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This article employs what the author calls "foundational" intersectional analysis to investigate the coalitional and rhetorical strategies mobilized by Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot initiative in California designed to eliminate the right of same-sex marriage. The author argues that foundational intersectionality is the only method that sufficiently contextualizes the historical legacies constructing the political institution of marriage and that this method must incorporate the factor of religion, because religion is central to the politics of "moral values:" The first part of the article differentiates foundational intersectionality from identity intersectionality as a framework The author then sketches how marriage is a political institution constructed in the United States through the simultaneous interactions of gender, sexuality, race, and religion. The second part of the article applies the framework to an empirical analysis of four discursive strategies employed by pro- and anti-same-sex marriage forces in California in order to "link their fate," or sense of political alliance, to other groups. Adapted from the source document.

This article employs what the author calls "foundational" intersectional analysis to investigate the coalitional and rhetorical strategies mobilized by Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot initiative in California designed to eliminate the right of same-sex marriage. The author argues that foundational intersectionality is the only method that sufficiently contextualizes the historical legacies constructing the political institution of marriage and that this method must incorporate the factor of religion, because religion is central to the politics of "moral values." The first part of the article differentiates foundational intersectionality from identity intersectionality as a framework. The author then sketches how marriage is a political institution constructed in the United States through the simultaneous interactions of gender, sexuality, race, and religion. The second part of the article applies the framework to an empirical analysis of four discursive strategies employed by pro— and anti—same-sex marriage forces in California in order to "link their fate," or sense of political alliance, to other groups.

Examines single-payer health care initiative and reasons for its defeat by California voters, Nov. 8, 1994.

California—simultaneously celebrated and reviled for its fabled sexual tolerance for the past half-century—has pioneered the use of sexual propositions, ballot initiatives designed to either expand the scope of "obscenity" censorship or to suppress the rights and aspirations of homosexuals. Viewed through the prism of the sexual propositions, the political landscape of California looks quite different than we generally imagine. This article examines the history of these propositions, their financial backers, and the politicians involved with them, including E. Richard Barnes's Proposition 16, John Briggs's Proposition 6 (The Briggs Initiative), and William J. "Pete" Knight's Proposition 22.

Abstract
Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828–89) is best known for his utopian realist novel What Is to Be Done? (1863). However, he was perhaps most celebrated as a literary thinker in China as a result of the Soviet canonization of the nineteenth-century "democratic critics." This essay discusses two Chinese critics' engagement with Chernyshevsky's treatise The Aesthetic Relation of Art to Reality (1853). Here Chernyshevsky advanced the proposition "Beauty is life." In the 1930s and 1940s the literary theorist Zhou Yang read Chernyshevsky and produced a Chinese translation in 1942. In 1963 the philosopher Zhu Guangqian published the History of Western Aesthetics, in which he devoted a chapter to Chernyshevsky. This article explores how both Zhou and Zhu responded to Chernyshevsky's proposition on beauty and life, with particular attention to all three thinkers' engagement with Ludwig Feuerbach's "transformative method" in his critique of Christianity, which sought to invert the relation between subject and predicate. Both Zhou and Zhu alighted on how Chernyshevsky's reliance on Feuerbach led to a one-sided interpretation that needed further articulation; they marshaled the insights of Marx and Hegel to reinterpret Chernyshevsky. Finally, the essay considers the issue of transnational Bildung between Russia and China and the teacher-student relation as expressions of totality along the lines of both Feuerbachian transformative critique and Hegelian speculative retrieval.

Between 1981 and 2011, the amount of money California spent on prisons increased by more than 1,500 percent, the state's investment in crime prevention programs like drug treatment and mental health services was sharply curtailed, and California's recidivism rate spiked to nearly 70 percent. It's increasingly clear that our criminal justice system, predicated on an outdated "lock 'em up and throw away the key" mentality has failed. But the passage of Proposition 47 in 2014 is helping move the state into a new era of criminal justice, with an emphasis on prevention and second chances instead of punishment.