LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What is gerontology? How does ageism relate to stereotypes of aging? • What is the life-span perspective? • What are the characteristics of the older adult population? • How are they likely to change? R oberto’s great-grandmother Maria is 89 years old. Maria tells Roberto that when she was a young girl […]
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Gender and Education in China
It is always a pleasure to express appreciation for support and encouragement one has received from individuals and institutions during the arduous process of writing a scholarly book. The seeds of this particular project were first sown some time ago when a grant from the Leverhulme Trust and financial assistance from the British Council enabled […]
ANNETTE BURFOOT. SUSAN LORD
On 4 October 2004 Amnesty International released Stolen Sisters: Discrimination and Violence against Indigenous Women in Canada: A Summary of Amnesty International’s Concerns. The summary states: A shocking 1996 Canadian government statistic reveals that Indigenous women between the ages of 25 and 44, with status under the Indian Act, were five times more likely than […]
Cultural Studies Series
Cultural Studies is the multi — and interdisciplinary study of culture, defined anthropologically as a “way of life,” performatively as symbolic practice, and ideologically as the collective product of media and cultural industries, i. e., pop culture. Although Cultural Studies is a relative newcomer to the humanities and social sciences, in less than half a […]
THE EMERGENCE OF POSTFEMINISM
The use of the concept of postfeminism is problematic for two reasons, which need to be clarified: first, the widespread ‘popular’ conception of postfeminism as a result of the appropriation of the term by the media; and second, the uneven development of postfeminism as a movement expressing change, and the resulting chronological and geographical distinctions […]
Acknowledgments
Warm thanks to those who helped: To Jeffrey and Judie Klein for their bracing but loving advice on a misty first draft; to Todd Gitlin for unfolding and hanging out my ideas with me; to Anne Machung for her support and wondrous line-by-line work in red ink; and to Ann Swidler who has shown me […]
Same-Sex Marriages
This book is about formalised same-sex relationships — what in the UK are legally termed ‘civil partnerships’ and what in the media and everyday life are termed ‘gay marriages’. Our aim is to show how younger generations of same-sex couples, who see their lives and relationships as relatively ordinary, have responded to new opportunities for […]
How Co cherish feminism’s baby, but not its bathwater
I will be saddened if this book is misused to attack the legitimate issues of the women’s movement — issues for which I spent a decade of my life fighting. The challenge is both to go beyond feminism and to cherish its contributions. And feminism’s contributions are many. Without feminism, fewer companies would have experimented […]
The Origins of Sex
I should never have aspired to become a historian, nor persevered with this book, without the example and encouragement of several outstanding scholars and friends. I recall with gratitude the support of Ian Archer, Peter Biller, Jan Blokker, Michael Braddick, Robin Briggs, Marilyn Butler, Robert Darnton, Rees Davies, Anthony Fletcher, Clive Holmes, Joanna Innes, Ian […]
IN 2008, TWO U. S. CITIZENS MADE HISTORY BECAUSE OF THEIR AGE
AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN Beijing, swimmer Dara Torres, at age 41, the oldest woman ever to compete in that sport at this level, redefined people’s beliefs about world-class athletes and mothers (her daughter was aged two at the time). She won three silver medals, missing a gold by.01 second. Competing in her fifth Olympic […]