Author: Tamura Lomax File Type: pdf In Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the use of the jezebel trope in the black church and in black popular culture, showing how it is pivotal to reinforcing mens cultural and institutional power to discipline and define black girlhood and womanhood. Drawing on writing by medieval thinkers and travelers, Enlightenment theories of race, the commodification of womens bodies under slavery, and the work of Tyler Perry and Bishop T. D. Jakes, Lomax shows how black women are written into religious and cultural history as sites of sexual deviation. She identifies a contemporary black church culture where figures such as Jakes use the jezebel stereotype to suggest a divine approval of the lady while condemning girls and women seen as hos. The stereotype preserves gender hierarchy, black patriarchy, and heteronormativity in black communities, cultures, and institutions. In response, black women and girls resist, appropriate, and play with the stereotypes meanings. Healing the black church, Lomax contends, will require ceaseless refusal of the idea that sin resides in black womens bodies, thus disentangling black women and girls from the jezebel narratives oppressive yoke. **Review An amazing pick for book clubs, reading discussion groups, or faith study groups, Jezebel Unhinged offers a fresh, exciting perspective on blackness, black female bodies, African American culture, and contemporary Christian teachings. (Claire Foster Foreword 2018-07-01) Abook for black women who want freedom. (Mariam Williams Womens Review of Books 2018-08-20) Review Jezebel Unhinged is an ambitious and provocative work that breaks new conceptual, theoretical, and political ground within black feminist studies. Creating a theoretical space that might be thought of as black feminist religious thought, it establishes Tamura Lomax as an important critical voice. (Mark Anthony Neal, author of Looking for Leroy Illegible Black Masculinities) A compelling feminist brew of wit and razor-like criticism on black popular culture, black religion, and the black church. Tamura Lomax takes on topics fraught with gendered land mineof complicity, icons considered untouchable, sites deemed sacrosanct, and scenes that are undoubtedly profane. (T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor, Vanderbilt University)

Author: Thomas Mahnken File Type: pdf This volume provides the first comprehensive history of the arms racing phenomenon in modern international politics, drawing both on theoretical approaches and on the latest historical research. Written by an international team of specialists, it is divided into four sections before 1914 the inter-war years the Cold War and extra-European and post-Cold War arms races. Twelve case studies examine land and naval armaments before the First World War air, land, and naval competition during the 1920s and 1930s and nuclear as well as conventional weapons since 1945. Armaments policies are placed within the context of technological development, international politics and diplomacy, and social politics and economics. An extended general introduction and conclusion and introductions to each section provide coherence between the specialized chapters and draw out wider implications for policymakers and for political scientists. Arms Races in International Politics addresses two key questions what causes arms races and what is the connection between arms races and the outbreak of wars? **

Author: Karen Muldoon-Hules File Type: pdf For young women in early South Asia, marriage was probably the most important event in their lives, as it largely determined their socioeconomic and religious future. Yet there has been little in the way of systematic examinations of the evidence on marriage customs among Buddhists of this time, and our understanding of the lives of early Buddhist women is still quite limited. This study uses ten stories from the Avadanasataka, the collection of Buddhist narratives compiled from the second to fifth centuries CE, to examine the social landscape of early India. The author analyzes marital customs and the development of nuns hagiographies, while revealing regional variations of Buddhism in South Asia during this period. **Review Karen Muldoon-Hules provides a thought-provoking study of classical Indian marital customs and Buddhist nuns somewhat surprising spousal choices the Buddha himself. This book is an important and welcome addition to the scholarship on the history of female Buddhist monasticism and Buddhist narrative literature. (Shayne Clarke, McMaster University) This timely volume speaks to a growing interest in Buddhist narrative, the relationship between Buddhists and Hindus in early northwest India, and the role of women in Buddhism. Taking ten stories of early Buddhist nuns as her starting point, the author explores the ways in which marriage features not only as a narrative motif, but also as a lens through which we can come to appreciate the situation of female Buddhists in early northwest India. As such, the volume is not only a thorough analysis of an intriguing and hitherto underappreciated textual source, it is also an important contribution to our understanding of early Buddhism in its broader Indian context. The author deals with a wealth of complex ideas with skill and clarity, making the work suitable for scholars and students, as well as others with an interest in Buddhism. (Naomi Appleton, University of Edinburgh) From the eighth chapter of the Avadanasataka emerges a complex social world, and Karen Muldoon-Hules brings to life these stories of exemplary Buddhist women, situating them in a broader literary and historical context and drawing out the myriad ways in which they, in turn, illuminate that context. Brides of the Buddha highlights the significant regional differences in the historical circumstances and literary representation of Buddhist nuns communities. In the process, it reveals the ways in which these normative representations of womens lives reflect the specific challenges they may have faced in negotiating the complex religious landscape of ancient north India. Scholars will appreciate its rigor students will find it lively and accessible. (Natalie Gummer, Beloit College) Karen Muldoon-Huless wonderfully researched book on an understudied collection of stories about women from the Avadanasataka is a unique contribution to the scholarship on early Buddhist nuns and gender in Indian Buddhism. Muldoon-Huless well-placed focus on the trope of marriage illuminates tensions between widely accepted ideals of female virtue and female renunciation, attempts by monastic redactors to negotiate those tensions in order to promote female monasticism, and the interpenetration of Buddhist and Vedic-Hindu legal and ritual traditions. Muldoon-Huless book is an exciting addition to a growing literature on the particular ethical challenges of female renunciation and the place of nuns in the social landscape of Indian Buddhism. (Amy Langenberg, Eckerd College) About the Author Karen Muldoon-Hules is lecturer in the Asian Languages and Cultures Department and the Center for the Study of Religion at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Author: Karl Marx File Type: pdf div text-align centerFree Tradediv text-align centerAn Address Delivered Before the Democratic Associationdiv text-align centerof Brussels, Belgium, January 9, 1848div text-align centerBydiv text-align centerKARL MARXdiv text-align centerWith Preface bydiv text-align centerFREDERICK ENGELSdiv text-align centerTranslated bydiv text-align centerFLORENCE KELLEYdiv text-align centerSocialist Labor Party of Americadiv text-align centerP.O. Box 218div text-align centerMountain View, CA 94042-0218div text-align centerwww.slp.org socialists@slp.org