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| Summer 2008 | Vol:XII-1 | Whole #: 45 |
Family Policies in Post-Communist Nations
Title: SOCIAL POLITICSBy:
International Studies in Gender, State, and Society, Volume 14, Number 3, Fall 2007
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Reviewed by Betty Reid Mandell
Summer 2008
THE COUNTRIES THAT CLAIMED TO BE Communist also claimed to meet the needs of their families. What happened to those claims when the countries became capitalist? The fall 2007 issue of Social Politics seeks to answer that question. It analyzes family policies of Russia, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Moldova, and Armenia.
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Symposium on Gays and the Left (Part I)
Thomas Harrison and Joanne Landy
Articles in the SymposiumOn Socialism and Sex: An Introduction
On Socialism and Sex
Keeping the Communist Party Straight, 1940s - 1980s
Can the Left Ignore Gay Liberation>
Gay Leftie Seeking Straight Friends
Left Wing Homosexuality" Emancipation, Sexual Liberation, & Identity Politics
Queer Reflections
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Albert Shanker: Ruthless Neo-Con
Title: Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and DemocracyBy: Richard D. Kahlenberg
N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 2007, 524 pp, $29.95
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Reviewed by Vera Pavone and Norman Scott
Summer 2008
WITH PUBLIC EDUCATION, teacher unions and classroom teachers under one of the most severe attacks in history by corporate funded think tanks, education profiteers, self-proclaimed pundits, and politicians from both parties, along comes a hagiography of Albert Shanker by Richard Kahlenberg, to add to the drumbeat.
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Requiem for a Nation
Title: An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a PresidentBy: Randall Robinson
New York: Basic Books, 2007, 280 pp., $26
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Reviewed by Reginald Wilson
Summer 2008
RANDALL ROBINSON HAS WRITTEN a searing, unforgiving expose of the forcible abduction, in February, 2004, of the democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the consequent deepening wretchedness of its citizens. But he does more than that.
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Queer Reflections
David McReynolds
LET ME USE MY SPACE in part simply as memory, reflections by a homosexual whose sexual orientation, at 78, is academic.
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Left-wing Homosexuality: Emancipation, Sexual Liberation, and Identity Politics
Jeffrey Escoffier
Socialism without fucking is dull and lifeless.
-- The heroine, WR: The Mysteries of the Organism,
a 1971 film directed by Dusan Makavejev.
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Gay Leftie Seeks Straight Friends
Martin Duberman
THE PRESENCE ON MANY CAMPUSES of a significant number of liberals ("Of course gay people are entitled to the full rights of citizenship") proved critical in allowing lesbian and gay studies to gain a toehold.
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Can the Left Ignore Gay Liberation?
John D'Emilio
THE JESUITS TRAINED ME WELL. My high school speech and debate coach taught me how to speak in complete paragraphs and to construct what he described as a "seamless" argument. Many years later, a close friend and fellow historian used the same word in reference to my historical writing. He described one of my books as a "seamless" narrative.
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Keeping the Communist Party Straight, 1940s-1980s
Bettina Aptheker
GROWING UP IN A COMMUNIST FAMILY and in Communist circles in New York City in the late 1940s and 1950s sexuality of any kind was never discussed, ever, in any context, for any reason. I am not laying claim to any kind of universal experience in saying this; I am only commenting on the absence of discussion in my own experience.
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Socialism and Sex
H. L. Small
THE GROWTH OF SOCIALISM in the United States has been hampered by the lack of imagination of the leaders of socialist thought. The appeal of the socialist has always been to the future, with a paradisiacal vision of economic plentitude and true democratic freedom.