Men are likely to be not only the warriors of war but also the warriors of peace. Almost all those who risk their lives, are put in jail, or are killed for peace are men. While some of the peace warriors — Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Dag Hammarskjold — are remembered, most are […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
THE CONSEQUENCES OF CREATING A KILLER CLASS
Why are men so cruel? Why do they need to prove their manhood?: The consequences of training our men to fight When John Beverly returned from Vietnam with posttraumatic stress disorder, the men at work reinforced his suffering. They popped milk cartons, broke beer bottles, and even set off fireworks to see his reaction. He […]
Relational Biographies
As discussed in Chapter 1, one strong sociological narrative that has emerged from previous studies of same-sex relationships is that partners must ‘invent’ their relationships from scratch. This has been linked to the lack of cultural guidelines and social supports for lesbian and gay identities and relationships, and implies the possibility (or even necessity) of […]
POLITICAL IDEAS
The roots of feminism in democratic political theory, the first element in this framework, have long been recognized by historians. Since at least the eighteenth century, the shift from hierarchical rule by elites to representative government — based on the theory of the natural rights of man — has inspired demands for self-representation and full […]
PART TWO Public Life
FEELING MANAGEMENTFrom Private to Commercial Uses If they could have turned every one of us into sweet quiet Southern belles with velvet voices like Rosalyn Carter, this is what they would want to stamp out on an assembly line. —Flight attendant, Delta Airlines On PSA our smiles are not just painted on. So smile your […]
The ‘polities’ ofJulia Kristeva
As well as being a literary theorist and cultural critic, Kristeva was also a practising psychoanalyst. Kristeva’s thinking was very much influenced by Lacan but she shifted away from him in her analysis of the ‘semiotic’. Rowley and Grosz (1990:193) note that ‘Whereas the symbolic is associated with the paternal—the realm of Lacan’s Law of […]
Overview of Information Processing
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What are the primary aspects of the informationprocessing model? • What are the areas where we observe differential age changes in attention and memory? T rey strolled into a Lamborghini dealership and convinced the salesperson to let him take a Coun — tach for a spin around the block. When he climbed […]
“You’re Turning Me On”
The Boxer, the Beauty Queen, and the Rituals of Gender Michael Awkward Black women were and continue to be sorely in need of an antirape movement. —Angela Davis1 To conceive of the study of men to be about liberating men is to have little interest in any area of social analysis that seriously critiques men […]
Attention and Memory
6.1 OVERVIEW OF INFORMATION PROCESSING Information-Processing Model • Attentional and Perceptual Processing 6.2 ATTENTIONAL CONTROL Speed of Processing • Processing Resources • Inhibitory Loss • Attentional Resources • Discovering Development: How Good Are Your Notes? • Integration: Attention and Cognitive Change in Older Adulthood 6.3 MEMORY PROCESSES Working Memory • Implicit versus Explicit Memory • […]
I Am Not a Head on a Stick
On Being a Teacher and a Doctor and a Mommy elisabeth rose gruner I walked into the history professor’s office with my two-and-a-half-year-old on my hip and the signature page in my hand. My dissertation was done. The history professor was the last to sign off. I’d first met this professor three years earlier, when […]