Neither men nor women are exempt from killing loved ones. The difference is in what happens to them when they do. Twelve distinct female-only defenses allow a woman who commits a premeditated murder to have the charges dropped or significantly reduced. No man has successfully used any of these defenses in similar circumstances. Nor do […]
День: 07.10.2015
Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Circumstances
I wanted a normal child to enter my abnormal life. —Jennifer, known-donor route to motherhood Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon Days, based upon his radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, posits a community in which “all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above average.” In this parody of […]
Motherhood Is Easy; Graduate School Is Hard
tedra osell My baby helped me write my dissertation. Or rather, my baby plus my husband’s job. After his birth (the baby’s, not the husband’s), we were able to afford three hours a day of child care. From nine to noon, Monday to Friday, Lena came over to take Linus out in the stroller, put […]
THE COLONIZED COLONIZER
Cruelty and Kindness in Mother-Daughter Bonds In a workshop titled “Gender, Context and Narrative” in Trivandrum, Kerala, India, in 1998, a gathering of Indian women—Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Syrian Christian, most from the Brahmin caste but some from the matrilineal Nayar, and others from the Ezhava and Pulaya—told stories of their grandmothers, their mothers, and themselves. […]
THE COLONIZED COLONIZER
Cruelty and Kindness in Mother-Daughter Bonds In a workshop titled “Gender, Context and Narrative” in Trivandrum, Kerala, India, in 1998, a gathering of Indian women—Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Syrian Christian, most from the Brahmin caste but some from the matrilineal Nayar, and others from the Ezhava and Pulaya—told stories of their grandmothers, their mothers, and themselves. […]
Classical Psychoanalysis: The Dynamic Unconscious
Freud wrote voluminously on sexuality and gender. My purpose here is not to give a summary or a history of his ideas and those of his followers, but to explore the contribution they make to a social theory of gender. Accordingly I will start not with the Oedipus complex and Freud’s discussions of femininity and […]
‘Having it all’ in postfeminist drama
Postfeminism is an ambiguous term in that it can imply both a continuity and a break with the second wave feminism that preceded it. ‘Post’ means ‘after’, and we can therefore simply understand the term as the multiple responses to the political challenges posed by the feminist movement of the 1970s. Generation is one of […]
Training Persons with Dementia to Be Group. Activity Leaders
Who were the investigators, and what was the aim of the study? Dementia is marked by progressive and severe cognitive decline. But despite these losses, can people with dementia be trained to be group leaders? Most people might think the answer is "no," but Cameron Camp and Michael Skrajner (2005) decided to find out by […]
‘Women at the centre of suffering’
Because war-makers from Siad Barre onwards have used the clan system as a weapon and a shield, a person’s fate has largely been determined by his or her clan identity. Numerous Somali women, including many of the contributors to this book, are partners in exogamous marriages and therefore do not belong to the clan of […]
SEXUALITY AND THE LAW
PROFESSOR CULP: We are here to talk about "The Dennis Rodman Elixir." You have read the article and Janet Halley and William Eskridge’s articles on how sexual orientation and the law function. What do you think? FIRST STUDENT: If I may say so, Professor Culp, your article misses the point. Professor Halley raised the question […]