Feminist sociologists set out to get their ideas into print. However, ‘just’ getting work published is not enough. The work needs to be read, to be treated seriously, and to be cited. All these three audience responses are social matters. Sociologists read sociology, treat it seriously or discard it, and decide whether or not to […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
DISCOURSE, DIFFERENCE AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR. FEMINIST EPISTEMOLOGY
Feminist poststructuralism, in focusing on the issue of power in subject positions and discourses, addresses the critiques that have been made of different branches of feminist theory, for their uncritical application of terms such as patriarchy and for their essentialist views of concepts such as ‘women’ and ‘oppression’. Poststructuralism can also, through its analysis of […]
BLACK HOMOPHOBIA AND THE MILLION MAN MARCH
Although prevailing antiracist political discourse tends to dismiss homophobia and heterosexism as external to racial subordination (and as irrelevant to antiracist politics), gays and lesbians of color are attempting to reshape this discourse through their own activism and by speaking about the complexity of racial identity, subordination, and culture. Black gay male commentary on the […]
SOCIAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS
On the one hand, the dismal thought that the human brain gradually loses tissue from age 30 onward and the projected rapid growth of an aging population present society with numerous public policy issues regarding the staggering costs of geriatric care. On the other hand, the good news is that advanced research in neuroscience tells […]
THE BIG DECISION
shoe to drop, that kind of thing. Like the only person you could have a kid with was a romantic person, or to do it as a single person. You couldn’t construct another arrangement that would be as assured to work as the other two. Prior attempts to change social policy that would have altered […]
THE HEIGHTENED SYMBOLISM OF MOTHER
The more the commodity frontier erodes the territory surrounding the emotional role of the wife and mother, the more hypersymbolized the remaining sources of care seem to become. And the more the wife-mother functions as a symbolic cultural anchor to stay the ship against a powerful tide. The symbolic weight of "the family” is condensed […]
THE HEIGHTENED SYMBOLISM OF MOTHER
The more the commodity frontier erodes the territory surrounding the emotional role of the wife and mother, the more hypersymbolized the remaining sources of care seem to become. And the more the wife-mother functions as a symbolic cultural anchor to stay the ship against a powerful tide. The symbolic weight of "the family” is condensed […]
GOAL 4 TO GET PUBLISHED
The goal of getting published was complicated by a dilemma. Feminist sociologists had to decide whether to aim their publications at existing sociological journals and get books published by existing publishing houses; to establish new journals or book series or even new publishing houses specifically for feminist sociology; or to establish and publish in the […]
Secular Morality
Social-scientific theories of gender are a Western invention, as far as I know, and definitely a modern one. Other civilizations have had their own ways of dealing with human sexuality and the relations between the sexes. As Indian eroticism and Chinese family codes illustrate, these can be as sophisticated and elaborate as anything the West […]
DEEP ACTING
There are two ways of doing deep acting. One is by directly exhorting feeling, the other by making indirect use of a trained imagination.5 Only the second is true Method acting. But in either case, Stanislavski argued, the acting of passions grows out of living in them. People sometimes talk as much about their efforts […]