Performative Rhetorics in Invisibility: Phoebe Philo's Undone Authorship

ABSTRACT

This inquiry analyses the rhetoric of intentionally unfinished fashion contained in the collections from Céline as designed by Phoebe Philo and explicates the implications of this approach to fashion as a feminist text. Shoshana Felman’s seductive promise of speech, modified with insights from Paul de Man’s theory of autobiography as both giving face and defacement, is applied to Philo’s ‘new minimalism’ in order to highlight its appeal to modern female audiences. Using insights from the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, I examine ways in which wearers may seek to create a signature citationality via clothing that produces its own ‘unwriting’ therefore allowing the wearer to believe she inscribes her own iteration while maintaining control. Wearers are offered the chance to identify with a designer who is enlightened beyond fast and flashy fashion while hinting at the notion of the clothing having the substantialising effect that language has (instead of representational). Through this examination, clothing is shown to be a decision, and clothing is also shown to be a fiction. These decisions and fictions are open to failure; yet Felman offers that this failure acts as an opening remaining inadvertent or unacknowledged. Philo's designs invite an exploration of clothing as performative rhetoric.     

新公共管理理论对我国就业体制改革的启示

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Chapter VIII: The Space We Create Controls Us

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The Public Voice of Women

This article, first published in the London Review of Books on 20 March 2013, takes the long view on the subject of women's public voice. From antiquity to the present day there are countless examples of women either excluded from speaking out in public life or ridiculed for doing so. This essay examines the nature and experience of oratory in Western culture and the ways in which public speaking has become gendered and how issues of voice and gender continue to span the public spheres from traditional politics to modern forms of social media.     

新时期京津冀公共服务多元化协同供给机制建设

公共服务的多元化供给是实现区域经济高质量发展的战略支撑.为了补齐京津冀公共服务供给短板、增强公共服务供给弱项、提升公共服务供给质量,满足京津冀城乡居民对美好生活的向往,深化三地公共服务供给侧改革,建立以京津冀协同发展需求为中心的多元化公共服务供给协同机制尤为必要.基于对京津冀公共服务供给的分析,本研究提出新时期应通过深...     

Chapter 12: Doing It in Public:

Foster family treatment programs have been developed primarily by private agencies, although public efforts have shaped the model. Public programs, however, increasingly are becoming involved in the development of programs of this kind. The Missouri Division of Family Services is one of the few public agencies to sponsor a statewide pilot program of foster family treatment. The Division's experience offers valuable lessons and practical guidance regarding the development of treatment foster care in the public sector.     

Chapter 19: The New Brunswick Therapeutic Home Program

A Canadian province-wide specialist fostering scheme is described in terms of the children served, homes licensed, program services provided, and implementation difficulties.     

The Public/Private — The Imagined Boundary in the Imagined Nation/State/Community: The Lebanese case

The article confronts two issues, first the question of women and consumption and second the fashion industry as a feminized sector. In the first instance the argument is that recent scholarship on consumption has been weakened by an inattention to questions of exclusion from consumption and the production of consumption. Income differentials as well as questions of poverty have dropped off the agenda in this debate. Attention instead has been paid to the meaning systems which come into play around items of consumption. This has led to a sense of political complacency as though consumption is not a problem. For the many thousands of women bringing up children at or below the poverty line it clearly is. The second part of the article takes the fashion industry as an example of a field where perspectives on both production and consumption are rarely brought together. This produces a sense of political hopelessness in relation to improving its employment practices, especially for very low paid women workers. The argument here is that greater integration and debate across the production and consumption divide could conceivably result in policies which would make this sector whose employees on a global basis are predominantly female, a better place of work.     

社会工作在青年优先发展的介入空间

青年被视为经济社会发展的重要推动力量,学术界和党政部门提出了"青年优先发展"理念。但从理念的提出到具体的实践探索,青年优先发展还存在着主体性缺位、系统性不足、制度保障体系不健全的现象。基于当前的问题和困境,分析了社会工作在青年优先发展的介入基础,进一步探索了践行以青年为本理念、激发青年的主体性、提供专业社会服务、加强优先发展的系统性的介入策略。     

国际组织对公共养老保险改革的影响

本文采用文献法和历史分析法,研究了国际组织在不同阶段对各国公共养老保险改革施加影响的途径和方式,尤其是国际组织在我国养老保险"统账结合"制度的建立与发展过程中发挥的作用。在此基础上,提出了针对我国养老保险制度改革的政策建议。     

The New Miss India: Popular Fiction in Contemporary India

Miss New India is the title of a 2011 novel by Indian-born (now American-based) Bharati Mukherjee, which tells the story of a young woman who leaves her small-town home and family to find work in a call centre in the information technology city of Bangalore. The call centre is emblematic of a ‘new India’, in which educated young people seize the possibilities of a global labour market. This is a generation for whom colonialism is ancient history, a generation who have grown up in the aftermath of economic liberalization in India. Chetan Bhagat refers to this generation as ‘Young India’ and has written a series of best-selling novels that feature ambitious young men in the ‘new India’. There is, however, an emerging genre of similar narratives written by women and addressed to a female readership. This article discusses a range of contemporary Indian women’s popular novels and argues that, while Bhagat and his male heroes may embrace globalization and the market, the narratives written by women are more nuanced in their celebration of economic liberalization. The novels dramatize the tensions between tradition and modernity, family and independence, and suggest that these are particularly fraught for young Indian women. These texts pick up on the discourses of contemporary journalism about ‘Young India’, within the generic form of the romance, but their resolutions are repeatedly uneasy and suggest that the ‘new India’ is not an entirely comfortable space for the new Miss India.     

大学生公益服务的困境及出路——论大学生社会化公益组织

当前大学生公益服务存在人员延续性差、资源获取不足、行政化严重等不足与缺点。在微公益、民间公益、青年公益蓬勃发展的条件下,大学生公益服务的社会化、组织化成为其走出困境的必然选择。这类大学生社会化公益组织具有柔性的组织形式、资源的整合性等特点,具有促进大学生服务性学习,提升校地合作层次及有利于公益价值彰显等价值。