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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 513–532.
Published: 01 September 2015
... the past forty years, the alterity of the past, and her current project on the history of feminism and urban space in 1970s and 1980s London. 2015 cosmopolitanism feminist historiography sexual labor public health Victorian Britain Sharon Marcus (SM): Where and when did you grow up...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 107–131.
Published: 01 January 2020
...-formation and self-reclamation. The author also relies on the theoretical works of critical race, queer, and feminist scholars to frame how that resistance—whether in the form of sexual freedom, reproductive choice, or independence from traditional systems of labor—represents a critical site of possibility...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 385–392.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Sexual Labour: The Subjective Effects of Criminalisation and Structural Suspicion, beyond the Trafficking Paradigm .” Africa e Mediterraneo 79 , no. 2 : 44 – 47 . Peano Irene . 2013d . “ Opaque Loves: Governance and Escape in the Intimate Sphere of Nigerian Sex Workers .” Etnografia e...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (1): 47–66.
Published: 01 January 2004
... nearly half of the laborers in Istanbul’s garment industry (Eraydın 1999). For an ethnographic account of how women’s labor in family-owned garment workshops is devalued by male kin, see White 1994. 58 about marriage, proper sexual...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 199–231.
Published: 01 May 2008
... places on women in severely patriarchal contexts and sometimes, too, by the understanding that so-called African masculinity and male sexual practices are not so much the products of primordial tradition as the effects of the migrant labor and hostel system.21 These are occasionally uninten...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 323–341.
Published: 01 May 2019
... the productivity of enslaved labor through control over sexuality ( K. Morgan 2006; J. L. Morgan 2004; Paton 2017) . But the kind of sexual discipline that Abrikian discusses in her letter is of a different sort. In 1967 Jamaica established a National Family Planning Board with the goal of reducing population...
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 93–113.
Published: 01 January 2000
... boyfriend at a labor camp in a remote province. The tempo and color scheme of The Impulse of Youth are designed to accentu- ate youthful passion, the dreams and anxieties of an urban youth culture enmeshed with pop music, money, violence, and sexual desire. The characters in the lettering...
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 223–243.
Published: 01 January 1999
... passage, but after 1895 full passage even for those otherwise eligible was not paid. On the estate, there was a sexual division of labor in the sense that certain jobs were only done by men; women did weeding, manuring, supplying, and cane...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 331–359.
Published: 01 May 2015
... to India, they resonate widely with sexual violence against women in urban environments in many places. As women enter contingent arenas of work in neoliberal economies, they are subject to violence that at once sexualizes them, reinserts them into the private sphere, and cheapens the value of their labor...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 557–581.
Published: 01 September 2010
... of labor migrants has dramatically transformed the demographic makeup of Europe. Whether they came as guest workers or former colonial subjects, migrants from North Africa to France and the Netherlands, from South Asia to Great Britain, and from Turkey to West Germany produced the first significant...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (1): 101–128.
Published: 01 January 2005
... body. It was not only Sarah Bartmann’s sexuality that was exploited but also her labor as an object of ethnographic curiosity, and it is her own labor to create the Hottentot Venus that renders Bartmann a more complex fi gure. According...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 433–455.
Published: 01 September 2017
... . 1 This binary is obviously a shorthand formulation but is useful nonetheless. Labor laws certainly figure in immigration regulations, as do bodies of law related to taxation, inheritance, and personal status in cases involving family, gender, and sexuality. I am grateful to Wu Jiyi and Wu...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 223–236.
Published: 01 May 2010
... Leigh Pigg. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Agustín, Laura María. 2007 . Sex at the margins: Migration, labour markets, and the rescue industry . London: Zed. Andrijasevic, Rutvica. 2007 . Beautiful dead bodies: Gender, migration, and representation in anti-trafficking campaigns...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 111–124.
Published: 01 January 2006
... and the party leaders of the List Pim Fortuyn (LPF), decided to go on with the elections that on May 15 produced an unprecedented loss for the ruling Labor Party and a huge victory for the List Pim Fortuyn. His friends brought Fortuyn’s ashes to his holiday villa in Italy, and the Dutch were regaled...
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Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 133–142.
Published: 01 January 1993
...; the vast majority of women have consistently performed productive (and not only reproductive) labour; and, like those men who also do produc- tive work, they have retained with society and history a relation that is essentially imaginative, visionary, communal and regenerative. Erotic...
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 453–473.
Published: 01 September 1999
.... Tabuenca Córdoba , Maria-Socorro . 1995–96 . Viewing the border: Perspectives from the “Open Wound.” Discourse , 18 : 146 -68. Twin Plant News Staff Report . 1997 . Brain School. 12 ( 8 ): 39 -41. U.S. Department of Labor. 1998 . Public report of review of NAO submission no. 9701. 12...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 361–386.
Published: 01 May 2002
...) was sentenced to a five-year prison term with hard labor, and his associate received a three-year term. One person received a one-year prison term, and twenty others were found guilty of practicing debauchery and were sentenced to two-year prison terms with hard labor, while the remaining twenty-nine were...
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Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 107–146.
Published: 01 January 1994
..., they believed that males alone were responsible for - and capable of - the serious business of politicking,” Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Familyfrom Slavery to the Present (New York: Basic Books, 1985), 66. But it is also an accepted tenet of otherwise rigorous analyses...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 249–252.
Published: 01 January 2006
... on post-Holocaust authorship in political theory, literature, and the arts. Moishe Postone is professor of history and Jewish studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinter...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 273–301.
Published: 01 May 2007
... must not go unnoticed, as the kinds of ambivalence raised by the global market for subproletarian migrant labor do not usually apply to the outrage around sexual traffic, which seems more often to provoke moral clarity against indentured servitude, bodily...