Susan Bassow earned a PhD from Harvard University in 1995; her dissertation on climate change and its impacts on forests led to an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellowship in Washington, D. C., where she worked (before and throughout her first pregnancy) for the Environmental Protection Agency and President Clinton’s White House Office […]
День: 18.10.2015
Does the law protect the man who is raped by a woman?
ITEM A female cNd-care worker acknowledges having a six-month sexual relationship with a 12-year-old boy inder her care. She receives no prison term — not a sngle day. She is allowed to go free on probation, having to pay only $500 for the boy’s ccxxisebng.55 The release of this female statutory rapist caused no uproar. […]
Creating a Final Scenario
When given the chance, many adults would like to discuss a variety of issues, collectively called end-of-life issues: management of the final phase of life, after-death disposition of their body and memorial services, and distribution of assets (Green, 2008; Kleespies, 2004). How these issues are confronted represents a significant generational shift (Green, 2008). Parents and […]
End-of-Life Issues
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What is a personal final scenario? • What are hospices, and what options do they provide? • How do people make their end-of-life intentions known? J ean is a 72-year-old woman who was recently diagnosed with advanced colon cancer. She has vivid memories of her father dying a long, protracted death in […]
Death Anxiety
We have seen that how people view death varies with age. In the process, we encountered the notion of feeling anxious about death. Death anxiety is tough to pin down; indeed, it is the ethereal nature of death, rather than something about it in particular, that usually makes us feel so uncomfortable. We cannot put […]
CONCLUSION: RESISTING PRIVILEGES
In some ways, the "identity privilege" lists in this essay represent the very early stages in a complicated process of dismantling male heterosexual privilege. The lists reveal that our identity privileges are legitimized through the personal choices we make everyday. All of us make choices that facilitate discriminatory practices. Many of us get married and/or […]