Care Cage: Black Women, Political Symbolism, and 1970s Prison Crisis

The 1970s and after The political economy of inflation and the crisis of social democracy

The 1970s was the decade in which the left lost its historical role as the standard bearer of freedom and progress, the role it had proudly possessed since the French Revolution. It was the decade in which the dynamic for necessary change was hegemonised by the new right. This is why the 1970s are so crucial for an understanding of the present situation and the discussion of how to transcend th...

Saints Into Soviets: Russian Orthodox Symbolism and Soviet Political Posters

Visual archetypes from Russian Orthodox iconography shaped a widely understood visual vocabulary with politically important cultural meaning. Icons derived their symbolic authority from their status in Orthodox doctrine as divinely revealed sacred truth. Although the Bolsheviks who seized power in 1917 officially denounced organized religion, revolutionary artists nonetheless recycled iconic ar...

Meanings of political participation among black and white women: political identity and social responsibility.

This study examined the correlates of midlife political participation among 64 Black and 107 White women of the college classes of 1967-1973. Compared with White women, Black women scored higher on political participation, generativity, power discontent, and politicization. Factor analysis of personality and political attitude variables yielded three factors labeled Political Identity, Power Di...

Women in Prison

American social psychology: Examining the contours of the 1970s crisis.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, social psychologists diagnosed their field as suffering a state of disciplinary crisis. The crisis was a multifaceted one, but issues of methodology, social relevance, and disciplinary, philosophical, and theoretical orientation were the primary areas of concern. Given that these issues have been prominent ones throughout the history of the social and behavioral ...