Social-scientific theories of gender are a Western invention, as far as I know, and definitely a modern one. Other civilizations have had their own ways of dealing with human sexuality and the relations between the sexes. As Indian eroticism and Chinese family codes illustrate, these can be as sophisticated and elaborate as anything the West […]
День: 05.09.2015
DEEP ACTING
There are two ways of doing deep acting. One is by directly exhorting feeling, the other by making indirect use of a trained imagination.5 Only the second is true Method acting. But in either case, Stanislavski argued, the acting of passions grows out of living in them. People sometimes talk as much about their efforts […]
THE COMMODITY FRONTIER
The commodity frontier, Janus-faced, looks out on one side to the marketplace and on the other side to the family. On the market side it is a frontier for companies as they expand the number of market niches for goods and services covering activities that, in yesteryear, formed part of unpaid “family life." On the […]
THE COMMODITY FRONTIER
The commodity frontier, Janus-faced, looks out on one side to the marketplace and on the other side to the family. On the market side it is a frontier for companies as they expand the number of market niches for goods and services covering activities that, in yesteryear, formed part of unpaid “family life." On the […]
Neither Forgotten nor Fully Remembered: Tracing an Ambivalent Public Memory on the Tenth Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre1
SHARON ROSENBERG [ 2 ] Although social power regulates what losses can be grieved, it is not always as effective as it aims to be. The loss cannot be fully denied, but neither does it appear in a way that can be directly affirmed. —Judith Butler, The Psychic Life of Power In the early evening […]
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RACISM AND SEXUAL SUBORDINATION
When I was a first-year student at Yale Law School, I enrolled in a class entitled "Race and the Law." During one session of the class, several black gay and lesbian students (myself included) attempted to discuss issues of sexual subordination and the needs of gay and lesbian people within the black "community." A black […]
Public sphere debates
Suspicion of sexual pleasure has often characterized ‘left-wing’ public sphere debates as well. They frequently assume that a proliferation of sexual discourse is an unquestionably bad consequence of the effects of neo-liberalism, convergence, globalization and deregulation on the ‘quality’ of television provision. Understood as ‘dumbing down’ or ‘tabloidization’, these changes are seen to accompany the […]
Student/Body
sheila squillante They watch my belly every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 11:15 to 12:05. As I lecture about active voice, clarity, and persuasion in prose, I can feel their eyes squinting, searching my middle for signs. I am three, four, five, and, finally, six months pregnant at semester’s end, and I know that some […]
Neurological Recruitment Underlying the Positivity Effect in Memory
We begin this section by examining what we know about the emotional memory network and the degree to which corresponding brain structures decline or are preserved with increasing age. Interestingly, the regions implicated in emotional processing such as the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) undergo relatively modest structural changes with aging, and the amygdala is relatively […]
Aging and Emotional Processing
Similar to the behavioral research on younger adults above, there is growing research indicating that older adults also detect emotional information (e. g., in visual search tasks; Leclerc & Kensinger, 2008) and remember emotional information (e. g., remembering emotional words; Kensinger, 2008) better than nonemotional information. However, despite this emotional enhancement effect on information processing, […]