The second explanation for the attrition of women in academe touches private inequality more directly: women sooner or later cool themselves out by a form of “auto-discrimination.” Here, inequality is conceived not as the mark of a chairperson’s pen, but as the consequence of a whole constellation of disadvantages that alter what a woman wants […]
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MALE FEMINIST OR OXYMORON?
It might indeed be the case that "men’s relationship to feminism is an impossible one,"2 that men cannot be feminists. This "impossibility thesis" is quite arresting. There is, however, an explanation: Women are the subjects of feminism, its initiators, its makers, its force; the move and the join from being a woman to being a […]
Looking towards the future
The transition to digital television is taking place across the globe, albeit in diverse local contexts. For those countries with a tradition in public service television fears of a rampant commercialism accompany these changes. The UK is developing its digital services ahead of many of its global competitors, making, perhaps, the British response to these […]
DISCRIMINATION
When I entered Berkeley as a graduate student in 1962, і sat with some fifty other incoming students that first week in a methodology course. One of the two sociology professors on the podium before us said, “We say this to every incoming class and we’ll say it to you. Look to your left and […]
DISCRIMINATION
When I entered Berkeley as a graduate student in 1962, і sat with some fifty other incoming students that first week in a methodology course. One of the two sociology professors on the podium before us said, “We say this to every incoming class and we’ll say it to you. Look to your left and […]
In Dreams Begin Possibilities
Or, Anybody Have Time for a Change? judith sanders A friend and I were watching her plump, luscious twin toddlers laugh themselves silly as they learned to roll downhill. She confided that she was pregnant with her third child, so she was leaving her job. “They’ll never be like this again,” she said of her […]
TWO MODELS OF EMOTION
Two basic models of emotion have emerged in the last century. From the work of Charles Darwin, William James, and the early Sigmund Freud, an organismic model appears.* * McDougall (1937, 1948) and Tomkins (1962) have also contributed to the organismic model of emotion. Although Tomkins’s theory covers a broad range of From the works […]
Isn’t it the male role that needs changing because it is men who rape?
Prevailing perspective. The problem in dating is the male role because it is men who rape, not women. My perspective. The problem is both sexes’ roles: both sexes’ roles lead to both sexes’ problems — the problem for women of date rape, and problems for men such as date robbery, unequal date rejection, unequal date […]
POSTFEMINISMS AND CULTURAL SPACE: SEXUALITY, SUBJECTIVITY AND IDENTITY
INTRODUCTION At an earlier point in this book, it was established that cultural studies, and in particular debates around representation, provided a focal point for the coalescing of a number of debates including feminism, poststructuralism, postmodernism and post-colonialism. Popular cultural forms especially were identified as useful for framing debates around identity, sexuality, ethnicity and image. […]
GENDER AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
One of the most important developments arising from the spread of literacy in the late-seventeenth century was the emergence of a new zone of free and open discussion, now known as the public sphere. Distinct from either the family or government or the royal court, this loose, unofficial network of social relations came into being […]