Researchers typically begin by deciding how to measure the topic of interest. For example, the first step toward resolving Leah and Sarah’s discussion about remembering grocery items would be to decide how to measure remembering. Gerontologists usually use one of three approaches: observing systematically, using tasks to sample behavior, and asking people for self-reports. In […]
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FEMINIST THEORIES OF SUBJECTIVITY: ESSENTIALISM. VERSUS NOMINALISM
Despite its familiar caricature, feminist essentialism is not a unitary system of thought. Marshall (1994:104) maintains that three types of essentialist thinking can be identified, ‘each resting on different sorts of argument about how biological difference is transformed into subjective difference-biological essentialism,4 philosophical essentialism and historical reification.’ Biological essentialism is usually associated with the work […]
GENDERS
Second edition The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to ‘gender’ and its implications, including: • an […]
ISSUES OF SUBJECTIVITY, DIVERSITY AND DIFFERENCE . WITHIN FEMINISM
The issues of subjectivity and identity within feminist theorising are closely related to issues of epistemology within feminist theoretical analysis and the relationship between feminist knowledge and women’s experience. Feminist debates in the 1990s are more reflective of the ongoing debates around feminist epistemology and theory both from within and outside feminism (see Chapter 2). […]
Iconographies of Women Who Kill and Theorizing Female Conjugal Homicide within a Historical Context
Historically, the criminal justice system’s treatment of women who have killed violent husbands has been harsh. The violence endured by these women and by women in general was, in fact, condoned by society, as is suggested by the so-called “rule of thumb.” This alluded to the fact that it was legal for a man to […]
The governance of Somalia since 1991
The formation of the Republic of Somaliland, May 1991 The Act of Union which had united former Italian and British territories in 1960 into the Republic of Somalia was broken in May 1991 when the people of the north west regions of Somalia announced the secession of the Republic of Somaliland, a territory demarcated by […]
PRIVATE AND COMMERCIAL USES OF FEELING
A nineteenth-century child working in a brutalizing English wallpaper factory and a well-paid twentieth-century American flight attendant have something in common: in order to survive in their jobs, they must mentally detach themselves—the factory worker from his own body and physical labor, and the flight attendant from her own feelings and emotional labor. Marx and […]
Theorizing Female Conjugal Homicide as Narratives in a Historical Context
A historical basis for modern fascination with women-who-kill may be found in the trial narratives of women condemned of murder, in which the representations of actual women killers are strongly coded and mingle with a public fascination. Prominent cases include those of Ruth Ellis in 1954 (the last woman to be hanged in England), Myra […]
A Mother’s Work
In the course of writing this book, my thinking has benefited from ongoing conversations about motherhood and family policy with a stimulating community of scholars at the University of California, Berkeley. Coming from more than half a dozen disciplines, friends and colleagues at the Center for Child and Youth Policy and in the Berkeley Family […]
A Mother’s Work
In the course of writing this book, my thinking has benefited from ongoing conversations about motherhood and family policy with a stimulating community of scholars at the University of California, Berkeley. Coming from more than half a dozen disciplines, friends and colleagues at the Center for Child and Youth Policy and in the Berkeley Family […]