Woman Forms & Desires

Through an exploration of the intertwined histories of hormonal contraception and population anxiety, in Demographic Desires: Medicine, Media, and Emergency Contraception in India,...

Desire plays a pivotal role in our lives. Yet in recent times, it has not been a central topic in the philosophy of mind. The aim of this book is to redress this imbalance. What ar...

“Disrupting the Fantasy: Adorno and the Working-Class Woman” exposes Adorno’s identity thinking in his figurations of the “working-class woman.” The forms in which she appears in A...

Desire has not been at the center of recent preoccupations in the philosophy of mind. Consequently, the literature settled into several dogmas. The first part of this introduction ...

A remarkable exploration of Wonder Woman’s creation, mysterious identity, and evolution–and her extraordinary impact on her legions of fans. For generations, Wond...

In standard presentations of functionalism in the philosophy of mind, it is generally assumed that our mental states determine our behavioral dispositions as a holistic unit. Thus,...

The Historian's Awakening is a full commentary on the text (included) that provides social and cultural history context, discussions of the author and her times as well as valuable...

Philosophers concerned with self-understanding have often conceived of it as either a matter of immediate, unchallengeable introspective awareness or as a matter of gathering evide...