When a teacher I know asked her class, "If you were going to commit suicide, how would you do it?" most of the girls said, "By overdosing on pills or drugs " But half the boys said they would get drunk and either drive off a cliff or into a telephone pole The method the […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
The gendering of publicity
The increasing exposure of private lives to public scrutiny on British television is often regarded as an effect of North American commercialism on an indigenous tradition of public service broadcasting. As Thompson (2000) explains, more generally this crossAtlantic influence is seen as the consequence of the tradition of greater ‘openness to scrutiny’ in the USA, […]
RAKES AND HARLOTS
Even attitudes towards prostitutes were radically reshaped in the decades after 1700. The traditional view of them had always been strongly unsympathetic. After all, the biblical archetype of the lustful whore, who destroyed unsuspecting men, epitomized the conventional view of women as the more lascivious, dangerous sex. Like Mary Magdalen, prostitutes could repent, but otherwise […]
THE DISCOURSE OF FEMINIST EMANCIPATORY. POLITICS
For feminism, the failure of theories of modernity has been their inability to come to terms with sexual difference and to theorise particularity. Yeatman (1993, 1995a) has argued that the impact of postmodernism and poststructuralism has forced feminism to investigate both ‘the genealogy’ and ‘status of oppression as a category of a modern politics of […]
BLACK MALE AND FEMALE ON WHITE COLLEGE CAMPUSES
The data drawn upon to explore the questions just raised are returns from a 1990 mail survey of more than 2,000 college students.16 The survey focused on gender differences in five specific areas of African American college experiences. Three are outcomes (academic performance, college satisfaction, and self-concept); the fourth concerns campus racial climate; and the […]
THE ‘LANDSCAPE OF POSTFEMINISM’: THE. INTERSECTION OF FEMINISM AND POSTMODERNISM
Feminism is centrally situated at the intersection of a number of intellectual debates emerging from the dialogue between modernism and postmodernism. Benhabib (1992:210) notes that, confronted with ‘debates about the “end” or “transformation” of philosophy and the emergence of a postmodernist agnostics of language, feminists feel ambivalent…’ She maintains that, while feminists want to take […]
BLACK GOLD
[a large, formidable profile of a black woman in an Afro] I AM THE BLACK WOMAN, MOTHER OF CIVILIZATION,QUEEN OF THE UNIVERSE, THROUGH ME THE BLACK MANPRODUCES HIS NATION. If he does not protect his woman he will not produce a good nation. It is my duty to teach and train the young, who are […]
RACE, GENDER, AND THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
Of course, the difficulties African American students experience in the educational context is not limited to the precollege experience. An analysis of the college life of Black students reveals how race and gender interplay so that Black female and Black male college experiences intersect but do not completely overlap. Perhaps not surprisingly, researchers have identified […]
Free to Be. . . Mom and Me
Finding My Complicated Truth as an Academic Daughter megan pincus kajitani As a former teacher of feminist studies, I can easily tear down the whole have-it-all myth with a few choice words about our flawed patriarchal system and media spin. Yet this pesky cultural ideal has nagged at me, personally, for many years. That happens […]
Sex scandals as media events
For the majority of the 1990s the news agenda in the UK and USA was dominated at frequent intervals by politically significant sex scandals that produced widespread media coverage. In the UK, in the first half of the 1990s, a seemingly endless stream of sex scandals buffeted the Conservative Government. Unwisely, the Prime Minister, John […]