With all the hype about keeping your brain fit, what do people believe you have to do to accomplish this? To find out, ask some people of different ages these questions: What happensto the brain as we grow older? What do you think causes these changes? What do you think you can do to make […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
Women and conflict
The book aims to reflect the experiences and perceptions of Somali women in and about war. It seeks to contribute to our understanding of the conflict in Somalia, and hence of conflict as a phenomenon. Describing war entirely through the eyes of women, the commentaries and testimonies show just how cataclysmic the Somalia conflict was […]
FRAMING THE DEBATES AROUND A FEMINIST. EPISTEMOLOGY
The emancipatory goals and epistemological assumptions of second wave feminism based on the interrelationship between knowledge and liberation can be clearly traced to the liberal humanism of enlightened modernity. McNeil (1993:149) maintains that The women who gave birth to second wave feminism can be thought of as daughters of the Enlightenment in that they seemed […]
The Baby or the Bathwater: Tossing Out Marriage but Keeping Motherhood
These women still considered marriage as essential to motherhood. Thus before considering motherhood, they had to confront marriage. The belief that it takes a partner to have a child was a cultural mandate that even these successful women were unable to ignore. Most busied themselves with work, hoping the right partner would materialize and start […]
A Paycheck of One’s Own
The surge of importance employment took on for the women in this study is not without context. Second-wave feminism, emerging in the 1960s and 1970s, emphasized the struggle for equal opportunity. Focusing on the transformation of social structures, including law, education, and employment, second-wave feminism sought to change and expand all aspects of women’s and […]
Neuroscience Perspectives
Researchers take three general methodological perspectives in tackling the neuroscience of aging: the neuropsychological, the correlational, and the activation imaging approach (see Cabeza, 2004). The neuropsychological approach compares brain functioning of healthy older adults with adults displaying various pathological disorders in the brain. In this approach researchers are interested in whether patients of any age […]
CHALLENGING THE BASIS OF. THE FEMINIST. EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROJECT
INTRODUCTION Feminism has been centrally concerned with the question of epistemology since its inception. Feminist writers/scholars have sought to challenge the basis and characteristics of epistemologies which posit a conception of ‘truth’, which is essentially ‘reality’ interpreted from a male perspective. In the necessarily intense and vigorous debate which has resulted—on the significance, nature and […]
EXCEPTIONS AND COUNTERTRENDS
A look at advice books for men would surely offer a more cheerful picture, since while women have been moving toward a male norm, some men have moved the other way. But since the traditional male culture that progressive men are challenging is still associated with power and authority, I believe women’s move in the […]
EXCEPTIONS AND COUNTERTRENDS
A look at advice books for men would surely offer a more cheerful picture, since while women have been moving toward a male norm, some men have moved the other way. But since the traditional male culture that progressive men are challenging is still associated with power and authority, I believe women’s move in the […]
The Public World: Incomes and Wealth
(pp. 6-7). Statistics on Australian earnings and work-force from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (hereafter ABS) Catalogue 6101.0, Labour Statistics, (1978), p. 71; and from ABS Cat. 4101.0, Social Indicators, 4 (1984), pp. 171, 192, 213, 214. The adjustment for people with no income is based on 1981 census figures for women and men aged […]