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 […]
Месяц: Август 2015
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 […]
SOURCES AND METHOD
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 […]
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, […]