What could be more seductive for feminists than a discourse which, like that of Michel Foucault in La Volonte de Savoir (The History of Sexuality), focuses on the complex interaction of power and sexuality?…Alluring as they may seem, however, the apparent parallels between Foucault’s work and feminism ought not to deceive us. Feminists ought to […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
The Departure
The idea that families can be created by women alone may not seem revolutionary, but it changed the worlds of the women I interviewed, allowing them to imagine families crafted in new ways as both legitimate and valuable. Leaving the liminal state, these women claimed the right to motherhood because it represented a promise of […]
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL TOLERATION
Because the theory and practice of sexual and of religious discipline had traditionally been so closely intertwined, the growth of religious liberty in the later seventeenth century raised obvious questions about moral liberty. To most observers, however, this was a deeply unwanted development. Indeed, the orthodox view amongst advocates of toleration was that freedom of […]
FEELING RULES
A restless vitality wells up as we approach thirty. — Gail Sheehy Measuring experience against a normative model set up by doctors, people will be as troubled by departures from the norm as they are troubled by [Gail Sheehy’s] “predictable crises" themselves, against which medical norms are intended to provide reassurance. — Christopher Lasch Since […]
One Mama’s Dispensable Myths and Indispensable Machines
angelica duran Before graduate school, my favorite machine was the washing machine. My family’s regular trips from California to the family ranch in Oaxaca, Mexico, no doubt helped me appreciate this common appliance, so generally (and sadly) underappreciated in the United States. The novelty of lugging laundry to the nearest (but by no means nearby) […]
As a result of the rape Asalim suffered a miscarriage
3. Hibaq, a 40-year-old woman, was raped by three unknown assailants in the middle of the night at Liboi camp in March 1993. She was sleeping in her hut with her three children aged 21, ten, and eight years old. [1] scarves around their heads. One of them had a gun. They dragged me out […]
Determining Functional Health Status
How can we determine where a person is along Verbrugge and Jette’s continuum? The answer to this question describes a person’s functional health status, that is, how well the person is functioning in daily life. In making these assessments, it is essential to differentiate the tasks a person reports he or she can do, tasks […]
Relationships, Partnerships and Marriages
In our study of young same-sex partners in formalised relationships, we partly set out to explore the ways in which the partners conceived and practised their relationships as ‘like’ and/or ‘unlike’ marriage. In light of the findings of previous studies of same-sex relationships, and some of own research on previous generational experiences, we were taken […]
A Model of Disability in Late Life
As we saw earlier in this chapter, one defining characteristic of a chronic condition is that it lasts a long time. This means that for most adults, the time between the onset of a chronic condition and death is long, measured in years and even decades. Chronic diseases typically involve some level of discomfort, and […]
Rough Cuts: Documentary Film
This complicated story has attracted considerable attention from journalists and documentary filmmakers over the years. There have been several films made on or relating to this subject, including Juarez, The City of Dead Women (1998); Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos (2000); City of Dreams (2001); and Senorita Extraviada: Missing Young Woman (2001).5 In keeping […]