Hacia una nueva Europa

Aquesta antologia presenta textos escrits per dones que dialoguen entre si malgrat que provenen de diferents èpoques i branques del coneixement. Es tracta de fragments de llibres publicats per Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona que reflexionen sobre l’anhel d’igualtat a través del relat d’experiències pròpies, d’obres literàries i d’escrits que destaquen les contribucions ben variades de moltes dones: des del testimoni d’Evelyn Fox Keller com a estudiant de Física fins a passatges de Galàtia Kazantzaki, Virginia Woolf i Montserrat Roig, passant per les aportacions...

From the first crude stone tools used by man two-and-a-half million years ago up to the early medieval period, this eye-opening journey through human innovations draws on modern science and the latest research to explore some of history's most fascinating inventions. Beginning with the basic technologies of stone and fire, bone and wood, the survey moves on to answer such fundamental questions as How and where did agriculture evolve? and How did Romans and others heat and plumb their dwellings? This unique guide to some of humanity's most remarkable inventions is a testimony to the brilliant...

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Inscrito en la perspectiva de los estudios poscoloniales, este trabajo parte del supuesto de que la violencia ejercida por el colonialismo europeo en el mundo no fue solo física y económica sino también "epistémica". El autor defiende la tesis de que hacia finales del siglo XVIII, la violencia epistémica del imperio español en América asume una forma específica: la hybris del punto cero. Es el momento en que la irrupción mundial del capitalismo exigía que la multiplicidad de expresiones culturales del planeta fuera traducida como una serie de diferencias ordenadas en el tiempo. Las...