Traditionally the collective and individual obligations and responsibilities under the clan system provide protection against random killings or attacks by one group against another in relation to war or conflict. If a man or woman is killed or injured by another, revenge or compensation will be sought. Other than in acts of individually motivated violence, […]
День: 04.10.2015
SOCIAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS
As we have seen, personality change has important implications for promoting emotional well-being in older adulthood. In fact, some studies suggest that health and an emotionally stable personality are extremely important factors for life satisfaction among the very old (e. g., Hilleras et al., 2001). Thus, it is not simply health and financial security that […]
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage stakes its claim to seriousness from the outset by foregrounding important themes, many of which were central to oppositional culture of the 1960s: the domination of nature and man’s (I specify gender advisedly) alienation from it; an obsession with possessions or, in the film’s scheme of things, collection; the […]
FROM THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE
An advertisement for Quaker Oats cereal in an issue of Working Mother magazine provides a small window on the interplay between consumption and the application of the idea of efficiency to private time in modem America.1 In the ad, a mother, dressed in a business suit, affectionately hugs her smiling son. Beneath the image, we […]
FROM THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE
An advertisement for Quaker Oats cereal in an issue of Working Mother magazine provides a small window on the interplay between consumption and the application of the idea of efficiency to private time in modem America.1 In the ad, a mother, dressed in a business suit, affectionately hugs her smiling son. Beneath the image, we […]
Discussing money
Some empirical researchers have noted that getting respondents to talk about money can be difficult because money (in the form of income and wealth) is often deemed a private matter and, in the UK at least, discussing money issues in public is not ‘the done thing’. There is a coyness over wage or salary levels […]
Does an awareness of men’s problems make any difference In our everyday experience of men?
While on a flight to Houston recently, I met an aerospace worker employed at Boeing My old tendency’ would have been to ask him — maybe debate with him — about the Stealth bomber that Boeing helps produce; but instead 1 asked him about his working conditions. I discovered that he was working with chemicals […]
Gender-Role Identity
People’s beliefs about the appropriate characteristics for men and women reflect shared cultural beliefs and stereotypes of “masculinity” and “femininity” (Best & Williams, 1993; Huyck, 1999; Sinnott & Shifren, 2001). Across a wide age range in U. S. society, women are traditionally described as weaker, with lower self-esteem, less active, more concerned with affiliation, and […]
Views of Life: Well-Being. and Aging
Who was the investigator, and what was the aim of the study? How people see themselves is an important part of their sense of well-being. However, previous research on well-being in late life has been conducted without theoretical guidance (Ryff, 1989). Consequently, many researchers approached well-being from the perspective of loss; that is, researchers assumed […]
Dario Argento’s The Bird with the Crystal. Plumage: Caging Women’s Rage
FRANK BURKE [ 11 ] Introduction It is no secret that Italian cinema is heavily masculine. If we look at middle — to highbrow Italian film (the work best recognized internationally) we find that, until recently, there have been only two women directors of note, Lina Wertmuller and Liliana Cavani, from the immediate postwar period […]