Feminist attempts to ensure rigorous legal response to sexual violence against women and children have been characterized by persistent resistence and occasional victory. Feminist reform of law seeks to enhance women’s equality by eliminating embedded legal bias and by deterring legally sanctioned violence. Hostile resistance to feminist law reform has been most clearly demonstrated both in lit...

This Handbook begins with voices, visions, and experiences of feminist activists, scholars, and researchers, speaking to us across the decades of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. They provide a legacy of feminist research, praxis, and activism. There lies within these voices a feminist consciousness that opens up intellectual and emotional spaces for all women to articulate their relations t...

Peter Henrici coined the term “algorithmic mathematics” and “dialectic mathematics” in a 1973 talk. I will borrow these two terms and attempt to synthesize the two aspects from a pedagogical viewpoint with illustrative examples gleaned from mathematical developments in Eastern and Western cultures throughout history. Some examples from my teaching experience in the classroom will also be given.

other approaches. The first of these is `material thinking' (das materielles Denken): `a contingent consciousness that is absorbed only in material stuff', a form of thought which is rooted in existing conditions and cannot see beyond them. At the `opposite extreme' is the transcendent critical method of `argumentation' (das Räsonieren), which involves `freedom from all content and a sense of v...

Both a synopsis and extension of Gesture and Thought (the book), the present essay explores how gestures and language work together in a dialectic. In this analysis the ‘purpose’ of gesture is to fuel and propel thought and speech. A case study illustrates the dependence of verbal thought on context and how it functions. Problems for computational modeling, the presence and absence of gesture ‘...

adopting feminist perspectives is, by and large, novel in social science. however, feminism historical background might be followed until 18th century. through the years, patriarchal epistemology and gendered metaphysics of science have been criticized fundamentally by radical feminist thinkers. although such criticisms obviously have limitations, their constructive role in addressing original ...

Studies on epistemically suspect beliefs (ESB) have suggested that individual’s analytic cognition suppresses unwarranted beliefs, however, our previous studies also showed that an inhibitory effect of analytic cognition was higher among Westerners than Easterners. Rather, intuitive cognition was a common predictor of beliefs between two cultures. Among several cultural differences in cognitive...