On occasion women have the opportunity to leave their daily lives for a time. These interruptions in routines are bracketed, and provide women the freedom and opportunity to reflect upon, evaluate, and redirect their lives. For many, interruptions serve as a refresher course or an exercise in remembering and focusing on one’s own life goals. […]
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Chronic and Acute Diseases
Rosa, the immigrant from Mexico, is typical of older adults: She is beginning to experience some recurring health difficulties and finding out that she does not recover as quickly from even minor afflictions. You probably have had several encounters with illnesses that come on quickly, may range from mild to very severe, last a few […]
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study of the relations between psychological, neurological, and immunological systems that raise or lower our susceptibility to and ability to recover from disease. The focus of much of this research has been on identifying the psychological triggers that start the process and result in cancer. Two general types of investigations have been conducted (Irwin, 2008): […]
Quality of Life
We’ll bet if you asked most people what they want out of life, they would say something about a good quality of life. But what does that mean? Precise definitions are hard to find. Sometimes people find it easier to say what quality of life is not: being dependent on a respirator while in a […]
IMMORALITY. .. OR.. . IMMORTAUTY?
Were sexual freedom and premarital sex condemned because they sacrificed morality or sacrificed immortality? The Bible contains some astonishing answers. . . Was religion concerned with immorality… or… immortality? DAUGHTERS RAPEDRUNK DAD, SAY GOD APPROVES Why would the above "headline" make William Randolph Hears! and Rupert Murdoch blush and yet lead to Lot and his […]
Conceptualising the vitality relationships
In line with modernist frames for understanding relationships, existing empirical studies of heterosexual married relationships suggest they are highly gendered and support unequal relations between men and women (Duncombe and Marsden, 1993; Duncombe et al., 2004; 1999; Mansfield and Collard, 1988). Despite changes in the ideologies of gendered work, intimacy and democratic personal relations, research […]
Why was a beautiful young woman such a big deal?
Beaut>- was a sign of health and reproductive capability; thus, a beautiful woman historically had wide hips (for childbearing), body symmetry (indicating no deformities), hair and teeth that weren’t falling out (indicating health). And she was young — at the beginning of her fertile years. Society needed to reinforce men’s biological dependency on female beauty […]
Breakups
Many women in their twenties and thirties have endured breakups with those they thought would be life partners; when this relationship ends, they watch in despair as their life plan falls apart, taking with it the promise of traditional marriage and motherhood. Women report that pushing their baby agenda—their wish to have a child—in the […]
From amateurs to professionals
The rise and fall of the societies helped to bring about a fundamental change in the relationship between law and society. Up to this point the policing of sexual offences, as of other crimes, had been based on the principle of communal self-regulation. The offices of watchman, constable, and churchwarden were supposed to be held […]
MALE SUBSERVIENCE TO FEMALE BEAUTY
The woman is life, and the man is the servant of life. . . Joseph Campbell, explaining why tvomen are in the center of a tribal dance, why they control the dance, and why men dance around the women.36 Beauty power: the biblical story of Rachel and Jacob[1] Jacob lived with his uncle Laban. Uncle […]