ZOEY ELOUARD MICHELE [ 3 ] Since 1993 the people of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, have lost more than 300 women to murder. The details of the case are appalling but, sadly, not unique: Canadians, for example, need only think of the as-yet unsolved case of sixty — three women who have gone missing from Vancouver’s […]
День: 11.09.2015
FEELING RULES: LOVE AND GRATITUDE
Morgan and Brown both tell women to expect less caretaking from their husbands than they should expect to give. As Brown notes flippantly, “At my house there isn’t much wife coddling during illness, but then nobody female is ever ill at our house so the unilateral sick-care plan works okay.”16 Morgan finds support in the […]
FEELING RULES: LOVE AND GRATITUDE
Morgan and Brown both tell women to expect less caretaking from their husbands than they should expect to give. As Brown notes flippantly, “At my house there isn’t much wife coddling during illness, but then nobody female is ever ill at our house so the unilateral sick-care plan works okay.”16 Morgan finds support in the […]
CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
After 1688 even the summary conviction of sexual offenders was increasingly called into question. Throughout the middle ages, the sixteenth century, and the seventeenth, as we have seen, it had been common practice to punish harlots summarily for their evil life. The societies for reformation continued this practice, systematically using so-called general warrants, which empowered […]
Why was divorce considered immoral and illegal?
As a rule, when women had enough food, water, and shelter so that they could live independently of men without starving, divorce was made legal and considered moral 47 And therefore it was common. This was the case among middle-class Americans since the 1960s, the IKung Bushmen of southern Africa’s Kalahari Desert, the Yoruba of […]
Medical Intervention
Medical intervention can serve as a catalytic event when women learn that they have a medical problem that may lead to infertility if they do not act immediately. Usually it is endometriosis that hastens women’s decision. Endometriosis is a misunderstood reproductive disease: the medical profession often informs women who have it that if they do […]
Sex Role Theory
The literature on ‘sex roles’ is very large. It is also more than a little confused, especially over the differences between ‘sex roles’, ‘sex differences’ and ‘sexual character’. An example is the well — known research on androgyny by Sandra Bern, which attempts to measure psychological traits of masculinity and femininity. Her questionnaire is entitled […]
Reopening the Question of Memory: Ambivalence and Difficult Returns
While Fran^oise David’s comment cites emotional proximity as a hindrance to claiming a memorial narrative of emblemization, I suggest that this proximity may be read, instead, as indicative of how difficult (emotionally, politically, socially, publicly, etc.) yet necessary it is to face Lepine’s accusatory hatred of feminists (feminism) as a reason for murder. Perhaps this […]
That Mommy Thing
First Day of School amy hudock I walked down brick pathways to teach my first university class in over two years. I kept my eyes down, looking at each brick as I passed over it, trying to keep from crying. Their deep earth color reminded me of the blood that came with my daughter’s birth, […]
Motherhood after Tenure
Confessions of a Late Bloomer aeron haynie She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. —Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818) Like Jane Austen’s Persuasion, my story is about waiting—and the disorienting blessing of getting what I most desire when I’d given up […]