The emergence of modern emotional power: governing passions in the French Grand Siècle

Theory and Society - This article aims to analyse the governmental rationalities that took passions as an object in the French seventeenth century, unleashing the modern transformation in emotional...     

Yi Women in Liangshan

The Yis living in Daliangshan and Xiaoliangshanin Sichuan are mainly engaged in farming and animal husbandry.     

Women in Jewelry Production

JEWELRY has been produced in Beijing since ancient times beginning more than 2,000 years ago. The craft of filigree inlay is a unique traditional characteristic of this jewelry. The filigree smiths used complicated processes to make different patterns. The inlayers also worked with     

Women in My Eyes

Ihave many women in my life, such as my wife, mother, mother-in-law, colleagues and customers. I feel pressure from them in different ways when I am in contact with them. Sometimes these pressures make me lose my breath, but on the other hand, they also are the motivation behind my success. I was born to a common family. There are three brothers and no sisters. I was the oldest. The woman I knew the earliest was my mother. She also came from a common familv, was hardly educated and     

Chinese Women in Politics

According to international research only when the percentage of women with decision-making power reaches 30 percent can their effect on policy making be seen. In 1994, women accounted for an average of 5.7 percent of state cabinet seats throughout the world. Authoritative thinking is that in the past decade almost no progress was made in realizing the 30     

Young Women in the Australian Women’s Movement

This article explores and documents the role of young women in the contemporary Australian women’s movement. Through case studies of two very different groups of young women, working in submerged networks in the community and on university campuses, it aims to suggest the diversity of contemporary young feminist praxis. Further, it argues that the work that these young women are doing in discursively creating and maintaining a feminist political space is crucial to the future of the movement. Based in constructivist ‘new’ social movement theory this article suggests a way forward from the so-called ‘generational debates’ of the 1990s and argues that, through their own unique processes of collective identity, young women who are active in the Australian women’s movement are dealing with the conflicts that are essential to the movement’s survival.     

Jewish studies underground in Leningrad in the 1980s†

ABSTRACT

This article is a first-hand report of a participant and leader of a number of underground initiatives within the “refuseniks’” community which aimed to encourage Jewish studies. These underground initiatives involved seminars (scholarly as well as public), excursions through Jewish historical sites, and the publication of a samizdat journal. In short, these initiatives sought to recover and disseminate knowledge of Jewish history and culture.     

Women in Lhasa, Tibet

Lhasa, capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, is a famous cultural city with a long history on the roof of the world. After more than 30 years' construction, the urban area now covers over 50 sq. kilometers. The city has been gradually equipped with complete facilities for scientific research, culture and education, publication, commerce, fire control, communications and energy supply. Lhasa is now a bright pearl of prosperity on the snowy lands.     

The search for Jewish identity in Russia∗

A NARROW PERSPECTIVE ON SOVIET DISSENT

DISSENT IN THE USSR. POLITICS, IDEOLOGY, AND PEOPLE, ed. by Rudolf L. Tökés. Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. xiv, 453 pp. Index. $4.95, £3.50 paperback.

SOVIET JEWISH SCHOOLS

JEWISH SCHOOLS UNDER CZARISM AND COMMUNISM: A STRUGGLE FOR CULTURAL IDENTITY, by Zvi Halevy. New York, Springer, 1976. 239 pp. $14.50.

>THE SOVIET JEWISH EMIGRATION MOVEMENT

COURTS OF TERROR. SOVIET CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND JEWISH EMIGRATION, by Telford Taylor, Alan Dershowitz, George Fletcher, Leon Lipson and Melvin Stein. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1976, xi + 187 pp. Illus. Appendices. $6.95.

LE GRAND RETOUR, by Christian Jelen and Léopold Unger. Paris, Albin Michel, 1977, 348 pp. Illus. Bibl.

FROM MOSCOW TO JERUSALEM. THE DRAMATIC STORY OF THE JEWISH LIBERATION MOVEMENT AND ITS IMPACT ON ISRAEL, by Rebecca Rass with the collaboration of Morris Brafman. New York, Shengold, 1976. 256 pp. $8.95

TWO NAZI SATELLITES, SLOVAKIA AND BULGARIA

THE PARISH REPUBLIC: HLINKA'S SLOVAK PEOPLE'S PARTY 1939–1945, by Yeshayahu Jelinek. Columbia University Press, 1976. viii, 206 pp. Bibl. Index. (East European Monographs, No. XIV.) $18.75, £7.20.

BULGARIEN — LAND OHNE ANTISEMITISMUS, by Wolf Oschlies. Erlangen, Ner Tamid Verlag, 1976. 168 pp. Illus. Docs. DM 18.80.

AN UNSATISFACTORY STUDY

THE SOVIET UNION AND BLACK AFRICA, by Christopher Stevens. London, New York, Macmillan, 1976. xii + 236 pp. Appendices. Bibl. Index. £10.00.     

Representations of Jewish Childhood From 1950s Communist Romania in Memoirs by Women Émigré Authors to the United States

ABSTRACT

This article examines the memoirs of three Jewish women – Marianne Hirsch, Anca Vlasopolos, and Haya Leah Molnar – to understand how they remembered childhood in 1950s communist Bucharest. I first show how Marianne Hirsch’s part-memoir, part-critical book, Family Frames, uses her personal experiences to theorize tropes of transcultural dislocation as specific features of post-World War II Jewish children’s identities in 1950s Romania. I analyze how these tropes equally permeate the memoirs by two of her generation’s peers, Anca Vlasopolos and Haya Leah Molnar, highlighting how the two authors deploy them in their narratives. Overall, I show that writings of one’s 1950s childhood experiences in Bucharest by Jewish emigrées to the US offer new alternative discourses about facing the past and the present in Eastern Europe and the US by the tropes of initial transcultural, dislocating experiences at the start of their lives.     

Disability,pain and love in Jewish cosmology?

Individuals with disabilities face numerous barriers that limit their inclusion within the Jewish community (Trieschmann 2001 Trieschmann, R. B. 2001. “Spirituality and Energy Medicine.” Journal of Rehabilitation 67 (1): 26–32.[Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). While many Jewish communities have progressed and moved towards an attitude of ‘acceptance’ and ‘tolerance’ for people with disabilities out of religious obligation, it is often a practice without the spiritual ethical governing force and guiding principles of respect, equality, and human rights (Shatz and Wolowelsky 2004 Shatz, D., and J. B. Wolowelsky. 2004. Mind, Body, and Judaism: The Interaction of Jewish Law with Psychology and Biology. Ktav Publishing House: Yeshiva University Press. [Google Scholar]). People with disabilities are stereotyped as dependent, draining, incompetent, pitiful, victims, freaks, angels, embarrassments, innocent, pathetic, and asexual social burdens (Nario-Redmond 2010 Nario-Redmond, M. R. 2010. “Cultural Stereotypes of Disabled and Non-Disabled Men and Women: Consensus for Global Category Representations and Diagnostic Domains.” British Journal of Social Psychology 49: 471–488.10.1348/014466609X468411 [Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). What is lacking is the consideration of people with disabilities as human beings. This injustice is most evident, painful, and damaging at an individual and communal level when it comes to Jewish singles and their pursuit of intimate relationships. A central Jewish value, right, and goal, one that is strongly promoted in Israeli society, is that of committed intimate relationships. However, this value does not apply to people with disabilities     

On Women Writers and the Women Literature in the New Period

Avital new force in China's literature circle is the group of women writers who have come into prominence during the "new period," the years since 1978 when China entered a period of reform. These women writers brought their talents of creation into play and have made remarkable achievements. There are five generations of fine women writers. The first generation includes Bing Xin, a founding member of the New Cultural Movement, around the time of the May 4th Movement in     

The Arab Spring for Women? Representations of Women in Middle East Politics in 2011

This article explores the complex, liminal, and difficult space in which stories of women in “the Arab Spring” were wielded as parts of political narratives of gender, race, class, religion, democracy, and Westernization in Western media as the Arab Spring unfolded. It examines those stories by using the tools of postcolonial feminism. After briefly describing what is meant by (gender and) the Arab Spring, the article outlines a method for evaluating the significations of the media narratives surrounding it. We find two dissonant narratives (of gender as emancipatory and of gender as problematic) and ask what assumptions about gender (and sex and race and culture) have to be made to produce these particular representations. We argue that the dissonant narratives have in common using the situation of women as a barometer for the success of Westernization, liberalization, and democratization. The article concludes by exploring the implications of these findings.