...Rostom Mesli This essay extracts the concept of “benign sexual variation” from the work of feminist anthropologist Gayle Rubin. The concept has been largely ignored by queer theorists and has often been misunderstood as liberal by feminists. In this essay, I seek to illuminate the concept's radical...

...Kenneth Surin Kenneth Surin On Producing the Concept of a Global Culture Tears: a global enterprise. John Cage, A Year from Monday, 1969 When intuitionism opposed axiomatics, it was not only in the name of intuition, of construction and creation, but also in the name of a calculus of problems...

...Frigga Haug; Lisa Yun Lee; Katrin Voelkner Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Frigga Haug The Neoliberal Project, the Masculine Concept of Work, and the Overdue Renewal of the Gender Contract of the problems that arises in the debate concerning the future of work is the tacit...

...Joseph H. Taylor Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 THE RESTRICTION OF EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION AND THE CONCEPT OF RACE JOSEPH H. TAYLOR HE CULTURAL PATTERN of the United States was _L formed by the influx of hundreds of thousands of North Euro­ peans in the early colonial period...

...Newton P. Stallknecht Byron, The Record of a Quest: Studies in a Poet’s Concept and Treatment of Nature . By Lovell Ernest J. Jr . Austin : The University of Texas Press , 1949 . Pp. 270 . $3.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 546 The South Atlantic...

...Edd Winfield Parks Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 TIMROD S CONCEPT OF DREAMS EDD WINFIELD PARKS S A CRITIC, Henry Timrod believed that a poet should be as much concerned with truth as with beauty. Although he admitted pure poetry, poetry without ulterior purpose...

...Robert S. Tate, Jr. Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The Concept of Absurd Equilibrium in the Early Essays of Albert Camus Robert S. Tate, Jr. About twenty-five centuries ago in ancient Greece the weeping philosopher Heraclitus was expounding his thoughts on the phys­ ical...

...Edward A. Bloom Luxury: The Concept in Western Thought, Eden to Smollett . By Sekora John . Baltimore and London : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 1977 . Pp. xv , 340 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 408 The South Atlantic Quarterly for England s...

...Daphne Athas Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 The Beauty in The Sheltered Life A Moral Concept Daphne Athas The idea of "The Beauty requires a fixed notion of culture, and Ellen Glasgow, working in a fictional tradition more European than Ameri­ can, centers her attention...

...James Brewer Stewart Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Politics and Belief in Abolitionism: Stanley Elkins Concept of Antiinstitutionalism and Recent Interpretations of American Antislavery James Brewer Stewart It is hardly a paradox that Stanley Elkins Slavery seems at once...

...Guy A. Cardwell Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 The Duel in the Old South: Crux of a Concept Guy A. Cardwell I The idea of the gentleman assumes the existence of class distinc­ tions and often assumes as well that gentlemen, men superior in courtesy and courage, are privileged...

...Frank T. de Vyver Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Collective Bargaining Diffusion of the Concept in English-Speaking Countries Frank T. de Vyver The term collective bargaining, according to the Webbs, was first used by Mrs. Webb in 1891.1 In Industrial Democracy the Webbs...

...Frank T. de Vyver Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Concept of Wages in Australia Frank T. de Vyver Hidden away in decisions of arbitration courts, commissions, and panels are concepts of fair and proper wages. Orders of the Australian Commonwealth Arbitration Commission reveal...

...Robert Binkley The Concept of a Person and Other Essays . By Ayer A. J. . New York : St. Martin’s Press, Inc. , 1963 . Pp. vii , 272 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 446 The South Atlantic Quarterly I feel, Miss Glasgow s ironic vision which enabled...

...James O’Connell Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 The Concept of Modernization1 James O Connell The term that is used in the social sciences to designate the process through which a traditional or pretechnological society passes as it is transformed into a society characterized...

...Matthew Abraham This essay argues that the reception of Noam Chomsky's political scholarship by progressive academics demonstrates that the state of theory in the humanities has reached a point of crisis; that is, Chomsky's unpopularity in certain academic circles indicates that conceptions...

... understandings of the concept of freedom of conscience: an early modern preoccupation with religious plurality as threatening public order, and a postwar understanding of religious freedom as the protection of secularized Christian values against the totalitarian propensities of modern politics. © 2014 Duke...

...Arkady Plotnitsky Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Arkady Plotnitsky Complementarity, Idealization, and the Limits of Classical Conceptions of Reality Questa natura si oltre s ingrada in numero, che mai non fu loquela ne concetto mortal che tanto vada. Dante, Paradiso, Canto 29...

...Andrew Pickering Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Andrew Pickering Concepts and the Mangle of Practice: Constructing Quaternions Similarly, by surrounding ^-i by talk about vec­ tors, it sounds quite natural to talk of a thing whose square is -1. That which at first seemed out...

...Culver H. Smith Copyright © 1923 by Duke University Press 1923 Changing Concepts of Liberty in England Culver H. Smith Trinity College Nothing has proved more elusive than liberty, and its end­ less pursuit has filled the pages of English history. Men thought, and still think, it was achieved...