Imagined families, contested childhoods: Doing gender as subversive deviances of children’s agency

Thinking as a subversive activity: doing philosophy in the corporate university.

The academy is in a mess. The cultural theorist Bill Readings claimed that it is in ruins, while the political scientist Michael Oakeshott suggested that it has all but ceased to exist. At the very least, we might argue that the current financial squeeze has distorted the University into a shape that would be all but unrecognizable to Oakeshott and others writing in the 1950s and 1960s. I will ...

Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: 'Gender Normals,' Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality

Teaching Natural Deduction as a Subversive Activity

In this paper we argue that sequent proofs systems are a better deductive apparatus for introducing proofs to students than are natural deduction systems. Natural deduction derivations of superintuitionistic theorems (theorems of classical logic that are not intuitionistically valid) require indirect and often obtuse constructions. Constructing derivations in sequent systems is uniform, driven ...

Doing gender, doing categorisation: Recent developments in language and gender research

In this paper, I consider the potential of membership categorisation analysis, an empirical tool in ethnomethodological inquiry, for language and gender researchers. To date, there has been no sustained attempt to incorporate this kind of approach into gender and language work. It is virtually ignored in feminist sociolinguistics, where the majority of research gets done and is seldom considere...

Western medicine as contested knowledge

The first edition of Mummies, disease and ancient cultures was reviewed in Medical History in 1981 by my colleague Dr Simon Hillson, who called it "a fascinating book". This second edition is fundamentally revised and enlarged (by 62 pages), and brings in a new co-editor, in the person of the paleopathologist Theodore Reyman, the original joint-editor Aidan Cockburn having died as long ago as 1...