If a woman has failed to avoid unprotected procreative sex and to organize an abortion, one might imagine that the resulting birth would naturally make her a mother. But even birth has not always led to mothering as we now understand that concept. Women of the upper classes did not (and still do not) ‘mother’ […]
День: 01.11.2015
‘African Sexuality’/Sexuality in Africa: Tales and Silences
To Caldwell et al. presumably a custom like this would be just another case of ‘extra-marital relations’, and thus ‘permissiveness’. “What the Caldwell’s model really fails to do” Heald says, “is to grasp the essential sacredness of sex in Africa” (Heald 1995:497). So far so good: Ahlberg’s points that Christianity altered sexual mores and previous […]
The ‘Liberal’ Heritage: Equality Rights and the Law
The historical antecedents of the standard sex equality argument can be found in the work of seventeenth — and eighteenth-century political and philosophical liberal theory. This is a period commonly termed the Enlightenment, marked as it is by a European philosophical movement whose basic belief was the superiority of reason as a guide to knowledge […]
Public and Private in Classical Capitalism
Thematizing the Gender Subtext The foregoing difficulties notwithstanding, Habermas offers an account of the interinstitutional relations among various spheres of public and private life in classical capitalism which has some genuine critical potential. But in order to realize this potential fully, we need to reconstruct the unthematized gender subtext of his material. Let me return […]
In North Korea
Suzy Kim On a visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (hereafter, North Korea) in 1977, two overseas visitors were told that sex before marriage ‘does not exist in our country’ (Halliday 1985: 50). This was in a meeting with representatives of the Korean Democratic Women’s Union — the official women’s organisation in North […]
Afterword
So what is the future, or even, is there a future, for feminism? Is it, at least in the affluent West, needed any longer? In 1992 the American Susan Faludi argued cogently, and in chilling detail, that feminists have been experiencing what she terms a ‘backlash’, with women who had undoubtedly benefited from the movement […]
Gender, and Class
Conscious activity to control human fertility is as intrinsic to the social being of human groups as the activity to control and organize the production of food. What changes over time and from one social context to another is who controls fertility, under what conditions, through what means, and for what purposes. The techniques of […]
CHALLENGES ENCOUNTERED IN STARTING AND GROWING THE BUSINESS
Goodbody Economic Consultants (2002) found that social conditioning and perceived expectations of females in society; incorrect perceptions of the demands of running a business; lack of female role models; low proportion of women pursuing Science, Engineering and Technology programmes; lack of self confidence and difficulties in reconciling work and family life for females were factors […]
How to protect a dog from dogkhanter?
In Russia in 2011 movement of destruction of vagrant dogs arose. Everything began with small meeting of hunters, however now it is already enough large group. Who such dogkhanter? Source In their common people and call: fighters of dogs.
APPLICATIONS FOR FACULTY POSITIONS
A necessary precondition for hiring a female faculty member is to have women who are interested in applying for the position. The survey data clearly show that some departments are more successful than others in attracting female applicants.[47] Moreover, our data show that there are still a number of positions for which no women apply. […]