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Mapping Connections : Postcolonial, Feminist And Legal Theory, Ian Duncanson, Nan Seuffert

Professor Nan Seuffert

Introduction to special issue of collected papers from symposium 'Mapping Law at the Margins', Brisbane, December 2004 - covering operation of the law at the intersections of race, class and gender from colonial times to the present through the lens of postcolonial theory. This Special Issue of the Australian Feminist Law journal collects papers largely from the second Symposium 'Mapping Law at the Margins' Brisbane, December 2004, organized to make visible the operation of the law at the intersections of race, class and gender from colonial times to the present through the lenses of postcolonial theory. Practices of map drawing …

A Biblical Theology Of Power, Lynn R. Buzzard

Lynn R. Buzzard

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Jfk, Don Draper, And The New Sentimentality, Gary R. Edgerton

Gary R. Edgerton

The semiotic similarities between JFK and Don Draper are unmistakable. Each is tall, handsome, and typically turned out in a custom-made dark suit with a matching skinny tie. Their demeanors are outwardly cool but sexy; old-school handsome if a bit aloof; elegant in style while projecting a kind of ironic intelligence. They both embody what David Newman and Robert Benton characterized in a feature article for Esquire in July 1964 as 'The New Sentimentality.' By that time, the Kennedy mystique was reaching mythic proportions in the immediate wake of his assassination on November 22, 1963, which in turn ushered in …

Narratives Serially Constructed And Lived: Ethnicity In Cross-Gender Strikes 1887-1903, Ileen A. Devault

Ileen A DeVault

[Excerpt] The strikes narrated in this paper have illustrated different ways in which individuals' recognition of ethnic identity could interact with their recognition of gender and class identities. In each strike workers' identities developed along with the serial narrative of the particular strike situation. The use of Sartre's concept of the series helps us think about the many possible variations of class, ethnicity, and gender. Though Sartre planned to use his concept of series as a way to examine peoples' class identities, my employment of the concept broadens it to include other categories of identification as well. Using the concept …

A Double Life: Bette Davis' Twin Roles, Elaine P. Lennon Dr

Dr Elaine Lennon

An examination of the dualistic career of Bette Davis through the prism of Davis’ roles as identical twins in the fraternal films A Stolen Life (1946) and Dead Ringer (1964).

Race Talk: Patricia J. Williams' Seeing A Color-Blind Future: The Paradox Of Race, Taunya Lovell Banks

Taunya Lovell Banks

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The Bill Of Rights And The Emerging Democracies, Jacek Kurczewski, Barry Sullivan

Barry Sullivan

Today, the influence of the US Bill of Rights can be traced through its remote offspring, including the Helsinki Agreement, the German Basic Law, the post-war French constitutions, and the European Convention on Human Rights. These documents have influenced recent developments in the emerging democracies of eastern and central Europe.

Protected Area Governance Conflicts In Ireland - Mending Poor Relations And New Modes Of Governance, Noel Healy

Noel Healy

Willa Cather As Equivocal Icon, Guy J. Reynolds

Guy J Reynolds

All icons are ultimately equivocal: you can’t think of an icon without thinking about iconoclasm. Iconicity is a function of place. Cather turned the creation of icons, and the sceptical deconstruction of icons, into a form of narrative quest that could animate a whole fiction. After Cather’s death, her coterie, Midwesterners who had come East, were faced with what to make of an iconic heartlands figure who had moved to this re¬gion. Cather’s status as Midwestern icon became, after her death, a subject of struggle among E.K Brown, his widow Peggy Brown, Dorothy Canfield, Edith Lewis, Alfred Knopf, Leon Edel, …

Aesthetics And Human Rights, Winston Nagan, Aitza Haddad

Winston P Nagan

This article seeks to contribute to a better understating of the relationship between aesthetics and fundamental human rights. The initial challenge was to develop a more clarified conception of aesthetics as a social process in order to better mark those aspects of aesthetics that have clear human rights implications. This required us to contextualize the aesthetics process in terms of the generally accepted model of communications theory, and then to deepened the inquiry using this model as the broad architectural foundation for unpacking the social process of aesthetics. These ideas were put into the context of significant contributions from the …

The Phenomenal Presence Of Invisible Legs: Beckett And The Actor, Annie Michael Paladino

Annie Michael Paladino

Samuel Beckett did not write a theory of acting; nevertheless, his plays raise many longstanding questions and tensions regarding the actor's craft. This thesis examines the actor's creative process in Beckett's theatre. Drawing from the accounts of numerous actors, the author's own experience as a performer in Beckett's Happy Days, and performance studies theories, this thesis contends that the actor in Beckett's theatre must confront three specific dichotomies: inner life versus physical score, presentational versus representational modes of performance, and phenomenal body versus semiotic body. By positioning Beckett's theatre in dialogue with the writings of Konstantin Stanislavsky and Bertolt Brecht, …

A Tale Of Two Boards: A Study Of A Bookbinding, Sidney F. Huttner

Sidney F. Huttner

The Origins And Efficacy Of Private Enforcement Of Animal Cruelty Law In Britain, Jerry L. Anderson

Jerry L. Anderson

In 1822, the British Parliament enacted a landmark statute to punish the abuse of animals, known as Martin’s Act, named after Richard Martin, MP, who championed the bill. The Act provided a criminal penalty of up to £5 for the cruel treatment of cattle, a term which included horses, oxen, and sheep. Because the Act was the first national statute aimed at animal cruelty, scholars have naturally focused on its substance, which established an important new norm governing the relationship between humans and other animals. However, the Act would not have been successful without vigorous prosecution, which helped define the …

My “Country” Lies Over The Ocean: Seasteading And Polycentric Law, Allen P. Mendenhall

Allen Mendenhall

This essay considers the implications of the Seasteading Institute upon notions of law and sovereignty and argues that seasteading could make possible the implementation or ordering of polycentric legal systems while providing evidence for the viability of private-property anarchism or anarchocapitalism, at least in their nascent forms. This essay follows in the wake of Edward P. Stringham’s edition Anarchy and the Law and treats seasteading and polycentric law as concrete realities that lend credence to certain anarchist theories. Polycentric law in particular allows for institutional diversity that enables a multiplicity of rules to coexist and even compete in the open …