День: 15.09.2015

Didn’t women in the Persian Gulf share equal combat risks without equal combat pay?

During the U. S. invasion of Panama, front-page headlines heralded the first woman leading soldiers into combat.9 Although The New York Times made it clear the woman thought she was approaching an ««guarded dog kennel,10 Congresswoman Schroeder used this incident to develop three myths — myths that were reinforced during the war in the Persian […]

Interactions

5.1 DESCRIBING PERSON-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS Competence and Environmental Press • Discovering Development: What’s Your Adaptation Level? • The Congruence Model • Stress and Coping Framework • Common Theoretical Themes and Everyday Competence 5.2 THE ECOLOGY OF AGING: COMMUNITY OPTIONS Aging in Place • Deciding on the Best Option • Home Modification • Adult Day Care • […]

Jacques Derrida: The Play of Presence and Absence

Various scholars have written on this notion of presence. Michel Foucault wrote about truth. Jean Baudrillard (1999) talks about the real. Derrida (1996, 438) relates his use of the word “presence” to a string of synonyms—essence, existence, consciousness, the transcendental signified, God, Man—all stand­ing for this fundamental principle, which, he argues, animates traditional Western thinking.7 […]

Market regulation

Their ability and willingness to buy the goods on offer in a market define viewers as consumers rather than citizens. This allows us to conceive of the market itself as a form of regulation, in the Foucauldian sense, as companies adapt their production output in response to the values and tastes of its potential viewers […]

Lacan and feminism

Lacan’s work is highly obscure and the ambiguity of his style reinforces the ambiguity of much of the content of his writing and strengthens his claim that unambiguous meaning in language is an illusion. Lacan’s style, as well as the content of his writing, has had a great influence on French feminist writing. By repositioning […]

THE MARCH’S SIGNIFICANCE: BLACK POLITICAL PARTICIPATION

If the March evidenced the inherent limits of modern-day marching and the rhetoric of pessimism, it also signaled a significant shift in African American political culture. The significance of the shift is this: at least hundreds of thousands of black Americans determined that condi­tions in this country were sufficiently disturbing that they were motivated to […]