In proposing that differences between women and men are largely social, sociologists have challenged ideas such as those which suggest that men’s social dominance is justified because they are physically stronger. Ideas about what sort of physical tasks women and men are suited for differ from one culture to another, suggesting that it is not […]
День: 31.10.2015
CHANGING MOTHERINGS
The thesis of the degradation of mothering agues that motherhood is an increasingly devalued activity within capitalism and patriarchy. The continuous process of degradation is loosely defined around three main features: 1 Work has been intensified by the creation of a multitude of new tasks and raised standards of child care. 2 Emphasis has shifted […]
Influence of Group Process on Performance and Satisfaction
During the interview, most members agreed that communication related to personal experience and feelings helped them to release the tension in the discussion and resulted in them being more satisfied with the learning process. Thus, socioemotional discussion is positively related to the satisfaction with collaboration process (p10). In the interview, we also find that members […]
Heike Becker
While there has been the odd suggestion about staging omafundula as a tourist attraction, (cf. Fairweather 2001:223) initiation ceremonies on the whole appear to have survived and enjoy a modest revival as living culture, not merely as heritage in performance. The 1996 TV programme showed pupils from a local primary school who attended the event […]
Dualism
A dualism is more than a relation of dichotomy, difference, or nonidentity, and more than a simple hierarchical relationship. In dualistic construction, as in hierarchy, the qualities (actual or supposed), the culture, the values and the areas of life associated with the dualised other are systematically and pervasively constructed and depicted as inferior. Hierarchies, however, […]
POSTMODERNIZATION AS DENATURALIZATION
The issues setting the agenda of postmodernism, simultaneously observable within many contexts, tend to share several elements or perhaps several ways of describing the same fundamental phenomena. The most common of these is an emergent consensus about a seeming absence of consensus. And perhaps this is not so much an absence of consensus as a […]
Pink Means Power
The beauty of Womenomics is that it is not just an academic business trend. Far from it. The wave we are describing has a direct impact on your life. If, like us, you love work but love life too and want to find time for both, then the power of pink profits is the foundation […]
Intersex
‘Nature’ actually produces a variation of combinations of female and male sex characteristics (Fausto-Sterling, 2002a; Hird, 2004; Oudshoorn, 1994). Some individuals have a genetic sex that is different from their hormonal and/or anatomical sex. For example a child might be genetically female (have two X chromosomes and no Y), but have male genitalia. Accurate estimates […]
Second-wave feminism: the late 20th century
What is sometimes termed ‘second-wave’ feminism emerged, after the Second World War, in several countries. In 1947, a Commission on the Status of Women was established by the United Nations, and two years later it issued a Declaration of Human Rights, which both acknowledged that men and women had ‘equal rights as to marriage, during […]
Identity and Difference
The last two essays in the anthology focus on the provocative issues of identity and difference which have recently been hotly contested by feminist theorists. As feminists grapple with political and theoretical challenges to any easy understanding of the category “women,” questions of what an identity is and how it is constituted have led to […]