Introduction Making the Lives of Transsexual People Visible: Addressing the Politics of Social Erasure Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity and Institutions Transsexuals Behind Bars Beyond Image Content: Examining Transsexuals' Access to the Media Inclusive Pedagogy in the Women's Studies Classroom: Teaching the Kimberly Nixon Case Statement for Social Service Agencies and Transsexual/Transgendered Organisations on Service Delivery to Transsexual and Transvestite Prostitutes Interview with Mirha-Soleil Ross Against Transgender Rights: Understanding the Imperialism of Contemporary Transgender Politics Conclusion.

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Modernity, Subjectivity, and Law: Reflections on

Jurisdiction as delegated authority

In 1987, Machan provided a libertarian case against the right to occupational safety. Since before Machan's essay appeared, many business ethicists and legal scholars have given considerable attention to the overall position Machan endorses: the acceptance of employment at will and the rejection of employee rights. No one yet has given adequate attention, however, to the fact that Machan's argument against the right to occupational safety actually stands or falls independently of his overall position on employee rights. His argument ultimately rests on two values: the promotion of employee interests and anti-paternalism. Insofar as those who support the right to occupational safety share those values, they must find a strategy for opposing Machan's argument that preserves those values. In this paper, I demonstrate why Machan's argument ultimately rests on the promotion of employee interests and anti-paternalism. Then, I develop an objection to Machan's argument that preserves those values.

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Occupational Safety and Paternalism

War, terrorism, and torture can each be thought of as a manifestation of political violence—that is, violence used as a means to achieve some group end. In theory, the violence that characterizes modern warfare is tactical and directed. In contrast to the indiscriminate or symbolic violence that characterizes terrorism, warfare has traditionally been carried out by national militaries against each other. However, the continuation of weapons-as-aid from the developed to the developing world, the irresponsible regulation of its distribution and the recirculation of Cold War munitions stockpiles on the black market have contributed to the growth of asymmetric warfare involving non-state actors. Despite the periodic romanticization of both battlefield and guerilla warfare, observers have for centuries commented on the awful, inertial power of violence to blur these categories, begetting wanton pain, suffering, and death, the “senselessness” of which calls into question violence’s very instrumentality. Torture—the controlled, if surreptitious, application of force that frequently spirals into something more sadistic—is emblematic of this terrible transformation.

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Citations

Modernity, Subjectivity, and Law: Reflections on

Jurisdiction as delegated authority

Occupational Safety and Paternalism

Integrative Summary for Definitions of War, Torture, and Terrorism

Imagined literacies: race and reading in Antebellum American literature

References

John Locke: Problems and Perspectives. A Collection of New Essays.

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