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"The Leather Menace", Body Politic no. 82 (33–35), April 1982. "Sexual Politics, the New Right, and the Sexual Fringe" in The Age Taboo , Alyson, 1981, pp. 108–115. "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex", in Rayna Reiter, ed., Toward an Anthropology of Women , New York, Monthly Review Press (1975); also reprinted in ...
Historically speaking, Wessels and Franklin proposed to challenge Rose's thesis [51] that limited voting participation in new members states was due to the "postâcommunist" status (i.e. "lack of trust in political parties and governments, legacies of communist rule"), arguing that cross-national differences in turnout are partially due to a ...
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought is a two-volume work of intellectual history by Quentin Skinner, published in 1978. The work traces the conceptual origins of modern politics by investigating the history of political thought in the West at the turn of the medieval and early modern periods, from the 13th to the 16th centuries.
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland is a 2019 non-fiction book written by Jonathan M. Metzl, a Nashville, Tennessee Vanderbilt University professor of sociology and psychiatry, [2] based on research undertaken in Missouri, Tennessee and Kansas from 2013 to 2018.
Previous notions of the concept can be traced back to the Middle Ages in John of Salisbury's work Policraticus, in which the term body politic was coined and used. The term biopolitics was first used by Rudolf Kjellén, a political scientist who also coined the term geopolitics, [2] in his 1905 two-volume work The Great Powers. [6]
The body politic is a polity—such as a city, realm, or state—considered metaphorically as a physical body. Historically, the sovereign is typically portrayed as the body's head, and the analogy may also be extended to other anatomical parts, as in political readings of Aesop's fable of "The Belly and the Members".
In the sociology of the body, body theory is a theory that analyses the human body as an ordered or "lived-in" entity, subject to the cultural and conceptual forces of a society. It is also described as a dynamic field that involves various conceptualizations and re-significations of the body as well as its formation or transformation that ...
The King's Two Bodies (subtitled, A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology) is a 1957 historical book by Ernst Kantorowicz. It concerns medieval political theology and the distinctions separating the "body natural" (a monarch's corporeal being) and the " body politic ".