The Imaginary Domain

The Imaginary Domain
Author: Drucilla Cornell
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2016-01-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781134712748

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First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Imaginary Domain

The Imaginary Domain
Author: Drucilla Cornell
Publsiher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1995
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0415911605

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Cornell shows how affirming feminine sexual difference and advocating a programme of equivalent rights demands that we rethink the traditional conception of the public/private divide.

The Imaginary Domain

The Imaginary Domain
Author: Drucilla Cornell
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2016-01-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781134712816

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This book addresses the legal and political programme needed for the recognition of sexual difference. Cornell shows that by affirming feminine sexual difference we should rethink the traditional conception of a public/private divide. This book fundamentally alters the terrain of feminist legal and political philosophy, and does so in a prose style that is lucid and accessible. Cornell defends a feminist view of legal equality that synchronizes the distinct values of freedom and equality in the emotionally fraught sphere of life we call sex. Feminist legal theory has been plagued by the seemingly irreconcilable tension between these two values, particularly when it comes to issues like pornography and sexual harassment where they have been explicitly pitted against one another.

Just Cause

Just Cause
Author: Drucilla Cornell
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2000
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0847697916

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One of the distinguishing features of Drucilla Cornell's work is its emphasis on the significance of ideals. The essays collected here examine how the ideals of freedom and equality associated with the democratic revolutions of the West have survived the challenges of twentieth century critiques. Cornell argues that, far from threatening these ideals, feminism, race theory and other new theories have deepened their meaning and so allowed them to survive. In particular, Cornell here engages with issues surrounding representation and rights. Drawing on her experiences as a union organizer, she recounts how workers, and in particular women workers, came to imagine themselves in a way that allowed them to engage in political activism. The kind of representation-- the imaginative acts by which we envisage the world and our role in it-- is entwined, she argues, with struggles for representation in democratic practice. Cornell's work on law also reveals her vision of the role of the ideal. Included here are two of her most important contributions to legal theory--her well-known defense of worker's rights (also included is the response to her essay by Judge Richard Posner) and her ground-breaking defense of Spanish-language rights.

Digital Signal Processing A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists

Digital Signal Processing  A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists
Author: Steven Smith
Publsiher: Newnes
Total Pages: 666
Release: 2003
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780750674447

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CD-ROM contains source code listings, problem sets, and an eBook version with full text search

Inverse Problems in Engineering Mechanics

Inverse Problems in Engineering Mechanics
Author: Masataka Tanaka,G.S. Dulikravich
Publsiher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 622
Release: 1998-11-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 008053516X

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Inverse problems can be found in many topics of engineering mechanics. There are many successful applications in the fields of inverse problems (non-destructive testing and characterization of material properties by ultrasonic or X-ray techniques, thermography, etc.). Generally speaking, the inverse problems are concerned with the determination of the input and the characteristics of a mechanical system from some of the output from the system. Mathematically, such problems are ill-posed and have to be overcome through development of new computational schemes, regularization techniques, objective functionals, and experimental procedures. Seventy-two papers were presented at the International Symposium on Inverse Problems in Mechanics (ISIP '98) held in March of 1998 in Nagano, where recent developments in the inverse problems in engineering mechanics and related topics were discussed. The main themes were: mathematical and computational aspects of the inverse problems, parameter or system identification, shape determination, sensitivity analysis, optimization, material property characterization, ultrasonic non-destructive testing, elastodynamic inverse problems, thermal inverse problems, and other engineering applications.

Between Women and Generations

Between Women and Generations
Author: Drucilla Cornell
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781137098702

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This book defies easy categorization but will be one of the most original, thoughtful, and genuinely interesting books published next year. Before the author's mother died, she asked her daughter, Drucilla, to write a book 'that would bear witness to the dignity of her death [and one that] her bridge class would be able to understand.' As if that wasn't difficult enough, Drucilla's mother, who had a degenerative disease, decided to end her life by ingesting a lethal cocktail of drugs. Drucilla was in the unenviable position of bearing witness to her mother's act. Unsentimental yet poignant, candid and courageous, this is the book that Drucilla promised her mother she'd write. Unlike her earlier academically-oriented books, Between Women and Generations is an intensely personal narrative which interweaves the personal and political decisions Drucilla's made throughout her life. She uses the personal as a springboard to talk about larger philosophical issues such as how one achieves dignity in life and in death, and the nature of intergenerational relationships between women. Drucilla speaks candidly of her relationship with her mother, about her decision to adopt a non-Western child, and about her commitment to UNITY, a cooperative of house cleaners in Long Island, New York. This book will resonate strongly with Western women.

Dancing with Iris

Dancing with Iris
Author: Ann Ferguson,Mechthild Nagel
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2009-10-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199738297

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Iris Marion Young was a world-renowned feminist moral and political philosopher whose many books and articles spanned more than three decades. She explored issues of social justice and oppression theory, the phenomenology of women's bodies, deliberative democracy and questions of terrorism, violence, international law and the role of the national security state. Her works have been of great interest to those both in the analytic and Continental philosophical tradition, and her roots range from critical theory (Habermas and Marcuse), and phenomenology (Beauvoir and Merleau Ponty) to poststructural psychoanalytic feminism (Kristeva and Ingaray). This anthology of writings aims to carry on the fruitful lines of thought she created and contains works by both well-known and younger authors who explore and engage critically with aspects of her work. The essays include personal remembrances as well as a last interview with Young about her work. The essays are organized into topic areas that are of interest to students in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in ethics, feminist theory, and political philosophy.