The beginning Adam and Eve 1300bc Women were virtuous, free and strong, but gradually lost their influence over men 500bc Socrates on marriage: ‘By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher’ 480-400вс The Greek words eros and agape — carnal […]
День: 02.11.2015
The Public and the Private Sphere: A Feminist Reconsideration
Joan B. Landes After a quarter-century delay, Jurgen Habermas’s Strukturwandel der Offentlichkeit appeared finally in English translation in the МГГ Press series “Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought,” edited by Thomas McCarthy. Habermas’s philosophical-historical critique of the concept and function of the public sphere in England, France, and Germany (with some parting glances at the […]
The Introitus and the Hymen
The opening of the vagina, called the introitus (in-TROH-i-tus), is located between the urinary opening and the anus. Partially covering the introitus is a fold of tissue called the hymen (HIGH-men), which is typically present at birth and usually remains intact until initial intercourse. The hymen opening is usually large enough to insert tampons. Occasionally, […]
The Vestibule
The vestibule (VES-ti-byool) is the area of the vulva inside the labia minora. It is rich in blood vessels and nerve endings, and its tissues are sensitive to touch. (In 56 CHAPTER 3 architectural terminology the word vestibule refers to the entryway of a house.) Both the urinary and the vaginal openings are located within […]
Taiwan
Taiwan’s emergence as legally the most LGBT-positive jurisdiction in Asia seems to begin with Chen Shui-ban, first as mayor of Taipei and later as president. As mayor he sent a personal representative to the same-sex wedding of popular author Hsu Yoshen and his partner Gary Harriman in Taipei in November 1996. As president, he had […]
SEXUALITY and DIVERSITY
Female Genital Cutting: Torture or Tradition? Each year approximately 2 million girls and women in more than 40 countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia undergo one of several types of genital cutting, usually as part of an initiation during childhood in order to become eligible for marriage (Leye et al., 2006). In many […]
FATHERS, HUSBANDS AND CONJUGAL EXPECTATIONS
Certain critics of welfare policy have argued that welfare programmes provide perverse incentives and increase marital dissolution. As Nancy Folbre (1991) points out, economic development and fertility decline have historically been accompanied by increases in the percentage of female-headed households and by institutional changes that redistribute some of the costs of social reproduction from families […]
Nerve supply
A dentist about to start root canal work on a woman suddenly feels her hand firmly grasping his testicles. As he stares at the women openmouthed, she says with a smile: ‘Let’s promise not to hurt each other!’ Pain in the testicles is excruciating, but hard to understand even for doctors. The fact is that […]
FACULTY PERSPECTIVE ON HIRING
Turning to the faculty survey, the committee asked faculty who were either tenure-track or tenured and had been hired after 1996 what were their “main considerations in deciding to work for their current institution.” Respondents could check up to 15 choices (the 15th and final choice was Other). For each selection, respondents could check yes […]
Social Learning Theory
Social learning theory actually grew out of behaviorism. Scientists began to question whether or not behaviorism was too limited in its explanation of human behavior. Many believed that thoughts and feelings had more influence on behaviors than the behaviorists claimed. A noted social learning theorist, Albert Bandura (1969), argued that both internal and external events […]