Lo social como institución imaginaria

EQUALITY UNDER SUSPICION - The transforming power of education - The book describes equality based on the idea that no woman should be less equal in opportunity or in human rights than any man. Even with the granting of equality to women in public life, women’s domestic labour will always be unequal to that of men. The hidden patriarchal agenda of public institutions can subvert the apparent equality of legal rights. Education is one of the most powerful ways in which gender and social relations of production are reproduced. The combined influence of gender and class construction in schools ...

Here the physician and anthropologist Melvin Konner examines the arc of evolution to explain the relationships between women and men. Drawing on examples from Nature, Konner sheds light on our biologically different identities and the poignant exceptions that challenge the traditional man / woman division. We will meet the hunter-gatherers of Botswana, whose culture gave women a prominent place, creating the figure of the working mother and respecting the voices of women around the fire. Orientation of societies towards war and the conquest fostered extreme male dominance. But our species has ...

This collection of papers from an international colloquium held in Gijon in 2002 discusses the question of unity and diversity among people living along the Atlantic littoral during the Roman period. The papers are divided into sections that look specifically at issues of territories, frontiers and military strategy, at production, circulation and consumption, with particular attention paid to ceramic evidence, and at the structure of settlements before and after the Romans arrived. Whilst some contributions examine a particular site or area such as the provinces of Galicia and Asturias,...

Cuando los focos de la controversia se centren en ti, no los apagues ni te escondas. Tómalo como una oportunidad. Cuando la Iglesia sale en las noticias, unos se asombran, otros se indignan y no faltan quienes se escandalizan. No busques un escondrijo: prepárate. Publicado ya en siete lenguas, esta octava edición de Cómo defender la fe sin levantar la voz, con dos capítulos nuevos y datos actualizados, responde, entre otras, a estas nuevas preguntas desafiantes de total actualidad. El libro desarrolla cómo salir del marco negativo en el que con frecuencia se encasilla a quien habla como ...