Hyaeweol Choi Introduction It has long been taboo in Korea to speak openly about sex, sexuality and divorce, especially for women (Shim 2001: 133). This prohibition is due, in part, to the lasting impact of Confucian — prescribed ideals of chastity, purity and womanly propriety that were systematically constructed during the Chosbn dynasty (1392—1910). Contemporary […]
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Joey;s Problem:. Nancy and Evan Holt
N ancy Holt arrives home from work, her son, Joey, in one hand and a bag of groceries in the other. As she puts down the groceries and opens the front door, she sees a spill of mail on the hall floor, Joeys half-eaten piece of cinnamon toast on the hall table, and the phone […]
Signe Arnfred
1995:246). Thus in McClintock’s reading the subtext regarding Gagool is “a narrative disciplining of female reproductive power” (McClintock 1995:246). King Solomon’s Mines, like others of Haggard’s novels, is fiction written for boys and men. It is dedicated, on the front page “to all the big and little boys that read it”. As a girl I […]
PROFILING FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS
Female entrepreneurs are a heterogeneous group where their individual motivations for entering self employment and for growing the business differ. Additionally, the type of business and industry sector they establish their business in tends to vary from the male counterparts. In general research would suggest that the motivation for starting a new business, the nature […]
FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN IRELAND
In spite of their growing numbers, women-owned businesses continue to lag behind male owned firms in Ireland both for recently started businesses and for established businesses (Forfas, 2007). In 2006 there were 60,000 male new firm entrepreneurs and 21,000 female new firm entrepreneurs in Ireland where men were 2.9 times more likely than women to […]
The Cultural Cover-up
I N the apartment across from the little study where I work there is a large bay window that never fails to catch my eye. Peering out from inside, wide-eyed and still, is a life-sized female mannequin in an apron. Her arms are folded and have been for years. She’s there guarding the place, waiting. […]
THE SEXUALITY OF A POSTPARADIGMATIC. SOCIETY
The persistence of these trends, or at the least the unlikelihood of a return to the status quo of an earlier period, is assured not merely by the significance of these changes within the sexual realm alone, but by a number of changes that occurred, and continue to occur, in many other sectors of social […]
Gender Differences in Academic Hiring
This chapter examines this critical entry point into an academic career—and its components—with a primary focus on differences in hiring outcomes for tenure-track assistant professor and tenured associate or full professor positions, and how these differences might be explained. The following research questions are addressed: • Is gender associated with the probability of individuals applying […]
What Women Want
So what were we thinking years ago, as we were drawn, lockstep, into those masculine, career-driven ranks? What made us defy our genes and bend our natural wills to the unnatural corporate structure? Certainly after centuries without power we were after status and achievement, not to mention the ability to make a difference and make […]
Changing contours of normality
Sweeping changes have taken place in China across the past four decades in the social, economic and political spheres. The one child policy, various amendments to the marriage law, the introduction of a market economy and free job market, and the increasing mobility of people within the country, to name just a few factors that […]