Crompton (2000) has developed the research on caring in studies of how employment and caring are interrelated in contemporary Europe. Her quotes from women in France, Norway and Britain show doctors and bankers planning their work lives in ways that help them deal with guilt. The same issues of responsibility and guilt predominating in women’s […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
Are we still preparing men to be disposable?
Today, violence against women is rightly abhorred. But we call violence against men entertainment. Think of football, boxing, wrestling; or ice hockey, rodeos, and auto racing. All are games used to sugarcoat violence against men, originally in need of sugarcoating so our team — or our society — could bribe its best protectors to sacrifice […]
AN INSTRUMENTAL STANCE TOWARD FEELING
The stage actor makes the finding and expressing of feeling his main professional task. In Stanislavski’s analogy, he seeks it with the dedication of a prospector for precious metal. He comes to see feeling as the object of painstaking internal mining, and when he finds it, he processes it like gold. In the context of […]
Historical Roots of Contemporary Theory 35
ses of rape, such as Susan Brownmiller’s Against Our Will, and of pornography, such as Andrea Dworkin’s Pornography: Men Possessing Women, have generally followed this model. A rather more complex line of argument treated the power of men and the subordination ot women~"aI’ldFects of imperatives outside the direct relationship bet^erTTltT>"twfv.~4-,-lic more general form of this […]
NEW TOPICS
There is no doubt that feminist sociology has opened up new topics. If, for example we take the sociology of families and households, there are at least nine ‘new’ topics opened up by feminist sociologists, which aim at unpicking and doing high quality research upon ‘marriage’, ‘family’, ‘household’, and ‘the private’. They provide us with […]
Central Nervous System
If you ask older adults to describe their experience of changes in their central nervous system, it’s likely that they will be hard pressed to do so. This is because the age-related changes in the brain that we will consider begin very subtly; they are often difficult to notice in the beginning and to document […]
Feminism and Gay Liberation
In the context of this history, the research and the theoretical work inspired by feminism and gay liberation in the 1970s was not as novel as many activists believed. A number of its concerns were already widely debated: the nature of femininity, the power relations between women and men, the socialization of children, the dynamics […]
Generationally situated meanings
Among many of those whose sexual identities were formed through an active engagement with lesbian, feminist, gay, bisexual and queer critical communities and cultures, there is likely to be an enduring reluctance to embrace marriage as a way of understanding or recognising their relationships (cf. Adam, 2004). This is linked to how such communities and […]
Career of Miriam Van Waters
Womens prisons differ significantly from voluntary separatist institutions, but they reveal larger patterns in the history of female reform. I had written about the origins of these institutions in my first book, Their Sisters’ Keepers, and a decade later I returned to the subject to write a biography of Miriam Van Waters. By then, an […]
The importance of marriage in women’s lives
Both men and women gain merit and respect through the achievement of their social tasks and responsibilities, which they learn from childhood. Women’s work is seen as being crucial to society, and to some extent this is recognised in women’s rights to inheritance and property. Nevertheless, for young people of both sexes, maturity and responsibility […]