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Borders, Histories, Existences: Gender and Beyond contends that borders are, by definition, lines of inclusion and exclusion established by the state. It analyses how states construct borders and try to make them static and rigid and how bordered existences, such as women, migrant workers and victims of human trafficking, destabilise the rigid constructs. It explores the political conditions that have made borders problematic in post-colonial South Asia and how these borders have become regions of extreme control or violence.
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In the controversial public debate over modern American families, the vast changes in family life--the rise of single, two-paycheck , and same-sex parents--have often been blamed for declining morality and unhappy children. Drawing upon pioneering research with the children of the gender revolution, Kathleen Gerson reveals that it is not a lack of "family values," but rigid social and economic forces that make it difficult to have a vibrant and committed family and work life.
Added by: sebestyenaniko | Karma: 20.02 | Fiction literature | 23 August 2008
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The novel is built on the notion that very late at night, after the
lamps of logic have been snuffed and rationality has shut its eyes,
life on earth becomes boundariless and blurred. Individuals who were
separate during the day begin to lose uniqueness, to leak
distinctiveness, melting into a soft psychic collective. As the hands
of the clock slice deeper into the shadows, physics weakens, yielding
to metaphysics, and the rigid you and I of things breaks down. During
the wee hours, we’re all in this together, our spirits spooned like
lovers’ bodies.
