representations of efundula have been invoked by different sections of the Owam — bo population in attempts to affirm claims to hegemonic defining power over local and national, gendered public culture.[18] Numerous recent studies, such as Cooper and Stoler (1997), have shown that colonialism was not a stable model, but subject to multiple internal tensions. […]
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Transnational sexual identities
Many people in East Asia, as elsewhere, understand their experiences and identities within frameworks that may appear quite similar to globalised notions of sexual identity (Altman 1997: 417—36). The story of why some people in East Asia came to identify themselves with particular categories of sexual identity is, however, complex and historically contingent, as many […]
Social Realities and Social Anxieties
Looking at who actually gets abortions in the United States today helps to deconstruct the ambivalence with which many people respond to abortion as a signifier. Consistent with the analysis in Chapter 4, abortion is still overwhelmingly a phenomenon of young, unmarried women, the majority of them teenagers or in their early twenties. Eighty-two percent […]
The symbolic: gender is a system of meanings
When students new to sociology are trying to make sense of why women and men act in the ways that they do, they often blame ‘the media’. They suggest that the media might be responsible for anything from making women anorexic to encouraging men to be violent. But can this really explain the variety of […]
Tenure and Promotion (Chapter 5)
The findings related to tenure and promotion indicate the importance of addressing the retention of women faculty in the early stages of their academy careers; not as many were considered for tenure as would be expected, based on the number of women assistant professors. Retention was particularly problematic given the increased duration of time in […]
Linguistic Acts
Social interactions can be mediated through language or more precisely “linguistic acts” (Klein & Huynh, 1999). Researchers have suggested that the analysis of language acts and communicative practices involved in collaboration brings a deeper understanding on the collaboration processes (Cecez-Kecmanovic & Webb, 2000). There are three major linguistic acts occurring in team processes: those addressing […]
Fetal Images
As a brief submitted by over four hundred professional historians in the Webster case argued, never before in history has the fetus been the primary focus of campaigns to restrict abortion. In the mid-to-late nineteenth century in the United States, such campaigns had a variety of purposes all unrelated to "protecting fetal life": the protection […]
East Asia
Mark Pendleton The politics of sex and sexuality in East Asia has a long history of crossing borders. We know, for example, that Japanese sex workers were migrating to the imperial borderlands of China from about the 1850s, attracting bureaucratic attention from policy makers and public intellectuals in the process (Driscoll 2010: 61—62; Mackie and […]
The Lens of Theory: Parenting Out of Control
My findings of intimacy and hovering combined with elastic constraint and covert surveillance are central to my dubbing the professional middle-class approach “parenting out of control.” Clearly intimacy and hovering lay the groundwork for control in the commonsense meaning of the word: parents are carefully guiding, shaping, and determining the contours of their children’s actions. […]
INDIVIDUATION
A second critical aspect of postmodernity is an extraordinary heightening of individuation which can be described as the consequence of the multiplication and segregation of roles available to, in some measure forced upon, the individual. One result is that persons can share a nearly identical portfolio of roles without sharing similar commitments or coming to […]