There were a number of important catalysts. In the later seventeenth century, after a long period in which population expansion and shortage of resources had underpinned the tightening of attitudes towards immorality, demographic pressure levelled off and living standards started to rise: against this backdrop, fears about bastardy gradually receded.[8] The general ideal of personal […]
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PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY,. SEMIOLOGY AND. POSTFEMINISM
INTRODUCTION This chapter investigates the intersection of psychoanalytic theory and semiology with feminist theory and considers the implications for postfeminist debates. There are two spheres where these debates have made an impact. The first is the impact of psychoanalytic theory and semiology within the French intellectual tradition, particularly as a result of feminism’s engagement with […]
The sexual citizen
The role of television in bridging the public and the private spheres highlights questions of sexual citizenship. This concept overcomes the relegation of sexuality to a private sphere whose eruption into the public sphere is perceived as an aberration or a threat. It also draws attention to the legitimate ‘public interest’ in regulating sexual behaviour […]
What Causes Functional Limitations and Disability in Older Adults?
As you were reading about the Verbrugge and Jette (1994) model, you may have been thinking about Brian’s situation and those of other adults you know. If you and your classmates created a list of all the conditions you believe cause functional limitations and disabilities in older adults, the list undoubtedly would be long. (Try […]
Bishaw came to Ifo camp with her five children in April 1992 after walking miles from Kismayo, Somalia
In July 1992 nine shiftas with guns came into my house at night. They were wearing black trousers, black jackets and hats pulled low. I did not know them. They all had guns and big boots like soldiers. They pulled my arms behind my back and tied my hands. They told me not to scream […]
Women are segregated into the worst Jobs, aren’t they?
While we have seen that twenty-four out of the twenty-five worst jobs are male jobs3* and that many men also have low-pay jobs (busboy, doorman, dishwasher, gas station attendant, etc.), many of the lowest-paid jobs are predominantly occupied by women. Why the distinction between the worst and low-paid jobs? Because many of the low-paid jobs […]
That Mommy Thing
alissa mc elreath In December of 2004 I was invited, by a senior tenured colleague at my department, to her annual holiday party. I had only taught one semester, and felt that my inclusion was a real sign that I was becoming somebody. My colleague good-naturedly penned the words “Bring your family!” at the bottom […]
The death professions* double standard
When mining, construction, and other death professions are discussed in feminist publications, they are portrayed as examples of the male power system, as "male-only dubs." However, when Ms. magazine profiled female miners, the emphasis was on how the woman was forced to take a job in the mines because it paid the best, and how […]
What Are Men to the Making of Mothers?
As Sophie, thirty-nine years old with a one-year-old, humorously points out, sperm is easy to come by: While I was thinking about donors, a friend of mine said, quoting from the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” because I was thinking, “Where am I going to go?” And she said, “You know, it’s just amazing. I […]
FOUCAULT AND FEMINISM-SOME PROBLEMS FOR. FEMINIST POLITICS
What could be more seductive for feminists than a discourse which, like that of Michel Foucault in La Volonte de Savoir (The History of Sexuality), focuses on the complex interaction of power and sexuality?…Alluring as they may seem, however, the apparent parallels between Foucault’s work and feminism ought not to deceive us. Feminists ought to […]