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This essay examines the ability of the recentlyproposed Common European Sales Lawto meet its goal of increasing cross-border tradeacross the Common Market, in light of itsdeeply realist jurisprudenceandits extensivereliance on the concepts of tradeusageandgood commercial practice. It concludesthat a more formalisticstatutethatprovidedmenus of clear contract default rulesandencouraged a jurisprudential approach similartothatadoptedby New York Courts, would have a better chance than the CESL of increasing cross-border trade, especiallyamong small and medium sizeenterprises.

This special joint issue of the Journal of International Women's Studies (JIWS) and WAGADU focuses on women's activism and women's movements in different countries and cultures throughout Africa and the African Diaspora. The project represents a collaboration between two online, open-access journals that address gender and women's issues within a transnational and cross-cultural context. The essays, which are distributed between the two journals, use interdisciplinary feminist and activist approaches to reveal the different forms of personal and communal actions being undertaken by African women today in cultural, social, economic, and political arenas. In showing the diversity of African women's activism; the underlying issues around which activism develops; and the impact of women's activism on individuals, communities, and nations, this dual project has relevance for women and men throughout the world.

"Revealing/Reveiling Shanghai provides international and interdisciplinary perspectives on representations of Shanghai, a contested location within political discourse and cultural imagination. Shanghai's complex history as a quasi-colonial city, and its contradictory identity as the birthplace of Communist China and the epitome of twenty-first-century capitalism, make it an especially fascinating subject. Contributors examine representations of Shanghai in film, art, literature, memoir, theater, and mass media from the past one hundred years. They address the ways in which texts from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have rewritten past and present Shanghai to reflect our own wishes and anguishes, show how the city resists static interpretations, and challenge notions of authentic representation and identity. By revealing and questioning persistent stereotypes and constructed versions of East and West, the essays offer diverse views so as to create a genuine exchange with contemporary global audiences. A wide variety of texts are discussed, including the films Street Angel (1937) and The White Countess (2005), and the novels The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (1996) and Shanghai Baby(1999)."--