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differences (2007) 18 (3): 81–96.
Published: 01 December 2007
...: u of Minnesota p, 2002 . Eskridge, William N., and Nan D. Hunter. Sexuality, Gender, and the Law. 2nd ed. New York: Foundation, 2004 . Finnis, John. “The Good of Marriage and the Morality of Sexual Relations: Some Philosophical and Historical Observations.” American Journal...
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differences (1991) 3 (1): 20–38.
Published: 01 April 1991
... a Poststructuralist Feminist Jurisprudence .” Syracuse Law Review 38 ( 1987 ): 1129 - 73 . Barr Maureen S. , and Feldstein Richard , eds. Discontented Discourses . Urbana : U of Illinois P , 1989 . Chodorow Nancy . The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology...
View articletitled, “Mother” in <span class="search-highlight">Law</span>: Conceptions of Mother and the Maternal in Feminism and Feminist Legal Theory
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Published: 01 December 2023
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 191–195.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of breeding farms, unspeakable, unspoken acts of sexual violence, and suspiciously light-skinned household bodies counted as inventory rather than progeny, the essay addresses how this legacy of fear and loathing, of “in-law” and “outlaw” family lingers today, codified in and by our language as who gets...
View articletitled, Intimacy and the Untouchable: Marriage and the Traumatic History of “In-<span class="search-highlight">law</span>” and “Outlaw” Family
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differences (1996) 8 (3): 1–20.
Published: 01 November 1996
... Merchants: Accounting, Civility, and the Natural Laws of Gender Feminist historians (including myself) have spent a good part of the last twenty years trying to explain how and why women have been systematically excluded from equal participation in an entire range of human activities, from waged labor...
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differences (2007) 18 (2): 72–102.
Published: 01 September 2007
... F. Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation . Cambridge, ma: Harvard up, 2000 . Crenshaw, Kimberlé. “Color Blindness, History, and the Law.” The House That Race Built . Ed. Wahneema Lubiano. New York: Vintage, 1998 . 280 -88. ____. “Race, Reform, and Retrenchment: Transformation...
View articletitled, “A Home Made Sacred by Protecting <span class="search-highlight">Laws</span>”: Black Activist Homemaking and Geographies of Citizenship in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 122–160.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Erin A. Spampinato This essay identifies what the author terms “adjudicative reading,” a tendency in literary criticism to read novels depicting sexual violence as if in a court of law. Adjudicative reading tracks characters’ motivations and the physical outcomes of their actions as if novels can...
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differences (2023) 34 (2): 58–83.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Lucia Hulsether This article interrogates feminist frameworks for understanding the racial and sexual politics of United States secularism. It theorizes the history of religious freedom law as a history of racial performance. Reading the aesthetic practices surrounding the Burwell v. Hobby Lobby...
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 175–200.
Published: 01 December 2023
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 1–19.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Judith Butler Returning to Juliet Mitchell’s own rereading of her account of sexual difference, this article takes up the question of how structures of kinship—along with the laws of sexual difference that constitute them—are transmitted. According to Mitchell, the construction of sexual difference...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 111–145.
Published: 01 May 2011
...? This article approaches these questions from an unusual angle, focusing on the passing of competition and antitrust laws and the establishment of a Competition Authority in Turkey alongside the story of a fictional institute called The Clock Setting Institute in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's novel of the same name...
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 119–160.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of the second law of thermodynamics. The second law of thermodynamics not only postulates a universal increase of entropy and an “arrow of time” but also has been based on human ignorance, the assumption that there is an objective world independent of us that we can know only incompletely. Maxwell’s demon...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 86–115.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of a boundary or limit (going beyond pleasure into something painful or traumatic), but rather as a foray into speculative philosophy, an attempt to identify the transcendent principle or higher law of the pleasure principle, the supersensual law of its sensual manifestations. This paper explores...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 189–190.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Ann duCille This critical commentary presents short essays by three major scholars of sociology, law, critical race theory, and feminist studies—Patricia J. Williams, Mignon Moore, and Kendall Thomas—responding to and engaging with Katherine Franke’s 2015 monograph Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage...
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 114–146.
Published: 01 December 2021
... that despite the tenacity of male governance, female in-laws wield tremendous power in the rites that widows deem discriminatory. While interlocutors in this essay stress the near impossibility of a widow escaping the tentacles of authority and the empathy deficit stemming from it, others who have resisted...
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 42–70.
Published: 01 September 2012
... or material influence. The split appears in Freud’s analogy of “savage” sociality and the European psyche in Totem and Taboo as a hesitation about whether law and custom are external to the “savage” psyche or constituent parts of it. Freud’s chief ethnological sources for Totem and Taboo —Lorimer Fison...
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differences (2013) 24 (3): 63–100.
Published: 01 December 2013
... as a political strategy of refusal and illegibility. Waddedar’s iteration of sati relies on its peculiar status in nineteenth-century colonial law, where it was classified as “voluntary culpable homicide by consent.” This legislation inaugurated a new juridical index of female desire that shaped the political...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 148–178.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Nancy Armstrong; Leonard Tennenhouse This essay argues that sovereignty, both the form of government and the law it constitutes, can be understood in terms of what it keeps out and at bay—namely, historically specific forms of formlessness. Assuming that formlessness does indeed have a form...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 250–278.
Published: 01 December 2009
... international law to an updated endorsement of Kant's quest for perpetual cosmopolitan peace. With the problem of history and the relationship between temporality and the “cultural” disciplines such as philosophy in mind, the author updates Habermas's updating of Kant in a context of perpetual war that neither...
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