Alice Notley's disobedient cities

The American poet Alice Notley has described one of her goals as being to take up ‘as much literary space as any male poet’ (Notley, 2005: 6), a phrase that questions the nature of ‘literary space’, and its relationship to material and political spaces. In Disobedience (2001), as in her earlier book The Descent of Alette (1992), the city is imagined in relation to what lies beneath it. Both of these extended poem sequences set up urban underground geographies, Alette – a mythical underground of caves and ghostly trains, and Disobedience – a largely subterranean Paris that shifts between the ‘real’ metro and a series of filmic dreamscapes. In challenging the scope and scale of canonical epics with feminist reconfigurations of form, her work engages with the public space of the city. This article will explore the connection between the extended poetic forms she uses in these two books, and ways in which her work conceptualizes the gendering of city space through relationships between the body and language. Through reference to readings of Michel de Certeau by Meaghan Morris and Doreen Massey, I will show how Notley's approach to problems of language and form, and their potential solutions, are not only enmeshed in certain spatial concepts but also able to offer a critique of them.     

The prison letters of Alice Ker and Mary Ellen Taylor: suffragettes and mothers

ABSTRACT

This article considers the prison letters of Dr Alice Ker and the relatively unknown Mary Ellen Taylor which are held in the Women’s Library at LSE Library. These women were suffragettes and mothers who were both arrested on 4 March 1912, in separate incidents, but as part of the Women’s Social and Political Union’s window-smashing campaign. The letters allow us to consider what these women must have been feeling and reveal what factors they felt were important to write about at that time. Of even more significance is that they provide an insight into these women as people. The article also considers the effect that suffrage campaigning had on family life and family relationships and whether the letters convey any sense that campaigning caused tensions or concerns within families.     

Liberated Alice: Dodgson's female hero as domestic rebel

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Linda Schelbitzki Pickle. Contented Among Strangers: Rural German‐Speaking Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth‐Century Midwest. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996.

Brigitte Georgi‐Findlay. The Frontiers of Women's Writting: Women's Narratives and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996.     

Rethinking Constructs of Maternity in the Novels of Elena Ferrante and Alice Sebold

This article explores how Alice Sebold and Elena Ferrante place the feminine—and indeed often the maternal—body at the very centre of their narratives. The body—as a locus that filters the broader tensions and conflicts experienced by their female protagonists—in fact emerges as a key site of ‘contestation’ in their works. Through a close analysis of a selection of ekphrastic images, and photographic metatexts in particular, the author draws attention to how the two authors employ textual negotiations of the feminine body to question and problematize normative conceptions of femininity and motherhood. Ultimately, the author suggests that they not only challenge but also shift the perspective of, or indeed refocalize the dominant visual narrative of, the maternal/feminine body and the long history of objectification of the latter. In so doing, the author situates the two writers at the forefront of rethinking contemporary constructs of maternity and femininity.     

我国劳资冲突的演化过程与解决条件研究——基于利益博弈的视角

劳资冲突若是在企业内部不能有效化解,那么有可能会通过劳动者参与集体行动而外部显现化,从而形成劳资冲突的演化过程.在劳资冲突演化过程中,劳资双方的利益博弈机制影响着劳资双方的行动决策,并最终制约劳资冲突解决的进程.     

中国雇农工会的发展与演变

雇农工会是中国革命中的一个极为重要的组织现象,是中共在马克思主义指导下结合中国实际 进行的一次伟大革命实践。雇农工会经历了理论准备与实践探索、初步建立与缓慢发展、快速发展与消亡等历 史时期。雇农工会的发展是多种因素综合作用的结果,在其发展过程中,构建了工会的三维合法性基础,即意 识形态合法性、组织形态合法性和革命行动合法性。雇农工会工作与城市工会工作共同构成中共领导下工会工 作的“一体两面”,统一于中国革命的历史进程,为中共执掌全国政权奠定了治理基础,同时也为当前背景下 加强党的领导、推进工会工作提供了历史启示。     

Invited Address: James Joyce,Alice in Wonderland,the Rolling Stones,and Criminal Careers

The study of criminal careers generally, and patterns of continuity and change in criminal offending in particular, has been a long-standing interest to social scientists across many disciplines. This article provides readers with an overview of this line of research. After an introduction to the criminal career perspective, the article presents several ‘facts’ that have emerged from criminal career studies. This material segues into a discussion of theories based on criminal careers research as well as a related discussion of the emerging methods and trends in the area. The article closes with some observations about public policy with respect to criminal careers knowledge and identifies some neglected research needs. A key summary conclusion is that the processes associated with continuity and change are not mutually exclusive, but instead are important and complimentary aspects of criminal careers research.     

劳工权益争取和保障方式的演化

劳资关系成为现代经济中的常态,而没有随着时间推移逐渐衰弱,很可能同劳资关系在演化中得到长足的改进有关.对数百年来劳资关系的演化进行回顾和分析,研究发现劳工权益的争取和保障通常呈现激进和渐进两种方式.研究认为,从演化视角观察,劳工权益的争取和保障以渐进方式为主,劳工组织、进步力量和法律制度是最主要的驱动因素,且法律制度的...     

We are the ones that we have been waiting for: Political content in Alice Walker's novels

In this essay, I'd like to look at political concepts in Alice Walker's fiction, that is in her three novels and her two collections of short stories. There are two specific areas I'd like to focus on: (1) Walker's use of the interconnection between the domestic sphere (family, emotional relationships, etc.) and the social sphere, e.g. movements like the Civil Rights Movement, Women's Movement, in analysing sexism and racism; and in suggesting effective means to change. (2) Her use of black female protagonist who challenge ideologies, in the domestic and social sphere, e.g. the nationalist Black Muslims, the liberal Civil Rights Movement, the Women's Movement.Although these two areas seem to be large areas of concern and that it would seem that it would be practical to focus on only one of them, they intersect in Walker's work at critical points. Who does what and why is as important a political concept in her work as is her analysis of the intersection of the domestic and social sphere. Her fiction, as a whole, is an illustration of how inner personal transformation and wider social action are both necessary elements in an effective political philosophy.     

北京市人口调控的政策演变及未来策略

长期以来,人口调控是特大城市在人口发展中所面临的重大政策安排。然而,学术界对于今后北京市的人口是否还需要调控、调控什么、如何调控等问题都存在着很多的疑问和思考。研究在对北京市人口调控阶段进行分析的基础上,重点对新时期以来的人口调控政策特点和面临的挑战进行了探讨。研究认为,北京市人口调控政策呈现出进入国家重大发展战略,摆脱主要依靠行政管控的状态、多种调控方式并存,产业疏解开始扮演重要角色等特点。同时,北京市人口调控面临着如何对人口变化形势进行准确判断,如何在人口调控的同时保持城市发展活力和可持续发展等挑战。未来,北京市的人口调控仍然具有必要性。为实现北京市可持续发展的目标,研究建议,应该坚持目标导向、以城市高质量发展为引领,加强人口调控顶层设计,加大间接性的经济和市场引导,加强人才队伍建设。