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Congratulations, Professor Kristin Bumiller!
The formidable mind of my mentor Kristin Bumiller always deserves mention. Luckily, the American Political Science Association agrees with me. Bumiller’s excellent book, In An Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriate the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence, won the APSA’s 2009 Victoria Shuck Award for the best book published in the previous calendar year on women [...]
Posted: September 30th, 2009 under book, policy, politics, power, power structure, sexual inequality, sexual violence, state.
Tags: abuse, award, book, book review, boundaries, central park jogger, criminalization, domestic assault, empirical analysis, exclusion, feminism, gender, government, identity politics, inequality, kristin bumiller, marginalization, neoliberalism, o.j. simpson, polarization, policy, political science, politics, postfeminist, power, race, rape, rape trial, rape trials, rights, scholarship, sexual violence, social control, state, strategy, surveillance, trauma, violence against women, women
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Political Propaganda for your Toddler!
Jeremy Zilber wants to promote the Democratic Party . . . to small children. His book, Why Mommy Is A Democrat, illustrates sentances such as “Democrats make sure we all share our toys, just like Mommy does”, with full page spreads of squirrel children and squirrel Mommy. For more squirrels and testimonials from congressmen and [...]
Posted: June 19th, 2007 under Congress, Jeremy Zilber, Why Mommy Is a Democrat, book, capitalism, children's books, democracy, democrat, imperialism, indoctrination, motherhood, parenting, politicians, politics, propaganda, revolution, socialism, squirrel.
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