In describing the private and public face of an emotional system, and showing how it works, I have drawn on empirical samples from various distinct parts of it. I could have sampled more parts of it—by studying nurses or lawyers or salespeople, for example —as I hope very much someone will do. Or I could […]
День: 30.08.2015
Research Methods
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What approaches do scientists use to measure behavior in adult development and aging research? • What are the general designs for doing research? • What specific designs are unique to adult development and aging research? • What ethical procedures must researchers follow? L eah and Sarah are both 75 years old and […]
Introduction
of silverbacks and tree houses When struggling to write this book I wondered why I had asked to do so. On hearing about the series I wrote to the editor Robert Moore and asked who was writing the gender/feminism volume. In part this was to ensure that feminist, and gender issues were included in the […]
the Wuben Girls
In 1986 Wu Ruo’an, a former pupil at the Wuben Girls’ School in Shanghai — among the first public schools established for girls in China at the beginning of the twentieth century — reminisced about her experiences in the years following the school’s founding in 1902.1 Aged 97 at the time of her written memoir, […]
Prologue: The Culture of Discipline
We could start anywhere in the British Isles, on any date almost from the dawn of recorded history to the later seventeenth century. But let’s pick Westminster, on the bank of the Thames. It is Tuesday, 10 March 1612. If we hurry into the town’s courthouse, we shall find its magistrates in session, dealing with […]
THE POLITICAL IMPACT OF WOMEN OF. COLOUR WITHIN FEMINISM
Postmodernism and poststructuralism, with their emphasis on ‘deconstruction’ and difference, reinforced critiques that had already been directed at the ‘essentialism’, ethnocentrism and ‘ahistoricism’ of branches of feminist theory. The problematic nature of terms such as ‘patriarchy’, ‘women’ and ‘oppression’ was for those ‘at the margins’ of feminism further highlighted in the debates within the feminist […]
A Teenager and her Family
Delia Prince (the name is a pseudonym) is one of the teenagers my colleagues and I interviewed in 1978, along with their parents and teachers, in the research project later published as Making the Difference. The research was an attempt to understand the circumstances, in school, family and workplace, that lay behind the massively greater […]
CONTROVERSIES
Does Personality in Young AdulthoodDetermine Personality in Old Age? Lest you think the controversies underlying adult development and aging do not reflect ongoing debate, consider the case of personality in adulthood. Perhaps no other topic in gerontology has resulted in such heated debates as whether people’s basic personality remains the same throughout adulthood or undergoes […]
The courage to confront: women cannot hear what men do not say
Have we been misled by feminists? Yes. Is it feminists’ fault? No. Why not? Men have not spoken up. Simply stated, women cannot hear what men do not say. Now men must take responsibility to say what they want — to turn a war in which only one side shows up into a dialogue in […]
ON AMERICAN FEMINISM
In the radical feminist view, the new feminism is not just the revival of a serious political movement for social equality. It is the second wave of the most important revolution in history. Its aim: overthrow of the oldest, most rigid class/caste system in existence, the class system based on sex—a system consolidated over thousands […]