Okin on Justice, Gender, and Family

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Domestic Labor ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Family ◽  
System Of Inequalities ◽  
Domestic Practices ◽  
Equal Sharing

Susan Okin has written an important book on justice and the family. Animated by the experiences that contemporary feminism has sought to articulate, and guided by a principled hostility to the subordination of women that continues to disgrace American life, she argues that the current ordering of domestic life in the United States is unjust and that its alteration ought to be made a matter of public policy.Families, according to Okin, are not havens in an otherwise heartless world. Instead the current division of domestic labor marks them as the centerpiece of a broader system of inequalities between men and women. Justice condemns those inequalities and commands their remedy through the transformation of our domestic practices. Because the division of domestic labor is so fundamental to injustice, we need in particular to ‘encourage and facilitate’ (171) equal sharing by parents in the responsibilities of child-rearing, and in the more quotidian chores that provide the material foundation of modern domesticity.

Breaking Free

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deirdre David
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Male Homosexuality ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
The Family

In the mid- to late 1950s, Pamela emerged as a critically acclaimed novelist, particularly after the family returned to London. In perhaps her best-known novel, The Unspeakable Skipton, she explores the life of a paranoid writer who sponges on English visitors to Bruges. The novel was hailed for its wit and sensitive depiction of the life of a writer. She also published a fine study of a London vicar martyred in marriage to a vain and selfish wife: The Humbler Creation is remarkable for its incisive and empathetic depiction of male despair. The Last Resort sealed her distinction as a brilliant novelist of domestic life in its frank depiction of male homosexuality. While continuing to publish fiction, Pamela maintained her reputation as a deft reviewer. In 1954, she and Charles travelled to the United States—the first of many trips that were to follow.

Current Directions in Economic History

1972 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert William Fogel
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Program Committee ◽  
Free Blacks ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family And Household ◽  
Or Methodology ◽  
Topic Time

The Program Committee prepared for the thirty-first Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association in a somewhat unorthodox way. In recent years it has been the custom first to choose a central theme for the conference, and then to solicit only those papers which amplify the theme. This year the program committee decided to forego the attempt to produce a unified set of essays. Instead we wrote to approximately 250 members of the Association and other scholars in the United States and abroad, inviting suggestions for papers without preconditions as to topic, time period, or methodology. Over 150 papers were proposed, from which the committee chose 15. All but one of these are published here. Herbert Gutman's, “Marriage Licenses and Registers Among Freed Men and Women, 1865–1866: New Light on the Family and Household Conditions of Slaves and Free Blacks,” will be published at a later date.

Chinese International Students' Messages on the Family Forum

2017 ◽  
pp. 128-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenwei Wu ◽  
Lynne M. Webb
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Students ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chinese International Students ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Family Issues ◽  
The Family

We content analyzed the online messages of Chinese international students who are currently studying and living in the United States. We examined messages within the students' ethnic group as they sought and provided assistance to each other in understanding and acculturating to family life in the United States via a popular online forum. We randomly sampled 50 recent, original posts and their accompanying threads (147 pages of text containing 108,723 words). Thematic analysis indicated that students use the forum to achieve three objectives (seeking informational/emotional support, offering information/emotional support, offering topics for discussion) across a wide variety of family issues (e.g., conflict, child rearing/education, appropriate behaviors for husbands and wives). Users provided multiple types of assistance (e.g., informational/emotional support, topics of discussion, questions based on the original posts, self-disclosure, positive feedback, and negative feedback) to the posters.

Real-World Applications of Attachment Theory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariano Rosabal-Coto ◽  
Naomi Quinn ◽  
Heidi Keller ◽  
Marga Vicedo ◽  
Nandita Chaudhary ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
The United States ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Therapy Education

Attachment theory has its roots in an ethnocentric complex of ideas, longstanding in the United States, under the rubric of “intensive mothering.” Among these various approaches and programs, attachment theory has had an inordinate and wide-ranging influence on a wide range of professions concerned with children (family therapy, education, the legal system, and public policy, the medical profession, etc.) inside and outside the United States. This chapter looks critically at how attachment theory has been applied in a variety of contexts and discusses its influence on parenting. It examines the tension distortion that often results when research findings are translated into actual applications or programs, ignoring any particularities of cultural context. It describes how attachment theory has been used as the basis for child-rearing manuals and has influenced programs and policies more directly, to form legal decisions that affect families, as well as to develop public policy and programs. Specific attachment applications are reviewed and their validity questioned. Because child-rearing practices vary among cultures, the value systems that motivate these different practices must be recognized and accounted for when applications are developed and implemented. It concludes with a call for researchers to become proactive in rectifying misuses of attachment theory.

Red, White, and “Big Blue”: IBM and the Business-Government Interface in the United States, 1956–2000

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
David Hart
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Government ◽  
Personalized Approach ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
External Forces ◽  
The U.S

This article describes the evolution of IBM's effort to manage its relationships with the U.S. government from the time that Thomas Watson, Jr. became CEO. While the Watson family controlled the firm, the family members served as the main bridges between IBM and the government. This personalized approach began to give way in the 1960s, as the intensity and scope of pressure from the firm's political environment grew beyond the capability of any individual to handle. During the 1970s and 1980s, IBM constructed a managerial hierarchy, with a newly opened Washington office at its center, which could gather more detailed intelligence and execute more sophisticated political strategies. The firm's crisis in the early 1990s provoked a second major restructuring of the interface, as IBM became more of a Washington “special interest.” Yet, some traces of the Watson imprint remained, even in the Gerstner era. Tracing IBM's evolution helps us to understand better the broader interactions between U.S. firms and their environments in this period. These interactions entailed adaptation by firms to environmental change but also efforts by firms to exert control over external forces, including public policy.

Book Reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 762-766 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
The Family ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Fitting In

Gordon Hanson of University of California, San Diego and NBER reviews “From Immigrants to Americans: The Rise and Fall of Fitting In” by Jacob L. Vigdor. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Examines the experiences and the process of assimilation of immigrants to the United States between 1850 and 2007. Discusses an immigrant's decision; a historical overview of immigration to the United States; fitting in economically; fitting in linguistically; fitting in officially; fitting into the neighborhood; and joining the family. Vigdor is Professor of Public Policy Studies at Duke University. Index.”

scholarly journals The Legend of Ahalya: A Midnight Imposter at the Hermitage

2021 ◽  
pp. 263183182110404
Author(s):  
Somasundaram Ottilingam ◽  
TR Suresh ◽  
Vijaya Raghavan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Ancient India ◽  
Sexual Gratification ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
The Family ◽  
High Level

Ideally, domestic life in ancient India is presented as agam in Tamil and samsaran in Sanskrit. Pride of place is given to the women and her marital fidelity is placed on a high level and is considered absolutory non-negotiable. Adultery in the male or female and sexual gratification from the prostitute are condemned. The legend of Ahalya is from the epic Ramayana by Valmiki in Sanskrit and modified by the Tamil poet, Kambar, as Ramavataram in 12th century CE. The seduction by Indra and passive acceptance by Ahalya are mentioned. Male and female marital fidelity should be observed in the family for its mental health and proper child rearing.

Premarital Sexual, Child Rearing, and Family Attitudes of Iranian Men and Women in the United States and in Iran

1999 ◽  
Vol 133 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammadreza Hojat ◽  
Reza Shapurian ◽  
Habib Nayerahmadi ◽  
Mitra Farzaneh ◽  
Danesh Foroughi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Family Attitudes ◽  
Premarital Sexual

Clyde Warrior, 1939–1968

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany Hale
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Older Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Poor People's Campaign ◽  
Organizational Leader ◽  
Martin Luther King ◽  
Older Men And Women

To identify Clyde Warrior as an intellectual subverts prevailing notions of intellectualism. We often think of intellectuals as older men and women whose major contributions are revealed late in life, once the passions of youth have been tempered by experience. Warrior was not this. People frequently imagine intellectuals as existing in isolation, insulated from the demands of regular folk. Warrior was not this either. He was a Ponca, born on the reservation and raised with the influence of his grandparents and community. He was also a renowned singer and powwow fancy dancer, as well as a college student, an organizational leader, a husband, and father of two daughters. Warrior’s political consciousness grew out of the deep connections he maintained to his rural Ponca roots, but he took care to educate himself about the problems affecting Native Americans across the United States as well as colonized peoples globally. As an Oklahoman, he was attuned to race relations in the South and empathized with the struggles of Africans and African Americans. His approach to indigenous political struggles was shaped and informed, for example, by his early and active participation with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign.

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