Because many Somali women are the only adult in Canada from their extended family, there are certain responsibilities and expectations that they alone must fulfil, such as supporting family members back home by sending them money, and trying to sponsor other family members to come into Canada. Single mothers feel the pressure more than two-parent […]
День: 23.09.2015
Clinical Issues and Memory Testing
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What is the difference between normal and abnormal memory aging? • What is the connection between memory and mental health? • How is memory affected by nutrition and drugs? L atarra’s children are concerned. Latarra is 80 and is becoming more and more forgetful. With the scare of Alzheimer’s disease so salient […]
Individual Difference Variables in Memory Training
As we have seen throughout this chapter, adults are a very heterogeneous group when it comes to memory performance. Research reviewed earlier has shown that verbal ability, prior knowledge, and familiarity influence how well one performs on memory tasks. Herrmann (1993) argued that individual difference variables should be considered when designing memory training programs. Moreover, […]
CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. —Ralph Ellison45 The answer to the question "What happens to Black males in college?" is in many respects as complex as the parallel but larger question of "What happens to Black males in America?" In terms of the outcomes—academic performance, college satisfaction, and self-concept—considered […]
When it comes to male suicide, do we know the half of it?
When a teacher I know asked her class, "If you were going to commit suicide, how would you do it?" most of the girls said, "By overdosing on pills or drugs " But half the boys said they would get drunk and either drive off a cliff or into a telephone pole The method the […]
The gendering of publicity
The increasing exposure of private lives to public scrutiny on British television is often regarded as an effect of North American commercialism on an indigenous tradition of public service broadcasting. As Thompson (2000) explains, more generally this crossAtlantic influence is seen as the consequence of the tradition of greater ‘openness to scrutiny’ in the USA, […]
RAKES AND HARLOTS
Even attitudes towards prostitutes were radically reshaped in the decades after 1700. The traditional view of them had always been strongly unsympathetic. After all, the biblical archetype of the lustful whore, who destroyed unsuspecting men, epitomized the conventional view of women as the more lascivious, dangerous sex. Like Mary Magdalen, prostitutes could repent, but otherwise […]
THE DISCOURSE OF FEMINIST EMANCIPATORY. POLITICS
For feminism, the failure of theories of modernity has been their inability to come to terms with sexual difference and to theorise particularity. Yeatman (1993, 1995a) has argued that the impact of postmodernism and poststructuralism has forced feminism to investigate both ‘the genealogy’ and ‘status of oppression as a category of a modern politics of […]
BLACK MALE AND FEMALE ON WHITE COLLEGE CAMPUSES
The data drawn upon to explore the questions just raised are returns from a 1990 mail survey of more than 2,000 college students.16 The survey focused on gender differences in five specific areas of African American college experiences. Three are outcomes (academic performance, college satisfaction, and self-concept); the fourth concerns campus racial climate; and the […]
THE ‘LANDSCAPE OF POSTFEMINISM’: THE. INTERSECTION OF FEMINISM AND POSTMODERNISM
Feminism is centrally situated at the intersection of a number of intellectual debates emerging from the dialogue between modernism and postmodernism. Benhabib (1992:210) notes that, confronted with ‘debates about the “end” or “transformation” of philosophy and the emergence of a postmodernist agnostics of language, feminists feel ambivalent…’ She maintains that, while feminists want to take […]