Often women seek out a partnership with the child care provider that mimics family. Those who did found a certain comfort in relationships that more closely resembled a family tie for their children, such as that with a grandmother. While I am using the term grandmother to reflect the gap of age and experience between […]
День: 11.10.2015
The Goffman interview
In 1980 Jef Verhoeven conducted a long interview with Goffman in his house, as part of a series of such interviews with leading symbolic inter- actionists in the USA. Goffman died in 1982, during his term as President of the ASA. In 1992 Verhoeven published the text of their conversation edited to remove some ‘infelicities’. […]
LAURA MULVEY AND CLASSICAL NARRATIVE CINEMA
Both Mulvey’s and Doane’s perspective of pleasurable female spectatorship is essentially negative, and the concept of unmediated pleasure for the female spectator is inconceivable within the psychoanalytic framework. The types of critiques which have emerged on the use of psychoanalytic theory by Mulvey and Doane have come from a number of directions—from feminist and nonfeminist […]
The Changing Nature of Work
The traditional view of work assumes that one’s job consists of a certain set of tasks that need to be performed or a work-survival-status-life paradigm (Cascio, 1995). But this view is rapidly becoming outmoded. Global competition means that workers in the United States are competing for jobs with workers in the same industries in France, […]
W. E. B. DU BOIS
A staunch defender of women’s rights—particularly those of Black women—Du Bois proclaimed that the uplift of women, next to the problem of the colorline and peace, was the greatest modern social issue.14 He did not mean by this, however, that the issue of women’s rights is of secondary significance to or is completely isolated from […]
THE SILVERBACK NARRATIVES
This section shows how little impact all the work of all the feminist sociologists has had. It is to be contrasted with the following section, in which work by some very different men, who have treated feminist sociology with respect, is explored. The silverback narrative section begins with my personal response to the publication of […]
Inter-clan mediation by the Rapid Response Team of WPDC
In July 1998 WPDC received a report that there was a conflict between the Degodia Fai clan and the Murrulle. The Fai clan had refused the Murrulle access to a water pan. On receiving this information the WPDC put together a rapid response team consisting of three elders, two women, and two government representatives, to […]
Do men kill women more than women kill men?: the six blinders
The Department of Justice tells us that men kill women tuice as often as women kill men.®4 But let’s look more closely. Certainly men are more likely to be serial killers of women. Almost always these killings follow a pattern and the man is found. Therefore the Justice Department statistics can reflect this reality. Other […]
The Gift-Giver: Gifts as a Substitute for Wages
If there’s one thing I could change about single parenting, it’s the financial burden. An extra $10,000 a year net, if I had someone who would sleep on the couch and bring in $10,000, it would be great While conventional lore dictates that middle-class status is established by self — sufficiency through one’s own efforts, […]
AND THE FLIGHT PLAN OF CAPITALISM
Over the last two decades, American workers have increasingly divided into a majority who work too many hours and a minority with no work at all. This split hurts families at both extremes, but I focus here on the growing scarcity of time among the long-hours majority. For many of them, a speedup at the […]