... easily disregarded or undone by the husband who dominates her entire sphere of action, is her inefficacy dissociable from gender inequality and the institution of marriage? If Hardy's characters fail to challenge social norms or to become adequately learned and “urbane,” is this not at least partly...

... juridicopolitical economy. Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Property law gender inequality narrative technique political exclusion economic dispossession On July 17, 2013, India's Cabinet approved the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill 2010, a piece of legislation that, once signed...

... product of the transatlantic trade. While Lucetta is not, like Susan, sold across the Atlantic, she uses the rhetoric of slavery in her understanding of her roles. In this way, Hardy, like Mill before him, draws on a long-standing English tradition of describing gender inequity in the language...

... the gender inequality of patriarchal relations was initially carried over from the theological into the modern economic domain, this inequality soon manifested itself as irrational in relation to the claim that economic individuals were structurally equivalent in the marketplace...

... and futuristic, realist and fantastic narrative registers—that we can grasp their distinctively historical exploration of the workings of race in the post–civil rights period. © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Works Cited Baccolini Raffaella . “Gender and Genre in the Feminist...

... never have survived. From at least one per- spective, moreover, Marx’s argument would have to count as liberal itself. Like American foreign policy, his final chapter makes a display of gender equality at home in order to seize the advantage in a familiar discursive contest over whose nation...

... a liminal position by virtue of her class status, but her liminality was even more pronounced, in part because she made visible to the British the class and gender inequalities that necessitated her emigration. As Rita S. Kranidis has noted, the industry of female emigration ex- posed the paradox...

... to operate as an oppressive logic (Anker 168). She then attempts to disentangle the gendered claim from the racial history (as an older white man, Lurie claims a right to forcefully seduce Melanie, a colored undergraduate) that also determines this encounter and gives shape to the institutional response...

... of the “unbending circle” or “reversible condition” of the diaspora to contemporary novels of slavery, the argument is substantially denser. Although subsequent chapters of the book delineate how gender shapes the teleology of this myth, Greene at times risks reproducing the very stereotypes he is intent...

..., as well, two distinctly gendered lineages—a feminized love narrative and a masculinized adventure story. The book is thus somewhat torn between wanting to identify “romance” in abstract terms that make sense to scholars—many of us will find the definition of romance that emphasizes fluidity...

... as the quintessence of the bourgeois capitalist society against which the bohemian defined himself or herself. The way in which bohemians' sense of their own marginal position often obscured their complicity with the dominant class, race, and gender dynamics of society is a recurring theme in the study. A chapter...

... could protest legal inequities indirectly by judiciously exploiting the flexibility of disparaged genres within the confines of the respected mode of realism. © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Works Cited Allott Miriam . The Brontës: The Critical Heritage . London...

... the effects on men of the transformation from yeo- manry to bourgeois capitalism. While Eliot is not blind to the gender inequalities of agrarian community life, she suggests that its ideology is premised on paternal- istic rather than proprietary assumptions. This shift from paternal to proprietary...

... of E. M. Forster . London: Chatto, 1963 . Benhabib , Seyla . Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics . New York: Routledge, 1992 . Born , Daniel . The Birth of Liberal Guilt in the English Novel: Charles Dickens to H. G. Wells . Chapel Hill...

... of the fraught ties among cultural, national, and global identities and their impact on the modes, origins, and effects of transnational inequities. Cooppan enters this conversation with the provoca- tive suggestion that the allures and dysfunctions of a globalized future can already be found lingering...

... constitutive of fiction: an inequality of attention offsetting the nineteenth-century realist novel’s seemingly expansive social vision. I would counter, via Rancie`re’s account of the distribution of the sen- sible, that literature is defined by its very disruption of all epic hierarchies...

....” Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology, and Animal Life . Ed. Peter Steeves H. . Albany : State U of New York P , 1999 . 93 – 112 . Braidotti Rosi . “Animals, Anomalies, and Inorganic Others.” PMLA 124 ( 2009 ): 526 – 32 . Butler Judith . Undoing Gender . New York...

.... In the decades preceding her intervention of 1993, Schor suggests, too many scholars had attempted to evaluate Sand's novels against some ahistorical standard of true feminism before “tak[ing] a position pro or con” (71). The better approach, Schor suggested, was to engage with Sand's ideas about gender...

... Jane. “Containment at Home: Gender, Sexuality, and National Identity in Cold War America.” Rethinking Cold War Culture . Ed. Peter J. Kuznick and James Gilbert. Washington: Smithsonian Institution P, 2001 . Epstein , Mikhail . After the Future: The Paradoxes of Postmodernism...

... . “Universalism, Particularism, and the Question of Identity.” The Identity in Question . Ed. John Rajchman. New York: Routledge, 1995 . 93 –108. Lee , Rachel C. The Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation . Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1999 . Lowe...