Emotional. 2. subject to or easily affected by emotion: She is an emotional woman, easily upset by any disturbance. Cogitation. 1. meditation, contemplation: After hours of cogitation he came up with a new proposal. 2. the faculty of thinking: She was not a serious student and seemed to lack the power of cogitation. —Random House […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
DOCUMENTING THE SEX INDUSTRY
Documentary ‘investigations’ of the commercial sex industry have been a significant presence in the network schedules since the mid-1990s. This has contributed substantially to the increase in explicitly erotic sexual imagery on mainstream television. This was also the case earlier in the twentieth century with cinema, when documentary acted as a stage in the development […]
NATURE AND NURTURE
Our focus thus far has been on the emergence of new ideas about masculinity and femininity in general. The second important theme in all thinking about male promiscuity and female chastity was that of social difference. We have seen already that this was integral to ideas about masculine behaviour. Libertines were always held to prey […]
Recovering Academic
Jennifer margulis Jenny flounced into my office and threw herself in a chair. She was crying before I had even managed to say hello. She gripped a cloth handkerchief in her hand as tightly as my daughter held Blue-Blue Blankie at home, drawing it rather brutally across her eyes to wipe away the tears. She […]
Politeness and sensibility
The first theme underlying all discussions of sexuality after 1688 was the corruption and reformation of male manners. Given that men behaved so badly, and external regulation had largely fallen away, how to tame their apparently natural recklessness and promiscuity became a matter of urgent concern. Earlier models of male honour and civility had largely […]
Natives and Colonists
The cultural variability of same-sex desire and its labeling is evident from the era of European settlement. Before the arrival of Europeans, many Native American cultures incorporated a form of cross-gender identity and, in some cases, a form of same-sex marriage. In many tribes, a man who felt or dreamed that his true identity was […]
TESTIMONY 5: HALIMO ELMI
Editors’ note Within a few months of Mogadishu’s collapse into inter-clan warfare, in 1991, it became clearto many ofthe city’s inhabitants that the fighting was not going to be over soon and they were likely to suffer terrible consequences if they remained. But to leave was not an easy undertaking — it required planning, resources, […]
Age Stereotypes and Perceived Competence
Stereotypes are not simply reflected in our perceptions of what we think are representative personality traits or characteristics of older adults. We also make appraisals or attributions of older adults’ competence when we observe them perform tasks,and we assess whether we can count on them to perform important tasks. No area is more susceptible to […]
I The Historical Construction of Homosexuality in the United States
The treatment of the history of homosexuality in Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America illustrates the social-constructionist interpretation of sexuality. The book, which I coauthored with John D’Emilio, draws upon a materialist or Marx — ist-feminist framework and interweaves the topic of same-sex relations throughout the narrative to support broader arguments about the […]
Marriage as a political act
Given that civil partnership was a relatively new possibility when our young partners entered into it, in principle there is no reason why it should be automatically seen as marriage or as a form of marriage. The fact that most of our interviewees saw it in this way, and entered into it in this spirit, […]