Review of Contagious Representation: Women’s Political Representation in Democracies around the World

heterogeneity within the orientalist discourse: representation of the orient in womens travelogues and mens paintings

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...

Political representation and ethnic conflict in new democracies

This paper is an exploratory analysis of the efficacy of parliamentary representation as a means to moderate ethnic conflict in new democracies. We agree with many others that the interests of an ethnic minority group are better protected when the group has access to decision makers, can block harmful government policies, and can veto potentially damaging decisions. Parliamentary representation...

The Political Representation of Women and Ethnic Minorities in Established Democracies: A Framework for Comparative Research

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

The Representation of Secret in Masnavi Manavi

        Being one of the significant mystic books, Masnavi Manavi has a prominent place in presenting ontology of human being. As though by its revelation, one can reach many mystic and human concepts. Some of the important issues in this work include knowing the secret and secret keeping. The most profound place in Masnavi is where secret and secret keeping are mentioned. Molavi, himself as a...