This is not a love story: Armed Struggled against the institutions of patriarchy
Author: Fanzine File Type: pdf Many feminist theorists and activists categorically condemnviolence-- be it offensive or defensive, physical or verbal-- on the groundsthat violence (an extremely ambiguous term in itself) has its roots inpatriarchal culture and the patriarchal mindset, and is somehow theinvention of men-- as if violence doesnt appear everywhere in the naturalworld in myriad forms, usually contributing in significant ways to thebalance of local ecosystems. While certain feminist thinkers put forth ananalysis of violence and hierarchical power relationships that is well worthconsidering, a wholesale condemnation of revolutionary violence aimed atthe destruction of that which oppresses us is a gross oversimplification ofan extremely complex situation that is, the web of patriarchal tyranny thatall of us, wimmin and men alike, find ourselves born into, where violence isused by our oppressors to enforce our political and social submission, andwhere we are all desperately looking for effective ways to reclaim our lives.Analyzing the role of armed resistance movements (and wimminsparticipation in them) in the larger liberation struggle against patriarchy andcivilization from an entirely essentialist perspective -- as Robin Morgandoes in her often cited work The Demon Lover -- is a misleading anddeceptive form of Herstorical revisionism, as it completely discounts the livesof wimmin like Harriet Tubman, who led armed guerrilla raids into thesouthern united states (basically a slave-owning armed camp) to rescuefellow New Afrikans from captivity, as well as numerous other wimmin likeAssata Shakur, Marilyn Buck, and Bernadine Dohrn, who enthusiasticallyembraced armed struggle as a tactic and had no regrets about it. This articlewill not attempt to defend armed struggle (because in our opinion itrequires no justification) but will instead focus on two very specific groups(of many) that engaged in violent rebellion against the institutions ofpatriarchy.
Author: Barbara A. Arrighi
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In a 2004 study by the Annie E. Casey, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations it was reported that a large number of American families are currently faring poorly in their struggle to provide for themselves. Low-income and poor families were found to contain one-third of all of the children in American working families. Low-wage jobs without benefits mean that families at or below the poverty line live a precarious existence. This four-volume set is designed to reveal, explicate, analyze, and assess the effects of an inadequate income on children.Each volume contains original essays written by an interdisciplinary roster of contributors. The first volume, Children and the State addresses policy and legislation that affect low-income families. One issue that is considered in this volume is the lack of a national housing policy in the United States. The second volume, Health and Medical Issues includes discussions on the status of Medicaid, the lack of mental health services available for low-income families, and the difficult-to-access healthcare for the rural poor. Volume three, Families and Children explores the effects of welfare reform, especially the issue of childcare and the increased work expectations of parents. Other compelling topics in this volume include low-income families and the Family and Medical Leave Act, poor children and the internet, and the increase in economic insecurity among low-income families who increasingly live on credit. In the final volume, The Promise of Education, universal pre-kindergarten, Head Start, and the education of immigrant children are all explored.[4 Volumes]
Author: Tadeusz PiĆ³ro
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This book is a comprehensive approach to interpreting Frank OHaras highly influential work. Frank OHaras poetry, initially inspired by the Modernist avant-garde, underwent a radical change around 1960. This change parallels the decline of Abstract Expressionism and the rise of Pop Art. The book includes historical contextualization as well as practical criticism. The author analyzes how Frank OHara could be regarded. As a Modernist poet, or as one who realizes that the aesthetic of High Modernism is on the wane, and is preparing himself for a paradigmatic change. Earlier poems are best seen as Modernistavant-gardist, while the later ones as no less vanguard forays into uncharted territory. While the book takes up issues such as mimeticism, realism and abstraction in both poetry and painting, the boredom of the new as seen by Walter Benjamin, and the representational potential of the camp aesthetic, the main emphasis is on practical criticism, modes of reading OHaras uvre.
Author: Smithsonian Institution
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The Smithsonian Institution holds more than 142 million artifacts and specimens in its trust. This colorful guide to the museums and galleries on the National Mall, in the Washington metropolitan area, and in New York City presents an enormous amount of history and pertinent museum information, ensuring a rewarding visit. Each detailed section presents the history of the museums and offers a fully illustrated, gallery-by-gallery tour. All the practical information--location, hours, phone numbers, public transportation, services, tours, dining, gift shops, special attractions for children, web site addresses--is also included. With so much to see and do, this is the definitive source of all the information in one place. **About the Author The Smithsonian Institution is the largest museum complex in the world, with an average of 30 million visits annually.
Author: Helmuth Nyborg
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This book celebrates two triumphs in modern psychology the successful development and application of a solid measure of general intelligence and the personal courage and skills of the man who made this possible - Arthur R. Jensen from Berkeley University. The volume traces the history of intelligence from the early 19th century approaches, to the most recent analyses of the hierarchical structure of cognitive abilities, and documents the transition from a hopelessly confused concept of intelligence to the development of an objective measure of psychometric g. The contributions illustrate the impressive power g has with respect to predicting educational achievement, getting an attractive job, or social stratification. The book is divided into six parts as follows Part I presents the most recent higher-stream analysis of cognitive abilities, Part II deals with biological aspects of g, such as research on brain imaging, glucose uptake, working memory, reaction time, inspection time, and other biological correlates, and concludes with the latest findings in g-related molecular genetics. Part III addresses demographic aspects of g, such as geographic-, race-, and sex-differences, and introduces differential psychological aspects as well. Part IV concentrates on the g nexus, and relates such highly diverse topics as sociology, genius, retardation, training, education, jobs, and crime to g. Part V contains chapters critical of research on g and its genetic relationship, and also presents a rejoinder. Part VI looks at one of the greatest contemporary psychologists, Professor Emeritus Arthur R. Jensen as teacher and mentor.**
Author: F. Baumgartner
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A noteworthy development in recent history has been the disappearance of formal declarations of war. Using primary sources, this book examines the history of declaring war in the early modern era up to the writing of the US Constitution to identify the influence of early modern history on the framing of theConstitution. **Review A valuable addition to collections on international law and diplomatic practice. Recommended. CHOICE A wide-ranging study that focuses on the early-modern period but in fact tackles the entire historical background to the question of whether a declaration of war is necessary. An excellent example of how a major historian can make his knowledge relevant to contemporary discussions. - Jeremy Black, Professor of History, University of Exeter This study explores the legalistic and religious traditions that undergirded the declaration of war from the ancient world through the eighteenth century. In particular, it focuses on the transformative developments in the sixteenth century. Readers will welcome Baumgartners ability to intertwine theory and practice and to illustrate the disjunction between law and its realization, what the Germans called Rechtsverwirklichung. It illumines larger questions such as the development of the international state system and of international law and the evolution of the theory of just war, especially in the early modern period when war or the threat of war was so pervasive. This book adds to Baumgartners impressive corpus of work on the early modern era. - Linda Frey, Professor of European History, the University of Montana and Marsha Frey, Professor of History, University of Kansas The early modern period around which most of the book centers is indeed a formative one for the development of ideas and practices concerning the declaration of war. Baumgartner has done a good job in assessing the secondary literature and situating his topic in its historiographical context. More importantly, he has assembled an impressive body of primary source material, particularly deriving from thinkers on war. Overall, this is a perceptive, thorough, and useful study of a neglected topic. - Frank Tallett, Head of School of Humanities, University of Reading, UK About the Author FREDERIC J.BAUMGARTNER Professor of History at Virginia Tech, USAand the author of the Palgrave titles Behind Locked Doors A History of the Papal Elections (2003), Longing for the End A History of Millennialism in Western Civilization (1999), and France in the Sixteenth Century (1995).
Author: Franco Montanari
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This is the first full-scale companion on Hesiod to appear in English. The twelve contributions included in this volume cover a wide range of aspects of Hesiodic poetry, such as the relation between Hesiod and the literary traditions of the Near East and the entire span of works comprising the Hesiodic corpus, from the Theogony and the Works and Days to the Melampodia and the Aigimios. They also explore the language, style, poetics, and narrative art of Hesiod, as well as his influence on Hellenistic and Roman poetry, but also his reception by the ancient biographical traditions and scholia. The aim of this volume is to supply all those interested in Greek poetry with an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of scholarly approaches to Hesiod and various other works which have come down to us under his name.
Author: Nicholas Watson
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This is the first literary study of the career of Richard Rolle (d. 1349), a Yorkshire hermit and mystic who was one of the most widely-read English writers of the late Middle Ages. Nicholas Watson proposes a new chronology of Rolles writings, and offers the first literary analyses of a number of his works. He shows how Rolles career, as a writer of passionate religious works in Latin and later in English, has as its principal focus the establishment of his own spiritual authority. The book also addresses wider issues, suggesting a new way of looking at mystical writing in general, and challenging the prevailing view of the relationship between medieval and Renaissance attitudes to authors and authority.Review...the most substantial assessment of Rolle and his importance since Hope Emily Allens monumental Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole, and Materials for His Biography, published in 1927. It is a meticulous study of Rolles works, emphasizing the Latin ones, as evidence for an emerging authorial persona that could reconcile Rolles conflicting apologetic and didactic aims....[T]hose who stick with it will be impressed by a lively intelligence engaged on an elusive subject, who in his writings tended to speak through the veiled language of Scripture rather than directly. Watson and his publishers are to be praised for the abundance and length of the Latin quotations (with good translations) allowed into the book....Except for Hope Emily Allen, no one to date has devoted so much serious attention to Rolles style. The reader who perseveres with Watson will arrive at a new respect for Rolles career.... Michael P. Kuczynski, Speculum Book DescriptionThis is a literary study of Richard Rolle, one of the most widely read English writers of the late Middle Ages. Nicholas Watson proposes a chronology of Rolles Latin and English writings and offers a literary analyses of a number of his works, showing how they focus principally on the establishment of his own spiritual authority.
Author: Sun-Young Park
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Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet these well-known developments in public health built on a previous moment of anxiety about the hygiene of modern city dwellers. Amid fears of national decline that accompanied the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire, efforts to modernize Paris between 1800 and 1850 focused not on grand and comprehensive structural reforms, but rather on improving the bodily and mental fitness of the individual citizen. These forgotten efforts to renew and reform the physical and moral health of the urban subject found expression in the built environment of the cityin the gymnasiums, swimming pools, and green spaces of private and public institutions, from the pedagogical to the recreational. Sun-Young Park reveals how these anxieties about health and social order, which manifested in emerging ideals of the body, created a uniquely spatial and urban experience of modernity in the postrevolutionary capital, one profoundly impacted by hygiene, mobility, productivity, leisure, spectacle, and technology. **