把握思想政治教育“时”的三维度

思想政治教育的"时"是发挥思想政治教育实效的基础,是思想政治教育的"度"和"效"的前提,把握思想政治教育"时"的三维度即从宏观上明确思想政治教育的时代观照,把握思想政治教育的主要任务;中观上完成新时期背景下的教育任务,把握思想政治教育的阶段性特征;微观上抓住关键的教育时刻,把握思想政治教育的最佳时机。为此需要以加强主流意识形态为重点,按照思想政治教育阶段性的要求开展思想政治教育实践活动,提高教师的教育机智从而思想政治教育工作才能真正做到因势而谋,应势而动,顺势而为。     

加强和改进新时期思想政治工作

思想政治工作是我党经济工作和其他一切工作的生命线。在新的历史时期,国际国内形势错综复杂,思想政治工作面临新的问题。只有坚持并巩固马列主义、毛泽东思想和邓小平理论在我国意识形态领域的主导地位,贯彻落实"三个代表"重要思想,在创新中加强和改进思想政治工作,才能应对各种挑战,保证改革开放和社会主义现代化建设的健康发展。     

做好职工思想政治工作是工会组织的重要责任

职工思想政治工作是一项复杂、系统的群体工作。工会作为党领导下的群众组织,加强和改进职工思想政治工作是义不容辞的责任。工会只有将思想政治工作融汇、贯穿于全部工作中,才能收到实效。     

高校网络思想政治教育要素的有效性研究

通过考察高校网络思想政治教育要素的有效性价值,可以发现当前网络思想政治教育要素有效性还存在诸多问题:教育者的素质结构与网络思想政治教育的实践需要存在不适应,开放性的网络实践与受教育者身心发展的不成熟性之间存在不适应,教育媒介的有效性与网络思想政治教育的先进性要求存在不适应。要解决这些"不适应"问题,必须从教育者队伍建设,受教育者自我教育层面和创新教育媒介等方面入手,才能有效提高网络思想政治教育的质量和有效性问题。     

新时期政治思想工作的指南——学习《邓小平文选》第三卷体会

我国的政治思想工作在从计划经济体制向社会主义市场经济体制转变的关键时刻,面临着一系列急待解决的问题.本文以《邓小平文选》第三卷为依据,对新时期政治思想工作与经济建设关系;加强党对政治思想工作领导与增强党的领导途径的关系;新时期政治思想工作目标与任务;政治思想工作原则、方法上防右反“左”等问题进行探讨,明确新时期政治思想工作必须以邓小平理论为指南,才能开创新时期政治思想工作的新局面.     

增强高校工会思想政治工作实效性的思考

高校工会思想政治工作是教职工思想政治工作的重要组成部分.高校工会的思想政治工作除了具有思想政治工作的一般特征之外,还具有自己独特的"个性",有其独特的优势,即更能够紧密结合实际,从而更能取得实效.增强工会思想政治工作的实效性,应该做到"五个融入",即在学校改革中融入思想政治工作、在民主管理中融入思想政治工作、在师德师风建设活动中融入思想政治工作、在校园文化活动中融入思想政治工作、在建"家"活动中融入思想政治工作.     

新时期企业职工思想动态问题研究——基于大连市中山区企业职工思想状况问卷调查

正值改革发展关键时期,在认同职工队伍思想主流健康向上的前提下,不能忽视一些思想领域的新问题及其背后的现实原因,包括职工社会地位和认同度较低、生活压力较大、劳动关系和谐度有待提高、维权方式和诉求渠道相对有限、理想信念出现小范围的分化、业余精神文化生活亟待丰富等。做好新时期职工思想政治工作,需从经济、政治、社会环境等各方面协同发力,一是要以"微"手段弘扬主旋律提高职工思想政治工作的人文性与科学性、实效性与时效性;二是推动收入分配制度改革,切实保障广大职工分享改革红利;三是健全社会保障体制,提高职工的幸福指数和认同感;四是畅通参政议政渠道,增强职工的话语权和责任感;五是发挥工会"枢纽型"社会组织的服务功能,当好职工的"娘家人"。     

试论青少年思想政治工作创新的内容

1.观念更新.即用新观念取代错误的、过时的、阻碍我们工作进展的旧观念.如有些人将思想政治工作看作是可有可无、无所作为、费力不讨好的事,是不显政绩的软指标,从而导致了工作中的"一手硬、一手软"的存在与蔓延,最终影响了两个文明的建设.物质与精神的辩证关系表明:物质文明与精神文明是同步的,依据"两手都要抓,两手都要硬"的道理,思想政治工作也是一个硬指标,政治学习、政治活动就已制度化、规范化、计划化;思想政治工作的成绩也可进行量化考核.思想政治工作做得好与否同样是评价干部政绩大小的一个客观标准.这是第一个要更新的观念.     

多元文化背景下思想政治教育对策刍议

当前,中国思想政治教育所依托的社会文化环境已经是多样异质文化同时并存。多元文化客观存在对思想政治教育提出了许多新的问题和挑战,因此,必须以"我"为主,增强时代感;必须以"人"为本,加强主体性;必须以"新"为桥,加强主动性。     

社会主义核心价值观视阈下的思想政治教育价值

在社会主义核心价值观的视阈下,思想政治教育"以人为本"的价值诉求及其依据不断明示化。思想政治教育价值具体表征为社会价值、集体价值和个体价值,其与社会主义核心价值观的国家、社会、个人层面的"倡导"实现了切合、契合、耦合的理论"三合"。这就要求在社会主义核心价值观的建设中促成思想政治教育价值的实现,要把握"一个前提",即科学准确认识思想政治教育价值;满足和发展"两个需要",即人的需要和社会的需要;推进"三个原则性教育",即灌输、接受、价值观的教育。     

Introduction to queer circuits: Critical performance and digital praxis

This introduction situates the articles making up this special issue within four thematic clouds, positing queer theorization as broadly relevant for critically engaging with computational technologies and culture. These sub-themes offer suggestions for future queer inquiry and praxis and reflect key terms in performance studies and queer theory that have undergone transformation with the ubiquity of digital technology.     

Women,Science and Culture: Science in the Nineteenth-century Periodical

The Victorian periodical press offers unique insights into many diverse areas of nineteenth-century experience, and the complex relations between gender, science and culture in particular, yet it has been consistently marginalized as a primary resource in academic study. The Science in the Nineteenth-century Periodical (SciPer) project at the universities of Sheffield and Leeds is creating a new point of access to a wide range of non-specialist periodicals across the century by means of a fully searchable electronic index. By detailing the entire contents of each journal, and not just those articles that have a clear scientific relevance, it becomes clear that science formed a fundamental and integral part of nineteenth-century culture. The electronic index, moreover, will include hypertext cross-reference links that will allow the user to identify a dialogic pattern of encounters between ostensibly diverse articles, rather than only to browse in a simple chronological mode. By adopting this innovative approach, the SciPer database will reveal the manifold intertextual relations between the fictional works of women writers like Elizabeth Gaskell and the scientific articles that often appeared in the pages of the same magazines, and will show that writers of both sexes and across several different genres actively engaged in vibrant interdisciplinary debates concerning scientific issues in a forum provided by the periodical. Although the SciPer database itself is not specifically focused on issues of gender, the index will include several periodicals aimed explicitly at a female readership and, by providing access to titles still rarely utilized in modern scholarship, it will offer further insights into the important contemporary debates about women and science, as well as the more subtle ways, in which gendered imagery was employed within scientific discourse. This article details some critical findings from Punch , The English Womans Domestic Magazine , Cornhill Magazine and the Review of Reviews .     

Carnal teachings: raunch aesthetics as queer feminist pedagogies in Yo! Majesty's hip hop practice

This essay puts forward a notion of “raunch aesthetics,” theorizing raunch as an aesthetic, performative, and vernacular practice: an explicit mode of sexual expression that transgresses norms of privacy and respectability. Raunch aesthetics describe creative practices that often blend humor and sexual explicitness to launch cultural critiques, generate pleasure for minority audiences, and affirm queer lives. The author activates her formulation of raunch in analyzing Yo! Majesty, a hip hop group comprised of black female emcees who openly describe their sexual desire for women, and explores how the queer youth of color she works with have responded to their music. Working beyond the unexamined moralisms that give critiques of raunch culture their legitimacy, the author argues that Yo! Majesty's raunch aesthetics transmit queer and feminist teachings. While celebrating carnal pleasures, these artists critique heterosexism, subvert narratives about the incompatibility of belief in Christ and queer sexualities, and trouble notions concerning the emancipation of coming out of the closet and declaring a stable homosexual identity. In demonstrating how raunch aesthetics generate consciousness raising, the author discusses how her youth participants critically read and consume hip hop while negotiating unwieldy meanings of sexuality and gender presentation.     

Feminism, Aestheticism and the Limits of Law

This article seeks to identify and address the normative void that resides at the heart of postmodernist-feminist theory, and to propose a philosophical framework – beyond postmodernism, but incorporating its central insights – for thinking through the normative questions with which feminists are inevitably confronted in their engagements with positive law. Two varieties of postmodernist-feminism are identified and critically analysed: the ‘corporeal feminism’ of Elizabeth Grosz and Judith Butler, which seeks to ground feminist critical practice in the irruptive capacities of the material body considered as an arte fact of social construction; and the deconstructionist feminism of Drucilla Cornell, for whom ‘the feminine’ is an indeterminate but disruptive force beyond its construction in law and in other social sites. The first component of the argument elaborated here is that each of these approaches ultimately reduces to a form of aestheticism which is incapable of generating a worthwhile and workable feminist approach to the restructuring of politics and law. The second component of the argument involves a return to aesthetics, in particular to the philosophical aesthetics of Kant’s Critique of Judgement. Kant’s aesthetic philosophy, it will be suggested, yields a framework of concepts which, duly re-manipulated, could speak to the very concerns that have inspired postmodernist-feminism: how to attend to (bodily) particularity while avoiding the dangers associated with ‘essentialism’; and how to theorise the propensity of the unrepresentable power of the feminine to exceed both embodied human capacities and the confining rein of socially privileged rationalities. Crucially, however it also responds to a set of preoccupations – those of the feminist lawyer – that cannot be accommodated by postmodernism: how to translate embodied experience into (legal) norms; generalise from the particular; seek consensus; and codify an endless potentiality in the form of law. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

The Unexpected: Bionic Woman at the Millennium

Wilfred Bion's A Memoir of the Future provides a point of departure for feminist thinking about the millennium. Bion problematizes hopes for the future and associates thought with catastrophic change. Women play an unexpected role in Bion's experimental autobiography, posing provocative questions and unsettling the status quo . Since Bion has little to say about women in his clinical writings, A Memoir sheds light on his thinking and on the post-Kleinian culture of the 1970s. Book I of A Memoir depicts a class- and sex-nightmare played out between men and women, and women and women, in an age of anxiety whose setting appears to be the fascist 'pacification' of Middle England during an unspecified period. In this hallucinatory drama, all encounters are reduced to a brutal fiction of dominance and submission. The violence of the action suggests the primitive mental world of psychosis. Book II of A Memoir satirizes 'the brilliance of masculine thought' through the voices and criticisms of women. But this is the purgatorial movement of Bion's autobiography, inhabited by 'idées mères' (untransformed beta-elements) and haunted by the ghosts of Bion's traumatic war-time experience. A monstrous plot is hatched to kill primitive, fascistic Man, who retaliates and takes the female spoils. Is this the prelude to catastrophic change? Book III stages a country-house debate between different characters who represent aspects of Bion's personality, recapitulating the concerns of his later writing. The debate includes a meditation on childbirth as compared to war trauma, but Bion takes his distance from feminine intuition or common sense. Women fight on both sides of the barriers in the Bionic revolution - becoming, however, figures for the 'unexpected' and precursors of emotional upheaval. The gendering of millennial thought in Bion's Memoir provides an opportunity to scrutinize our own unthought fantasies of change.     

Beyond the scarcity scare: reframing the discourse of hunger with an eco-mind

Solutions to world hunger continue to be impeded by a frame – a set of assumptions – that keeps much of humanity focusing narrowly on quantitative growth. The result is greater food production and greater hunger. Yet, across the world another way of seeing, one grounded in the relational insights of ecology, is transforming food systems in ways that both enhance flora and fauna and strengthen human relationships, enabling farmers to gain a greater voice in food production and fairer access to the food produced.     

Here be monsters: a choreomaniac's companion to the danse macabre

Consider this a vade mecum: an invitation to “walk with me” through more or less uncanny terrains of worlds in the making in search, of(f) course, of monsters. The search will be delving into the areas of “creepypasta:” pieces of cursed prose and pictures that circulate online, waiting to contaminate and possess the next reader. Using a theoretical framework of posthuman and feminist theory, not least the work done by Jacques Derrida and Donna Haraway, this vade mecum asks what it might mean to engage ethically with that which is not supposed to exist, but which haunts us nonetheless. In other words: what does it mean to move, live and engage with spectres in digital times?     

The Impersonal Strategy: Re-visiting Virginia Woolf's Position in The Common Reader Essays

The concept of impersonality as a writer's strategy has been exposed to misinterpretations that either fail to exhaust its full meaning and deposit an unequal amount of attention on all components of the term or, in the worst case, tend to distort its true elements. In relation to Virginia Woolf's criticism, in particular, it is a critical commonplace that the author employed an impersonal position in order not to fully materialise her feminist vision, but to shy away from explicitly expressing her feminist convictions and openly supporting women's rights. Indicative of this is the criticism that suggests disapproval of Woolf's reluctance to side with her own gender and declare the power of female personality.

The aim here is to challenge such critical views, separate the discussion of impersonality from its association with that of androgyny, and re-visit the issue of Woolf's employment of the impersonal strategy. I examine two of Woolf's essays on nineteenth-century women writers included in her first volume of The Common Reader and offer an analysis from both a gender-oriented and a genderless angle. Woolf's strong affinity with female conditions of oppression, her modernist convictions, her need to compromise with the male-dominated context of the time and her concurrent urge to co-operate with the common reader of an unspecified sex for the sake of artistic creation reveal more complex reasons behind her intentions than those examined by critics so far.     

The Liquefaction of Desire: Music,Water and Femininity in Victorian Aestheticism

This article reconsiders Victorian images of mermaids and sirens through a detailed examination of two images: Frederic Leighton's Lieder ohne Worte (1861, oil on canvas, Tate Britain) and Edward Burne-Jones's The Depths of the Sea (1886, oil on canvas, private collection). It demonstrates that the themes of water, music and femininity were entwined in the Victorian imagination, by setting these two paintings within the context of Victorian artistic, literary and cultural production. It shows that musical images were prevalent in the emerging Aesthetic movement. Musical subjects freed artists and audiences from the conventions of narrative interpretation, and allowed them instead to concentrate on exploring mood and colour.

Pictures of mermaids add a further twist to the Aesthetic preoccupation with music. This article reveals that mermaids made explicit the underlying connection between musical performance and sensuality. It also suggests that the idiosyncratic depiction of the mermaid by Burne-Jones and the ambiguous sexuality of Leighton's figures could be read as symptomatic of changing conceptions of desire. It argues that these images embodied the shift from ardour to libido. In other words, love was no longer described as burning and fixed, but as fluid and shifting. This transformation in the way desire was theorised was most urgently presented in Freud's Three Essays on Sexuality (1905). However, this article suggests that the same ideas were being made visible in Aesthetic art and writing from the mid-nineteenth century.     

Beyond the Millennium: Black Women's Writing

Nasta's piece forms part of an oral contribution to the plenary session of the conference in which a variety of speakers discussed the many questions that the conference had raised. It focuses specifically on the location and history of black women's writing in Britain and attempts to address issues that have dominated critical and theoretical discussion for some years. The question as to how far we have moved on in our reading and assessment of these literatures is discussed; also the fact that perhaps debates we now see as being contemporary were also current in the experiences of earlier representations of Britain from a black or Asian perspective. Nasta makes some tentative suggestions in terms of how we might move forward.