Visies van de SP-politicus op actuele politieke en maatschappelijke kwesties in binnen- en buitenland.

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary on The Comedy of Errors that is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.

Some say the fetus is the "tiniest citizen." If so, then the bodies of women themselves have become political arenas--or, recent cases suggest, battlefields; A cocaine--addicted mother is convicted of drug trafficking through the umbilical cord. Women employees at a battery plant must prove infertility to keep their jobs. A terminally ill woman is forced to undergo a cesarean section. No longer concerned with conception or motherhood, the new politics of fetal rights focuses on fertility and pregnancy itself, on a woman's relationship with the fetus. How exactly, Cynthia Daniels asks, does this affect a woman's rights? Are they different from a man's? And how has the state helped determine the difference? The answers, rigorously pursued throughout this book, give us a clear look into the state's paradoxical role in gender politics--as both a challenger of injustice and an agent of social control. In benchmark legal cases concerned with forced medical treatment, fetal protectionism in the workplace, and drug and alcohol use and abuse, Daniels shows us state power at work in the struggle between fetal rights and women's rights. These cases raise critical questions about the impact of gender on women's standing as citizens, and about the relationship between state power and gender inequality. Fully appreciating the difficulties of each case, the author probes the subtleties of various positions and their implications for a deeper understanding of how a woman's reproductive capability affects her relationship to state power. In her analysis, the need to defend women's right to self--sovereignty becomes clear, but so does the need to define further the very concepts of self-sovereignty and privacy. The intensity of the debate over fetal rights suggests the depth of the current gender crisis and the force of the feelings of social dislocation generated by reproductive politics. Breaking through the public mythology that clouds these debates, At Women's Expense makes a hopeful beginning toward liberating woman's body within the body politic.

Een verslag achter de schermen van de formatie. Journalisten Jos Heymans en Frits Wester van RTL Nieuws volgden in het hart van de Haagse stolp de totstandkoming van het eerste kabinet-Rutte op de voet. In "Over rechts" komen de onderhandelaars zelf aan het woord. Jos Heymans heeft een politiek dagboek bijgehouden en de twee kopstukken, Mark Rutte en Maxime Verhagen, exclusief geïnterviewd. Beide heren vertellen in opvallend openhartige gesprekken over hun optreden tijdens de historische formatie, de uiteindelijke uitkomst en de betekenis daarvan voor het politieke landschap van ons land. Frits Wester analyseert hierna vlijmscherp de betekenis van deze voor Nederland unieke situatie. Want wat wil het eigenlijk zeggen, deze gedoogconstructie? Gaat het hier om een onschuldig steunen door de PVV van een broodnodige rechtse coalitie, zoals de drie partners beweren? Of neemt Geert Wilders nu feitelijk de macht over in Den Haag - zoals de oppositie zegt te vrezen.