In Somali culture all children are considered a blessing from God. However, it is a patriarchal society and greater symbolic value is placed on a male than a female child. Generally, the birth of a boy child is celebrated with the slaughter of two animals, while for a girl only one is slaughtered, if any. […]
День: 01.09.2015
A First Glance
The weakneu of men is the facade of strength, the strength of women h the facade of weakness.1 There are many ways in which a woman experiences a greater sense of powerlessness than her male counterpart: the fears of pregnancy, aging, rape, date rape, and being physically overpowered; less socialization to take a career that […]
FEMINISM AND THE ‘POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE’
The issues of subjectivity and experience within feminist theory have been deconstructed by poststructuralism and postmodernism. Feminist poststructuralism challenges feminism’s tendency to view both subjectivity and women’s experience as ‘unitary’, monovocal, and characterised by a unified discourse. Poststructuralism, specifically feminist poststructuralism, establishes ‘experience’ as contradictory and identity as plural. Yeatman notes that, even where ‘feminist […]
To both sexes
The Myth ofMale Power violates both sexes’ biologically inherited instinct to protea the female. Proteaing the female implied listening to her needs and repressing his own — even to the point of dying. It will therefore literally be natural to find flaws as a defense against hearing the male world view. There are flaws enough […]
A NOTE ON SOURCES AND EXAMPLES
The potential literature which could be cited in a book such as this is overwhelming in range and in sheer amount. I have, therefore, illustrated the arguments made with examples from four empirical areas: the sociologies of education, stratification, science and medicine. These are the areas I know best in sociology. I have crossed the […]
THE NO-NEEDS MODERN
At the other end oi the spectrum we find a moment from Colette Dowling’s The Cinderella Complex: Powerful emotional experiences await those who are really living out their own scripts. A Chicago woman in her early forties who still lives with and loves her husband is also intensely involved with a man she works with. […]
THE NO-NEEDS MODERN
At the other end oi the spectrum we find a moment from Colette Dowling’s The Cinderella Complex: Powerful emotional experiences await those who are really living out their own scripts. A Chicago woman in her early forties who still lives with and loves her husband is also intensely involved with a man she works with. […]
INTRODUCTION
First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes baby in a baby carriage. Or maybe not. Suppose love falters or a marriage dissolves or a careerist lifts her head momentarily in the mad dash to professional success only to notice that she’s all alone. What then? What about baby? Does the progression halt, leaving a […]
A message to women.. . mostly
The challenge to women will be to be as open to the man’s experience of powerlessness as you would to the woman’s — to care as much about a man who joins the army for money as about a woman who has sex for money. Men will compound that challenge because they have not had […]
OUTLINE OF THE BOOK
This chapter introduces the book and briefly explores its place in the series. The chapter will explain the ‘crisis of western sociology’ in the late 1960s, to use Gouldner’s (1971) phrase, and the consequent explosion of new ideas and the ‘zesty disarray’ that developed out of that crisis. The theoretical schools of feminism will be […]