Regardless of gender, the job poses problems of identity. What is my work role and what is “me”? How can I do deep acting without “feeling phony” and losing self-esteem? How can I redefine the job as “illusion making” without becoming cynical? (See Chapter Six.) But there are other psychological issues a flight attendant faces […]
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The brotherhood of professors,. males all
the founding fathers of sociology A full-fledged member of the brotherhood of professors, males all. (Cross, 1981: 79) T he previous chapter focused upon the search for founding mothers. This one deals with the uneasy relationships between feminist sociologies and the intellectual patriarchy: the founding fathers and the brotherhood of professors who write about them […]
Ideal Mama, Ideal Worker
Negotiating Guilt and Shame in Academe jean-anne Sutherland A few years back I presented at a sociology conference, discussing my dissertation on mothering, guilt, and shame. I spoke of the social construction of the good mother ideology, the impact this ideal has on the lives of women, and specifically the manifestation of guilt and shame. […]
Women, Clan Identity. and Peace-building
Judith Gardner with Amina Mohamoud Warsame ‘Only a fool will not consult his wife and seek her opinion.’1 This chapter was compiled largely from material generated during a workshop held with the book’s contributors in October 1997. The participants whose viewpoints and analysis this chapter represents are: Noreen Michael Mariano, Zeynab Mohammed Hassan, Rhoda M. […]
Black Macho Revisited
Reflections of a SNAP! Queen Marlon T. Riggs NEGRO FAGGOTRY IS in fashion. SNAP! Turn on your television and camp queens greet you in living color. SNAP! Turn to cable and watch America’s most bankable modern minstrel expound on getting "fucked in the ass" or his fear of faggots. SNAP! Turn off the TV, turn […]
Waves and Themes
Following the productions of feminist visual culture from the first wave of Western feminism in the 1910s and 1920s through the second and third waves, we are able to see reflected the issues dominating the feminist counter-public sphere at particular moments: bourgeois domestic troubles and the struggle for a public life are present in the […]
Death at the top; the one-shot plebiscite
In real life, unlike in the movies, the more a man is a hero, the more likely he is to die or be killed. A quarter of American presidents have died in office, many by assassination. Almost every liberal, charismatic male leader of the 1960s through the 80s was assassinated or mysteriously killed. Not just […]
Conclusions about Personal Concerns
The theories and research evidence we have considered show that substantive change in adults’ personal concerns definitely occurs as people age. This conclusion is in sharp contrast to the stability observed in dispositional traits but does support McAdams’s (1999) contention that this middle level of personality should show some change. What is also clear, however, […]
The Effect of Structures
To this point I have discussed the production of sexual character as if each milieu were independent of all others. It is time to bring into the analysis the structures that interrelate milieux (chapter 6) and their historical composition into a gender order for the society as a whole (chapter 7). To start with the […]
Boroma Grand Conference on National Reconciliation, 1993
The Boroma Grand Conference on Reconciliation was described as a make-or-break event in the creation of the Somaliland state. Opened on 24 January 1993, it was attended by representatives of all Somaliland’s clan families. It had an open time frame and in the event lasted nearly four months. The main items on the agenda were […]