In the last days of the Gulf War, a newscast on National Public Radio reported that trucks and other transport flown into the Kuwaiti theater had come from Eastern European countries. That would be news in itself. But the further …
I first came to really know Mike Harrington in 1976 on a lecture tour in India arranged by the USIA for International Women’s Year. My tour included a small conference on “Social Diversity, Economic Inequality and Political Integration” at a …
The voices of labor have always expressed caution at the introduction of new technology in the workplace. Some have been muted responses from those willing to wait and see. Others have been loud and organized cries against known or feared …
Popular perceptions of sex differences—lately embodied in the Reagan era’s “gender gap”—too often are based on presupposed innate attributes or those set early in life. This division of the world into men’s and women’s roles has generated invidious comparisons: the …
No person in any society, male or female, gets through life without working. Some work less, others more; some at dirty or distasteful tasks, others at interesting and pleasant ones; some for money and some for honor, some work at …
Why some ideas are picked up and developed and others lie fallow is a question insufficiently addressed by the sociology of knowledge. Gregory Bateson, in his book Steps to an Ecology of Mind, asks if there is some sort of …
We asked Dissent editors whom they, as individuals, were going to vote for. Some threw up their hands, some groaned, some wrote a few words. Here is a representative sample of those who wrote their personal opinions — Eds. Irving …
The current woman’s movement is unique in the American experience. This movement, multidimensional in character, is striking toward change in the structure of our major institutions, in the quality and content of our culture, and at the level of interpersonal …
The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir, by Alice S. Rossi. New York: Columbia University Press. 716 pp. Guineas and locks, wrote Virginia Woolf, were two essential ingredients for creativity, and conditions virtually unobtainable for women. Alice Rossi’s anthology …
