This chapter investigates the ways in which sexual discourse on television is regulated by state intervention and by the operations of the market. I am using ‘regulation’ here in the Foucauldian sense, which goes beyond the idea of regulation as ‘explicit rules’ to include the way in which all forms of discourse contribute to the […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
The important question is not “Is it natural?** but “Is it functional?**
We tend to consider it helpful to reinforce what is natural. However, if a baby is born with a handicap, it might not be helpful to say, Tour handicap is natural, so we’ll teach you how to increase it!" Yet, that’s what we do with men’s aggressiveness and women’s passivity. We teach both sexes how […]
AMERICAN TRADITIONS: «HONK IF YOU LOVE JESUS"
hi contrast to traditional advice books in Japan, traditional American books make light of tradition. Kor example, Dr. James Dobson’s Parenting Isn t for Cowards offers up a humorous poem about modern times. Quoting a poem, “Where Have All the Grandmas Gone?” he says: In the dim and distant past, When life’s tempo wasn’t fast […]
AMERICAN TRADITIONS: «HONK IF YOU LOVE JESUS"
hi contrast to traditional advice books in Japan, traditional American books make light of tradition. Kor example, Dr. James Dobson’s Parenting Isn t for Cowards offers up a humorous poem about modern times. Quoting a poem, “Where Have All the Grandmas Gone?” he says: In the dim and distant past, When life’s tempo wasn’t fast […]
Patterns of Medication Use
The explosion of new prescription and over-the — counter medications over the past few decades has created many options for physicians in treating disease, especially chronic conditions. Although advances in medication are highly desirable, there are hidden dangers for older adults. Until the late 1990s, clinical trials of new medications were not required to include […]
No Turning Back The Historical Resilience of Feminism
A central theme in my feminist studies course is that feminism is a process, not an inherited dogma; only continual reinvention has allowed it to flourish. I also stress this point in No Turning Back, the book based on my course, which documents the historical momentum of women’s activism throughout the world. In class and […]
The Body and Social. Practice
The Knot of Natural Difference ‘Female’ and ‘male’ are biological categories arising in a specific system of reproduction. Humans share this division with a vast array of animal and plant species. Non-sexual reproduction is characteristic of simpler life forms, and some relatively complex ones up to the fungi, algae and sponges. Some more complex species, […]
OUR GENETIC HERITAGE VERSUS OUR GENETIC FUTURE
"Genetics be damned for the curse which remains, and praised for the fact that we, as human beings, also remain.”70 Our genetic heritage is in conflict with our genetic future. In the past, choosing the killer male could be said to have led to the survival of the fittest In the future, with nuclear technology, […]
How can patriarchy and matriarchy be defined?
I low, then, can patriarchy be defined? Perhaps it can best be defined as the male area of dominance, responsibility, and subservience in a culture, reinforced by both sexes for the purpose of serving both sexes’ survival needs. How can matriarchy be defined? As the female area of dominance, responsibility, and subservience in a culture, […]