As I proceeded with the archival work, I found that a series of factors on the characterization of the woman played a role in the final outcome of the trial and were dominant in the petitioners’ request for mercy, commutation of the death penalty, and sentence reduction. Three narratives of appropriate gender roles emerged around […]
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Between Marriage and Motherhood
In earlier generations, this sense of being stuck most likely would have resulted in spinsterhood—in becoming the “favorite aunt,” to use Joy’s words.21 Both Joy and Claudia believed that marriage and children would happen naturally and effortlessly. Joy was caught up in enormous professional demands that limited her social life. Claudia framed her story around […]
Neuroscience and Cognitive Aging
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What are the basic structural changes in the brain as we age? • What cognitive functions are associated with volume shrinkage in the aging brain? • How do decreases in the dopaminergic system relate to changes in cognitive functioning as we grow older? • What happens to brain activation as we age? […]
GENDERED HISTORIES, GENDERED. CONTEXTS
‘Gender’ is now one of the busiest, most restless terms in the English language, a word that crops up everywhere, yet whose uses seem to be forever changing, always on the move, producing new and often surprising inflections of meaning. We talk about gender roles, worry about the gender gap, question whether our ideas are […]
From ‘consumer’ to ‘producer’
The beginnings of public education for girls While it is true that public education for Chinese girls was first championed by Western missionaries, the impact on wider Chinese society represented by the first mission schools was limited. The first of such schools was opened in 1844 by Miss Mary Aldersey in the treaty port of […]
What Do People Believe about Brain Fitness?
With all the hype about keeping your brain fit, what do people believe you have to do to accomplish this? To find out, ask some people of different ages these questions: What happensto the brain as we grow older? What do you think causes these changes? What do you think you can do to make […]
Women and conflict
The book aims to reflect the experiences and perceptions of Somali women in and about war. It seeks to contribute to our understanding of the conflict in Somalia, and hence of conflict as a phenomenon. Describing war entirely through the eyes of women, the commentaries and testimonies show just how cataclysmic the Somalia conflict was […]
FRAMING THE DEBATES AROUND A FEMINIST. EPISTEMOLOGY
The emancipatory goals and epistemological assumptions of second wave feminism based on the interrelationship between knowledge and liberation can be clearly traced to the liberal humanism of enlightened modernity. McNeil (1993:149) maintains that The women who gave birth to second wave feminism can be thought of as daughters of the Enlightenment in that they seemed […]
The Baby or the Bathwater: Tossing Out Marriage but Keeping Motherhood
These women still considered marriage as essential to motherhood. Thus before considering motherhood, they had to confront marriage. The belief that it takes a partner to have a child was a cultural mandate that even these successful women were unable to ignore. Most busied themselves with work, hoping the right partner would materialize and start […]
A Paycheck of One’s Own
The surge of importance employment took on for the women in this study is not without context. Second-wave feminism, emerging in the 1960s and 1970s, emphasized the struggle for equal opportunity. Focusing on the transformation of social structures, including law, education, and employment, second-wave feminism sought to change and expand all aspects of women’s and […]