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День: 26.09.2015
Conclusions: The Materialization of Violence
Mary Ann Doane points to the work of Annette Michelson and argues that the play of technological artifice, fear, and femininity moves feminist debates on representation beyond gender stereotyping and the “cinematic iconography of repression and desire” to a place where the feminized form is “the fantas — matic ground of cinema itself” (Doane 1990,166) […]
Beauty and the beast
The feminist scientist Donna Haraway has argued that science evolves through complex, historically specific storytelling practices rather than through a detached analysis of the ‘facts’. She has drawn attention to the political and economic interests that are reproduced by the narratives of science (Haraway 1991). The most powerful of these in relation to the wildlife […]
THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF THE ACADEMY:. MODERNISM AND THE ABSENCE OF GENDERED VOICES
What becomes apparent in reflecting on the theorists and critics of modernism and postmodernism is that there is an overwhelming monopolisation of the debate by male writers and an attendant marginalisation of feminist writers and issues within these debates. Examples of the absence or marginalisation of feminism’s contribution to modernism’s project, as Marshall (1994) notes, […]
Killing him softly
These coping mechanisms — or defense mechanisms — kill men a lot more softly than in the past. Fewer men die in coal mines, more die inside when a lifetime of doing everything he could to support a family leads to his income becoming an incentive for his wife to leave him When he sees […]
Mole nurturance
In almost every men’s group I have formed, men discuss problems they face at work — especially feelings of being unappreciated or criticized by bosses and colleagues. If we ask a man whether he has discussed this with his wife or woman friend, he usually says he has, but only superficially. Why? He says he […]
Marriage commitments in context
While Berger and Kellner’s idea that marriage is a transition where ‘two strangers come together and redefine themselves’ may once have seemed unproblematic, today, when it is common for couples to have lived together (often for a relatively long time) before marriage, this statement seems rather antiquated. Marriage nowadays can involve couples who have a […]
Love, power and order
In their classic essay on marriage in modern Western societies, Berger and Kellner (1964) link marriage to ontological or biographical order, stating that it creates for the individual a ‘sort of order’ in which they ‘can experience his life as making sense’ (1964: 1). They suggest that individuals invest in the ‘private world’ because of […]
POSTFEMINISMS AND. CULTURAL POLITICS
Feminism, cultural difference and the culturalpolitics of the academy INTRODUCTION Feminism and postmodernism are recognised as two leading intellectual critiques of ‘epistemological foundationalism’ emerging from the liberal humanism of the Western Enlightenment which has framed academic culture’s modernist discourse. However, it is apparent that there is an overwhelming monopolisation of these debates by male theorists […]
REVISIONIST POLITICS
Overlapping and shifting strategies have recurred throughout this historical survey. Feminists who once concentrated on liberal demands for women’s access to male jobs now call for men to share the valuable labor of caregiving. Another case of political adaptation can be found in the realm of reproductive rights. In the United States, the language employed […]