It is within this context that Mercer develops a critique of the work Robert Mapplethorpe. His images of Black Males (1983) ‘as the stereotypical conventions of racial representation in pornography are appropriated and abstracted into the discourse of art photography’ (Mercer 1994:134). Mercer claims that Mapplethorpe’s work can be seen as reinforcing and reiterating the […]
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The Stage II journey
We stan by questioning even the best of what was functional in Stage I. For example, the hero’s journey described so eloquently by Joseph Campbell was, nevertheless, a Stage I journey And its rituals were Stage I rituals. Both the journey and the rituals were the Stage I man’s boot camp for male disposability. The […]
Contributors
WA LTER R. ALLEN is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Allen’s research and teaching focus on family patterns, socialization and personality development, race and ethnic relations, social inequity, and higher education. Among his more than fifty publications are The Color Line and the Quality of Life in America […]
ALTERNATIVES
The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, “What’s your alternative?” But even if you could provide the interrogator with a blueprint, this does not mean he would use it: in most cases he is not sincere in wanting to know. In fact this is a common offensive, a technique to deflect revolutionary anger and […]
JOBS AND EMOTIONAL LABOR
Of the twelve standard occupational groups used by the U. S. Census, six contain the majority of jobs that call for emotional labor, as defined in Chapter Seven. These six groups, summarized in Table 1, are as follows: professional and technical workers, managers and administrators, sales workers, clerical workers, and service workers of two types […]
Social Security and Medicare
Without doubt, the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries saw a dramatic improvement in the everyday lives of older adults in industrializedcountries. The increase in the number of older adults and their gain in political power, coupled with increased numbers of social programs addressing issues specifically involving older adults, created unprecedented gains for […]
IDENTITIES
Debates in the 1970s and 1980s surrounding the issue of pornography highlighted conflicts of interest between lesbian feminists and gay men. What was sometimes overlooked in the radical feminist (psychoanalytically driven) relationship between pornography and the ‘male gaze’ was the privileging of a particular racial group in these debates, namely white men. This model of […]
Demographic Trends and Social Policy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What key demographic changes will occur by 2030? • What are the challenges facing Social Security and Medicare? N ancy, a 35-year-old new employee at a marketing and public relations firm, was flipping through the company’s benefits package. When it came to the retirement plan, she commented to the human resources person, […]
Successful Aging
14.1 DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS AND SOCIAL POLICY Demographic Trends: 2030 • Social Security and Medicare • Current Controversies: Saving Social Security 14.2 HEALTH ISSUES AND QUALITY OF LIFE Health Promotion and Quality of Life • A Framework for Maintaining and Enhancing Competence • Health Promotion and Disease Prevention • Lifestyle Factors 14.3 SUCCESSFUL AGING Discovering Development: […]
The false parallel between the civil rights movement and the women’s movement
One of the underlying mistakes of the past quarter century was taking the gains of the civil rights movement and passing them on to women as if women had served as men’s slaves and were now entitled to those rights |ust as blacks had served as whites’ slaves and were now entitled to those rights. […]