Farrakhan’s conception of the call for the March is based on a patriarchal image of what the Black community needs.12 In the mission statement for the March, Farrakhan calls "on Black men to stand in unity to shoulder our responsibility as the heads of our families, and leaders in our community." He speaks of "our […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
I Small Group Pedagogy Consciousness Raising in Conservative Times
This essay applies some of the historical lessons about feminism to teaching. Long before the consciousness-raising groups of second-wave feminism, women relied on personal networks and separate organizations to support the work of transforming society. In teaching “Introduction to Feminist Studies,”I sought to have the students, both male and female, rely on each other’s insights […]
OUR time: the myth is magnified
We have seen how the increasing privatization of family life brought ever more oppression to its dependents, women and children. The interrelated myths of femininity and childhood were the instruments of this oppression. In the Victorian Bra they reached such epic proportions that finally women rebelled—their rebellion peripherally affecting childhood. But the rebellion was destroyed […]
Biological essentialism and performative genders
Traditional conceptions of sexual difference view sex as a biological category dividing men from women on the basis of their chromosomal, anatomical or hormonal characteristics. This biological difference then determines their ‘gender identity’, and for the majority, their ‘sexual orientation’ towards the opposite sex. This binary model of the sexes is known as biological essentialism. […]
Common Chronic Conditions and Their Management
LEARNING OBJECTIVES •What are the most important issues in chronic disease? •What are some common chronic conditions across adulthood? • How can people manage chronic conditions? Moses is a 75-year-old African American man who worked as a lawyer all his life. Recently, he was diagnosed as having prostate cancer. Moses has heard about several treatment […]
Why was sex so free in Tahiti, so repressed in the Middle East, and so mixed up in America?
Sex In free supply, Tahiti style What happened to sex when there was plenty of food and water and no invaders — so women didn’t need to keep sex in short supply until they found a proteaor? The Tahitians possessed these conditions of abundance from the moment humans sealed there. Tahitian parents aaually taught their […]
Two Boards and a Passion
On Theater, Academia, and the Art of Failure anjalee deshpande nadkarni I had gone to the annual conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education to present a paper entitled “The Maternal vs. the Paternal: Navigating the Divide in Rehearsal and in the Classroom.” The paper, which explored differences between male and female directorial […]
LIGHT AND HEAVY
American and Japanese Advice Books for Women WITH KAZUKO TANAKA Nowadays husbands and wives, parents and children don’t say "hello" to each other in the morning. Sometimes not only does the wife not prepare breakfast, she doesn’t even get out of bed. If you think this is sex equality and that the man is a […]
LIGHT AND HEAVY
American and Japanese Advice Books for Women WITH KAZUKO TANAKA Nowadays husbands and wives, parents and children don’t say "hello" to each other in the morning. Sometimes not only does the wife not prepare breakfast, she doesn’t even get out of bed. If you think this is sex equality and that the man is a […]
I Women’s Networks and Women’s Loyalties Reflections on a Tenure Case
In the midst of my tenure case, I was asked to speak to the Committee on Women Historians at the 1983 meeting of the American Historical Association. The previous year, I had filed an internal grievance charging that a Stanford dean’s reversal of my department’s vote to grant me tenure discriminated against me as a […]