In 2000 a fire broke out in a brothel in Gunsan in Cholla Province in which five women perished. In 2002 another fire broke out in Gunsan, this time in a drinking establishment. Twelve women died in this fire because they had been locked in their rooms. These fires and the attention they garnered brought […]
День: 07.11.2015
Expressing and Receiving Complaints
■ It is important to select the right time and place for expressing sexual concerns. Avoid registering complaints when anger is at its peak. ■ Complaints are generally most effective when tempered with praise. People are usually more motivated to make changes when they are praised for their strengths as well as made aware of […]
Black Women
Comparisons of Black and White women are the focus of many stud ies. So primary is the cleavage in life experiences in the view of some psychologists (Drugger, 1988; Hatchett, 1991), that they often fail to rec ognize that Blacks are not a homogeneous group (Reid, 1993) and that their sexual experiences may vary widely […]
Discursive Attitudes and Sentiments
The Handbook listed five major requirements which each participant should attempt to fulfill: responsibility, self-discipline, respect, cooperation, and struggle. The requirement of responsibility stated that “participants are responsible for voicing their opinions, participating in the discussion, and actively implementing the agreement.”13 This is an aspect of discourse that is often ignored. When Habermas speaks of […]
ETHNOCULTURAL VARIATIONS AMONG WOMEN’S. SEXUAL ROLES
Sexual development and the influences of culture, class, and ethnicity are not completed in adolescence. The evolution of roles and the com plexity of statuses continue into and across the adult years of womanhood. In the United States, there has been an assumption of marriage determin ing the lifestyle of a woman. However, even for […]
THEORETICAL FOUNDATION
Gender, Organisations and Networks Institutions are not gender neutral. Sociologists have long recognized that business organizations, and the environments in which they are based are gendered, and the gender is generally male. As Acker (1991: 166) has argued: “Individual men and particular groups of men do not always win in these processes, but masculinity always […]
Mother-Daughter Relationships
The psychoanalytic literature informs us that women’s identification with their mothers is essential for the development of the super ego, the fountain of moral development. Internalization of mothers’ values is deemed fundamental to healthy development. Similarly, other theoretical perspectives have traditionally assumed the primacy of the mother-daughter bond through which girls learn what is expected […]
. Paradoxes of Female Sexuality in Mali
at excision. Moreover, many justifications of excision are no longer used as valid rational explanations of these practices. The belief that the clitoris can harm the young girl, the childbearing woman or her male sexual partners, is among those disappearing rationalizations. Instead, conformity to traditional or Islamic teaching, clarification of individual sexual identity and control […]
Torsio testis
Acute, intense pain on one side of the scrotum indicates a twisted stalk (torsio) of the testis. This seems to happen to one man in 4,000 annually. The testicles do not lie loose in the scrotum: they are attached to it by a wide band which prevents the testicle from turning vertically on its axis. […]
Time from Receipt of Ph. D
Finding 5-12: Overall, it appears that women faculty took significantly longer from receipt of Ph. D. to promotion to associate professor with tenure, but this gender effect was confounded with current rank, discipline, and other factors. It is difficult to determine whether these apparent differences persist once we control for individual and departmental characteristics such […]