... there exists a prohibition on mixing the types, and that the two core types themselves (geometry and arithmetic) are mutually intertwined using notions of hierarchy, foreignness, and priority. The author concludes that whatever incidental biases it may display, mathematics also contains an essential bias...

...” since some people “urge them to be neutral and do research that is technically correct and value free” and others “tell them their work is shallow and useless if it does not express a deep commitment to a value position” (239). Becker suggests that the dilemma is a false one, since value- or bias-free...

... with its centrality to first-year orientation programming in u.s. colleges and universities, it has increasingly turned its attention to corporate landscapes, bringing its same emphasis on consent, honesty, and humor to u.s . workplaces. In its corporate iterations, Sex Signals focuses on both racial bias...

... a hotly debated topic within feminism from another perspective: the white, middle-class bias offeminism excluded the voice ofthe Other woman. Feminists, it seemed, were reproducing the problem which they had set out to remedy. Incorporating differen.ces among women, specifically issues related to race...

... promoted by the Family Research Council, Allan Carlson cited science as the pretext for heteronormative bias: “New research guided by evolutionary theory does agree with Genesis that humans, from our very origin as unique creatures on earth, have been defined by heterosexual monogamy,” in view...

.... Thus, the Board of Immigration Appeals (bia) has established that “the mere fact that an alien’s child is born in the United States does not entitle the alien to any favored status in seeking discretionary relief from deportation...

..., overdeterminations, and persistent blindspots inherent in the patriarchal bias of History. That bias leaves its mark on the discernible historical facts and their practical outcome, as well as on theological truths and imperatives. The bias would be more Greco-Roman than Judeo-Christian. Doubtless Schussler Fiorenza...

...: a landmark ruling that reeked of racism and proslavery sectional bias, propelling the nation closer to civil war. The issue of black marriage—the right of African Americans to partake of holy or civil wedlock and enjoy its legal privileges and protections—has been a greater force in u.s . history...

..., America’s recent dependence on overanalysis and a narrow form of rationality bore the brunt of the attack” (41). The antidote to such overanalysis that Peters and Waterman predictably proffer is a “bias for action” (the title of one of the book’s chapters)—a bias that reflects and perpetuates a gender bias...

... it would be more honest to say allows us finally to distinguish ourselves, but only if distinctions do not introduce differences that we find difficult to square with our political biases against institutional authority and its assessments of merit. The mixed messages we get and pass on to each other about...

... hold similarly negative views, which, the study’s author hypothesizes, may explain the very low rates of interracial marriage between black women and nonwhite men overall (Slatton 9). To put it bluntly, the so-called marriage market is not as fair and free of racial bias as promoters of interracial...

.... Just as “all the perfumes of Ara- bia” are unable to cover up the bad odor of Lady Macbeth, so “responsible coverage” of political concerns can’t “recover” for Johnson the enjoyment she knew as a graduate student at Yale. Having...

.... Pyschiatrists and psychoanalysts might not subscribe to the Orthodox Jewish man's creed, thanking God daily for not making him a woman, but the assumptions on which they posited their canons of "normality" reflected a temporal cultural bias. Women who habitually crossdressed were not psychotic (Stoller, Sex 1...

..., consistent, durable, and personally resourceful before she can argue against some form of bias, do what that bias would not let her achieve, and gain recognition within a community that appears progressive for thus extending the limits...

... the figure of blushing from its embeddedness in the body by refiguring it formally, and thus make it possible to transcend the bias of bodily disposition. By means of the mask, all human experience is reduced to the figure. The actor understood as agent must be understood from the simple act of thinking...

... not of marriage at the end of Fitzger- forget his or her position as the ald’s The Great Gatsby (124). representative of the public voice. Bias there is in ballads, of course, 3 In his 1915 study of exchange...

... taking on our fears and biases to create deeper collaborations with the sciences and engineering. It entails forging joint (frictional and sometimes fractious) coalitions to take on problems such as education, global change, and so...

.... Allen Jeffner and Young Iris Marion . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1989 . 156 - 79 . Tuana Nancy . “ The Weaker Seed: The Sexist Bias of Reproductive Theory .” Hypatia 3 . 1 ( 1988 ): 35 - 59 . Fetal Attraction: Hegel's An-aesthetics of Gender ERIC O. CLARKE Mer the meal...

... as his principal example of the translator’s bias in favor of “current Standard English” and the empiricist “assumption that language is transparent communication” (Venuti, “Translation” 78 ). 5 Translation modified of “Je n’ai qu’une langue, ce n’est pas la mienne” (Derrida, Monolingualism 1...

... today is, to say the least, partial in both senses- biased and incomplete. But the high profile of parity in representation also threatens to conceal the actual disparity in social reality, something like a cast on a wooden leg. Its function is ambiguous. Can we forcibly modify the symbolic process...