When scientists discovered that they could determine whether someone was carrying the gene for Huntington’s disease, they created the opportunity for people to know something about their future. Huntington’s disease is a genetic, fatal, degenerative disease that typically manifests itself in adults between 30 and 45 (Sharon, Ersan, & Sharon, 2007) . Dementia is part […]
День: 07.10.2015
How community property without community responsibility hurts women
Community property without community — responsibility ultimately boomerangs against women. When ignorance allows her to share a fortune but not share a jail cell, then ignorance pays in the short run. But in the long run, it creates the most ubiquitous form of female "learned helplessness" — financial learned helplessness Thus if she has doubts […]
Forced Versus Organic—Personal Versus Public
All women who become first-time mothers begin to see their lives in terms of life before baby and life with baby. For these mothers who adopt children of a different race and culture, this divide between their previous and present lives is further fraught with the process of building a transracial family. They are concerned […]
The double standard of community property: her rights, his responsibility
When Tammy Faye Bakker divorced Jim, community property laws guaran teed Tammy Faye rights to half of the profits of their ministry. Why? Marriage makes a couple legal equals. How a couple divides roles is private business, but community property laws were supposed to make equal rights and responsibilities for the couple s profits or […]
Madonna as ‘a site of subversion9
The relationship between Madonna’s representational politics and feminist theory is a complicated one. A number of theorists have attempted to investigate the problem of representational politics by engaging with different dimensions of the ‘Madonna paradigm as an equivocal challenge to feminism as it is both lived and theorized within patriarchal culture’ (Schwichtenberg 1993:8). E. Ann […]
Chivalry’s Intagrated circuit: Judge, Jury, lawyers, and female client
I tell women what to wear, how to dress, how to make up their hair. They must have a great deal of sex appeal to the men on the jury — and to the judge, too. But at the same time she can’t antagonize the women on the jury by being too flashy-looking. If she […]
Wing Chun (1994, dir. Yuen Wo-ping)
Wing Chun is a style of kungfu that is only a few generations old; its historical record is well, if variously, documented. A popular version has it that, during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), when oppression and cruelty were a daily norm, abbess Ng Mui from the Shaolin Temple was forced in 1674 to take refuge […]
RESCUE AND REFORMATION
The emergence of sexual philanthropies helped establish a new model for the treatment of all kinds of criminals and social misfits. Until the 1770s, most convicts were sentenced to a few weeks of hard labour, bound over, transported, or hanged. Imprisonment as such was not widely used. But the later eighteenth century saw a great […]
Freud
Freud is not generally regarded as a founding father of sociology, although he does appear in some texts. Freud, whose ideas became widely known in intellectual circles after the First World War, was not a sociologist, but his ideas have been regarded as seminal by many male sociologists since 1920. Freud’s theories are particularly problematic […]
Delirium
A delirium is characterized by a disturbance of consciousness and a change in cognition that develop over a short period of time (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). The changes in cognition can include difficulties with attention, memory, orientation, and language. Delirium can also affect perception, the sleep-wake cycle, personality, and mood. Although the onset of delirium […]