rosemarie emanuele I awoke the first day of classes at my first academic job and realized that I didn’t know where I was. It took me a moment to get my bearings and call my parents, several states away, who told me that I was in Cleveland. Oh, yah. I forgot for a second. Silly […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
Female genital mutilation (FGM)
For Somali women, the physical injuries caused by being raped are compounded by the almost ubiquitous practice of female genital mutilation (FGM — also known as female circumcision, or gudniin in Somalia). Different forms of FGM are practised in many parts of Africa, and it is also common in the southern part of the Arabian […]
Categorical Theory
Accounts of gender that do give a major place to power and conflicts of interest have generally expressed this awareness through a particular form of theory. It has no familiar name, partly because its logic cuts across such familiar divides as the conflict between cultural feminism and socialist feminism. I will call the approach ‘categorical’. […]
General Issues in Chronic Conditions
Having a chronic disease does not mean that one becomes incapacitated. Even though the type and severity of chronic conditions vary across people, most older adults manage to figure out how to accomplish the necessary tasks of daily living despite having a chronic condition. Although most people manage to accomplish the necessary tasks of daily […]
JAPANESE AND AMERICAN CONTEXTS
(Xiltural room is created within a broad context, and while the Japanese and American contexts are similar in some ways, they very much differ in others. Both societies have a “past” in which most women were more subordinate to men than they are today. Much of the cultural negotiation in each society centers on how […]
JAPANESE AND AMERICAN CONTEXTS
(Xiltural room is created within a broad context, and while the Japanese and American contexts are similar in some ways, they very much differ in others. Both societies have a “past” in which most women were more subordinate to men than they are today. Much of the cultural negotiation in each society centers on how […]
Sadomasochism and the Colorline
Reflections on the Million Man March Anthony Paul Farley The world of the spectacle has reached its apogee. New forms of resistance are beginning to break out everywhere. These are anything but well known since the whole point of spectacle is to portray universal and hypnotic submission. But resistance exists and is spreading. —Anonymous1 ADDICTION […]
Cementing a Relationship
Many of the women who chance pregnancy are entangled in relationships, and some believe that they can cement their relationship by having their partner’s child. They are lax about using birth control, often gambling as they forget to use protection in the passion of the moment. They also often tell the men that they are […]
Sex In short tupply, OPEC style
We often think of countries that require women to wear a veil as keeping women powerless. In Muslim countries, the purdah keeps female beauty hidden, only to be shown to the selected few — who were invariably good providers. This prevented the average man from even looking at the average woman until he promised to […]
Ciudad Juarez: Setting the Scene
Ciudad Juarez, the largest city in Mexico’s largest state (Chihuahua), is also the fourth largest city in the country. Situated along Mexico’s northern border, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, Juarez is a hub of industrial activity. Its 400 maquiladoras (foreign-owned assembly plants) attract 50,000 new economic migrants each year (Wolff 2002). […]