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Legal historians: Find a window to read Rose Cuison Villazor's "The Other Loving," published in the NYU Law Review last fall. Although Villazor, Associate Professor of Law at Hofstra, does not identify primarily as a legal historian, she has written more than one historical work well worth a read. An earlier article examined alien land laws in the United States, telling the story of Oyama v. California (1948), which held unconstitutional a provision of California's Alien Land Law that discriminated against owners of property bought by parents who were ineligible to become U.S. citizens. This more recent article, in turn, explores how immigration, citizenship, and military statutes and regulations in the period around World War II interacted to produce federal anti-miscegenation law, with both domestic and extraterritorial effects. Carefully researched and engagingly written, Villazor's article seeks to challenge the conventional view that legal restrictions on marriage have traditionally been the sole domain of state, not federal, law – with implications for historical scholarship and for current political debates.

Recent philosophy has witnessed a number of prominent and ambivalent encounters with Christianity. Alongside the retrievals of Paul and political theology, thinkers such as Žižek and Negri argue that in our era of imperial sovereignty and advanced global capitalism, the most appropriate politics is one of love. These attempts to reinvigorate progressive materialism are often characterised as a break with the relativist tendencies of French philosophy, moving from the negativity and disconnection of postmodern suspicion to a new, constructive politics of creativity and fraternity. Deconstructive critiques have insisted on the exclusions necessary to any such politics of love. Foucault's genealogy of Christianity—specifically, of the emergence from pastoral power of modern governmentality and biopolitics—sketches a further significant dimension of love's suffocating history and contemporary risks.

In order as sections appear in text (differ from contents as listed on p. v-x): Preface -- Sonnets -- Floridian fancies -- Canadian themes -- From across the sea -- Democratic doctrines -- Miscellaneous sonnets -- Lily and the angel -- Love songs -- The strange musician. ; Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : State University System of Florida, PALMM Project, 2003. (Florida heritage collection) Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software; Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print PDF files. Electronically digitized by the University of Central Florida from a book held in the Main Library at the University of Central Florida, Orlando.

The nurturing that produces love, care, and solidarity constitutes a discrete social system of affective relations. Affective relations are not social derivatives, subordinate to economic, political, or cultural relations in matters of social justice. Rather, they are productive, materialist human relations that constitute people mentally, emotionally, physically, and socially. As love laboring is highly gendered, and is a form of work that is both inalienable and noncommodifiable, affective relations are therefore sites of political import for social justice. We argue that it is impossible to have gender justice without relational justice in loving and caring. Moreover, if love is to thrive as a valued social practice, public policies need to be directed by norms of love, care, and solidarity rather than norms of capital accumulation. To promote equality in the affective domains of loving and caring, we argue for a four-dimensional rather than a three-dimensional model of social justice as proposed by Nancy Fraser (2008). Such a model would align relational justice, especially in love laboring, with the equalization of resources, respect, and representation.

In 2013 the Supreme Court Of Canada struck down laws related to prostitution in the case Canada (Attorney General) v. Bedford and as a result, there are now interesting implications that affect both federal and provincial jurisdictions. This paper advances two constitutional theories about the future of legislation surrounding prostitution. The first, and likely most controversial theory, is that the principles as set out in the Bedford decision move legislation on prostitution from the Criminal Code of Canada, the federal domain, to labour law, an area of provincial jurisdiction. Also discussed in this paper is that Bedford also advances the theory that the federal and provincial governments each have substantive roles to play in terms of legislating prostitution. Discipline: Political Sciences (Honours) Faculty Mentor: Dr. John Soroski

The film focuses on two people going on a date after societal collapse. The cause of the apocalypse is not the focus, but rather the efforts of people to find forms of normalcy during or after a catastrophe. Much of the story was influenced by my feelings of anxiety from the current pandemic and rise of political violence, as well as the need for habits of normality. The idea of rewilding, both in nature and in anarchist theory, inspired the setting and characters. During the lockdown, many countries noted the increase of species returning to habits and even wandering through towns where they are never seen. This natural rewilding, mostly of foliage, would without a doubt also occur in abandoned areas too, as seen in Pripyat and the recently demolished Nara Dreamland. Regarding anarchist theory, rewilding is the process of undoing human domestication. Essentially an anti-civilization belief. Though I am not a supporter of any form of anarchy, this "return to land" ideology inspired the rugged lives of the characters and the animalistic behavior of antagonists. In the end, this film is an examination of people grasping for rituals and routines that remind them of simpler times.

Three claims about love and justice cannot be simultaneously true and therefore entail a paradox: (1) Love is a matter of justice. (2) There cannot be a duty to love. (3) All matters of justice are matters of duty. The first claim is more controversial. To defend it, I show why the extent to which we enjoy the good of love is relevant to distributive justice. To defend (2) I explain the empirical, conceptual and axiological arguments in its favour. Although (3) is the most generally endorsed claim of the three, I conclude we should reject it in order to avoid the paradox. ; This project has received funding from the Ramon y Cajal Programme from the Spanish Government and from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme (Grant Agreement Number: 648610).

"This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton's Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge. Bryson and Movsesian argue that the poetry they explore celebrates and reinvents the love the troubadour poets of the eleventh and twelfth centuries called fin'amor: love as an end in itself, mutual and freely chosen even in the face of social, religious, or political retribution. Neither eros nor agape, neither exclusively of the body, nor solely of the spirit, this love is a middle path. Alongside this tradition has grown a critical movement that employs a 'hermeneutics of suspicion', in Paul Ricoeur's phrase, to claim that passionate love poetry is not what it seems, and should be properly understood as worship of God, subordination to Empire, or an entanglement with the structures of language itself – in short, the very things it resists. The book engages with some of the seminal literature of the Western canon, including the Bible, the poetry of Ovid, and works by English authors such as William Shakespeare and John Donne, and with criticism that stretches from the earliest readings of the Song of Songs to contemporary academic literature. Lively and enjoyable in its style, it attempts to restore a sense of pleasure to the reading of poetry, and to puncture critical insistence that literature must be outwitted. It will be of value to professional, graduate, and advanced undergraduate scholars of literature, and to the educated general reader interested in treatments of love in poetry throughout history."

This paper examines the cultural politics of 'thrift' and 'tough love'. It reflects upon the significance of notions of 'good parenting' in policy and popular debates around social mobility and aspiration. In particular, it reviews the profound importance of notions of 'poor parenting' in the culturalisation of poverty, whereby poverty is seen to be a symptom of 'poor' conduct and behaviour, rather than of deeply entrenched systemic inequalities. This paper considers how the recent 'austerity' agenda has been taken up as a cultural annotation in the politicisation of parenting, (re)producing nostalgic fantasies of post-war spirit, national resilience and individual family responsibility. This article attends to how discourses of thrift and tough love are stitched together in the current cultural climate of austerity, and tracks these fantasies across a range of policy, media and cultural sites. It argues that these discourses locate the causes of the current financial crisis in spendthrift habits, consumer incompetence, over-consumption and wastefulness. It argues that thrift fantasies generate and circulate powerful cultural figurations of happy gendered restraint, such as the 'happy housewife', which serve as ideological signs of an imagined capacity for families to thrive through times of hardship. This paper maps the emerging affective incitements around austerity, gender, family and the future, in order to question the romances of austerity, and specifically of austerity parenting, and explore how austerity is being incorporated into cruelly optimistic visions of the future, which both deny existing social inequality and promise future happiness through the embrace of thrift.

Felice D. Blake's Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature highlights the pervasive representations of intraracial deceptions, cruelties, and contempt in Black literature. Literary criticism has tended to focus on Black solidarity and the ways that a racially linked fate has compelled Black people to counter notions of Black inferiority with unified notions of community driven by political commitments to creative rehumanization and collective affirmation. Blake shows how fictional depictions of intraracial conflict perform necessary work within the Black community, raising questions about why racial unity is so often established from the top down and how loyalty to Blackness can be manipulated to reinforce deleterious forms of subordination to oppressive gender, sexual, and class norms.

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives ; The axle around which Kierkegaard's thought revolves is the difference between the infinite and the finite, and the commandment to love all humans indiscriminately is the manifestation of the infinite within the area of the finite. The realization of this commandment will not let inequality disappear; finitude can never be conceived as the realization of the infinite and undifferentiated. The goal of absolute human equality will therefore never be realized within the realm of the finite and political. However, one must keep an open space for it as the area from which the values of the political are calibrated and evaluated. If the goal is considered realizable, politics will be reduced to secularized versions of theocracy; if lost, politics will be reduced to entertainment. The task of the church in relation to the political is to maintain the significance of this principle. ; publishedVersion

Plato's account can be understood in two sections, his critical method, which prioritizes true nature over false praise, and his account of Love. This paper is divided into three sections. The first section discusses the importance of the critical spirit and explains his praise of honesty and truth. The second section describes the nature of Love as virtues of passion. In the third section, I criticize Plato for going against his virtues of passion because of his bad passions, disinterest and malice.

The work aims to investigate the constitution of love as a discursive sociological object. This point of view has its theoretical framework in the theories of M. Bajtín and M. Foucault who consider discourse as a social fact (Bajtín), distancing themselves from linguistics to obtain a more extensive vision of discursiveness (Foucault). We also consider the material effects on the social constitution of the subjects. These effects are related to two aspects of social languages: their performative functioning and their role as models. Although we are not going to dwell on the implementation of these concepts, we want to underline their importance as a framework for this reflection. The final intention of the article is to present a positive idea of love passions, thinking of them as a thermometer of social spaces that we provisionally call public spaces, to reinvict emotions that from certain positions of feminism are viewed and criticized negatively. With this we want to point out, on the one hand, the importance of the subject in the context of a certain culture and, on the other hand, to mark the historical limitation of the concept of love. ; El trabajo se propone indagar sobre la constitución del amor como objeto sociológico discursivo. Este punto de vista posee su marco teórico en las teorías de M. Bajtín y M. Foucault quienes consideran al discurso como un hecho social (Bajtín), distanciándose de la lingüística para obtener una visión más extensa de la discursividad (Foucault). Igualmenteconsideramos los efectos materiales en la constitución social de los sujetos. Estos efectos guardan relación con dos aspectos de los lenguajes sociales: su funcionamiento performativo ysu rol modélico. Si bien no vamos a detenernos en la implementación de estos conceptos, queremos subrayarsu importancia como marco de esta reflexión. La intención final del artículo es presentar una idea positiva de las pasiones amorosas, pensándolas como termómetro de espacios sociales que llamamos provisoriamente espacios públicos, para reivindicar emociones que desde ciertas posturas del feminismo son vistas y criticadas negativamente. Con ello queremos señalar, por un lado, la pregnancia del tema en el ámbito de una determinadacultura y,por otro lado, marcar la limitación histórica del concepto de amor.

"A monthly magazine devoted to literature, military history, and agriculture." ; Title from cover. ; Poole's index to periodical literature ; Mode of access: Internet.

Letter, December 1860, written by a Cadet named "Willie" to his cousin Mary. It is romantic in nature and largely concerns their relationship.