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"Dr Stephens' book is a thoughtful examination of the foundations
and complexities of the special relationship' between the US and
Israel from 1948 to the present. As a work of contemporary
importance, it should take the reader beyond simplistic notions of
relations between Washington, Tel Aviv, and the rest of the world.
As a work of academic scholarship, it should remain an essential
study for years to come." William Lucas, Professor of American
Studies, University of Birmingham. "The special relationship
between the United States and Israel has been the subject of much
study and analysis over the decades of its existence. Explaining
the phenomenon has enticed numerous scholars and observers to
examine and often to complain about the relationship. This work is
a useful contribution that facilitates our understanding of this
phenomenon and suggests a number of new ways to think about the
interaction of these two states." Professor Bernard Reich, George
Washington University, Washington, DC. "One of the many strengths
of this absorbing book is that the religious upbringing of
Presidents is explored. Lyndon Johnson, raised on Bible stories,
believed in the right of the Jews to their own homeland and
considered Islam incompatible with American political culture.
Richard Nixon also underwent a religious immersion and saw Jews as
congenial outsiders, appointing several to key posts in his
administration. Ronald Reagan quoted the bible and, despite
differences, the special relationship blossomed during his tenure
of the White House. Written with aplomb, US Policy towards Israel
is engaging and replete with measured judgements. Wisely it does
not claim that political culture provides a one-size-fits-all
explanation for the special US-Israeli relationship, but it does
succeed in demonstrating that underlying historical, cultural and
religious affinities brought the bonding to fruition and ensure its
continuance. In short, it is an outstanding debut from an astute
author who will go far, and it comes highly recommended." Journal
of American Studies
From the late eighteenth century to the present day, public
exhibitions featuring displays of human anatomy have proven popular
with a wide range of audiences, successfully marketed as
educational facilities for medical professionals as well as
improving entertainments for the general public. Partly a product
of the public sanitation and health reform movements that began in
the eighteenth century, partly a form of popular spectacle, early
public anatomical exhibitions drew on two apparently distinct
cultural developments: firstly, the professionalisation of medicine
from the mid 1700s and the increasingly central role of practical
anatomy within it; secondly, the rise of a culture of public
spectacles such as world fairs, public museums, circuses and side
shows, and the use of new visual technologies these spaces
pioneered. Such spectacles often drew on medical discourses as a
way of lending legitimacy to their displays of human bodies, while
their popularity also helped make the then-contentious practice of
anatomy publicly acceptable.
This book examines the cultural work performed by such exhibitions
and their role in (re)producing new ways of seeing and knowing the
body over the modern era. While public anatomical exhibitions might
seem to occupy a marginal position in the history of popular
culture and that of medicine, their distinctive intermixing of the
medical and the spectacular has made them an influential and
intensely productive cultural space, an important site of emergence
for new ideas about bodily health and care. This book traces the
influential role of such exhibitions in popularising a distinctly
modern idea of the body as something requiring constant work and
careful self-cultivation-an idea which continues to play a central
role in the contemporary fascination with practices and
possibilities of self-improvement. Through a series of
representative case studies-including eighteenth-century
exhibitions of anatomical Venuses, nineteenth-century anatomical
museums "for men only" that served as quack clinics for sexual
disorders, traditional and contemporary freak shows, and the recent
public display of real human remains in Body Worlds and other such
exhibitions-Anatomy as Spectacle traces how these exhibitions
taught their spectators to see their bodies as something requiring
constant self-monitoring and management, constructing an embodied
modern subject who is always responsible, productive, temperate,
and focused on self-improvement.
All 11 episodes from the first season of the US drama series
following two Boston brothers, gangster Michael (Jason Isaacs) and
politician Tommy Caffee (Jason Clarke), as they pursue their very
different versions of the American dream from opposite sides of the
law. Episodes are: 'Mark 8:36', 'Genesis 27:29', 'Matthew 13:57',
'Matthew 5:6', 'Matthew 12:25', 'Samyutta 11:10', 'Genesis 27:39',
'Job 31:5-6', 'Ecclesiastes 7:2', 'Vivekchaudamani: 51' and
'Matthew 22:10'.
What is ‘life’ and how do we define its boundaries? Is life
immeasurable or are there levels of ‘liveliness’? How should we
relate to entities that are not technically alive at all? As the
world becomes increasingly technologized, questions about what
counts as ‘life’ and ‘living’ have become a key field of
inquiry in contemporary philosophical and arts discourse. As Mel
Chen acknowledges in Animacies (2012), the "continued rethinking of
life and death’s proper boundaries" has increasingly been
recognized as a priority in twenty-first-century North American,
European and Australasian critical theory. Indeed, the contributors
of this volume go as far as to argue that the question of life has
become the central problematic of recent feminist biopolitics,
alongside discussions of scientific ethics and
technological/organic power relationships. This volume explores
points of intersection and divergence between critical conceptions
of time and technology, drawing on a range of perspectives and
approaches to examine our mediated and material embodied
entanglements with key questions about life and death. It is a
significant new contribution to the study of corporeality in gender
studies and feminism, and will be of interest to academics,
researchers and advanced students of philosophy, gender studies,
literary theory, and politics. It was originally published as a
special issue of Australian Feminist Studies.
What is 'life' and how do we define its boundaries? Is life
immeasurable or are there levels of 'liveliness'? How should we
relate to entities that are not technically alive at all? As the
world becomes increasingly technologized, questions about what
counts as 'life' and 'living' have become a key field of inquiry in
contemporary philosophical and arts discourse. As Mel Chen
acknowledges in Animacies (2012), the "continued rethinking of life
and death's proper boundaries" has increasingly been recognized as
a priority in twenty-first-century North American, European and
Australasian critical theory. Indeed, the contributors of this
volume go as far as to argue that the question of life has become
the central problematic of recent feminist biopolitics, alongside
discussions of scientific ethics and technological/organic power
relationships. This volume explores points of intersection and
divergence between critical conceptions of time and technology,
drawing on a range of perspectives and approaches to examine our
mediated and material embodied entanglements with key questions
about life and death. It is a significant new contribution to the
study of corporeality in gender studies and feminism, and will be
of interest to academics, researchers and advanced students of
philosophy, gender studies, literary theory, and politics. It was
originally published as a special issue of Australian Feminist
Studies.
The rationale for Washington's enduring commitment to Israel has
long been a puzzle. During the Cold War it was argued that
democratic Israel was a natural ally amidst a world of
semi-authoritarian and often pro-Soviet states. But the Cold War is
over and the American commitment to Israel, a small state that is
largely oil-free and of little tangible economic benefit, remains.
An alternative view is that the US commitment is underwritten by
the Jewish lobby which exercises a disproportionate influence on
American policy. Even when combined with the influence of
Protestant fundamentalists who, for largely religious reasons,
increasingly support Israel, it is still questionable whether
interest group politics could determine American foreign policy to
such an extent. Despite transitions between Republican and
Democratic presidents, bureaucratic support for Israel remains
relatively constant indicating that support for Israel is not a
product of partisan politics but a given, firmly ingra
The concept of normal is so familiar that it can be hard to imagine
contemporary life without it. Yet the term entered everyday speech
only in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, it was solely a
scientific term used primarily in medicine to refer to a general
state of health and the orderly function of organs. But beginning
in the middle of the twentieth century, normal broke out of
scientific usage, becoming less precise and coming to mean a
balanced condition to be maintained and an ideal to be achieved. In
Normality, Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens offer an intellectual
and cultural history of what it means to be normal. They explore
the history of how communities settle on any one definition of the
norm, along the way analyzing a fascinating series of case studies
in fields as remote as anatomy, statistics, criminal anthropology,
sociology, and eugenics. Cryle and Stephens argue that since the
idea of normality is so central to contemporary disability, gender,
race, and sexuality studies, scholars in these fields must first
have a better understanding of the context for normality. This
pioneering book moves beyond binaries to explore for the first time
what it does and doesn't mean to be normal.
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