This communist approach to gender violence was predicated on a traditional gender ideology about women’s and men’s roles in the home and intimate life. Soviet promises of equality were not realized in everyday life. Women faced a double burden, having to work outside the home as good Soviet citizens while also expected to shoulder the […]
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Marriage
Throughout the Choshn Dynasty (1392—1910), Confucian ideology had defined marriage as a relationship forged between two families (see Choi in this volume). In other words, a commitment of marriage signified an alliance between two families whether as a strategy to expand influence in the region or to smooth relations between rival factions. Individuals were defined […]
‘African sexuality’ against the grain: A feminist reading
Boiled down to essentials the problem regarding ‘African sexuality’ from the point of view of Caldwell et al. is that necessary (male) control and regulation of female sexuality is lacking, and that ‘female chastity’ (emblem of civilization) is not held in sufficient regard. From a feminist point of view readings and evaluations will obviously differ: […]
Counterculture Dreams Meet Contemporary Realities
If we can anticipate some of the effects that parenting out of control might have when it takes the form of pressure under a microscope, we still want to explore the roots of these new controlling designs. Where have they come from, and why have they become so central? I have argued that an interest […]
Respondent Profile
Initially an in-depth profile of the female business owner was developed by investigating their personal characteristics which aligned with the stereotypical profiles documented in previous literature. The seven entrepreneurs had obtained a third level educational award with two respondents holding a Masters Degree, thus reflecting the high levels of education of female owner/ managers (Fitzsimons […]
Upstairs-Downstairs: A Family Myth As “Solution”
Not long after this crisis in the Holts’ marriage, there was a dramatic lessening of tension over the issue of the second shift. It was as if the issue was closed. Evan had won. Nancy would do the second shift. Evan expressed vague guilt but beyond that he had nothing to say. Nancy had wearied […]
Nancy Chodorow
Nancy Chodorow (1978) later provided a more woman-centred alternative to the original Freudian understanding of the psychological differences between women and men. Chodorow shares the same framework as Freud but understands the development of femininity as a smooth process rather than as a kind of deviation from a male ‘normality’. Chodorow suggests that because women […]
Motherhood
I want to suggest that although (obviously) women have always had children, it is only with the rise of late modernity that we see the emergence of the legal institution that we now recognize as motherhood. Before the middle of the nineteenth century, women had no legal status or standing as mothers; put simply, motherhood […]
Haphazard Policy and Practice
In contrast to this global feminist call for the systematic response to violence against women as a violation of women’s human rights, the Soviet response to various forms of gender violence was haphazard. For instance, before 1991, domestic violence was intermittently regulated under the rubric of “hooliganism” (Sperling 1990, 19). Not explicitly about violence between […]
THE EMPIRICAL STUDY
An exploratory study — a series of face to face indepth interviews with seven female mompreneurs was conducted. The objectives ofthe research were to obtain an insight into the profile of the entrepre — neurs and their objectives for the growth of their business. Detail was obtained on their perception of ICT, its role and […]