Susan M Squier

Poultry Science, Chicken Culture

A Partial Alphabet

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Poultry Science, Chicken Culture is a collection of engrossing, witty, and thought-provoking essays about the chicken-the familiar domestic bird that has played an intimate part in our cultural, scientific, social, economic, legal, and medical practices and concerns since ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Organized as a primer, the book reaches beyond narrow disciplines to discover why individuals are so fascinated with the humble, funny, overlooked, and omnipresent chicken. A combination of personal passion and surprising scholarly information, it will change forever the way you think about chickens.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780813549248
• ISBN-10: 0813549248
• Artikelnr.: 30694459

Autorenporträt

SUSAN M. SQUIER is the Julia Gregg Brill Professor of Women’s Studies and English at Penn State University and author of eight books, including Babies in Bottles: Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology (Rutgers University Press), Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine, and Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City. Her research takes her from her own backyard where she raises chickens to scholarly trips throughout the United States and Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Chickens?
1. Augury
2. Biology
3. Culture
4. Disability
5. Epidemic
6. Fellow-Feeling
7. Gender
8. Hybridity
9. Inauguration
Conclusion: Zen of the Hen
Notes
References
Index
About the Author