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Sophie Pezzutto
Bio: Sophie Pezzutto is an academic researcher from Australian National University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social structure & Social change. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 22 citations.
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TL;DR: Using Said's orientalism as an analytical framework, the authors situates the contemporary Confucian revival within a longue duree of cultural discourse originating in the nineteenth century.
Abstract: Using Said’s orientalism as an analytical framework, this article situates the contemporary Confucian revival within a longue duree of cultural discourse originating in the nineteenth century. From...
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02 Dec 2019TL;DR: In this paper, a ten months of ethnographic field work in Las Vegas and Los Angeles was conducted to explore how transgender pornography performers navigate various economic, technological, and social changes confronting the industry.
Abstract: Drawing on ten months of ethnographic field work in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, this article reflects on how transgender pornography performers navigate various economic, technological, and social changes confronting the industry. From the fracturing of the production landscape and the rise of social media platforms such as Twitter and Instagram, porn performers today operate in a vastly different environment than just two decades ago. Because they can no longer rely on big studios to provide them with a stable income, performers are much more productively thought of as entrepreneurs, or as I call it, porntropreneurs who are harnessing social media to earn income from a diverse range of erotic and sexual services that are based on a carefully curated personal brand. This personal brand extends into various aspects of their lives and shapes decisions from friendships to surgery. My research suggests that the most successful porn performers today embody a unique brand distinct from their competitors, often so all-encompassing that it can cause alienation. Reflecting on how transgender performers act as active agents situated within these technological, economic, and social structures can help us better understand subject formation in the context of 21st-century neoliberal internet capitalism.Keywords: transgender, pornography, online entrepreneurship, social media, personal branding.
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TL;DR: Shary and McVittie as mentioned in this paper pointed out that the historical focus of the beginning of the book provides a strong context for some of the more thematic work done toward the end.
Abstract: contemplate where we go from here. In the end, the historical focus of the beginning of the book provides a strong context for some of the more thematic work done toward the end. If I had any complaint about Fade to Gray, it would be that, at times, Shary and McVittie seem to let themselves off the hook of doing deeper critical analysis. In chapter five, Shary laments that “it is heartening that Hollywood has been increasing that quantity of elder romances, but the quality of those romantic depictions deserves further scrutiny by the elder audience” (p. 173). In the conclusion, Shary and McVittie acknowledge:
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TL;DR: The emergence and development of capitalism is the result of the interaction of various factors, and Max Weber discussed the important role of religious ethics on economic development from the perspective of religious culture as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The emergence and development of capitalism is the result of the interaction of various factors,and Max Weber discussed the important role of religious ethics on economic development from the perspective of religious culture.Weber is only analyzed from the perspective of religious ethics,but his discourses upon the relationship between the Protestant Ethic and the development of modern Western capitalism opened up a unique perspective for us,namely culture or spirit of a society is closely linked with its economic and social development.So Weber's argument on"The Protestant Ethic Spirit"has some inspiration and practical significance for building China's socialist ethical values.
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TL;DR: The Lost Soul: Confucianism in Contemporary Chinese Academic Discourse by John Makeham, Cambridge MA: Harvard University East Asia Center, 2008 as mentioned in this paper, p. xiv + 397 pp.
Abstract: Review(s) of: Lost Soul: 'Confucianism' in Contemporary Chinese Academic Discourse, by John Makeham, Cambridge MA: Harvard University East Asia Center, 2008. xiv + 397 pp. US$49.95 (hardcover).
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TL;DR: The Cultural Revolution as mentioned in this paper was one of history's most horrific political upheavals, which began in 1966, when the Chinese Communist Party officially launched the radical movement on the orders of its autocratic chairman, Mao Zedong.
Abstract: As one of history's most horrific political upheavals, the Cultural Revolution began in 1966, when the Chinese Communist Party officially launched the radical movement on the orders of its autocratic chairman, Mao Zedong. He intended for the movement to revitalize China's revolutionary fervor while simultaneously accelerating the country's evolution into a true communist utopia. China's young people became the advance guard for this new revolution, forming themselves into paramilitary Red Guard units. These adolescent shock troops humiliated, beat, and murdered teachers, intellectuals, local party officials, and others whom they judged to be insufficiently devoted to Mao and his radical ideals. By the time the Cultural Revolution finally ended in 1976, it had claimed the lives of some 3 to 4 million Chinese and left many millions more physically or psychologically scarred. In this new title, learn how this sweeping policy changed the course of Chinese history in the 20th century.
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