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2011

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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 …


Bondage And Barbeques, Margot D. Weiss Dec 2010

Bondage And Barbeques, Margot D. Weiss

Margot Weiss

Interview in Method Magazine


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.


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.


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 …


"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.