The commodity frontier, Janus-faced, looks out on one side to the marketplace and on the other side to the family. On the market side it is a frontier for companies as they expand the number of market niches for goods and services covering activities that, in yesteryear, formed part of unpaid “family life." On the […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
THE COMMODITY FRONTIER
The commodity frontier, Janus-faced, looks out on one side to the marketplace and on the other side to the family. On the market side it is a frontier for companies as they expand the number of market niches for goods and services covering activities that, in yesteryear, formed part of unpaid “family life." On the […]
Neither Forgotten nor Fully Remembered: Tracing an Ambivalent Public Memory on the Tenth Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre1
SHARON ROSENBERG [ 2 ] Although social power regulates what losses can be grieved, it is not always as effective as it aims to be. The loss cannot be fully denied, but neither does it appear in a way that can be directly affirmed. —Judith Butler, The Psychic Life of Power In the early evening […]
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RACISM AND SEXUAL SUBORDINATION
When I was a first-year student at Yale Law School, I enrolled in a class entitled "Race and the Law." During one session of the class, several black gay and lesbian students (myself included) attempted to discuss issues of sexual subordination and the needs of gay and lesbian people within the black "community." A black […]
Public sphere debates
Suspicion of sexual pleasure has often characterized ‘left-wing’ public sphere debates as well. They frequently assume that a proliferation of sexual discourse is an unquestionably bad consequence of the effects of neo-liberalism, convergence, globalization and deregulation on the ‘quality’ of television provision. Understood as ‘dumbing down’ or ‘tabloidization’, these changes are seen to accompany the […]
Student/Body
sheila squillante They watch my belly every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 11:15 to 12:05. As I lecture about active voice, clarity, and persuasion in prose, I can feel their eyes squinting, searching my middle for signs. I am three, four, five, and, finally, six months pregnant at semester’s end, and I know that some […]
Neurological Recruitment Underlying the Positivity Effect in Memory
We begin this section by examining what we know about the emotional memory network and the degree to which corresponding brain structures decline or are preserved with increasing age. Interestingly, the regions implicated in emotional processing such as the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) undergo relatively modest structural changes with aging, and the amygdala is relatively […]
Aging and Emotional Processing
Similar to the behavioral research on younger adults above, there is growing research indicating that older adults also detect emotional information (e. g., in visual search tasks; Leclerc & Kensinger, 2008) and remember emotional information (e. g., remembering emotional words; Kensinger, 2008) better than nonemotional information. However, despite this emotional enhancement effect on information processing, […]
How divorces led women to redefine discrimination and equality
Practically speaking, when more than 90 percent of women got married and divorce was rare, discrimination in favor of men at work meant discrimination in favor of their wives at home. When workplace discrimination worked in favor of women at home, no one called it sexism. Why? It was working for women. Only when discrimination […]
GOAL 3 THE GAPING HOLES
One of the priorities in the early days of feminist sociology was drawing attention to the gaping holes in the sociological coverage of the social world where women had not been studied, and/or where topics women thought important had not been studied. A landmark collection from the USA was Millman and Kanter (1975). This collection […]