When birth control pills were available in Europe but not in the United States, American women created an uproar about how the unwillingness to make the pill available showed a contempt for the lives of women who might die in childbirth or via abortions. But when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released birth control […]
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DECONSTRUCTING ‘BINARY OPPOSITIONS’:. REDEFINING FEMINISM AND CREATING CULTURAL. SPACE-THE WORK OF JULIA KRISTEVA
At the same time as Women’s Studies was emerging from the Women’s Movement in the US and the UK in the 1960s and early 1970s, the feminist movement in Europe and particularly France was being influenced by debates emerging from the strong tradition of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic theory and poststructuralism (see Chapter 4). Toril Moi (1985a) […]
The politics of the breast versus the politics of the prostate
Why does breast cancer receive over 600 percent more funding than prostate cancer despite men being almost as likely to die from prostate cancer? Is it possible that we pretty much know what we need to know about prostate problems? Let’s look. ITEM In the 1920s. a new operation for enlarged prostates replaced an old […]
Wisdom
We began this chapter with a description of the wisdom of the Dalai Lama. Similarly, a number of folktales recount the wisdom of older characters. For example, caught in a no-win situation with his son-in-law, an old alchemist comes up with an insightful and clever solution on how to turn base elements (dirt) into gold. […]
Doesn’t medical research neglect women?
The belief that sexism has led to a focus on men’s health at the expense of women’s has led both the federal government and private industry to focus on women’s health at the expense of men’s. Thus the government has recently established an Office of Research on Women’s Health but no Office of Research on […]
The black male: not-so-benign neglect
The only group that can expea to live shorter lives in 1990 than in 1980 is black men 32 Why? For starters, it is black men who experience the greatest gap between the Stage I expectation to survive by being a physical slave and the Stage II need to be a master of technology. Thus […]
“I Am Awake in the Place Where Women Die”:. Violent Death in the Art of Abigail Lane. and Jenny Holzer LISA COULTHARD
[ 7 ] In a commentary written for the art exhibit Scene of the Crime, Ralph Rugoff highlights what he sees in contemporary art as a fascination with violence and crime and, in particular, with the residues and traces that define the forensic scene of violent crime. Blood stains, bodies, and the debris of violence […]
EARLY ATTEMPTS AT FINDING ‘A VOICE’: FEMINIST. INTERVENTIONS
At virtually the same time as the male hegemony of the modernist literary canon was being valorised by some writers, a number of feminist writers and literary critics (in both the US and Europe) were establishing a range of feminist interventionist strategies. The growth of the Women’s Movement and Women’s Studies in the US and […]
FEMINIST METHODS EVOLVE
In the rest of the chapter, feminist methods are described in five sections: on two early sciolisms, on Sandra Harding’s trivium, on Liz Stanley’s contribution, and on male hysteria. There were two sciolisms in the early days. two early sciolisms A sciolism is a superficial pretension to knowledge, a sciolist is someone who produces such […]
ACT II:THE WILLIAM KENNEDY SMITH TRIAL:WHEREIN THE MASTER VISITS THE SLAVE QUARTERS
White men have said over and over—and we have believed it because it was repeated so often—that not only was there no such thing as a chaste Negro woman—but that a Negro woman could not be assaulted, that it was never against her will. —Jessie Daniel Ames44 The historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall has called the […]