An Ideational Approach to Gendered Institutional Change: Revisiting the Institutionalization of a New Prostitution Regime in Sweden

Recent work in the field of feminist institutionalism has made important progress in furthering our understanding of gendered institutional change. I argue that gradual ideational changes play an essential role in processes of gendered institutional change, and that examining the interaction between ideas and gendered institutions is of great importance for gaining a better understanding of processes of this type. This article revisits an empirical study of gendered institutional change in Swedish prostitution policy in the effort to specify two idea-based mechanisms that are conducive to gendered change, namely, consensus concerning the problem and gendering of the problem.     

Postmillennial femininities in the popular romance novel

Popular romance fiction was thought to carry a patriarchal ideology and was often dismissed as a manifestation of ingrained prejudice and bigotry against the female sex. However, there appears to have been influence from feminism, particularly where Harlequin Mills and Boon stories use the contemporary world and ‘reality’ as a touchstone. In this article I will discuss how the heroines of Harlequin Mills and Boon postmillennial ‘Modern’ novels display various expressions of feminism which contribute to the construction of their identities but that ultimately these tales rely on the dismantling of these autonomous identities sine the heroine is still required to be ‘swept off her feet’.     

THE RIGHT TO MARRY AND THE SAN FRANCISCO EXPERIENCE

This article chronicles the issuance of marriage licenses to lesbian and gay couples in San Francisco in the winter of 2004. The article explores the political and legal landscape in the fight for the right to marry nationally and examines the current legal status of lesbian and gay couples in the country.     

超越“Trade off”——对公平与效率的几点新思考

目前对于公平和效率问题的讨论 ,已经陷入了一种困境。其原因是多方面的 ,且这种困境将继续下去。在简要回顾了已有理论的基础上 ,本文着重提出了关于公平效率问题讨论的直角坐标系图法 ,构建了度量社会公平程度的社会公平系数 ,衡量社会在公平和效率上存在问题的社会总体问题指数 ,以及衡量不同政策、不同国家、地区、社会等公平和效率达致程度并使之能够相互比较的社会公平效率总体效应指数。     

简论诉讼权利平等原则

诉讼永恒的生命基础在于其公正性,而诉讼平等,作为与诉讼公正同等重要的概念之一,则被视为实现诉讼公正的必由之途或形式标志。文章在界定诉讼权利平等原则内涵之后,讨论了与诉讼平等相关的两个问题:诉讼中立与实质平等。在此基础上,作者进一步分析了诉讼立法中有违诉讼平等的几项缺失,如被告人答辩无限制性规定等。最后提出了改进的基本思路。     

中国宪法文本上“农民”条款的规范分析——以农民报考国家公务员权利为例

限制农民报考国家公务员的现象,目前在全国的部分地方依然存在,这不仅影响国家宪法秩序的稳定与统一,而且剥夺和限制了农民群体参加国家管理、担任国家公职的权利。本文从宪法解释学的角度分析了宪法文本上“农民”的涵义及农民报考公务员权利的性质,提出了以宪法为基础建立保障农民基本权利体系的设想。     

权利能力制度的理想与现实——人法的英特纳雄耐尔之路

本文在比较中研究了罗马法和现代民法中的能力制度,得出了前者以自由为基础,后者以平等为基础的结论,进而论证了现代权利能力制度的平等理念遇到的重重挑战,尤其揭示了这一制度的全球化理念的充分展开带来的民法消亡命运。通过展示古今立法者对权利能力制度的不平等运用,特别地反驳了权利能力人人平等的谬见,得出了这种不平等为社会治理所必要的结论。     

社会性别：从本质论到社会建构论

传统心理学将社会性别看作是个体内在的、持久稳固的、与个人的社会政治历史情境相分离的特质。社会性别建构论则站在后现代主义的立场上，对上述社会性别本质论的普适性、性别政治、男性中心主义及方法论等问题提出了批判性质疑，认为社会性别并不是女性或男性内在的特质，而是社会建构的产物。社会性别建构论有利于打破心理学的保守主义倾向，促使心理学家关注社会情境对人类行为的影响，有利于摆脱本质论所困境，促进心理学的后现代转向；社会性别建构论倡导多元思维方式，使主流心理学界公认应采取多种研究方法以增加研究结论的效度。     

Justice,Fairness, and World Ownership

It is a central tenet of most contemporarytheories of justice that the badly-off have aright to some of the resources of the well-off.In this paper, I take as my starting point twoprinciples of justice, to wit, the principle ofsufficiency, whereby individuals have a rightto the material resources they need in order tolead a decent life, and the principle ofautonomy, whereby once everybody has such alife, individuals should be allowed to pursuetheir conception of the good, and to enjoy thefruits of their labour in pursuit of suchconception. I also endorse the value offairness, whereby the right person orinstitution makes the decision as to whether tobring about justice.I show that justice and fairness can besatisfied only if we all enjoy a combination ofprivate and collective rights over the world.In making that case, I shall argue that the setof ownership rights I advocate differs fromreadily available conceptions of restrictedprivate ownership in two important respects.First, it is such that in some circumstances,two individuals or more can have control rightsover the same property at the same time, not,as is standardly the case in legal systems, bycontracting with one another (through gifts andjoint purchase), but simply on grounds ofjustice. Second, it allows that, if necessary,property-owners be expropriated from theirproperty without compensation.     

对“人口准入制”的法学思考

北京两会期间,"人口准入制"的提案引起众多争议,无论是经济学界、社会学界,还是法学界都对此都争议颇多.文章从法学的角度,从正义、自由、平等等法的价值对此提案进行讨论.