Having a chronic disease does not mean that one becomes incapacitated. Even though the type and severity of chronic conditions vary across people, most older adults manage to figure out how to accomplish the necessary tasks of daily living despite having a chronic condition. Although most people manage to accomplish the necessary tasks of daily […]
День: 12.09.2015
JAPANESE AND AMERICAN CONTEXTS
(Xiltural room is created within a broad context, and while the Japanese and American contexts are similar in some ways, they very much differ in others. Both societies have a “past” in which most women were more subordinate to men than they are today. Much of the cultural negotiation in each society centers on how […]
JAPANESE AND AMERICAN CONTEXTS
(Xiltural room is created within a broad context, and while the Japanese and American contexts are similar in some ways, they very much differ in others. Both societies have a “past” in which most women were more subordinate to men than they are today. Much of the cultural negotiation in each society centers on how […]
Sadomasochism and the Colorline
Reflections on the Million Man March Anthony Paul Farley The world of the spectacle has reached its apogee. New forms of resistance are beginning to break out everywhere. These are anything but well known since the whole point of spectacle is to portray universal and hypnotic submission. But resistance exists and is spreading. —Anonymous1 ADDICTION […]
Cementing a Relationship
Many of the women who chance pregnancy are entangled in relationships, and some believe that they can cement their relationship by having their partner’s child. They are lax about using birth control, often gambling as they forget to use protection in the passion of the moment. They also often tell the men that they are […]
Sex In short tupply, OPEC style
We often think of countries that require women to wear a veil as keeping women powerless. In Muslim countries, the purdah keeps female beauty hidden, only to be shown to the selected few — who were invariably good providers. This prevented the average man from even looking at the average woman until he promised to […]
Ciudad Juarez: Setting the Scene
Ciudad Juarez, the largest city in Mexico’s largest state (Chihuahua), is also the fourth largest city in the country. Situated along Mexico’s northern border, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, Juarez is a hub of industrial activity. Its 400 maquiladoras (foreign-owned assembly plants) attract 50,000 new economic migrants each year (Wolff 2002). […]
FARRAKHAN, SMITHERMAN, AND WEST: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEIR SUPPORT OF THE MARCH?
Farrakhan’s conception of the call for the March is based on a patriarchal image of what the Black community needs.12 In the mission statement for the March, Farrakhan calls "on Black men to stand in unity to shoulder our responsibility as the heads of our families, and leaders in our community." He speaks of "our […]
I Small Group Pedagogy Consciousness Raising in Conservative Times
This essay applies some of the historical lessons about feminism to teaching. Long before the consciousness-raising groups of second-wave feminism, women relied on personal networks and separate organizations to support the work of transforming society. In teaching “Introduction to Feminist Studies,”I sought to have the students, both male and female, rely on each other’s insights […]
OUR time: the myth is magnified
We have seen how the increasing privatization of family life brought ever more oppression to its dependents, women and children. The interrelated myths of femininity and childhood were the instruments of this oppression. In the Victorian Bra they reached such epic proportions that finally women rebelled—their rebellion peripherally affecting childhood. But the rebellion was destroyed […]