Site Teaching Essays and Preparatory Readings:

These readings will be grouped according to topic focus, once the index is fully compiled. jeanne August 13, 2002.

• Subjective Authenticity: Finding One's Own Voice Link added August 13, 2002.
• Ten Little Indians and Two Big Girls. Transforming Discourse through the performative act of art. Link added August 10, 2002.
• State-Determination Instead of Self-Determination: Will It Work in Tibet? Link added August 10, 2002.
• Mexican Subsistence Farmers and Civil Governance Link added August 6, 2002.
• Traditions of Feminist Thought and the Ideal of Democracy Spring 2000 at Radcliffe. Graduate Seminar in Philosophy that utilized Maria Pia Lara's Moral Textures, as one of six texts! Thought you might like to take a look at it. Backup.
• The Subjugated Elephant. Example from one of our leading newspapers of transforming discourse.

• Chapter 5: Narrative Cultural Interweavings: Between Facts and Fiction Link checked August 6, 2002. Backup.

  "This essay investigates the new meaning of human capabilities that can be drawn out of the feminist model. Drawing on a further elaboration of narratives and the dynamics established between the public sphere and the new emergent publics, I explain how such moral narratives constitute the symbolic order in three stages of 'mimetic representation' (Ricoeur)."

• Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere by Maria Pia Lara. California University Press. Maria Pia Lara. Backup. Link checked August 6, 2002.
  

• Moral Textures: feminist narratives in the public sphere. Polity Cambridge 1998. Stephan Meyer. Backup. Link checked August 6, 2002.

  "Maria Pia Lara's Moral Textures: feminist narratives in the public sphere is a long overdue and thus most welcome study which bridges the gap between insights drawn largely from Jürgen Habermas' intersubjectivist theory of rationality and action in the public sphere to literary and cultural studies which are not fixated on the isolated text. Noises in that direction have been made before, but Lara's study is the most extensive to date. Precursors in this line have been tentative remarks by literary theorists (1); or philosophers detecting a lurking interest in the aesthetic in Habermas' writing in the mid eighties (2) and more lately feminist theorists who identify the potential derived from linking the good and the right, private and public, culture and society (3)."

• Editorial: After success - the politics of civil society Critical Psychology 2. by Andreas Hess. Backup. Link checked August 6, 2002.

• The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt Book review by Maria Pia Lara and Joan B. Landes. Backup. Link added March 10, 2002. Link checked August 6, 2002.

• Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere By María Pía Lara. Link added November 5, 2001. Link checked August 6, 2002.

• Rethinking Evil, Maria Pia Lara.

Site Teaching Modules with Self Tests and Exercises:

• Practice Module on Mexican Subsistence Farmers Transforming Discourse in Texcoco Link added August 6, 2002.
• Practice Module on the Subjugated Elephant