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The Women\u27s Rights Lobby in the Gender Gap Congress, 1983-84
No full textThis paper analyzes the successes and failures of the women\u27s right lobby during the 98th Congress, when the media made the "gender gap" a political watchword and legislators were unusually anxious to show support for women\u27s issues. A similarly favorable climate had existed ten years earlier, but the women\u27s interest groups were new to lobbying, had little coordination and were unable to attract coalition partners among more established groups. This time they had the Congressional Caucus for Women\u27s Issues as a liaison to over 100 House members, an agreed agenda called the Economic Equity Act and 165 allied organizations making up the Leadership Conference for Civil Rights. By playing the gender gap the Caucus and women lobbyists were able to win enactment of pension reform and child support enforcement legislation. While the gender gap is no longer in the headlines, some momentum has been retained
Call-and-Response in the City: Embodied Mercy in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
No full textSuffering and mercy meet at the crossroads in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1988), a play documenting newly arrived migrants’ dreams and disappointments in Pittsburgh. Moving their very bodies to resist southern oppression, these characters participate in the Great Migration, joining millions of Blacks leaving the south for an uncertain future in the north. My essay examines the challenges facing these migrants, highlighting hope and mercy in the midst of heartbreak. Focusing on characterization, I argue that mercy becomes a resistant social value enabling communion and community in Wilson’s play
From Realism to Liberalism: George W. Bush\u27s Rhetorical Foreign Policy Transition, 1999-2004
Get PDFThis article examines international relations rhetoric rather than foreign policy practice. Between the time of his acceptance of the Republican presidential nomination in August 2000 and his reelection in November 2004, George W. Bush changed his rhetorical focus from "realist" to "liberal internationalist" in an effort to sell his foreign policy agenda. This shift is identified through an analysis of nine presidential speeches and one excerpt from a book Bush wrote prior to becoming president. By exploring Bush\u27s foreign policy pronouncements, the article reveals shifting patterns of presidential rhetoric and demonstates the importance of studying presidential rhetoric in international relations theory
Nietzsche\u27s Rejection of Wagner: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Politics
No full textNietzsche\u27s late anti-Wagner tracts receive little attention from political scientists, yet they offer important insights into Nietzsche\u27s philosophical thought and into the relationship of art to political behavior. For Nietzsche, both the romantic and the \u27Christian\u27 elements of Wagner\u27s operas embody the \u27slave morality\u27 that is characteristic of modernity. \u27Decadent\u27 art like Wagner\u27s tends to deaden the listener to the moral demands of real life, and instead promotes a longing for a transfigured exterior world. This can be manifested politically in the form of ideological movements that aim to destroy the old order and erect a new utopian order in its place. In these writings Nietzsche positions himself against expansive romanticism and nihilism, and emerges as a surprisingly strong classicist, albeit an unconventional one