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Demonstrates the vast range of philosophical approaches, regional issues and problems, perspectives, and historical and theoretical frameworks that together constitute feminist philosophy in Latin America and Spain. This book makes available to English-Speaking readers, the feminist thought in Latin America and Spain.

Jacobean tragedy is typically seen as translating a general dissatisfaction with the first Stuart monarch and his court into acts of calculated recklessness and cynical brutality. Drawing on theoretical influences from social history, psychoanalysis and the study of discourses, this book proposes an alternative perspective: Jacobean.

Contains a number of works from Russian literature published over the period in which the 'woman question' rose to the fore and reached its peak. This book includes discussions which focus on issues of narrative and space, and how they acted as 'technologies of gender'. It is useful for those interested in nineteenth-century Russian literature.

Deals with the international assessment and regulation of biomedical research. This book includes questions centred on global development, scientific advances, and vulnerability. It provides information on areas of bioethics, including medical and nursing ethics, health care ethics, research ethics, environmental ethics, and global bioethics.

In June 1940, as Nazi troops marched into Paris, the Soviet Army marched into Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia; and weeks later, USSR ratified the Soviet takeover of these states. For half a century, Soviet historians insisted that the three republics had voluntarily requested incorporation into the Soviet Union. This title presents this account.

What can philosophy bring to the reading of Beckett? Combining intertextual analysis with a 'schizoanalytic genealogy', this title offers a response to this much debated question. It focuses on zones of encounter and thresholds of engagement between Beckett's writing and a range of philosophers and philosophical concepts.

Attempts for the first time a comparative literary history of Germany and the USA in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book tries to uncover science's discoverer and explain why the conception of science has been changing during the centuries, and why science can be beneficial and dangerous for humanity. Far from being hermetic, this research can be interesting for all who want to understand deeper what really conditions the place of science in culture.

Offering essays from some of the leading academic writers and younger scholars in the field of American studies from both the United States and Europe, this volume constitutes a varied reconsideration of Modernist American poetry.