Constructing a Feminist Cinematic Genealogy: The Gothic Woman's Film beyond Psychoanalysis

The Gothic woman's film, as a particular 1940s phenomenon, responded to the social changes caused by the upheavals of the Second World War. It featured female protagonists, expressed anxieties about marriage and complicated the classic realist premises of narrative and heterosexual closures. As the Gothic narrative trajectory revolved around the heroine's pursuit of marital happiness, these films are often theorized in the sexually differentiated terms of Lacanian psychoanalysis. As a result, they are interpreted as cinematic manifestations of paranoia, primal scenes, passive female desires and the impossibility of female subjectivity. Tay considers how the Gothic woman's film may resist such psychoanalytic codifications by considering critiques of psychoanalysis and investigating the ways in which Gilles Deleuze's cinematic topography may apply to the genre. This engagement with Deleuze reveals how 1940s Gothic films--such as Suspicion (Hitchcock, 1941), Gaslight (Cukor, 1944), and Sleep, My Love (Sirk, 1948)--breach the narrative normativity of classic realist love stories like Random Harvest (LeRoy, 1942). Culminating in a detailed analysis of Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940) as a film that sustains female transgression in its textual operation, Tay posits possibilities for furthering a feminist cinematic discourse beyond psychoanalytic codifications.     

‘The Message Is in the Book’: What Virago's Sale in 1995 Means for Feminist Publishing

This article examines the UK publisher Virago, the world's largest women's imprint and the best known of the second-wave feminist publishing houses that sprang up during the 1970s and 1980s. Feminist publishing remains a peculiarly unacknowledged and underexamined aspect of feminist history, but one that had real influence and effect. This article gives a historical account of Virago, noting its intention to enact feminist politicking through the act of publishing books. The author looks at the effect Virago had on the industry more widely, on literary culture and on attitudes to women. The author also examines changing formulations of feminism and how these were reflected—or not—through Virago's published output. The author then moves on to her central proposition: that Virago's sale in 1995, rather than marking the death of feminist publishing (as was stated in media comment at the time), was in fact the point at which it was saved. Virago's move into Little, Brown, coinciding with the rise of an increasingly commodified consumer culture, the conglomeration of the book industry and more pluralized expressions of feminism, allowed it to continue to work as a publisher of women's writing while none of its contemporaries survived. The author looks in detail at the changes post-1995 within the book industry, within feminism and in wider culture, as well as at Virago. The author asks whether Virago still has value as a ‘feminist’ imprint and how it has sought to remain vital and relevant.     

关于人大常委会对公安机关实施个案监督的探讨

监督公安工作是各级人大常委会的职能之一,实施个案监督是一种行之有效的办法。人大常委会通过个案询问、听取汇报、专案调查、提出意见等方式,对公安机关办理的违法犯罪案件和公安执法人员职务违法案件行使监督职权,对加强公安队伍建设,推进依法治国有着重要的现实意义。     

“三个代表”是建党治国的指南

江泽民“三个代表”重要思想的提出是面对考验和挑战的决策回应 ,是顺应时代发展潮流的战略决策 ;是对马克思主义政党学说的继承和发展是党建理论的创新 ,是有务实性、时代性、战略性和系统性的鲜明特点 ;“三个代表”是共产党建党治国的行动指南 ,我们的任务是努力把“三个代表”的“应然性”要求 ,落实到行动中去 ,使之成为“实然性”。     

Re/visioning the women's movement in Israel

Current literature on the women's movement argues that in recent decades, a schism based on the politics of identity has divided women and led to the weakening of the movement. This process, intersecting with the escalation of neoliberal trends and the ‘NGOization’ of civil society, has resulted in the depoliticization of the women's movement and the waning of its influence as a political force. The present paper seeks to examine whether this argument is consistent with the situation in the Israeli women's movement of the early twenty-first century. Based on the history of the women's movement in Israel, the paper posits a twofold argument: (a) the women's movement in Israel has not disappeared but has been restructured as a result of its NGOization; (b) despite criticism of the movement in the literature and on the part of activists as the result of its NGOization, the movement's political messages have remained intact and even expanded to embrace questions of social justice, including novel thinking on matters of peace and security.     

People Trafficking: Conceptual issues with the United Nations Trafficking Protocol 2000

This paper examines the UN 2000 Trafficking Protocol in the context of international responses to the issue of people trafficking. Attention is drawn to the conceptual flaws in this new instrument regarding the failure to address domestic trafficking, not incorporating the purchasing and selling of people as defining characteristics of trafficking, and the lack of clarity around issues of prostitution. Framing the discussion within feminist theory, the essay concludes that women’s campaigning will continue to be crucial to putting issues such as human trafficking on the international political agenda. This is extended to affirm that people’s struggle against oppressive circumstances will lead the tackling of the underlying causes of trafficking.     

教育和制度并举推进农村基层党风廉政建设

党的十七大再次强调,建设社会主义新农村是我国现代化进程中的重大历史任务,是我们党新时期工作的重中之重。加强农村基层党风廉政建设,建设一支勤政、廉洁、高效的农村干部队伍,对于提高基层党组织的创造力、凝聚力和战斗力,夯实我们党在农村的执政基础,推进社会主义新农村建设具有十分重要的意义。     

警察主观幸福感的社会支持分析

警察主观幸福感与社会支持密切相关。针对警察主观幸福感的现状,要构建外部支持系统、内部支持系统和自我支持系统,强化警察主观幸福感,提高公安民警的心理健康水平。     

从和合文化探析中国多边外交

冷战结束后,中国开展了与周边以及世界其他国家和地区集团的多边外交。中国多边外交的思想源自于传统的和合文化传统。和合文化是中华传统文化的精髓,其“和为贵”、“兼相爱”、“和而不同”、“协和万邦”等特点都映射在中国多边外交思想中,从传统中分析出中国多边外交思想的共生性、平等性、多样性、自主性,并以构建和谐世界作为奋斗目标。中国多边外交思想是对和合文化优良传统的继承,更是结合中国国情和世界格局的一种创新。     

少数民族文化在艺术中的发展

中华文化发展至今,已经历经了千年时光的冲刷,汇聚了来自五湖四海的多民族文化,逐渐成为国际文化中一簇璀璨的星团,彰显着我国不可忽视的国际地位。少数民族文化是这一星团中一颗颗耀眼的星光,有很强的民族象征性。在开放的国际格局下,诸多艺术设计都包含着少数民族文化的缩影。本文结合对少数民族文化的概述,以及与艺术之间的关系分析,从衣着、美术、建筑设计和舞蹈创作中详细阐述民族文化在艺术中的发展历程。