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Leveraging the Courts to Protect Womenâs Fundamental Rights at the Intersection of Family-Wage Work Structures and Womenâs Role as Wage Earner and Primary Caregiver
The Gender Bind: Men as Inauthentic Caregivers
Almost twenty years after the enactment of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), an ostensibly gender-neutral statute, companies are still less likely to offer paternity leave than they are to offer maternity leave. Although women have traditionally faced discrimination in the workplace because they are viewed as inauthentic workersânot fully committed to paid employmentâmen face the corresponding problem and are viewed as inauthentic caregivers. Men who seek family leave transgress gender norms and risk workplace discrimination and stereotyping. This article makes explicit how the social and cultural contexts in which the FMLA is applied interact to maintain the status quo and produce gendered outcomes at work and at home. The FMLA was expected to promote workplace gender equality by providing genderneutral leave and thus reduce employers\u27 expectations that women are more costly than men because they require special accommodations. Unfortunately, women continue to take significantly more leave than men to care for a newborn child or sick relative. This article argues that that the view of men as providers first and caregivers second encourages discrimination against male caregivers and interacts with overwork and inflexible work schedules to contribute to stereotypical divisions of labor within families. This article further proposes policies, including paid family leave, to promote co-equal caregiving and breadwinning between men and women
Leveraging the Courts to Protect Womenâs Fundamental Rights at the Intersection of Family-Wage Work Structures and Womenâs Role as Wage Earner and Primary Caregiver
The causes of disaster, both immediate and underlying, that resulted in 54 fatalities in Riga in November 2013 are analyzed in this paper. The collapse of the Maxima supermarket is seen as a safety failure resulting from longer-term deregulation in Latvia encouraged by external advisors such as the World Bank and the EU, and the specific crisis-induced drive to minimize regulation by local political actors, especially in the aftermath of ongoing austerity. The paper raises the issue of what is a âsafety crimeâ in the context of post-communist Baltic states, and asks whether the notion of âcorporate killingâ or corporate manslaughter is applicable to the circumstances of the disaster. The paper suggests the need to establish accountability for social harms caused by the unfettered pursuit of private profit over public safety
Prosecuting Domestic Violence After Giles: Why a Categorical Approach to the Forfeiture Doctrine Threatens Female Autonomy
'Pleasure balks, bliss appears' or 'The apparatus shines like a blade' : towards a theory of a progressive reading praxis in creative writing pedagogy
This article argues that a reformation of Creative Writingâs reading praxis is required if it is to develop its unique potential as a field of intellectual enquiry. Roland Barthes, in his essay âOn Readingâ, identifies three types of reading pleasure. The third of these modes is that of âWritingâ, in which âreading is a conductor of the Desire to writeâ. Of this mode, Barthes writes:
Is this pleasure of production an elitist pleasure, reserved only to potential writers? In our society, a society of consumption and not production, a society of reading ⊠and not a society of writing ... everything is done to block the answer ... my profound and -constant conviction is that it will never be possible to liberate reading if, in the same impulse, we do not liberate writing. (Barthes 1989: 41)
It is the contention of the author of this article that the teaching of the âreading as a writerâ method in Creative Writing classrooms gives rise to a situation the inverse of that Barthes describes; it makes Creative Writing into a âsociety of writingâ in which reading is trammelled. The article explores and critiques the âreading as a writerâ technique, examines various progressive models of Creative Writing reading praxis, and proposes a radical âwriterly readingâ praxis suggested by concepts from the work of Michel de Certeau.
Keywords: Pedagogy, 'reading as a writer', experimental fictio
Bibliography on open access in Latin America and the Caribbean
Bibliography on open access in Latin America and the Caribbean. Selection mainly based on open access publications describing open access initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Prepared for UNESCO-Latin America and the Caribbean Section of the UNESCO-GOAP Global Open Access Portal
Hooke's figurations: a figural drawing attributed to Robert Hooke
The experimental philosopher Robert Hooke (1635â1703) is known to have apprenticed to the leading painter Peter Lely on his first arrival in London in the late 1640s. Yet the relevance of Hooke's artistic training to his mature draughtsmanship and identity has remained unclear. Shedding light on that larger interpretive problem, this article argues for the attribution to Hooke of a figural drawing now in Tate Britain (T10678). This attributed drawing is especially interesting because it depicts human subjects and bears Hooke's name functioning as an artistic signature, both highly unusual features for his draughtsmanship. From evidence of how this drawing was collected and physically placed alongside images by leading artists in the early eighteenth century, I suggest how it can offer new insight into the reception of Hooke and his graphic work in the early Enlightenment
Progress in strain monitoring of tapestries
This paper reports interdisciplinary
research between conservators and
engineers designed to enhance the
long-term conservation of tapestries
(tapestry-weave hangings) on longterm
display. The aim is to monitor,
measure and document the strain
experienced by different areas of a
tapestry while it is hanging on display.
Initial research has established that
damage can be identified in the early
stages of its inception, i.e., before it is
visible to the naked eye. The paper also
reports initial results of strain data
visualisation that allows curators and
conservators to examine how strain
develops, thereby facilitating
predictions about the changes in the
form or condition of the tapestry.
Strain data visualisation also allows the
strain process to be recorded, thereby
facilitating the effective documentation
of display methods and conservation
interventions. The paper reports the
use of point measurements (using
silica optical fibre sensors) and full-field
monitoring (using 3-D
photogrammetry with digital image
correlation (DIC))
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