Imagine that you are about to give a speech before an audience of 500 people. In the last few minutes before your address, you begin to feel nervous, your heart starts to pound, and your palms get sweaty. (You now have something in common with Daisy’s reactions.) These feelings, common even to veteran speakers, are […]
День: 08.10.2015
The Arsenic and Old Lace case
When Blanche Taylor Moore and her husband went on a honeymoon and he suddenly had to be taken to the hospital, the doctor discovered he had been poisoned by arsenic The dose wasn’t enough to kill him, so Blanche gave him a couple of extra poisoned milk shakes. When the story got out, some people […]
What It takes to doubt a woman’s innocence
Tawana Brawley ITEM Black 15-year-old Tawana Brawiey daimed she’d been gang-raped by white racists, stuffed into a plastic garbage bag, and covered with excrement5 But a doctor testified that there was no evidence of either rape or assault And a woman testified that she had seen Tawana dimb into the plastic garbage bag of her […]
THE FRACTURED FAMILY
In Silicon Valley, where peach orchards have disappeared and electronics factories have sprouted in their stead, where low-paying jobs have replaced high — paying jobs, where neighbors are new and the singles clubs full, we meet, in Judith Stacey’s 1990 book, Brave New Families, a woman named Pam Gama. We meet her first as the […]
THE FRACTURED FAMILY
In Silicon Valley, where peach orchards have disappeared and electronics factories have sprouted in their stead, where low-paying jobs have replaced high — paying jobs, where neighbors are new and the singles clubs full, we meet, in Judith Stacey’s 1990 book, Brave New Families, a woman named Pam Gama. We meet her first as the […]
Recycling and Reconstituting Families
The sun in all his light and glory was to rise upon a new world; in this world woman was to be free to direct her own destiny. . . . My hopes also move towards that goal, but I hold that the emancipation of woman, as interpreted and practically applied today, has failed to […]
Parsons and Merton
In the period from 1930 onwards two Americans are regularly presented as founding fathers to today’s students: Robert Merton and Talcott Parsons. These two American men dominated sociology in the era of Second Wave feminism (1930-68). One of them, Talcott Parsons, became a symbol to feminists of all that was pernicious about malestream sociology, while […]
Madonna and the politics of postmodernism: ‘material girl’ and the. politics of consumer culture
Madonna’s high measure of success as ‘a postmodern phenomenon’ highlights the interplay between postmodernism and consumerism, and her transformative identity can be understood at the level of materiality and simulation. At a material level Madonna’s ability to market herself and to accommodate the ‘late capitalist marketplace’ (Schwichtenberg 1993:9) addresses the needs of ‘the media, beauty […]
American fathers
Other Mental Disorders and Concerns
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What are the symptoms of anxiety disorders? How are they treated? • What are the characteristics of people with psychotic disorders? • What are the major issues involved with substance abuse? D aisy forces herself to do her daily routine. She is shaky all the time because she just doesn’t feel safe. […]