我国刑罚轻缓化的可行性分析

刑罚轻缓化是当今世界刑罚的总体发展趋势。从我国经济基础、社会结构、社会文化和刑事政策基础等现实方面和刑罚功能有限性以及犯罪必然性等理论认识来看,刑罚轻缓化在我国具有可行性。但是刑罚轻缓化有一定的限度,它要受到我国社会平均价值观念、国情和罪刑相适应原则的限制。     

党的三代领导核心的发展思想

党的三代领导核心的发展思想集中表现在对发展意义、发展起点、发展目标、发展内涵、发展动力、发展原则、发展条件、发展措施、发展政治保证等方面的认识上。特别是毛泽东从面临的严峻的国内外形势出发,邓小平则是于时代主题的高度着眼,江泽民便从与时俱进可持续发展的角度考虑发展和推进发展问题。     

解构与重建——论当代作家创作理念的嬗变

"文革"以后,当代作家的创作观念不断地变化发展,它逐步结束了一体化的文学时代而走向了一个多元化的发展时期。大致的发展轨迹是20世纪70年代末至90年代,当代作家一方面抱着极大的现实干预热情,以文学参与了历史清算、现实调整、文化重建的工作;一方面又有感于过去文学与现实贴得太紧,得不到自由发展空间的教训,开始有意识地追求文学走向自身,为文学而文学的创作成为一股重要的理论与创作潮流。     

Semiotic Readings of the USS Midway Museum

This article was inspired by a visit to the USS Midway aircraft carrier during the 2012 ISA Convention. Through a semiotic reading of the museum's exhibit and honoring ceremony of veterans, the article argues that while women have been increasingly included in certain combat positions within the US military, institutions that convey messages of military service continue to leave women out of the picture. This thereby renders gender-inclusive practices in war invisible to the average citizen. Through the erasure of women's performance in the armed services, war museums and memorials help ensure that war remains a male preserve in the public imagination. More broadly, the article argues that semiotics as a methodology should be given more attention by feminist scholarship that seeks to challenge mainstream conceptualizations and measurements of militarization. Doing so should provide more sophisticated and nuanced understandings of how militarism becomes embedded in societal level institutions – as previously advanced by feminist scholars.     

Unbecoming blackness: the diaspora cultures of Afro-Cuban America

This paper addresses the relationship between ageing, gender, cultural norms, and the constitution of gendered body-subjects. It briefly discusses three conceptual approaches which have been used to understand ageing, gendered body-subjects: postmodernist/social constructionist, psychoanalytic, and poststructuralist feminist. It is argued that the first two approaches are entrenched in dualistic modes of thinking, and therefore can never construct ageing gendered body subjects as other than through the dualistic discourse of decline and cultural devaluation in Western consumer cultures. The third, however, appears to hold some promise for a more just and flexible way of accounting for the integrity of, and culturally valuing, the gendered body-subject in old age. Examples from writings on dance are used to illustrate this argument.     

Being Canada's national citizen: difference and the economics of multicultural nationalism

This paper examines the ambivalent positioning of difference in western multicultural nation-states in the neoliberal moment. It does so by analyzing the multiple and contradictory ways that the figure of Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, a Chinese Canadian woman, was utilized in the service of Canadian nation-building. Much heralded as the first racialized minority (and second woman) to be appointed to the highest public position in the land, Clarkson was chosen to represent and define the Canadian nation to itself and to the international community because of, and not in spite of, her difference. Drawing on media and government texts, this paper highlights the narratives that shaped the meaning of Clarkson's appointment as well as the narratives that were negated. The author emphasizes how gender, in addition to class, race and ethnicity, was central to Clarkson's appointment by analyzing how the disassociation between women and Asian capital was key to her ability to speak for us as one of us. In addition to Canadian government and corporate elite courting of Asian capital, gender was also key to the other narratives that could not be spoken, Clarkson's interracial marriage and discourses of miscegenation.     

The decreasing percentile residual life ageing notion

Earlier researchers have studied some aspects of the classes of distribution functions with decreasing α-percentile residual life (DPRL(α)), 0<α<1. The purpose of this paper is to note some further properties of these classes, and to initiate a theory of non-parametric statistical estimation of DPRL(α) functions. Specifically, the close relationship between the DPRL(α) and the increasing failure rate ageing notions is studied. Other close relationships, between the DPRL(α) ageing notions and the percentile residual life stochastic orders, are described, and further properties of the above classes of distributions are derived. Finally, we introduce an estimator of the percentile residual life function, under the condition that it decreases, and we prove its strongly uniform consistency.     

建构与解构:民族女工性别化技能研究

“性别化技能”的核心含义是不同性别学习接受不同技能,由此形成的男女能力差异是造成性别不平等的直接原因。本文分析研究了少数民族女工性别化技能建构与解构的逻辑机理,认为性别技能是由家庭、社区、学校、工作单位、社会传媒等结构性力量与女工个体性因素相互作用所建构,其历史成因是民族习俗与父权制的安排,现实动因则是资本对父权红利、性别租金的追逐,而创造相同、维护差异、习得新技能则是民族女工解构性别技能的主要策略与路径。     

‘Who should do the caring’? Involved fatherhood and ambivalent gendered moral rationalities among cohabiting/married irish parents

Drawing on qualitative couple interviews with cohabiting/married mothers and fathers, this paper examines accounts of involved fatherhood in contemporary Ireland. It shows that while the ideal of fathers as heavily involved in day-to-day parenting is widespread, the reality is somewhat different – and this despite increased participation of Irish mothers in the labour market. Given this mismatch between fatherhood ideals and realities, it begs the question: how do we account for this inequitable division of family work? Gender-differentiated parenting experiences, I argue, are strongly influenced by ambivalent attitudes on the part of both fathers and mothers. I argue that mothers draw on ‘primarily mother’ moral rationalities that associates ‘good’ mothering with large amounts of time in direct provision of childcare, while fathers display a ‘primarily worker’ rationality associated with strong commitment to the labour market. It is the clash of these contrasting normative societal demands that gives rise to a pervasive sense of ambivalence about ‘who should do the caring’. This ambivalence, I demonstrate, is especially prominent in single-income families where the father is the sole breadwinner. In dual-income families, several parents go some distance towards reconciling these contradictory claims, these competing moral discourses.