Feeling as it spontaneously emerges acts for better or worse as a clue. It filters out evidence about the self-relevance of what we see, recall, or fantasize. The exact point at which we feel injured or insulted, complimented or enhanced, varies. One flight attendant described her “anger” boundaries as follows: Now if a man calls […]
День: 01.09.2015
The Politics and Scholarship of Women’s History
I began my graduate training as a historian at a particularly auspicious moment for educated American women. The revival of feminism in the late 1960s stimulated both a curiosity about women’s past and a commitment to advancing sexual equality. By 1970, the year I enrolled in a doctoral program at Columbia University, feminism had percolated […]
“The most atrocious crime of the century”
In many cases, these stories were described in headlines as being the most disgusting crimes in Canadian history. For example, in the case of Phoebe Campbell (1871, Ontario),9 the London Free Press wrote that proof “renders this woman the most atrocious criminal of our century” (8 August 1871). But more important, judges also participated in […]
A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do
ITEM Imagine: Music is playng on your car radio. An announcer’s voice interrupts: "We have a special bulletin from the president" (For some reason, you decide not to switch stations.) The president announces. "Since 1.2 million American men have been killed m war. as part of my new program for equality, we will draft only […]
“WHY CAN’T I HAVE. WHAT I WANT?”
Stuck. Virtually every woman I interviewed expressed the feeling. Something conspired to disrupt the trajectory of love to marriage to children. Joy, whose story opened the prologue, pointed the linger at her demanding job and a shortage of candidates in the marriage market. She declared herself unwilling to settle for her girlfriends’ compromises: a marriage […]
Review Questions
1.1 Perspectives on Adult Development and Aging • What are the premises of the life-span perspective? • How are population demographics changing around the world, and what difference does it make? 1.2 Issues in Studying Adult Development and Aging • What are the four basic forces in human development? • What are the major characteristics […]
FEELING AS SUSCEPTIBLE TO PREVENTIVE TACTICS
To consider just how a company or any other organization might benignly intervene in a work situation between the stimulus and the response, we had best start by rethinking what an emotion or a feeling is. Many theorists have seen emotion as a sealed biological event, something that external stimuli can bring on, as cold […]
THE COOL MODERN AND THE COMMERCIAL SPIRIT OF INTIMATE LIFE
Cool modem advice books reveal a newly unfolding paradox that is reminiscent of an earlier paradox. In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber describes a set of beliefs held by a variety of Protestant sects—a belief in ascetic self-control, frugality, hard work, and devotion to a calling. He traces the way in […]
THE COOL MODERN AND THE COMMERCIAL SPIRIT OF INTIMATE LIFE
Cool modem advice books reveal a newly unfolding paradox that is reminiscent of an earlier paradox. In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber describes a set of beliefs held by a variety of Protestant sects—a belief in ascetic self-control, frugality, hard work, and devotion to a calling. He traces the way in […]
Somalia — the untold story
This book consists of nine authored papers and seven testimonies, all but one by Somali women. Four of the testimonies were tape — recorded in English and transcribed; three were given verbally in English and then submitted as written testimonies in Somali, and then translated. Edited versions of the testimonies were checked by their authors. […]