Overall, the personal stories generated by our study highlight how, in practice, civil partnership can be understood as a form of marriage. Despite the fact that civil partnership is technically distinct from marriage, the majority of partners viewed themselves as married and had taken to ‘marriage’ like ducks to water. Of the 100 partners, 74 […]
День: 14.09.2015
THE PSYCHOLOGY AND POLITICS OF THE DOUBLE STANDARD
The psychological draft The psychological draft of boys begins before, and continues after, the legal draft of boys. It begins with unconsciously teaching infant boys to endure pain when we cut an infant boy s penis without anesthesia but not an infant girl’s clitoris, with taking longer to pick up our boy children than our […]
THE FRENCH INTELLECTUAL TRADITION AND FRENCH. FEMINIST DECONSTRUCTIVISTS
Feminism, sexuality and textuality: Derrida, ‘differance’ anddeconstruction Feminist theory in the 1970s was strongly influenced by psychoanalytic models of sexuality and subjectivity, which were in turn influenced by Freud’s work and by the French psychoanalytic theoristJacques Lacan. As Weedon notes, many feminists have attempted to make psychoanalytic theory the key to understanding the acquisition of […]
War Hero or War Slave?:. The Armed Prostitute
Every society rests on the death of men. Oliver Wendell Holmes ITEM Almost one out of three American men is a veteran.’ ITEM In one World War I battle alone (the Battle of the Somme), more than one million men were killed or maimed.2 Understanding men requires understanding men’s relationship to the three Ws. women, […]
MORAL LAWS AND MORAL TRUTHS
The most corrosive idea of all was that unchastity was not always harmful or wrong. As we have seen, this was an age-old challenge to the enforcement of sexual discipline. Yet throughout the middle ages and the Renaissance, sexual freedom had been only weakly and implicitly defended. Most of the time it had been advanced […]
Transcendence and Negation
To speak of‘transcendence’ is to imply the production of something qualitatively different. The social is radically unnatural. (‘Non — natural’ might be a more neutral term but I think the stronger overtones are correct.) Its structure can never be deduced from natural structures. What undergoes transformation is genuinely trans-formed. But this unnaturalness does not mean […]
SOCIAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS
Two demographic trends will create the potential for significant worldwide change over the next few decades. First, increasing longevity in developed countries will result in more older adults. Second, the size of various generations will either exacerbate or lessen this problem. That is, the large baby-boom generation, combined with increased longevity, will make the issue […]
The sexual consumer
The structure of the industry in Europe is changing in order to maximize competitive economic pressures and to reduce state regulation of content. At the same time, ratings and market research have become the legitimizing technologies through which to evaluate the ‘quality’ of programming, just as they have been in the USA from the start. […]
Innate Desires or Transient Tendencies?
The final answer is that we really do not yet know whether women’s choices regarding paid work and childrearing over the past several decades represent a transient phase that is due for a correction, or whether they represent a basic pattern of deep-seated lifestyle preferences that will continue over time. Yet, my hunch is that […]
Innate Desires or Transient Tendencies?
The final answer is that we really do not yet know whether women’s choices regarding paid work and childrearing over the past several decades represent a transient phase that is due for a correction, or whether they represent a basic pattern of deep-seated lifestyle preferences that will continue over time. Yet, my hunch is that […]