LEARNING OBJECTIVES • How do the basic developmental forces benefit from the neuroscience approach? • What is the major focus of the neuropsychological approach to neuroscience? • Describe the difference between the correlational approach and the activation imaging approach to studying neuroscience. • What is the difference between MRI and fMRI scanning? A t age […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
ASSIMILATING TO MALE RULES OF LOVE
The commercial spirit of intimate life is woven with a second cultural tendency—for women to assimilate to male rules of love. On one hand, cool modern advice books address women. Two-thirds are written by women and all of them address problems women have. Nearly all picture women on the covers. Further, even if authors don’t […]
ASSIMILATING TO MALE RULES OF LOVE
The commercial spirit of intimate life is woven with a second cultural tendency—for women to assimilate to male rules of love. On one hand, cool modern advice books address women. Two-thirds are written by women and all of them address problems women have. Nearly all picture women on the covers. Further, even if authors don’t […]
REFORMED MORALITY
In fact, by the early sixteenth century the main public criticism was that existing practice was far too lenient. This was a major complaint of the Protestant movement, which began around 1500 as a campaign to purify the church from within, but pretty soon developed into a cataclysmic struggle for truth that tore apart the […]
Preface and. Acknowledgements
Gender is a vast and expanding subject; in this book we have tried to guide our readers through what seem to us to be some of the most important debates and issues, especially as they impact on culture and representation. Although it is impossible to give a comprehensive treatment of all the cultural and historical […]
Neuroscience as a Basis for Adult Development and Aging
2.1 THE NEUROSCIENCE APPROACH Implications of the Developmental Forces • Neuroscience Tools • Neuroscience Perspectives • Discovering Development: What Do People Believe about Brain Fitness? 2.2 NEUROSCIENCE AND COGNITIVE AGING Structure of the Brain • Age-Related Changes in Neurochemical Properties Age-Related Changes in Brain Activity • Functional Consequences of Brain Deterioration • Culture, Neuroimaging, and […]
Or again, concerning an independent women’s movement
They lose sight of the Primary Struggle. Some special organizing of women’s groups is possible, perhaps, but dangerous: ід terms of turning in on themselves, in terms of becoming petit bourgeois little cliques where they just talk about taking can of the kids all the time, or become a gripe session. (Italics mine) We have […]
THE HETEROSEXIST CONSTRUCTION OF BLACK RACIAL VICTIMHOOD
By and large, Black gay and lesbian experiences are marginalized in or excluded from antiracist discourse. The marginalization is achieved—wittingly or unwittingly—through the heterosexualized nature of some, though certainly not all, Black political engagements. Consider the Black civil rights intervention into the military’s "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" policy. The intervention was not to support gay […]
Key Terms
age effects One of the three fundamental effects examined in developmental research, along with cohort and time-of-measurement effects, which reflects the influence of time-dependent processes on development. ageism The untrue assumption that chronological age is the main determinant of human characteristics and that one age is better than another. biological forces One of four basic […]
New experiences
This book analyses younger same-sex partners’ accounts of their formalised relationships. It considers couple and individual narratives of being formally partnered or ‘married’, and situates these with respect to partners’ relational biographies, the meaning and practices they attach to money and finances, sexual and intimate commitments and to being coupled. These are important new stories […]