Maternidad, dolor y sistema sanitario

En un mundo cada vez más plural y cambiante es imprescindible cuestionarse el papel que juegan las ideologías en la configuración de los movimientos sociales, políticos, económicos, culturales y científicos. Con este fin se reunen en este volumen una serie de colaboraciones orientadas a fomentar el debate público necesario para comprender la complejidad de nuestro tiempo y la dificultad de la convivencia plural en un entorno multicultural y multi-ideológico.

Cómo la migración, las nuevas tecnologías de la información, la democracia y la política han afectado la cultura de México en el siglo 20.

Our population practices both traditional and organized religions, like various forms of syncretism in everyday life. Nonetheless, religious organizations and its practices in some occasions have been addressed in a critical way, taking into consideration its negative effects on our social lives. It is to say that it seems there is a social consensus that understands these implications and consequences are exclusively positive. The religious person provides direction for everyday living, in explicit and implicit ways. Although the less institutionalized versions of the practices, at the...

Fatema Mernissi, the world-renowned Islamic feminist, has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East, in works hailed as "enchanting" (The New York Times Book Review), "exuberant" (Elle), and "remarkable" (The Washington Post Book World). Now, in Scheherazade Goes West, Mernissi reveals her unique experiences as a liberated, independent Moroccan woman faced with the peculiarities and unexpected encroachments of Western culture. Her often surprising discoveries about the conditions of and attitudes toward women around the world -- and the exquisitely embroidered amalgam...