and changed, if HIV/AIDS is to be curtailed. Caldwell et al. are well aware that the ’Eurasian’ obsession with ’female sexual purity’ and abhorrence of “sexuality that had contrived, and especially commercial, components” (Caldwell et al. 1989:192) have influenced Western ways of seeing, to the extent that “even now Western social analysts find it difficult […]
День: 01.11.2015
Competing Legal Theories
Attempts to reconcile economic transactions and intimacy have generally tried to strike some balance between the two, but have not surpassed either hostile worlds or nothing-but reductionisms. In the preceding chapter, we have already seen Richard Posner’s attempt to get rid of a hostile worlds view by replacing it with a nothing — but economic […]
The Social-Theoretical Framework: A Feminist Interrogation
Let me begin by considering two distinctions central to Habermas’s social — theoretical categorical framework. The first of these is the distinction between the symbolic and the material reproduction of societies. On the one hand, claims Habermas, societies must reproduce themselves materially; they must successfully regulate the metabolic exchange of groups of biological individuals with […]
New choices in heterosexual love and marriage
The discursive value placed on normative heterosexuality and marriage in Vietnam is overwhelming. For Vietnamese, marriage is an integral, essential, definitive part of a model life. Regarded as a stepping stone to adulthood, marriage is seen as a virtual social rule and one of the most important achievements in life (Williams and Guest 2005: 172—73). […]
Urban heterosexuality and love
Discourses of heterosexuality in Vietnam have centred on reproduction within marriage. Alternative discourses centring on an awareness and knowledge of sex are associated with modern, urban and middle-class subjectivities influenced by Euro-American and globalised preferences. For educated urban middle-class Vietnamese, heterosexuality is an expression of modern identity and sexual satisfaction is valued for itself (Bui […]
The Measure of Equality
• Women and men have equal natures Axiom • So if women are given equal treatment with men Programme • The outcome will be equal performance Goal (Thornton, 1986: 78) Feminist history tells us of the significant campaigns that have been undertaken to enable women to vote, to give them access to higher education and […]
ENABLING SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: THE ISSUES AND CHALLENGE ENCOUNTERED IN THE ADOPTION OF ICT
A number of common issues emerge as barriers to the adoption and integrated use of ICT in the small firm (Small Business Forum, 2006). The primary reasons relate to a lack of appreciation amongst owners/managers of the contribution that ICT can make to their business, lack of ICT management skills, difficulty in accessing independent advice […]
The Power of One
You might be thinking: these are great statistics on women, fascinating new trends going on in the workplace, and inspiring examples of a whole lot of individual women who are making concrete changes. But how can I really benefit from all of that? The demographics, trends, statistics, and stories certainly don’t amount to much if […]
The undying tale: ‘African sexuality’ revisited
That these lines of thinking have not expired during the three quarters of a century which have passed between the (supposed) epidemic of syphilis in Uganda in the first decades of the 19th century and the present pandemic of AIDS is evident in many a discussion of ‘African sexuality’. When John Caldwell et al. launched […]
INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES: AN ENABLER IN SMALL FIRM DEVELOPMENT
The adoption of ICT is no longer a means of creating a sustainable competitive advantage, but an essential competitive weapon necessary for survival. In ascertaining the role and use of ICT as an enabler or otherwise of small firm growth ICT needs to be defined. A review of the literature and policy documents on this […]