Accepting one’s homosexuality is the next important step after realizing it. Self-acceptance is often difficult, because it involves overcoming the internalized negative and homophobic societal view of homosexuality. When individuals belong to a socially stigmatized group, self-acceptance becomes a difficult but essential challenge (Ryan & Futterman, 2001). Coming out can be especially problematic for teenagers. […]
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Ambiguities of female sexuality
The usual feminist model, for explaining ‘female genital mutilation’, stresses women’s lower status in patriarchal societies. The woman in feminist theory is a wife, the subordinated half of a couple (Oyewumi 2000:1094). For the magnonmakanw and bolokoli-kelaw, wives have better social status and greater autonomy Arnfred Page 186 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:38 PM Assitan […]
Experience
The meaning of experience is perhaps the most crucial site of political struggle over meaning, since it involves personal, psychic and emotional investments on the part of the individual. It plays an important role in determining the individual’s role as social agent. It affects both where and how the individual acts and whether her actions […]
^ INFLUENCES ON SEXUALITY
There are many powerful influences on our sexuality. Here we discuss three of the biggest influences: hormones, ethnicity, and religion. Hormones As we discussed in Chapters 4 and 5, hormones have a powerful effect on our bodies. The various endocrine glands secrete hormones into the bloodstream, which carries them throughout the body. The most influential […]
Rethinking class: a cultural take on the material?
More recent criticisms of materialist based approaches to class have drawn on elements associated with the cultural turn. Discursive approaches have been used to try to go beyond the limitations of Marxism and attend to how class is thought of and talked about. Materialism and discursivity are not inevitably opposed, indeed the ideological aspects of […]
Czynniki kulturowe
Psychohydrauliczny model seksualnosci, uksztaltowany przez psychoa- naliz?, witjze si? z trzema zasadniezymi czynnikami majqcymi istotne znaezenie dla kultury. Czynnikami tymi, wedlug Schmidta (1974), stp wyobrazenie о pierwotnej aspolecznosci seksualnosci, koncepcja sublimacji oraz teza о koniecznosci represjo — nowania seksualnosci w celu tworzenia kultury. Wedlug psychoanalizy seksualnosc jest rezerwuarem stale si? odnawiajgcej energii, ktora d^zy do […]
Self-Acknowledgment
The initial step in coming out is usually a person’s realization that she or he feels different from the mainstream heterosexual model (Meyer & Schwitzer, 1999). Some people report knowing that they were attracted to the same sex when they were small children. Many realize during adolescence that something is missing in their heterosexual involvements […]
Men’s Strategies
In part, mens strategies parallel womens, and in part they differ. Some men are superdads, the full or near equivalent to super — moms—John Livingston, for example. When their children were young, other men cut back their emotional commitment or hours at work—like Michael Sherman and Art Winfield. Many men let the house go more, […]
There is measure in all things (callosal)
With all the subdivisions agreed upon, finally, students of the corpus callosum are in business. Now they can make dozens of measurements. From the undivided CC come dimensions of the total surface area, length, width, and any of these divided by brain volume or weight. From the subdivided CC come named or numbered parts: the […]
FINDINGS
Snapshot of Women Political Bloggers and Their Blogs Overall, the 20 women interviewed for this study are well-educated, middle-aged and occupationally varied. Illustrated in Figure 1, the data show that 35 percent of women (7 out of 20) possess a bachelor’s degree, and 60 percent of interviewees (12 out of 20) hold a degree equivalent […]