“What do you think family life will look like in fifty years?” was a question I posed to the Berkeley Family Forum, a book club of academics whose leisure time was spent doing what they were normally paid to do on the job. That evening we were dissecting Stephanie Coontz’s provocative work on the history […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
Changing gender relations
Does war change gender relations? Does it provide opportunities for improvements in women’s status? There have been both setbacks and gains for women. They have borne the brunt of the stress on marriage and the family that the Somalia conflict has engendered. Exploring how conflict has affected the institution of marriage, Halimo Elmi points out […]
The spending obligation gap
In restaurants, men pay for women about ten times as frequently as women pay for men — the more expensive the restaurant, the more often the man pays.19 Women often say, "Well, men earn more " But when two women go to a restaurant, they don’t assume that the woman who earns more will pay […]
Women and political participation
What impact does conflict have on women’s perception of their social position and hence on their potential for social activism, either as individuals or groups? If their experiences of conflict lead them to develop their role as carers, does their record of achievement create space for them to be accepted into the political arena? Do […]
LINGUISTICS AND THE NORMALIZATION OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY
I want to offer two final, interrelated explanations for why Black women’s experiences and Black gay experiences are often peripheral — ized in antiracist discourse. First, male heterosexuality is normalized in antiracist discourse, as it is in other discourses. To be male and heterosexual is "normal" and "natural." Consequently, men are presumed not to have […]
Femininity on Trial
During the trials the femininity of the accused was put into sharp focus and questioned by emphasizing appearance, behaviour, feminine attitude, and mental instability. The physical appearance of the accused women was also central to press coverage. The most striking example of this is found in the media attention given to Evelyn Dick in Ontario […]
Spending power
In my own examination of large shopping malls (including men’s shops and sporting goods stores) I found that approximately seven times as much floor space is devoted to women’s personal items as to men’s. Both sexes buy more for women. The key to wealth is not in what someone earns; it is *n what is […]
Net worth power
ITEM The U. S. Census Bureau finds that women who are heads of households have a net worth that is HI percent of the net worth of men who are heads of households.14 (The value of the net worth statistic is that it allows us to see what he and she have left when their […]
Structure of the Brain
It will be useful at this point to provide a brief overview of the anatomy of the human brain (see Figure 2.1). Neuroanatomy is fundamental to the discipline of neuroscience, and we will refer to a number of brain regions that exhibit age- related changes in both structure and function. The cerebral cortex is the […]
The invisible victims of violence
ITEM When Rodney King was beaten by police, we called it violence against blacks, not violence against men. Had Regina King been beaten, would no one have mentioned violence against women? Myth. Elderly women are the most susceptible to violent crime. Fact Elderly women are the least susceptible to violent crime. The U. S. Department […]