by the late feminist attack. But the convalescence didn’t last long: women were soon reprivatized, their new class solidarity diffused. The conservative feminists, who at least had viewed their problems as social, had been coopted, while the radical feminists were openly and effectively ridiculed; eventually even the innocuous committee- women of other movements came to […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
The power of life
ITEM In 1920 women in the United States lived one year longer than men.3 Today women live seven years longer.4 The male-female life-span gap increased 600 percent We acknowledge that blacks dying six years sooner than whites reflects the powerlessness of blacks in American society.5 Yet men dying seven years sooner than women is rarely […]
VARIETIES OF FEMINIST SOCIOLOGY. a caveat
The account which follows is an oversimplified one, and is also contested. The material in the following seven chapters will subvert the simple schema which follows. Maynard (1995) proposed, several years ago, that the ‘three schools’ model which follows was not an accurate characterisation of feminist sociology in the 1990s. Paula England (1999: 263) argues […]
The Tacit Agreement That Fell Apart: Marriage Post-Employment
Joy and Claudia represent the two-thirds of women in this study who are middle — class. These women grew up imagining white picket fences and perfect children. They worked hard in school with the goal of going to college, even though they did not necessarily anticipate lifelong careers. Everyone assumed they would settle down and […]
MANAGING FEELING
He who always wears the mask of a friendly man must at last gain a power over friendliness of disposition, without which the expression itself of friendliness is not to be gained—and finally friendliness of disposition gains the ascendancy over him—he is benevolent. —Nietzsche “Sincerity” is detrimental to one’s job, until the rules of salesmanship […]
THE WOMAN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN AMERICA
Though there have always been women rebels in history,[2] the conditions have never before existed that would Industrial Revolution feminist rebellion was bound to re main only a personal one. The coming feminist revolution of the age of technolog) was foreshadowed by the thought and writing of individU’ al women, members of the intellectual elites […]
In Medias Res
sonya huber It is the end of May, and the Goat-baby (the bubble, the little being—all these nicknames that help us both be fond and keep our distance) is eleven weeks old. Poppy dust rained in my veins this past month, and I fell asleep in lecture, blinked at my students as if I could […]
FEELING AS CLUE
Feeling as it spontaneously emerges acts for better or worse as a clue. It filters out evidence about the self-relevance of what we see, recall, or fantasize. The exact point at which we feel injured or insulted, complimented or enhanced, varies. One flight attendant described her “anger” boundaries as follows: Now if a man calls […]
The Politics and Scholarship of Women’s History
I began my graduate training as a historian at a particularly auspicious moment for educated American women. The revival of feminism in the late 1960s stimulated both a curiosity about women’s past and a commitment to advancing sexual equality. By 1970, the year I enrolled in a doctoral program at Columbia University, feminism had percolated […]
“The most atrocious crime of the century”
In many cases, these stories were described in headlines as being the most disgusting crimes in Canadian history. For example, in the case of Phoebe Campbell (1871, Ontario),9 the London Free Press wrote that proof “renders this woman the most atrocious criminal of our century” (8 August 1871). But more important, judges also participated in […]