Sex and love on the road

The Hippie Trail ◽

10.7228/manchester/9781526114624.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Sharif Gemie ◽

Brian Ireland

Keyword(s):

Historical Context ◽

Sexual Revolution ◽

Male And Female ◽

Private Space ◽

The Road ◽

Limited Opportunity ◽

On The Road

The chapter begins by re-telling one female traveller’s unusual experience on the Afghan-Pakistan border. Some historical context concerning the nature and limits of the ‘sexual revolution’ is given. It is pointed out that for most travellers, there was little private space, and therefore only limited opportunity for the initiation or development of relationships. The different experiences of male and female travellers are then considered: it is clear that women were usually a minority among the travellers, and that they suffered a particular form of harassment as they travelled. Male travellers’ attitudes to female travellers are considered: it is noted that they often valued them. Men’s experiences are discussed, including their contrasting attitudes to prostitution. The chapter ends by considering the experience of four travellers who found life-partners while travelling.

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Health and Gender Comparisons in the Long-Haul Trucking Industry

AAOHN Journal ◽

10.1177/216507990905701003 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 57 (10) ◽

pp. 405-413 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Diane M. Layne ◽

Bonnie Rogers ◽

Susan A. Randolph

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Health Information ◽

Health Care Access ◽

Health Problems ◽

Health Care Information ◽

Male And Female ◽

The Road ◽

On The Road ◽

Trade Magazines ◽

And Gender

This descriptive pilot study was conducted to determine whether health conditions and health care access differ between male and female long-haul truck drivers. Data indicated that 54% of men and 66% of women had a health care provider, but 21% of men and 35% of women had no health insurance. Male and female drivers both reported common health problems (e.g., back pain, sinus problems, hypertension, headaches, and arthritis). While working, drivers of each gender often waited until returning home to seek treatment for health problems. Approximately half of the drivers expressed dissatisfaction with health care while “on the road.” Occupational and environmental health nurses could address the health needs of drivers by conducting examinations and distributing wellness information at truck stop clinics and from mobile health vans, posting health information within truck stop driver lounges, creating interactive websites with real-time health care information, attending trucker trade shows to conduct health screenings, or providing health information through occupational or trade magazines and newsletters.

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“Black-Lash”: Revisiting the “White Negro” through Skateboarding

Sociology of Sport Journal ◽

10.1123/ssj.22.3.356 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 356-372 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Sean Brayton

Keyword(s):

White Male ◽

Historical Context ◽

The Road ◽

White Resistance ◽

On The Road

Alternative sports have been situated within backlash politics whereby subcultural or marginal representations illustrate a victimized white male. While this may be true of some sports, skateboard media fosters a sustained critique of “whiteness.” To understand the representation of white resistance in skateboarding, we must locate the sport within the larger historical context of white male rebellion found in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957) and Norman Mailer’s White Negro (1957). Similar to these countercultural narratives, skateboard media represents a tension between a death of whiteness (symbolized by co-opting “blackness”) and its inevitable rebirth (through prolific marketing of white skaters). Unlike the Beats, however, the dialectics of white resistance appear in skateboard media through advertisements that are often underscored by parody, which produces its own set of complexities.

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Army Forces and epidemic diseases: A travel through the XIXth century International Sanitary Conferences

History of science and technology ◽

10.32703/2415-7422-2020-10-1(16)-138-150 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1(16)) ◽

pp. 138-150

Author(s):

Enrique Wulff

Keyword(s):

Historical Context ◽

International Health ◽

Critical Examination ◽

The Road ◽

Military Forces ◽

Prophylactic Measures ◽

Xixth Century ◽

History Of ◽

On The Road ◽

Epidemic Diseases

This article involves a critical examination of XIXth century military interventions, as the basic cause of the international contagion. Challenges arising and choices made in a critical reading of the International Sanitary Conferences (ISC) proceedings, reveal case histories and early statistical techniques at use with epidemiological purposes. These episodes in the history of the diseases suggest that relevant military information was circulated among health professionals through the ISCs. Although the evolution of the epidemic process during the latter half of the XIXth century made the Conferences fail to cure the diseases that the Western medicine own expansion engendered. By discussing the ways that prophylactic measures and international interventions were used by medical scientists and diplomats alike, from the detailed records of troop mortality to such ubiquitous terms as "contagion" and "quarantine", the article seriously reflect on what happened when action taken by military forces was a mass phenomenon. As evidenced from the study of the proceedings when comparing different populations, in the pathologies associated with the mass-transport era the rationale of interaction outlined the challenges involved in the train transport of troops. Also, the existence of an environmental risk factor can answer the question on the action taken by military forces as a mass phenomenon with huge impacts on hospitals, harbors and prisons. Materials intended for these international epidemics studies and commissions were prepared by experimented military and civil medical doctors who believed that evidence and common sense proved epidemic diseases capable of being prevented, treated, and controlled by a military approach. This essay demonstrates that Army forces' capability to take control over their host governing apparatus, emphasizes the importance of their aim to follow and accompany the control of the disease in the imperialist competition for land. It grows out of its specific historical context, which due to its origin could become uniform and international, but constituted the principal obstacle on the road to an international health office.

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The Reception of Beat Writers in Japan

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.180 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Hidetoshi Tomiyama

Keyword(s):

Rock Music ◽

Zen Buddhism ◽

Historical Context ◽

Gary Snyder ◽

Penguin Book ◽

Japanese Poetry ◽

The Road ◽

Eastern Cultures ◽

Beat Writers ◽

On The Road

The Beat writers, especially Jack Kerouac (1922–1969), William Burroughs (1914–1997), Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), and Gary Snyder (1930–), have been well known in Japan. Though Snyder’s differences from the other three, such as his West Coast background and a reformist and edifying stance, are obvious, here we choose not to be fussy about the application of a name, and simply follow his inclusion as in Ann Charter’s The Penguin Book of the Beats (1992). The Beat writers have been eagerly translated and read in Japan, though they are not a common focus of academic literary study. They exerted influence on writers and artists, in particular in terms of a rebellious attitude toward the conformist society and formalized artistic conventions prevailing in Japan. One conspicuous aspect of their impact is that it is part of the influx of American popular, mainly youth, culture since the 1950s, involving jazz, folk, and rock music, as well as numerous films depicting antiheroes on the road. Some Japanese poets, most notably Shiraishi Kazuko (1931–) and Yoshimasu Gōzō (1939–) were directly inspired by the Beats, and others unwittingly formed parallel developments. Assessing their specific achievements requires considering the historical context of modern Japanese poetry. The Beats, in turn, were attracted by Eastern cultures and religions, especially Buddhism; Snyder through his stay in Japan for the practice and study of Zen Buddhism had direct contact with Japanese poets, academics, and activists. Generally speaking, Japanese today, though they usually have some inkling of what Zen is, are not necessarily aware of the Buddhist heritage informing their basic worldview. Still, literary manifestations of what Alan Watts termed “Beat Zen,” in particular Kerouac’s, are not dissimilar to the religious attitude of many Japanese toward the world, which tends to seek to intuit a sense of enlightenment or salvation here and now, beyond humanly delimited distinctions and preconceptions.

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SCALING AND MULTIFRACTALITY IN ROAD ACCIDENTAL DISTANCES

Fractals ◽

10.1142/s0218348x18500147 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (01) ◽

pp. 1850014 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

TIAN QIU ◽

CHI WAN ◽

XIANG-XIANG ZOU ◽

XIAO-FAN WANG

Keyword(s):

Great Britain ◽

Weibull Distribution ◽

Power Law ◽

Distribution Functions ◽

Distance Distribution ◽

Male And Female ◽

The Road ◽

Universal Distribution ◽

On The Road ◽

The Individual

Accidental distance dynamics is investigated, based on the road accidental data of the Great Britain. The distance distribution of all the districts as an ensemble presents a power law tail, which is different from that of the individual district. A universal distribution is found for different districts, by rescaling the distribution functions of individual districts, which can be well fitted by the Weibull distribution. The male and female drivers behave similarly in the distance distribution. The multifractal characteristic is further studied for the individual district and all the districts as an ensemble, and different behaviors are also revealed between them. The accidental distances of the individual district show a weak multifractality, whereas of all the districts present a strong multifractality when taking them as an ensemble.

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Modification of S. Rosenzweig test to study driver’s frustration reactions

Social Psychology and Society ◽

10.17759/sps.2018090412 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 134-152

Author(s):

L.V. Velikanov ◽

N.N. Tolstykh

Keyword(s):

T Test ◽

Point Of View ◽

Test Set ◽

Male And Female ◽

Driving Experience ◽

The Road ◽

On The Road ◽

Proposed Modification ◽

Student’S T ◽

Student’S T Test

The authors present own modification of S. Rosenzweig picture association test, designed to study the specifics of frustration reactions of drivers in various traffic situations. In this version the classic set of 24 drawings is combined with an additional one, designed by the authors and containing similar psychological content where the frustrated character is always the driver in difficult — from a psychosocial point of view — traffic situations. Since in the original test set there are already six drawings with “on the road” situations, they have been included in both sets. As a result the participants get 42 pictures each. Additionally, the design of all the drawings — clothes, hairstyles, vehicles (cars, motorcycles) — has been changed and unified in accordance with modern style. The new modified version has been tested on a sample of 40 drivers, half — men and half — women. Each group was divided by age and driving experience accordingly. Thus, the frustration reactions of the four subgroups were compared: women aged 20 to 30 years with driving experience up to 10 years, women aged 30 to 40 years with driving experience more than 10 years, men aged 20 to 30 years with driving experience up to 10 years; men aged 30 to 40 years with driving experience of over 10 years. The differences were checked with Student’s t-test. The specific frustration reactions in traffic situations identified in all subgroups mentioned above as well as comparisons between male and female drivers, ages and driving experience, are presented in the article. These data allow the conclusion about the productivity of the proposed modification.

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