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Health Insurance for Americans Approaching Age Sixty-five: An Analysis of Options for Incremental Reform
Authors: Short Pamela Farley , Shea Dennis G. , Powell M. Paige
Published: December 2005

This article provides a systematic evaluation of the options for incremental health insurance reforms aimed at older Americans nearing age sixty-five. It presents three basic arguments for giving special consideration to this age group: (1) early retirement and its effect on access to employer insurance; (2) changes in health and health care expenses associated with increasing age; (3) the vulnerability to unexpected economic or health“shocks” that will affect people throughout their retirement. The analysis of policy options begins by specifying criteria for evaluating alternative approaches to reform. The proposed criteria emphasize that reforms for this age group should be designed to fit with other financial plans and decisions made during such a transitional stage of life. Policy options should be judged according to fundamental goals such as equity and efficiency, not simply ranked according to the number of uninsured who will gain coverage. After offering a comprehensive catalog and evaluation of available options,the analysis identifies and discusses a preferred approach—which preserves choices while offering universal and subsidized access to Medicare before age sixty-five.
A Policy Transformed by Politics: The Case of the 1973 Australian Community Health Program
Authors: DeVoe Jennifer
Published: December 2005

During an era of health policy reform in Australia, community health advocates believed that community health centers (CHCs) could form a solid foundation for a new system of health care delivery. Instead, a proposal for national health insurance (Medibank) emerged as the predominant structural reform. Community health proposals were not abandoned, however, and a policy designed to give federal grant assistance for the establishment of CHCs was implemented in 1973. The historical account of how the 1973 Australian Community Health Program (CHP) was developed in the early 1970s is relevant to dilemmas faced by contemporary policy makers. Specifically, how did the CHP“survive” even though government leaders had moved away from traditional direct service models, choosing to focus more attention on indirect insurance reimbursement?
Leading the Health Policy Orchestra: The Need for an Intergovernmental Partnership
Authors: Sparer Michael S.
Published: December 2005

The past decade provides a useful window through which to examine whether states are likely to provide health care leadership. During this era, states were given increased discretion to set health care policy, they had the financial resources to encourage innovation, and their administrative capacity was at its strongest ever. Despite the favorable conditions, however, states were reluctant to spend their own funds on programs for the uninsured, their efforts to make private insurance more affordable for the small business community were disappointing, and their efforts to regulate the managed care industry fell short. At the same time, though, the most promising innovations over the past decade were in programs financed primarily with federal dollars,administered primarily by state officials, and advanced by an intergovernmental partnership in which administrators at different levels of government prod each other to try and do more. This sort of intergovernmental partnership provides the best model for innovative health policy leadership.
Who Shall Lead: Is There a Future for Population Health?
Authors: Mechanic David
Published: December 2005

Despite renewed interest in population health concerns, elevation of this field in policy considerations faces many challenges. At present there is much concern about disparities and meeting improved population health objectives,but interest waxes and wanes with scientific developments and especially with dominant political alignments and ideologies. If the field of population health is to have sustained policy influence, it requires a persistent constituency, a strong organizational base both within and outside of government, and academic respectability. Population health faces many issues in seeking to become legitimized as both a unique field of study and as a significant force in public policy. Among these are a clear definition of the boundaries of the field, a continuing flow of resources for development, and attractive career structures for new recruits and future leaders.
Emergent Patterns in the Regulation of Pharmaceuticals: Institutions and Interests in the United States, Canada, Britain, and France
Authors: Wiktorowicz Mary E.
Published: December 2005

Although industrialized nations regulate pharmaceuticals to ensure their safety and efficacy, they balance these concerns with those related to the timeliness of the approval process and the burdens involved in meeting regulatory criteria. The United States, Canada, Britain, and France have adopted different approaches to the regulation of pharmaceuticals that place varying emphases on these competing goals and involve the participation of private interests to different extents. The regulatory approval processes and the government–industry relationships inherent within them are compared in the United States, Canada, Britain, and France by analyzing five features that distinguish the U.S. pluralist from the European corporatist approaches to policy development: representation (internal versus external),process (closed versus open), stance (informal,accommodative versus formal, adversarial), institutional power(fragmented versus centralized), and resources. An institutional framework further characterizes these approaches as based on models ofmanagerial discretion and adjudication (United States),consultation (Canada), and bargaining (Britain, France) to clarify the patterns that emerge. While the approach that most effectively supports product safety involves managerial discretion as occurs in the United States, formal mechanisms for negotiation might be incorporated rather than a reliance on the judicial process. In an era of globalization and regulatory harmonization such divergence has significant implications. First, where harmonization in Europe involves the mutual recognition of one country's product licensing decision by the others, differences in evaluative processes remain important. Second, as harmonization leads to a common set of regulatory criteria, the criteria adopted tend to be those of nations with the least stringent regulatory standards, making evident the need for more responsive systems of post-market surveillance to protect the public interest.
A Technocratic Fix to the “Legitimacy Problem”? The Blair Government and Health Care Rationing in the United Kingdom
Authors: Syrett Keith
Published: December 2005

The work of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, an agency which has recently been created by Tony Blair's Labour government to provide guidance on best clinical practice to the National Health Service, has generated considerable controversy in the United Kingdom. It has been argued that the role which the institute plays in appraising cost effectiveness,especially of expensive new health technologies, constitutes explicit,national rationing. Although the employment of scientific and evidence-based criteria as the basis of decisions might have been expected to secure legitimacy for the institute—even when its recommendations have the effect of denying access to a particular treatment—the reaction to much of its work so far indicates that this goal has not been fully achieved. While alterations to structure and procedure may be considered as possible means of addressing the agency's difficulties, such proposals are not without problems. Consequently, in the final analysis, the British example may serve as a demonstration that the inherently political nature of priority-setting in health care precludes any easy technocratic solution.
Adoption of Retrospective Medicare Maximization Billing Practices by State Medicaid Home Care Programs
Authors: Anderson Wayne L. , Kenney Genevieve S. , Rabiner Donna J.
Published: December 2005

Home care services funded by Medicare and Medicaid grew rapidly throughout most of the 1990s. During this period some state Medicaid programs transferred costs for home care claims to the Medicare program to reduce their liability and increase beneficiary access to Medicare coverage. This article reports the findings of the first national study of these Medicare maximization billing practices for home care services. Primary data were collected to determine which states conduct retrospective Medicare billing practices and the amounts recovered from Medicare. Our analysis indicates that seven states recovered as much as $265 million from Medicare in state and federal dollars during the 1990s. Ratios of recovered expenditures-to-costs incurred for retrospective billing practices conducted in Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts are between 5:1 and 7:1. While retrospective billing practices may aid states in reducing Medicaid outlays and potentially help dual Medicare beneficiaries gain coverage for their home care claims, they increase Medicare expenditures for home care at a time of concern for the long-term financial viability of Medicare and illustrate the need for reforming our national long-term care financing policy.
How Physicians' Organizations Compete: Protectionism and Efficiency
Authors: Page Stephen
Published: December 2005

This article develops a framework that distinguishes four types of competitive strategies that physicians' organizations can adopt in their interactions with health plans. Two types of strategies protect physicians'incomes and autonomy from incursion and control by insurers; the other two enhance the efficiency of health care markets by controlling costs and embedding physicians' caregiving in a community of professionals. The mix of strategies that each organization adopts at any given time depends on the market conditions and regulatory policies it faces, as well as its organizational capacity. The article reviews recent developments in the field that indicate that today's markets and regulations create neither the pressures nor the capacity for physicians' organizations to adopt strategies that enhance efficiency. The managed care backlash has led to a relaxation of pressures to control costs, and the lack of a business case for quality has discouraged embedded caregiving. These developments instead have encouraged and enabled physicians' organizations to adopt strategies that protect their members from the bargaining power and micromanagement of health plans. The article therefore proposes changes in purchasing and regulatory policies to alter the pressures and improve the capacity of physicians' organizations to pursue efficiency and eschew protectionism.
Ethnic Politics, Policy Fragmentation, and Dependent Health Care Access in California
Authors: Leichter Howard
Published: December 2005

One out of every six nonelderly Americans without health insurance lives in California. The problem of access to competent and dependable health care is especially problematic among the state's minority, and especially Hispanic,population. Because one-third of the country's Hispanics live in California,how this state deals with health access issues will affect the practice and progress toward universal care in the nation as a whole. Expanding health care access to California's dependent population will involve overcoming a number of well-known administrative and fiscal obstacles, including an underfunded,highly fragmented public health care system that has developed incrementally and incoherently over decades. However, a key to understanding the problem of access to health care in California involves a story of how ethnic conflict and partisan politics often conspire to deny or discourage access for eligible women and children.
States and the Politics of Incrementalism: Health Policy in Wisconsin during the 1990s
Authors: Sparer Michael S.
Published: December 2005

Wisconsin officials during the 1990s seemed poised to enact innovative and comprehensive health care reform. During that era, an ambitious, popular, and reform-minded governor led the state. The state had an unusually professional legislature. The state's economy was strong. Even with these advantages,however, the report card on the state's efforts is mixed. The state enacted a fairly modest set of reforms that were financed largely by the federal government and subject to extensive federal oversight. The Wisconsin story thus seems to be about the politics of incrementalism. But while critics of incrementalist politics point out that the number of uninsured continues to grow, the catalytic federalism witnessed in Wisconsin in the 1990s may well be the best model for implementing health care reform.
The Distributional Consequences of a Medicare Premium Support Proposal
Authors: Rice Thomas , Desmond Katherine A.
Published: December 2005

This article analyzes the distributional consequences of enacting a particular premium support proposal known as Breaux-Frist I. Under the proposal, the federal government would contribute a certain amount toward the purchase of Medicare coverage, based on the premiums charged by different health plans. Beneficiaries could choose something akin to the traditional fee-for-service option or a privately sponsored health plan such as a health maintenance organization. The article simulates the expected distributional impacts in three areas: among beneficiaries who choose to retain fee-for-service coverage, between different geographic areas, and according to various beneficiary characteristics. We find that the legislation would result in increased premiums for beneficiaries remaining in the Medicare fee-for-service program as a result of unfavorable selection; lead to a geographic redistribution in premium payments, with those living in areas with high levels of Medicare expenditures paying more; and a much lower financial burden than is the case now for near-poor beneficiaries who do not have full Medicaid coverage. Finally, the article discusses how these results compare to those that may occur under the premium support demonstration project,beginning in 2010, established under the Medicare Prescription Drug,Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.
Health Care Reform in Germany: Patchwork Change within Established Governance Structures
Authors: Altenstetter Christa , Busse Reinhard
Published: December 2005

Under the pressure of health care reform in the 1990s, interactions among the state, sickness funds, and providers in Germany are said to have entered a new era. We examine this new era by assessing both long-term developments connected to German statutory health insurance (SHI) and related short-term developments of the 1990s. Highly institutionalized rules and practices provide little opportunity for abandoning the historical path of two primary factors: the self-governance of SHI and a strong tradition of a semisovereign state. Some opportunities exist for introducing new ideas, rearranging priorities, softening rules, and adding new complex rules and procedures in a fairly fragmented policy-making system, perhaps even because of fragmentation. Yet reforms that depart from the status quo are severely limited by strong legal and administrative traditions and established rules of the game. These restrictions tend to reinforce state intervention, prevent the emergence of consistent and coherent visions of future health policy, and stifl e policy innovation and implementation. In sum, reform measures tend to remain well within the priorities established within state and corporatist governance structures.
Power Rather Than Path Dependency? The Dynamics of Institutional Change under Health Care Federalism
Authors: Rico Ana , Costa-Font Joan
Published: December 2005

Proposals for government decentralization rank high on the political reform agenda of health systems worldwide. Their impact on welfare state performance and change, however, is still under theoretical scrutiny. This article examines the impact of devolution on the construction of the Spanish National Health Service (NHS) in an attempt to shed some light on this debate. Against widespread claims of path dependency, we argue that the specific nature of the devolution model developed in Spain, given the more egalitarian sociopolitical structure that resulted from democratization, fostered policy innovation and institutional change. Consolidation of an NHS system was compatible with some regional diversity and apparently prevented the rise of signifi cant territorial inequalities. The Spanish case also suggests that policy change depends more on the distribution of social power than on institutions. It underlines the key role of financial and knowledge transfers vis-à-vis institutional reforms in effecting social change as well as the potential for state intervention in supporting the development of collective action resources by social groups.
European Health Systems Reforms: Looking Backward to See Forward?
Authors: Oliver Adam , Mossialos Elias
Published: December 2005

In this article we outline the different schools of new institutionalism and a few other selected political science theories. Moreover, we relate the insights offered by a series of analyses of health sector change in a large number of European countries over the past twenty to thirty years to these theoretical frameworks. Our main conclusion is that it is unlikely that a single explanatory theory will ever be able to account for all of the health sector developments in any one country, let alone across many countries with diverse cultures, histories, institutions, and interest groups. Consequently,a real understanding of health sector change will require a recognition that different theoretical approaches will be more (or less) appropriate in some circumstances than in others.
State Autonomy, Policy Paralysis: Paradoxes of Institutions and Culture in the French Health Care System
Authors: Rochaix Lise , Wilsford David
Published: December 2005

In this article, we assess the recent performance of the French state at containing costs in health care using political science concepts such as path dependency and incentives, which are central to an economic approach. The article focuses on institutional capacities and cultural immobilism and attempts to lay bare the tensions at play in seizing (or not) opportunities for structural change. In particular, we attempt to delineate what constitutes real change in this policy arena (big reforms versus the accumulation of many small policy movements) and to understand the variables at play in the coming together of conjunctures that provide for the big, as well as the underlying structures that allow the accumulation of the small. Except in cases of favorable conjuncture, the analysis bodes very ill for nonincremental reform and, indeed, for significant change over the long term.
Choosing Healthplans All Together: A Deliberative Exercise for Allocating Limited Health Care Resources
Authors: Goold Susan Dorr , Biddle Andrea K. , Klipp Glenn , Hall Charles N. , Danis Marion
Published: December 2005

CHAT (Choosing Healthplans All Together) is an exercise in participatory decision making designed to engage the public in health care priority setting. Participants work individually and then in groups to distribute a limited number of pegs on a board as they select from a wide range of insurance options. Randomly distributed health events illustrate the consequences of insurance choices. In 1999-2000, the authors conducted fifty sessions of CHAT involving 592 residents of North Carolina. The exercise was rated highly regarding ease of use, informativeness, and enjoyment. Participants found the information believable and complete, thought the group decision-making process was fair, and were willing to abide by group decisions. CHAT holds promise as a tool to foster group deliberation, generate collective choices, and incorporate the preferences and values of consumers into allocation decisions. It can serve to inform and stimulate public dialogue about limited health care resources.
Weighing Both Sides: Morality, Mortality, and Framing Contests over Obesity
Authors: Saguy Abigail C. , Riley Kevin W.
Published: December 2005

Despite recent and growing media attention surrounding obesity in the United States, the so-called obesity epidemic remains a highly contested scientific and social fact. This article examines the contemporary obesity debate through systematic examination of the claims and claimants involved in the controversy. We argue that four primary groups—antiobesity researchers, antiobesity activists, fat acceptance researchers, and fat acceptance activists—are at the forefront of this controversy and that these groups are fundamentally engaged in framing contests over the nature and consequences of excess body weight. While members of the fat acceptance groups embrace a body diversity frame, presenting fatness as a natural and largely inevitable form of diversity, members of the antiobesity camp frame higher weights as risky behavior akin to smoking, implying that body weight is under personal control and that people have a moral and medical responsibility to manage their weight. Both groups sometimes frame obesity as an illness, which limits blame by suggesting that weight is biologically or genetically determined but simultaneously stigmatizes fat bodies as diseased. While the antiobesity camp frames obesity as an epidemic to increase public attention,fat acceptance activists argue that concern over obesity is distracting attention from a host of more important health issues for fat Americans. We examine the strategies claimants use to establish their own credibility or discredit their opponents, and explain how the fat acceptance movement has exploited structural opportunities and cultural resources created by AIDS activism and feminism to wield some influence over U.S. public health approaches. We conclude that notions of morality play a central role in the controversy over obesity, as in many medical disputes, and illustrate how medical arguments about body weight can be used to stymie rights claims and justify morality-based fears.
“Come Up to the Kool Taste”: African American Upward Mobility and the Semiotics of Smoking Menthols
Authors: Jain Sarah S. Lochlann
Published: December 2005

Sarah S. Lochlann Jain is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Stanford University. Recent publications include “Urban Errands: The Meaning of Mobility” (Journal of Consumer Culture,November 2002). Currently she is writing a book on the problem of injury,product design, and social inequality in the United States.
The State of Emergency and the Revival of American Imperialism: Toward an Authoritarian Post-Fordism
Authors: Steinmetz George
Published: December 2005

George Steinmetz is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Michigan. He is author of “Precoloniality and Colonial Subjectivity: Ethnographic Discourse and Native Policy in German Overseas Imperialism, 1780s–1914,” in Political Power and Social Theory (2002), and has recently completed a manuscript on precolonial ethnographic discourse and colonial state formation in German Samoa, southwest Africa, and Qingdao.
Trust and Gender in a Transnational Market: The Public Culture of Laleli, Istanbul
Authors: Yükseker Deniz
Published: December 2005

Deniz Yükseker teaches sociology at Koc University in Istanbul. She is preparing a book manuscript on the informal economy between Turkey and the former Soviet Union and has begun a second research project on the internal displacement of Turkey's Kurdish population.
From Visuality to Postcolonial African Politics: A Conversation with Saidou Mohamed N'Daou
Authors: Shipley Jesse Weaver
Published: December 2005

Saidou Mohamed N'Daou teaches history at Chicago State University.Jesse Weaver Shipley is an assistant professor of Anthropology and African and African Diaspora Studies at Bard College. His recent research and publications are on popular culture, media, national politics, and race in West Africa.
From Englishization to Imposed Multilingualism: Globalization, the Internet, and the Political Economy of the Linguistic Code
Authors: Dor Daniel
Published: December 2005

Daniel Dor teaches in the Department of Communication at Tel Aviv University. His research interests include the linguistic consequences of globalization, the role of the media in the construction of political hegemony, and the cultural-biological evolution of language. He is the author of Intifada Hits the Headlines: How the Israeli Press Misreported the Outbreak of the Second Palestinian Uprising (2003).
Goddess across the Taiwan Strait: Matrifocal Ritual Space, Nation-State,and Satellite Television Footprints
Authors: Yang Mayfair Mei-hui
Published: December 2005

Mayfair Mei-hui Yang teaches in the anthropology and religious studies departments at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is working on a book manuscript titled “Re-Enchanting Modernity:Sovereignty, Popular Rituals, and Indigenous Civil Society in Coastal China.”
The Genuflected Body of the Masochist in Richard Wright
Authors: Basu Biman
Published: December 2005

Biman Basu teaches in the Department of English at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. This article, along with “Hybrid Embodiment and an Ethics of Masochism,” which appeared in African American Review (fall 2002), is part of a manuscript in progress, “The Commerce of Peoples: A Reading of African American Literature.”
Thabo Mbeki's AIDS Blues: The Intellectual, the Archive, and the Pandemic
Authors: Hoad Neville
Published: December 2005

Neville Hoad is an assistant proffessor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. His work has appeared in Postcolonial Studies, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Development Update, Jewish Affairs, reper-cussions, and in several anthologies. He is currently at work on a book project entitled “African Intimacy: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization in African Literature and History.”
Anxious Advocacy: The Novel, the Law, and Extrajudicial Appeals in Egypt
Authors: Colla Elliott
Published: December 2005

Elliott Colla teaches comparative literature at Brown University. He recently completed a book manuscript entitled “Conflicted Antiquities,” which is a study of the figures of Egyptian antiquities in classical Arabic literature, European travel writing, legal discourses, and modern Egyptian literature. He also serves on the editorial committee ofMiddle East Report.
The Agency of Assemblages and the North American Blackout
Authors: Bennett Jane
Published: December 2005

Jane Bennett is a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University and a founding member of the journal theory & event. Her recent publications include The Enchantment of Modern Life (2001)and “The Force of Things: Steps toward an Ecology of Matter”(Political Theory, 2004). She is working on a book that explores the ecological implications of different conceptions of materiality in contemporary political thought.
Purebreds and Amazons: Saying Things with Horses in Late-Nineteenth-Century France
Authors: WEIL KARI
Published: December 2005

kari weil is Visiting Associate Professor of French atUCLA and the author of Androgyny and the Denial of Difference (University of Virginia Press, 1992). This essay is taken from her current project, entitled “Meat, Motion, and Mobility:Representations and Uses of the Horse in Nineteenth-Century France.”
Ferenczi's Dangerous Proximities: Telepathy, Psychosis, and the Real Event
Authors: THURSCHWELL PAMELA
Published: December 2005

pamela thurschwell is a research fellow at Queens' College,Cambridge. She has recently published on Henry James in Textual Practice. This article is part of a forthcoming book entitled Magical Thinking: Intimacy, Technology, and the Occult Imagination at the Turn of the Century.
Just Fooling: Paper, Money, Poe
Authors: MCLAUGHLIN KEVIN
Published: December 2005

kevin mclaughlin is Associate Professor of English at Brown University. He is the author of Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Stanford University Press, 1995) and co-translator with Howard Eiland of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project(Harvard University Press, 1999). He is currently at work on a book tentatively entitled “The Coming of Paper: Fiction and Value in the Paper Age” that deals with the image of paper as a reflection on aesthetic value in nineteenth-century fiction. This article is a part of that project.
Marriage Acts: Stages in the Transformation of Modern Nuptial Culture
Authors: O'CONNELL LISA
Published: December 2005

lisa o'connell teaches at the University of Queensland. Her dissertation is on the representation of marriage and sexuality in eighteenth-century print and stage cultures.
Orifices Extended in Space
Authors: COTTOM DANIEL
Published: December 2005

daniel cottom is David A. Burr Chair of Letters at the University of Oklahoma. This essay is adapted from his most recent book,Cannibals & Philosophers: Metamorphoses of Enlightenment (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming).
The Hotel Kracauer
Authors: KATZ MARC
Published: December 2005

marc katz is on the faculty of the Claremont College where he is a member of the Program in German and a participant in interdisciplinary studies in the humanities. He has published on Benjamin, Wim Wenders, and Kierkegaard. He is currently writing a book on taste and cultural theory.
Seminal Dispersal, Fecal Retention, and Related Narrative Matters: Eileen Chang's Tale of Roses in the Problematic of Modern Writing
Authors: CHOW REY
Published: December 2005

rey chow is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University, where she teaches in the Departments of Modern Culture and Media, and Comparative Literature. She is the author of a number of books, the most recent of which is Ethics after Idealism:Theory–Culture–Ethnicity–Reading (Indiana University Press, 1998). She is also editor of Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field (Duke University Press,forthcoming).
“Are You There Yet?”: Libertinage and the Semantics of the Orgasm
Authors: STEINTRAGER JAMES A.
Published: December 2005

james a. steintrager is an assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is currently completing a book on the aesthetics of inhumanity in eighteenth-century England, France,and Germany.
The Imaginary Materiality of Writing in Poe's “Ligeia”
Authors: VON MÜCKE DOROTHEA
Published: December 2005

DOROTHEA VON MÜCKE is Professor of German at Columbia University. She is the author of Virtue and the Veil of Illusion: Generic Innovation and the Pedagogical Project in Eighteenth Century Literature(Stanford University Press, 1991), as well as coeditor (with Veronica Kelly)of Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century (Stanford University Press, 1994). Her book Modernity and the Occult: The Rise of the Fantastic Tale is forthcoming from Stanford University Press, and she is coeditor of The New History of German Literature, which will be published by Harvard University Press.
“In the Blood”: Sentiment, Sex, and the Ugly Girl
Authors: BAUER DALE M.
Published: December 2005

dale m. bauer is Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky. This essay is part of a book on sex expression and American women writers from 1860 to 1940. She is coediting the Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and has also written on feminist theory, Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and critical pedagogy.
American Nationhood as Eugenic Romance
Authors: KOSHY SUSAN
Published: December 2005

susan koshy is an interdisciplinary scholar who writes on racial formation and the construction of gendered ethnicity in diasporic communities. Her articles have appeared in the Yale Journal of Criticism, boundary2,Diaspora, Social Text, and Transition. She is currently finishing a book on Asian American representation.
Hannah=hannaH: Politics, Ethics, and Clairvoyance in the Work of Hannah Weiner
Authors: GOLDMAN JUDITH
Published: December 2005

judith goldman is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University. Her book of poems, Vocoder, was published in Spring 2001 by Roof Books. She is currently at work on a project that investigates the relationships among gendered authorship, sanctioned forms of exchange,monetary representations of value, and the trope of equivalence in late-eighteenth-century writing by British women.
After Patriarchal Poetry: Feminism and the Contemporary Avant-Garde. Introductory Note
Authors: EVANS STEVE
Published: December 2005

steve evans is an assistant professor at the University of Maine, where he teaches avant-garde poetry and poetics, critical theory, and American women's literature. A former assistant editor ofdifferences, he at present coedits the journal Sagetrieb: Poetry and Poetics after Modernism with Benjamin Friedlander. Recent essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetics Journal, Aerial, and Qui Parle and in the collections The Mechanics of the Mirage: Postwar American Poetry and Telling It Slant: Avant-Garde Poetries of the 1990s.
The Thing in the Poem:Maud's Hymen
Authors: ROWLINSON MATTHEW
Published: December 2005

matthew rowlinson teaches English and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Tennyson's Fixations:Psychoanalysis and the Topics of the Early Poetry (University Press of Virginia, 1994). Besides other articles on Victorian literature, he has also written on monetary history. His current project is a book on literary allegory, paper money, and materiality in the long nineteenth century.
A Semiprivate Room
Authors: ROONEY ELLEN
Published: December 2005

ellen rooney is Associate Professor of Modern Culture and Media and English at Brown University. She is the author of Seductive Reasoning:Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory (Cornell University Press, 1989) and is currently at work on a book entitled A Semiprivate Room.
The Wrong Question: Thinking through Virginity
Authors: SCHWARZ KATHRYN
Published: December 2005

kathryn schwarz is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance (Duke University Press, 2000) and is currently working on a project titled Femininity and Intention in Early Modern England.
Feminist Film Theory: Osaka, circa 1866
Authors: LONG MARGHERITA
Published: December 2005

margherita long is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her article “Tanizaki and the Enjoyment of Japanese Culturalism”appears in the fall 2002 issue of positions: east asia cultures critique. She is completing a book manuscript called Perversions of Intimacy: Tanizaki and the Sex of Prewar Japan.
Between Mother and History: Jean Stafford, Marguerite Oswald, and U.S. Cold War Women's Citizenship
Authors: BALDWIN KATE A.
Published: December 2005

kate a. baldwin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922–1963 (Duke University Press, 2002) and is currently working on a second book project titled Authenticating Nations: Cultural Fictions of Soviet and American Women during the Cold War.
Technologies of Humanness, Aporias of Biopolitics, and the Cut Body of Humanity
Authors: ATHANASIOU ATHENA
Published: December 2005

athena athanasiou is a social anthropologist. She teaches at the University of Thessaly, Department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology, in Greece. She writes on biopolitics, gender, biotechnologies,aids, and anthropological theory. She is currently working on a book manuscript about the anxious biopolitical techno-body of/in Europe.
The Passions of Michel Foucault
Authors: HEINER BRADY THOMAS
Published: December 2005

brady thomas heiner is currently studying at the University of Padua. He is the coauthor with Ariana Mangual of “The Repressive Social Function of Schools in Racialized Communities,” which appeared inStates of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons, edited by Joy James (St. Martin's Press, 2002). His article “Social Death and the Relationship between Prison Abolition and Reform” is forthcoming inSocial Justice.
Exhaustible Humanity: Using Up Language, Using Up Man
Authors: MIESZKOWSKI JAN
Published: December 2005

jan mieszkowski is Assistant Professor of German and Humanities at Reed College. He has recently completed a book on the models of productivity and praxis that arise at the intersection of German Romanticism and classical political economy. His new project, Murmurs of Democracy, explores the politics of poetic abnegation from Novalis to Beckett.
Against Melancholia: Contemporary Mourning Theory, Fitzgerald'sThe Great Gatsby, and the Politics of Unfinished Grief
Authors: FORTER GREG
Published: December 2005

greg forter is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He is the author of Murdering Masculinities:Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel (New York University Press, 2000) and is currently engaged in a project about gender,capitalist modernity, and strategies of mourning in American modernism.
The Tale of the Goldsmith's Floor
Authors: SCHOR MIRA
Published: December 2005

mira schor is a painter and writer living in New York. She is the author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture (1997) and the coeditor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory,and Criticism (2000), both from Duke University Press. She teaches in the MFA Painting and Sculpture Program in the Fine Arts Department of Parsons School of Design.
Reflections on Victorian Fashion Plates
Authors: MARCUS SHARON
Published: December 2005

sharon marcus teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author ofApartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London (University of California Press, 1999) and of articles on feminist theory, the history of sexuality, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. She is currently completing a book on female homoeroticism and the Victorian family.
The Close-Up: Scale and Detail in the Cinema
Authors: DOANE MARY ANN
Published: December 2005

mary ann doane is George Hazard Crooker Professor of Modern Culture and Media and of English at Brown University. She is the author ofThe Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of the 1940s (Indiana University Press, 1987), Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory,Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 1991), The Emergence of Cinematic Time:Modernity, Contingency, the Archive (Harvard University Press, 2002), and has published a wide range of articles on feminist film theory, sound in the cinema, psychoanalytic theory, television, and sexual and racial difference in film.
The Origin of the Specious
Authors: GOLDSTEIN JUDITH L.
Published: December 2005

judith l. goldstein, Professor of Anthropology at Vassar College, has done ethnographic and archival research in Iran, Israel, Paris,and Rome. She has published on ethnic, religious, and sexual identity; on folk theater and popular culture; on consumer culture in nineteenth-century Paris and the contemporary United States; and on aesthetics and modernity. Her current project, Souvenirs of Rome, based on her fieldwork with Roman souvenir vendors, explores the role of peddling in a modern economy and the theme of memory and material culture.
The Wolf in the Dog: Animal Fables and State Formation
Authors: BLOCH R. HOWARD
Published: December 2005

r. howard bloch is Augustus R. Street Professor of French at Yale University and the author of ten books, among which The Anonymous Marie de France (University of Chicago Press, 2003). He is currently working on a book about the Bayeux Tapestry.
Animals That Talk; or, Stutter
Authors: SHELL MARC
Published: December 2005

marc shell is Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Harvard University. His books include Art and Money (Chicago University Press, 1995), The End of Kinship:Measure for Measure, Incest, and the Ideal of Universal Siblinghood(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), and Children of the Earth:Literature, Politics, and Nationhood (Oxford University Press, 1993). Among other anthologies, he has coedited with Werner Sollers The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature: A Reader of Original Texts with English Translations (New York University Press, 2000), a product of The Longfellow Institute, of which he is co-director. His book Polio and Its Aftermaths is forthcoming with Harvard University Press (2004); another book, Stutter, is also forthcoming with the same press.
Tolerance and/or Equality? The “Jewish Question” and the“ Woman Question”
Authors: BROWN WENDY
Published: December 2005

wendy brown teaches political theory at the University of California, Berkeley. Recent books include States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton University Press, 1995);Politics out of History (Princeton University Press, 2001); Left Legalism/Left Critique, coedited with Janet Halley (Duke University Press, 2002); and Edgework: Essays on Knowledge and Politics(Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2005). She is completing a book provisionally titled Regulating Aversion: A Critique of Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire.
Refiguring Rights through the Political Practice of Sexual Difference
Authors: ZERILLI LINDA M. G.
Published: December 2005

linda m. g. zerilli is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. She is the author of Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill (Cornell University Press, 1994),Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom (Chicago University Press,forthcoming 2004), and articles on feminist theory and democratic theory.
The “Mere Fortuity” of Birth? Are Children Citizens?
Authors: BHABHA JACQUELINE
Published: December 2005

jacqueline bhabhais Lecturer at Harvard Law School, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and Executive Director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies. Her publications include Women's Movement: Women under Immigration, Nationality, and Refugee Law (Stylus Publishers, 1994)and Asylum Law and Practice in Europe and North America (Federal Publishers, 1992). She is currently writing a book titled Moving Children:Migration, Childhood, and the Quest for Rights.
Refashioning Race:dnaand the Politics of Health Care
Authors: FAUSTO-STERLING ANNE
Published: December 2005

anne fausto-sterling is Professor of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University. Her most recent book is Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (Basic Books, 2000). Her current work concerns applications of dynamic systems approaches to gendered and racialized embodiment. Her article, “The Bare Bones of Sex Part I” is forthcoming in Signs.
The Afterlife of Coverture: Contract and Gift in “The Ballad of the Sad Café”
Authors: MORGENSTERN NAOMI
Published: December 2005

naomi morgenstern is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. She has published essays on a range of twentieth-century writers and theorists, including Toni Morrison, Willa Cather, Catherine Mackinnon, E. L. Doctorow, and Alice Munro. Her examination of marital philosophy in the work of Charles Brockden Brown recently appeared in the Blackwell Companion to Early American Fiction. She is working on a book-length study of conjugal politics and American literature.
Did the Supreme Court Come Out inBush V. Gore? Queer Theory on the Performance of the Politics of Shame
Authors: BURGESS SUSAN
Published: December 2005

susan burgess is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Women's Studies at Ohio University. She is the author ofContest for Constitutional Authority: The Abortion and War Powers Debates (University Press of Kansas, 1992) and is currently completing a book entitled Who's Your Daddy? Constitutional Parody, Queer Theory, and Popular Culture.
What Is a Literary Landscape? Immanence and the Ethics of Form
Authors: BEWES TIMOTHY
Published: December 2005

timothy bewes is Assistant Professor of English at Brown University and the author of Cynicism and Postmodernity (Verso,1997), and Reification, or The Anxiety of Late Capitalism (Verso,2002).
Women in the Fortress Europe: Feminist Crime Fiction as Antifascist Performative
Authors: SIEG KATRIN
Published: December 2005

katrin sieg is Associate Professor affiliated with the bmw Center for German and European Studies and the German department at Georgetown University. She is the author of Exiles, Eccentrics, Activists: Women in Contemporary German Theatre (1994) and Ethnic Drag: Performing Race,Nation, Sexuality in West Germany (2002, both with University of Michigan Press). She has published in the areas of contemporary German culture,theater, and feminist theory. Currently, she is completing a book on German popular culture and feminist critiques of globalization, titled Sexing Germany.
Vulnerability and Metamorphosis
Authors: DEUTSCHER PENELOPE
Published: December 2005

penelope deutscher is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. She is the author of Yielding Gender: Feminism,Deconstruction, and the History of Philosophy (Routledge, 1997) and A Politics of Impossible Difference: The Recent Work of Luce Irigaray(Cornell University Press, 2002). She is coeditor (with Kelly Oliver) ofEnigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman (Cornell University Press, 1999) and(with Françoise Collin) of Repenser le politique: l'apport du féminisme (Campagne première, 2005).
To Follow
Authors: KAMUF PEGGY
Published: December 2005

peggy kamuf has translated several works by Jacques Derrida and edited two volumes of his essays, A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds (Columbia University Press, 1991) and Without Alibi(Stanford University Press, 2002). The author most recently of Book of Addresses (Stanford University Press, 2005), she teaches French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California.
Notes toward a Tribute to Jacques Derrida
Authors: SPIVAK GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY
Published: December 2005

gayatri chakravorty spivak is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Her most recent book, Other Asias, is forthcoming (Blackwell, 2005).
Sexing Differances
Authors: BERGER ANNE-EMMANUELLE
Published: December 2005

anne-emmanuelle berger is Professor of French Literature at Cornell University and Visiting Professor at the Centre de Recherches en Etudes Féminines at Paris VIII University. Her recent publications include Algeria in Others' Languages (Cornell University Press, 2002)and Scènes d'aumône: Misère et poésie au XIXe siècle (Champion, 2004). She is currently writing on Derrida.
Derrida: The Gift of the Future
Authors: CORNELL DRUCILLA
Published: December 2005

drucilla cornell is Professor of Political Science, Comparative Literature, and Women and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Cornell has authored many books including Defending Ideals (Routledge, 2004),Between Women and Generations (Palgrave, 2002), At the Heart of Freedom (Princeton University Press, 1998), The Imaginary Domain(Routledge, 1995), Transformations (Routledge, 1993), and The Philosophy of the Limit (Routledge, 1992). Currently, Cornell is collaboratively directing a research project in South Africa that seeks to deepen the role of African jurisprudence through ideals like“ubuntu” to inform constitutional clauses and legal interpretations in the ongoing building of the new South Africa.
The Gift of Metaphor
Authors: BERNSTEIN SUSAN
Published: December 2005

susan bernstein is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. She is the author of Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century: Performing Language and Music (Stanford University Press, 1998),and of various articles on Heine, music, and romanticism. She is currently working on a book, Housing Problems: Writing and Architecture in Goethe,Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger.