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..., Remembering the Pacific War . 15. Matsuda, Empire of Love . See also Margaret Jolly, “From Point Venus.” 14. Barthes, Mythologies , 141 . 13. Barthes, Mythologies , 98 . 12. Meikle uses this phrase to describe Barbarella’s removal of a black synthetic spacesuit, a process...

... this worked, in the second part of this paper we explore four areas-the social sciences, the International Geophysical Year (IGY), research in synthetic rubber, and science education. As will become clear, the application of general policy to particular decisions was by no means a straightforward...

... category belongs above all the portrait, the image one wishes to make of oneself, alone or with others, the individual ”propaganda” image, an image complicitous with and complacent toward the subject, an ideal and synthetic self. To the second category belong the “victim” bodies of photo...

... propelled such a proliferation of environmental localisms in this period was precisely a newer translo- cal, even ”global” perspective that Carson’s book epitomized. Already having penetrated into homes and human bodies in many locales, indus- trially produced ”synthetic” chemicals had dispersed...

... cities. She ends with a relatively brief discussion of today's urban poor, who alone seem to have reached a dead end on the road to something better. As in her earlier synthetic work on the history of black women, Jones's strength is in illuminating the everyday struggles of ordinary people...

... piecemeal presentation of the FBI’s efforts to monitor the writings, politics, and, at times, private lives of a dozen American sociologists, but the analysis surrounding these dozen cases falls short of a synthetic sociology of the Cold War’s impact on American...

... of history; synthetic surveys of nine peoples of Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas that made the leap into civilization; and the origins of capitalism in the West and European domination over the rest of the globe. The time range is from the agricultural revolution in the Near East to the start...

..., signalled by the appearance of three major synthetic texts that draw heavily upon the scholarship of the past two decades. Contrary to the political hopes of earlier years, however, each of these histories, though accomplished and thoughtful in its own way, is very different in approach, method...

...); and finally, a synthetic discipline which, "arises from a rich diversity of academic paradigms"(45). Bringing together "cultural studies" with this concept from the philosophy of science/mial science is cavalier and cuts poorlyboth ways: we neither learn what cultural studies is, nor do we gain any...

... of identity politics in favor of what he calls “transversal concatenations, . . . lines of flight, ruptures, which continuously elude the systems of points” (205). His central example is the Vienna Volxtheater group, which practiced a synthetic form of political action and street theater, like...

... hysterectomy. Her cervical cancer and surgery resulted from her mother having been prescribed the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol, DES, while pregnant. DES was prescribed to millions of women to prevent miscarriages, even after it was found to be ineffective...

... Vedoveli, “Brokering Capital.” For a contemporary discussion of the purposes of national wealth estimates, see Shimizu, “Wealth Surveys in Japan” ; and Goldsmith, “Synthetic Estimate of the National Wealth of Japan.” 23. Syrquin, “GDP as a Measure of Economic Welfare,” 3 . 24. Syrquin...

... of the New Left are mostly grouped together in broad synthetic pieces, there are separate articles on the growth of radical scholarship in the various disciplines that are extremely informative. In the end, the Encyclopedia of the American Left is based to a con- siderable extent on the rich...

... of transwomen in late Franco-era Spain to East German homemade gay pornography. In “Bikinis and Other Atomic Incidents,” Sunny Xiang arrives at the question of visual archives via swimsuit advertisements and synthetic fabrics, showing how figures such as the white, female “bikini blonde” functioned...

... : Columbia University Press , 2014 . Rubin Eli . Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2008 . Schiermeyer Regine . Greif zur Kamera, Kumpel! Die Geschichte der Betriebsfotogruppen in der...

... labor movements shaped one another, and “the way in which their conflict and connection both expanded and limited the labor question” (1). Cooper’s sweeping, synthetic argument does not lend itself to a brief summary, but it merits careful attention from both general and specialist...

... nineteenth century, "synthetic honor codes" includ- ing the duel emerged among the bourgeoisie: "they reflected the bourgeois preoccupation with moral discipline, inner values, and THIS SEX WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE WON/181 with the control of reproduction and sex. But these codes...

... thinking. One possibility would start by defining a problem for each unit of study. These units of study would still cover the breadth of the survey, but each unit would pose a problem or set of problems, guide students through a series of read- ings — some synthetic and context setting, others...

... from the problems of those people on whom you are drawing. And you might find that those people were looking for the same thing after all. Certainly that article is very synthetic. I covered such a large ground in fifty pages, but I tried to be synthetic and analytical on some specific...

... was just beginning. We needed a generation of monographs before anybody could do the synthetic work that I had in mind. I realized it was hopelessly grandiose. So I gave it up when the Robesun offer came through. What I wanted to do was publish the material I had gathered over three or four years...