The overweight female body in Malaysian slimming advertisements: problem and solution

This study analyses image and text to investigate the way slimming advertising exploits women’s fear of being overweight to the extent that they feel obliged to do something about their own bodies. We show how Malaysian slimming advertisements construct certain types of female body which reinforce cultural stereotypes, namely the overweight body that exceeds culturally acceptable limits of desirable body size, and the desirable and attainable slim body with no excess fat. Three sample advertisements were selected from a Malaysian English newspaper and analysed using Jewitt and Oyama’s framework to identify the way images and text are used to give specific meanings relating to the female body. The images were examined in terms of representational, interactional and compositional meanings, and the analysis provides evidence of how the extremely overweight female body is pathologised, making it the focus of critical scrutiny. The advertisements use body images to illustrate the problem of being very overweight and the desirability of being slim, and the consumption of slimming services as a quick and easy solution to the problem.     

Men in Skirts

There are signs that the wearing of skirts by men appears to be on the increase in the West. Connor's essay provides a series of historical reflections on the signification and cultural phenomenology of male and female apparel. The first appearance of bifurcated dress in the late mediaeval period is considered, along with the struggle between men and women for command of lateral space during the seventeenth century in Europe, as attested to by commentators like John Bulwer and John Evelyn. Explications are offered of the thematics of the fringe and the pocket, as they are dramatized in trousers and skirts, as well as of the logic of lightness and of the pendant. Trousers, Connors concludes, have never lost their fanciful associations with utility, practicality and rationality; they are the signs of occupation, of being taken up in what you do, rather than consumed in what you are. The political victory of the trousered over the untrousered races (Romans, Scots, Indians etc.) is confirmed by its inversion in male masochist fantasies of 'petticoat government', from the late nineteenth century onwards.     

论第三代党中央领导集体的理论建树

以江泽民为核心的第三代党中央领导集体执政治国所走过的成功之路 ,蕴含着极为重要的理论建树。其内容主要有 :时代与大局观 ;确立邓小平理论为党的指导思想 ;社会主义市场经济模式论 ;公有制实现形式论 ;国家创新论 ;依法治国论和“三个代表”的重要论述等。这些治国理论与治国方略是对邓小平理论的进一步开拓、深化与创新     

论我国自首制度的两个疑难问题

本文对现行刑法规定的准自首的主体范围及特别自首与坦白的区别 ,特别自首的行为要件及时间要件作了大略探讨 ,以为澄清司法实践中存在的模糊与混乱提供参考     

Applying the Chinese Shichen for a Healthy Body and Mind

正Urinary Bladder Meridian The Urinary Bladder Meridian is most active during Shenshi(from 3 to 5 p.m.).During this period body fluids are at optimum level.People feel comfortable due to replenished body fluids that nourish the body.The urinary bladder stores body fluids and water,and circulates body fluids while excreting urine.     

论检警配合谈判主体模式的构建

谈判是处置劫持人质事件的重要手段和组成部分。与一般刑事案件不同,检察机关介入劫持人质案件处置、促进和平解决是其有别于一般刑事案件的本质所在。检警配合谈判主体是一种以配合为主与充分调动各方有机协调的谈判主体模式、是实现这一目标的根本保障。结合我国劫持人质犯罪的特点与司法实践的现状,应将检警配合谈判主体模式作为人质危机谈判中的一项可选择性机制。     

论商事登记制度的若干法律问题－兼论我国商事登记的改革与完善

商事登记是商事主体设立、变更和终止的基本法律事实。商事登记是反映商事主体信用基础和信用状况的法律形式。商事登记在性质上具有私法兼公法的二重性。我国企业的设立应由许可主义向准则主义转变 ,才能简化登记程序 ,适应市场经济的需要。商事登记不同于营业许可。我国立法必须抛弃越权原则 ,经营范围的登记不再具有限制企业权利能力的效力。     

家庭农场是从传统农业走向现代农业的最佳路径选择——基于家庭农场与传统小农户、雇工制农场的比较

家庭农场作为一种新型农业经营主体,具有家庭经营、适度规模、集约化生产、商品化经营、农业收入为主等五个基本特征。与传统小农户和雇工农场相比较,家庭农场既把现代农业要素融入到了传统意义上的农户家庭经营中,又避免了雇工农场大规模流转土地带来的解放劳动力过多、企业运行风险累及农民、农作精细化程度不够等问题,是农业从传统农业走向现代农业的路径选择。     

创新理念的哲学思考

创新是创新主体为解决社会实践中提出的问题,通过实践活动而实际地改变现存事物,形成新的价值观念、新的战略部署、新的概念设计、新的制度体制、新的活动方式、新的关系模式等,从而创造或增加其经济价值或社会价值,推动人类社会的进步和实现人的自由而全面发展的过程。     

身体权作为独立民事权利之疑义

对于身体权是否为自然人的一项独立的民事权利，文章持否定态度。文章从生命、健康、身体等相关概念入手，着重分析了身体权不应独立存在的理由，并对不同的侵害身体的行为予以定位，以期来弥补法律规定的空白。