What do people like the woman in the photograph gain from participating in leisure activities? Researchers agree that involvement in leisure activities is related to well-being (Guinn, 1999; Kelly, 1996; McGuire et al., 1996; Warr et al., 2004) and may even be related to reduced risk for Alzheimer’s disease (Crowe et al., 2003). The key […]
День: 15.10.2015
SEXUALITY, SUBALTERN IDENTITY AND. ‘PERFORMATIVITY’
The influence of poststructuralism on feminist debates has made earlier debates around identity, sexuality and representation problematic. However, as Patton (1993:82) notes, the poststructuralist debate itself came under attack from gender theorists such as Judith Butler (1990a), Donna Haraway (1991) and Sandra Harding (1986), who ‘sought to take the anti-essentialist arguments all the way down’ […]
Balancing the Ledger of Family Policy
The customary package of family-friendly policies provides the kind of benefits that transmit both public support for and confirmation of the life choices of mothers with young children who opt for the male model of early entry and continuous labor-force participation. At the same time, the state offers few, if any, benefits that aid and […]
Balancing the Ledger of Family Policy
The customary package of family-friendly policies provides the kind of benefits that transmit both public support for and confirmation of the life choices of mothers with young children who opt for the male model of early entry and continuous labor-force participation. At the same time, the state offers few, if any, benefits that aid and […]
The politics of making date rape an epidemic and making only men responsible
Almost half of all women are raped or victims of attempted rape at least once in their lives.". . . Under conditions of male dominance, if sex is normally something men do to women, viewing “yes" as a sign of consent is misguided.12 Catharine MacKinnon, NBC’s only choice to analyze the entire Clarence Thomas hearings […]
FAME AND FORTUNE
The expanding scope of biography brings us to the final indication of shifting attitudes towards sex and publicity in this period: the growing fame of types of people previously regarded as disreputable. Traditionally, biography had served a moral purpose. The lives of saints, martyrs, rulers, divines, and other worthies were valuable as exemplars of virtue, […]
What’s the difference between stranger rape, acquaintance rape, and date rape?
We often hear, "Rape is rape, right*" No. A stranger forcing himself on a woman at knife point is different from a man and woman having sex while drunk and having regrets in the morning UThat is different? When a woman agrees to a date, she does not make a choice to be sexual, but […]
Discourses of domesticity in the May Fourth period
Throughout the May Fourth period, from the late 1910s to early 1920s, educators, reformers and general commentators emphasized the importance of domestic science for women’s education, indicating a continuing and nagging fear that had taken root almost from the very beginning of public education for girls. Such a fear centred on the perceived tendency for […]
RESPONSES TO POSTMODERNISM
Among scholars, there have been particularly angry responses to postmodernism among two groups: feminists and scientists. These two groups have different problems with postmodernism, which need attention here. There are feminists, including feminist sociologists, who have embraced postmodernism with alacrity and even abandonment. These postmodernist feminists are the focus of the third section of the […]
Showing Rape: The Double Victim
As feminists we are caught between a rock and a hard place: the erasure of rape from the narrative bears the marks of a patriarchal discourse on honour and chastity; yet showing rape, some argue, eroticizes it for the male gaze and purveys the victim myth. How do we refuse to erase the palpability of […]