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Flora Unveiled

Author : Lincoln Taiz,Lee Taiz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780190490263

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Sex in animals has been known for at least ten thousand years, and this knowledge was put to good use during animal domestication in the Neolithic period. In stark contrast, sex in plants wasn't discovered until the late 17th century, long after the domestication of crop plants. Even after its discovery, the "sexual theory" continued to be hotly debated and lampooned for another 150 years, pitting the "sexualists" against the "asexualists". Why was the notion of sex in plants so contentious for so long? "Flora Unveiled" is a deep history of perceptions about plant gender and sexuality, beginning in the Ice Age and ending in the middle of the nineteenth century, with the elucidation of the complete plant life cycle. Linc and Lee Taiz show that a gender bias that plants are unisexual and female (a "one-sex model") prevented the discovery of plant sex and delayed its acceptance long after the theory was definitively proven. The book explores the various sources of this gender bias, beginning with women's role as gatherers, crop domesticators, and the first farmers. In the myths and religions of the Bronze and Iron Ages, female deities were strongly identified with flowers, trees, and agricultural abundance, and during Middle Ages and Renaissance, this tradition was assimilated into Christianity in the person of Mary. The one-sex model of plants continued into the Early Modern Period, and experienced a resurgence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment and again in the nineteenth century Romantic movement. Not until Wilhelm Hofmeister demonstrated the universality of sex in the plant kingdom was the controversy over plant sex finally laid to rest. Although "Flora Unveiled" focuses on the discovery of sex in plants, the history serves as a cautionary tale of how strongly and persistently cultural biases can impede the discovery and delay the acceptance of scientific advances.

Dispersion

Author : Branka Arsic
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501370601

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Plants are silent, still, or move slowly; we do not have the sense that they accompany us, or even perceive us. But is there something that plants are telling us? Is there something about how they live and connect, how they relate to the world and other plants that can teach us about ecological thinking, about ethics and politics? Grounded in Thoreau's ecology and in contemporary plant studies, Dispersion: Thoreau and Vegetal Thought offers answers to those questions by pondering such concepts as co-dependence, the continuity of life forms, relationality, cohabitation, porousness, fragility, the openness of beings to incessant modification by other beings and phenomena, patience, waiting, slowness and receptivity.

One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet

Author : Felicia McCarren
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190061838

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In 1866, when the ballet La Source debuted, the public at the Paris Opera may have been content to dream about its setting in the verdant Caucasus, its exotic Circassians, veiled Georgians, and powerful Khan. Yet the ballet's botany also played to a public thinking about ethnic and exotic others at the same time-and in the same ways-as they were thinking about plants. Along with these stereotypes, with a flower promising hybridity in a green ecology, and the death of the embodied Source recuperated as a force for regeneration, the ballet can be read as a fable of science and the performance as its demonstration. Programmed for the opening gala of the new Opera, the Palais Garnier, in 1875 the ballet reflected not so much a timeless Orient as timely colonial policy and engineering in North Africa, the management of water and women. One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet takes readers to four historic performances, over 150 years, showing how-- through the sacrifice of a feminized Nature-- La Source represented the biopolitics of sex and race, and the cosmopolitics of human and natural resources. Its 2011 reinvention at the Paris Opera, following the adoption of new legislation banning the veil in public spaces, might have staged gender and climate justice in sync with the Arab Spring, but opted instead for luxury and dream. Its 2014 reprise might have focused on decolonizing the stage or raising eco-consciousness, but exemplified the greater urgency attached to Islamist threat rather than imminent climate catastrophe, missing the ballet's historic potential to make its audience think.

Vegetal Sex

Author : Stella Sandford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781350274952

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This book introduces the reader to the exciting new field of plant philosophy and takes it in a new direction to ask: what does it mean to say that plants are sexed? Do 'male' and 'female' really mean the same when applied to humans, trees, fungi and algae? Are the zoological categories of sex really adequate for understanding the – uniquely 'dibiontic' – life cycle of plants? Vegetal Sex addresses these questions through a detailed analysis of major moments in the history of plant sex, from Aristotle to the modern day. Tracing the transformations in the analogy between animals and plants that characterize this history, it shows how the analogy still functions in contemporary botany and asks: what would a non-zoocentric, plant-centred philosophy of vegetal sex be like? By showing how philosophy and botany have been and still are inextricably entwined, Vegetal Sex allows us to think vegetal being and, perhaps, to recognize the vegetal in us all.

Sir David Wilkie

Author : John William Mollett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Artists
ISBN : WISC:89054197348

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The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters

Author : Allan Cunningham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Painters
ISBN : UCD:31175001876393

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History of Rome and the Roman People

Author : Victor Duruy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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History of Rome, and of the Roman People

Author : Victor Duruy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Rome
ISBN : PSU:000015984838

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Finance

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : UOM:35128001908969

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Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly

Author : Frank Leslie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : IND:32000000492217

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American Illustrated Magazine

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015039718260

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