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...Joan Wallach Scott Copyright © 2012 University of Illinois Press 2012 The Vexed Relationship ofEmancipation and Equality Joan Wallach Scott It was by no means sufficient to ask: Who should emancipate? Who should be emancipated? The critic should ask a third question: what kind of emancipation...

... of the sulāliyāt that operates outside urban centers, but also beyond the universalist language of feminism related to abstract notions of female autonomy and gender equality. Deeply rooted in socioeconomic issues, including land expropriation and the displacement of local peasant populations in the name of reform...

... is notoriously stingy, even its limited benefits have never gone to Puerto Ricans on an equal basis to residents of the states. How, then, have Puerto Ricans been perennially accused of receiving too much welfare? This article argues that Puerto Rico marks the vanishing point of the coherence of the discourse...

... in political philosophy, representing the mainstream of those days, at least in the English- speaking world. Second, the social contract tradition, in all its varieties, built its ar­ gument on the assumption of free and equal individuals as the inhabitants of a hypothetical state of nature. That assumption...

..., in part, because he saw so clearly the link between the libidinal and the material, betweenexcessandutopia.But I have traced this genealogy backward to him, in particular, for one additional reason.In reading Blake's astonishingly radical poetry, one is tempted-as with his later, but equally daring...

... as the telos of freedom and equality. It is worth reflecting upon the strangeness and unpredictability of this historicaland politicaltrajectory in rereading and rethinking The Sexual Con­ tract. At the time of the publication of The Sexual Contract, the US Supreme Court had only recently held...

... of1789-"men are born and remain free and equal in rights"-nor the assertion ofthe Declaration ofi793-"all men are equal by nature and before the law"-define a metahistorical content but rather one that is political and historical.2 Affirming that men areequal by naturemeans reinventing nature in two...

... with modernist narrative form, I seek to honor these voices from the archive of Moravian slavery and to make them central to a history of the present that pursues the unfinished project of equality. Expanding the Archive: Enslaved Afro-Moravians and their Memoirs The expansion of the archive remains a top...

... of Protestant sectarians. Other tensions accompany both these religious controversies and other, more earthly political struggles. Those are the tensions that accompany the question of equality. There is no one so rich, so powerful, so beautiful, so wise, that they do not shit. In that, as in breathing, all...

... controversy I am involved in, and that he referred to, has nothing to do with Islam {the book analyzes sub - S aharan culture in terms ofkinship, not religion) , and nothing to do with homosexuality either (it is only about gender equality) . However, I am not in any way suggesting that my correspondent...

... in their possession of the previously- European mantle of revolution; his rejection of cultural nationalism and engagement with aesthetic modernism; and his insistence that global equality was the central normative category for comparative social science and an emancipatory political internationalism. By way...

... equal opportunities for women in the workplace in our contemporary era, it is clear that feminism has always been committed to the lived realities of women. So, why claim that feminism is not a theory of the real? What Riley argues is that feminism cannot be a theory of the real insofar as the term...

..., then, neoliberalrationality challenges the very idea ofa public good-from librar­ ies topensions, preservedwildernessto public pools, cleantransportationto a healthy educated public. Neoliberal rationality also displaces democracy and equality as governing principles in provisioning goods like education; instead of advancing...

... sexual nationalism. In particular, I am interested in the rhetorical work that can be done by a racialized notion of homosexuality in debates on multiculturalism and Islam in which ethnicity and cultureappear as the centralterms. Whenever equal rights and respect for gays and lesbians are contrasted...

..., and an equally absurd answer, being deemed the most important safeguard for democracy against totalitarianism and genocide in late modernity? Tolerance has been used to handle unsolvable conflicts for a long time. The edicts of tolerance issued by both the Catholic Church and the Protestant churches during...

... not always echo the economic and affective models of plantations, it is equally urgent that we not recuperate yet another stable history ofslavery through its lost "Asiatic" form. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's well-received 2 013 exhibition, "Africans in India: From Slaves to Generals...

... as the ones he champions. This is equally true of the nondisciplinary accounts Sweet highlights. Here we have a clue as to why the public would find these nondisciplinary accounts as compelling as those sanctioned by the historical discipline. Especially when the stories they tell coincide with an audience’s...

... of Racial Equality (CORE), this article examines the way the very meaning of going to jail was reconstructed and transformed by the activists of the 1960s black freedom struggle. What had once been an experience defined by fear, stigma, and vulnerability became, variously, an enactment ofcourage, dignity...

...” or “hold a commune” were the expressions villagers used to call for a circle of mutually dependent equals who gathered around the village oak tree to deliberate ( 14 ). In 1524 revolt broke out when communes halted their agricultural labor to assemble for protest marches in which communes formed regional...

... and migrants' integration, particularly in the case ofMuslims, have been strongly marked by demands for migrants to adapt toWestern culture and values. We should note that one ofthe essential items in such a list of values is gender equality.2 The mobilization, or rather instrumentalization, of the notion...