As an even more fundamental example of how gender has become a contested term, consider the work of the French writer Monique Wittig. Wittig combines the roles of radical feminist theorist and novelist and her work has been principally concerned with problems of gender and language. At first sight her ideas seem to be sharply […]
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Is female depression the equivalent of male suicide?
Myth Women experience more depression Fad. Women do not experience more depression, they геюп more depression. New studies hnd that clinicians fail to recognize depression in two thirds of men versus half of women. Women are also more likely than men to be diagnosed as suffering from depression even when it was later discovered they […]
The Gender Order
At several points in this analysis of institutions the importance of context has become obvious, especially the context provided by other institutions. To compile a complete structural inventory it is therefore necessary to go beyond a collation of gender regimes to the relationships between them. In some cases this relationship is additive or complementary. The […]
THE INTERSECTION OF FEMINISM, POST-COLONIALISM. AND POSTMODERNISM
This intersection is an interesting one, as all three movements have in common the process of dismantling or subverting dominant hegemonic discourses. In the process all three seek to challenge traditional epistemologies and to reestablish marginal discourses. AH three areas have experienced an upsurge of theoretical development in the last two decades and, as Ashcroft […]
Novel vistas for women in the new Republic
During these years radical new images and representations of women were promoted in the newspaper and periodical press as a response to the potential opportunities that apparently lay before them to enlarge their social roles. An article in the first issue of Funu shibao (The Ladies Times)16 in 1911, for example, admiringly pointed to the […]
THE MASTER NARRATIVE
"Tyson Verdict Sends a Message." These were the words that greeted me on the front of the sports section of my morning Los Angeles Times on February 11, 1992. The subhead read, "Some say conviction on rape charge shows athletes are not above the law."3 I suppose it was a headline I might have expected […]
RESPONSES TO THE CONTRADICTION
The slowdown is a venerable tactic in the wars between industrial labor and management. Those whose work is to offer “personalized service” may also stage a slowdown, but in a necessarily different way. Since their job is to act upon a commercial stage, under managerial directors, their protest may take the form of rebelling against […]
The Big Picture: A Life-Span View
One thing is clear about the ways people view intelligence—everyone considers it a complex construct. In the big picture, then, intelligence consistsof many different types of skills. Theories of intelligence, therefore, are multidimensional; that is, they specify many domains of intellectual abilities. Although people disagree on the number of dimensions, they do agree that no […]
Defining Intelligence
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • How do people define intelligence in everyday life? • What are the major components of the life-span approach? • What are the major research approaches for studying intelligence? A fter Toni graduated from high school she decided to start her own pet-sitting business. She started small, but ultimately cornered the market in […]
LOVE
A book on radical feminism that did not deal with love would be a political failure. For love, perhaps even more than childbearing, is the pivot of women’s oppression today. I realize this has frightening implications: Do we want to get rid of love? The panic felt at any threat to love is a good […]