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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 205–211.
Published: 01 October 2013
... in the Anglo-Saxon world to supplant older forms of patriarchal power. Modern patriarchy is not the law of the father, says Pateman, but the law ofsons and brothers.2 Contract is the narrative device that establishes and expresses this law. As she puts it: "Modern patriarchy is fraternal in form...
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Rereading a Classic Text
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 198–204.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Anna Elisabetta Galeotti Copyright © 2013 University of Illinois Press 2013 Roundtable: Carole Pateman's The Sexual Contract Twenty-Five Years Later Rereading a Classic Text Anna Elisabetta Galeotti When Carole Pateman was writing The Sexual Contract, I happened to spend a year in Princeton...
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The Misfortune of Silence
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 212–219.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Jack Jackson Copyright © 2013 University of Illinois Press 2013 The Misfortune of Silence JackJackson In the twenty-five years since the publication of Carole Pateman's land mark The Sexual Contract, the politics ofmarriageand the structures of public reasoning situating it have been...
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Freedom as Accumulation
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 April 2016
... might relax its hold on necessities, proffer some small comforts, and thus extend a brief reprieve in a world of forced privation, all.foraprice, everybody knew hisotherhand gripped a pistol. Such was coercion, such was the consumer's choice, such was contract's consent."He cussed me, hit me...
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Dying for a Living: Economic and Moral Restructuring in a French Factory
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 209–232.
Published: 01 October 2018
... their attachment to their jobs. The workers had long known that they were in a very dangerous trade. However, they did not question their exposure to danger while it was en compassed in a broader, implicit moral contract which governed social relations within the factory. But the workers experienced a wave...
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Paying for Kinship: Muslim Divorce and the Privatization of Insecurity
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 197–218.
Published: 01 October 2017
..., is called talaq-ul-ba'in [irrevocable divorce].Talaq-ul-ba'in can only be given by a husband unless a couple have explicitly stated in the marriage contract that the wife has the right to unilateral divorce.2 According to Hanafi juris prudence, talaq-ul-ba'in is a divorce "given in violation...
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A Managerial Fast Break: Race, Workplace Discipline, and Collective Bargaining Agreements in the National Basketball Association (1970–1990)
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 207–240.
Published: 01 October 2022
... increasing earning potential of professional basketball players in the early to mid-1970s. Salaries increased for two reasons: the establishment of the American Basketball Association in 1967 and of free agency (when a professional athlete can negotiate a contract to play for any team within their sport...
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The Domestication of Credit
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 142–165.
Published: 01 October 2019
... did the wife always know about the mortgage, J. C. Spooner ofWisconsin elaborated, but she was actively involved in the decision to contract it and the work ofmeeting its regular demands. To sug gest otherwise, proposed a third congressman, was "sophistical and unsat isfactory" and gave "too little...
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On Coming Home: The Elasticity of Migration
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 40–44.
Published: 01 April 2023
... power of political parties. Recent local elections held in September 2021 provided a glimpse of what elastic migration can produce as families and clans were divided and broken. The bled itself then takes shape as an elastic space of contracting social bonds just as much as a place of refuge...
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Marx, Frankenchickens, and the Logic of Capitalism: Rethinking Spellbound Histories in a Time of Crisis
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 271–282.
Published: 01 October 2022
... production. Crop specialization and monocrop production have accompanied this trend. Most of this production is contracted and oriented toward value-adding food processing nodes or for export. Farmers, large and small, contract with corporations to provide food processors and slaughterhouses with specialized...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): i–iii.
Published: 01 October 2013
..., and the Study of the Past in Nineteenth-Century France Zrinka Stahuljak The Stage ofAdolescence: Anticolonial Time, Youth Insurgency, and the Marriage Crisis in Hashimite Iraq Sara Pursley 119 140 160 ROUNDTABLE: CAROLE PATEMAN'S THE SEXUAL CONTRACT TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER Rereading a Classic Text Anna...
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Femonationalism and the “Regular” Army of Labor Called Migrant Women
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 184–199.
Published: 01 October 2012
... contract" within the household, which establishes that women are still in charge ofreproduction and care.36 Further, it follows the rules of the "racial contract;' according to which ethnic minorities and people ofcolor perform the least desirable and valued tasks in a society.37 Migrant women...
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Surrogacy at the Fertility Frontier: Rethinking Surrogacy in Israel/Palestine as an (Anti)Colonial Episteme
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 108–137.
Published: 01 April 2024
... between the Israeli gay struggle for national belonging by joining the army or by having children. For me, these are the two pillars of Israel’s social contract. . . . According to the dominant Israeli discourse you only deserve your citizen rights if you have been in the army and if you have served your...
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Liberalism’s Incestuous Subject: Private and Public Sex in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2011
... not simply in the public that is, in the liminal space ofroads between towns (as well as markets and contracts), but, more importantly, in the confines ofa wholly private family, the supposed salve to public wounds. If imperial expansion was necessary to secure liberty, then the fate of the nation rested...
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Real Estate Questions: Capital, Slavery, and Empire in the Early United States
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 April 2020
... been consistently interpreted by the United States as real estate contracts (13; see also Karuka 179). Du Bois’s concept of slavery real estate was shaped by real estate’s other basis in the transformation of Native sovereign territory into property for investment and accumulation, something that slave...
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History at the Roundabout: The Pasts and Presents of the Gilets Jaunes
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 183–206.
Published: 01 October 2022
... women. Unlike many other social movements today, the young and the old participated together. The Gilets jaunes include many single mothers, home health care workers, part-time and contract workers, the unemployed, the disabled, the retired, and struggling small businessmen and businesswomen...
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Primitive Art, Primitive Accumulation, and the Origin of the Work of Art in German New Guinea
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 5–30.
Published: 01 April 2011
... than through the purchase and sale of finished products in a market. The most important step here is placing productive labor under the temporary (as in wage or contract labor) or permanent (as in slavery) disciplinary control of managerial institutions whose primary function is to ensure...
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Thinking about Ikhtilâf: The Political Construction of Difference in the Islamic Context
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 52–70.
Published: 01 April 2012
... and is the expression of an autonomous, individual subject, an (abstract) citizen, the status ofwhom is formally determined. One also knows that this unity is constructed upon a juridical and political fiction, whether it is the social contract from Thomas Hobbes to John Rawls, or the idea ofthe general will dear...
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“A Strange Industrial Order”: Indonesia’s Racialized Plantation Ecologies and Anticolonial Estate Worker Rebellions
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 67–83.
Published: 01 April 2020
... means including enticement, coercion, and simple deceit. In the development of plantation estates on Sumatra, for example, bonded Chinese and Javanese “contract coolies” were transferred in the hundreds of thousands (Stoler, “Plantation Politics” 126). Furthermore, the reverse side of mass transfers...
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Injury and Value: Black Mothering in Slavery and Its Afterlife
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 138–155.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... The revision of formal laws and customary practices related to childrearing left Black women laborers both liable and subject to reproductive violence and economic insecurity. For example, pregnant Black women who took any time away from their employers after childbirth to recover, even those who contracted...
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