День: 21.09.2015

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 […]

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 […]