The sexual division of labour at its simplest is an allocation of particular types of work to particular categories of people. It is a social structure to the extent that this allocation becomes a constraint on further practice. This happens in several interrelated ways. First, the prior division of work among people becomes a social […]
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TESTIMONY 4: SHUKRI HARIIR
Editors’ note In May 1988 the SNM attacked and briefly captured Burao and Hargeisa, the two main towns in the north west. Siad Barre’s response was genocidal: days of aerial and ground bombardment of both towns by the Somali Armed Forces, backed up by South African mercenary pilots; the round-up and summary execution of hundreds […]
Historical Origins of Feminism
The title of this essay and of my book, “No Turning Back,” refers to the historical momentum that has propelled feminism, a word I use to describe broad efforts to achieve full political and economic citizenship for women.3 Feminist movements reject a political theory of patriarchy, which assumes that men should naturally have authority over […]
Why has the U. S. government refused to release documents on prisoners of war?
ITEM June 1991 America sees Bore Yeltsin acknowledge in a television interview that American POWs from the Vietnam War. World War II. and the Korean War had been transferred to Soviet labor camps and that some might still be alive.68 Within two days, the news media were explaining that Boris Yeltsin had probably just misspoken. […]
What does posttraumatic stress disorder feel like?
To many men, here’s what posttraumatic stress disorder actually felt like: The headaches started a couple of years after 1 came home from Vietnam. . . Then one night not long afterwards, my wife, Loretta, found me in the hallway of our apartment, wearing army fatigues and holding my bayonet… It took me another twelve […]
Pull Together as the Community
Harlon L. Dalton BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD be honest about the fact that we are not all in the same boat when it comes to dealing with racial abuse. Some of us are shielded from it most of the time; others face it on a daily basis. Most of us live somewhere between those extremes. Even […]
New Directions for Nursing Homes
Nursing homes are not static entities. New ways of approaching care continue to be developed. Three of the more interesting new developments are the Eden Alternative, the Green House Project, and the Pioneer Network. The Eden Alternative. Imagine an approach to caring for frail older adults that starts from the premise that skilled care environments […]
The group’s story
Between 1981 and 1988 many men and boys in north west Somalia left their families and homes to join the opposition or to live in the Gulf countries. Those who stayed behind were constantly under threat of arrest by Siad Barre’s forces on suspicion of being SNM supporters, so over time more and more men […]
Killing the Killers: Women on Death Row. in the United States
KATHLEEN O’SHEA [ 4 ] It’s 8:oo pm and unseasonably warm for December. The night is calm. The stars are bright. The moon is almost full. Except for two groups of people and a wrought iron sign like one you might see over a cemetery gate, there is little to indicate we have just arrived […]
RACISM: THE SEXISM OF THE FAMILY OF MAN
The slave may be freed and woman be where she is, but women cannot be freed and the slave remain where he is. Angelina Grimke, in a letter to Theodore Weld What must be done, I believe, is that all these problems, particularly the sickness between the white woman and the black man, must be […]