Memory monitoring involves knowing what you are doing mentally right now. The most popular way researchers study memory monitoring is by having people predict how well they will do on a memory task. One variation of this technique requires that people predict how well they will do before they get a chance to see the […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
Why forced early retirement can lead men to suicide and depression
When a man is forced into early retirement, he is often being "given up for a younger man.” Being forced into early’ retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a young woman" is for a woman. When that is compounded by forced unemployment, feeling to men like rape feels to a […]
Conclusion
The historical formation of taste means that generic conventions constrain the production and consumption of sexual representations in ways that cannot quickly be undone. Nevertheless, I would argue that we do need to recognize, and challenge, the limitations in what is currently legitimate for circulating on television. ‘Soft core’ restrictions such as the exclusion of […]
RETHINKING GENDER(S)
As much as any single figure could, Stoller put the distinction between sex and gender on the map for writers and researchers in the humanities and the social sciences. But if his basic ideas quickly became commonplace, they were also soon being used in ways that he could not have anticipated. With the tremendous revival […]
Is unemployment to a man the psychological equivalent of rape to a woman?
What do you call a Texas oilman?. . . Oh, waiter! JayLeno, "Tonight" show ITEM Once upon a time a woman met a taking frog. The frog said it was under a wicked speB… it was really a Texas oilman. “If you’ll kiss me. youH break the spell.” the frog explained. "Then I’ll love you […]
College Completion Rates
In 1975, 6 percent of African American males over age twenty — five and 5 percent of African American females had completed 4 or more years of college. By 1992, 12.2 percent of Black men and 11.8 percent of Black women ages twenty-five to thirty-four years old had completed the bachelor’s or a higher degree. […]
ACHIEVING THE TRANSMUTATION
To the extent that emotion management actually works—so that Bloody Marys do not spill “by accident” on white pants suits, and blowups occur in backstage offices instead of in airplane aisles —something like alchemy occurs. Civility and a general sense of well-being have been enhanced and emotional “pollution” controlled. Even when people are paid to […]
Feminist Silences
The main impediment to a feminist consideration of the case of Karla Homolka proceeds from the unpalatable suggestion that she may have enjoyed her crimes. This distaste does not result from her transgressions of the stereotypes of good wife and woman, as these are rarely problematic in feminist legal or cultural studies theory. However, for […]
ACORD’s report has more sympathy for the men’s case
When they lost access to their farms and livestock the affected men were unable to meet expectations of providing for their families, thereby losing their sense of worth as men. It is part of the strategy of war, whereby one patriarchy attacks the worth of the other. (ACORD 2001: 30) Whilst some men are taking […]
THE RISE OF THE LIBERTINE
The first development was a growing presumption that men were inevitably rapacious. The idea that they might have strong sexual urges was, of course, not new. It was a commonplace of Christian doctrine that lust was an elemental drive, part of the fallen nature of both sexes. The rape and seduction of women had therefore […]