Sex In free supply, Tahiti style What happened to sex when there was plenty of food and water and no invaders — so women didn’t need to keep sex in short supply until they found a proteaor? The Tahitians possessed these conditions of abundance from the moment humans sealed there. Tahitian parents aaually taught their […]
День: 11.09.2015
Two Boards and a Passion
On Theater, Academia, and the Art of Failure anjalee deshpande nadkarni I had gone to the annual conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education to present a paper entitled “The Maternal vs. the Paternal: Navigating the Divide in Rehearsal and in the Classroom.” The paper, which explored differences between male and female directorial […]
LIGHT AND HEAVY
American and Japanese Advice Books for Women WITH KAZUKO TANAKA Nowadays husbands and wives, parents and children don’t say "hello" to each other in the morning. Sometimes not only does the wife not prepare breakfast, she doesn’t even get out of bed. If you think this is sex equality and that the man is a […]
LIGHT AND HEAVY
American and Japanese Advice Books for Women WITH KAZUKO TANAKA Nowadays husbands and wives, parents and children don’t say "hello" to each other in the morning. Sometimes not only does the wife not prepare breakfast, she doesn’t even get out of bed. If you think this is sex equality and that the man is a […]
I Women’s Networks and Women’s Loyalties Reflections on a Tenure Case
In the midst of my tenure case, I was asked to speak to the Committee on Women Historians at the 1983 meeting of the American Historical Association. The previous year, I had filed an internal grievance charging that a Stanford dean’s reversal of my department’s vote to grant me tenure discriminated against me as a […]
War crimes against women and girls
The scale of sexual violence against women refugees The exact number of Somali women who were raped in Kenya’s North Eastern Province following their arrival as refugees is not known because until the UNHCR intervention in 1993, women had no incentive to come forward and report what had happened to them. They were also fearful […]
THE MYTH OF CHILDHOOD
In the Middle Ages there was no such thing as childhood. The medieval view of children was profoundly different from ours. It was not only that it was not “childcentered,” it literally was not conscious of children as distinct from adults. The childmen and childwomen of medieval iconography are miniature adults, reflecting a wholly different […]
THE MILLION MAN MARCH
Undeniably, the Million Man March, on October 16, 1995, energized the Black community. Many felt empowered by this spectacular event. Its leaders spoke eloquently of uplift and rejuvenation to a community thirsting for solutions to catastrophic problems, problems such as drug abuse, Black-on-Black violence, teenage pregnancy, record arrest and incarceration rates, AIDS, homelessness, endemic joblessness, […]
My Two Mothers, America, and the Million Man March
Luke Charles Harris MY TWO MOTHERS The ways in which race, class, and gender intersect to confound and restrict Black women’s lives are so severe that no single political agenda is adequate to address this "intricate complex."1 On a very personal level, I was sensitized to the workings of that "intricate complex" through the life […]
War Crimes Against. Women and Girls
Fowzia Musse Editors’ note The wars in Bosnia and Rwanda drew the world’s attention to the use of rape and sexual violence in war. But systematic rape during wartime is nothing new. From the ancient Romans to the Vietnam war; sexual violation of women and girls has been a means to conquer the enemy.1 What […]