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Techniques Of Pleasure: Bdsm And The Circuits Of Sexuality, Margot Weiss Dec 2010

Techniques Of Pleasure: Bdsm And The Circuits Of Sexuality, Margot Weiss

Margot Weiss

Techniques of Pleasure is a vivid portrayal of the San Francisco Bay Area’s pansexual BDSM (SM) community. Margot Weiss conducted ethnographic research at dungeon play parties and at workshops on bondage, role play, and flogging, and she interviewed more than sixty SM practitioners. She describes a scene devoted to a form of erotic play organized around technique, rules and regulations, consumerism, and self-mastery. Challenging the notion that SM is inherently transgressive, Weiss links the development of commodity-oriented sexual communities and the expanding market for sex toys to the eroticization of gendered, racialized, and national inequalities. She analyzes the politics of …

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Sacrilegi E Spazi Sacri E Profane: Ebrei E Cristiani In Polonia D’Età Moderna, Magda Teter Dec 2010

Sacrilegi E Spazi Sacri E Profane: Ebrei E Cristiani In Polonia D’Età Moderna, Magda Teter

Magda Teter

As late as the 1926, and perhaps even up to the eve of World War II, on Fridays, in a small church on the Jewish street, a few meters off the main market square in the city of Poznań, the traditional song Kyrie Eleison, God Have Mercy, Christ Have Mercy, was replaced by a song on Jewish desecration of the host in Poznań in 1399. It was a legend, for there is no record of the case; no court room drama, for the trial never took place. The drama was elsewhere: the set was the city, its geography, and its …

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Disciplina De Mestrado: Geografia De Relações Internacionais, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Dec 2010

Disciplina De Mestrado: Geografia De Relações Internacionais, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Stefani Engelstein, Anxious Anatomy: The Conception Of The Human Form In Literary And Naturalistic Discourse, Scott Abbott Dec 2010

Review Of Stefani Engelstein, Anxious Anatomy: The Conception Of The Human Form In Literary And Naturalistic Discourse, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.

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Desires As Additional Reasons? The Case Of Tie-Breaking, Attila Tanyi Dec 2010

Desires As Additional Reasons? The Case Of Tie-Breaking, Attila Tanyi

Attila Tanyi

According to the Desire-Based Reasons Model reasons for action are provided by desires. Many, however, are critical about the Model holding an alternative view of practical reason, which is often called valued-based. In this paper I consider one particular attempt to refute the Model, which advocates of the valued-based view often appeal to: the idea of reason-based desires. The argument is built up from two premises. The first claims that desires are states that we have reason to have. The second argues that desires do not add to the stock of reasons the agent has for having them. Together the …

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Sobel On Pleasure, Reason, And Desire, Attila Tanyi Dec 2010

Sobel On Pleasure, Reason, And Desire, Attila Tanyi

Attila Tanyi

The paper begins with a well-known objection to the idea that reasons for action are provided by desires. The objection holds that since desires are based on reasons (first premise), which they transmit but to which they cannot add (second premise), they cannot themselves provide reasons for action. In the paper I investigate an attack that has recently been launched against the first premise of the argument by David Sobel. Sobel invokes a counterexample: hedonic desires, i.e. the likings and dislikings of our present conscious states. The aim of the paper is to defend the premise by bringing the alleged …

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Air War And Dream: Photographing The London Blitz, Sharon Sliwinski Dec 2010

Air War And Dream: Photographing The London Blitz, Sharon Sliwinski

Sharon Sliwinski

This paper treats Lee Miller's photographs of the London Blitz as a species of dream, which is to say, the Surrealist's images are regarded as a special form of thinking in which the conflicts and horrors of the times are represented in an effort to discharge their destructive force. This treatment calls upon Freud's discussion of dream-work, but also upon Didier Anzieu and Wilfred Bion's later writings, which consider the defensive and protective qualities of oneiric life. Miller's photography, like dream, provides a glimpse into the interior dimension of human existence. The essay argues that this interior dimension provides protection …

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Immortal For Quite Some Time, Part 2, Scott Abbott Dec 2010

Immortal For Quite Some Time, Part 2, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.

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Immortal For Quite Some Time: Part One, Scott Abbott Dec 2010

Immortal For Quite Some Time: Part One, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.

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Bondage And Barbeques, Margot D. Weiss Dec 2010

Bondage And Barbeques, Margot D. Weiss

Margot Weiss

Interview in Method Magazine

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"For Every Wrong There Is A Remedy": Changing Law And Fleeing Wives In Nineteenth-Century America , Jerome J. Nadelhaft Dec 2010

"For Every Wrong There Is A Remedy": Changing Law And Fleeing Wives In Nineteenth-Century America , Jerome J. Nadelhaft

Jerome J Nadelhaft

Wife abuse was much in the public eye in the nineteenth century. Throughout the century a large but unknown number of wives sought to preserve their lives by abandoning their homes. It was never easy, but at least some were not themselves abandoned by the courts, which dealt with the many issues raised: for example, whether relatives and neighbors were allowed to assist them and even encourage them to flee. Fortunately, the American Revolution inspired a judicial belief that problems could be solved. Equity courts flourished and the chancellors who presided felt comfortable acting where the law was silent. More …

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Translating Women In Early Modern England: Gender In The Elizabethan Versions Of Boiardo, Ariosto And Tasso, Joshua S. Reid Dec 2010

Translating Women In Early Modern England: Gender In The Elizabethan Versions Of Boiardo, Ariosto And Tasso, Joshua S. Reid

Joshua S. Reid

Book Review of Translating Women in Early Modern England: Gender in the Elizabethan Versions of Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso, by Selene Scarsi.

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“El Humorismo Gráfico De Maitena Burundarena: De Lo Local A Lo Global; De Los Estereotipos A La Subversión”, Gema Pérez-Sánchez Dec 2010

“El Humorismo Gráfico De Maitena Burundarena: De Lo Local A Lo Global; De Los Estereotipos A La Subversión”, Gema Pérez-Sánchez

Gema Pérez-Sánchez

No abstract provided.

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Aristotle’S Pluralistic Realism, Devin Henry Dec 2010

Aristotle’S Pluralistic Realism, Devin Henry

Devin Henry

In this paper I explore Aristotle’s views on natural kinds and the compatibility of pluralism and realism, a topic that has generated considerable interest among contemporary philosophers. I argue that, when it came to zoology, Aristotle denied that there is only one way of organizing the diversity of the living world into natural kinds that will yield a single, unified system of classification. Instead, living things can be grouped and regrouped into various cross-cutting kinds on the basis of objective similarities and differences in ways that subserve the explanatory context. Since the explanatory aims of zoology are diverse and variegated, …

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The Problem Of The Relationship Between Philosophical And Theological Wisdom, Severin Kitanov Dec 2010

The Problem Of The Relationship Between Philosophical And Theological Wisdom, Severin Kitanov

Severin Kitanov

In the first ordinary question of the secular Oxford theologian Henry of Harclay (ca. 1270–1317), a question dealing with the possibility of accurately predicting the second coming of Christ, we read the following account of a story told by Alexander Neckham (1157–1217), a Christian theologian and Abbot of Cirencester (ca. 1212):

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More Than Just A Prize: The Civil War And The West, Adam Arenson Dec 2010

More Than Just A Prize: The Civil War And The West, Adam Arenson

Adam Arenson

How to unify the insights of the history of the Civil War Era and the study of the American West.

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How Research Blogging Improves Urban History, Adam Arenson Dec 2010

How Research Blogging Improves Urban History, Adam Arenson

Adam Arenson

This article explains why researchers should maintain a research blog for a project in development, especially if it is an urban-history or preservation issue.

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Narrative Research Methodology In Mobile Work Research, Li Jin Dec 2010

Narrative Research Methodology In Mobile Work Research, Li Jin

Li Jin

This book review provides a summary of the content of the book “Mobile Work, Mobile Lives: Cultural Accounts of Lived Experiences” and a critical review of the methodological strengths of the articles included in the book. It also points out one structural weakness of the book. The appropriate readership is recommended as well

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Ways Forward Engaging Gender & Development, Ann M. Oberhauser Dec 2010

Ways Forward Engaging Gender & Development, Ann M. Oberhauser

Ann Oberhauser

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) signed at the United Nations (UN) Millennium Summit in 2000 were formulated to end poverty and greatly reduce social, economic and political inequities in the global arena by 2015. Among the eight goals highlighted in this report, gender equity holds an important position and serves as the focus of the third goal to promote gender equality and to empower women. Other highlighted areas include education, health, HIV/AIDS, environmental sustainability and global partnerships (UNDP, 2010). Indeed, all these themes relate to gender equity and emphasize the importance of women to the development process as a whole.

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Les Rébellions Canadiennes Vues De Paris (1837-38), Francoise Le Jeune Pr Dec 2010

Les Rébellions Canadiennes Vues De Paris (1837-38), Francoise Le Jeune Pr

Francoise LE JEUNE

The Canadian rebellions in Lower Canada (1837-38) are observed through the French and British press. Their interpretation and representation are manifold as they seem to echo or inspire several current political and nationalist debates in Europe.

Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2011
978-2763794884

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Transnational Law: An Essay In Definition With A Polemic Addendum, Allen P. Mendenhall Dec 2010

Transnational Law: An Essay In Definition With A Polemic Addendum, Allen P. Mendenhall

Allen Mendenhall

What is transnational law? Various procedures and theories have emanated from this slippery signifier, but in general academics and legal practitioners who use the term have settled on certain common meanings for it. My purpose in this article is not to disrupt but to clarify these meanings by turning to literary theory and criticism that regularly address transnationality. Cultural and postcolonial studies are the particular strains of literary theory and criticism to which I will attend. To review “transnational law,” examining its literary inertia and significations, is the objective of this article, which does not purport to settle the matter …

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Shakespeare's Place In Law-And-Literature, Allen P. Mendenhall Dec 2010

Shakespeare's Place In Law-And-Literature, Allen P. Mendenhall

Allen Mendenhall

Nearly every Anglo-American law school offers a course called Law-and-Literature. Nearly all of these courses assign one or more readings from Shakespeare’s oeuvre. Why study Shakespeare in law school? That is the question at the heart of these courses. Some law professors answer the question in terms of cultivating moral sensitivity, fine-tuning close-reading skills, or practicing interpretive strategies on literary rather than legal texts. Most of these professors insist on an illuminating nexus between two supposedly autonomous disciplines. The history of how Shakespeare became part of the legal canon is more complicated than these often defensive, syllabus-justifying declarations allow. This …

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"Flourishing And Synthesis" (Review Essay), Allen P. Mendenhall Dec 2010

"Flourishing And Synthesis" (Review Essay), Allen P. Mendenhall

Allen Mendenhall

Edward W. Younkins's book, Flourishing and Happiness in a Free Society, is a welcome contribution to individualist thought. Focusing on Aristotle, Ayn Rand, Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, and Murray Rothbard, Younkins demonstrates the compatibility of Aristotelian liberalism, Objectivism, and Austrian Economics. Younkins suggests that synthesizing these philosophies will lead to human flourishing and happiness. These philosophies share certain general principles that can serve as moral bases for political action.

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Mpaa Ratings Creep: A Longitudinal Analysis Of The Pg-13 Rating Category In U.S. Movies., Ron Leone, Laurie Barowski Dec 2010

Mpaa Ratings Creep: A Longitudinal Analysis Of The Pg-13 Rating Category In U.S. Movies., Ron Leone, Laurie Barowski

Ron Leone

No abstract provided.

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Buddha Speaks With His Oncologist, (For David Getches), Frank Pommersheim Dec 2010

Buddha Speaks With His Oncologist, (For David Getches), Frank Pommersheim

Frank Pommersheim

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Sidwell, Aristophanes The Democrat, In New England Classical Journal 38 (2011), 290-92., Kenneth S. Rothwell Jr. Dec 2010

Review Of Sidwell, Aristophanes The Democrat, In New England Classical Journal 38 (2011), 290-92., Kenneth S. Rothwell Jr.

Kenneth S Rothwell, Jr.

No abstract provided.

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Review Of "Potluck: Community On The Edge Of Wilderness" By Anna Maria Spagna, Justin Wadland Dec 2010

Review Of "Potluck: Community On The Edge Of Wilderness" By Anna Maria Spagna, Justin Wadland

Justin Wadland

"Ever notice how people are more likely to say hi on a backwoods trail than on the city sidewalk? And why do folks seem more likely to stop and chat for a while the farther the trail-head is from an urban center?" -- From the opening paragraph.

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Out Of One, Many: The Emergence Of World Korean(S), David Silva Dec 2010

Out Of One, Many: The Emergence Of World Korean(S), David Silva

David Silva

"Since the late 19th century, the geographical rage in which the Korean language is spoken has increased dramatically. Currently ranked in Ethnologue as the 17th most widely spoken language in the world, Korean is used by over 66 million people in 33 nations..." So begins this article, which explores the ways in which Korean -- sometimes described as a "homogeneous language" -- has given rise to a number of global variants.

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Spain's Minoritized Languages In Brief Sociolinguistic Perspective, Andrew Lynch Dec 2010

Spain's Minoritized Languages In Brief Sociolinguistic Perspective, Andrew Lynch

Andrew Lynch

Since 1978, when Article 3 of the democractic Constitution officialized the ‘other languages of Spain in their respective Autonomous Communities’ and guaranteed them ‘special respect and protection’, Basque, Galician, and Catalan have undergone a significant process of institutional expansion. Laws of linguistic normalization passed in the respective Autonomous Communities during the early 1980s thrust each of these languages into public life, concomitantly disconfiguring their diglossic relationship to Castilian, a vestige of Franco’s staunch one language-one nation ideology. Today one could affirm that the theoretical premise of bilingualism and diglossia (Fishman) —whereby one language serves public, formal functions and another is …

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Why We Demand An Unconditional Basic Income: The Ecso Freedom Case, Karl Widerquist Dec 2010

Why We Demand An Unconditional Basic Income: The Ecso Freedom Case, Karl Widerquist

Karl Widerquist

Philippe Van Parijs’s (1995) Real Freedom for All: What (If Anything) Can Justify Capitalism makes a very thorough and challenging philosophical argument for basic income. But I believe that it has two important limitations that inhibit it from giving a compelling explanation why basic income supporters believe that support for the disadvantage must be not only universal but also unconditional and enough to meet an individual’s basic needs. This essay briefly discusses those limitations and then proposes an alternative argument for basic income that I believe relies on a more compelling concept of freedom, defined below as “Freedom as Effective …

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