This article tracks the growth of medical anthropology in the United States in the decades since the 1970s, as it has intersected the expansion of feminist activism and scholarship. I argue that feminist attention to embodied inequalities quickly focused on reproduction as a site of investigation and intervention. Medical anthropology has benefited from feminist concern with stratified reproduc...

Eastern music always attracted Russian composers, as Russia, which settled between the West and East from geographical point of view, remained at distinction these two cultures. Glinka, who laid foundations opera, pioneering composers eastern motifs Aliabyev Dargomozhsky, are ethnographically striking. Then, in 19th century, The Five formed a school by movement Orientalism works national compos...

Abstract Socially constructed and globally propagated East-West binaries have influenced language ideologies about English in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), but they are not hegemonic. This essay explores how reformed mergers with Mandarin-minority ideologies. It discusses two separate similar recent studies minority speakers PRC, respectively by Grey Baioud. Each study reveals aspects M...

Introduction As a law professor and practicing lawyer, I try to work on cases that are consistent with my feminist perspective in two ways. First, I try to choose cases that address issues fundamental to the subordination of women. Second, I try to utilize legal theories in ways that are consistent with feminist jurisprudence. In other words, I evaluate both the substantive issue and the theore...

We analyse five areas of feminist engagement with restorative justice (RJ): theories of justice; the role of retribution in criminal justice; studies of gender (and other social relations) in RJ processes; the appropriateness of RJ for partner, sexual, or family violence; and the politics of race and gender in making justice claims. Feminist engagement has focused almost exclusively on the appr...

Explicitly or implicitly, feminist or not, much of the literature employing a political economy perspective has assumed the existence of two largely separate spheres: a public sphere located in the formal economy and dominated by men, and a private sphere confined to the household and managed by women. For non-feminist theorists, this assumption is evident in the focus on the formal economy to ...

class familiarity in imperial discourse can be combined to understand the nuances of colonial representations. Revisiting the Malay image, I argue that the medievalist convention of portraying the native as situated in intermediate evolution between savagery and Western civilization was crucial for imperialism. The Malay image shifted from the representation of orientals exhibiting incommensura...

A feminist perspective can make security discourse more reflective of its own normative assumptions. In respect of an expanded human security concept, a feminist perspective highlights the dangers of masking differences under the rubric of the term ‘human’. A critical feminist perspective is geared towards addressing the politics of multiple overlapping identities. Since gender is intertwined w...

Edward Said remained a little-known scholar both in the West and Arab World until publication of his major work, Orientalism, 1978, which he argues that Western representations East have historically been distorted oversimplified these used to justify European imperialism domination. This proved turning point academic career, bringing him recognition and, somewhat later, World. The purpose this...