A Comparative Study of the Miserable Fate of Tess and Xianglin’s Wife from Legal System

Law and Interdisciplinary research (“Law-and”) has flourished since the 1960s. “Law and literature” is an academic movement under such a background in the United States. The author uses Tomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Lu Xun's The New-Year Sacrifice to analyze and compare the legal system in British Victorian and Chinese semi-feudal and semi-colonial society, and explores the root causes of the tragic fate of Tess and Xianglin’s Wife. Meanwhile, the paper reveals the predicament of women in the East and West around the 20th century.

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Avanços e limites na historiografia da legislação urbanística no Brasil

Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais ◽

10.22296/2317-1529.2001n4p33 ◽

2001 ◽

pp. 33 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sarah Feldman

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Urban Development ◽

Public Administration ◽

Legal System ◽

The United States ◽

Historical Research ◽

Recent Developments ◽

History Of ◽

The 1960S

Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar a produção recente no campo da história da legislação urbanística no Brasil, procurando detectar avanços e limites para a reflexão sobre desenvolvimento urbano e práticas urbanísticas. O texto organiza-se em três eixos analíticos. Em primeiro lugar, procura-se situar os trabalhos no processo de disseminação de estudos da história urbana no Brasil, vinculando-os ao movimento de ampliação do território da história que ocorre na Europa e nos Estados Unidos, a partir dos anos 60, com a chamada História Nova. Em segundo, baseado em um panorama da produção recente, são detectadas as vertentes dominantes e emergentes nos trabalhos sobre legislação. Em terceiro, são discutidos dois aspectos que se configuram como lacunas na historiografia da legislação: o lugar ocupado pelas normas, a partir do momento em que idéias e práticas urbanísticas têm um espaço institucionalizado na administração pública; e o lugar dos pressupostos modernistas na legislação brasileira, visto que o movimento modernista formula a proposta de um novo sistema legal para o urbanismo.Palavras-chave: legislação urbanística; história; movimento moderno. Abstract: This paper analyses recent developments in the history of Brazilian urban legislation, pointing out the progress made and limits faced, as a basis for reflection in the debate on urban development and planning practice. The analysis is divided into three parts. The first relates the dissemination of urban historical research in Brazil to the expansion of the field of history which began in the 1960s with the "New History" movement in Europe and the United States. The second part sets out the dominant and emerging approaches to urban legislation. Finally, there is a discussion of two aspects that are seen as gaps in the history of urban legislation: the role of norms, as the ideas and practices of urban planning become institutionalised within public administration, and the influences of modernist ideas on Brazilian urban legislation, taking into account that the modern movement proposes a new legal system for urban planning.Keywords: urban legislation; history; modernist movement.

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‘Cruel to be kind?’ Professionalization, politics and the image of the abstinent psychoanalyst, c. 1940–80

History of the Human Sciences ◽

10.1177/0952695116687239 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 88-106 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ulrich Koch

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

20Th Century ◽

Clinical Utility ◽

Frankfurt School ◽

The United States ◽

Social Implications ◽

Social Character ◽

The Usa ◽

1960S And 1970S ◽

The 1960S

This article investigates the changing justifications of one of the hallmarks of orthodox psychoanalytic practice, the neutral and abstinent stance of the psychoanalyst, during the middle decades of the 20th century. To call attention to the shifting rationales behind a supposedly cold, detached style of treatment still today associated with psychoanalysis, explanations of the clinical utility of neutrality and abstinence by ‘classical’ psychoanalysts in the United States are contrasted with how intellectuals and cultural critics understood the significance of psychoanalytic abstinence. As early as the 1930s, members of the Frankfurt School discussed the cultural and social implications of psychoanalytic practices. Only in the 1960s and 1970s, however, did psychoanalytic abstinence become a topic within broader intellectual debates about American social character and the burgeoning ‘therapy culture’ in the USA. The shift from professional and epistemological concerns to cultural and political ones is indicative of the changing appreciation of psychoanalysis as a clinical discipline: for psychoanalysts as well as cultural critics, I argue, changing social mores and the professional decline of psychoanalysis infused the image of the abstinent psychoanalyst with nostalgic longing, making it a symbol of resistance against a culture seen to be in decline.

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Obedience as Belonging: Catholic Guilt and Frequent Confession in America

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel10060370 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 370

Author(s):

Jonathan Stotts

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Present Article ◽

20Th Century ◽

The United States ◽

Standard Practice ◽

John Paul Ii ◽

The 1960S ◽

Cultural Upheaval ◽

The Relationship

From the late 19th to the mid-20th century, the practice of private confession to a priest was a mainstay of Catholic parish life in the United States. By the 1970s, Catholics had largely abandoned the practice of private confession. One dominant narrative among Catholic theologians and clergy, identified chiefly with the papacy of John Paul II, attributes the decline in confession to the loss of healthy guilt that took place during the cultural upheaval of the 1960s. In conversation with the work of psychologist and philosopher Antoine Vergote, the present article challenges this narrative, arguing that a collective and unhealthy Catholic guilt existed among American Catholics well before the 1960s and in fact characterized the period in which private confession was practiced most frequently. I contend that obedience to moral prescriptions was not, for ordinary Catholics, part of an ethical program of self-reform but the condition for belonging to a church body that emphasized obedience. Finally, examining the relationship between weekly reception of communion and confession, I suggest that private confession emerged to support frequent communion, persisting only until the latter became standard practice among Catholics in the United States.

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Roseoau's contribution

Review of International Studies ◽

10.1017/s0260210500115827 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 137-146 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Steve Smith

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Foreign Policy ◽

Comparative Analysis ◽

Comparative Study ◽

Focal Point ◽

The United States ◽

Research Community ◽

Foreign Policy Analysis ◽

The 1960S ◽

The Comparative Study

For anyone interested in tracing the development of the comparative study of foreign policy behaviour the work of James Rosenau is central. His work in the 1960s was a major impetus in the formation of an identifiable research community in the United States; and the problems which he has addressed since that time have been the problems of comparative foreign policy analysis writ large. Above all, his work, exactly because it has attracted such sustained and widespread attention, has served as a focal point for a critique of the very possibility of the comparative analysis of foreign policy behaviour. Like it or loathe it, Rosenau's work represents the clearest and most extensive example of the comparative foreign policy school of thought.

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Having Their Say, Leaving Their Mark

National Review of Black Politics ◽

10.1525/nrbp.2020.1.1.141 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 141-153

Author(s):

Adolphus G. Belk ◽

Robert C. Smith ◽

Sherri L. Wallace

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Civic Engagement ◽

Political Science ◽

Black People ◽

The United States ◽

The Political ◽

Historical Documents ◽

Adverse Conditions ◽

The 1960S ◽

Independent Organization

In general, the founders of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists were “movement people.” Powerful agents of socialization such as the uprisings of the 1960s molded them into scholars with tremendous resolve to tackle systemic inequalities in the political science discipline. In forming NCOBPS as an independent organization, many sought to develop a Black perspective in political science to push the boundaries of knowledge and to use that scholarship to ameliorate the adverse conditions confronting Black people in the United States and around the globe. This paper utilizes historical documents, speeches, interviews, and other scholarly works to detail the lasting contributions of the founders and Black political scientists to the discipline, paying particular attention to their scholarship, teaching, mentoring, and civic engagement. It finds that while political science is much improved as a result of their efforts, there is still work to do if their goals are to be achieved.

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