Blokland (2005) has argued that it is helpful to understand identity not as a fixed achievement by which one arrives at a place where one knows the kind of person one is forever after, but as a process which has no real end point and which is not linear (i. e. from a weak person […]
День: 05.10.2015
Debt and redemption
As suggested above, debt and debt management were crucial practical elements in the lives of these recently ‘married’ couples. Also, debt can shape future practices and has the power to distort aspects of relationships. Debt, of course, has strong moral connotations in cultures that are still influenced by a Protestant ethic and distaste for all […]
SEX AND WORK
A more enduring argument was that charity was the best way of turning orphan girls and prostitutes into economically productive members of society. This consideration, too, had long antecedents. Forced labour in houses of correction had been introduced in Tudor times as a means of accustoming the idle and the dissolute to economic as well […]
‘Unharnessed fillies’
The modernizing conservative agenda on women’s education in the early Republic In January 1915, on the eve of the New Culture Movement that was to launch an ‘iconoclastic’ assault on the Confucian tradition, a Shanghai teacher, Yu Tiansui, wrote an article on women’s education for the first issue of Funu zazhi (The Ladies Journal).1 Echoing […]
PENITENCE AND RESURRECTION
Philanthropy promised to deliver three kinds of benefit: spiritual, demographic, and economic. Its methods were evidently novel. But the arguments for it were strikingly similar to those that had traditionally underpinned punishment. The most fundamental motive of both, for example, was to rescue sinners from damnation. Unlike other hospitals, boasted the supporters of the Magdalen, […]
Homophobia
A third reason the black community has been slow in responding to AIDS is that many of us do not want to be associated with what is widely perceived as a gay disease. More than once I have heard of black parents readily volunteering, so as to forestall even more embarrassing speculation, that their HIV-infected […]
How Positively Levitating! Chinese Heroines. of Kung Fu and Wuxia Pian
SUZIE S. F. YOUNG [ 12 ] Introduction The martial arts film continues a long Chinese literary tradition of fighting women who leap and somersault in perfect, trained weightlessness; unbound from the hearth and the altar, they venture forth to protect, avenge, challenge, and offend. This chapter considers some martial arts heroines of the kungfu […]
Contextualizing The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
While a pro-feminist rereading of a film such as The Bird with the Crystal Plumage may be useful for rethinking signification in the film itself, in Argento’s corpus, and, to some extent even in the post-Gothic (Italian) horror film, it becomes much more meaningful if inserted into a social and ideological context that helps render […]
Defining Mental Health and Psychopathology
The difference between mental health and mental disorder has never been clearly stated (Qualls, 1999) . Most scholars avoid the issue entirely or try simply to say what mental health or psychopathology is not. How to tell the difference between normal or abnormal behavior is hard to define precisely, because expectations and standards for behavior […]
Difficult Compromises: The Dilemmas of Age Versus Race
Women’s routes to motherhood and adoption are often dominated by a struggle in which they must weigh the age of an unknown adoptive child against his or her race.9 Mothers who give priority to the criterion of age in their searches hold the belief that intensive mothering is about sharing in the child’s infancy. U. […]