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The Influence of Aristocracies on the Revolutions of Nations

Author: James J. Macintyre
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aristocracy (Political science)
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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The Dramatic Literature of Nawal El Saadawi

Author: Nawal El Saadawi
Publisher: Saqi
ISBN: 0863568122
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Nawal El Saadawi's most recent play, God Resigns at the Summit Meeting, created an uproar in her native Egypt. On the basis of the title alone, officials declared the work heretical and charged El Saadawi with insulting the "Almighty God", not just Islam. Her prosecutors requested that all her books be destroyed, that she be arrested on return to Egypt and her Egyptian nationality be revoked. In the play, the prophets and great women gather for a meeting with God. Satan arrives to tender his resignation but neither Jesus, nor Mohammad, nor Moses are willing to replace him. Finally, God himself resigns. The second play in this collection is Isis, a critique of the discriminatory rules that control women, the daughters of Isis. Both God Resigns and Isis incorporate key themes to El Saadawi's work: that all religions are inimical to women and the poor, that the oppression of women is reprehensible and not uniquely characteristic of the Middle East or the ''Third World'', and that free speech is fundamental to any society. "El Saadawi writes with directness and passion" New York Times Book Review 'A poignant and brave writer' Marie Claire 'The leading spokeswoman on the status of women in the Arab World' Guardian 'More than any other woman, El Saadawi has come to embody the trials of Arab feminism.' San Francisco Chronicle

Representation

Author: James Roland Pennock
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 0202368564
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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This volume, offers the thought of twenty scholars on the theory, history, and practice of representation. Two developments make a new appraisal of this subject timely. One is the decision of the United States Supreme Court requiring representation to be democratic in the sense of affording every voter an equal voice in government. The other, that some governments that are not democratic in the sense of having freely competitive political parties are now nevertheless "representative." A number of essays in this volume deal with the problems of equitable apportionment of representation from the point of view of constitutional law, normative theory, and practical politics. Two take up the proposal of weighted voting as a means for meeting the Supreme Court's objectives, and two others inquire into the meaning of representation under noncompetitive party systems. Combining an overview of the subject with a detailed analysis of its various aspects, this book presents information of major significance for all engaged in the study of political processes, comparative politics, constitutional law, political theory, and legislative behavior. The general reader of politics and political and legal philosophy will find here a clear vision and explication of the theoretical and practical background and the underpinnings of representative government. J. Roland Pennock was professor of political science at Swarthmore College for more than twenty-five years, as well as a fellow at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. John W. Chapman is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pittsburgh.

The Gods of Revolution

Author: Christopher Dawson
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813227097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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Bolingbroke and His Circle

Author: Isaac Kramnick
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801480010
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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An exploration on Bolingbroke's influence on the politics and literature of the Augustan Age.

After You Say Goodbye

Author: Paul Kent Froman
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811800884
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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A very personal approach to the grief, fear, discrimination, and outrage that frequently accompany a death from AIDS. With extensive experience counseling both gay and non-gay clients in all stages of HIV involvement, Los Angeles-based psychotherapist Paul Kent Froman offers practical, individual strategies and solutions to the often overwhelming emotional problems encountered by those dealing with the loss of a loved one from AIDS.

The Lives of Guns

Author: Jonathan Obert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190842946
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Guns have never been as prevalent in American culture as they are at this moment. Most contemporary conversations on guns either highlight the gun as just a tool used in mass killings or a right to be fiercely defended; eventually, whatever progress these debates foster in the public conversation tend to halt altogether once the old cliché, "guns don't kill people; people kill people" is trotted out. These gun control and gun violence discussions take the gun as passive object, ignoring the changing effects, and the very agency, that guns may deploy as politicized objects. What happens if we reset the conversation and admit that guns, and not the people behind them, kill people? The Lives of Guns offers a new and compelling way of thinking about the role of the gun in our social and political lives. In gathering ideas from law, science studies, sociology, and politics, each chapter turns the stale, standard gun conversations around by investigating the gun as an object with agency. In approaching guns from a technological perspective, down to the very science of how they are created and how they fire, The Lives of Guns takes up a number of questions, such as: How does the presence of these objects shape civic ideology? What does it mean to develop and care for gun and gun accessories technology? What do guns mean to those who build them versus those who fight for-and against-them? What could happen when drone technology meets gun technology? In bringing together fresh perspectives from leading lawyers, political scientists, and historians, The Lives of Guns promises to move the gun debate forward by opening up new ways of thinking about these issues and broadening the scope of these perennial debates.