A second and related approach to understanding identity formation in adulthood is Whitbourne’s (1987, 1996c) idea that people build their own conceptions of how their lives should proceed. The result of this process is the life-span construct, the person’s unified sense of the past, present, and future. There are many influences on the development of […]
День: 03.10.2015
GENDER IDEOLOGIES AND FEELING
The gender ideologies of these men and women fell into three main types: traditional, egalitarian, and transitional. Implicit in each ideology were rules about how one should feel about one’s work outside and inside die home. Traditional men and women felt a woman’s place was in the home even though she might have to work […]
GENDER IDEOLOGIES AND FEELING
The gender ideologies of these men and women fell into three main types: traditional, egalitarian, and transitional. Implicit in each ideology were rules about how one should feel about one’s work outside and inside die home. Traditional men and women felt a woman’s place was in the home even though she might have to work […]
Murderous Thoughts: Madame Beudet
Jeanne Dielman, and Iris The reflection on violence and the spatialization of femininity—of being locked into an image and frozen out of time—was undertaken in two foundational films of the feminist canon: Dulac’s 1922 silent French film The Smiling Madame Beudet and Maya Deren’s 1943 Meshes of the Afternoon. While the differences in context and […]
Feminism and the Apotheosis of Work
The normative expectation that women should participate in the labor force to the same extent as men emanates from an ideology of gender equality, which was widely expressed by the most influential voices in the feminist movement between the 1960s and the mid-1990s.19 (Of course, there were other voices seeking to define modern feminism as […]
Feminism and the Apotheosis of Work
The normative expectation that women should participate in the labor force to the same extent as men emanates from an ideology of gender equality, which was widely expressed by the most influential voices in the feminist movement between the 1960s and the mid-1990s.19 (Of course, there were other voices seeking to define modern feminism as […]
On Eldridge Cleaver
He Is No James Baldwin Huey P. Newton ELDRIDGE CLEAVER’S PRISON masterpiece, Soul on Ice,1 was a manifesto of its time. The book is riddled with powerful insights and contradictions typical of the transitional period of the 1960s; it is a link in that long chain of prison literature brought to its zenith in the […]
Who Do You Want to Be When You «Grow Up”?
From the time you were a child, people have posed this question to you. In childhood, you probably answered by indicating some specific career, such as firefighter or teacher. But now that you are an adult, the question takes on new meaning. Rather than simply a matter of picking a profession, the question goes much […]
POSTMODERNISM IN THE 1970S AND 1980S
Huyssen claims that postmodernism as a concept only gained currency in the 1970s, although he maintains that the critical element within postmodernism can only be fully understood if the 1950s are seen as the starting point of the ‘mapping of the postmodern’. He maintains that the general atmosphere of political and economic disillusionment of the […]
Life Narratives, Identity, and the Self
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What are the main aspects of McAdams’s life-story model? • What are the main points of Whitbourne’s identity theory? • How does self-concept come to take adult form? What is its development during adulthood? • What are possible selves? Do they show differences during adulthood? • What role does religion play in […]