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Review Of Catharine A. Mackinnon, Women’S Lives, Men’S Laws, Rose Corrigan

Rose Corrigan

No abstract provided.

Sex Selection & Pre Birth Elimination Of Girl Child, Professor Vibhuti Patel

Professor Vibhuti Patel

Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act was enacted in 1994 as a result of pressure created by Forum Against Sex-determination and Sex –preselection. But it was not implemented. After another decade of campaigning by women’s rights organisations and public interest litigation filed by CEHAT, MASUM and Dr. Sabu George, The Pre-natal Diagnostics Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Amendment Act, 2002 received the assent of the President of India on 17-1-2003. The Act provides “for the prohibition of sex selection, before or after conception, and for regulation of pre-natal diagnostic techniques for the purposes of detecting genetic abnormalities or metabolic disorders or …

Traditional Tropes And Familial Incest In Banana Yoshimoto’S Kitchen, Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

Kitchen, written in 1983, by Banana Yoshimoto, contains one novella and one short story. The novella is entitled Kitchen and the short story which follows it is called Moonlight Shadow. In Moonlight Shadow, the structure of a Japanese Noh drama enfolds, wherein the ultimate end of the main character is to live on in a semi-incestuous relationship with her dead boyfriend’s brother. In Kitchen, the images that one is assailed by are those of desire coexisting with food, and love contingent on incest. The idea of food as a comfort conflates into that of a woman as comforting.

These two …

Parenting And Professing: Balancing Family Work With An Academic Career, Rachel Bassett

Rachel E. Hile

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Gender Across Borders: Transnational Perspectives On Drugs, Department Stores, Feminists, And Adoption In The Americas, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

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Feminist Philosophy In The Analytic Tradition, Anita Superson, Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan

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A Feminist Public Sphere? Virginia Woolf's Revisions Of The Eighteenth Century, Anne Fernald

Anne E Fernald

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Literature Review: Policies And Conditions Surrounding The Integration Of 'Traditional' Medical Systems And 'Western' Biomedicine, Treena Orchard

Dr. Treena Orchard

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Nature Exposed: Photography As An Eye Witness In Victorian Science, Jennifer Tucker

Jennifer Tucker

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Life After Death: Widows And The English Novel, Defoe To Austen, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

This monograph argues that images of the widow in the early novel served to express, explore, and construct concepts of appropriate female activity in emerging capitalism during the eighteenth century in England. Drawing on novels published between 1719 and 1818, this study investigates how different classes of widows (affluent, working class, impoverished, and criminal) functioned to challenge and affirm emerging economic values. A concluding chapter on widows in Jane Austen's work shows how changing notions of appropriate female economic activity had settled by the establishment of both the capitalist economy and the novel in the early nineteenth century.

Decentering Imperial Women: Confucian Fertility Sacrifices In The Ming Dynasty, Deborah Sommer

Deborah A. Sommer

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Race, Ethnicity, And Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers (J. Nagel, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), Amanda Swygart-Hobaugh

Amanda "Mandy" J. Swygart-Hobaugh

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Understanding The Social And Cultural Context Of Female Sex Workers In Karnataka, India: Implications For Prevention Of Hiv Infection, J. Blanchard, J. O'Neil, B. Ramesh, P. Bhattacharjee, Treena Orchard, S. Moses

Dr. Treena Orchard

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Aids And American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics Of An Epidemic, Thomas Long

Thomas Lawrence Long

Since public discourse about AIDS began in 1981, it has characterized AIDS as an apocalyptic plague: a punishment for sin and a sign of the end of the world. Christian fundamentalists had already configured the gay male population most visibly affected by AIDS as apocalyptic signifiers or signs of the "end times." Their discourse grew out of a centuries-old American apocalypticism that included images of crisis, destruction, and ultimate renewal. In this book, Thomas L. Long examines the ways in which gay and AIDS activists, artists, writers, scientists, and journalists appropriated this apocalyptic rhetoric in order to mobilize attention to …

Travel Narrative, Jan Wellington

Jan Wellington

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Frances Burney, Jan Wellington

Jan Wellington

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A Turbulent Decade: Social Protest Movements And The Labour Movement, 1965-1975, Rowan Cahill, Beverley Symons

Rowan Cahill

During the decade 1965-1975, a cultural revolution took place in Australia. The future was seeded with movements and ideas that changed Australian society and culture, and enlarged the space for democratic action. This book, edited by Beverley Symons and Rowan Cahill, themselves activists during the period, brings together the candid, at times vulnerable, recollections of thirty-nine participants in the events of the decade.

Men, Masculinity, And Male Domination: Reframing Feminist Analyses Of Sex Work, C. Heike Schotten

C. Heike Schotten

Prostitution has been considered by feminists as, alternatively, a gendered relation, an issue of sexuality, and a kind of labor. In this paper, I argue for an integrated feminist analysis of sex work which focuses on the first and third of these (leaving the second in the background) and orients itself toward consideration of sex work as a symptom or function of various masculinities.

Syllabus - "Selling Sex: Feminist Discourses On The Sex Work Industry" (Cornell College, Women's Studies Course), Amanda J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.

Mandy (Amanda) Swygart-Hobaugh

We examined competing feminist discourses regarding women’s involvement/portrayal in the sex work industry. Grounded in feminist theoretical and methodological perspectives, our discussions were guided by the following considerations: (1) What are the competing feminist discourses regarding sex work, and what are the similarities/differences between these discourses? (2) How are these competing discourses deployed in a global context, and what issues/concerns arise within a global consideration of sex work? (3) Is sex work inherently degrading/objectifying to women, or can one allow that it may also be sexually liberating? (4) How might one’s social situatedness (i.e. social class, race/ethnicity, gender, education, non-sex …

"(En)Gendering Cooking", Amanda J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.

Mandy (Amanda) Swygart-Hobaugh

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Prostitution And Human Rights: What Are The Issues?, Amanda J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.

Mandy (Amanda) Swygart-Hobaugh

Session at a conference for high school students, in which we discussed the issues surrounding prostitution and human rights.

Dance And The Dancer In Egyptian Film, Roberta L. Dougherty

Roberta L. Dougherty

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The Unbearable Withness Of Being: On The Essentialist Blind-Spot Of Anti-Ontotheology, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

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