To explore the argument outlined above, I turn to the tenth anniversary representation and circulation of the memory of the Montreal massacre in the Canadian media. As Chun (1999,114) remarks, in the absence of any juridical forum, “the mediatization of the event” has become particularly important to “the task of comprehending the massacre and placing […]
День: 06.09.2015
Shock, Grief, and Early Expressions of a Legacy of Loss
Named as the “deadliest single-day mass shooting in Canadian history” (Charles Grandmont, National Post, 5 December 1999), the massacre in Montreal registered widely in the social domain in a manner unprecedented in Canada. These comments, fashioned in the immediate aftermath of the killings, characterize the shock and horror that many expressed: This week, the unimaginable […]
The drive towards perfection
The most important difference between Catholic and Reformed attitudes to sex was the Protestant aspiration to perfection. The traditional Catholic view had been that fleshly lusts were reprehensible but inevitable: to restrain them completely might be impossible, or counter-productive. The enforcement of sexual discipline was accordingly balanced by a certain amount of toleration of organized […]
An “Opt-Out Revolution”?
In 2003 the various rumors and claims about the challenges of managing work and family life crystallized into news of a full — scale retreat to hearth and home. Detecting the start of an “opt-out revolution,” Lisa Belkin’s New York Times Magazine article told of accomplished professional women leaving high — powered jobs to stay […]
An “Opt-Out Revolution”?
In 2003 the various rumors and claims about the challenges of managing work and family life crystallized into news of a full — scale retreat to hearth and home. Detecting the start of an “opt-out revolution,” Lisa Belkin’s New York Times Magazine article told of accomplished professional women leaving high — powered jobs to stay […]
Why Stage I institutions were oppressive and how Stage II institutions can be freeing
Pan of women’s anger at men comes from the belief that men made the rules, and made them to oppress women and benefit men. Since most institutions are headed by men, when these institutions don’t meet our needs, we tend to blame men. The challenge is twofold: first, to recognize that these institutions helped women […]
FEMINISM, ‘PLURALISM’ AND THE POLITICS OF. RELATIVISM
At an epistemological level, there is a need for a radical and critical feminist epistemology to challenge the male monopoly of knowledge and exclusion of women from both the production of knowledge and positions of power. However, feminism’s intersection with poststructuralism and postmodernism has led some feminist theorists to voice concern about the direction of […]
GOAL 7 CHANGING THE LEARNED SOCIETIES
Appearance and Mobility
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • How do our skin, hair, and voices change with age? • What happens to our body build with age? • What age-related changes occur in our ability to move around? 70 CHAPTER 3 B y all accounts, Kristina is extremely successful. She was a famous model in her late teens and 20s, […]
How the government played substitute husband while no one played substitute wife
When divorce occurred, women’s greatest fear was of economic deprivation. Men’s was of emotional deprivation. Stage II divorce laws helped Alice make a transition from economic dependence to economic independence. No Stage II laws helped Jack make a transition from emotional dependence to emotional independence. (Which is why Alice rushed to a court for economic […]