Programs, tours and exhibits are the meat-and-potatoes of what most museums do to meet their missions to educate the public. Interpretation helps make small museums compelling so that the public understands that they are more than a repository of dusty objects. This book considers researching and designing exhibits and best practices for sharing the stories with your audiences. It explores how to orient your organization to be effective interpreters of what you collect, including how to te...

In the early 1980s the new reproductive technologies available supposedly offered infertile women a chance to have children. However, there was growing concern that the determination of scientists to dominate nature, their disregard for women’s well-being, and the financial gains to be made from these technologies would together result in the increased modification of all women’s lives and the loss of even more control over our own bodies.Originally published in 1985, the essays in...

Coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky saga followed in a long trail of media exposures of the more personal details of the lives of public figures. Many commentators have seen stories like this, and TV shows like Jerry Springer's, as evidence of a decline in the standards of the mass media. This increasing interest in private lives and the falling off of coverage of serious news is often described as “tabloidization.” The essays in this book are the first serious scholarly studies of what is go...

In recent years there has been a huge rise in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in animal sciences which has accelerated improvements in animal welfare. Down to earth and practical, this book gives guidance on how cross-disciplinary research can advance animal welfare. With numerous examples and case studies, the text explains: · the different concepts regarding cross-disciplinary research · how to set up cross-disciplinary research projects · how to work in cross functional...

A classic text for health activists and feminists interested in the complexities of how drugs are developed, marketed, and sold to women around the world, this book reviews the unusual history of the French abortion pill RU-486. Critical of the positive claims made for RU-486, it argues that its promotion is filled with myths and misconceptions. Scrutinizing the science and politics behind RU-486, this account examines how the pill benefits the medical profession, drug companies, and gover...

Zelfs de machtigste biljonair staat machteloos tegenover de vertederende aanblik van een pasgeboren kindje... In deze e-bundel vind je 5 heerlijk romantische verhalen over sexy tycoons en schattige baby's. (1) PRINSES IN DE DOP - Michelle Celmer Vanessa gaat trouwen met een koning! Al is Gabriel dan jaren ouder dan zij en een beetje saai, hij is ook betrouwbaar, schatrijk én wil graag voor haar dochtertje zorgen. In het koninkrijk wordt ze echter niet door hem opgewacht, maar door zijn zoo...

Recent feminist and psychoanalytic accounts of mothering have been profoundly shaped by the work of Melanie Klein, D. W. Winnicott, Nancy Chodorow, and Julia Kristeva. Although their work spans many decades, these writers share the goal of understanding object relations, that is, the child's relation to internalized "objects" —most often the mother, as the child's first caretaker. Doane and Hodges chart the development of "mother-centered" psychoanalysis and its influence on feminist thoug...

MIT DEM MUT DER LIEBE von JUDY CAMPBELLSeit Lisa zusammen mit Dr. Ronan Gillespie in seiner Landpraxis arbeitet, fühlt sie sich geborgen. Er kümmert sich rührend um sie – so, als ob er wüsste, dass sie Furchtbares erlebt hat. Aus Freundschaft wird schon bald Liebe für sie. Doch Lisa weiß: Nur, wenn sie Ronan ihr Geheimnis anvertraut, können sie miteinander glücklich werden …MIT VOLLGAS INS GROSSE GLÜCK von SUSAN CARLISLEDr. Taylor Sti...

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a South African laundromat in Laurie Baker’s short story, Here I Am, Laughing with Boers;...

Mein Buch befasst sich mit der Transgenderidologie und ihre Auswirkungen auf Frauen und Kinder. Es ist eine detaillierte Untersuchung dieses Phänomens in westlichen Ländern (USA, UK, Europa etc). Ich arbeite seit über 40 Jahren zu diesem Thema und bin die Autorin von The Transsexual Empire, dass das erste feministische Buch zu diesem Thema war (1979). Ich stelle viele Fragen wie zum Beispiel: wissen Leute, die Transgenderideologie befürworten, dass die medizinische Behandlung von Kindern u...