To outsiders, it may look like nothing has changed. Amnesty’s (2005) critiques of state practice, based on data collected in late 2004 and early 2005, were similar to the early Human Rights Watch reports. They found police inaction (such as the failure to enter an apartment when the abuser refused entry or refusal to accept […]
День: 09.11.2015
Sex glands, hormones, and gender chemistry
—- ЛЗ In Which Testosterone Taints the Fountain of Youth In A 1945 HOMAGE TO MEDICAL SCIENCE, THE FIFTY-FOUR-YEAR — OLD bacteriologist and popular science writer Paul de Kruif published a book entitled The Male Hormone, in which he revealed to the world a deeply personal fact: he was taking testosterone. Beginning in his late […]
Talking Heads: Do Facts Speakfor Themselves?
Can we ever know whether there is a gender difference in the corpus callo — sum?107 Well, it depends a bit on what we mean by knowing. The corpus callo- figure p. 7A (top): The ‘‘science half’’ of the woven knowledge connections; p. 7B (bottom): The ‘‘culture half’’ of the woven knowledge connections. (Source: Alyce […]
Gender, class and emotions
The devaluing of working class (women’s) ways of thinking, doing and being includes a devaluing of their ways of feeling. The term ‘emotional capital’ was coined by Helga Nowotny in 1981 and Reay (2004: 60) explains that it is a variant of social capital ‘generally confined within the bounds of affective relationships of family and […]
How to Use Oral Contraceptives
Several ways exist to begin taking oral contraceptives; a woman who does so should carefully follow the instructions of her health-care practitioner. Unlike other oral contraceptives that are taken in 28-day cycles, Seasonale is taken daily for 3 months, followed by 7 days of inactive tablets before taking it for another 3 months. Some medications […]
“I Can’t Believe He Is Turned on by This”
Even a woman who already has some knowledge of her partner’s use of porn can suddenly be shocked to discover the nature of what he is watching and masturbating to and the extent of his porn use. Paula experienced a major shock when she accidentally saw for herself the actual images Brad had been watching […]
Women Who Become Like. Traditional Men and Traditional Men. Who Stay As They Are
Couples who are not affected by the first two sources of tension can still be vulnerable to a third—the assimilation of women to the values of the dominant male culture. I have focused a great deal on how much working fathers have been able to cross the “gender divide” and pitch in with work their […]
Some final comments
The advocated perspective also suggests some other views on gender. As Strath — ern repeatedly points out, gender does not have a simple, one-to-one relationship to persons (e. g. 1988:14ff.) but is cultural constructions that are, strictly speaking, only indirectly linked to persons. One implication of this view is that studies of gender necessarily have […]
Conceptual Problems
These methodological flaws do not arise from the random oversights of different researchers, but reflect underlying conceptual biases. This bias revolves around a heavy biological reductionism that flavors views about all women. In this section we elaborate three assumptions that underlie this biological focus and lead to concepts of women as opposite from the male […]
DEVIANCE AS HISTORY
The future of perversion INTRODUCTION The task of understanding sexual deviance, and those forms of it referred to as “perversion”, is twofold. First, we must attempt to understand why and under what conditions certain behaviors are proscribed. Second, there must be an understanding of the motivation that encourages individuals to engage in or identify with […]