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Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
Implied Viewers of Photographs, Seen or Unseen, in San Diego, the Lower Mainland and in Killing Women
The space of the museum presupposes a walking tour, an order in which the dioramas, exhibits, and panels are viewed and read. Thus it addresses an implied viewer—in narratological terms, a focalizer—whose tour produces the story of knowledge taken in and taken home. (Bal 1996a, 18) Photographs imply viewers; they imply relations between photographers, viewers, […]
THE SEARCH FOR OUR ROOTS
In 1990 the University of Helsinki celebrated its 35th anniversary. The sociology department decided to have a conference on Society, Intellectuals and the University. Elina Haavio-Mannila (1992) was chair of the department and invited me to speak. The conference took place in English, although I was the only British speaker, among Finns, French, German, Italian […]
Punishing seduction
By the middle of the eighteenth century the spread of male sexual freedom was thus accompanied by mounting concern over its consequences. To most observers neither the resurrection of old-fashioned discipline nor the abolition of all sexual constraints seemed feasible. How, then, should male lust be channelled so as to minimize its dangers to women? […]
Toward the sanity track
The warrior of love versus the warrior of тоншу Men’s immediate path from the "insanity track" to the “sanity track"35 is in demanding that both sexes have the freedom to strike a balance between homeplace and workplace. Men must expea their wives to financially support them to be fathers as much as they now financially […]
MARRIAGE AND MONEY
The third major theme underlying all eighteenth-century discussions of seduction was anxiety about the state of modern marriage. The problem seemed to be that, nowadays, people married only for money, or not at all. Propertied men disdained wedlock because it had become so easy to ‘indulge themselves in an illicit intercourse’. Worse still, they abused […]
Activation of Stereotypes
From the preceding review of research we know that stereotypes of older adults exist in the form of personality traits and perceptions of competence. They also influence our judgments about how capable older adults will be in memory-demanding situations. However, it is not enough to know that the stereotypes exist; we need to know under […]
Unconventional but seething
were there any founding mothers? I n Amanda Cross’s (1981: 33) novel, there is a scene in Cambridge where Kate Fansler is with her niece, Leighton, a student at Harvard and an aspiring actress. Leighton describes Hedda Gabler as: ‘scared sh—, scared to death of being unconventional but seething underneath’. The ways in which First […]
Instability and Transformation: The Nineteenth Century
The reproductive society began to erode in the late eighteenth century as a result of the decrease in abundant land for children to inherit, the greater social and political instability of the revolutionary era, and, eventually, the social transformations wrought by industrialization. From the late eighteenth through the early nineteenth century, a new familial and […]
From prostitution to sex work: a history of feminist intervention
The changing politics of sex work in feminist activism of the past twenty years can be traced across the transformations in Channel 4’s approach to documentaries about the sex industry. Although it is Channel 5 that is famous for it, the majority of ‘docuporn’ on British terrestrial television is shown on Channel 4, as a […]