ITEM Parode magazine announces that 40 million Soviet men were killed between 1914 and I94S.52 The magazne’s headline reads “Short End of the Stick." Because men died? No. The women were seen as getting the short end of the stick because they were stuck with factory and street-cleaner positions the men weren’t around to do. […]
День: 17.09.2015
WAYS OF BOWING FROM THE HEART
Both straight and improvisational exchanges presuppose a number of ways to pay psychological dues. For example, we may simply feign the owed feeling, sometimes without intending to succeed; or we may offer the greater gift of trying to amplify a real feeling that we already have; or we may try to reframe an event and […]
GENDER AND SEXUAL SCIENCE
No one knows precisely when and where gender was initially used to refer to the social and cultural aspects of sexual difference, but it is clear that the term was already current in sexology by the early 1960s. For example, gender does not figure in Alex Comfort’s post-war overview of Sexual Behaviour in Society (1950) […]
Liberty BOUNDED AND EXTENDED
To survey the rise of sexual liberty up to 1800 is to contemplate a momentous ideological upheaval. The conventional justification for sexual discipline had been that immoral actions, even immoral beliefs, were dangerous. They corrupted individuals and undermined the wellbeing of societies; it was therefore legitimate, indeed imperative, to punish them. By the end of […]
The Facts, the Stories leah bradshaw
I am fifty-three years old. I have three children: Emma (twenty-two), Jacob (seventeen), and Lucy (thirteen). I have had two academic husbands, one with whom I had my two oldest children, and one with whom I had my youngest at the age of forty. I no longer have the husbands. They have moved on to […]
PRIVATE VICES, PUBLIC BENEFITS
The gradual separation of personal morality and public affairs around the dawn of the eighteenth century also paved the way for a still more radical challenge. This was the idea that allowing sex outside marriage could actually benefit the public good. Some sexual licence was therefore to be tolerated, even encouraged. This notion directly contradicted […]
Decision-Making Capacity and Individual Choices
Providing high-quality care for nursing home residents means putting into practice the various competence-enhancing interventions we have considered relating to personal control and communication. Doing so means that residents participate in making decisions about their care. But how can we make sure that residents understand what they are 175 being asked to decide, especially when […]
Aren’t war stories evidence of how much men love war?
Our association of war stories with bragging leaves us with the impression that men love war — that war is a male "toy." This is the dark side. The light side is the celebration of self that compensates for the tearing down of self that prepared him to be disposable. War stories are the male […]
OF DOCTORS AND DICTIONARIES
Despite sometimes sounding as if they were mere cliches, little more than the superannuated jargon of interpersonal relations, phrases like gender role or gender identity are in fact relatively new. Before the Second World War they didn’t exist and other closely connected expressions — such as gender-bender — did not appear until the early 1980s. […]
TESTIMONY 3:A GROUP VIEW
The experience of women during the liberation struggle in north west Somalia, 1980-8820 Editors’ note Somalia came to the world’s attention in 1991 when the Siad Barre regime collapsed with the outbreak of war in Mogadishu but what is often overlooked is that civil war had been going on in Somalia since the end of […]