Although the March evidenced mass black political mobilization and signaled a degree of black political independence, its political project was never clearly articulated. The exact purpose of the March remains an enigma. Although atonement ultimately became the stated purpose of the March, when Minister Farrakhan first announced his plans, atonement for sin was not the […]
День: 15.09.2015
The pregnant-navy syndrome
It isn’t politically correct to even discuss this in the services, but. . . a large percentage of women soldiers are electively aborting their fetuses after they’ve served their purpose of enabling them to avoid their tour of duty in Operation Desen Storm… It is wrong to use a fetus to shirk the responsibility’ for […]
RE-FOCUSING ON CLASSICAL TOPICS
I have chosen one example to illustrate this heading: the interrelated topics of women’s social mobility and the proper way to construct class systems in modern Britain. Other examples, could, no doubt, be chosen, but the sociology of class, stratification and social mobility is a particularly central one in the UK. The feminist sociologists (women […]
The social consequences of rape in the refugee camps
A strong cultural stigma is attached to rape in Somalia, as elsewhere. Women who have been raped face not only physical and psychological trauma but also the likelihood of rejection by their families. Although, in general, the social consequences of rape include rejection by husband, family and community, the outcome varies according to marital status […]
His army versus her army
Combat training strips you of your self-image so you can be rebuilt to fit the Army mold. Bruce Gilkin, Vietnam Veteran21 When every man in the armed services is required to enter combat upon command and every woman either has the option of combat or is protected from combat, we produce two distinct mentalities. Combat […]
My body, my business?
ITEM If a fetus has a “right to life.” but eighteen years later has an "obligation to death," which sex is it? Registering all our 18-year-old sons for the draft in the event the country needs more soldiers is as sexist as registering all our 18-year-old daughters for child-bearing in the event the country needs […]
Infinite Calculations
della fenster The airmail letter arrived five months after the birth of my third child. I had just begun a year-long leave of absence, ostensibly to adjust to motherhood in a family of five. I hoped to keep my research moving along by writing one short article that year, but that was the full extent […]
Concepts of sexual assault in Somali society
Somali society has two distinct terms for acts of sexual aggression: kufsi which is most closely analogous to the western term ‘rape’; and faro — xumeyn which may be translated as ‘sexual assault’.These terms are often interchangeable. Traditionally, Somalis define kufsi as penetrative sexual intercourse with a woman by an assailant using force, against her […]
The Congruence Model
Another way to consider how people and environments interact is to look for the best fit for a specific person in a particular environment. This is what Kahana (1982) focuses on in her congruence model. Kahana includes the ideas of competence and environmental press but applies them differently. In Kahana’s view people vary in their […]
Leisure and time
Feminist sociologists opened up research on control over time. Rosemary Deem’s (1986) pioneering research into the leisure activities of married women in Milton Keynes showed that men expected and took time for their leisure, whereas women only had time for their leisure if their male partner supported the activity. The dynamics of the households were […]