During the months they wait for their child to arrive, women take stock of a web of connections, strengthening bonds that they hope will cushion their new family.1^ They ask people to participate in their birthing classes and labor, seeing this experience as a gift they want to share with those closest to them. Women […]
День: 16.09.2015
THE ULTIMATE GLASS CELLAR
The elite class or the dead class: Is the military an outgrowth of male competition and power? My policy? Sir, I am a soldier. I do not have a policy. French general Henri Giraud45 We think of top military brass as the bastion of male power. In the United States, as in France, the policy […]
Women’s own responses
Because of the lack of trees inside the camp firewood collection had to take place outside the relative safety of the camp boundaries. Many daytime attacks on women took place as they were collecting wood. To reduce the risk of rape and attack women in the refugee camps organised themselves into groups, some members armed […]
Fredrick and Tim (209a and 209b)
Fredrick is a 36-year-old white man who works in communications and earns a higher than average salary. His partner Tim is a white 33 year-old who works in finance and earns a higher salary. They met seven years ago over the internet, and were ‘married’ two years ago. After ‘going out’ together for a couple […]
Practical Transformations of the Body
Even to speak of contradiction between social process and the body is not to have moved far enough from doctrines of natural difference and biological determination. For this is still to treat the body as unmoved mover, as what is fixed in relation to what is fluid, as what gives meaning and does not receive […]
The Ecology of Aging
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What is aging in place? • How do people decide the best option? • How can a home be modified to provide a supportive environment? • What options and services are provided in adult day care? • What is congregate housing? • What are the characteristics of assisted living? M ark was […]
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “EVERY DAY, IN every way, we are getting meta and meta," the philosopher John Wisdom used to say, venturing a cultural counterpart to Emile Coue’s famous mantra of self-improvement. So it makes sense that, in the aftermath of the Simpson trial, the focus of attention has been swiftly displaced from the […]
Common Theoretical Themes and Everyday Competence
The three theories we have considered have much in common. Most important, all agree that the focus must be on the interaction between the person and the environment, not on one or the other. Another important common theme is that no one environment meets everyone’s needs. Rather, a range of potential environments may be optimal. […]
The more male chauvinist the country, the more it
The more chauvinist the country, the more it protects women. And therefore the more it limits women. Italy and Spain protea women completely from military service by not permitting them to join. Denmark gives women more options (to join and to be in combat) but still protects women from the draft.35 Like the United States, […]
Answering the Question “Who Is Your Father?”
The choice of route to motherhood is also a decision about how women, and consequently their children, will answer to society. With the question “Who is your father?” so inescapable, women and children rehearse an answer. Those women least likely to break the rules of reproduction are the most likely to have a man to […]