Theoretical literature on the state is at the other pole from the family: almost no one has seen it as an institutionalization of gender. Even in feminist thought the state is only just coming into focus as a theoretical question. Yet reasons to address it are easy to find. The personnel of the state, as […]
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FRAMING RULES AND FEELING RULES: ISSUES IN IDEOLOGY
Rules for managing feeling are implicit in any ideological stance: they are the “bottom side” of ideology. Ideology has often been construed as a flatly cognitive framework, lacking implications for how we feel. Yet, drawing on Emile Durkheiin, Clifford Geertz, and Erving Goffman, we can think of ideology as an interpretive framework that can be […]
FRAMING RULES AND FEELING RULES: ISSUES IN IDEOLOGY
Rules for managing feeling are implicit in any ideological stance: they are the “bottom side” of ideology. Ideology has often been construed as a flatly cognitive framework, lacking implications for how we feel. Yet, drawing on Emile Durkheiin, Clifford Geertz, and Erving Goffman, we can think of ideology as an interpretive framework that can be […]
Changes in gender relations within the family
Women’s increased economic role in the family implies a change in gender relations at household level. With the family no longer economically supported by a man, and often without a productive man in the household, many women have become the household head responsible for decision-making. ACORD’s research found that ‘male interviewees say that they have […]
Which Women?
In addition to revising its labor policies in the face of structural change, feminism has shifted other central agendas after confronting internal challenges. Because the category “woman” is by no means universal but rather masks internal social hierarchies, conflicts among women of diverse racial and cultural backgrounds have repeatedly forced redefinitions of feminist politics. Those […]
Situation Models
Sometime in your educational career you probably had to read a rather lengthy novel for a literature class. Providing you opted for the book rather than the video or Cliff Notes version, you probably were surprised at how much different your recollections of the story were compared with those of your classmates. Many of these […]
Providing Alternative Ways to Genetic Knowledge and Kin
Privacy: The Rights of the Anonymous Donor Politically, these mothers believe that children have the right to meet their genetic fathers, but they have reached this conclusion only upon realizing that sperm is not just a product but also an aspect of a person and a part of their children’s identities. Sperm donors, however, do […]
Relating circumstances and ideals
One of the key themes to emerge in relational biographies is the dynamic nature of the circumstances in which partners relate and ‘do’ their relationships and marriages (see Chapter 2). Relational biographies also contained stories of how parents’ relationships and marriages had changed over time. Escalating conflict, abuse, alcoholism, affairs and the like could lead […]
FEELING RULES
We feel. We try to feel. We want to try to feel. The social guidelines that direct how we want to try to feel may be describable as a set of socially shared, albeit often latent (not thought about unless probed at), rules. In what way, we may ask, are these rules themselves known and […]
FEELING RULES
We feel. We try to feel. We want to try to feel. The social guidelines that direct how we want to try to feel may be describable as a set of socially shared, albeit often latent (not thought about unless probed at), rules. In what way, we may ask, are these rules themselves known and […]