With these starting points, I propose that many best-selling advice books published in recent years have become cooler in their approach to intimate life. They reflect a cultural cooling. This does not mean that individuals need one another less, only that they are invited to manage their needs more. The trend also reflects a paradox. […]
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A CULTURAL COOLING: TRENDS AND COUNTERTRENDS
With these starting points, I propose that many best-selling advice books published in recent years have become cooler in their approach to intimate life. They reflect a cultural cooling. This does not mean that individuals need one another less, only that they are invited to manage their needs more. The trend also reflects a paradox. […]
Depictions of Women Condemned for Killing Their Husbands in Canada, 1866-1954
In this section41 explore the historical context of the years between 1866 and 1954 by studying the relevant trials and providing an analysis of gender construction in the public narratives of these trials. More than one hundred years after the execution of “La Corriveau,” between 1866 and 1954, twenty-eight Canadian women were found guilty of […]
Introduction
Changing Contexts A couple decide to holiday in a popular tourist district. Having tried to book into a hotel they end up fighting a discrimination case for two- and-a-half years. They are refused a double bedroom on the grounds that they are unmarried. The devoutly Christian owners of the hotel are opposed to sex before […]
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the Economic and Social Research Council for generously funding the research on which this book is based. The project was based at the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life, in Sociology at the University of Manchester, and we thank our colleagues for their support. Lisa Jenkins […]
THE COMMERCIAL SPIRIT OF INTIMATE LIFE AND THE ABDUCTION OF FEMINISM
Signs from Women’s Advice Books Praising and encouraging are very dose to pushing, and when you do that you are trying again to take control of his. Think about why you are lauding something he’s done. Is it to help raise his selfesteem? That’s manipulation. Is it so he will continue whatever behavior you’re praising? […]
THE COMMERCIAL SPIRIT OF INTIMATE LIFE AND THE ABDUCTION OF FEMINISM
Signs from Women’s Advice Books Praising and encouraging are very dose to pushing, and when you do that you are trying again to take control of his. Think about why you are lauding something he’s done. Is it to help raise his selfesteem? That’s manipulation. Is it so he will continue whatever behavior you’re praising? […]
Conducting Research Ethically
Choosing a good research design involves more than just selecting a particular method. Researchers must determine whether the methods they plan on using are ethical. That is, when designing a research study, investigators must do so in a way that does not violate the rights of people who participate. To verify that every research project […]
ON THE PERSONAL SIDE
This, then, was my first discovery that my thoughts—over the years—have focused on various facets of care. But in thinking about these essays, I also began to wonder what hidden compass in my own personal life might account for my strong interest in care. And there I made a second discovery. Like many white middle-class […]
ON THE PERSONAL SIDE
This, then, was my first discovery that my thoughts—over the years—have focused on various facets of care. But in thinking about these essays, I also began to wonder what hidden compass in my own personal life might account for my strong interest in care. And there I made a second discovery. Like many white middle-class […]