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THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES THEORIES OF DEMOCRATIZATION PROPOSED FOR POST-SOCIALIST INTERNATIONALIZING ECONOMIES WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO CONTEMPORARY CHINA. IT FINDS THE FIELD DISCURSIVELY AND CONCEPTUALLY TRUNCATED INTO INSTITUTIONALIST, INTERNATIONALIST, AND FEMINIST CONCERNS, THEREBY LOSING HE RICH INSIGHTS THAT EACH MAY BRING TO THE OTHER. THIS ANALYTICAL LACUNA LEAVES INTACT A DEFAULT AGENDA THAT IS ANTI-DEMOCRATIC, ANTI-INTERNATIONAL, A ANTI-FEMALE. AS AN ALTERNATIVE, THIS ARTICLE DRAWS ON THE "INTERSTICES" OF DOMESTIC INSTITUTIONS, INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT, AND FEMINIST CONCERNS TO FORMUL A HERMENEUTIC FOR DEMOCRATIZATION. IT HIGHLIGHTS TO CRUCIAL ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN DESIGNATING THE MODERN, LIBERAL CITIZEN. OR A CASE STUDY, THIS ARTICLE REFERS TO THE MOST INTERNATIONALIZING CITY OF THE WORLD'S MOST POPULOUS ECONOMY - SHANGHAI.

Two‐Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality. Sue‐Ellen Jacobs. Wesley Thomas. and Sabine Lang, eds. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1997.332 pp.

Most women living on Danish farms work off the farm and have a non‐farming education and background. The first part of the paper discusses how farm women's identity is understood theoretically and then suggests a perspective inspired by theories of modernity and everyday life, enabling a view of farm women as knowledgeable actors. The second part is an empirical study, based on qualitative interviews, of how farm women who work outside agriculture experience living on a farm. The study shows that living on a farm poses specific dilemmas for these women because they individually have to reconcile practices on the farm with norms and practices they bring with them from their earlier experiences, as well as with norms associated with gender relations more generally in society. However, the women are actively trying to reconcile their different experiences and by doing so they are reconstructing female identity and, in turn, gender identity in agriculture.

A Review of Gender Identities and Education: The Impact of Starting School, by Barbara Lloyd and Gerald Duveen.

This article explores gender and power relations in a South African criminal society through an examination of the legend surrounding a prominent leader. Tseule Tsilo achieved a degree of notoriety in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. Tsilo's legend lives on in the lore of the Marashea, the criminal organisation to which he belonged. However, rather than being embraced by the entire Marashea, Tsilo is a hero only to men. The legend was created, and is sustained, by men and for men, a discursive development that mirrors the gendered nature of power within the Marashea.