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Looking for a good read? One of these York books will surely get you thinking
published January 25, 2011
Whether they're debating the legalities of cannibalism or examining gender segregated public places, York books are hitting the shelves across the country. Here are just three books by York professors that'll give you something to think about. Is Eating People Wrong by Allan Hutchinson Is snacking on morsels of human flesh wrong? Apparently » more
Is Eating People Wrong? Allan Hutchinson’s tasty new book
published January 24, 2011
Is snacking on morsels of human flesh wrong? Apparently it is, if it involves murdering the person first – even if you’re stranded at sea without food or water. According to common law, necessity is no defence to murder. Such a 19th-century case of murder and cannibalism is highlighted in Osgoode Hall » more
York anthropologist explores Muslim diversity in new book
published January 24, 2011
For more than 1,400 years Muslims have held multiple and diverging views about their religious tradition. Yet especially since Sept. 11, 2001, Muslims are commonly portrayed as homogeneous and dogmatic. In his new book, Diversity and Pluralism in Islam: Historical and Contemporary Discourses amongst Muslims, York anthropologist Zulfikar Hirji challenges that » more
New book examines archaic attitudes associated with bathrooms
published January 24, 2011
Few people consider the public washrooms they use as bastions of segregation, but for York University sexuality studies Professor Sheila Cavanagh, these places are in fact among the last gender-segregated public places in Western countries. In her new book Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality and the Hygienic Imagination (University of Toronto Press, » more
Missing birdsong in the morning? Think twice about that cup of coffee
published June 18, 2010
York in the media The morning serenades of nature in New Brunswick have quieted down over the years and a declining songbird population is to blame, according to a conservation biologist, wrote the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal May 14. “Both at the provincial level, and even at the national level, you have dozens » more