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HOMOSEXUAL EXISTENCE AND EXISTING SOCIALISM
Dan Healey
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies·2002·20 citations
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View paper →Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families
Annette Lareau
American Sociological Review·2002·299 citations
<jats:p>Although family life has an important impact on children's life chances, the mechanisms through which parents transmit advantages are imperfectly understood. An ethnographic data set of white children and black children approximately 10 years old shows the effects of social class on interactions inside the home. Middle-class parents engage in concerted cultivation by attempting to foster children's talents through organized leisure activities and extensive reasoning. Working-class and poor parents engage in the accomplishment of natural growth, providing the conditions under which children can grow but leaving leisure activities to children themselves. These parents also use directives rather than reasoning. Middle-class children, both white and black, gain an emerging sense of entitlement from their family life. Race had much less impact than social class. Also, differences in a cultural logic of childrearing gave parents and their children differential resources to draw on in their interactions with professionals and other adults outside the home. Middle-class children gained individually insignificant but cumulatively important advantages. Working-class and poor children did not display the same sense of entitlement or advantages. Some areas of family life appeared exempt from the effects of social class, however.</jats:p>
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View paper →Gang Aft A-Gley: New Zealand's Attempt To Combat "Party Hopping" By Elected Representatives
Andrew Geddis
Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy·2002·8 citations
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View paper →Plasmids Spread Very Fast in Heterogeneous Bacterial Communities
Francisco Dionisio, Ivan Matic, Miroslav Radman, Olivia R Rodrigues, François Taddei
Genetics·2002·159 citations
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<jats:p>Conjugative plasmids can mediate gene transfer between bacterial taxa in diverse environments. The ability to donate the F-type conjugative plasmid R1 greatly varies among enteric bacteria due to the interaction of the system that represses sex-pili formations (products of finOP) of plasmids already harbored by a bacterial strain with those of the R1 plasmid. The presence of efficient donors in heterogeneous bacterial populations can accelerate plasmid transfer and can spread by several orders of magnitude. Such donors allow millions of other bacteria to acquire the plasmid in a matter of days whereas, in the absence of such strains, plasmid dissemination would take years. This “amplification effect” could have an impact on the evolution of bacterial pathogens that exist in heterogeneous bacterial communities because conjugative plasmids can carry virulence or antibiotic-resistance genes.</jats:p>
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View paper →View from the Top
Shaul Hochstein, Merav Ahissar
Neuron·2002·1004 citations
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View paper →Normative Power Europe: A Contradiction in Terms?*
Ian Manners
2002
Twenty years ago, in the pages of the, Journal of Common Market Studies, Hedley Bull launched a searing critique of the European Community’s ‘civilian power’ in international affairs. Since that time the increasing role of the European Union (EU) in areas of security and defence policy has led to a seductiveness in adopting the notion of ‘military power Europe’. In contrast, I will attempt to argue that by thinking beyond traditional conceptions of the EU’s international role and examining the case study of its international pursuit of the abolition of the death penalty, we may best conceive of the EU as a ‘normative power Europe’.
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View paper →Difference inthelarval susceptibility to pyriproxyfen in of six vector mosquito species
Tomomitsu SATHO, Yoshio TSUDA, Pradya SOMBOON, Hitoshi KAWADA and Masahiro TAKAGI
The Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology·2002
The susceptibility of mosquito larvae against pyriproxyfen was examined in the laboratory for 9 colonies of the following six species; Aedes aegypti
(Linnaeus), Ae. albopictus (Skuse), Anopheles dirus Peyton and Harrison, An. minimus Theobald, Culex pipiens Paltens Coquillett, Cx. tritaeniorhynchus Giles. The late fourth instar larvae were exposed to different concentrations of pyriproxyfen for 24 hours, then the number of dead or emerging pupae collected within 2 days after exposure were counted by sex. A higher susceptibility of males than females to pyriproxyfen was observed for all colonies, The comparison of IC50 among the three Ae. aegypti colonies showed that susceptibility of the Ae. aegypti RR colony, which is resistant to DDT and permethrin, was lower than that of other colonies.
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View paper →Feminist Buddhism as Praxis: Women in Traditional Buddhism
Kawahashi Noriko, 川橋範子
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies·2003
This paper discusses a project the author has been engaged in since 1994 with women in the Japanese Buddhist community who are working across sectarian boundaries to recreate a Buddhism that goes beyond patriarchy. While the celibacy prized by many Buddhist orders that profess renunciation of secular married life has resulted in oppression of women, this paper points out that women face similar problems even in the laicized Shin school. The paper describes various perspectives that women of this project have adopted in their feminist critiques of Buddhism and their movement to remake Buddhism for today, and argues that the question of whether traditional Buddhist orders can overcome their predicament depends upon whether the men can open themselves to hear the women's voices of protest. The paper shows that this project can also contribute to a critique of the Eurocentric feminist version of Buddhism that informs the understanding of some European and American feminist scholars in this field.
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View paper →Mizuko Kuyō and New Age Concepts of Reincarnation
Komatsu Kayoko, 小松加代子
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies·2003
This essay is an attempt to apply the religious views of people who follow New Age ideas, based on particular beliefs concerning reincarnation, to the question of abortion and memorial rites for the aborted. The performance of mizuko kuyō 水子供養 (memorial rites for aborted or stillborn children) expanded dramatically from the 1970s. Two of its characteristics are the threat of a curse from the aborted fetus, and sexual discrimination based on fixed gender roles. The performance of these rites has spread, however, without any religious answers to questions concerning the meaning of abortion and when life begins and ends. In contrast, the idea of reincarnation, which sees life in this world as continuing from past lives and into the present and future lives, offers a new perspective to the act of abortion as a choice involving human relationships for the fetus and the mother who bears it. In this article I present the findings of a survey of people whose ideas on life are based on New Age beliefs of reincarnation, and show how these beliefs allow them to accept the experience of abortion as women and offer support to continue their lives in a positive way.
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View paper →Misogyny, the Male Gaze, and Fantasies of Female Death:
ELIZABETH SKOMP
New Zealand Slavonic Journal·2003
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View paper →White Skin, Black Masks: Racial Cross-Dressing on the Early Modern Stage
IAN SMITH
Renaissance Drama·2003
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View paper →Childfree and Feminine: Understanding the Gender Identity of Voluntarily Childless Women
Rosemary Gillespie
Gender and Society·2003
The roles of women and of feminine identity have been historically and traditionally constructed around motherhood. However, recent years have seen a growing trend among women to remain childless/childfree. Drawing on interviews with 25 voluntarily childless women, this article considers the extent to which this trend results from the appeal or pull of the perceived advantages of a childfree lifestyle as well as the ways childfree women might represent a more fundamental and radical rejection of motherhood and the activities associated with it. The article concludes by considering how to recast understandings of feminine identity away from a mother-centered focus.
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