Gender and Families: Feminist Perspectives and Family Research

This review provides a selective overview of scholarship on gender and families over the past decade. First, we discuss four characteristics of feminist perspectives to theoretical and methodological issues in social science. Then we describe briefly how feminist sensibility has been reflected in family scholarship over the past decade. We conclude with brief observations on the disjuncture between academic work on gender and the feminist backlash apparent in the contemporary culture.     

康德的道德哲学与先发制人战争问题

本文从康德的道德哲学出发 ,回应了当代处境中的现实问题。本文认为 ,尽管时代处境较之于康德所处时代已经有所变化 ,但康德的一些基本立场不会改变 ,比如 ,他仍然会反对先发制人战争 ,如伊拉克战争 ,而不会如斯克拉顿所认为的那样转而支持这样的战争 ,况且当代的一些问题在康德的时代并不是没有出现 ,而只是在当代具有了更加全球化的特征。文章还指出罗尔斯并不是一个完全彻底的康德主义者 ,因为他并没有坚持康德的普遍性原则。     

A Framework of Asset-Accumulation Stages and Strategies

Based on a study with 298 low-income participants, we propose that asset accumulation occurs in 3 stages. In the first stage (reallocation), current resource inflows exceed current outflows. To do this, people reallocate resources from consumption or leisure. In the second stage (conversion), people may convert resources from liquid to illiquid forms. In the third stage (maintenance), people resist temptations to dissave. We theorize that people adopt psychological and behavioral strategies to achieve these objectives. Putting psychological and behavioral strategies together with the stages of reallocation, conversion, and maintenance results in 6 strategy groups. We provide real-world examples of each strategy group and discuss implications for encouraging account ownership among the unbanked, improving asset-accumulation programs, and improving financial education.     

Turning Sexual Science Into News: Sex Research and the Media

In this article we report on the findings of a two-part project investigating contemporary issues in sexuality researchers' interaction with journalists. The goal of the project was to explore best practices and suggest curricular and training initiatives for sexuality researchers and journalists that would enhance the accurate dissemination of sexuality research results in the media. We present the results of a survey of a convenience sample of 94 sexuality researchers about their experiences and concerns regarding media coverage and a summary of the main themes that emerged from an invitational conference of sexuality researchers and journalists. In addition, we present some preliminary recommendations for training and best practices. Topics assessed include reporting accuracy; sex researchers' comfort with various topics, media, and journalists; researchers' perceptions of the purpose and content of articles; concern about the impact of media coverage; and training for sexuality researchers.     

Examining Heterosexual Women’s Anal Sexual Health Knowledge and Product Use

Prevalence rates indicate that receptive anal sex is increasingly part of heterosexual women’s sexual repertoire. However, there is a body of literature linking this behavior to risk for adverse sexual health outcomes. Women’s anal sexual health knowledge and awareness of behaviors associated with elevated risk have received less attention in the research literature. The aim of the current study was to examine anal sexual health knowledge and product use among heterosexual women aged 18 to 30 years. A total of 33 self-identified heterosexual women recruited from the general population participated in one of six focus groups. The results suggest that knowledge was variable. Salient sexual health themes centered on risks of human immunodeficiency virus/sexually transmitted infections (HIV/STIs), other infections, and physical harm/damage. Product-use themes included cleanliness/hygiene, comfort, and product safety. Participants expressed the desire for anal sexual health education. The results have implications for sexual health research, education, and clinical practice.     

The Secular and the Radical in Irish Associational Culture of Mid-Victorian Glasgow

It will be argued in this article that, in engaging with a diasporic network centred on the Dublin-centred National Brotherhood of St Patrick, a more public and confident Irish Catholic leadership emerged in Glasgow during the 1860s. The self-improving reading room culture that the Brotherhood was at pains to provide for also, however, proved attractive to Irish-Scots workers and gave them important formal associational experience. When the local Catholic hierarchy portrayed this as secret society nationalism in disguise, leading Irish Catholic worthies reacted by publicly associating themselves with more militant nationalists in expressions of an Irishness that was both secular and, at times, radical.     

Book Review

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Flandermeyer KL: A Step-by-Step Program to Stop Pimples, Blackheads, Acne. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1979     

Equivalence Tests Can Enhance Environmental Science and Management

Tests of point hypotheses are common in observational environmental studies, but there is concern about their appropriateness. Exhortations to restrict sample sizes on the basis of a power analysis for such tests may fail to satisfy the environmental professional, because sample sizes are not always easily controlled. Testing of interval hypotheses via equiva-lence test procedures offers a way of testing meaningful hypotheses and of giving effect to the precautionary principle. An example is given which concerns mining impacts on stream benthic invertebrate communities, and includes calculation of Bayesian posterior probabilities.