Korea’s integration into the modern global system in the late nineteenth century brought about transformations in women’s lives and their roles in the family and society even more dramatically than during the dynastic shift from Koryo to Chosfin. There were several major forces that unsettled and refashioned the Confucian norms and practices of the Chosfin […]
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Feminists across the world
‘Sisterhood is powerful’ was one of the most popular feminist slogans in the 1960s and 1970s. But the phrase has been questioned, and sometimes contested, both at the time, and ever since. As the black American poet Audre Lorde argued in 1983, it glosses over difference of race, sexuality, class and age… Advocating the mere […]
Prior Work Experience
The choice of the industry sector where the business is established is influenced by the prior work experience of females. For example, 88 per cent of employed women are currently working in services compared to 51 per cent of men, while just 9 per cent of women are employed in industry compared to 17 per […]
Case Study 1: ‘Progress’ in Zimbabwe: Is ‘It’ a ‘Woman’?
I have been concerned in this chapter to indicate something of multiple meaning and conceptual contestation. I have used the question ‘What is “woman”?’ at various points for exemplification. Sylvester (1999) is similarly concerned with the meanings and representations of ‘woman’ and her research explores this through the further problematic concept of progress. Specifically, Sylvester […]
THE DENATURALIZATION OF SEX
The denaturalization of the sexual does not require an abandonment of all we have learned about the stabilities and varieties of the biological substratum, but it does require the effort of going beyond that and examining what can only be understood in terms of individuals situated in specific points of time and social space: individuals […]
Signe Arnfred
ture of his own sexuality” (Gilman 1989:302). In Gilman’s reasoning black women are targets for projection in a double capacity (as women and as black) thus becoming sexual beings par excellence; sexuality as such is savage, and implicitly black. As also expressed in Haggard’s landscapes: beneath the peaceful and inviting virgin land—as surveyed by the […]
A Passionate Future for Professional Middle-Class Children
As might be expected from professional middle-class parents’ statements about extracurricular activities, the goals of a higher education, and delayed launching, they view the future toward which they are guiding their children quite differently than do less privileged parents. Three examples can illustrate the distinctive goals of the elite parents. I begin with Carol Clark, […]
DECONSTRUCTING NATURE
To begin any deconstruction of motherhood we have to go behind the mother-child relationship, which is where much feminist work starts, in order to focus on the supposedly natural chain of events that gives rise to motherhood in the first place. Standing behind motherhood, in the shadows so to speak, is a chain of events […]
Contests about Meaning
A common strategy in the management of concepts in social research is to take a technical approach. This requires the operationalization of a concept into key indicators. A classic statement in this regard would be ‘Concepts are, by their nature, not directly observable. We cannot see social class, marital happiness, intelligence, etc. To use concepts […]
Letting Go Earlier among the Working Class and Middle Class
Working-class and middle-class parents view a college education quite differently than do their more privileged peers, and they anticipate that their job as parents will be completed earlier. Not surprisingly, given that college represents a more significant financial sacrifice for these less privileged parents, they insist that by the end of a comparatively short educational […]