Practically speaking, when more than 90 percent of women got married and divorce was rare, discrimination in favor of men at work meant discrimination in favor of their wives at home. When workplace discrimination worked in favor of women at home, no one called it sexism. Why? It was working for women. Only when discrimination […]
День: 05.09.2015
GOAL 3 THE GAPING HOLES
One of the priorities in the early days of feminist sociology was drawing attention to the gaping holes in the sociological coverage of the social world where women had not been studied, and/or where topics women thought important had not been studied. A landmark collection from the USA was Millman and Kanter (1975). This collection […]
Effects studies
The dominant tradition of academic research on television and sexuality has been carried out by psychologists and sociologists who use ‘content analysis’ of texts and ‘effects’ research on audiences. Government and industry sponsors of various kinds, and also advocacy groups promoting specific religious agendas, have funded these in the main. This is an important tradition […]
Why divorce was the trade-off to relationship progress
Couples who pursued Stage II values created a new set of problems, the very qualities that made a perfect couple in a Stage I marriage made them perfect for divorce in a Stage II marriage — she was seen as preoccupied with the home and b-o-r-i-n*g.. .; he was seen as preoccupied with work — […]
GOAL 1 DEVELOPING AND ADAPTING THEORIES
There are several French women thinkers whose ideas have been influential in British and American feminist sociology. Christine Delphy’s ideas were publicised in Britain by Diana Leonard from the mid-1970s onwards, from her inclusion in Barker and Allen (1976) through to Leonard and Adkins (1996). Delphy is certainly a sociologist, with a commitment to a […]
Did Social Change Movements Matter?
Social movements are usually started by ordinary people intent on changing — institutions they find intolerable. Ironically, subsequent generations often appear to be free riders, enjoying the benefits of earlier struggles and unconsciously or (to the dismay of the pioneers) consciously downplaying the relevance of struggle in the first place. Did the achievements of the […]
Historical Roots of Separatism
In nineteenth-century America, commercial and industrial growth intensified the sexual division of labor, encouraging the separation of men’s and women’s spheres. While white males entered the public world of wage labor, business, the professions, and politics, most white middle-class women remained at home, where they provided the domestic, maternal, and spiritual care for their families […]
Was Stage II love unconditional or more conditional?
My mom used to say, "When the money stops coming in the door, the love starts going out the window.” Brian, 41, discussing the unwritten rule of Stage 1 love It is tempting to think of Stage II love as unconditional love. In practice, it is more conditional. Couples now expea communication skills, joint parenting, […]
Emotional Processing and the Brain
Given the differences between cognitive and emotional aging, a number of questions have served to guide contemporary research in the area of emotional processing. Such questions include: what declines, what is preserved, and what improves? In addition, it is important to identify the conditions under which we observe decline, preservation, and improvement. The neuroscience approach […]
Neither young, nor luscious, nor sycophantic
developments in feminist sociology 1968-2002 The Leicester sociology department in which I studied from 1967 to 1972 was large, prestigious, and had a male-dominated academic staff. (Deem, 1996: 7) F or the women who became feminist sociologists in Britain after 1965, what Deem describes at Leicester is instantly recognisable. Deem argues that the Leicester Department […]