Showing papers by "Wheaton College (Massachusetts) published in 1990"
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15 Nov 1990TL;DR: Breitwieser as discussed by the authors argues that this narrative undercuts the Puritan values Rowlandson attempted to uphold, pointing out that real experiences were seen as siogns or emblems of moral abstractions.
Abstract: Mary White Rowlandwon, a New England Congregationalist minister's wife, was held captive by the Algonquin Indians during King Philip's War in 1676. Several years after she was ransomed and living among the British again she wrote a narrative of the captivity chronicling her experience in grief, love, resentment, and ethnic trauma. Breitwieser argues that this narrative undercuts the Puritan values Rowlandson attempted to uphold. He reveals where and how Rowlandson breaks with Puritan conventions. He points out that in American Puritan religious practice, real experiences were seen as siogns or emblems of moral abstractions. "American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning" will be essential reading for all who study early American literature and culture.
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TL;DR: Among both the sexually experienced and inexperienced, believing that males are responsible for contraception and, to a lesser extent, perceiving that condoms have low costs in terms of reduction of pleasure and high benefits in gaining the partner's appreciation influence intent to use a condom.
Abstract: In the 1988 National Survey of Adolescent Males, about three fifths of sexually experienced and inexperienced adolescent males intending to have sex in the next year reported there is an “almost certain chance” they will use a condom with a hypothetical future partner. Sexually experienced males report lower perceived costs for condom use related to embarrassment (assessed in a subjective expected utility format) than do inexperienced males. However, experienced males perceive condoms as being more costly in terms of reduction of pleasure. The perceived benefits of using condoms in terms of preventing pregnancy and gaining appreciation from the partner, and attitudinal endorsement of male responsibility in contraception more generally, are similar for the two groups. Among both the sexually experienced and inexperienced, believing that males are responsible for contraception and, to a lesser extent, perceiving that condoms have low costs in terms of reduction of pleasure and high benefits in gaining the p...
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TL;DR: This article argued that the gender difference in unemployment rates over postwar business cycles and the changes in that differential in the 1980s (women's unemployment rates dropping below men's rates during the recession) can be explained by the continuing gender segregation of work and deindustrialization.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that poststructuralist (mostly male) feminist theories permit a representation only of hypothetical women, while a feminist theory must "constantly come back to a collective reflection on practice, on experience, on the personal as political and the politics of subjectivity".
Abstract: There is much less disagreement within Italian, as contrasted with Anglo-American, feminism as to the relative responsibility of the political versus the cultural roots for women's subordination. Most Italian feminists tend to consider political elements as intimately connected with the cultural. This consensus is due both to the origins of the modern women's movement in Italy — in struggles in labor unions and political parties — and to Italian feminists' greater awareness of the internalization of conflicts within women's psyche. As a consequence, Italian feminists do not see individual efforts as separable from collective ones. I situate the writings of contemporary Italian feminists Teresa de Lauretis and Dacia Maraini within this context. De Lauretis claims that poststructuralist (mostly male) feminist theories permit a representation only of hypothetical women, while a feminist theory must “constantly come back to a collective reflection on practice, on experience, on the personal as political and the politics of subjectivity.” Maraini's popular writing illustrates this consciousness that “the micropolitical practices of daily life and resistance afford both agency and sources of power.” Feminist theories, according to both of these writers and to today's Italian feminist consensus, must be based on women in their material and historical specificity.
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