You are browsing the gender tag archive.
The problem with Cargo 200, in a sentence: it wants to maintain the shocking locus of the film as both a thematically coherent linchpin of events, characters, narrative strands, etc. and as a decidedly “meaningless,” shocking violence that cannot be articulated, grasped, or accounted for “finally” by the film in which it appears.
Accordingly, the literature [...]
Eli Thorkelson, of decasia fame, makes some compelling observations about “the gender of the academic name“:
Anyway, my friend said she’d noticed that, when academics talk about other academics, they are likely to use the first and last name when referring to a woman academic, while men academics often get mentioned by last name only. This [...]
Popular culture tends to think of ultrasound imagery as objective, immutable, authoritative when, in fact, it’s but one stage in a long historical process of ‘embryo visualization’, as scrupulously documented in the current Making Visible Embryos exhibition:
Developing embryos were first drawn in the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Modern medicine and biology exploited technical innovations as pictures and [...]
Every Valentine’s Day, it seems, we are subjected to the same old top ten lists and gushing silver screen memorials to the greatest, most memorable kisses to light up the screen. Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Titanic, and now Spiderman and Brokeback Mountain are the familiar finalists — but none, I think, compare to that of The [...]
A brilliant case of analytic sophistry can be observed unfolding in the counterpetition to the petition to reform the American Philosophical Association’s current failure to exclude, or at least reprimand, academic institutions that explicitly their staff from engaging in “homosexual acts”. Basically, as the counterpetition puts it, accurately it would seem,
The American Philosophical Association currently [...]
Responses to Vul et al.’s article on fMRI abuse, which proved as much of a “bombshell” as first predicted, are now too numerous to list. Needless to say, several of the authors of studies Vul criticized quickly responded with a defense [pdf] of their work, to which Vul in turn replied with a rebuttal of [...]
Vaughan Bell of Mind Hacks links to a forthcoming Perspectives on Psychological Science article by Edward Vul et al. that is sure to prove a “bombshell” for the field of cognitive neuroscience. Vul’s analysis demonstrates, in rigorous detail, how the too-good-to-be-true results of (mostly) headline studies are produced by complex statistical errors and biases.
Vul’s analysis [...]
Studies of the effects of class on the brain tend to invoke culture and environment as the predominant cause for distinctions. For example, a recent study of the respective effects of wealth and poverty on children’s brains found that “normal nine and 10-year-olds from rich and poor backgrounds had differing electrical activity in a part [...]
A post and discussion over at Sparkle*Matrix, entitled “‘even dead women can look sexy …’“, expresses the requisite horror and indignation over the America’s Next Top Model photo shoot where the contestants were tasked to simulate dead, but sexy, poses. Sparklematrix links to a slideshow matched with the judges’ comments, to swiftly expel any doubts [...]
Documents & Studies
Recent Comments