... norm and its constitutive elements, including representation, recognition, and protection. It links these efforts to the hegemonic power of liberal feminism, in which there is a global campaign to “add gender and stir.” This phrase is a critique that such efforts to add women to the agenda do...

...” spatial and decorative identity, it cannot entirely escape the strictures of Orientalist representation. “Building the New House” Wright Chan Charlie The House without a Key Biggers Wright Frank Lloyd Wu William architects Biggers Earl Derr Chicago World’s Fair Hawley Sandra Hoganson Kristin L...

... Actors’ Equity Association of Model Agents British Fashion Council fantasy fashion Munster Tess objectification Fashion Law Institute Model Alliance The Scafidi Susan Ziff Sara consumers hegemony niches skinny vision agents scouts fashion market representation When my proofs from...

...This introductory chapter notes the variation in women's paths to participation in public institutions, where that path is open, where it is not, and what accounts for the differences in women's access. It analyzes the representation of women in political institutions in the years 1945–2006...

...This chapter takes on voluntary party quotas and demonstrates how the contagion effect can explain the adoption of these quotas. The adoption and use of a voluntary quota represents a strong commitment by a party to increasing women's representation. In a statistical analysis of both the onset...

...This concluding chapter shows that there is strong evidence of contagion on women's political representation. While there is strong evidence of contagion overall, its influence manifests itself in different ways, depending on the institution under study. The lagged percentage of women...

..., and the working of language itself as language plots its own aporias. The chapter argues that the dys-/disarticulate is also a representation of a human being living as an individual subject in a social world. And as a person perceived and figured as “other,” he becomes the focus of ethical considerations. Berube...

... attention to American culture—even when its products seem most ephemeral or trivial. It also discusses recent efforts to suppress and criminalize explicit sexual representation and taboo language in media and in public schools; and the contemporary Christian Right's relationship with American Jews...

..., the conditions of possibility for these technologies cannot be reduced to those technical developments alone. Instead, automated face perception technologies take their place in a long history of representational practices of the face, and both the roles these technologies perform and the forms they take can...

...This chapter focuses on the emergence of Arab American literary self-representation by moving through a historiography of Arab migration to America and toward an analysis of Ameen Rihani's literary and political writings. Positioned at the headwaters of an indigenous Arab intellectual reawakening...

...This introductory chapter briefly explores how Arab-American writers and critics respond to negative representations of Arabs in the United States. They articulate a rising need among Arab-Americans for a transformative project of communal and individual self-representation, one that captures...

... embrace of the fanboy as both a power demographic and a character archetype over the past decade reinforces Hollywood’s ongoing allegiance to sixteen-to thirty-four-year-old straight, white, cisgender men as their default target audience. This commitment works to demographically and representationally...

... functions is to communicate these things to readers. ⁴ This is what I mean when I refer to “reading representationally” or “reading for representation,” and in Racial Immanence I argue that such an interpretive mode marks a division between reader and text that can preclude...

... partisan dynamics shaping women’s representation, helping to create the conditions for Democratic women’s steady increases in state legislatures and Congress, and creating obstacles for Republican women office seekers. Understanding the reasons behind the partisan gap in women’s representation in elective...

..., is accomplished through persistent representations of migrants as abstract and ahistorical figures that lack voice and agency. humanitarian securitization London School of Economics LSE media Migration and the Media LSE project online media symbolic border 2015 migration crisis consequences platformed...

...Chapter 5 interrogates the photojournalism of migration during the “migration crisis.” Rather than focusing on narrative voice as a site for migrant agency, this chapter takes its point of departure visual representation as a site for the articulation of western responsibility vis-à-vis migrant...

...Chapter 6 moves across the temporality of “crisis” and post-“crisis,” 2015–20, to examine the representation of migrants no longer as silent figures but as speaking subjects that use digital spaces of publicity to connect with their own communities as well as with western audiences. Through...

... for State Courts gender women antidiscrimination laws Batson challenges jury selection Norway sexual assault cases prosecutors juries reform exclusion discrimination inequality representation United States Norway ethics The impact of the jury on the popular imagination remains critical...

...The introduction reviews extant literature on electoral politics in both democratic and contemporary authoritarian regimes to highlight the degree to which the specific electoral system changes under investigation—the adoption of closed-list proportional representation in Russia and Ukraine...

...Relations between the Irish and the Jews in American cities include the full range of possibilities—from violent confrontations in the street to political competition and cooperation, from fictional representations of one another on the Vaudeville and Broadway stage and in Tin Pan Alley songs...