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"This edition is reprinted from the 1971 Columbia University Press edition by arrangement with Carl Cohen." ; Includes index. ; What Civil Disobedience Is -- What Civil Disobedience Is Not -- The Kinds of Civil Disobedience -- The Punishment of Civil Disobedience -- The Justification of Civil Disobedience -- Seven Arguments Against Civil Disobedience -- Civil Disobedience and Free Speech -- Civil Disobedience and the Nuremberg Judgments -- Conscience, Tactics, and Law -- ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Mode of access: World Wide Web.

This article focuses on girls and women perceived as deviant, difficult, or different by their communities in rural Punjab, even as it pluralizes and historicizes performances of rebellious, unruly selves. Specifically, the paper uses fieldwork interactions with girls who enjoyed wanderings in out-of-bound spaces, women who claimed a position of authority as headmistresses in village schools, and women who troubled the social imaginary through their acts of intimidation and involvement in local politics in order to examine defiance of gendered norms within the context of material, structural, and discursive realities framing individual lives. The analysis illustrates how regional differences among various parts of Punjab, and hierarchies based on class, kinship, and religion within regions, demarcated the contours, scope, and consequences of women's deviance and unruliness. While the research participants' agency remained constrained by the violence in and around their lives as well as, in certain cases, their own complicity with hierarchical relations and masculinist discourses, the accounts and performances of deviance highlight the heterogeneity of rural Punjabi women's experiences, debunking the myth of passive Muslim women, and asserting the imperative for nuanced, in-depth understandings of women's negotiations of power relations.

Despite the existence of an administration - the chengguan - one of whose main roles is to control illegal street vendors, the latter are still very numerous in Beijing. This paradox can be partly explained by a form of tolerance on the part of the chengguan in response to the public resistance to their actions, which is linked to the conflictive nature of their relationship with the street vendors. This tolerance appears to be erratic, but is actually based on recurrent distinctions made by this administration. However, the informal, revocable, and ultimately unpredictable character of the control exercised by the chengguan has resulted in a continuation of the conflictive nature of their interactions with street vendors. (China Perspect/GIGA)