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Knowledge, Identity, And The Politics Of Law, Margaret Davies, Nan Seuffert

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

As indicated by the title, our primary question concerns the relationship of situated knowledges, identity politics and the political dimension of law. The term "situated knowledges" refers broadly to issues raised in feminist epistemology: how do oppressed groups experience the world differently to the dominant perspective, what is the relationship between different knowledge bases and what is the epistemological significance of "the view from below?" "Identity politics" is a term which has been used to describe political coalitions formed primarily around politically-charged identities. It has been used to indicate, for instance, that identification as a "feminist" or as a "lesbian" …

Overcoming The Dichotomy: Cultivating Standpoints In Organizations Through Research, Debbie S. Dougherty, Kathleen J. Krone

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

Feminist standpoint theories are seldom used by researchers. One possible reason is the ongoing debate between postmodern theorists and feminine standpoint theorists. The debate has been constructed in bipolar terms such that the issues are perceived as mutually exclusive. However, bipolar assumptions are damaging to women, both in general and in organizations. We contend that feminist standpoint theories should theorize similarities, material reality, and communal agency while being sensitive to differences, multiple realities, and individual agency. A study of academic women is used to illustrate how standpoints can develop around similarities while respecting differences. Using a creative narrative, participants’ organizational …

Retelling Good Governance Narratives On Africa's Economic And Political Predicaments: Continuities And Discontinuities In Legal Outcomes Between Markets And States, James Thuo Gathii

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Globalization Of Culture, Gary Minda

University of Colorado Law Review

No abstract provided.

Women Defenders On Television: Representing Suspects And The Racial Politics Of Retribution, Joan W. Howarth

Scholarly Works

This Essay is about Ellenor Frutt, Annie Dornell, Joyce Davenport, and other women criminal defense attorneys of prime time television. It examines how high-stakes network television presents sympathetic stories about women working as criminal defense attorneys while simultaneously supporting the popular thirst for the harshest criminal penalties. Real women who choose to represent criminal defendants are fundamentally out of step with angry and unforgiving attitudes toward crime and criminals. Indeed, women defenders have chosen work that puts them in direct opposition to the widespread public willingness to incarcerate record numbers of Americans, often young African-American and Latino men, for longer …

Review Of Fernando F. Segovia And Mary Ann Tolbert, Teaching The Bible: The Discourses And Politics Of Biblical Pedagogy, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

Theological Studies Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Reflections On Blackcrit Theory: Human Rights, Hope Lewis

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Survey And Evaluation Of Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus (Npv) For The Control Of Helicoverpa Armigera (Hubner) (Lepidoptera: Nocduidae) On Selected Vegetable Crops In Kenya, Joseph Baya

All Master’s Theses

Samples of helicoverpa armigera larvae obtained from several sites and crops in kenya in surveys carried out during june 1998 to october 1999 were examined at icipe, nairobi. They revealed natural infection by nuclear polyhedrosis virus (npv). Sixteen isolates were collected altogether. In laboratory bioassays on fieldcollected third instar larvae fed on contaminated diet with two local npv isolates and the indian (icrisat) isolate, the cumulative percent larval mortality did not differ significantly but the local isolates were apparently superior. Percentage larval mortality recorded 9 days after inoculation for the kenyan isolates were 78.3±7.38% and 68.3±5.68% respectively, compared to 55.9±2.10% …

Clark University Academic Catalog [1999-2000], Clark University

Clark University Academic Catalogs

Annual academic catalog for the 1999-2000 academic year at Clark University.

Clark University academic catalogs contain academic announcements, course listings and descriptions, degrees and degree requirements, registers of instructor and administrator names, information on buildings and grounds, Clark history, and more. They have had various titles throughout the decades, but for consistency we collectively refer to them as academic catalogs across all titles.

Gap| Mining The Third World For Cultural Transfusions Or Afro-Billy And The Search For Meaning, Jeanne Christopherson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Popular Literature, Sunka Simon

German Studies Faculty Works

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Tainted Perceptions: Liberal-Democracy And American Popular Images Of China, Thomas Laszlo Dorogi

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The primary thesis of this study is that beginning with the pre-Tiananmen Square incident of 1989, American popular and institutional images of China focused on the reformist nature the government, but following the military crackdown in June 1989, this optimism dwindled and resulted in the creation of an ambivalent cross-cultural atmosphere toward the Chinese for the next half decade. When Chinese leaders decided to undertake military exercises in the Taiwan Strait in mid-1995, America's perception of the PRC swung even further in a distinctly negative direction; an event that marked the outset of a three year period during which Chinese …

Rights Of Passage: A Cross -Cultural Study Of Maroon Novels By Black Women., Randi Gray Kristensen

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study investigates the use and implications of the trope of marronage, the African-American practice of self-emancipation to forge alternative New World communities, in selected novels by Black women writers of North America and the Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean. It draws on theories of liminality to posit a theory of liberatory practice that deconstructs hegemonic narratives, both personal and historical. Postmodern approaches are deferred in favor of locating these texts and their concerns as deriving from the epistemological consequences of modernity. Cross-cultural Black women's texts were chosen to illuminate the recognition of shared subjugations across national and linguistic borders, as …

Masked Criticism: The Whore And The Breeches Role As Articulators Of Sexual Economic Theory In The Intrigue Plays Of Aphra Behn., Mary Katherine Politz

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Aphra Behn was an important playwright in the Restoration, second only to John Dryden in the number of plays produced during the period. In some of her early plays based on Spanish intrigue comedies, she uses the roles of whores and cross dressed women to articulate her criticism of the sexual economy within patriarchy. Masks and disguises create confusion in all the plays. Her characters, plots, structure, humor and economic concerns change with each successive play. The first play in the series, The Dutch Lover (1673) is a tale of romance where women are exchanged between men for the benefit …

Comparability Of Resting Energy Expenditure In Nigerians And U.S. Blacks, Amy Luke, Charles N. Rotimi, Adebowale A. Adeyemo, Ramon A. Durazo-Arvizu, T. Elaine Prewitt, Lisa Moragne-Kayser, Regina Marders, Richard S. Cooper

Faculty Publications

Objective: To determine the influence of environmental factors on resting energy expenditure (REE) and its relationship to adiposity in two populations of West African origin, Nigerians and U.S. blacks. Research Methods and Procedures: REE and body composition were measured in a cross-sectional sample of 89 Nigerian adults (39 women and 50 men), and 181 U.S. black adults (117 women and 65 men). Both groups represent randomly selected population samples. REE was measured by indirect calorimetry after an overnight fast in both sites using the same instrument. Body composition was estimated using bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) in 72 Nigerians and 156 …

Editor's Choice Underapplauded Books, J. M. Stafford

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.

The Poetry Professors Eighteenth-Century Spenserianism And Romantic Concepts Of Culture, David H. Radcliffe

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.

The Gendered World Of Disney: A Content Analysis Of Gender Themes In Full-Length Animated Disney Feature Films, Beth A. Wiersma

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Research has focused on the gender messages portrayed in television programs, cartoons, advertisements, literature, picture books, and fairy tales. One venue that has not received as much attention in the research is the Disney 1 full-length animated feature films. This is a qualitative study of the gender themes and portrayal of gender roles in full-length animated feature films by The Walt Disney Company. The findings in this research indicate there has been little change in the stereotyped portrayals of Disney characters from the release of the first full-length animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 to …

Seeing Childhood In Art Education, Paul Duncum

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Art education theory and practice sees children as constructivist learners, but postmodern theory teaches us to see children with multiple and fragmented identities. Postmodern theory is used to examine childhood as a site of divergent discourses concerned with persistent adult attempts to control both actual children and the concept of childhood. Many alternative conceptions find pictorial form in the mass media, from abused child to nightmarish threat. This paper focuses on the idea of children as rabid consumers. It examines television advertisements aimed at children, especially by McDonald’s, Mattel and Cap Toys. Implications for the classroom as well as art …

Review Of Aihwa Ong, Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics Of Transnationality., Christopher Douglas

Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature

Aihwa Ong, Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. 325 pp. ISBN 0822322692.

Review Of Mary Jacobus, Psychoanalysis And The Scene Of Reading, Christina Zwarg

Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature

Mary Jacobus, Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 241 pp. ISBN 0198184344.

An Intercultural Play, Donna Lee Mcclung

All Graduate Projects

The purpose of this project was to write a play that could be used as a teaching tool for addressing multicultural issues in educational curricula. The literature review suggests that dramatic activities can be effective teaching strategies to address multicultural and diversity issues. The one-act play, Irene, is set in a middle-class American neighborhood and focuses on the conflict within a broken home.

Learning From Japan: The Case For Increased Use Of Apology In Mediation , Max Bolstad

Cleveland State Law Review

This article proposes that there is room for increased use of apology in the United States and in mediation in particular. Mediation offers the ideal setting for the offering of an apology because of its position outside the traditional strictures of the adversarial system and because of its oft-stated goal of reconciling parties and preserving relationships. Similarly, an increased awareness of apology among mediators is likely to provide another innovative method for helping parties reach a mutually satisfying and beneficial settlement. Part II of this Article examines the nature of apology and its transformative power. Part II discusses the use …

Examining Biases And Prejudices: Implications For Art Education, Shirley Hayes Yokley

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

In this paper, I combine an overview of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl’s (1996) socio-psychological examination of group prejudices with a critical examination of artwork by Juan Sánchez to illustrate how issues-based studies of works of art help teachers and students examine and resist biases and prejudices that contribute to oppressive or hegemonic actions.

Review Of Searching For Hawa's Secret, John Stephen Brantley

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Tribal Jurisprudence And Cultural Meanings Of The Family, Barbara Ann Atwood

Nebraska Law Review

This article explores the ways in which Indian tribal judges are constituting their tribe's unique culture through jurisprudential "weavings" in the realm of family dispute resolution. Part II describes the history of tribal courts in this country and the contemporary characteristics of many such judiciaries. In addition, Part II highlights the vast differences among modern tribal courts but also suggests that many tribes share common values regarding the cultural role of dispute resolution. Part III briefly explores the incorporation of custom and tradition into judicial decision making by tribal courts, including the methods by which traditions are proven and the …

From Free Trade To Prohibition: A Critical History Of The Modern Asian Opium Trade, Alfred W. Mccoy

Fordham Urban Law Journal

The article begins by exploring America's current war on drugs and how it represents a misuse of its power and misperception of the global narcotics trade. It continues and puts forth that Asia's opium production may soon increase to levels that will defeat the war on drugs now being waged by the United State and United Nations and goes into the the extent of Opium production in Asia. It then looks at a history of Opium trade, including the era which began prohibition and then the cold war, which began the expansion of the Asian opium trade. The article then …

Official Knowledge And The Relations Of Ruling, Peter R. Grahame, Kamini Maraj Grahame

Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice

No abstract provided.

From Warriors To Wingtips: The Leadership Transition Of Retired Officers Into The Public Sector, Lynn M. Eldred Edd

Dissertations

For personal and financial reasons some retired military officers seek second careers in the public sector. In entering local government, they are leaving a unique organization, and encountering a very different organizational culture. This study used grounded theory methodology to identify the key military leadership strategies and behaviors learned by military officers and to examine their applicability to local government. It focused on eleven retired naval and marine officers who served twenty or more years, attained a rank of lieutenant commander or major and above, and had worked in local San Diego government at the mid-management or executive level less …

Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions And English Nationality By Cannon Schmitt (Review), Barry Milligan

English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications

Review of the book Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality by Cannon Schmitt.