Who were the investigators, and what were the aims of the studies? Behavioral studies suggest that aerobic fitness training improves cognitive functioning in older adults and improves brain health in aging laboratory animals. In particular, research suggests that aerobic fitness may provide a means to improve brain health in aging humans. Erickson and his colleagues […]
День: 04.09.2015
The unpaid bodyguard
ITEM Steve Petrix was a journalist who lived near me in San Diego Every day he returned home to have lunch with his wife. Recently, as he got near his door, he heard his wife screaming. She was being attacked with a knife. Steve fought the assailant off his wife His wife ran to call […]
Scholar, Negated
jessica smartt gullion My sense that my status had changed was confirmed midway through the fall semester. As I sat in my office preparing a lecture on data triangulation, the department chair poked her head around my door and tapped her fingernails for a moment on the doorframe. Without looking me in the eye, she […]
“Claiming” and “Speaking” Who We Are
Black Gays and Lesbians, Racial Politics, and the Million Man March Darren Lenard Hutchinson Sure, we welcome any homosexual black man, as long as they [sic] are willing to atone for their sins as we are going to atone for our own. . . . [Hjomosexuality is an abomination in the eyes of God, just […]
Why I’m Marching in Washington
Cornel West MAYBE A MILLION black men will march on Washington. Coming after the O. J. Simpson verdict, the March promises to be a pivotal moment in our nation’s life. As the writer Greg Tate has rightly noted, the verdict "may represent the first time in history that a majority black jury has wielded an […]
The work obligation gap
The media popularizes studies reporting women’s greater amount of lime spent on housework and child care, concluding: women work two jobs, men work one But this is misleading. Women do work more hours inside the home, but men work more hours outside the home And the average man commutes farther and spends more time doing […]
The Sacrosanctity of Marriage
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, women were not legal persons in the eyes of the law. A woman had to be submissive and to obey her husband, and those who deviated from the norm paid dearly. Of course, women who were thought to have lovers and who were also condemned for having […]
To March or Not to March:Two Op-eds
Why I Didn’t March A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO, with pride and without hesitation, I participated in the inspiring 1963 March on Washington, holding the hands of my two children, Stephen and Karen, then aged 11 and 8. I was exhilarated by the occasion, proud to be a participant, and admired all of […]
What Happened to Feminism?
My desire to restore historical consciousness about female separatism has both a personal and an intellectual motivation. As a feminist working within male-dominated academic institutions, I have realized that I could not survive without access to the feminist culture and politics that flourish outside mixed institutions. How, I have wondered, could women in the past […]
Scholarship and Strategies
The feminist scholarship of the past decade has often been concerned, either explicitly or implicitly, with two central political questions: the search for the origins of women’s oppression and the formulation of effective strategies for combating patriarchy. Analysis of the former question helps us answer the latter. As anthropologist Gayle Rubin has wryly explained: “If […]