So what do we assume is true about emotion? There is the organismic account and there is the interactwe account. They differ in what they imply about our capacity to manage emotion, and thus in what they imply about the importance of rules about managing it. According to the organismic view, the paramount questions concern […]
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TWO ACCOUNTS OF EMOTION AND FEELING
So what do we assume is true about emotion? There is the organismic account and there is the interactwe account. They differ in what they imply about our capacity to manage emotion, and thus in what they imply about the importance of rules about managing it. According to the organismic view, the paramount questions concern […]
Body Double
leslie leyland fields 8:55 a. m. I stand in the front of the classroom, dressed in a navy skirt, maroon blouse, low navy heels. My hair is freshly washed and styled, my face bright with lipstick. I am waiting for my students to arrive. “Hi, Mark, hi, Ivan. Come on in. You guys had your […]
Text-Based Levels
Most of the work conducted in aging and discourse processing has examined memory at text-based levels. Because texts are constructed with information at these different hierarchical levels of importance, a key question is whether there are age differences in memory for these different levels. Answering this question amounts to looking for age differences between memory […]
“Dealing with the Devil”:1 Karla Homolka. and the Absence of Feminist Criticism
BELINDA MORRISSEY [ 5 ] Feminism’s “Limit” Case In 2002, shortly before Karla Homolka’s proposed release from prison, an Internet site called “Karla Homolka Death Pool: When the Game Is Over, We All Win” was set up solely for the purpose of taking its visitors’ bets on the exact date that someone would murder Homolka […]
Memory for Discourse
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What age differences are observed in text-based levels of memory for discourse? • What age differences are observed for situation models of discourse memory? • What social factors and characteristics of individuals influence memory for discourse? A n elderly woman, Dorothy, loves the movies. In fact, her adult children go to her […]
Half Adopted: The Fantasy Father
From the partial information women have about their donors we can see how they construct a notion of a whole man—the fantasy father. Instead of denying or remaining silent about him, women make him present in everyday life and conversation. Often these mothers think of their children as “half adopted,” a term used by one […]
POSTMODERNISM, FEMINISM AND REPRESENTATION
The debate around the contextualisation of postmodernism and post-colonialism brings political and aesthetic dimensions together, particularly around the issue of representation. Craig Owens (1983) regards postmodernism as a crisis in Western representation, both in its authority and universal claims; a crisis that Owens states had already been Voiced’ by hitherto marginal or repressed discourses, feminism […]
POSTMODERNISM AND POST-COLONIALISM: ISSUES OF. COMMONALITY AND DIFFERENCE
The intersection of postmodernism and post-colonialism explores many of the issues around identity, nationality and difference. McRobbie (1994) and Yeatman (1994) both reflect on the interconnections between postmodernism and postcolonialism in understanding both the political and cultural complexity of the contemporary world. Yeatman (1994:3) contends that ‘Acceptance of the reality of the postmodern condition means […]
ECONOMIC REALITIES
The expanding definition of citizenship proved a necessary but not sufficient cause for feminist movements to form. An economic motor reinforced these ideas — the transition from agricultural, family-based economies to commercial, and later industrial, market economies based on wage labor. Over time, women joined the ranks of paid workers, but it was not wage […]