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Poultry Science, Chicken Culture
Susan M. Squier
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Description for Poultry Science, Chicken Culture
Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 23. BIC Classification: JHMC; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 594.
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.
Spanning fascinating and diverse fields, Susan Merrill Squier assesses the chicken as the focus of film, photography, and visual art in many media; details some of the roles played by ... Read more
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.
Spanning fascinating and diverse fields, Susan Merrill Squier assesses the chicken as the focus of film, photography, and visual art in many media; details some of the roles played by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813549248
SKU
V9780813549248
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About Susan M. Squier
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Poultry Science, Chicken Culture
"Squier offers a delightful, provocative, and unexpected look into the visible, and often hidden, interrelationships that bind human and fowl."
Gregg Mitman
author of Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film
"Squier offers a delightful, provocative, and unexpected look into the visible, and often hidden, interrelationships that bind human and fowl."
Gregg Mitman
author ... Read more
Gregg Mitman
author of Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film
"Squier offers a delightful, provocative, and unexpected look into the visible, and often hidden, interrelationships that bind human and fowl."
Gregg Mitman
author ... Read more