The intersection of feminism, postmodernism andpost-colonialism INTRODUCTION Postmodernism as an intellectual movement captured a tendency across a range of disciplines and aesthetic practices for a radical reappraisal of modernist normative structures and representations. Debates emerging from within feminism had already challenged feminism’s dichotomous frame of reference around biological and philosophical essentialism and historical reification, which […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
How can we employ men in peacetime whom we deployed in wartime?
If war requires the willingness to sacrifice life, peace requires the skills to live life. Because wartime requires the sacrifice of individuality, boot camp became the lobotomy of individuality. Because peacetime requires the rebirth of individualitv, reentry programs must help the veteran take his individuality out of hibernation. In war, mistrust and paranoia are functional, […]
A Note on ‘System’ and Composition
Setting out this account of multiple structures risks a new kind of reductionism, implying a coherence and completeness in each which earlier was denied to gender relations as a whole. Certainly the exercise of separating structures is pointless unless there is some gain in coherence. But it is important that none of the three structures […]
TOWARD SOLUTIONS Is there a way out of making men into our war slaves?
From Rombo to roaltty To this day, his legs still Missing in Action. Leroy V. Quintana n Political shifts often begin with actions that don’t just raise consciousness but shock consciousness. For example, if a Ram bo doll shows the ideal of violence, perhaps a "reality doll" can show the realities of violence. The reality […]
Attentional Resources
Another way of looking at processing resource issues is through the lens of attention. In particular, divided attention addresses the question of how much information can be processed at any given time. Craik (1977) wrote that one of the clearest findings in cognitive aging research is the fact that older adults are more penalized when […]
THE “DE-VICTIMIZATION” OF MIKE TYSON
In a few moments of quiet reflection about the Tyson-Washington incident, a number of things began to occur to me that were obvious in so many ways. Only two people actually know what happened that night in that hotel room. With the passage of time and the need to envision the incident in the way […]
‘Middle-brow’ pornography
Mark Jankovich (2001) locates the emergence of Playboy in the 1950s in relation to a middle-brow culture of a new post-war petit bourgeoisie, which is defined against the transgressive excesses of an elite avant-garde on the one hand, and the puritanism of traditional forms of middle-brow culture on the other. In doing so, he emphasizes, […]
New images and representations of women in the Republican transition
The modernizing reforms implemented by the Qing dynasty after 1901 ultimately failed to guarantee its survival. Abroad, the court faced increasing anti-Qing rhetoric amongst radical Chinese students in Japan who blamed the ‘barbarian’ Manchu rulers for China’s plight and condemned them as a hindrance to the country’s progress and unity, while Republican revolutionaries in exile […]
Enter Karla Faye Tucker
The 1998 execution of Karla Faye Tucker provided us with the first “almost — televised” execution in history. There was so much media coverage (leading up to the actual execution day) that, by the time it arrived, most of us felt we knew Karla intimately.5 The extent of this coverage was partly because she was […]
WORKING ON FEELING
Why is the emotive experience of normal adults in daily life as orderly as it is? Why, generally speaking, do people feel gay at parties, sad at funerals, happy at weddings? This question leads us to examine not conventions of appearance or outward comportment, but conventions oi feeling. Conventions of feeling become surprising only when […]