Women and Socialism: Marxism, Feminism, and Women's Liberation
Author: Sharon Smith File Type: epub More than forty years after the womens liberation movement of the 1960s, women remain without equal rights. If anything, each decade that has passed without a fighting womens movement has seen a rise in blatant sexism and the further erosion of the gains that were won in the 1960s and 1970s. Yet liberal feminist organizations have followed the Democratic Party even as it has continually tacked rightward since the 1980s. This fully revised edition examines these issues from a Marxist perspective, focusing on the centrality of race and class. It includes chapters on the legacy of Black feminism and other movements of women of color and the importance of the concept of intersectionality. In addition, Women and Socialism Class, Race, and Capital explores the contributions of socialist feminists and Marxist feminists in further developing a Marxist analysis of womens oppression amid the stirrings of a new movement today. **
Author: Ebru Boyar
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The loss of the Balkans was not merely a physical but also a psychological disaster for the Ottoman Empire. In this frank assessment, Ebru Boyar charts the creation of modern Turkish self-perception during the transition from the late Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic. The Balkans played a key role in identity construction during this period humiliated by defeat, the Ottomans were stung by what they saw as a betrayal and ingratitude of the peoples of the region to whom they had brought peace and order for centuries and whom they had defended at the cost of much Turkish blood. It induced a sense of isolation and encapsulated the destruction of the Ottoman Empires military machine and self-esteem by the Great Powers. This victim mentality was sustained by late Ottoman history-writing and by the historians of the early Republic, for whom history was an essential tool in the creation of the new Turkish national identity for the new Turkish Republic of the 20th century.
Author: Hugh Kenner
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Hugh Kenners The Pound Era could as well be known as the Kenner era, for there is no critic who has more firmly established his claim to valuable literary property than has Kenner to the first three decades of the 20th century in England. Author of pervious studies of Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and Pound (to name a few), Kenner bestrides modern literature if not like a colossus then at least a presence of formidable proportions. A new book by him is certainly an event....A demanding, enticing book that glitters at the same time it antagonizes....The Pound Era presents us with an idiosyncratic but sharply etched skeletal view of our immediate literary heritage.--The New York Times It is notoriously difficult to recognize degrees of pre-eminence among ones near-contemporaries. We talk now of the age of Donne, a label that would have seemed bizarre to Ben Johnson. Will The Pound Era seem an appropriate designation, 50 or 100 years hence, for the epoch we think of as modern? Mr. Kenners brilliantly written book establishes an excellent case for supposing the answer to be Yes.--The Economist Mr. Kenners study...is not so much a book as a library, or better, a new kind of book in which biography, history, and the analysis of literature are so harmoniously articulated that every page has a narrative sense....The Pound Era is a book to be read and reread and studied. For the student of modern letters it is a treasure, for the general reader it is one of the most interesting books he will ever pick up in a lifetime of reading.--National Review**
Author: Nikos Panou
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This book has been long in the making, and many debts have been incurred along the way. It was conceived in the wake of the conference Bad Kings organized at Princeton University in March 2010 by Nino Luraghi, to whom we are most grateful for allowing us to run with his ideas. We organized the Second Day of the Bad King in March 2011, with the specific aim of completing the lineup of the volume, and it is our pleasure to thank the speakers, respondents, and audiences of both conferences for generating the debate that is reflected in this book.
Author: Robert B. Pippin
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This series makes available in English important recent work by German philosophers on major figures in the German philosophical tradition. The volumes will provide critical perspectives on philosophers of great significance to the Anglo-American philosophical community--perspectives that have been largely ignored except by a handful of writers on German philosophy. This collection brings together in translation the finest post-war German language scholarship on Hegels social and political philosophy, concentrating on the Elements of the Philosophy of Right.**
Author: William J. Courtenay
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This study of the social, geographical, and disciplinary composition of the University of Paris in the early fourteenth century--the most detailed of its kind ever attempted--is based on the reconstruction of a remarkable document the financial record of tax levied on university members in the academic year 1329-1330. After a thorough examination of this document, the book explores residential patterns, the relationship of students, masters, and tutors, social class and levels of wealth, interaction with the royal court, and the geographical background of university scholars.Review...this book is a model of historical reclamation and careful research. The reediting of the list of contributors to the Unversity of Paris computus will be useful in itself the conclusions drawm about the social and topographical composition of the Unversity of Paris will ispire future debate and the biographical register of over three hundred Parisian scholars will form the groundwork for all forthcoming prosopographical work on the medieval university. Speculum A Journal of Medieval Studiesa path-breaking book. Catholic Historical ReviewCourtenay provides enthusiasts of the medieval university with a valuable service...enormously helpful... Andrew Traver, The Medieval ReviewThis is a first-rate history that not only advances our understanding of the University of Paris, but provides scholars with wonderful material for future research... William Chester Jordan, Journal of Interdisciplinary History...in addition to enhanced understanding of the specific case of Paris, we now have a reliable benchmark for future comparative studies of other universities. History of Education Quarterly...Courtenay provides enthusiasts of the medieval university with a valuable service. This work provides a brilliant window into the academic community at Paris at 1329-30. Andrew G. Traver, Bryn Mawr Classical Review...Courtenay offers an in-depth look at the University of Paris at a little-studied but defining moment in its history and development. Larissa Juliet Taylor, Church History[Courtenay] has illuminated many aspects of fourteenth-century university life, and laid the groundwork for much fruitful future research. Medieval ProsopographyCourtnays book as a whole, will be valuable for social, economic and intellectual historians. Catholic Historical Review Book DescriptionThis study of the social, geographical, and disciplinary composition of the University of Paris in the early fourteenth century - the most detailed of its kind ever attempted--is based on the reconstruction of a remarkable document the financial record of tax levied on university members in the academic year 1329 1330. After a thorough examination of this document, the book explores residential patterns, the relationship of students, masters, and tutors, social class and levels of wealth, interaction with the royal court, and the geographical background of university scholars.
Author: Vinay Sitapati
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When P.V. Narasimha Rao became the unlikely prime minister of India in 1991, he inherited economic catastrophe, violent insurgencies and a nation adrift. Yet because he was unloved by his people and mistrusted by his own party-a minority in Parliament and ruling under the shadow of Sonia Gandhi-Rao lacked the mandate to combat these crises. Yet, Rao was not just able to last a full five years as Prime Minister, he reinvented India, at home and abroad. Few world leaders have achieved so much with so little power. With exclusive access to Raos never-before-seen personal papers as well as over a hundred interviews, Vinay Sitapatis definitive biography tells the story of Indias makeover in the 1990s and the story of the Deng Xiaoping-like figure who did it. Assuming power over an ossified, quasi-socialist economy burdened by inefficient industrial behemoths, Rao was instrumental in driving through a broad set of liberalizing economic reforms that transformed India. Raos career is the ideal window through which to understand how India became a force in the global economy almost overnight. Sitapati traces Raos life from a village in Telangana through his years in power and-afterward-his humiliation in retirement. Yet the book never loses sight of the inner man-his difficult childhood, his corruptions and love affairs, and his lingering loneliness. Meticulously researched and honestly told, this landmark political biography is a must-read for anyone interested in the man responsible for transforming India. **
Author: Ulrich Witt
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Although the economy has always been changing, ever more innovations now seem to accelerate the transformation process. Are there any laws governing the incessant global change? Does it accord with our intentions and desires and make us happier? Do our institutions and our democracies cope with the challenges? How does economic theory explain what is going on? In this volume, experts in the field discuss the advances that evolutionary economics has made in exploring questions like these. The broad range of topics include a review of the development of the field its conceptual and methodological characteristics are outlined problems posed by macroeconomic evolution and the institutional challenges are highlighted and, last but not least, the implications of the evolution of the economy for wellbeing and sustainability are addressed. Taken together, the contributions demonstrate the potential of an evolutionary paradigm for making sense of economic change and for assessing its consequences.**ReviewAdvance praise This welcome collection of essays offers a rich perspective on the history and philosophy of evolutionary economics. It delves deep into core themes such as generalized Darwinism, institutions and bounded rationality, long-run economic development and evolutionary welfare theory, while also offering original applications to land use conflicts and unsustainable consumption. Jeroen van den Bergh, ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Aut-noma de Barcelona Advance praise As Ulrich Witt and Andreas Chai put it in their introduction, it is time for some stocktaking concerning progress in evolutionary economics. This excellent collection of essays performs that task admirably a number of leading authors review developments in the field with erudition and careful criticism. This is a milestone volume. Geoffrey M. Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire Advance praise Evolutionary economics is in transition following a very productive and enlightening era when Nelson and Winters replicator dynamics perspective was its reference point. The past decade has witnessed the rise of competing perspectives such as rule based complex systems game theoretical micro-foundations general Darwinian theory socio-biological models, where biology is not just used as an analogy. Although there is general agreement that economic evolution should be modelled, explicitly, as a historical process, methodological differences have become more marked. In this volume a very prominent set of contributors explain their different positions. The result is a very interesting and stimulating set of essays that are well-written and accessible to both evolutionary and mainstream economists and their students. Anyone who wishes to know what the key issues and debates are in evolutionary economics today need look no further than this excellent volume. John Foster, University of Queensland Advance praise More than one century after Thorsten Veblen coined the label evolutionary economics there is still no consensus on what constitutes the core of an evolutionary approach in economics. This volume will be welcome by readers interested in learning about the current state of the field and its prospective development. The essays collected represent the principal versions of evolutionary thinking in contemporary economics, covering methodological, theoretical and normative issues. The editors Introduction provides helpful guidance in tracing the history of the field, placing the collected essays into a broader context and pointing to prospects for theoretical convergence and integration. Viktor J. Vanberg, University of Freiburg, Germany
Author: Nikolaos Papazarkadas
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Landed wealth was crucial for the economies of all Greek city-states and, despite its peculiarities, Athens was no exception in that respect. This monograph is the first exhaustive treatment of sacred and public - in other words the non-private - real property in Athens. Following a survey of modern scholarship on the topic, Papazarkadas scrutinizes literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence in order to examine lands and other types of realty administered by the polis of Athens and its constitutional and semi-official subdivisions (such as tribes, demes, and religious associations). Contrary to earlier anachronistic models which saw sacred realty as a thinly disguised form of state property, the author perceives the sanctity of temene (sacred landholdings) as meaningful, both conceptually and economically. In particular, he detects a seamless link between sacred rentals and cultic activity. This link is markedly visible in two distinctive cases the border area known as Sacred Orgas, a constant source of contention between Athens and Megara and the moriai, Athenas sacred olive-trees, whose crop was the coveted prize of the Panathenaic games. Both topics are treated in separate appendices as are several other problems, not least the socio-economic profile of those involved in the leasing of sacred property, emerging from a detailed prosopographical analysis. However, certain non-private landholdings were secular and alienable, and their exploitation was often based on financial schemes different from those applied in the case of temene. This gives the author the opportunity to analyze and elucidate ancient notions of public and sacred ownership. **
Author: Francesco Orlando
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Translated here into English for the first time is a monumental work of literary history and criticism comparable in scope and achievement to Eric Auerbachs Mimesis. Italian critic Francesco Orlando explores Western literatures obsession with outmoded and nonfunctional objects (ruins, obsolete machinery, broken things, trash, etc.). Combining the insights of psychoanalysis and literary-political history, Orlando traces this obsession to a turning point in history, at the end of eighteenth-century industrialization, when the functional becomes the dominant value of Western culture. Roaming through every genre and much of the history of Western literature, the author identifies distinct categories into which obsolete images can be classified and provides myriad examples. The function of literature, he concludes, is to remind us of what we have lost and what we are losing as we rush toward the future. **