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Repressing Deviance: The Discourse of Sexuality in \u3ci\u3eThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\u3c/i\u3e and \u3ci\u3eThe Portrait of Dorian Gray\u3c/i\u3e
Get PDFMichael Foucault postulates that Victorians of the late nineteenth century were experts at repressing their sexuality. This repression is especially evident in the passing of the Criminal Amendment Act of 1885, also known as the Labouchere Amendment, which outlawed homosexuality in Victorian England. However, as with any subjugated topic, there will be those that fight against the ruling power. The genre of the Victorian Gothic provides an outlet of deviance for the sexually “Othered,” as a place of protest against Victorian repression. Gothic writers showcase war within man’s soul when repression forces those labeled as “Other” to become dark monsters in the light of Victorian society. When the dualism and aestheticism of novels like The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Portrait of Dorian Gray are read in conversation with Labouchere and Foucault’s History of Sexuality, the deviant voices of the sexually repressed Victorian Others are heard in a demonstration of freedom against persecution
An Assessment of the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Pre- and Post- ‘SODOTO’ Model of Intervention in the Mobile Teaching Kitchen
Get PDFDespite improvements in the overall status of malnutrition in India, the numbers remain alarmingly high. In order to address this problem in rural India, the Need for Nutrition Education/Innovation Program (NNEdPro) Global Center for Health and Nutrition, the Remedy Clinic Study Group in Kolkata, and the Inner Wheel Club for Greater Calcutta launched the Bhavishya Shakti Mobile Teaching Kitchen (MTK) project in two slums in Kolkata, India. The Bhavishya Shakti MTK project seeks to ameliorate the level of malnutrition in rural India by improving diet diversity and awareness through cooking demonstrations of sustainable, nutritious, and affordable meals. Locally trained volunteers follow a ‘See One, Do One, Teach One’ (SODOTO) model to transfer nutrition knowledge to their peers
Prescribing Biases: Evaluating Race and Gender Biases held by Medical Professionals
No full textEvaluating medical professionals implicit racial and gender biases compared to other professions provides a window into medical professionals’ covertly biased behaviors. I examine whether or not medical professionals, compared to other professions, are more likely to hold predisposed racial and gender biases. Analysis of 2000 to 2014 General Social Survey Data (N=4,772) found the framework of implicitly biased behavior against Black and female- identifying individuals held by medical professionals to be faulty. The results from the multivariate regression revealed the opposite of my hypothesis, regarding sexist (pro-natal) attitudes, medical professionals were less likely than other professions to exhibit sexist attitudes. The multivariate regression refuted my hypothesis wholly regarding racial antagonism, there was no statistical significance (p\u3c .05). Not aligning with prior research, medical professionals did not appear to hold race and gender based implicit biases. Further research should be done within this field of study, possibly a qualitative comparison of medical professionals implicit biases compared to other professional groups
Emotion Work at Work: The Effects of Race and Employment Status on Emotion Management in Women
Get PDFThis study explores the impact of race and employment status on the degree of women’s emotion management. Drawing on Hochschild’s theory of emotional labor and feeling rules as well as Kanter’s theory of tokenism, I hypothesize that nonwhite women as well as employed women will report higher levels of emotion management than white women or unemployed women. I utilize data from the 1996 General Social Survey, due to their special module on emotions from that year. After creating a female-only subset and an Emotion Management Scale, which includes data from several questions from the emotion module, I run a regression analysis controlling for respondents’ age and years of education. Unlike previous qualitative studies, my bivariate and multivariate findings suggest that neither the respondent’s race nor their employment status are significant factors in how they score on the Emotion Management Scale. Even though the hypothesis is not supported, the findings do indicate that the theories still hold validity and that it is possible for emotion management to be measured quantitatively