Complete these sentences with your first, gut-level thought: ► Shortly after they heard the alarm, a crew of_____________ rescued some women from a blazing apartment. ► Two——— attacked a woman jogger in Central Park. Most people think of the woman as being saved by "firemen" or "fire fighters." It is now considered sexist for TV […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
The men all around us: the second-choice man
Let me tell you a little story. I had just completed the research for this chapter and wanted to clear my mind. I thought an errands morning might do the trick. Well, if you’ve read the first few chapters you’re suspicious. You know there are no little stories without little morals. Chalk it up to […]
The death professions: men’s biggest glass cellar
ITEM 94 percent of occupational deaths occur to men.5 ITEM The United States has a worker death rate three to four times higher than Japan’s.6 If the U. S. had the same rate, we would save the lives of approximately 6.000 men and 400 women each year.7 •The rwenry-hfth job, the one job with about […]
The discourse of women’s public education in the late qing
It was during the last decade of the Qing dynasty that a strand of thinking on women’s education emerged that may best be described as ‘modernizing conservatism’, and which was to permeate early Republican discourse after 1912 (see Chapter 4). It represented both an endorsement of modernizing change as an effective means to strengthen the […]
THE NATION OF ISLAM’S JEREMIAD
Over the past decade, Minister Farrakhan has slowly moved the Nation of Islam from its separatist position toward mainstream political activity. His dramatic entry into the 1984 presidential campaign inaugurated this shift. During the election, Minister Farrakhan registered to vote for the first time and urged his members to do so as well. After his […]
Women’s education in practice
During the last years of the dynasty girls’ schools were located in a variety of improvised places, including private homes, rented buildings, former Confucian academies and appropriated Buddhist temples. Thus the Girls’ School of Pleasant Instruction (yujiao ntixuetang), founded in 1905 by a merchant, Shen Shouqing, in Beijing was originally housed in Shen’s own residence […]
THE GLASS CELLARS OF. THE DISPOSABLE SEX
The Death Professions: “My Body,Not My Choice” Мел are not human beings, they are human doings.1 We frequently hear that women are segregated into low-paying, dead-end }obs in poor work environments such as factories. But when The Jobs Rated Almanac2 ranked 2 SO jobs from best to worst based on a combination of salary, stress, […]
MOVING ON. When Baby Makes Two
Lori-Ann Stuart After years together, my girlfriend and I had discussed at length having a child together—she was gung-ho about the idea and we had many conversations discussing how we wanted to have this baby and who would do it. I really wanted to experience pregnancy, and since I was older, in my early thirties, […]
THE POLITICS OF MARCHING
Marching has played an important role in the African American tradition of dissent. One of the first acts of the emancipated slave was to walk. Caught up in the emotion that was their new-found freedom, some slaves walked to find lost siblings.6 Others moved about aimlessly, enjoying the freedom of movement and self-possession. But the […]
Functional Health and Disability
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What factors are important to include in a model of disability in late life? • What is functional health? • What causes functional limitations and disability in older adults? B rian is a 68-year-old former welder who retired 3 years ago. He and his wife, Dorothy, had planned to travel in their […]