America needs the humanities more than ever. So why have we abandoned them?
The challenges this country faces are a direct result of abandoning the humanities — and only the humanities can help us solve them
By Katherine Pickering Antonova September 18
Katherine Pickering Antonova is associate professor of history at Queens College, CUNY and author of "An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia."
"Weber's study undertakes a much-needed comprehensive investigation of the contemporary 'regime of gender violence,' that is, the key role violence has played in defining the position of Muslims in the German public sphere (in the larger European context). Through nuanced theorizing as well as careful historical contextualization, Weber develops an intersectional framework for analyzing gendered violence in a way that does not reinforce racialized discourses of cultural and/or religious difference." [more...]
Palgrave Macmillan, January 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-00708-7, ISBN10: 1-137-00708-7
252 pages.
