My prescription for the false perception of novelty is the book Occidentalism: A Short History of Anti-Westernism.
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Can You Be Old and Still Embrace Change and Novelty?
With the ageing societies this is an economic and social issue, not just a problem of irritating old relatives.
Read More »Friday Femmes Fatales No 30 (Women Bloggers)
Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly "top ten" posts.
Read More »Book Review: Discovering Dorothea
If you come across information your subject would not have wanted known to posterity, what should you do with it?
Read More »A Russian Princess, a Lot of Science, and a Bit of Sex
Ekaterina Dashkova was a pioneering science administrator and linguist. So she's best known as Catherine the Great's "tester" of men.
Read More »Book Review: Reading Families: Women’s Literate Practice in Late Medieval England
Women were, through this engagement with the written word, beginning the long, tortuous climb into the public world.
Read More »Friday Femmes Fatales No 29 (Women Bloggers)
Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly "top ten" posts.
Read More »Book Review: The Gender Politics of ICT
There's many a computing industry boss who'd benefit from even a cursory browse of its contents.
Read More »The Falconio Trial: Following the Usual Scripts
If a female witness controls her emotions she's 'cold'; if she breaks down, she's either 'acting' or 'unstable'.
Read More »Friday Femmes Fatales No 28 (Women Bloggers)
Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly "top ten". And have you seen the Carnival of Feminists?
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