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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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Speaking Truth To Power: The Canary In the Coalmine (Literally)
Fight the Culture of Hate! Vincent Navarro, formerly Jesse Jackson’s senior health advisor in the ’84 and ’88 Primaries, tells it like it is over at Counterpunch: HillaryCare Failed. That’s right, folks, the experienced cynical candidate might not have an advantage over the young, hopeful candidate. The experienced candidate might have been involved in a [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2008 under 08, 1492, Guantanamo, Ohio, Texas, United States, abduction, afghanistan, african-american, african-americans, american way, anti-white, baltimore sun, barack, barackaway, birds, black, black males, black panther party, black panthers, bomb, brunch, brutality, california, californian, canary, candidate, capitalist, caucus, change, charges, church, clinton, coalmine, colonial power, colony, corruption, crime, cub, culture, culture of fear, delegate, dementia, democrat, democratic, detainee, dictatorship, direct traffic, drug, drug use, drugs, election, enslavement, equality, exploitation, fairness, fear, federal, funding, gender, goods, government, group, health care, hillary, hillary care, hillarycare, hitler, homeland, homeland security, hope, human, human rights, imperialism, international, jesse jackson, justice, law, lean back, male, males, manipulation, men, mental health, mining industry, minor, neighborhood, neocolonial, non-violent, oakland, obama, panthers, party, police, politics, possession, power, presidency, president, primary, profit, proletariat, property, race, radical, reagan, regime, rich, rights, rockaway, scandal, security, services, sex, stalin, state, sulfur-coloured seed eater, superdelegate, surrendur, system, ten point, ten point program, terror, terror squad, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists, toddler, totalitarian, totalitarianism, u.s. government, uncle sam, vibe, vincent navarro, violation, violence, war, war on drugs, welfare, white.
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