“The one single primary cause”: divorce,the family,and heterosexual pleasure in postwar Australia

Abstract

In the late 1940s, the popular Australian journal Smith's Weekly boldly announced that “the one single primary cause” of divorce was “physical maladjustment between man and wife through ignorance of sex.” By the 1950s, the links between sex and divorce were omnipresent. Regardless of the traumas of World War II and the difficulties faced by both men and women in re-acclimatising to “normal” civilian life, rising divorce rates were commonly linked to sexual dissatisfaction within the marital bed. The new model of heterosexual pleasure demanded a certain kind of sexual life: regular, penetrative, and completed by the simultaneous orgasm. Anything else was troubling and probably unsatisfactory. Given that various sex writers suggested that at least half of all married women were sexually frustrated, the potential for divorce hence social disaster was clear. The sexual lives of citizens, then, were ripe for a raft of public commentaries—for marital sex could undermine postwar population, the nuclear family, and the very foundations of 1950s Australian citizenship. This article will explore the twin concepts of divorce and heterosex and the multiple ways sexual dissatisfaction was linked to social and sexual disorder.     

英国新一轮警务改革给我国公安改革的启示

英国新一轮警务改革的主要内容包括:设立专门的警务标准机构;强化科学统一的绩效考核;积极推行国家犯罪情报模式;变革警务活动主体结构。其经验可以给我国的警务改革提供如下启示:密切警民关系,走群众路线;发挥公安院校的作用;加强情报工作;建立一个专门的警务标准机构,实施科学、统一的警务绩效考核办法;把握未来,跨越时代。     

英国新宪政改革述评

近几年 ,英国开展了规模宏大的宪政改革 ,涉及到王权、议会、选举制度和地方权限等诸多方面 ,其广度和深度令人惊叹 ,显示出该国巨大的勇气和开拓精神。论述了 1997-2 0 0 2年间英国宪政改革的主要内容及初步成果 ,并探讨了其对我国制度改革的借鉴意义。     

‘The Trojan Horse’: Communist Entrism in the British Labour Party, 1933–43

Abstract

Entrism – the infiltration of political organisations by competitors – is typically associated with Trotskyism. Large-scale Communist entrism in the British Labour Party has been neglected by historians and reference in the literature is slight and impressionistic. Archival material permits reconstruction of a sustained attempt by the Comintern and British Communists to subvert Labour Party policy between 1933 and 1943. Documenting the development and dimensions of Communist entrism, this article establishes that, by 1937, 10% of Communist Party (CPGB) members were operating secretly inside British Labour, campaigning to change its policy on affiliation and engineer a Popular Front. Biographies of 55 such Communists provide new data and permit a typology of entrist activity. The episode sheds new light on Popular Front initiatives and the extent of genuine support for them within Labour. It illuminates the conspiratorial side of Stalinist activity at a time when the CPGB presented itself as a conventional British party.     

英国英语与美国英语中的词汇差异

随着历史的发展和经济文化的进步 ,英国英语与美国英语在语音、语法、词汇上产生了较多的差异 ,其中两者在词汇上的差异最为明显 ,它主要体现在同词异义、同义异词和特有词等三个方面。     

创意城市与英国创意产业的兴起

英国是世界上最早以政府名义提出文化战略和发展创意产业的国家,目前创意产业已经成为其产业体系重要的组成部分。创意城市是在经济全球化的背景下,由产业转移和产业升级推动、伴随城市更新和创意产业兴起而出现的一种新型的城市形态和发展模式。创意、创意产业和创意城市之间存在着密切的关系:创意产业和创意城市都以创意为基础,创意产业是创意城市形成和发展的经济引擎,创意城市是创意产生和创意产业兴起的空间基础。创意产业与创意城市在兴起的动力方面存在某些类似之处,除了来自于产业内部和城市区域的创新推动之外,创意产业还与政府政策、产业转型、人才培养和文化理论等因素密不可分。英国创意城市与创意产业兴起的经验为我国提供了有益的启示与借鉴:明确创意产业与创意城市的关系,因地制宜地构建城市创新体系;通过政府的介入和城市的创新建设,为创意产业的兴起提供政策和空间支持;依靠创意产业的推动和创意元素的导入,为城市的创新发展提供经济和文化动力。     

“Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” I Do: Postwar Australian Wine,Gendered Culture and Class

During an era of expanding social inclusion in the 1960s and 1970s, Australians increasingly drank more wine than at any previous time in colonial or national history. These wines were made in new styles and consumed in accordance with new habits across gender and class. The morphology of one of Australia’s most popular “introduction wines” of this period, Lindeman’s Ben Ean Moselle, reveals the emergence of new elements of national character. From being advertised to women in the late 1960s as “just right”, Ben Ean’s cultural messaging in the 1970s flirted with general appeal to men and women of the new middle class: “anywhere, anytime”. Then, by the mid-1980s, the ascendancy of this light, semi-sweet table wine was halted by the emergence of an elitism in which new professionals favoured consumer products of provenanced distinction. The arc of Ben Ean’s rise and fall symbolises an informalisation and subsequent reformalisation of values, conventions and identities during a time of social and cultural flux.     

Comparing British and American conservatisms through the prism of African development

Conservatism and conservative party politics in Britain and America is associated with neo-colonial attitudes, including pursuit of national interests ahead of post-colonial development. Based on interviews conducted in Washington and London with actors involved with African development, this article examines comparative shifts in conservatives’ engagements from the late Cold War era to the G. W. Bush and Cameron governments. Greater ideological heterogeneity and distinctiveness among American conservative interests groups, combined with a bureaucratic environment in the US allowing more direct channels for ideological input into policy, results in a more clearly conservative stamp on Africa policy in the US than in Britain where ideological lines on development have become more blurred since the 1997 New Labour election victory and the creation of the Department for International Development.     

Ethnicity and electoral fraud in Britain

Several reports have highlighted that, within Britain, allegations of electoral fraud tend to be more common in areas with large Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities. However, the extent of this association has not yet been quantified. Using data at the local authority level, this paper shows that percentage Pakistani and Bangladeshi (logged) is a robust predictor of two measures of electoral fraud allegations: one based on designations by the Electoral Commission, and one based on police enquiries. Indeed, the association persists after controlling for other minority shares, demographic characteristics, socio-economic deprivation, and anti-immigration attitudes. I interpret this finding with reference to the growing literature on consanguinity (cousin marriage) and corruption. Rates of cousin marriage tend to be high in countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh, which may have fostered norms of nepotism and in-group favoritism that persist over time. To bolster my interpretation, I use individual level survey data to show that, within Europe, migrants from countries with high rates of cousin marriage are more likely to say that family should be one's main priority in life, and are less likely to say it is wrong for a public official to request a bribe.     

试论英国创建近代警察制度的历史动因

英国近代警察制度的创建历程维艰,最终能在"跌跌撞撞"中保持前进的步伐,能够在全英国构建起了近代警察网络,其动因绝非是单方面的,而是多重因素催生的结果。既与英国社会发生巨大变化、旧有"警察"制度的败落以及不能满足人们对制度的需求有关,也离不开历史人物的率先呼吁与实践,以及政府的强力主导与推进。