In 2003 the various rumors and claims about the challenges of managing work and family life crystallized into news of a full — scale retreat to hearth and home. Detecting the start of an “opt-out revolution,” Lisa Belkin’s New York Times Magazine article told of accomplished professional women leaving high — powered jobs to stay […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
Why Stage I institutions were oppressive and how Stage II institutions can be freeing
Pan of women’s anger at men comes from the belief that men made the rules, and made them to oppress women and benefit men. Since most institutions are headed by men, when these institutions don’t meet our needs, we tend to blame men. The challenge is twofold: first, to recognize that these institutions helped women […]
FEMINISM, ‘PLURALISM’ AND THE POLITICS OF. RELATIVISM
At an epistemological level, there is a need for a radical and critical feminist epistemology to challenge the male monopoly of knowledge and exclusion of women from both the production of knowledge and positions of power. However, feminism’s intersection with poststructuralism and postmodernism has led some feminist theorists to voice concern about the direction of […]
GOAL 7 CHANGING THE LEARNED SOCIETIES
Appearance and Mobility
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • How do our skin, hair, and voices change with age? • What happens to our body build with age? • What age-related changes occur in our ability to move around? 70 CHAPTER 3 B y all accounts, Kristina is extremely successful. She was a famous model in her late teens and 20s, […]
How the government played substitute husband while no one played substitute wife
When divorce occurred, women’s greatest fear was of economic deprivation. Men’s was of emotional deprivation. Stage II divorce laws helped Alice make a transition from economic dependence to economic independence. No Stage II laws helped Jack make a transition from emotional dependence to emotional independence. (Which is why Alice rushed to a court for economic […]
Female Institution Building
The “transition period” that Stanton and Anthony invoked lasted from the 1870s to the 1920s. It was an era of separate female organization and institution building, the result on the one hand of the negative push of discrimination in the public, male sphere and on the other hand of the positive attraction of the female […]
Programmed-Cell-Death Theories
What if aging were programmed into our genetic code? This possibility seems more likely as the explosion of knowledge about human genetics continues to unlock the secrets of our genetic code. Even when cell death appears random, researchers believe that such losses may be part of a master genetic program that underlies the aging process […]
The Decline and Fall of Public. Punishment
[Magistrates should prosecute] common whoremongers, and common whores; for (by good opinion) adultery and bawdry is an offence temporal, as well as spiritual, and is against the peace of the land. . . a constable [may seek out and arrest] a man and a woman [committing] adultery or fornication together. Michael Dalton, The Countrey Justice […]
Cellular Theories
A second family of ideas points to causes of aging at the cellular level. One notion focuses on the number of times cells can divide, which presumably limits the life span of a complex organism. Cells grown in laboratory culture dishes undergo only a fixed number of divisions before dying, with the number of possible […]