Masculinity, Sexuality and the Visual Culture of Glam Rock

Glam Rock. a musical style accompanied by a flamboyant dress code emerged during the early 1970s. This essay looks at the changing representations of masculinity which occured during the late 1960s and early 1970s. leading eventually to the Glam Rock phenomenon. The impact of social changes including the legalisation of homosexuality and the growth of the women's liberation movement and their effect on male representation will be explored. There will be an examination fashion and retailing for men. "unisex" style to demonstrate how menswear became increasingly feminised. culminating eventually in the adoption of full transvestism by male performing artists like David Bowie. The relationship between Glam Rock and other musical subcultures will also be discussed with a view to explaining how the eventual adoption of transvestism by Glam Rock performers exposed and challenged the hegemony of the prevailing metanarrative of heterosexual male freedom within 1970s popular culture

Galactic Spiral Arms: Structure and Dynamics Given by an Equation of Motion

Using an equation of motion for a self-gravitating filament, we show how galactic spiral arms might be created and sustained. We find that the combination of differential rotation of the galactic disk and the self-gravity of the arm (as given by the equation) leads to a rotating spiral structure. Moreover, using this analysis, we then find a second differential equation that explicitly relates this spiral structure to the rotation curve of the galaxy -- it connects several factors, including spiral shape and pattern speed. We also describe a simple many-body numerical experiment that supports our approach. The findings are with consistent with observational evidence concerning arm structure and rotation curves, including leading arm structures

Downward Mobility From the Middle Class: Waking Up From the American Dream

Examines trends in Americans falling out of the middle class, ranking 20 or more percentiles below their parents, or earning 20 percent or more below their parents' real income, and contributing factors across race/ethnicity and gender

Three Pictures of Contract: Duty, Power and Compound Rule

A fundamental divide among theories of contract law is between those that picture contract as a power and those that picture it as a duty. On the power-conferring picture, contracting is a sort of legislative act, in which persons determine what law will apply to their transaction. On the duty-imposing picture, contract law puts duties on persons entering into agreements for consideration whether they want them or not. Until now, very little attention has been paid to the problem of how to tell whether a given rule is power conferring or duty imposing -- a question that should lie at the center of contract theory. This Article argues that two characteristic features of legal powers are an expectation that actors will satisfy the rule with the purpose of achieving the legal consequences and legal rules designed to facilitate such uses. A law might exhibit these features in either of two ways, which define two types of legal powers. Many power-creating laws employ conditions of legal validity, such as legal formalities, designed to ensure the actor\u27s legal purpose. The presence of such validity conditions is strong evidence that the law\u27s sole function is to create a legal power, and I suggest reserving the term power-conferring for such laws. Other laws anticipate and enable their purposive use without conditioning an act\u27s legal consequences on the actor\u27s legal purpose. The structure of such laws suggests that they function both to create powers and to impose duties. I coin the term compound for laws that satisfy this description, and argue that the contract law we have is a compound rule. The dual function of compound rules provides empirical support for pluralist justifications of contract law. An example of such a theory can be found in Joseph Raz’s comments on the relationship between contract law and voluntary obligations