Claire Rasmussen
Biographic Data
| ID | 89639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Rasmussen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Rasmussen |
| SIGNATURE | RASMUSSEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Fertile Ground
Fears of immigration and demographic change have fueled nativist, pro-natalist movements that support the reproductive, heteronormative family as a vital political project shaping their rhetoric and politics. This paper argues that right-wing populist movements can be situated within heteroactivsm, as reactionary movements positioning themselves against challenges to the heteronormative family. I suggest that understanding the populist character …
Politics and Biology
Man Is by Nature a Political Animal: Evolution, Biology, and Politics. Edited by Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. 352p. $80.00 cloth, $27.50 paper. Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott's Man Is by Nature a Political Animal brings together some of the most important social scientists working at the intersection of political science, psychology, biology, and cognitive neuroscience. Given recent advan…
The Beast and the Sovereign, Biopolitics and Derrida's Menagerie
two-volume set of Beast and Sovereign is a product of seminars delivered in 2001-03, including Derrida's written texts with supplementation from transcripts of sessions. Both volumes are timely in feeling connected to particular times and places. first volume is haunted by occasional mentions of 9/11, terrorism, and rogue states, written with clear weight of a work still reeling in face of political violence. second volume also turns more persona…
The Autonomous Animal
Autonomy is a vital concept in much of modern theory, defining the Subject as capable of self-governance. Democratic theory relies on the concept of autonomy to provide justification for participatory government and the normative goal of democratic governance, which is to protect the ability of the individual to self-govern. Offering an examination of the concept of autonomy from a postfoundationalist perspective, the book analyzes how the ideal …
The Rationality of Empowerment
Microcredit programs are marketed not only as a means of poverty alleviation but as a means of women’s empowerment. Advocates for these programs argue that facilitating women’s greater access to capital will benefit women by enhancing their economic and political power and, in doing so, will make the societies in which they live more equitable politically and more competitive economically. Despite these claims of empowerment, however, recent femi…
Bestiality and the Queering of the Human Animal
We provide an account of a bizarre sex panic from rural Washington State, USA. There, a man died after having sex with a horse and a panic ensued because there was no law against human - animal sex. Quickly a law was placed on the books outlawing bestiality, but only after a series of interlocking-yet-disparate arguments enjoined the local public sphere over just why a law prohibiting sex with animals was necessary. We deconstruct those shifting …
We're nometrosexuals
In 2000 the state of Nebraska adopted the most limited-to-date restrictions on gay marriages, civil unions and domestic partnership. The campaign drew heavily on a sense of local identity rooted in a constructed definition of Nebraska that excluded sexual difference. Campaigners also capitalized on the self-identification of gays and lesbians with cosmopolitan urban areas, seen as foreign and antithetical to local identity. Examining the ways tha…
Regulating Intimacy
Regulating Intimacy: A New Legal Paradigm. By Jean L. Cohen. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. 304 pp.Although Jean Cohen's book was originally published in 2002, her argument for a reformulated justification for the right to privacy seems more relevant than ever. The resignation of a key swing vote from the Supreme Court makes feminist concerns about the future of legal abortion seem all the more pressing. As her subtitle—“…
The Body Politic as Spatial Metaphor
As part of a special issue on the geographies of citizenship, this paper considers the longstanding and popular metaphor of “the body politic” for a polity. The metaphor's comparative power is successful because it imports key geographic assumptions about how polities are best organized. It makes claims about society and space (premises about location, spatial organization), nature–society relations (how the two spheres do and do not connect) and…
The Body Politic as Spatial Metaphor
As part of a special issue on the geographies of citizenship, this paper considers the longstanding and popular metaphor of “the body politic” for a polity. The metaphor's comparative power is successful because it imports key geographic assumptions about how polities are best organized. It makes claims about society and space (premises about location, spatial organization), nature–society relations (how the two spheres do and do not connect) and…
Bestiality and the Queering of the Human Animal
We provide an account of a bizarre sex panic from rural Washington State, USA. There, a man died after having sex with a horse and a panic ensued because there was no law against human - animal sex. Quickly a law was placed on the books outlawing bestiality, but only after a series of interlocking-yet-disparate arguments enjoined the local public sphere over just why a law prohibiting sex with animals was necessary. We deconstruct those shifting …
We're nometrosexuals
In 2000 the state of Nebraska adopted the most limited-to-date restrictions on gay marriages, civil unions and domestic partnership. The campaign drew heavily on a sense of local identity rooted in a constructed definition of Nebraska that excluded sexual difference. Campaigners also capitalized on the self-identification of gays and lesbians with cosmopolitan urban areas, seen as foreign and antithetical to local identity. Examining the ways tha…
Fertile Ground
Fears of immigration and demographic change have fueled nativist, pro-natalist movements that support the reproductive, heteronormative family as a vital political project shaping their rhetoric and politics. This paper argues that right-wing populist movements can be situated within heteroactivsm, as reactionary movements positioning themselves against challenges to the heteronormative family. I suggest that understanding the populist character …
The Beast and the Sovereign, Biopolitics and Derrida's Menagerie
two-volume set of Beast and Sovereign is a product of seminars delivered in 2001-03, including Derrida's written texts with supplementation from transcripts of sessions. Both volumes are timely in feeling connected to particular times and places. first volume is haunted by occasional mentions of 9/11, terrorism, and rogue states, written with clear weight of a work still reeling in face of political violence. second volume also turns more persona…
Regulating Intimacy
Regulating Intimacy: A New Legal Paradigm. By Jean L. Cohen. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. 304 pp.Although Jean Cohen's book was originally published in 2002, her argument for a reformulated justification for the right to privacy seems more relevant than ever. The resignation of a key swing vote from the Supreme Court makes feminist concerns about the future of legal abortion seem all the more pressing. As her subtitle—“…
The Body Politic as Spatial Metaphor
As part of a special issue on the geographies of citizenship, this paper considers the longstanding and popular metaphor of “the body politic” for a polity. The metaphor's comparative power is successful because it imports key geographic assumptions about how polities are best organized. It makes claims about society and space (premises about location, spatial organization), nature–society relations (how the two spheres do and do not connect) and…
We're nometrosexuals
In 2000 the state of Nebraska adopted the most limited-to-date restrictions on gay marriages, civil unions and domestic partnership. The campaign drew heavily on a sense of local identity rooted in a constructed definition of Nebraska that excluded sexual difference. Campaigners also capitalized on the self-identification of gays and lesbians with cosmopolitan urban areas, seen as foreign and antithetical to local identity. Examining the ways tha…
The Autonomous Animal
Autonomy is a vital concept in much of modern theory, defining the Subject as capable of self-governance. Democratic theory relies on the concept of autonomy to provide justification for participatory government and the normative goal of democratic governance, which is to protect the ability of the individual to self-govern. Offering an examination of the concept of autonomy from a postfoundationalist perspective, the book analyzes how the ideal …
The Rationality of Empowerment
Microcredit programs are marketed not only as a means of poverty alleviation but as a means of women’s empowerment. Advocates for these programs argue that facilitating women’s greater access to capital will benefit women by enhancing their economic and political power and, in doing so, will make the societies in which they live more equitable politically and more competitive economically. Despite these claims of empowerment, however, recent femi…
Bestiality and the Queering of the Human Animal
We provide an account of a bizarre sex panic from rural Washington State, USA. There, a man died after having sex with a horse and a panic ensued because there was no law against human - animal sex. Quickly a law was placed on the books outlawing bestiality, but only after a series of interlocking-yet-disparate arguments enjoined the local public sphere over just why a law prohibiting sex with animals was necessary. We deconstruct those shifting …
Politics and Biology
Man Is by Nature a Political Animal: Evolution, Biology, and Politics. Edited by Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. 352p. $80.00 cloth, $27.50 paper. Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott's Man Is by Nature a Political Animal brings together some of the most important social scientists working at the intersection of political science, psychology, biology, and cognitive neuroscience. Given recent advan…
The Beast and the Sovereign, Biopolitics and Derrida's Menagerie
two-volume set of Beast and Sovereign is a product of seminars delivered in 2001-03, including Derrida's written texts with supplementation from transcripts of sessions. Both volumes are timely in feeling connected to particular times and places. first volume is haunted by occasional mentions of 9/11, terrorism, and rogue states, written with clear weight of a work still reeling in face of political violence. second volume also turns more persona…
Fertile Ground
Fears of immigration and demographic change have fueled nativist, pro-natalist movements that support the reproductive, heteronormative family as a vital political project shaping their rhetoric and politics. This paper argues that right-wing populist movements can be situated within heteroactivsm, as reactionary movements positioning themselves against challenges to the heteronormative family. I suggest that understanding the populist character …
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