Medical intervention can serve as a catalytic event when women learn that they have a medical problem that may lead to infertility if they do not act immediately. Usually it is endometriosis that hastens women’s decision. Endometriosis is a misunderstood reproductive disease: the medical profession often informs women who have it that if they do […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
Sex Role Theory
The literature on ‘sex roles’ is very large. It is also more than a little confused, especially over the differences between ‘sex roles’, ‘sex differences’ and ‘sexual character’. An example is the well — known research on androgyny by Sandra Bern, which attempts to measure psychological traits of masculinity and femininity. Her questionnaire is entitled […]
Reopening the Question of Memory: Ambivalence and Difficult Returns
While Fran^oise David’s comment cites emotional proximity as a hindrance to claiming a memorial narrative of emblemization, I suggest that this proximity may be read, instead, as indicative of how difficult (emotionally, politically, socially, publicly, etc.) yet necessary it is to face Lepine’s accusatory hatred of feminists (feminism) as a reason for murder. Perhaps this […]
That Mommy Thing
First Day of School amy hudock I walked down brick pathways to teach my first university class in over two years. I kept my eyes down, looking at each brick as I passed over it, trying to keep from crying. Their deep earth color reminded me of the blood that came with my daughter’s birth, […]
Motherhood after Tenure
Confessions of a Late Bloomer aeron haynie She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. —Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818) Like Jane Austen’s Persuasion, my story is about waiting—and the disorienting blessing of getting what I most desire when I’d given up […]
Buck Passing
The Media, Black Men, O. J., and the Million Man March Ishmael Reed BLACK MEN HAVE become the sacrificial lambs for all male evil. Men from other ethnic groups whose treatment of women is, in some cases, worse than that accorded black women by black men join the attack on black men as a way […]
Polygyny and Christianity: Christ and his nuns
The Christian sanctioning of polygyny takes the form of nuns actually marrying Christ — down to the taking of vows and the wearing of a wedding ring to symbolize the union. The polygynous marriage between Christ and nuns is ideal from the nuns’ perspective because, while Christ assumes the protection of millions of women, the […]
The new schools 1902-1911
Expectations and misgivings The appearance of public schools for girls during the last decade of the Qing dynasty represents one of the most dramatic social and cultural changes of the period. Such a phenomenon not only contributed to the growing public visibility of adolescent girls and women in general,1 but also set in motion wider […]
TESTIMONY 2: AMINA SAYID
Editors’ note As Sadia Musse Ahmed has highlighted, marriage ties across clan lineages have an important role in ensuring safe passage. During the civil war such family ties were a source of protection for many; they enabled family members to move through otherwise hostile territories equipped with a ‘name’ or contact relative who could act […]
SELF AND CODE: THE CASE OF FEMININE WILES
One controversy running through both traditional and egalitarian advice books is whether to use feminine wiles; authors on both sides feel obliged to take a position on the question. In nineteenth-century America, “feminine wiles” were an acknowledged if not much admired way in which a woman might get what she wanted indirectly when direct access […]