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En este episodio entrevisto a la Profesora Elena Serrano, investigadora Ramón y Cajal de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona sobre su libro Ladies of Honor and Merit: Gender, Useful Knowledge, and Politics in Enlightened Spain (University of Pittsburg Press, 2022). El libro Ladies of Honor and Merit estudia el papel de las mujeres aristócratas e ilustradas en la España del siglo XVIII en el desarrollo de la ciencia y del conocimiento útil. Elelna Serrano se centra en la Junta de Damas, una de las Sociedades Económicas del País que se creó a finales del siglo XVIII, y que como las demás definía el mejorar la scoeidad como su misión fundamental. Algunas de las mujeres que aparecen en el libro pertenecen a la aristocracia española son Josefa Amar, Rosario Cepeda, la condesa de Montijo, la duquesa de Benavente (que fue la primera presidenta de la junta), la marquesa de Fuente-Híjar y otras.  Paula De La Cruz-Fernandez es consultora, historiadora y editora bilingüe. Editora de New Books Network en español. Fundadora y editora, Edita. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

En este episodio entrevisto a la Profesora Elena Serrano, investigadora Ramón y Cajal de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona sobre su libro Ladies of Honor and Merit: Gender, Useful Knowledge, and Politics in Enlightened Spain (University of Pittsburg Press, 2022). El libro Ladies of Honor and Merit estudia el papel de las mujeres aristócratas e ilustradas en la España del siglo XVIII en el desarrollo de la ciencia y del conocimiento útil. Elelna Serrano se centra en la Junta de Damas, una de las Sociedades Económicas del País que se creó a finales del siglo XVIII, y que como las demás definía el mejorar la scoeidad como su misión fundamental. Algunas de las mujeres que aparecen en el libro pertenecen a la aristocracia española son Josefa Amar, Rosario Cepeda, la condesa de Montijo, la duquesa de Benavente (que fue la primera presidenta de la junta), la marquesa de Fuente-Híjar y otras.  Paula De La Cruz-Fernandez es consultora, historiadora y editora bilingüe. Editora de New Books Network en español. Fundadora y editora, Edita. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

En este episodio entrevisto a la Profesora Elena Serrano, investigadora Ramón y Cajal de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona sobre su libro Ladies of Honor and Merit: Gender, Useful Knowledge, and Politics in Enlightened Spain (University of Pittsburg Press, 2022). El libro Ladies of Honor and Merit estudia el papel de las mujeres aristócratas e ilustradas en la España del siglo XVIII en el desarrollo de la ciencia y del conocimiento útil. Elelna Serrano se centra en la Junta de Damas, una de las Sociedades Económicas del País que se creó a finales del siglo XVIII, y que como las demás definía el mejorar la scoeidad como su misión fundamental. Algunas de las mujeres que aparecen en el libro pertenecen a la aristocracia española son Josefa Amar, Rosario Cepeda, la condesa de Montijo, la duquesa de Benavente (que fue la primera presidenta de la junta), la marquesa de Fuente-Híjar y otras.  Paula De La Cruz-Fernandez es consultora, historiadora y editora bilingüe. Editora de New Books Network en español. Fundadora y editora, Edita. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

En este episodio entrevisto a la Profesora Elena Serrano, investigadora Ramón y Cajal de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona sobre su libro Ladies of Honor and Merit: Gender, Useful Knowledge, and Politics in Enlightened Spain (University of Pittsburg Press, 2022). El libro Ladies of Honor and Merit estudia el papel de las mujeres aristócratas e ilustradas en la España del siglo XVIII en el desarrollo de la ciencia y del conocimiento útil. Elelna Serrano se centra en la Junta de Damas, una de las Sociedades Económicas del País que se creó a finales del siglo XVIII, y que como las demás definía el mejorar la scoeidad como su misión fundamental. Algunas de las mujeres que aparecen en el libro pertenecen a la aristocracia española son Josefa Amar, Rosario Cepeda, la condesa de Montijo, la duquesa de Benavente (que fue la primera presidenta de la junta), la marquesa de Fuente-Híjar y otras.  Paula De La Cruz-Fernandez es consultora, historiadora y editora bilingüe. Editora de New Books Network en español. Fundadora y editora, Edita. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seriedad, compromiso y una gran pasión marcan el trabajo de Gwendolyn —Gwen como la llamamos de cariño— Díaz- Ridgeway. Su obra es una ventana a la literatura argentina escrita por mujeres. Platicamos con ella de escritoras, de Borges, de investigación y de su propia escritura creadora. Gran crítica de Luisa Valenzuela entre muchas otras escritoras argentinas, es una voz indispensable. Esta conversación es una verdadera cátedra de lo que es la literatura hoy y una muestra de su gran sensibilidad ella misma como escritora. Algunos de sus libros son Texto, contexto y postexto en la obra de Luisa Valenzuela (University of Pittsburg Press, 2010), Buenos Aires Noir (Editorial Nueva Generación, 2015), y su próximo Mujer y escritura: 35 autoras argentinas de hoy (Editorial La Balandra, 2022).

Aurielle Marie is an award-winning poet, essayist, and cultural strategist. They are a Black queer storyteller, a political organizer, and child of the Deep South by way of Atlanta. Their poetry debut, Gumbo Ya Ya, won the 2020 Cave Canem prize and is a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Copyright © Aurielle Marie 2020.  A version was originally published in their collection Gumbo Ya Ya (University of Pittsburg Press, 2020).  Text of today's poem and more details about our program can be found at: deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/ Find books from participating poets in our library's catalog.  Queer Poem-a-Day is directed by poet and teacher Lisa Hiton and Dylan Zavagno, Adult Services Coordinator at the Deerfield Public Library. Music for this second year of our series is the first movement, Schéhérazade, from Masques, Op. 34, by Karol Szymanowski, performed by pianist Daniel Baer. Queer Poem-a-Day is supported by generous donations from the Friends of the Deerfield Public Library and the Deerfield Fine Arts Commission. Queer Poem-a-Day is a program from the Adult Services Department at the Library and may include adult language. 

Read: Kasey Jueds' poem "Kittatinny," which she reads on the episode.Kasey Jueds a poet living in the Catskill Mountains in New York. Kasey poems have appeared or are forthcoming in publications including American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, Cave Wall, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Narrative, Ninth Letter, Pleiades, Provincetown Arts, River Styx, Salamander, The Southampton Review, Tinderbox, and Waxwing.Kasey has been a resident at the Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Soapstone, and the Ucross Foundation; and a visiting poet at the University of Pennsylvania, LaSalle College, and the University of Northern Colorado. Kasey's first book Keeper first book, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press, and was published by Pitt in fall, 2013. Kasey's second book, The Thicket, is has just been published by Pittsburg Press this month, November, 2021.Purchase: The Thicket by Kasey Jueds (UPitt Press, 2021).

And now, as Monty Python would say, for something completely different. Or is it? Is it data, is it science? The humanities produce knowledge. Yet, they're not generally considered part of STEMM. So, what about humanities research on STEMM? What does this look like? Where does it fit in?  As we continue to explore the human side of science, in this episode we consider the history of science, and also what it is like to be an early career researcher now navigating the Academy and transitioning from PhD to postdoc.Sarah Qidwai recently completed her University of Toronto's Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Her research interests include the history of science and religion, science and colonialism, and South Asian studies. Her doctoral dissertation situates Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) as a key figure in the history of science in colonial India. Sarah has investigated the development and implementation of Sayyid Ahmad's scientific thought (including human evolution and the motion of the earth) and how he dealt with science's role in its historical context. She's published the book chapter “Darwin or Design: Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan's Views on Human Evolution" in The Cambridge Companion to Sayyid Ahmad Khan. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), and “Re-Examining Complexity: Sayyid Ahmad Khan's Interpretation of ‘Science” in Islam”, which was published in Rethinking History, Science, and Religion: An Exploration of Conflict and the Complexity Principle, published by University of Pittsburg Press in 2019. A complete transcript of this interview is available here.This podcast is produced with the generous support of the Mozilla Foundation and the National Science Foundation, and with input from community members from Mozilla, the Environmental Data Science Inclusion Network, and our colleagues and students at Kent State University. A special shout out to Kristen Dowling and Emily Loccisano for managing our digital presence and branding and to Jen Zink for audio production. Music featured in this episode  is Honeyknocker Meadows, by Origami Repetika, and obtained from freemusicarchive.org under a CC-BY licence. This podcast and its accompanying materials licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license- please share, like and use our stuff!

Joseph S. Cialdella's Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit (University of Pittsburg Press, 2020) is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenth- to early twenty-first century. The book focuses primarily on the history of gardens and parks in the city of Detroit and its suburbs in southeast Michigan. Cialdella argues Detroit residents used green space to address problems created by the city’s industrial rise and decline, and racial segregation and economic inequality. As the city’s social landscape became increasingly uncontrollable, Detroiters turned to parks, gardens, yards, and other outdoor spaces to relieve the negative social and environmental consequences of industrial capitalism. Motor City Green looks to the past to demonstrate how today’s urban gardens in Detroit evolved from, but are also distinct from, other urban gardens and green spaces in the city’s past. Joseph S. Cialdella is a public historian and educator with experience in museums, higher education, and the humanities. He writes about cities, nature, and the built environment. Currently he is a Program Manager at the University of Michigan, where he leads the Rackham Graduate School's Program in Public Scholarship Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joseph S. Cialdella's Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit (University of Pittsburg Press, 2020) is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenth- to early twenty-first century. The book focuses primarily on the history of gardens and parks in the city of Detroit and its suburbs in southeast Michigan. Cialdella argues Detroit residents used green space to address problems created by the city's industrial rise and decline, and racial segregation and economic inequality. As the city's social landscape became increasingly uncontrollable, Detroiters turned to parks, gardens, yards, and other outdoor spaces to relieve the negative social and environmental consequences of industrial capitalism. Motor City Green looks to the past to demonstrate how today's urban gardens in Detroit evolved from, but are also distinct from, other urban gardens and green spaces in the city's past. Joseph S. Cialdella is a public historian and educator with experience in museums, higher education, and the humanities. He writes about cities, nature, and the built environment. Currently he is a Program Manager at the University of Michigan, where he leads the Rackham Graduate School's Program in Public Scholarship Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joseph S. Cialdella's Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit (University of Pittsburg Press, 2020) is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenth- to early twenty-first century. The book focuses primarily on the history of gardens and parks in the city of Detroit and its suburbs in southeast Michigan. Cialdella argues Detroit residents used green space to address problems created by the city’s industrial rise and decline, and racial segregation and economic inequality. As the city’s social landscape became increasingly uncontrollable, Detroiters turned to parks, gardens, yards, and other outdoor spaces to relieve the negative social and environmental consequences of industrial capitalism. Motor City Green looks to the past to demonstrate how today’s urban gardens in Detroit evolved from, but are also distinct from, other urban gardens and green spaces in the city’s past. Joseph S. Cialdella is a public historian and educator with experience in museums, higher education, and the humanities. He writes about cities, nature, and the built environment. Currently he is a Program Manager at the University of Michigan, where he leads the Rackham Graduate School's Program in Public Scholarship Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A couple of weeks ago I asked readers to tell me what they were struggling with, and responses came rolling in. Then I asked them to tell me what they're thankful for, and the floodgates opened. Sorrow and thanks, in equal measure, both of which make me think of one of my favorite poems, by David Hernandez.Words by Winter: Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and we have to help each other through. "Anyone Who Is Still Trying," by David Hernandez, is from his beautiful book Dear, Sincerely, published by the University of Pittsburg Press in 2016 and used with permission of the author. It was read by writer and voice artist Luke O'Brien, who can be reached at lukeobrien3216@gmail.com. Reader contributions were read by Matthew Colfax and Devon O'Brien. Original theme music composed and performed by Dylan Perese, who can be found on Instagram at @dylan.field.perese. Additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs, who can be reached at kellykrebsmusic@gmail.com and soundcloud.com/kellykrebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. For more information, go to alisonmcghee.com and click on the Words by Winter podcast page.

Join us for a check in and writing session. lists: 1. things you have always been curious about the beginning of? 2. things of your home/neighborhood that have always been there? 3. rituals/traditions of where you're from? 4. myths/tales/urban legends from your upbringing? 5. things you love and are very familiar with? prompts: write a genesis poem or an origin story. poems heard in this episode: “prelude” by Nate Marshall (as found in Wild Hundreds; published by University of Pittsburg Press, 2015) “My House” performed by Chuck Roberts (by Rhythm Controll, 1987) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hoodwivesofchi/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hoodwivesofchi/support

Donna J. Drucker is a guest professor at Darmstadt Technical University in Germany. Her book The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge (University of Pittsburg Press, 2014) is an in-depth and detailed study of Kinsey's scientific approach. The book examines his career and method of gathering vast amounts of data, identifying patterns, and interpretation that was critical to his most influential works Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). Beginning with Kinsey's study of the animal world, Drucker examines how he transferred natural science methods to sex education in his Marriage Course at Indiana University, and ultimately to the massive study of human sexual behavior. He brought into the interdisciplinary science of sexology a thoroughly naturalist approach and believed that taxonomy – collecting, classifying and describing patterns, revealed truths about the natural world and worked against what he considered the prejudice of misclassification. Kinsey was committed to scientific objectivity, free of moral judgment he believed possible through unprejudiced observation, the recording of mass data sets, and the application of biometrics. Nevertheless, Kinsey sex research had significant implications for understanding sexual difference between men and women, sexual preference tied to economic class, and the consideration of normal sexual behavior against standing societal norms. Drucker's work brings attention to the historical contingency of the social and technological process, which produces, encodes and relays information over time. Drucker's close attention to method and the role of data gathering technology again raises the question regarding the role of science in value formation and recovers Kinsey's contribution to scientific practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/medicine

Donna J. Drucker is a guest professor at Darmstadt Technical University in Germany. Her book The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge (University of Pittsburg Press, 2014) is an in-depth and detailed study of Kinsey's scientific approach. The book examines his career and method of gathering vast amounts of data, identifying patterns, and interpretation that was critical to his most influential works Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). Beginning with Kinsey's study of the animal world, Drucker examines how he transferred natural science methods to sex education in his Marriage Course at Indiana University, and ultimately to the massive study of human sexual behavior. He brought into the interdisciplinary science of sexology a thoroughly naturalist approach and believed that taxonomy – collecting, classifying and describing patterns, revealed truths about the natural world and worked against what he considered the prejudice of misclassification. Kinsey was committed to scientific objectivity, free of moral judgment he believed possible through unprejudiced observation, the recording of mass data sets, and the application of biometrics. Nevertheless, Kinsey sex research had significant implications for understanding sexual difference between men and women, sexual preference tied to economic class, and the consideration of normal sexual behavior against standing societal norms. Drucker's work brings attention to the historical contingency of the social and technological process, which produces, encodes and relays information over time. Drucker's close attention to method and the role of data gathering technology again raises the question regarding the role of science in value formation and recovers Kinsey's contribution to scientific practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychology

Donna J. Drucker is a guest professor at Darmstadt Technical University in Germany. Her book The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge (University of Pittsburg Press, 2014) is an in-depth and detailed study of Kinsey's scientific approach. The book examines his career and method of gathering vast amounts of data, identifying patterns, and interpretation that was critical to his most influential works Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). Beginning with Kinsey's study of the animal world, Drucker examines how he transferred natural science methods to sex education in his Marriage Course at Indiana University, and ultimately to the massive study of human sexual behavior. He brought into the interdisciplinary science of sexology a thoroughly naturalist approach and believed that taxonomy – collecting, classifying and describing patterns, revealed truths about the natural world and worked against what he considered the prejudice of misclassification. Kinsey was committed to scientific objectivity, free of moral judgment he believed possible through unprejudiced observation, the recording of mass data sets, and the application of biometrics. Nevertheless, Kinsey sex research had significant implications for understanding sexual difference between men and women, sexual preference tied to economic class, and the consideration of normal sexual behavior against standing societal norms. Drucker's work brings attention to the historical contingency of the social and technological process, which produces, encodes and relays information over time. Drucker's close attention to method and the role of data gathering technology again raises the question regarding the role of science in value formation and recovers Kinsey's contribution to scientific practice.

Donna J. Drucker is a guest professor at Darmstadt Technical University in Germany. Her book The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge (University of Pittsburg Press, 2014) is an in-depth and detailed study of Kinsey’s scientific approach. The book examines his career and method of gathering vast amounts of data, identifying patterns, and interpretation that was critical to his most influential works Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). Beginning with Kinsey’s study of the animal world, Drucker examines how he transferred natural science methods to sex education in his Marriage Course at Indiana University, and ultimately to the massive study of human sexual behavior. He brought into the interdisciplinary science of sexology a thoroughly naturalist approach and believed that taxonomy – collecting, classifying and describing patterns, revealed truths about the natural world and worked against what he considered the prejudice of misclassification. Kinsey was committed to scientific objectivity, free of moral judgment he believed possible through unprejudiced observation, the recording of mass data sets, and the application of biometrics. Nevertheless, Kinsey sex research had significant implications for understanding sexual difference between men and women, sexual preference tied to economic class, and the consideration of normal sexual behavior against standing societal norms. Drucker’s work brings attention to the historical contingency of the social and technological process, which produces, encodes and relays information over time. Drucker’s close attention to method and the role of data gathering technology again raises the question regarding the role of science in value formation and recovers Kinsey’s contribution to scientific practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donna J. Drucker is a guest professor at Darmstadt Technical University in Germany. Her book The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge (University of Pittsburg Press, 2014) is an in-depth and detailed study of Kinsey’s scientific approach. The book examines his career and method of gathering vast amounts of data, identifying patterns, and interpretation that was critical to his most influential works Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). Beginning with Kinsey’s study of the animal world, Drucker examines how he transferred natural science methods to sex education in his Marriage Course at Indiana University, and ultimately to the massive study of human sexual behavior. He brought into the interdisciplinary science of sexology a thoroughly naturalist approach and believed that taxonomy – collecting, classifying and describing patterns, revealed truths about the natural world and worked against what he considered the prejudice of misclassification. Kinsey was committed to scientific objectivity, free of moral judgment he believed possible through unprejudiced observation, the recording of mass data sets, and the application of biometrics. Nevertheless, Kinsey sex research had significant implications for understanding sexual difference between men and women, sexual preference tied to economic class, and the consideration of normal sexual behavior against standing societal norms. Drucker’s work brings attention to the historical contingency of the social and technological process, which produces, encodes and relays information over time. Drucker’s close attention to method and the role of data gathering technology again raises the question regarding the role of science in value formation and recovers Kinsey’s contribution to scientific practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donna J. Drucker is a guest professor at Darmstadt Technical University in Germany. Her book The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge (University of Pittsburg Press, 2014) is an in-depth and detailed study of Kinsey's scientific approach. The book examines his career and method of gathering vast amounts of data, identifying patterns, and interpretation that was critical to his most influential works Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). Beginning with Kinsey's study of the animal world, Drucker examines how he transferred natural science methods to sex education in his Marriage Course at Indiana University, and ultimately to the massive study of human sexual behavior. He brought into the interdisciplinary science of sexology a thoroughly naturalist approach and believed that taxonomy – collecting, classifying and describing patterns, revealed truths about the natural world and worked against what he considered the prejudice of misclassification. Kinsey was committed to scientific objectivity, free of moral judgment he believed possible through unprejudiced observation, the recording of mass data sets, and the application of biometrics. Nevertheless, Kinsey sex research had significant implications for understanding sexual difference between men and women, sexual preference tied to economic class, and the consideration of normal sexual behavior against standing societal norms. Drucker's work brings attention to the historical contingency of the social and technological process, which produces, encodes and relays information over time. Drucker's close attention to method and the role of data gathering technology again raises the question regarding the role of science in value formation and recovers Kinsey's contribution to scientific practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donna J. Drucker is a guest professor at Darmstadt Technical University in Germany. Her book The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge (University of Pittsburg Press, 2014) is an in-depth and detailed study of Kinsey’s scientific approach. The book examines his career and method of gathering vast amounts of data, identifying patterns, and interpretation that was critical to his most influential works Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). Beginning with Kinsey’s study of the animal world, Drucker examines how he transferred natural science methods to sex education in his Marriage Course at Indiana University, and ultimately to the massive study of human sexual behavior. He brought into the interdisciplinary science of sexology a thoroughly naturalist approach and believed that taxonomy – collecting, classifying and describing patterns, revealed truths about the natural world and worked against what he considered the prejudice of misclassification. Kinsey was committed to scientific objectivity, free of moral judgment he believed possible through unprejudiced observation, the recording of mass data sets, and the application of biometrics. Nevertheless, Kinsey sex research had significant implications for understanding sexual difference between men and women, sexual preference tied to economic class, and the consideration of normal sexual behavior against standing societal norms. Drucker’s work brings attention to the historical contingency of the social and technological process, which produces, encodes and relays information over time. Drucker’s close attention to method and the role of data gathering technology again raises the question regarding the role of science in value formation and recovers Kinsey’s contribution to scientific practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donna J. Drucker is a guest professor at Darmstadt Technical University in Germany. Her book The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge (University of Pittsburg Press, 2014) is an in-depth and detailed study of Kinsey’s scientific approach. The book examines his career and method of gathering vast amounts of data, identifying patterns, and interpretation that was critical to his most influential works Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). Beginning with Kinsey’s study of the animal world, Drucker examines how he transferred natural science methods to sex education in his Marriage Course at Indiana University, and ultimately to the massive study of human sexual behavior. He brought into the interdisciplinary science of sexology a thoroughly naturalist approach and believed that taxonomy – collecting, classifying and describing patterns, revealed truths about the natural world and worked against what he considered the prejudice of misclassification. Kinsey was committed to scientific objectivity, free of moral judgment he believed possible through unprejudiced observation, the recording of mass data sets, and the application of biometrics. Nevertheless, Kinsey sex research had significant implications for understanding sexual difference between men and women, sexual preference tied to economic class, and the consideration of normal sexual behavior against standing societal norms. Drucker’s work brings attention to the historical contingency of the social and technological process, which produces, encodes and relays information over time. Drucker’s close attention to method and the role of data gathering technology again raises the question regarding the role of science in value formation and recovers Kinsey’s contribution to scientific practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

August 30, 2014. Alicia Ostriker appears at the 2014 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Alicia Ostriker is an award-winning poet, scholarly critic and activist. Her poetry and criticism often examine themes of family, social justice, feminism, Jewish identity and personal growth. As a major poet and critic, she has been recognized with various accolades, including awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Poetry Society of America and the San Francisco State Poetry Center, among others. She is the author of more than 14 volumes of poetry, including "The Book of Seventy," winner of the Jewish Book Award for Poetry. Her latest collection of poems, "The Old Woman, the Tulip and the Dog" (University of Pittsburg Press), is for readers at all levels. This book includes a sequence of delightful poems told through the voices of an old woman full of memories, a glamorous tulip and an earthly dog who always has the last word. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6387