Knowing and writing Book

	Preface
	Introduction: To Our Student Writers: How to Survive and Prosper in a College Composition Class	1
Unit 1	Prejudice: Clarifying and Challenging Biased Attitudes	15
	The Nature of Prejudice	17
	The Prioress's Tale	30
	Why Jew-Hatred Is Unique	38
	Haircuts and Paris	46
	A Mourning Letter from Paris	49
	Bradford	51
	Which New Era Would That Be?	68
	Notes of a Native Son	80
	Hold: Separate but Equal (Painting)	96
	Letter from Birmingham Jail	98
	Incident on a Bus	113
	Sex, Class and Race Intersections: Visions of Women of Color	119
	The Liberation of Aunt Jemima (Assembly, mixed media)	125
	Racism and White Women: Keeping Sexism Intact	127
	Sexist Scenes from Office Life	131
	Homophobia in Black Communities	135
	The New Colossus	142
	The Melting Pot	144
	Parable of the Good Samaritan: Luke 10:25-37 (King James Version)	146
	Broad Perspectives on Prejudice	148
Unit 2	Personal Relationships: Understanding Love, Sex, and Marriage	151
	Aristophanes' Definition of Love	154
	Models and Metaphors: "The Game of Love"	159
	What We Talk About When We Talk About Love	171
	The Woman in Love	182
	Cupid and Psyche	191
	The Mummy (Drawing)	199
	Territory	202
	On the Evil of Lust	218
	Sexuality in Early China	223
	The Sexualized Society	231
	Where the Shadow Is Darkest	250
	The Lovers (Painting)	253
	Lady with Lapdog	256
	Marriage	271
	Driving Each Other Crazy on the Way to Liberation	279
	Decisions in Sexuality: An Act of Impulse, Conscience, or Society?	297
	The AIDS Virus and Sexuality	309
	Broad Perspectives on Personal Relationships	328
Unit 3	Free Choice: The Nature of Freedom and Responsibility	331
	From Paradise Lost	334
	Existential Choice	338
	Refusal to Despair	348
	In Pursuit of Freedom	358
	Previous Condition	367
	Beetle Bailey (Comic strip)	380
	The Yellow Wallpaper	383
	On Male Liberation	397
	Props and Paint	402
	Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self	416
	Some Conditions of Obedience and Disobedience to Authority	424
	Automaton Conformity	447
	Dr. Brandreth Has Gone to Harvard	460
	I Stand Here Ironing	478
	Migrant Mother (Photograph)	486
	Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient	489
	Freedom	502
	Broad Perspectives on Free Choice	504
Unit 4	Technology: External Reality and the Human Person
	A Meaning for "Humanism"	510
	Science and the Sense of the Holy	520
	Song of Myself, Section 44	533
	The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900)	536
	Pickwick Dam, Tennessee (Photograph)	546
	The Religious Dilemmas of a Scientific Culture: The Interface of Technology, History and Religion	548
	Disappearing Through the Skylight	562
	Milk Drop Coronet 1957 (Photograph)	568
	The Humanness of Physics	570
	Nightmare Number Three	580
	Women in Science: An Analysis of a Social Problem	584
	The Ship Who Sang	594
	The Magic City	610
	Assembling the Model	618
	The Intelligence Transplant	620
	Computative Oak	629
	For a Breath I Tarry	631
	Broad Perspectives on Technology	660
	Crossviews: Interunit Writing Perspectives	662
	Rhetorical Table of Contents	664
	Disciplinary Table of Contents	671
	Glossary	676
	Credits	681
	Index	686