The stigmatized Italian visionary and the devout French physician: Palma Mattarelli d’Oria and docteur Imbert Gourbeyre*

ABSTRACT

The paper examines the case of an Italian local celebrity, Palma Mattarelli, born in 1825, and stigmatized at the significant age of 33. From that moment on, extraordinary phenomena multiplied around her: ecstasies, visions, ‘holy’ communion, apocalyptic prophecies. In the climate of renewed Catholic sensibility for extraordinary supernatural phenomena Palma’s fame soon extended abroad. The Docteur A. Imbert-Gourbeyre visited Palma in 1871, and dedicated the second volume of Les stigmatisées to her. Palma’s celebrity was undermined by the hostility of the local church authorities, and an inquisitorial examination of her which ended in 1872 with a negative judgement, ranging her cause in the frame of ‘afettata santità’. Imbert-Gourbeyre was advised not to republish his successful book on her. Yet, the extraordinary phenomena kept on recurring around her till her death in 1888.     

From Two Years to Two Generations:

A full profession includes roles in both direct and indirect career functions for its members. As the field of child and youth care has developed, career paths for practitioners primarily focusing on indirect functions have been proposed. This chapter proposes a career trajectory in clinical work that allows for increasingly responsible, complex and autonomous practi~a s ,the ,practitioner becomes more mature and experienced both personally and professionally. Actualization of both career path options should contribute towards the retention of practitioners, and to the long term advancement of child and youth care as a profession.     

The Teresa Billington-Greig collection: Two Californians tap into the Fawcett

Searching for information about the almost-forgotten feminist theorist and activist, Teresa Billington-Greig, the authors discovered that the Fawcett Library held a large collection of her papers. With the generous assistance of the Fawcett staff, they made use of many of the resources of the library, as well as the Billington-Greig Collection itself, to answer not only questions about Teresa Billington-Greig, but also more general ones about women's political organizations and the nature of individual feminist commitment.     

The Measurement of Adolescent Psychological Health: One or Two Dimensions?

Psychological health in adult populations has been conceptualized as being comprised of two distinct, though related, dimensions: well-being and distress. Research into adolescent psychological health, however, has been dominated by a single factor approach with well-being and distress defining opposite ends of this continuum. Measures of psychological health were administered to 345 late adolescents. A series of confirmatory factor analyses supported an oblique two-factor model of psychological health with measures of anxiety and negative affect defining a distress construct and measures of positive affect, satisfaction with life, and happiness defining a well-being construct. A measure of depression loaded on both well-being and distress. It is concluded that although these two dimensions are highly correlated, they are distinguishable in adolescent samples. It is suggested that to avoid confusion in the literature authors should take more care in labeling the aspects of psychological health that they wish to assess.     

工人阶级内部的两大群体:经理与工人

工人阶级内部存在着不同的利益群体,存在不同利益群体的客观基础是对资源的支配关系不同。随着向市场经济转轨的深入,工人阶级内部不同群体将日趋独立,阶层化(群体化)将日趋明显。经营管理者是在公有制基础上,直接支配生产资料,履行支配职能,行使支配权力,获得相应利益的社会集团。工人是在生产过程中,被管理,被支配并直接进行劳动,以此获得工资性收入的社会集团。     

Identity in adolescence: Influences of dysfunction and psychosocial task issues

The Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory (EPSI) was utilized in two studies to investigate task resolutions (trust, autonomy, initiative, industry, identity) in adolescence. In the first study, a comparison of delinquents and non-delinquents indicated that delinquents have less successful task resolutions. In the second study, a comparison of adolescents with high and low dysfunctional attitudes again revealed that troubled adolescents have less successful task resolutions. In this study, 7th graders, 12th graders, first-year college students, and junior and senior college students participated. Older adolescents demonstrated more successful task resolutions than younger adolescents, and different identity issues were salient during early adolescence as compared to later adolescence. Also, first-year college students had more problems with identity consolidation and less positive overall task resolutions than high school seniors or college juniors and seniors. A life-context approach to identity formation is discussed.Portions of this paper were presented at the first biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Madison, Wisconsin, March 1986, and at the Midwestern Psychological Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois, 1987 and 1989.M.A. degree in psychology from University of Toledo. Research interests: identity development, cognitive and perceptual development.Ph.D. from University of Toledo. Research interests: personality and cognitive development in adolescence, infant cognitive development.     

Australian women in science : Two unorthodox careers

Today it is most unlikely that anyone without the appropriate qualifications could become a scientist. But Helen Newton Turner, an animal geneticist, and Isobel Bennett, a marine biologist, starting to work in science quite by accident, have become nationally and internationally accepted by their peers. The paper compares and contrasts the careers of these two eminent Australian women scientists, from childhood to retirement and even later, and discusses the factors responsible for their success. The main ingredients were of course their own intelligence, interest, determination, and capacity for hard work. Notwithstanding these personal qualities, however, their careers would not have been possible without the influence and support of two eminent scientific mentors. With the guidance, encouragement, and help of these enlightened men, both women went on to achieve outstanding success in traditionally male-dominated fields.     

建设高素质的女干部队伍的两点认识

建设高素质的女干部队伍是实践"三个代表"的要求,也是实现企业战略目标的需要。建设高素质女干部队伍,要加强教育,提高综合素质,同时,要营造良好的外部环境。     

‘Visibility and celebration’: Two bicentennial texts

Women 88 (Film Australia) 1988; Women in Change (Film Australia — Bicentennial National Schools Program) 1988.     

Classical Greek agriculture II: Two more alternative views

Since I published a review essay in this journal on the recent study of Classical Greek agriculture, focusing on two very different and even opposing attempts at synthesis [Cartledge, 1993], two further major studies in the same general field have appeared, again with different perspectives and conclusions. What one of them [Hanson, 1995] rightly calls the ‘veritable renaissance in research concerning ancient Greek agriculture and society’ shows no signs of premature ageing. Many fundamental questions, of course, remain unresolved, and are perhaps doomed to be irresolvable, but these two weighty (in all senses) tomes do seem to me to advance our understanding measurably and in potentially fruitful directions.

A Greek Countryside, by Michael H. Jameson, Curtis N. Runnels and Tjeerd van Andel. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.xviii + 654. £84.95 (hardback). ISBN 0 8047 1608 0

The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization, by Victor Davis Hanson. New York: Free Press, 1995. $28.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 02 913751 9     

Adolescents' Intergroup Attributions: A Comparison of Two Social Identities

This study investigated the intergroup perceptions of 2 social groups. English adolescents aged 14–15 years were asked to make causal attributions for various positive and negative behaviors performed by members of an in-group and an out-group. In the first condition (n = 45), participants rated members of their own peer group and members of a peer group to which they did not belong. Participants in the second condition (n = 45) rated English adolescents and members of a national out-group (either France or Germany). Results showed that participants in both conditions reported perceptions that were biased towards the formation of a favorable in-group evaluation. However, the relationship between intergroup discrimination and identification with the in-group was in the expected direction for participants in the peer group condition only. This observation is explained in terms of the potential level of identity threat posed by the prevalent intergroup context.