In common-sense understanding gender is a property of individual people. When biological determinism is abandoned, gender is still usually seen in terms of socially produced individual character. It is a considerable leap to think of gender as being also a property of collectivities, institutions and historical processes. This view is nevertheless required by evidence and […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
LIGHT AND HEAVY MEANINGS: GRATITUDE TO NURTURANCE
Sometimes a “mis-giving" stays light, in the sense that a missed exchange does not make one or another person feel unloved. At other times, it cuts dangerously deep into signs by which partners know they are loved. Consider a light “mis-giving” between Peter and Nina Loyola, married twelve years, the parents of two. Peter was […]
LIGHT AND HEAVY MEANINGS: GRATITUDE TO NURTURANCE
Sometimes a “mis-giving" stays light, in the sense that a missed exchange does not make one or another person feel unloved. At other times, it cuts dangerously deep into signs by which partners know they are loved. Consider a light “mis-giving” between Peter and Nina Loyola, married twelve years, the parents of two. Peter was […]
Crisis or Opportunity? Somali. Women Traders and the War
Amina Mohamoud Warsame Somali women, both in rural and in urban settings, contribute substantially to their country’s subsistence economy. During periodic droughts, famine and conflicts over resources Somali women take active responsibility for the survival of their families. When faced with economic crisis — whether at a personal level or at the wider societal level […]
Social Cognition
8.1 SOCIAL JUDGMENT PROCESSES Impression Formation • Knowledge Accessibility and Social Judgments ‘ Explanation for Age Differences in Social Judgments 8.2 SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES AND BELIEFS Understanding Age Differences in Social Beliefs 8.3 SOCIAL JUDGMENTS AND CAUSAL ATTRIBUTIONS Attributional Biases • How Do We Know? Age Differences in Adjusting Social Judgments 8.4 MOTIVATION AND SOCIAL […]
SOCIAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS
In the section on training, evidence suggests that a cognitively enriched lifestyle can positively influence intellectual change as we grow older. This suggests that there is promise in developing long-term cognitive enrichment programs to reduce morbidity and dependence in older adults. For example, it may be the case that we can defer the need for […]
CULTURAL POLITICS AND THE ACADEMY
Contemporary debates within feminist theorising have been reflected within the academy through the medium of Women’s Studies. Yeatman (1994:42) observes that the position of Women’s Studies within ‘the contemporary university has to do with making institutionalized knowledge accountable and responsive to contemporary politico-ethical challenges’. As such, it is ‘the site of a radical critique of […]
The Cat’s Cradle: Paternal Kin
Mothers who chance pregnancy often expect that they and their children will become part of their children’s father’s extended kin networks, setting them apart from the other women in this study. Similarly, the father’s kin frequently claim these children (and, in doing so, their mothers) as part of the traditional kinship system, which remains problematic […]
POSTFEMINISM AND CULTURAL POLITICS IN. KRISTEVA’S WORK
Kristeva’s work can in no way be characterised as primarily feminist, as it is not even consistently political in its approach. Even in her early, more feminist work, Kristeva does not try to speak from or for ‘the feminine’. For Kristeva to ‘speak as a woman’ would in any case be meaningless, since she argues […]
FEMININITY AS MARGINALITY
The French feminists maintain that it is a masculine rationality which has always privileged reason, order, and unity, and that it has done so by excluding and silencing the irrationality, chaos and fragmentation which they argue has come to represent femininity. Kristeva therefore refuses to define ‘woman’, as she maintains ‘To believe that one “is […]