Posts tagged: weekend-read

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  The Two Avant-Gardes

  Peter Wollen's landmark essay on the relation between two distinct traditions of avant-garde film. 

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  The Paradox of the Holy Cow

  Historian D.N. Jha describes the contradictions of the purificatory role of cows in early Brāhmaņical society.

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  Early Christian Virgins on Sexuality and Virginity

  Joyce Salisbury examines attitudes toward chastity, sexuality, and gender held by a group of Early Christian women ascetics. 

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  Democratizing Care

  Johanna Brenner considers a variety of strategies by which caregiving might be socialized outside the institutions of family and household.

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  Nationalism and Deafness

  Lennard J. Davis explores Deafness as nationality. 

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  The Social-Democratic Party-Organization

  Gerassimos Moschonas compares the emergence and consolidation of the various European social-democratic parties. 

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  Zoöpolis

  Jennifer Wolch conceptualizes an urban theory that takes nonhumans seriously.

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  Coming at Midnight: Race and Caribbean Reactions to America in the 1910s

  In order to understand the radicalism of Caribbeans in the United States in the early 20th century, we need to be able to gauge their reaction to American society.

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  Women in Russia Before and After the Revolution

  In this long-read, Sheila Rowbotham examines the changing conditions for women before, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as well as the political and social roles played by women during each period.

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  Women in Russia Before and After the Revolution (Part II)

  In the second part of this long-read, Sheila Rowbotham examines the changing conditions for women before, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as well as the political and social roles played by women during each period.

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  A Second Wind for Weather Underground? The Prairie Fire Statement

  The Weather Underground's major achievement of the 1974 was not any armed action, it was the release of Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism.

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  Women in the New Left

  Reflections by Sheila Benson, Dorothy Wedderburn, and Lynne Segal on the experiences of women within Britain's New Left.