Study Materials

Possible Case Studies

Hurley, S. "Imitation, Media Violence and Freedom of Speech." Philosophical Studies 117 (2004): 165-218.

Kelly, T. "Sunk Costs, Rationality and Acting for the Sake of the Past." Nous 38, no. 1 (2004): 60-85.

Behar, Ruth. The Vulnerable Observer. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1996. ISBN: 0807046310.

Goffman, Erving. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. New ed. New York, NY: Penguin Books Ltd., 1990. ISBN: 0140124756.

Tilly, Charles. Durable Inequality. Berkeley, CA: Univeristy of California Press, 1998. ISBN: 0520221702.

Folbre, Nancy. Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and Structure of Constraint. New York, NY: Routledge, 1994, especially Part I. ISBN: 0415075653.

Luker, Kristin. Taking Chances: Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept. Berkeley, CA: Univeristy of California Press, 1975. ISBN: 0520035941.

Hacking, I. "The Making and Molding of Child Abuse." Critical Inquiry 17, no. 2 (Winter 1991): 253-288.

Buy at MIT Press Thornhill, R., and C. Palmer. A Natural History of Rape. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. ISBN: 0262700832.