All the forces we have discussed combine to create people’s developmental experiences. One way to consider these combinations is to consider the degree to which they are common or unique to people of specific ages. An important concept in this approach is cohort. A cohort is a group of people born at the same point […]
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The Forces of Development
Gray hair, remembering, activity levels—Why do adults differ so much on these and other things? This question requires us to understand the basic forces that shape us. Developmentalists typically consider four interactive forces (shown in Figure 1.8): • Biological forces include all genetic and health — related factors that affect development. Examples of biological forces […]
Acknowledgments
I have many people to thank for their help in writing and editing this volume. I would first like to thank the contributors for permitting me to share their work with you. I am grateful for the assistance of the coeditors of the Critical America Series, Professor Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, of the University […]
Mapping Scripts and Narratives of Women Who. Kill Their Husbands in Canada, 1866-1954:. Inscribing the Everyday
SYLVIE FRIGON [ 1 ] Fallen women. Unruly women. Deviant women. Women who kill. They are dark creatures, dark characters who disturb and fascinate. Although many contemporary films and prime-time television shows have been devoted to crime, this interest in the representation of crime for public edification is not a new phenomenon. The fascination for […]
GENDER AND POWER
The radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s opened debates about a range of practical issues to do with sex and gender, ranging from sexual expression to economic inequality, police violence against gays, and rape. Naming these issues, the new feminist and gay politics also posed theoretical questions and began to grow a theoretical language: […]
The civil war
Somalia’s civil war of 1978-91 has commonly been analysed as a conflict between competing clan-based groups. Identity-based conflicts are not unique to Somalia. A tendency to interpret the war in clan terms emerges in several of the testimonies in this book, in which women describe how life or death could hinge on a person’s claims […]
Issues in Studying Adult Development and Aging
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What four main forces shape development? • What are normative age-graded influences, normative history-graded influences, and nonnormative influences? • How do culture and ethnicity influence aging? • What is the meaning of age? • What are the nature-nurture, stability-change, continuity-discontinuity, and the "universal versus context-specific development" controversies? L evar Johnson smiled broadly […]
The Demographics of Aging
Take a look around at the people you see in your everyday life in your hometown. There have never been as many older adults as there are now, especially people over age 85. Why? Most important, health care improved during the 20th century, and many fewer women died during childbirth. Let’s take a closer look. […]
Acknowledgments
We’d like to thank the widespread community of mothers who make up Literary Mama, especially Amy Hudock, for bringing us together and inspiring us with their excellent writing. We’re grateful to our agent, Rachel Sussman, for her guidance, and our editor at Rutgers University Press, Adi Hovav, for her unflagging enthusiasm for this book. Our […]
BLACK MEN ON RACE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY
Why We Can’t Wait: Integrating Gender and Sexuality into Antiracist Politics Kimberle Williams Crenshaw For years I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long […]