This collection brings together cutting-edge work by established and emerging scholars focusing on key societies in the East Asian region: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia and Vietnam. This scope enables the collection to reflect on the nature of the transformations in constructions of sexuality in highly developed, developing and emerging […]
День: 29.10.2015
THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
Advisers to the Nation on Science, Engineering, and Medicine The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by […]
The religious roots of feminism
‘I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is’, the writer Rebecca West remarked, sardonically, in 1913. ‘I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.’ The word was a comparatively new one when she wrote; it had […]
The Purchase of Intimacy
This book took ten years to mature. During that time, I found myself increasingly involved in the emerging field of economic sociology. Whether we have agreed or disagreed, I have learned a great deal from dialogue with colleagues in that field as well as in economics and law. I have built many of the lessons […]
Womenomics
Erin clicks send on her last e-mail of the day, stretches her legs, and checks her watch. Relief and anticipation flood through her. She’s right on schedule— half an hour to pack up, grab a Diet Coke, and reach her son’s baseball practice at four o’clock. She relishes these afternoons with him, and arrives at […]
‘Dividuality’
This last point about multiplicitous sexualities and critique of the conception of the subject as a bounded, trans-situational unit, corresponds neatly with Helle — Valle’s critique of the mainstream notion of a person as a unitary, bounded individual. Instead he introduces the term ‘dividual’, in order to “lead our attention to that fact that human […]
Parenting out of control
I t is always a delightful moment to turn to this part of a manuscript. Not only is this an indication that yes, at last, the process of writing is almost complete, but it is also a time to offer thanks rather than simply to accumulate debts. And so, with a great sense of relief, […]
Acknowledgments
I owe thanks in many directions. First of all, thanks to the National Institutes of Mental Health for generous funding of this research and to Elliot Liebow of the Center for the Study of Metropolitan Problems for administrative support. Many thanks to Troy Duster, Chair of the Institute for the Study of Social Change, and […]
Interactions, Differences and Relationships
This book, Gender and Social Computing: Interactions, Differences and Relationships, provides an overview of the major questions that researchers and practitioners are addressing at this time, outlining possible future directions for theory development and empirical research on gender and computing. In doing so, this volume contributes toward closing the gap between the public growing interest […]
A Note on the Text
I would like to express appreciation for permission to reprint the following: Seyla Benhabib, “Women and Moral Theory, Revisited,” Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics (Polity Press, Oxford, 1992). Jean Cohen, “The Historicist Critique,” Civil Society and Political Theory, eds. Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato (MIT Press, 1992), pp. 201-254. Marie […]