День: 18.10.2015

Toward a solution

Criminalization Can the law prevent date rape? The law can prevent some date rapes. If a mart can be put in jail for exerting emotional pressure, men will exert less of it; if a woman who is under the influence can yell rape the following morning, fewer men will buy women drinks, so there will […]

Normal Grief Reactions

The feelings experienced during grieving are intense, which not only makes it difficult to cope but can also make a person question her or his own reactions. The feelings involved usually include sad­ness, denial, anger, loneliness, and guilt. A summary of these feelings is presented in the following list (Vickio, Cavanaugh, & Attig, 1990). Take […]

The autobiographical narratives

T his appendix lists the locations of the 23 American ‘silverback’ narratives analysed in Chapter 7, and the 22 female narratives discussed throughout the book. Scholar Location of autobiography Date published George Homans Annual Review of 1986 Sociology (ARS) Robert Merton ARS 1987 David Riesman ARS 1988 Amos Hawley ARS 1992 Lewis Coser ARS 1993 […]

Spousal rape

ITEM A husband and wife m Australia were makmg love (or so he thought) and she asked him to stop. The following morning she called the police and reported him as a rapist, darning it took him thirty seconds to stop. He claims he stopped nght away. He received four years in prison.66 Australian men […]

The Woman Fighter

One of the mythic icons of the Jewish woman fighter prior the 1948 war is that of a Palmach13 girl, hiding grenades in her bra. This mental image accom­panied my upbringing, suggesting that women were brave and capable and that they contributed to Israeli independence as much as did men. Surprisingly, nei­ther I nor my […]