Tronto (1993) offers an analysis of care that illustrates how the values we associate with care are gendered, hierarchical and cross the public/ private binary. Tronto conceptualizes care in four ways (see also Fisher and Tronto, 1990) (see Table 5.1). The first stage of caring is caring about. This is the initial recognition of a […]
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Giving Permission
Discovering your partner’s needs can be made immeasurably easier by the practice we call giving permission. Basically, giving permission means providing encouragement and reassurance. One partner tells the other that it is okay to talk about specific feelings or needs—indeed, that he or she wants very much to know how the other feels about the […]
Service on Tenure and Promotion Committees
Women are likely to serve on tenure committees but unlikely to chair them. As shown in Table 5-3, in 57 percent of tenure cases, there was at least one woman present on the tenure committee. In 690 cases for which the gender of the committee chair was known, it was a man in 90 percent […]
Mozliwosci regulavnego zaspokajania popgdu seksualnego
Im wi? ksze sg mozliwosci ureguiowanego wspolzycia seksualnego z partnerem, zwlaszcza takim, ktory wykazuje duzo pomyslowosci і fantazji w stwarzaniu wzmagajgcych atrakcyjnosc aktow seksualnych, tym wi? ksza jest szansa monogami — cznego zachowania si? czlowieka przez dlugi okres, W takiej sytuacji pop? d seksualny jest zaspokajany regularnie, przy czym nat? zenie osigganej satysfakcji moze bye […]
The Problems of Contraception
[Bertha] Barnes was on birth control pills, but gave them up because of high blood pressure. When she went to a Galveston clinic to be fitted for an intrauterine device, she was told that their schedule was full. When her contraceptive foam ran out, she did not have the $5 for a new supply. That […]
Romantic Relationship Context
Few studies have taken a dyadic approach to investigating adolescent sexuality. This is surprising as dyadic relationships form the principal con text in which girls express their sexuality and the initial context in which they make meaning of their sexual behavior. As we discussed earlier, this may relate to a Western tendency toward viewing individualness […]
THE ONE-EYED TROUSER SNAKE
The penis — ultimate male symbol, provider of pleasure, victim of ridicule, worshipped throughout history, envied and reviled — it’s a lot to take in. Nicknames All-beef sausage * bald-headed hermit *Big Ben ^belt-buster * best of three ^blue-veined custard chucker % Captain Hightopthe Love Commander * dangling participle *donniker ^drumstick * eager pleaser ^eleventh […]
Letting Go
The most successful people—the Big Picture Thinkers—don’t try to do everything. Instead, they hand things off. It’s better for them, better for their boss, and it’s better for their company too because it allows younger talent to flourish. As the boss of her own communications company, Christine Heenan had to learn the art of delegation. […]
Free love
Not all feminists shared this binary view of female sexuality, however. Numerous prominent feminist thinkers participated in 19th-century radical sex reform movements which argued for greater sexual freedoms for men as well as women. Libertarian, anarchist, and communist thinkers attacked obscenity and anti-homosexuality laws, calling for access to birth control information, abortion, and ‘free love’ […]
Safety and Monitoring
As the interviewed parents discussed why they have purchased—or will purchase—a cell phone for their children, a key theme was that these devices, like baby monitors, help keep children safe.12 Parents said that children with cell phones can let their parents know if they need help, or they can reach emergency resources if their parents […]