День: 16.10.2015

SELF-PROMOTION AND EXPLOITATION

The rising popularity of courtesans was therefore part of a whole ser­ies of interrelated developments in eighteenth-century society. It was the product of new attitudes to fame and notoriety, of novel forms of writing, of changing attitudes towards public opinion, and of shifting assumptions about personal identity. It also epitomized the emergence of a new […]

Definitions and Ethical Issues

LEARNING OBJECTIVES • How is death defined? • What legal and medical criteria are used to determine when death occurs? • What are the ethical dilemmas surrounding euthanasia? • What issues surround the costs of life-sustaining interventions? E rnesto and Paulina had been married 48 years when Ernesto developed terminal pancreatic cancer. Ernesto was suffering […]

Dying and Bereavement

13.1 DEFINITIONS AND ETHICAL ISSUES Sociocultural Definitions of Death • Legal and Medical Definitions • Ethical Issues • Current Controversies: The Terri Schiavo Case • The Price of Life-Sustaining Care 13.2 THINKING ABOUT DEATH: PERSONAL ASPECTS Discovering Development: How Do You Describe a Life? • A Life Course Approach to Dying • Dealing with One’s […]

Interpersonal Ties

Retirement rarely affects only a single individual. No matter how personal the joys and sorrows of retirement may be, the interpersonal relations theyhave shape retirees’ reactions. Social ties help people deal with the stresses of retirement, as they do in other life transitions. In many cases, these ties involve friendships and other relationships formed earlier […]

Adjustment to Retirement

Researchers agree on one point about retirement: It is an important life transition. New patterns of involvement must be developed in the context of changing roles and lifestyles (Antonovsky & Sagy, 1990; Wang, 2007). Until the early 1990s, research focused on what was thought to be a sequence of pre­dictable phases of retirement, such as […]

FICTION(S)

Reflexivity and first-person narratives lead directly to the possibilities of autoethnography. The term itself has several connotations. Here we will focus briefly on analyses that are based substantially or even exclusively on the writer’s personal experiences, memories and actions. This, there­fore, moves the personal from the marginal notes of the confessional tale to occupy the […]

IDENTITY AND ‘PERFORMATIVITY’: THE WORK OF. JUDITH BUTLER

My recommendation is not to solve this crisis of identity, but to proliferate and intensify this crisis. (Butler 1990a:121) Perhaps the most significant challenge to the concept of gendered identities is contained in the work of the postmodern feminist theoristJudith Butler, particularly her conception of gender as ‘performativity’. Martin (1992:101) draws on Judith Butler’s work […]