Archive - Year - 2002

What is the matter with Mary Jane? She’s perfectly well and she hasn’t a pain, And it’s lovely rice pudding for dinner again — What is the matter with Mary Jane? A.A. Milne [1] Like the little girl in A. A. Milne’s poem, accused poisoner Madeleine Smith was the object...

(part of a series in Issue 35: Masculinity and Labor Under Capitalism – Edited by DONALD MORTON) 1] The view that there is a crisis of masculinity is often associated with a discourse that demonises men, especially young men, as pathological. This discourse reinforces the case for greater social control...

(part of a series in Issue 35: Masculinity and Labor Under Capitalism – Edited by DONALD MORTON) [1] There are a myriad ways to understand the importance of masculinity for Marxism, including whether one is interested in the analysis of gender and sexuality in divisions of labor or mutations of...

(part of a series in Issue 35: Masculinity and Labor Under Capitalism – Edited by DONALD MORTON) “The research university is structured like a nuclear family: the scientists are the dads, and they go out and make the money, and the humanists are the moms, and they stay home and...

(part of a series in Issue 35: Masculinity and Labor Under Capitalism – Edited by DONALD MORTON) “[The] organization of power – that is, the manner in which desire is already in the economic, in which libido invests the economic – haunts the exonomic and nourishes political forms of repression...