ITEM Imagine: Music is playng on your car radio. An announcer’s voice interrupts: "We have a special bulletin from the president" (For some reason, you decide not to switch stations.) The president announces. "Since 1.2 million American men have been killed m war. as part of my new program for equality, we will draft only […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
“WHY CAN’T I HAVE. WHAT I WANT?”
Stuck. Virtually every woman I interviewed expressed the feeling. Something conspired to disrupt the trajectory of love to marriage to children. Joy, whose story opened the prologue, pointed the linger at her demanding job and a shortage of candidates in the marriage market. She declared herself unwilling to settle for her girlfriends’ compromises: a marriage […]
Review Questions
1.1 Perspectives on Adult Development and Aging • What are the premises of the life-span perspective? • How are population demographics changing around the world, and what difference does it make? 1.2 Issues in Studying Adult Development and Aging • What are the four basic forces in human development? • What are the major characteristics […]
FEELING AS SUSCEPTIBLE TO PREVENTIVE TACTICS
To consider just how a company or any other organization might benignly intervene in a work situation between the stimulus and the response, we had best start by rethinking what an emotion or a feeling is. Many theorists have seen emotion as a sealed biological event, something that external stimuli can bring on, as cold […]
THE COOL MODERN AND THE COMMERCIAL SPIRIT OF INTIMATE LIFE
Cool modem advice books reveal a newly unfolding paradox that is reminiscent of an earlier paradox. In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber describes a set of beliefs held by a variety of Protestant sects—a belief in ascetic self-control, frugality, hard work, and devotion to a calling. He traces the way in […]
THE COOL MODERN AND THE COMMERCIAL SPIRIT OF INTIMATE LIFE
Cool modem advice books reveal a newly unfolding paradox that is reminiscent of an earlier paradox. In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber describes a set of beliefs held by a variety of Protestant sects—a belief in ascetic self-control, frugality, hard work, and devotion to a calling. He traces the way in […]
Somalia — the untold story
This book consists of nine authored papers and seven testimonies, all but one by Somali women. Four of the testimonies were tape — recorded in English and transcribed; three were given verbally in English and then submitted as written testimonies in Somali, and then translated. Edited versions of the testimonies were checked by their authors. […]
Gender relations
In Somali culture all children are considered a blessing from God. However, it is a patriarchal society and greater symbolic value is placed on a male than a female child. Generally, the birth of a boy child is celebrated with the slaughter of two animals, while for a girl only one is slaughtered, if any. […]
A First Glance
The weakneu of men is the facade of strength, the strength of women h the facade of weakness.1 There are many ways in which a woman experiences a greater sense of powerlessness than her male counterpart: the fears of pregnancy, aging, rape, date rape, and being physically overpowered; less socialization to take a career that […]
FEMINISM AND THE ‘POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE’
The issues of subjectivity and experience within feminist theory have been deconstructed by poststructuralism and postmodernism. Feminist poststructuralism challenges feminism’s tendency to view both subjectivity and women’s experience as ‘unitary’, monovocal, and characterised by a unified discourse. Poststructuralism, specifically feminist poststructuralism, establishes ‘experience’ as contradictory and identity as plural. Yeatman notes that, even where ‘feminist […]