Jean Batten and ‘the Accident of Sex’

Through the critical analysis of visual and verbal texts, this essay offers a sighting of New Zealand aviator Jean Batten—one of the greatest women solo flyers of the twentieth century to ‘disappear’. Unlike US flyer Amelia Earhart whose disappearance some miles off Howland Island in the South Pacific prompted endless search and research, Jean Batten’s disappearance from stage and page of flight history engendered no such interest until the late 1980s when a documentary film (1988) and the first book‐length biography (1990) were published by Ian Mackersey. Although important contributions to understanding Jean Batten’s place in aviation history of the twentieth century, Mackersey’s construction of Batten’s life relies heavily upon a psychological interpretation of character and action that is largely removed from and uninformed by gendered history. Hence, an important aim of this essay is to offer an analysis of the impact ‘the accident of sex’ (a phrase coined by Earhart) and the performance of gender had and continues to have upon ‘the life’ of Jean Batten.     

对“明显低于或者高于市场价格”的解读——从一件受贿案谈起

交易型受贿中的"明显低于或者高于市场价格"在理论上理解不一,在实践中争议也较大。作为一种新型的受贿犯罪,交易型受贿采取表面合法的交易形式进行,具有隐蔽、复杂等特点。但其在本质上仍然具备受贿罪的共同特征即权钱交易。因此在判断"明显低于或者高于市场价格"时,应当围绕受贿罪权钱交易的本质展开,将合法的市场交易行为与交易型受贿区别开来。