Why sexual harassment is such a big issue for women If a woman at work caressed a man on his rear, he’d thank her, not sue her. So how can a man understand why sexual harassment is such a big issue for women? Men, imagine growing up always receiving compliments from women on your mechanical […]
День: 11.10.2015
My response
When I read the published interview, I was immediately struck by Goffman’s account of the Chicago Sociology Department as if it had been an all-male environment, and his all-male friendship circle. At the time of publication I made some notes for a commentary on the interview, but merely filed them. Then Gary Alan Fine (1995) […]
‘ANTICOMMUNITARIAN IMPULSES’
Historically, as Nightwood amply confirms, both modernism and same-sex passion have relied upon the twentieth-century metropolis as a place sufficiently large and diverse to enable them to survive, and eventually to flourish. But this link between sexual dissidence and urban geography can be found throughout gay and lesbian writing and not only in its modernist […]
Occupational Development
For most of us, getting a job is not enough; we would also like to move up the ladder. Promotion is a measure of how well one is doing in one’s career. How quickly occupational advancement occurs (or does not) may lead to such labels as “fast-tracker” or “dead-ender” (Kanter, 1976). Barack Obama, shown here […]
POST-COLONIAL AND ANTI-RACIST CRITIQUES IN. FEMINIST FILM THEORY
One of the most thoroughgoing critiques of psychoanalytic theory in terms of its white middle-class binary (female/male) frame of reference is provided by Jane Gaines in an essay titled ‘White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory’ (1994).8 Gaines considers the problems inherent in psychoanalytic theory for explaining race and ethnicity […]
Toward a solution
No on# mokes о commitment to a disadvantage Laws that make one sex more powerful than the other boomerang against both sexes — no one makes a commitment to a disadvantage. And when one sex doesn’t commit, both sexes lose love. We can see this happening in Australia, for example, where domestic violence is now […]
Occupational Choice
As indicated earlier, work life serves as a major source of identity, provides us with an official position, and influences lifestyle and social interactions; therefore, choosing an occupation is a serious matter. Although most people think occupational choice is largely the province of young adults, much of what we will consider also holds true for […]
THE EXPLOSION OF PRINT
Its most obvious cause was an immense growth in printed media. Already by 1700 the population of London was markedly more literate than that of the rest of the country. Most men and women in the capital could read and write, including the bulk of servants and apprentices. Ever since the invention of printing, however, […]
Raising Children
Single mothers are constantly asked about the men in their children’s lives. The implication is simple: men are essential to raising children. The reality revealed by my interviews is that—far from trying to create a world without men—single mothers and their children deliberately strive to include them. For this reason, I will pay special attention […]
A WORLD WITHOUT MEN, AMEN?
Fatherlessness is a heated topic in America today. Some observers worry that fatherless families could lead to a generation of children with behavioral problems, to juvenile violence in schools, to adolescent childbearing, and to future economic malaise.1 The executive branch of the U. S. government has proposed marriage incentives in the belief that female-headed households […]