Feminists have sought to challenge conventional epistemologies by developing alternative paradigms. Within the social sciences, Walby (1990:16) argues that feminist challenges to mainstream social science have invoked a variety of approaches to knowledge. She maintains that some branches of feminism have argued that orthodox accounts are empirically incorrect on their own terms, while others have […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
Suicide as powerlessness
Just as life expectancy is one of the best indicators of power, suicide is one of the best indicators of powerlessness. ITEM Until boys and girls are 9. their suicide rates are identical; — from 10 to 14. the boys’ rate is twice as high as the girls’; — from 15 to 19. four times […]
Orthodoxy
There are three currents in feminist sociology which can be clearly distinguished from the early 1970s to the present day: liberal feminist sociology, Marxist feminist sociology and radical or separatist feminist sociology. In the past decade, there has also been a distinct postmodernist feminist sociology. There are other theoretical positions in feminism which could be […]
THE COMMODITY FRONTIER
An advertisement appearing on the Internet on March 6, 2001, read as follows: (p/t) Beautiful, smart, hostess, good masseuse—$400/week. Hi there. This is a strange job opening, and I feel silly posting it, but this is San Francisco, and I do have the need! This will be a very confidential search process. I’m a mild-mannered […]
THE COMMODITY FRONTIER
An advertisement appearing on the Internet on March 6, 2001, read as follows: (p/t) Beautiful, smart, hostess, good masseuse—$400/week. Hi there. This is a strange job opening, and I feel silly posting it, but this is San Francisco, and I do have the need! This will be a very confidential search process. I’m a mild-mannered […]
Gendered Trial Dramas and Narratives of Gender
As I proceeded with the archival work, I found that a series of factors on the characterization of the woman played a role in the final outcome of the trial and were dominant in the petitioners’ request for mercy, commutation of the death penalty, and sentence reduction. Three narratives of appropriate gender roles emerged around […]
Between Marriage and Motherhood
In earlier generations, this sense of being stuck most likely would have resulted in spinsterhood—in becoming the “favorite aunt,” to use Joy’s words.21 Both Joy and Claudia believed that marriage and children would happen naturally and effortlessly. Joy was caught up in enormous professional demands that limited her social life. Claudia framed her story around […]
Neuroscience and Cognitive Aging
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What are the basic structural changes in the brain as we age? • What cognitive functions are associated with volume shrinkage in the aging brain? • How do decreases in the dopaminergic system relate to changes in cognitive functioning as we grow older? • What happens to brain activation as we age? […]
GENDERED HISTORIES, GENDERED. CONTEXTS
‘Gender’ is now one of the busiest, most restless terms in the English language, a word that crops up everywhere, yet whose uses seem to be forever changing, always on the move, producing new and often surprising inflections of meaning. We talk about gender roles, worry about the gender gap, question whether our ideas are […]
From ‘consumer’ to ‘producer’
The beginnings of public education for girls While it is true that public education for Chinese girls was first championed by Western missionaries, the impact on wider Chinese society represented by the first mission schools was limited. The first of such schools was opened in 1844 by Miss Mary Aldersey in the treaty port of […]