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differences (2012) 23 (2): 136–164.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Joshua Kates This essay returns to part 2, chapter 4 of Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar’s landmark text Reading Capital to interrogate some of the historiographical concepts upon which literary studies continues to rely, especially that of the period. Althusser’s profound critique of the period...
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Published: 01 December 2019
Figure 3 Data showing changes in the earth system during the period 1750–2010 Source: Steffen et al.
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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 1 Ping from the Western Han period (2nd century bc ). Discovered in Mawa-ngdui Tomb No.1, in Changsha, Hunan. Wood with lacquer paint. Source: Hunan Museum, Changsha, China
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differences (2013) 24 (2): 93–108.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Dong Limin This essay examines the ways a gender studies perspective has been applied in Chinese academic reflections on China’s socialist culture and practice during the so-called Seventeen-Year Period, which spanned from the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 to the beginning...
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differences (2016) 27 (3): 20–44.
Published: 01 December 2016
... the globalizing present (France during the period from 1945 to 1973 known as the Trente glorieuses and China during the period following 1989 known as the Post–New Era) and the traumatic past (the German Occupation of France and the Tiananmen Square incident in China). Whereas Walter Benjamin draws his theory...
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differences (2013) 24 (2): 130–149.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Sarah E. Kile This essay explores some of the ways people conceived of the relationship between sexed bodies and gendered roles during the slow transition from the Ming (1368-1644) to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). This was a period of increasing commercialization and significant challenges...
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 150–174.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Stefan Ecks The United States is in the midst of a struggle over how to remember national history. Since the mid-2010s, much of this struggle has focused on historic monuments. No other country has seen as many monument attacks, renamings, and removals as the United States in this period...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 103–147.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Henry S. Turner This essay examines the problem of the corporation as an “artificial person” and as a form of political organization in the early modern period, using Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations (1598–1600) to explore models of collective, corporate narration and competing images...
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differences (2013) 24 (2): 22–50.
Published: 01 September 2013
... as a social category, has been linked to the women’s rights movement, an arduous process that serves to promote the progress and unification of humanity. The women’s rights movement subsided after the postwar period but fell far short of thoroughly liberating women. The movement faced strong resistance even...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 65–85.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Daniel Wilson Freud first theorizes the drive through Wilhelm Fliess’s theory of bisexuality, which proposes that human life is structured by the periodic expression of a masculine and a feminine substance. Long after his break with Fliess, Freud maintains elements of Fliess’s theory, arguing...
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differences (2013) 24 (2): 109–129.
Published: 01 September 2013
.... But there has been little attention to the once popular figure of the strong woman who takes up sword and spear to avenge a wrong done to a family member by killing the guilty party. The avenging woman is a key figure in the Eastern Han (25-220 ce ), a formative period in the development of Chinese political...
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differences (2013) 24 (2): 172–181.
Published: 01 September 2013
.... Li agrees with her critics’ views that she is an essentialist feminist, for she holds that one is born a female and that the second-sex status is a necessary period in the historical evolution of humanity. li xiaojiang is Professor and Director of the Gender Studies Center at Dalian...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 36–53.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and deadly aspect. The ancient Greeks used the figure of the swarm to connote an anonymous and undifferentiated mass of human beings. Achilles' army of Myrmidons in the Iliad are at least antlike, perhaps even metamorphosed ants, ants become warriors. In the classical period, the comic poet Aristophanes uses...
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differences (2018) 29 (3): 86–106.
Published: 01 December 2018
... when read in its immediate context of Master Humphrey’s Clock , a weekly periodical. The text’s repetition of stylistic elements, the composition and placement of woodcut images, and the enforced interruptions of the serial form introduce pauses, or moments of arrested time, into the movement...
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differences (2018) 29 (1): 102–133.
Published: 01 May 2018
... to understand the complicated entanglements of successive generations in the German postwar period. Still today, these entanglements continue to be haunted by postwar generations’ relationships to the so-called “Auschwitz generation,” feeding a highly complex and explosive German historical memory. Franza...
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differences (2012) 23 (1): 62–100.
Published: 01 May 2012
... capitalism in the age of revolution (though it has only become fully hegemonic in the post-Soviet period of neoliberal globalization). This gave rise, she argues, to a new cultural discourse in which horizontal capital flow replaced vertical monarchical fiat as the principal vehicle for the definition...
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 70–85.
Published: 01 September 2015
... with regard to the relative lack of a visual record of the period. All three films profited from troves of personal letters. Von Trotta describes her slow “falling in love” with Arendt, a process abetted by the discovery of Arendt’s vulnerability. The decision to focus on the years of the Eichmann trial...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 May 2010
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new media, and cultural and intersectional analysis. Second, it’s Time’s
time, that is to say, a moment in which theoretical paradigms of temporality
(Bergsonian durée, the untimely, the century, periodicity, the outmoded,
contemporaneity...
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differences (2018) 29 (1): 33–65.
Published: 01 May 2018
... faced with the durable visibility of refuse in this period, a postwar moment of apparent prosperity and planned obsolescence. Standard accounts of mid-century America describe a shift in public consciousness about the life span of everyday objects during precisely this period. In her popular history...
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differences (2008) 19 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 May 2008
... of chronology—important dates, periods, and “events” in labor
history—do not let us into quiet moments that are “too late” or “too early,”
into secret places where chance meetings and haphazard alignments take
place. They do not lead us...
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