IF 1.9 2区社会学

Signs Pub Date : 2001-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/495629

N Chatterjee, N E Riley

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引用次数: 81

On the grounds of globalization: a topography for feminist political engagement. 基于全球化:女性主义政治参与的地形。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Signs Pub Date : 2001-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/495653

C Katz

{"title":"On the grounds of globalization: a topography for feminist political engagement.","authors":"C Katz","doi":"10.1086/495653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/495653","url":null,"abstract":"lobalization is nothing new. Global trade has been going on for millennia-though what constitutes the \"globe\" has expanded dramatically in that time. And trade is nothing if not cultural exchange, the narrow distinctions between the economic and the cultural having long been rendered obsolete. Moreover, our forbears, like us, were great \"miscegenators.\" If here I gloss the racialized and gendered violence often associated with miscegenation, I do so strategically to note that all recourse to purity, indigeneity, or aboriginalityhowever useful strategicallyshould be subject to at least as much scrutiny as the easy romance with hybridity (see Mitchell 1997). Globalization has been the signature dish of capitalism-a system of social relations of production and reproduction nourished by uneven development across a range of spatial scales, from the local or regional to the national or supranational, the ambitions of which have always been global since its birth in Europe more than five centuries ago. European-born mercantile capitalism early on was driven by a real expansion for markets and the goods to trade across them. This was nothing new, particularly, until the agents of capital began to assemble an empire and deployed the physical and symbolic violence intended to redirect toward European interests the globe Europeans were \"discovering.\" With","PeriodicalId":51382,"journal":{"name":"Signs","volume":"26 4","pages":"1213-34"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/495653","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26817067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 496

The U.S. women's health research agenda for the twenty-first century. 二十一世纪美国妇女健康研究议程。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Signs Pub Date : 2000-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/495559

N F Woods

引用次数: 2

"For some queer reason": the trials and tribulations of Colonel Barker's masquerade in Interwar Britain. “出于某种奇怪的原因”:在两次世界大战之间的英国，巴克上校的假面舞会的考验和磨难。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Signs Pub Date : 2000-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/495567

J Vernon

{"title":"\"For some queer reason\": the trials and tribulations of Colonel Barker's masquerade in Interwar Britain.","authors":"J Vernon","doi":"10.1086/495567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/495567","url":null,"abstract":"n February 28, 1929, Colonel Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Bligh Barker was arrested for contempt of court, having failed to appear at a bankruptcy hearing the previous December. Removed to Brixton Prison, Barker was subjected to a routine medical inspection, during which he was discovered to be a woman and immediately transferred to the all-women Holloway prison.' By March 6, the news had leaked to the press and led to a series of sensational revelations that dominated the front pages of the press for a week. Barker, it was disclosed, had been born a biological female in 1895 and christened Lilias Irma Valerie Barker by her parents of independent means. In 1918 she had been married briefly to one Lieutenant Harold Arkell-Smith before having two children with her subsequent lover, Earnest Pearce-Crouch. Yet, after this relationship collapsed in 1923, Barker had begun life as a man and married Elfreda Haward. This marriage also had not lasted long and was followed by a series of relationships with other women, with whom Barker appeared to live as a common-law husband, earning a living variously as a farmer, actor, antique-shop owner, kennel manager, laborer, restaurateur, and gentleman of leisure. As these revelations were investigated by the police, Barker was charged on two counts of perjury for having falsely signed the register at his marriage to Haward. The subsequent trial at the Old Bailey took place amid great publicity and resulted in Barker's being imprisoned as a woman for","PeriodicalId":51382,"journal":{"name":"Signs","volume":"26 1","pages":"37-62"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28061575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 18

Has feminism changed science? 女权主义改变了科学吗?

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Signs Pub Date : 2000-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/495540

L Schiebinger

引用次数: 461

"Who has told you to do this thing?": toward a feminist interpretation of contraceptive diffusion in Rhodesia, 1970-1980. “谁吩咐你做这事的?”对1970-1980年罗得西亚避孕药具传播的女权主义解释。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Signs Pub Date : 2000-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/495478

A Kaler

引用次数: 19

Dying to tell: sexuality and suicide in Imperial Japan. 渴望倾诉:日本帝国的性与自杀。