The Influence of Social Contexton Memory Performance Attention and Memory 211 Overall, both younger and older adults construct and update situation models similarly (Dijkstra et al., 2004; Radvansky et al., 2003; Zacks et al., 2000) . For example, Morrow and colleagues (1997) had older and younger adults memorize a map of a building in which […]
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Changing circumstances
In contrast to the ideals of love, care and acceptance often associated with ‘the family’, feminist and queer critics have since the 1960s highlighted its ‘dark side’. As Voller has suggested, ‘Nowhere has the hostility to homosexuality been more frightening to large numbers of gay men and lesbians than in their own families, forcing them […]
FEELING RULES AND SOCIAL EXCHANGE
Any gesture—a cool greeting, an appreciative laugh, the apology for an outburst—is measured against a prior sense of what is reasonably owed another, given the sort of bond involved. Against this background measure, some gestures will seem more than ample, others less. The exchange of gestures has in turn two aspects. It is an exchange […]
FEELING RULES AND SOCIAL EXCHANGE
Any gesture—a cool greeting, an appreciative laugh, the apology for an outburst—is measured against a prior sense of what is reasonably owed another, given the sort of bond involved. Against this background measure, some gestures will seem more than ample, others less. The exchange of gestures has in turn two aspects. It is an exchange […]
One of the Boys
martha ellis crone When I was young, my mother told me that I could be anything I wanted to be. I see now that she, mother of two, employed in a series of part-time jobs, may have meant this as encouragement in the face of certain obstacles, or simply as a message of hope. But […]
BEHIND THE SUPPLY: SUPERVISION
The lines of company control determine who fears whom. For flight attendants, the fear hierarchy works indirectly through passengers and back again through their own immediate supervisors* As someone put it, “Whoever invented the system of passenger letter writing must be a vice-president by now.” Any letter from a passenger—whether an “onion” letter complaining about […]
Women Who Rape
This brief narration of the “facts” of this case depict Karla Homolka as, at the very least, a spectator of her male partner’s rapes and murders of young girls. However, her own account attests that her involvement went far beyond voyeurism, making overt her active and sadistic participation. The politics of Karla Homolka’s specularity was […]
Recovering Academic
The Long and Winding Road jean kazez I started off my career as a college professor in a promising way, with four tenure-track job offers. Although the job I accepted wasn’t the most prestigious, it offered intellectually congenial colleagues and the advantages of big-city living. That is to say: lots of men. I was thirty-five, […]
“A Child Is Being Beaten (I Am Looking On)”: The Beating Fantasy, Spectatorship, and Female Sadism
This chapter draws upon psychoanalytic theory to attempt to discover reasons for the particular treatment, or lack thereof, the Homolka case received from mainstream and feminist legal and media discourses. Psychoanalysis seems most apposite to the study of this case as several of the narrations of the behaviour of Karla Homolka echo Freud’s articulation of […]
The State
Theoretical literature on the state is at the other pole from the family: almost no one has seen it as an institutionalization of gender. Even in feminist thought the state is only just coming into focus as a theoretical question. Yet reasons to address it are easy to find. The personnel of the state, as […]