In Fetishes (Nick Broomfield 1996, broadcast on Channel 4 1997) everything works to reassure the audience that they will not be debased by what they are watching. The markers of ‘quality’ designed to assuage the viewers’ anxiety about watching a programme on sadomasochism include the choice of location (just off Fifth Avenue), the high social […]
День: 01.10.2015
FEMINIST AND POST-COLONIAL INTELLECTUALS AND. THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF THE ACADEMY
This ‘insistence on the ambiguous nature of the border which constitutes differences’ is identified elsewhere by Yeatman (1994:17) as an aspect of the ‘epistemological politics of a postmodern feminism’. As she explains, postmodern feminist models of differentiation dispense with ‘binary hierarchical models of differentiation’ and ‘substitute multiple hierarchies of differentiation’ (ibid.) around race, ethnicity, gender […]
Editors’ introduction
The above is an excerpt from one of the most famous peace poems composed by Saado Abdi Amare which she first recited publicly, in the form of a woman crying in protest (baror), in 1994 during the conflict in Somaliland. It expresses the poet’s sadness and surprise at the renewal of conflict when people had […]
Multidimensionality of Personal Control
The general consensus about personal control is that it is multidimensional (Lachman, Rosnick, & Rocke, 2009; Soederberg, Miller, & Lachman, 1999a). Specifically, one’s sense of control depends on which domain, such as intelligence or health, is being assessed. As can be seen from Figure 8.5, Grob, Little, and Wanner (1999) found an increase for perceived […]
Our most invisible domestic violence
ITEM A man entered a classroom at the University of Montreal and killed female students. The incident made headlines throughout the world as an example of woman-hating. The Canadian government spent millions reeducating men in their attitudes toward women. At about the same time, a Chicago woman (Laune Dann) shot five elementary school boys, poisoned […]
Signifying on the Black Church
Charles I. Nero HISTORICALLY, RELIGION HAS served as a liberating force in the African American community. According to Albert Raboteau, Black slaves as early as 1774 publicly and politically declared that Christianity and the institution of slavery were incompatible. "In that year," Raboteau notes, "the governor of Massachusetts received ‘The Petition of a Grate [sic] […]
1920-65: A DARK AGE
Deegan labels the years 1920 to 1965 the ‘dark era of patriarchal ascendancy’ (1995: 333). It is in this period that the pioneering women died or retired and were not replaced. She argues that the only two senior men who were remembered positively by women graduate students were W. Lloyd Warner and David Riesman. Riesman, […]
Aren’t men the perpetrators of this violence, and isn’t this violence a reflection of male power?
We have no problem seeing this last Item as a reflection of black powerless ness, but we rarely see men ’s greater likelihood of being victims of violence as a reflection of male powerlessness. When we hear men are the greater victims of crime, we tend to say, "Well, it’s men hurting other men." When […]
Current affairs documentary and political debate
There are fears that the competitive pressures on television companies to retain audience share have led to a gradual decline of the kind of current affairs documentary that makes a genuine contribution to political debate in the public sphere. These changes have been termed ‘tabloidization’ in a comparison with the differences found between ‘quality’ and […]
Expansion and Resistance: The Twentieth Century
Increasingly, however, during the twentieth century, the world did learn about same-gender relations, moving an underground world into greater public consciousness. The willingness of popular culture to deal with sexuality, along with the growing influence of psychology and the experience of World War II, hastened the trend. In the 1920s, for example, a Broadway play, […]