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‘Luxuries of the mind’: Contextualising Art Photography, Eroticism and History of Medicine in the Social tableaux vivants of Lejaren à Hiller's Sutures in Ancient Surgery (1920s–1940s)

Abstract In 1927 Lejaren à Hiller (1880–1969) produced a series of black and white art photographs entitled Sutures in Ancient Surgery evoking scenes from the distant past of surgery and medicine. Commissioned and distributed in North America by Davis & Geck, Inc. to promote sales of its surgical sutures (stitches), several depictions were erotic owing to the centrality and poses of nude female models. The first series appeared as ads in professional technical journals, then as packets assembled in paper portfolios distributed to doctors who were primarily men. The creation of Hiller's oeuvre in different forms over almost a century – journal advertisement, portfolio, book, exhibit, magazine features and textbook illustration – highlights his enduring broad appeal, although his work has since been subject to criticism because of its perceived sexism. At its root, Sutures was an advertising medium that connected a seller to a potential buyer. The content and presentation of the project also connected medicine present with medicine past, which also may have helped physicians to connect with the then blossoming field of medical history. The appeal Sutures may have had for a past male medical culture would not resonate with the more gender-inclusive and less overtly sexist medical profession of today, which also prompts discussion of the associations across art, obscenity, medicine and society. My reassessment of Hiller's work based on analysis of his artwork, contemporary interviews, published critiques, Hiller's own writings and DG company records extends previous analyses as it is more comprehensive in scope and also considers more fully works by Hiller antecedent to Sutures that probably greatly influenced it, such as photopoetry books, other advertising projects and his silent movie films.

Steps towards a therapeutic artificial intelligence

Whether artificial intelligence might benefit human well-being in every sense is an open question. I consider it in the following essay, first putting to one side standard accounts of ‘official AI’, then deriving an ‘unofficial’ counterpart from the evidence of newspaper accounts and magazine features from ca. 1945–1965. Unsurprisingly, these demonstrate a bending of artificial intelligence to military and industrial purposes, hence the enormity of the impediment to therapeutic applications, but at the same time the evidence leaves no doubt as to the imaginative power of smart machines. Contemporary commentary is brought to bear to move from intimations of a dark future to possibilities for constructing a healthy practice. I conclude with two quite different 21st century examples of a way towards it.

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The Mob Lawyer’s Constitution

This article reconstructs the constitutional rhetoric of mob lawyers, as well as drug lawyers and other icons of the high-priced criminal defense bar, from the 1970s through the 1990s—the heyday of federal organized crime prosecutions and thus, of the lawyers who defended against them. Drawing upon pop-culture sources including archival television footage, magazine features, newspaper coverage, and ghost-written mass-market memoirs, the article pieces together the constel-lation of soundbites through which mob lawyers disseminated their views. As the subjects of frequent media coverage, these lawyers ad-vanced a coherent and distinctive (if crude) set of ideas about the proper relationship between individuals, the state, law, and wealth. In investigating constitutional history, legal scholars often focus on elite legal actors and Supreme Court doctrine, or, if they examine pop-ular constitutionalism, on organized litigation campaigns, rather than the more diffuse world of solo practitioners and small law firms. Bring-ing together legal and cultural history, this article contributes a new angle on these themes—looking for insights into Reagan-era constitu-tional culture not in the Department of Justice or the Supreme Court, but at Manhattan steakhouses and Miami nightclubs. The high-priced criminal defense bar advanced a highly individu-alist, libertarian, and consumer-oriented conception of constitutional rights, as well as a thoroughly suspicious orientation towards the gov-ernment generally, and towards its exercise of the prosecutorial power specifically. Against the backdrop of the post-Vietnam, post-Wa-tergate historical context, the mob lawyer fused the traditional rhetoric of constitutional rights and the time-honored rituals of courtroom ad-vocacy with late-twentieth-century cynicism about government cor-ruption and prosecutorial overreach.

“Instamatic living rooms of sin”: pornography, participation and the erotics of ordinariness in the 1970s

ABSTRACT This article considers the shift in 1970s Britain towards a pornography based not only on popular consumption but popular participation too. Focusing on the ‘Readers’ Wives’ genre of magazine features, it suggests that the making of soft-core pornography offered readers the possibility, through home photography, to document a ‘liberated’ sexual domesticity with growing cultural currency. This process involved the eroticisation of a broader turn to ordinariness in British culture, as well as the public transgression of the zone of sexual privacy carved out by the Wolfenden Report and the liberal sexual settlement of the 1950s and 1960s. The article therefore tracks the emergence in the late twentieth century of a new model of sexual selfhood that could be sparked into being through new ways of looking and being looked at. Especially for women, ‘Readers’ Wives’ linked sexual objectification and subjectification in a new and profound way. Overall, the development of a pornography of participation and a new erotics of ordinariness are framed in the article as constitutive of the sexual visuality of the ‘Sexual Revolution’.

COVID-19 in Polish Women’s Press. Preliminary research

Women’s press has been analysed as an element of the Polish media system by representatives of various fields of research. There have been studies of press content, formal features of individual magazines, ownership and definition issues, and internal segmentations, amongst others. This research attempts to fill a gap in the study of women’s press content; it aims to show how the COVID-19 was presented in women’s press. As an introduction to the main research, this article examines a carefully selected study sample with individual sub-segments of women’s press each represented by a leading magazine. Research objectives include determining the ways in which COVID-19 is presented in certain women’s press titles belonging to different sub-segments, analysing the selection and presentation of information to potential readers in regards to their needs, and establishing the functions of COVID-19 guidance in women’s press.

Publishing in the Academy of Management Journals

Publishing in the Academy of Management Journals

Англо-американские заимствования в дискурсе современных российских глянцевых изданий

The study of the issue of foreign words penetration into the native language is one of the most pressing problems in modern linguistic science. The article examines the modern media discourse features of glossy magazines that reproduce the type of consciousness with its inherent motivational, target and ideological attitudes. The audience sometimes does not attach much importance to the influence that the mass media have on the language development. Therefore, glossy magazines, having become an integral part of the modern media space, play an active role in activating the technology of lexical borrowing and in the literary language development. The subject of the article is media texts of glossy, “glamorous” magazines influencing on the modern Russian language vocabulary. The purpose of the article is to determine the impact of stylistic features of glossy media texts on the borrowing processes in modern Russian speech.

Leading in an Amish Paradise: humanistic leadership in the Old Order Amish

PurposeThe authors examined the traditional leadership practiced by the Old Order Amish located in the Holmes and Wayne counties of America. Despite popular stereotypes, this community is remarkably innovative and resilient. Amish leadership aligns with the central tenets of humanistic leadership and provides a rich illustration of how such a leadership paradigm can foster a vibrant, inclusive and sustainable community. Unlike current leadership models that focus on instrumental values like wealth, profit and growth, Amish leadership is concerned with faith, community and living a simple life with purpose and dignity.Design/methodology/approachThe primary data required for this paper were collected by the lead author during a six-month ethnographic study on several Amish communities located in Ohio. The authors also consulted a large set of archival data, including think tank reports, census data, biographies, magazine features and academic publications, which helped in placing the primary data in perspective and reminding of the particularities of the contexts from which the primary data were collected. For the data analysis, the authors used a thematic analysis approach to allow the salient themes of Amish humanistic leadership emerge from the data.FindingsA total offour themes emerged from this study: (1) leadership as local identity and practice; (2) leaders without benefits, chosen by the lot; (3) leaders present matters, followers discuss and decide; (4) community welfare as the yardstick for evaluation. These themes highlighted some of the key aspects of humanistic leadership eclipsed in the mainstream theories of management and leadership. They showed how the Amish respond to the encroachment of technology, which holds critical clues for how humanistic leaders can place the needs of their people before the demands of their shareholders. By examining Amish leadership in detail, this study demonstrated the potential of humanistic leadership for creating a strong and sustainable community while also contributing to the empirical foundation of humanistic management.Originality/valueGiven the closed nature of the Amish, only few academic studies exist, which examined their leadership style. Furthermore, the traditional and conservative nature of the Amish community has prevented critics from investigating their leadership as a model for revitalizing other communities.

‘Glow from the inside out’: Deliciously Ella and the politics of ‘healthy eating’

This article examines the branded persona of Ella Mills, founder of the multi-platform, multi-product and multi-million pound food brand Deliciously Ella. It begins from the premise that Mills represents a new kind of cultural intermediary: that of the wellness entrepreneur. Through a discourse analysis of Mills’ own media productions alongside news and magazine features about the entrepreneur, I consider how ‘healthy eating’ is being sold to young women as a means to realise physical and financial empowerment. Commercial entrepreneurship is made to function in tandem with health entrepreneurship, as Mills makes it her business to model a healthy lifestyle and enjoins others to follow this example. The article further examines how the Deliciously Ella narrative perpetuates already dominant understandings of health as a private good and personal responsibility through its emphasis on healing and recovery through food. Relating this analysis to recent debates about the shifting terrain of postfeminism in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, I argue that the spotlighting of Mills elevates self-care as a gendered imperative while obfuscating the classed and racialised privileges that attend this.

A 1973 <em>Aramco World</em> Magazine Feature on Location Shooting in Lebanon

A 1973 feature on location shooting in Lebanon, published in Aramco World magazine, highlights the contemporaneous status of Beirut as an urban center of transnational and transregional media production. The feature's coverage of Honey Baby Honey Baby (1974), a US Black independent prestige film shot on location in Lebanon, occasions a reconsideration of the film's largely lost legacies, alongside the possibilities and limits of Middle East oil company publications for archival historiographies of globally circulating media.

Literary Magazine: Its Social-and-Cultural Mission and Functions in the Literary Communication

The article analyzes the functions of the literary magazine in the current social-and-cultural space. The educational, communicative, creative, social-and-cultural potential of modern monthly publications is revealed. It is stated that multifunctionality is one of the most valuable typological features of national literary magazines. Over a long period of Russian journalism, culture, and history development it was this specificity that ensured the stability of this type of media. At the same time, multifunctionality is the key to the further literary journal evolution as a publication type. In the article the objective and subjective causes of the modern journals crisis are determined. Due to the specificity of the content, literary publications face serious troubles in adapting to new social-and-cultural reality that is losing its artistic literary centricity and to the media product functioning aspects in the digital age, when literary communication takes on a altered quality and different forms. These circumstances largely determine the instability of the typological profile and the functional paradigm of modern magazines. A comprehensive way of overcoming crisis phenomena is proposed. It is proved that the future of literary magazines consists in integrationinto the new information reality and the new media system, while maintaining its unique cultural functionality. It is important that each publication concretizes its typological model: its mission, tasks, place in the cultural space, target audience; ideological and substantial vector of literary, critical, publicistic discourses and ways of their representation, structural features, authors, directions of extrajournalistic sociocultural activities.

Constructive journalism

Abstract Danielle Batist is a freelance journalist and editor who embraces an entrepreneurial and positive approach to journalism. She has lived and worked in several countries around the globe. In the fifteen years she has been working as a journalist, she has developed an interest in social change, which she pursued in her work as the editor of the International Network of Street Papers (INSP), reaching six million readers in over 40 countries, and which underpins her current focus on ‘Constructive Journalism’ – a project she co-founded in 2014. Drawing on a variety of behavioural and audience studies, constructive journalism can be defined as ‘as rigorous, compelling reporting that includes positive and solutionfocused elements in order to empower audiences and present a fuller picture of truth, while upholding journalism’s core functions and ethics’ – in other words, an approach that attempts to bring positive elements to conventional reporting. By using a ‘wellbeing’ model of the world instead of a ‘disease’ model, stories about what is working – rather than just what is broken – become part of the news eco-system. Last year, Danielle got involved in the re-launch of Positive News, founded in 1993 and re-launched in 2016 as a magazine. The publication showcases a new model for media ownership, as well as a new way to tell news stories. Owned by a community of 1526 journalists, readers and supporters from 33 countries, the magazine features ‘Constructive Conversation’, where thought leaders are challenged to find common ground; ‘Solutions Lab’, where forward-thinking responses to difficult social issues are unearthed; ‘What Happened Next?’ where stories reported upon previously are updated. All these aspects are highlighted in a conversation with Danielle Batist, who gives her insight on the discussed matters.

Introduction: Copying and Copyright, Publishing Practice and the Law

This article introduces a special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review on the subject of copyright law and publishing practice in the nineteenth-century newspaper and periodical press. The introduction situates the special issue in relation to recent scholarship that has studied the history of copyright law in relation to the customs and practices of authors and publishers. Using the example of Wyatt v. Barnard (1814), an early copyright case involving periodicals, the introduction discusses some of the features of newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals that created challenges for those who sought to protect them under British copyright law. Some of the important questions were how to register a periodical, what components of a periodical were eligible for copyright, and how best to allocate rights between contributors and publishers. After introducing the essays that make up the special issue—contributed by historians, literary scholars, legal scholars, and digital humanists—the introduction suggests some possibilities for future research.

Книжкові часописи часів незалежності у контексті формування критичного дискурсу

Abstract: The main typological features of the Ukrainian magazines of 1990- 2010 devoted to literary and publishing topics as a basis of contemporary specialized new (digital) media have been desicribed. The correctness of the term «book magazine» has been justified. The peculiarities of emerging new discursive practice on the pages of analyzed publications — book journalism — have been charactrized. The particular attention is paid to the problems of literary and book criticism (lack of professionalism, dependence on advertising funds, lack of authoritativeness of criticues opinions custom — tailored service setc.), which remain relevant for the new digital media of relevant topies. Keywords: book magazine, literary and publishing criticism, book journalism, «Knyznyk-review».

The View From The Female Principal's Desk

More than in past years, females are enrolling in educational administration programs and aspiring to beto school principals, central office administrators, and superintendents. Efforts to increase the number offemale employees by businesses, industries, and public agencies encourage women to work towardadvanced degrees and apply for administrative positions typically regarded as male positions. Successfulwomen are written about in newspaper articles and magazine features more often than ever before. Thesewomen leaders serve as role models to inspire other women to follow in their professional wake.Aburdene and Naisbitt (1992) write that "the women's movement has reached "˜critical mass,' the point atwhich a trend becomes a megatrend." If this trend continues, opportunities for professional advancementand increased salaries for women will result.

Visual research methodologies, branding and magazine readerships

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to explore how interior spaces can be differently represented across home magazines of different background and target audiences. And investigates how visual texts can differentiate a brand, increase brand loyalty and target different market segments.Design/methodology/approach– This paper draws on material for comparative analysis from three home magazines (Wallpaper,Ideal HomeandElle Decoration). It combines quantitative methods (content analysis) and qualitative methods (fieldwork observations).Findings– This research suggests thatWallpaperis not just a magazine, but it has expanded to become a brand with a well-recognized logo. Practitioners managed to create a strong brand through the creation of a magazine with a very distinctive style among its competitors that clearly address the elite.Research limitations/implications– This paper focused on the production of magazine features and representations of interior spaces. Further research could be conducted to explore how readers belonging to different economic, social and cultural groups “receive” and comprehend the home magazine features.Practical implications– The findings of this research could be used to analyse fashion photography in editorial, fashion advertising, fashion brand websites and social media, thereby assisting in the analysis of fashion photography and the relationship between fashion items, set design, styling of space, target audiences, branding and visual communication; exploring further how fashion photography can effectively target different market segments and enhance a fashion brand and its identity.Originality/value– The area of magazine features, photography, set design and styling of space has received limited attention from scholars. The method of analysing interior spaces/set design presented in this paper can be developed further to provide in depth analysis of window and in store display design and the use of display design and visual merchandising as a way to reflect the fashion brand identity, target-specific market segments, differentiate and gain competitive advantage.

Um segredo público: o viver assistido, cuidadores, globalização

Resumo Idosos fragilizados e seus cuidadores são praticamente invisíveis nos circuitos representacionais (filmes, romances, fotografia, televisão, internet, jornais), sendo os idosos habitualmente desconsiderados como não cidadãos, e seus cuidadores geralmente não cidadãos dos Estados-nação em que trabalham. Como dar visibilidade ao que é um escandaloso segredo público da vida cotidiana, pois o cuidado dos idosos se torna cada vez mais uma questão de mercado global em nossas economias neoliberais? Este ensaio explora a representação de cuidadores e idosos, juntos, em fotografias, memórias, notícias e filmes documentais, sugerindo que uma das formas mais eficazes de reivindicar mudanças em políticas públicas é promover a compreensão das pessoas por meio de histórias e imagens. Neste estudo eu levo em conta histórias do viver assistido envolvendo idosos, que são brancos, e cuidadores remunerados, não brancos, gênero feminino e parte das cadeias globais de cuidado; essas histórias incluem o artigo do escritor estadunidense Ted Conover, Os últimos melhores amigos que o dinheiro pode comprar1 (1997), publicado no New York Times Magazine, e o documentário “Bonecas de Papel”2 (2006). De importância fundamental é o sentimento de parentesco que emerge conforme novas formas de família tomam forma.

Online Women’s Magazines: Differences in Perceptions between Print and Online Magazines among Female Readers

Popular women’s magazines have gone online and are gaining increased readership because of their interactive content, videos, and discussion forums. This study examines women’s perceptions and behaviors toward online women’s magazines based on an online survey of 257 female magazine readers. We found that, compared with their print counterparts, online magazines were perceived to be easier to read, skip ads, order products, search for, save and share information and comment on articles. Moreover, most female readers are positive toward the technological merits of online women’s magazines. Younger, less-educated, and less affluent readers showed a more positive attitude toward online women’s magazines than older, more educated, and more affluent readers did. However, female readers’ involvement with and engagement in the interactive features of online magazines were found to be low. Implications and suggestions for future research were discussed.

Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan by Jan Bardsley

Reviewed by: Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan by Jan Bardsley Ulrike Wöhr Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan. By Jan Bardsley. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. 224 pages. Hardcover £58.50/$112.00; softcover £24.99/$39.95. This well-written and timely book comes at a moment in history when U.S.-Japan relations, Japan’s postwar democracy, and Japan’s role in the world are at a new stage of social and political contestation, within and beyond Japan. Jan Bardsley provides a fascinating view of cultural politics of the 1950s that shaped the value system and the social order of postwar Japan as well as powerful discourses of national identity. Her analyses of representations of women and, in particular, the postwar ideal of the Japanese housewife, highlight the centrality of gender in these discursive processes. Bardsley focuses on the 1950s as a juncture “when [gender roles] could take several paths, but became naturalized in the housewife-salaryman model” (p. 5). She approaches the housewife (shufu) as a postwar icon of Japanese modernity connoting democratic progress and economic recovery, on the one hand, and modern domesticity, on the other. The housewife is, thus, comparable to earlier and similarly controversial constructs of femininity, such as the girl student (jogakusei), the new woman (atarashii onna), and the modern girl (modan gāru, or moga). In other words, the postwar housewife was, in her time, the latest in a series of female icons at the center of twentieth-century discourses of Japaneseness. The book, as its title suggests, understands 1950s representations of the housewife to be inseparably intertwined with discourses and power structures pertaining to the Cold War. Indeed, Cold War economic and cultural politics continued to hold up the ideal of the modern, emancipated, and sexually attractive American housewife even after the end of Japan’s Allied Occupation (1952), and while Japanese women were exhorted to emulate this model, Japanese men were denounced as a hindrance to women’s emancipation. The author traces the processes and products of such transnational gender politics in a range of sources—texts of various genres from women’s magazines, newspaper reportage, and visual images including photographs and cartoons. Her textual analysis “recreat[es] the theater” of five major disputes, or issues, she singles out from these sources and reconstructs the images and meanings that were attached to the housewife in these [End Page 247] controversies (p. 5). While Bardsley thus treats the housewife in the abstract, as a discursive phenomenon, her narrative also features flesh-and-blood housewives—most of whom identify themselves as such. These women inhabit the “contact zone” (discussed below) of 1950s Japan and participate in negotiations of “competing domesticities” (p. 2) as actors and/or objects in the debate. The introduction (chapter 1) begins with a short look at a 1959 Time magazine feature article on the emancipation of Japanese women, thus highlighting the transnational character of the book’s research subject and approach. As told in the magazine, this process of emancipation—which culminated in the wedding of Crown Princess (and now Empress) Michiko, the first commoner to marry into the royal family—owed its success to the American-led Occupation of Japan. Bardsley then takes up the social and political reality of housewives both in Japan and the United States and introduces the reader to the Cold War rhetoric of American domesticity as well as to a view of early postwar Japan through the lens of Marie Louise Pratt’s concept of the “contact zone” (p. 11). The final part of the introduction argues for the current relevance of Bardsley’s research by pointing out the persistence of competing narratives that evolved or gained prominence in the late 1950s. Among these are the notion of Japanese women being in need of foreign rescue from oppressive Japanese men; the idea of the Japanese housewife as a symbol and guarantor of public order and national identity by virtue of her very domesticity; and, not least, images of royal women and beauty queens as personifications of these contradictory concepts of femininity. Following the introduction, chapters 2 through 6 provide in-depth analyses of single issues that each...