The purpose of this chapter is twofold: to explore the difficulties and potential of turning to the perpetrator of sexual violence; and to track the affective economy of engaging…
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Purpose
The purpose of this chapter is twofold: to explore the difficulties and potential of turning to the perpetrator of sexual violence; and to track the affective economy of engaging with perpetrator accounts.
Design/methodology/approach
This chapter will consider one of the earliest feminist studies of incest, Sandra Butler’s (1978) Conspiracy of Silence: The Trauma of Incest, followed by an analysis of Philippe Bourgois’ (1995, 1996, 2004) ethnographic study of Puerto Rican crack dealers. These are important studies for the fact that both Butler and Bourgois let the men speak freely of their violence, which for the Puerto Rican cracker dealers include tales of gang rape.
Findings
The chapter endorses the need to study the perpetrator, arguing that it is imperative to ensure the demythologization of perpetrators. It finds also that feminists must explore how they will teach emotionally difficult material, and how they negotiate the legacy of radical feminism. The chapter concludes that there are times when politics requires little theoretical innovation, requiring instead a willingness to repeat known insights and to fight back with words.
Social implications
This chapter has implications for classroom practice.
Originality/value
The value of this chapter is its demand to reconsider the doing of feminism in the classroom when the split between feminist theory and activism appears greater than ever.
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Jamie S. Walton and Simon Duff
There is little research that examines the experiences of individuals who were assessed as having a sexual preference for children. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the…
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Purpose
There is little research that examines the experiences of individuals who were assessed as having a sexual preference for children. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the lived experience of five incarcerated participants who possessed a sexual preference for either prepubescent or pubescent children and had completed an accredited programme for males convicted of sexual offences in HM Prison Service in England and Wales.
Design/methodology/approach
Semi-structured interviews were carried out and the data were analysed using the principles of an interpretative phenomenological approach.
Findings
Three recurrent themes were identified. These were: internal battle, I am always going to have these thoughts, and there is no help out there. In particular, these participants perceived that their sexual preference was relatively enduring and would require continuous management.
Practical implications
The results have implications for clinical practice and further research. Clinicians may need to think particularly creatively about their therapeutic plans and extend the parameters of desirable treatment goals for clients with sexual preferences for children.
Originality/value
To date there are very few studies that have examined the accounts of men with a sexual preference for children regarding their lived experience. Paedophilia constitutes a stable sexual preference, suggesting that convicted perpetrators with such a preference face an inherent problem. Whilst sexual urges may be regulated and arousability reduced, the underlying attraction may remain intact. In response to the lack of research in this area, the aim of this study was to investigate the lived experience of a sexual preference for children.
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Maria Symeonaki and Celestine Filopoulou
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of gender in education, occupation and employment in Southern Europe and more specifically in Greece, Italy, Portugal and…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of gender in education, occupation and employment in Southern Europe and more specifically in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. The goal is to provide measures that can trace gender differences with respect to their educational and employment features in these countries, explore whether these differences converge over time and compare the patterns observed in each country given their socio-economic similarities.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper uses raw data drawn from the European Social Survey (ESS) for the decade 2002-2012. It provides a method for quantifying gender differences in education, occupation and employment and their evolution over time based on distance measures.
Findings
The results reveal that gender distances in education have gradually subsided in these countries. However, occupational choices differ steadily over the years for all countries. The paper provides, therefore, solid evidence that equalizing the level of education between men and women during those years did not result in a decrease in the occupational distances between them. Moreover, based on the latest round the findings suggest that men and women are equally likely to having experienced unemployment within the last five years.
Research limitations/implications
Further research could be done to include results based on raw data from the seventh round of the ESS. This may provide valuable information for Spain and Portugal who did participate in this round.
Social implications
This research implies that more needs to be done to accelerate progress in order to achieve gender occupational equality in Southern Europe.
Originality/value
This paper draws attention to issues concerning gender differences in education, horizontal and vertical segregation and employment for which it provides distance measures and evidence of how they have evolved over time, based on raw data analysis from the ESS.
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Vincent Manning, Marc Spitzner, Ralph C. Martin Ralph C. Martin II and Donald J. Savery
The financial markets are still sorting through the lengthy list of compliance measures created by the Sarbanes‐Oxley legislation and other reforms being proposed by the SEC…
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The financial markets are still sorting through the lengthy list of compliance measures created by the Sarbanes‐Oxley legislation and other reforms being proposed by the SEC, NASDAQ, state attorneys general, institutional investors, and others. This preoccupation should not derail corporate efforts to comply with the mandates of the USA Patriot Act, an especially important measure that is applicable to companies defined as “financial institutions” by the Act. The Act has several purposes: to better detect and deter incidents of money laundering; prevent financing of terrorist activity; and more severely penalize those who launder money by strengthening, broadening, and clarifying federal money‐laundering laws.
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Of all the different classes of substances that enter into our dietary the proteids are the most important, as they are not only absolutely essential for the support of animal…
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Of all the different classes of substances that enter into our dietary the proteids are the most important, as they are not only absolutely essential for the support of animal life, but in the absence or deficiency of carbohydrates or of fat they can take the place of those substances.
Performance programs, games, rituals and story telling are lookedat as part of the performance of organization. Some leaders in thesemethods are gifted performers, and they are…
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Performance programs, games, rituals and story telling are looked at as part of the performance of organization. Some leaders in these methods are gifted performers, and they are able to pass on the plots of these themes to succeeding generations of employees.
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As a teenager, and beyond, I benefited greatly from the philosophy shelves of my local public library. Later, as a philosophy undergraduate, the local library was useful in…
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As a teenager, and beyond, I benefited greatly from the philosophy shelves of my local public library. Later, as a philosophy undergraduate, the local library was useful in different ways. Later still, as a subject specialist librarian, I was responsible for the selection and management of the philosophy shelves in two different library systems. And latterly, as a middle‐manager in an era of reduced prosperity, it has been my sad task to reduce stocks on the philosophy shelves. Such varied experience: as user and provider, as graduate and freewheeler, as bibliophile and hatchet man, has caused me to think much on the subject. What philosophy books should the public library have on its shelves?
Mr F. W. Caldwell Receives the John Scott Award Mr Frank W. Caldwell, director of research at United Aircraft Corporation, has received the John Scott Award, comprising a medal…
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Mr F. W. Caldwell Receives the John Scott Award Mr Frank W. Caldwell, director of research at United Aircraft Corporation, has received the John Scott Award, comprising a medal and cash sum of 1,000 dollars, for development of the controllable pitch propeller.
This chapter explores the proposition that Australia’s abusive treatment of refugees and asylum seekers can be traced back to a denial of the foundational violence of…
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This chapter explores the proposition that Australia’s abusive treatment of refugees and asylum seekers can be traced back to a denial of the foundational violence of colonisation.
By adopting a psychoanalytic frame, the research explores three questions: is Australia engaging in cruel, degrading and humiliating treatment of asylum seekers, a treatment that devolves into torture? If so, how is this operationalised? And finally what does the abuse satisfy within the state?
The work uses Freud’s paper, ‘Mourning and Melancholia’, and Melanie Klein’s work on the paranoid/schizoid position to describe the psycho-affective terrain from which this abuse emanates.
The chapter takes this psycho-affective terrain as the foundation and then investigates the impact the privatised detention regime has had in enabling the known/unknowability of the abuse and mechanisms at work within media practice to create ‘torturable subjects’ (Mendiola, 2014, p. 13).
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In this informal symposium, presided over by R. D. Kelly, United Air Lines, after talks, rather than the reading of papers, the pilots concerned assembled on the rostrum and…
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In this informal symposium, presided over by R. D. Kelly, United Air Lines, after talks, rather than the reading of papers, the pilots concerned assembled on the rostrum and answered questions. They were: