An image on the movie screen, a passage in a book, the look in an eye can move us deeply. But what in us is moved? How does culture help do the moving? How do sociologists understand the role culture plays? In this essay I look at what sociologists and psychoanalysts have to say before […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
THE CAPACITY TO FEEL
An image on the movie screen, a passage in a book, the look in an eye can move us deeply. But what in us is moved? How does culture help do the moving? How do sociologists understand the role culture plays? In this essay I look at what sociologists and psychoanalysts have to say before […]
What are the two most unconstitutional laws in America?
Why will таїечіпіу draft registration and combat requirements ultimately be recognized as the most unconstitutional laws in America? They are a breach of America’s most inalienable right: the right to life. Depriving our fathers and sons of their right to live because of their sex is the greatest possible violation of the Fourteenth Amendment s […]
The multi-option woman and the no-option man
In many IJ. S. states, an 18-year-old boy who has not registered for the draft cannot attend a state school.35 He cannot receive even a loan for a private school. Male-only draft registration leaves a woman who doesn’t register for the draft able to: 1. Go to a state school 2. Go to a private […]
Sign on the Dotted Line: Contractual Protection for Family Renegades
Even for women who deviate from the norms of reproduction, the shadow of patriarchy and fathers’ rights permeates the whole decision-making process, regardless of the route to motherhood that is chosen, and so this new form of motherhood often requires contractual protection.9 Single motherhood has abandoned the marriage contract as its legal parameters for parenthood. […]
Laura Marks: On Fetishes and Fossils
In “Fetishes and Fossils: Notes on Documentary and Materiality,” Laura Marks (1999) offers two metaphors to illustrate how documentaries both fetishize and fossilize their subjects. In this article Marks focuses on the operation of documentary films as intercultural phenomena, where the documentary marks a relationship between cultures. Drawing on the scholarship of William Pietz, Marks […]
COMPARING CULTURAL STRETCH: CONTENT AND TONE
Japanese advice books reflect a far wider range of standpoints on the role of women than do their American counterparts. At the conservative extreme is How to Discipline Girls, by Minoru Hamao, the former tutor of the emperor and two princes. Hamao advises that “mothers should show respect for their husband’s higher authority under all […]
COMPARING CULTURAL STRETCH: CONTENT AND TONE
Japanese advice books reflect a far wider range of standpoints on the role of women than do their American counterparts. At the conservative extreme is How to Discipline Girls, by Minoru Hamao, the former tutor of the emperor and two princes. Hamao advises that “mothers should show respect for their husband’s higher authority under all […]
THE MARCH’S FAILURES: A CONFUSED POLITICAL PROJECT AND THE NATION OF ISLAM’S LEADERSHIP ROLE
Although the March evidenced mass black political mobilization and signaled a degree of black political independence, its political project was never clearly articulated. The exact purpose of the March remains an enigma. Although atonement ultimately became the stated purpose of the March, when Minister Farrakhan first announced his plans, atonement for sin was not the […]
The pregnant-navy syndrome
It isn’t politically correct to even discuss this in the services, but. . . a large percentage of women soldiers are electively aborting their fetuses after they’ve served their purpose of enabling them to avoid their tour of duty in Operation Desen Storm… It is wrong to use a fetus to shirk the responsibility’ for […]