During this transition period women — and female students in particular — were becoming increasingly publicly visible.32 Significantly, this growing public visibility was symbolized by the use of the term nujie (women’s circles), first used during the anti-American boycott in 190533 and in 1907 during the campaign to redeem the Jiangsu-Zhejiang railway from foreign interests.34 […]
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Cognitive Style as a Processing Goal
Another type of motivational goal that can influence our thinking comes from our cognitive style, or how we approach solving problems. Examples include a need for closure and the inability to tolerate ambiguous situations. People with a high need for closure prefer order and predictability, are uncomfortable with ambiguity, are closed-minded, and prefer quick and […]
Emotion as a Processing Goal
We will examine the idea of socio-emotional selectivity with aging in Chapter 10. For the purposes of this chapter you need to know that this theory maintains that emotional goals become increasingly important and salient as we grow older (Carstensen, 1995; Carsetensen et al., 2003). It is primarily a motivational model, which posits that the […]
Northern Somali women’s role in trade (1860-1960)
Before colonisation by European powers trade in Somalia was limited to a few local commodities such as ghee, myrrh, ostrich feathers, livestock and gum arabic, and imported items such as rice, dates and clothes. Writing from the period makes no mention of women’s involvement. However, oral sources suggest that some women, mostly elderly widows, accompanied […]
Personal Goals
Personal goals play a major role in creating direction in our lives. They consist of underlying motivations for our behavior and how we perceive our own ever-changing environment. Across the life span, personal goals change to match our needs, with young adults striving mainly for achievement, like completing a college degree or starting a career, […]
DIALECTICS OF CULTURAL HISTORY
So far we have treated “culture” as synonymous witb “arts and letters” or at its broadest, “humanities.” This is a common enough confusion. But it is startling in this context For we discover that, while only indirectly related to art, women have been entirely excluded from an equal’ ly important half of culture: science. If […]
Can the Queen Speak?
Racial Essentialism, Sexuality, and the Problem of Authority Dwight A. McBride The gay people we knew then did not live in separate subcultures, not in the small, segregated black community where work was difficult to find, where many of us were poor. . . . Sheer economic necessity and fierce white racism, as well as […]
‘THE MANLY IDEAL’
Histories of this kind are still too new to be wholly uncontroversial, but a useful starting point is George Mosse’s synoptic study of masculinity and modernity The Image of Man (1996), one of the last works written by a pioneer in the field. Mosse presents a broad brush survey that charts the rise and gradual […]
Conclusion
One might ask why women settle for this. Romance, intimacy, and pregnancy follow an older sequence that once resulted in quick marriages before women showed signs of pregnancy. The women described in this chapter followed this traditional sequencing to a substantial extent, deviating from it only in their failure to marry the fathers of their […]
ANTIRACIST DISCOURSE OUTED
Part III focuses specifically on the question of race and sexual orientation—that is, the extent to which antiracist discourse excludes or nominally includes the experiences of Black lesbians and gays. Dwight McBride argues that certain antiracist proponents essential — ize Blackness in order to legitimize and authenticate their (straight male) voice as representative of "the […]