Oh boy, we’re going to have to pay for this. —Anonymous Black person2 How can we possibly vote for Colin Powell now? How can we give them that much power? —Anonymous white person3 Before I discuss the Simpson case in the context of the two previously mentioned political Narratives, I want to put forward some […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
Should we give help to men who refuse to be killers?
We can’t end war by telling men that if they don’t fight, we won’t respect them in the morning. (Then we wonder why men fight to gain respect.) If women are eventually drafted, 1 predict women who resist will be acknowledged, and the resistance will be seen as evidence of women ’s more peace — […]
BEHIND THE DEMAND FOR ACTING
“A market for emotional labor” is not a phrase that company employees use. Upper management talks about getting the best market share of the flying public. Advertising personnel talk about reaching that market. In-flight service supervisors talk about getting “positive attitude” and “professional service” from flight attendants, who in turn talk about “handling irates.” Nevertheless, […]
The Construction of O. J. Simpson as a Racial Victim
Devon W. Carbado When the names Rodney King, O. J. Simpson, Mike Tyson, Marion Barry and even Clarence Thomas become symbolic, like "Scotts — boro,” black women are left without a way to talk about how some of the Scottsboro "boys” (accused of raping two white women) actually did commit acts of violence and murder […]
It’s a Wrap
In the early 1980s there was a shift of focus in feminist thinking from concern with the concept of “woman” to a concern with the concept of “gender” (Brasher 1999). With this shift, feminist theorists began defining gender as a socially constructed category that encompassed sex rather than constructing sex as a biological condition that […]
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In the months preceding her execution, Karla was seen by tv audiences coast to coast. Nationally syndicated columnists took up her cause and reporters dropped everything to interview her. Once her execution became imminent, the prison received more than 300 phone calls a week about her. During that time Karla spoke with a number of […]
Your Father, Your Self
Abby’s experience points to the utility of blowing one’s biological parents in order to construct an identity. On one hand, the politics of anonymous donor — assisted families do not allow women to answer these fundamental questions of identity for their children.2 Humanizing an anonymous sperm donor can only be approached by using the child’s […]
THE FATHER AS AN IDEA
Abby Pratt-Evans I sat on my living room floor with all these anonymous donor profiles around me. I had spent hours earlier that day downloading them from the Cryobank Web site. I was trying to look them over before my best friend from college came over to help me. Well, not really help me—she was […]
Working Memory
In this section we are interested in how information is kept in one’s mind for additional processing into long-term memory or is being held temporarily during retrieval. How this happens involves working memory. Originally, this type of immediate memory process was conceptualized as passive short-term storage or short-term memory. The idea is that individuals have […]
Memory Processes
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What is working memory? What age differences have been found in working memory? Attention and Memory 193 • How does implicit and explicit memory differ across age? • How does episodic and semantic memory performance differ across age? • What age differences have been found in the autobiographical aspects of episodic memory? […]