古代中西伦理文化异同新论

中国古代伦理文化的基本特点是伦常日用、务实求真的世俗色彩,兼容并收、融合扬弃的思想体系,注重修身、追求心性的内在修养。古代西方伦理文化的特色是突出道德及精神生活价值,强调群体利益高于个人利益等。中西古代伦理文化既有共同点,也有相异处。认真研究其基本特点及异同,对于建构、完善当代世界伦理文化新体系,具有借鉴意义。     

对信息化时代女性话语仍被“消音“的再思考

网络的出现为两性的平等提供了潜力,但在父权制的社会里,这一新事物仍使女性处于“话语权”被消音的状况中。尽管现状并不很乐观,但还是存在着改变的潜力和希望的。     

从称谓的不同看东西方文化的差导

称谓的不同反映了东西方文化的差异。由于受到文化传统的深层影响，汉语和英语的表达方式存在明显的差异。     

从性别政治到性欲政治——台湾女性思潮变迁的一个侧面

近30年来,台湾女性运动与思潮发展迅猛。特别在上世纪90年代,焦点一度从争取参政权、财产权等公共领域转入“私领域”,更多地关注女性的性欲和身体。这一发展,深刻地显示了台湾社会女性思潮的重大变化。     

现实社会中性别意识的盲点

用性别意识的眼光审视我们的现实社会 ,会发现无论是在社会参与上、大众传媒中 ,还是广大公众中都不同程度地存在着性别意识的盲点或误区。这些盲点或误区已严重影响女性发展 ,阻碍社会进步 ,因此我们不能等闲视之。     

Where did the first divorced people live in Paris and its suburbs?

ABSTRACT

Following the law of 1884 that re-authorised divorce in France, divorce was more frequent in the large cities before spreading to other urban areas and then to rural ones. Divorce rates were especially high in the Seine département from 1884 to the eve of the First World War. In this region, divorced people lived more frequently in Paris than in the suburbs. More precisely, they resided more often on the Right Bank of the Seine in Paris proper (intra-muros) and, as an extension of this area, in the suburban cities to the west and, to the east, around the Bois de Vincennes. A comparison of the share of divorced men and women to the economic, demographic and cultural characteristics of the 20 Paris arrondissements and 74 suburban municipalities in the Seine département shows that a portion of the spatial distribution can be explained by the occupational structures of the area. Divorced people seldom lived in the most rural areas. This urban/rural divide can be explained by two main factors that can be complementary: the economic possibility to divorce – and here we will add the economic possibility for women to leave live alone after a divorce – and the social and cultural acceptance of divorce.     

‘Sometimes fear gets in all your bones’: towards understanding the complexities of risk in development work

ABSTRACT

In the context of increasing risk for aid workers, a growing body of scholarship is focused on risk management in contexts of humanitarian assistance and development work. Much less attention, however, has been given to how staff and volunteers experience such risks. This paper adopts a feminist geographical approach to explore how development workers make meaning of risk in specific contexts. Adopting a qualitative approach, it draws upon 14 semi-structured in-depth interviews with international (7) and local (7) staff of an international educational and sporting non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Afghanistan. After exploring differences between local and foreign staff perceptions of risk, it also offers a gendered analysis of risk for women development workers in Afghanistan. In so doing, this paper contributes to the growing body of literature in ‘Aidland’ studies by revealing the complex understandings of risk and fear by both foreign and local staff in the same geographical and organisational context. For NGOs seeking to make life-saving decisions based on the calculation of risk, this paper evidences the need to also create space for the voices of local and foreign staff whose experiences of risk will be highly relational, embodied, gendered and context specific.