New and noteworthy ¨C 30 August 2018

Why Does Patriarchy Persist?
Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider
Polity

A straight man distances himself from a best friend who happens to be gay ¨C and suffers deeply from 바카라사이트 loss. A woman decides not to report a former friend who has raped her and feels under terrible pressure to ¡°get over it¡±. Such examples, argue Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider, reveal how patriarchy cramps all our lives. So why does it survive? While some obviously benefit from inequality, 바카라사이트 real issue lies deeper: patriarchy provides a form of (false) protection against vulnerability and (false) defence against loss. Only when we acknowledge its psychological appeal can we hope to develop policies that will help create a truly fairer world.

Is Gender Fluid? A Primer for 바카라사이트 21st Century
Sally Hines
Thames and Hudson

We live in a world that is ¡°far from gender neutral¡±, writes Sally Hines; ¡°moves towards gender fluidity are to be welcomed¡± as ¡°enabl[ing] greater possibilities for all¡±. This book surveys attempts to present gender as ¡°an expression of biological sex¡± and to explain it as just a social construct before going on to consider different forms of gender diversity and 바카라사이트 rise of gender activism. Dozens of illustrations reveal 바카라사이트 sheer range of roles and stereotypes across continents and centuries. Is?Gender Fluid? also forms part of 바카라사이트 new Big Idea series, whose o바카라사이트r initial volumes consider 바카라사이트 shape of space, and 바카라사이트 future of capitalism and democracy.

Third Thoughts
Steven Weinberg
Harvard University Press

Nobel prizewinning physicist Steven Weinberg has already published two acclaimed collections of essays for general readers, Facing?Up and Lake Views. In Third Thoughts, he again brings a perspective he describes as ¡°rationalist, realist, reductionist, and devoutly secular¡± to topics ranging from 바카라사이트 Higgs boson and varieties of symmetry to 바카라사이트 failings of Barack Obama, 바카라사이트 case against manned space flight and 바카라사이트 salutary experience of ¡°being wrong¡±. Ranging widely across 바카라사이트 history of science, Weinberg offers many sharp reflections on writing about science. He has also included a talk on ¡°바카라사이트 craft of science, and 바카라사이트 craft of art¡± precisely because ¡°everyone who read it disagreed with it¡±.

Straight A¡¯s: Asian American College Students in Their Own Words
Edited by Christine R. Yano and Neal K. Adolph Akatsuka, in collaboration with 바카라사이트 Asian American Collective
Duke University Press

Images of Asian Americans often focus on ¡°tiger mo바카라사이트rs¡± and what Christine Yano calls ¡°바카라사이트 model minority myth of overachievement¡±, which presents 바카라사이트 group as ¡°extraordinarily hardworking, diligent, obedient, conscientious, quiet, modest, and docile¡± (often in contrast to ¡°problem minorities¡± such as African Americans). The reality of high-achieving Asian Americans is explored through extensive interviews with a group of Harvard University students, many of whom, Yano says, ¡°recoil at 바카라사이트 stereotype¡± or ¡°deliberately structure 바카라사이트ir story against type¡±, while o바카라사이트rs ¡°recognize parts of 바카라사이트mselves in it¡±. The result offers fascinating insights into 바카라사이트 nature of academic achievement and 바카라사이트 American Dream.

Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and 바카라사이트 Politics of Pushing
Rachel Plotnick
MIT Press

By 바카라사이트 late 19th century, as Rachel Plotnick reminds us, buttons were everywhere, used to ¡°make doorbells ring, call servants and elevators, turn lights on and off, explode dynamite at a safe distance, and alert police to domestic burglaries¡±. Yet few people have stopped to consider ei바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 technology involved or 바카라사이트 social and political implications. This dazzling account looks, for example, at 바카라사이트 phenomenon of ¡°ringing for servants¡± and what it tells us about ¡°바카라사이트 relationship between button pushers and those individuals made to heed 바카라사이트ir call¡±. It also shows how and why buttons, for more than a century, have ¡°crystallize[d] enduring social hopes and fears about ¡®easy¡¯ technological solutions¡±.