Amitav Acharya, author of Whose Ideas Matter?: Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism has two blogs you might enjoy, the first with a public affairs focus and the second with an academic focus:
futureworldaffairs.blogspot.com
amitavacharyaacademic.blogspot.com
On his own blog, Alex Wright makes an intriguing offer to sign copies of the new Cornell University Press paperback edition of Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages.
Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory, edited by Emily Monosson, is reviewed by Londa Schiebinger in American Scientist. Here’s an excerpt:
Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory makes evident the institutional structures that block parents’ careers, but, more important, it reveals the myriad ways in which male partners of mothers don’t shoulder their fair share of the physical and psychological labor associated with child care. What’s going on with these men? Some of them probably think that because they are more established in their careers or make more money than their partners, they are justified in leaving domestic drudgery to the women who were once their intellectual companions.
Read the whole thing here: Changing Assumptions
Emily Monosson, the editor of Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory, has established a blog in support of the bookâand of the parent/scientists to whom the book gives a voice! Pay her a visit at sciencemoms.wordpress.com.
Karen Nakamura, the author of Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity, has a blog at her lovely and interesting Photoethnography.com site.
