer Croissant, editors

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Dusûan I. BjelicOE is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern Maine and the coeditor (with Obrad SavicOE) of Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation.

Zusammenfassung

Explores how the emergence of the scientific method in the seventeenth century led to a de-emphasis on the body and sexuality. Draws on the theories of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and others who have written on the history of sexuality and the body.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Dusan I Bjelic, Dusan I. Bjelic
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 09.10.2003
• EAN: 9780791458822
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-5882-2
• Seiten: 221
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Gewicht: 299 g
• Serien: Suny Series in Science, Techno; Suny Science, Technology, and; SUNY series in Science, Technology, and Society
• Thema: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein