In Paul Robinson’s (1976) view, the modernization of sex was associated with the works of Havelock Ellis, Kinsey, and Masters and Johnson. To which I would add the path-breaking work of John Money for having enlarged our attentions to the fullest implications of gender. These are people we associate with works and traditions of work […]
Месяц: Октябрь 2015
Discourse Theory and Ethics
The next three essays in the collection, Seyla Benhabib’s, Jodi Dean’s, and mine, reflect attempts to use Habermas’s discourse theory to bridge the gap that arises from significant feminist critiques of deontological ethics, ranging from the issues of the universal and the particular, to criticisms of Habermas’s account of the generalized other, and to discussions […]
Preserving ‘tradition’: Efundula as cultural heritage
This last section draws on very recent developments in Owambo, and the wider postcolonial Namibian society, where beginning in the mid-1990s disputes over the values that pull the national and local community together have increasingly embraced notions of ‘tradition’ and ‘heritage’. The production and prime-time screening of a documentary on efundula (Carstens 1996) exemplified this […]
Early 20th-century feminism
During the early 20th century, English women achieved legal and civil equality, in theory if not always in practice. Some women, those over the age of 30, were allowed to vote from 1918, and there were arguments about whether their priority was to press hard for enfranchisement on the same terms as men, or to […]
Coverture
The law of coverture was inherited from English common law and regulated legal transactions between husbands and wives. Most significantly, it established a sharp distinction between a legally independent unmarried woman and a married wife. Single women obviously did not enjoy full legal citizenship, for example, with respect to voting or jury duty. Nevertheless, they […]
Constructing global feminism
From Global Sisterhood to Global Feminism Like many other social movements, feminism has long been transnational, including the transnational woman suffrage movement in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Keck and Sikkink 1998). Yet, even though the United Nations had declared a commitment to equality in the U. N. Charter, the idea for an international […]
DEGREES EARNED
Evidence of women’s representation in science and engineering is often measured first in the attainment of undergraduate and graduate degrees. [26] In 2004, 50.4 percent of all S&E bachelor’s degrees went to women.[27] Women received the majority of bachelor’s degrees in the agricultural sciences, biological sciences, oceanography, and chemistry, and they were awarded more than […]
Going to Better Schools
Even without disabilities, a parents understanding of a specific child’s personality, or a parent’s desire to secure a “better” education, might lead to the conclusion that a private school education would be the best option to help that child maximize achievement.10 A number of professional middle-class parents spontaneously explained that they had sent their children […]
Relationship Between Linguistic Acts and Group Dynamics
Socio-emotional acts such as personal feelings and thoughts led to greater member awareness. For instance, in Team A, Vernon’s sharing that he found “good stuff’ for the task and his assertion for the points, led the other group members to believe that he was enthusiastic about the task and potentially willing to take charge of […]
The changing science of sex
In western science and common parlance prior to around 1700, women and men were understood not as anatomically different but as two variations of the same sex. In the scientific version of this ‘one-sex’ model women were supposedly ‘imperfect’ versions of men, their genitalia were described as being the same as men’s, but on the […]