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Mapping the Socio-economic Diversity of Rural Canada: A Multivariate Analysis
Labor and Human Capital,
Alasia Nuti Reviews Birgit Schippers’ Julia Kristeva and Feminist Thought
Alasia Nuti, an MSc student at the Gender Institute, reviews Birgit Schipper’s new book on Julia Kristeva and feminist philosophy. Ultimately, the most valuable part of the Schipper’s book is that it does what feminism does best: applying ideas in unexplored and unconventional contexts and being original in its dismantlement of reality
High-Current Field Emission from an Atomic Quantum Wire
Linear chains of carbon atoms have been proposed as the electron emitting
structures of open tip carbon nanotubes subject to an electric field. To better
understand the implications of the results of Smalley and collaborators, the
electromagnetic response of linear carbon chains to both static and dynamics
fields have been studied, making use of ab-initio methods. It is found that the
associated emission currents, plotted as a function of the bias potential,
follow Fowler-Nordheim intensity-voltage curves typical of the field emission
of metallic tips. Under standard bias conditions, linear carbon chains of one
nanometer of length are expected to deliver currents of the order of one
microampere. These systems behave, furthermore, as conducting needles in
photoabsorption processes. Linear carbon chains are thus likely to constitute
the ultimate atomic-scale realization of metallic wires.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, RevTe
How Should Marriage be Theorized?
Feminists have noted the injustice of the institution of marriage and the asymmetric power dynamics within gender-structured marriages. Recently, feminists have found an unexpected supporter of this struggle against marriage in some liberal political theorists. I argue that this new wave of interest in the wrongness of marriage within liberalism reveals shortcomings from a feminist perspective. While some liberals fail to realise that instead of being disestablished, the institution of marriage should be radically reformed, others do not recognise that such a reform should be theorised by starting from our non-idealised conditions of gender inequality and from an analysis of how the institution of marriage intersects with other spheres of gender injustice. This article provides recommendations for the radical reform of marriage by following some methodological premises of feminist theory. To illustrate how the reform of marriage should be theorised, it focuses on the intersection between the sphere of gender injustice represented by immigration and that of marriage.</jats:p
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