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"Transatlantic Radicalism: Socialist and Anarchist Exchanges in the 19th and 20th Centuries" is a collection of essays that emerged from a symposium held in Germany in 2017. The book focuses on the history of radicalism and transnationalism, with an emphasis on the role of individuals in shaping these movements. The essays cover a range of topics, including the relationship between Italian and Brazilian anarchists, the role of individualist anarchists in Panama, and the experiences of exiles in different countries. While the book offers innovative insights, some chapters have weaknesses, such as a lack of historical accuracy and a gender imbalance among the contributors. Overall, the book provides valuable perspectives on transatlantic radicalism but lacks cohesion and dialogue between the authors. [Extracted from the article]

The article discuses the queer theory which has developed many of its most powerful claims by positioning itself as a corrective to materialism. Topics discussed include queer critics became increasingly suspicious of empirical categories long held to be transparent, objective, and unmediated, and the concept of the material acquired a newfound importance in queer critiques of empiricism; and the material became a critical idiom in the constructivist-versus-essentialist debate.

The article presents an essay on French writer Christine Delphy's views on gender, social hierarchy, and French materialist feminism. It talks about constructivist materialism and social classes for women. The article talks about Saussurean semiotics as per linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. Also discussed is the oppression of women, patriarchy, and materiality of sex.

This article presents an alternative model of mediation to allow moving beyond the impasses of social construction/essentialism debates in feminist theories. By contrast, social construction emphasizes primarily the sociohistorical mediation of bodies in order to provide a more expansive diagnosis of women's oppression and thus to theorize more accurately modes of resistance emerging from within the social itself. The reinterpretation of the essentialism/social construction binary in the context of use/exchange value relativizes and contests the fixity of this opposition. First of all, both of these terms emerge from and to a large extent reproduce the historical process of the commodification of bodies. Furthermore, it is only through the mutual negation of their untruth that these opposites can demonstrate their partial insight. The reinterpretation of the essentialism/social construction binary in the context of commodification shows that the domination is perpetuated not only by the concealment of social mediation behind the appearances of immediacy but also by the abstraction of social value from all remnants of materiality, becoming, concrete labor, and the vulnerability of bodies.

Explores the theme of constructionist psychology in Jane Austen's 1881 novel "Persuasion." Background of the cognitive revolution in 19th century; Description of Austen's characterizations of a heroine and an antiheroine; Innovative narrative style of the book; Significance of the book for Romantic poets and brain scientists.