Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
On Being Phyllis’s Daughter
Thoughts on Academic Intimacy laura levitt On the one hand, my mother adhered to the norms of mothering that defined her early 1960s generation. Although she was educated and worked as a teacher before she had children, she left her job when my brother and I were very young, and did not go back to […]
The book
This book is concerned above all with how new generations of same-sex couples have responded to the opportunity to have their relationships legally recognised by creating meaningful ‘marriages’. Each chapter situates and explores different dimensions of the process of interweaving the ‘given’ and the ‘made’ that is the heart of creating same-sex marriages. Throughout, we […]
In the Meantime: The Other Revolution
The past may hold some keys to the future, but in i960 there was little inkling that within one generation the majority of women with children would be actively engaged in the labor force—Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique had yet to appear. There was even less of a clue that the U. S. fertility rate would […]
In the Meantime: The Other Revolution
The past may hold some keys to the future, but in i960 there was little inkling that within one generation the majority of women with children would be actively engaged in the labor force—Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique had yet to appear. There was even less of a clue that the U. S. fertility rate would […]
COMMODITIES AND THE MYTH OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER
As Smelser has observed in his analysis of the myth of California, every myth has an element of both reality and unreality. In our mental life a myth is located somewhere between daydream and ideology.21 We have a myth of the American frontier, and of course, there really was a western frontier. The very possibility […]
COMMODITIES AND THE MYTH OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER
As Smelser has observed in his analysis of the myth of California, every myth has an element of both reality and unreality. In our mental life a myth is located somewhere between daydream and ideology.21 We have a myth of the American frontier, and of course, there really was a western frontier. The very possibility […]
Vision
Have you ever watched middle-aged people try to read something that is right in front of them? If they do not already wear glasses or contact lenses, they typically move the material farther away so that they can see it clearly. This change in vision is one of the first noticeable signs of aging, along […]
TRIUMPH AND FAILURE
These piecemeal, local and colonial attempts to create a brave new world, dedicated to God and purified of sin, were in the 1640s and 1650s suddenly played out on a national scale. Within English society, * This is why in Scotland those guilty of incest, sodomy, and bestiality, the most abominable crimes of all, were […]
Liminality
A generation or two earlier, Gina might reasonably have assumed that the men she was dating were both potential partners and potential fathers. However, when her latest relationship ended, she concluded that she faced two pursuits: one for a child and the other for a partner. In her case, as in most of the women […]