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State, Family and Women’s Reproductive Agency in China
Get PDFThis paper describes the alternative roles that patriarchal families and oppressive state policy might play in local women’s exercise of reproductive agency. Based on interviews with 26 rural women in Hunan, China, the paper explains how women, rather than experiencing their reproductive bodies as victims, act as agents. Theoretically, this paper engages with feminist discussions of coercion, victimhood, and agency. Through an examination of the different roles that marital and natal families play in women’s resistance to state violence, and how women employ state policy to resist reproductive duties within families, it extends the feminist scholarship on coercion and agency by proposing further investigation of the operation of different layers of repression and the possibility of agents’ manipulation of oppressions. Moreover, I reflect on the gender politics that underpin women’s reproductive agency and argue that gender equality and reproductive empowerment should be promoted in tandem in the Chinese context
“An Evening’s Curiosity”: Image and Indianness in James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk
Get PDFIn James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk, being Indian is defined as both a matter of birth and a myth imposed on the characters by society. Charging Elk engages in performance, essentially playing Indian before white audiences, because it provides him temporary approval, financial gain, an opportunity to showcase the old ways, and a degree of control over the myth. Welch’s novel illustrates that within the confines of the Wild West show, the audience accepts and values Indianess. However, once Charging Elk steps outside the performance arena, his Indianess is the subject of, among many things, suspicion, scorn, and ridicule. In this essay, I will argue how Welch’s text illustrates the repercussions of the mythical representation of the “Indian” and how the protagonist must negotiate the fictional and historical truths of “Indianness.
"Burying the (Uncle) Tomahawk"
Get PDFReview of Kristina Ackley and Cristina Stanciu, eds. Laura Cornelius Kellogg: Our Democracy and the American Indian and Other Works. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015. 336pp. Paul McKenzie-Jones. Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. 256pp.
Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California
Get PDFReview of Kurt Schweigman and Lucille Lang Day. Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California. Oakland: Scarlet Tanager Books, 2016. 110 pp
Interventionism in the Family: Does Adoption Law in England and Wales Advocate the ‘Theft’ of Children?
Get PDFThis article questions the use of interventionism by the State in child protection. The law of adoption is used to contrast the public’s apparent demand for the reduction of state control with children’s need and right of protection from neglect and maltreatment. Particular reference is made to the recent controversial rickets cases, as well as the Pacchieri case of 2013. This article points to academic, legal and public perspectives in order to include all competing arguments involved. Finally, the article aims to demonstrate that it is sometimes necessary to undermine the sanctity of the private sphere in order to protect the society’s most vulnerable - children.
Paul Simon Money
Get PDFIt's the story of how my mother acquired money for some of her letters and writing about Salvador Argon, a man my mother loved, who was incarcerated as a young boy for murder. Paul Simon used her letters for his play, 'The Capeman.' I guess it's not for me to say what the work is 'about.' But, it's about a lot of things like transgression, martyrdom, Indian womanhood in relation to the fall of Man, and Perpetua, and Hildegard, and Moms
Terrorism in the Eye of the Beholder. The Imperative Quest for a Universally Agreed Definition of Terrorism
Get PDFReaching an agreed definition of terrorism has proved problematic, with over 100 different working definitions counted. Consensus stumbles particularly on issues of legitimacy, assessing reasons behind the violence and whether a state can commit acts of terrorism - or whether they are to be excluded as they have the monopoly on legitimate violence. Greater empirical research and independence in terrorism scholarship is required to formulate an agreed definition. States should not be exempt from terrorism as part of a broader movement excluding any consideration of the motives or causes cited as the reason for the attack. The definition should focus on the nature of the act, not the philosophy behind it. For even if the cause or grievance is understandable, and can be reasonably argued with a defence of necessity, that does not mean the violence undertaken should cease to be illegal and inhumane. The ends must be separated from the means. Clarity of definition is crucial for counter-terrorism efforts and the protection of civil liberties. Over-zealous recourse to draconian legislation peddled to prevent terrorism has qualified the rights of citizens, not only reducing their ability to hold their government to account, but also imposing laws that have the potential to work as a tool for terrorist recruitment rather than counter-terrorism.
Red Dreams, White Nightmares: Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763-1815
Get PDFReview of Robert M. Owens. Red Dreams, White Nightmares: Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763-1815. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. 243 pp
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