ITEM The more industrialized a society becomes, the more both sexes’ life expectancies increase. But industrialization increases women’s life expectancy roughly twice as much as men’s.7 In preindustrialized societies (e. g., Italy and Ireland in the nineteenth century), a gap of only one to two years between the life spans of women and men was […]
День: 25.09.2015
BETWEEN THE TOE AND. THE HEEL
Jobs and Emotional Labor “Know Your Prices. Keep Smiling.” — Sign in back hall, Italian restaurant “Create Alarm." — Sign in back room, collection agency The corporate world has a toe and a heel, and each performs a different function: one delivers a service, the other collects payment for it. When an organization seeks to […]
Why Do Women Live Longer?
Is it biology? ITEM In Bangladesh today, men live longer than women. In Harlem today, women live longer than men. Correction. In Harlem, women live much longer than men.1 If botogy is the only variable, why these differences? What our life span tells us about who has the power When we learn that nonwhites have […]
Modifying Primary Abilities
As you have seen, older adults do not perform as well on tests of some primary abilities as younger adults, even after taking the moderators of performance into account (Schaie, 1995). In considering these results, investigators began asking whether there was a way to slow down or even reverse the declines. As we saw earlier, […]
Modelling Femininity in Modern Medical Science
Studies of contemporary visualizations of the human body in medicine, especially in the Visible Human Project, are relevant here (Cartwright 1998; Marchessault and Sawchuk 2000). Lisa Cartwright examines this digital representation of a male and a female body, fully dissectible and available online, in terms of the history of medical anatomical representation, and she concludes […]
Reconfiguring connectedness
As discussed earlier, in previous studies of lesbian and gay selves and relationships, ‘coming out’ has been linked to radical biographical disruption and reconstruction. For example, Davies (1992) argues that coming out involves social relocation: different places, different social networks, and different social and sexual contexts. He argues that through coming out the person becomes […]
Sensationalism, shame and the cult of celebrity
The reason why scandals generate such intense audience interest is because of their ambivalent symbolic form. That is to say, they allow for the expression of transgressive impulses as well as a reassertion of normative ideals in a ritual process that occurs over time. In this respect they can be compared to the traditional popular […]
EMOTIONAL LABOR AND THE REDEFINED SELF
A person who does emotional labor for a living must face three hard questions that do not confront others, the answers to which will determine how she defines her “self.” The first one is this: How can I feel really identified with my work role and with the company without being fused with them? This […]
Sexist sampling procedures
Friendships and the couple ethos
On the basis of their study of same-sex intimacies in the 1990s, Weeks et al. (2001: 50) noted (as did numerous other studies) that friendship ‘is key to understanding non-heterosexual ways of life’. It was the most important recurring theme among the 98 narrators in their study (of whom at least 70 were partnered) and […]