[a large, formidable profile of a black woman in an Afro] I AM THE BLACK WOMAN, MOTHER OF CIVILIZATION,QUEEN OF THE UNIVERSE, THROUGH ME THE BLACK MANPRODUCES HIS NATION. If he does not protect his woman he will not produce a good nation. It is my duty to teach and train the young, who are […]
День: 23.09.2015
RACE, GENDER, AND THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
Of course, the difficulties African American students experience in the educational context is not limited to the precollege experience. An analysis of the college life of Black students reveals how race and gender interplay so that Black female and Black male college experiences intersect but do not completely overlap. Perhaps not surprisingly, researchers have identified […]
Free to Be. . . Mom and Me
Finding My Complicated Truth as an Academic Daughter megan pincus kajitani As a former teacher of feminist studies, I can easily tear down the whole have-it-all myth with a few choice words about our flawed patriarchal system and media spin. Yet this pesky cultural ideal has nagged at me, personally, for many years. That happens […]
Sex scandals as media events
For the majority of the 1990s the news agenda in the UK and USA was dominated at frequent intervals by politically significant sex scandals that produced widespread media coverage. In the UK, in the first half of the 1990s, a seemingly endless stream of sex scandals buffeted the Conservative Government. Unwisely, the Prime Minister, John […]
Family Division of Labor: A Rational Choice?
Schumpeter was disturbed by the idea of subjecting parenthood to modern cost-benefit analysis because, as he saw it, the resulting balance sheet was incomplete, if not fundamentally wrong, especially when it came to the benefits of motherhood. He explained that “the contribution made by parenthood to physical and moral health—to ‘normality’ as we might express […]
Family Division of Labor: A Rational Choice?
Schumpeter was disturbed by the idea of subjecting parenthood to modern cost-benefit analysis because, as he saw it, the resulting balance sheet was incomplete, if not fundamentally wrong, especially when it came to the benefits of motherhood. He explained that “the contribution made by parenthood to physical and moral health—to ‘normality’ as we might express […]
SEX SCANDALS
In 1998 the ‘hottest’ story on prime time television news was the scandal of US President Bill Clinton’s sexual exploits with a young intern in the White House, Monica Lewinsky. Commentary on the scandal appeared on the network news at the family dinner hour, provoking concerns about how parents should handle the ensuing questions from […]
Known Donor Fathers: Ghosts, Uncles, or Escalating Dads?
I know when we were doing the contract, you sit there and you talk about these things, but everything is so abstract and that’s kind of what this feels like. It’s so abstract; you’re talking about this being that’s not even there. And until it actually happens, you just can’t really think about what it’s […]
Training Memory Skills
The notion that memory can be improved through acquiring skills and practicing them is very old,dating back to prehistory (Yates, 1966). For example, the story in The Iliad was told for generations through the use of mnemonic strategies before it was finally written down. Books that teach readers how to improve their own memory have […]
Memory Training
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What are the major ways that memory skills are trained? How effective are these methods? • What are the key individual difference variables in memory training? A fter retirement, Alison and Charlie noticed that they were having trouble remembering things more so than they used to. They were worried that given their […]