Domestic Arrangement Research Articles

Ceramic-on-Ceramic: For the Hard of Hearing and Living Alone—Opposes

The objective of this study is to review the use of ceramic in hip arthroplasty. Ceramic-on-ceramic bearing in total hip arthroplasty has excellent wear resistance and the previous risk of fracture has been reduced because of improved manufacturing processes. It is rarely associated with osteolysis, but squeaking can be an inconvenient complication. However, it occurs rarely, and does not usually cause any functional deficit. The etiology of squeaking is still unknown, but by controlling the surgical and implant factors, the risk can be reduced. Ceramic-on-ceramic bearings are recommended for use in the general public, and should not be restricted to certain groups only on the basis of hearing ability and domestic arrangement.

An Adventure in Modern Marriage: Domestic Development in Tennyson’s Geraint and Enid and The Marriage of Geraint

An Adventure in Modern Marriage: Domestic Development in Tennyson’s Geraint and Enid and The Marriage of Geraint Ingrid Ranum (bio) Tennyson committed decades of his life to recrafting medieval Arthurian romance into his eventual Victorian epic, Idylls of the King, but his earliest publication from the venture shows that he approached the project with concern for its relevance to modern society. “The Epic,” his frame poem for the 1842 “Morte d’Arthur,” concludes with a dream of Arthur returning, but an Arthur who appears “like a modern gentleman / Of stateliest port.”1 The heroic Arthur of the battlefield has already passed away, and this decorous modern replacement arrives. Tennyson’s shift to the modern seems to anticipate Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s assertion that epic poets should look to their own age for inspiration, and his next published foray into the project enacts, in a way, her conviction that what goes on “Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms”2 is worthy of epic treatment. Tennyson’s 1859 edition of the Idylls reinforced the impression that the battlefield scene of “Morte d’Arthur” was not going to be the dominant setting or preoccupation of his larger Arthurian narrative. The volume, entitled The True and the False: Four Idylls of the King, contained four idylls, each named for a female character, which take as their subjects the romantic, sexual, and domestic negotiations carried out by their principal subjects. Tennyson’s centering of women in his Idylls reflects a Victorian society in which women really were central to ideas of order, morality, and national stability; where an ideal king might say “I seem as nothing in the mighty world, / And cannot will my will, nor work my work” without an ideal queen (The Coming of Arthur, ll. 86–87). The ultimate goal of the Round Table is the creation and maintenance of order in a chaotic world; and, in this Victorian version of the material, establishing order comes to mean building solid domestic arrangements. The Geraint and Enid episodes from Idylls of the King, among the first in order of composition as in the eventual epic, exemplify Tennyson’s attempt to be the laureate for his age—the laureate whose hero and heroine may go [End Page 241] questing like medieval knight and lady but ultimately face their greatest challenges in learning how to fulfill the roles of husband and wife in a particularly Victorian domestic arrangement. “Brave Geraint” and Enid, with all of her “bashful delicacy” (The Marriage of Geraint, ll. 1, 66), do face the strange dangers posed by Edyrn and Earl Doorm, but their greater challenges arise as they negotiate the complex gender constructions and exacting demands of domestic ideology. While domestic ideology is frequently associated with the roles and responsibilities of women, men had to find their own ways within the cultural construct that became so central to nineteenth-century life. Linda Hughes argues that, in fact, the 1859 Idylls functions expressly as a “primer for modern gentlemen,”3 and concludes that “the newness of Tennyson’s Arthurian materials in this respect was his argument that only in relation to women, and by sharing part of their nature, could men hope to be real and true men” (p. 61). In many ways, this relation and sharing was modern, as Hughes puts it, precisely because it reflected contemporary domestic values. Herbert F. Tucker sees Geraint as a hero who is negotiating his role in a text that represents a kind of “generic miscegenation,” and the Geraint and Enid idylls as “a trial of epic itself, in contest with the most vigorous claimant of the Victorian era to the honor of bearing the tale of the tribe: namely, the novel.”4 While the novel is not an explicitly domestic form, the generic experimentation of the Idylls is not unrelated to the concerns of its characters, and—as Tucker points out—Geraint’s tale quickly becomes one not of a champion but rather of an outsider who stumbles into a domestic “mantrap,” and finally resolves into “more a domestic than a dynastic blessing” (pp. 445, 447). The Idylls generally, and Geraint’s idylls particularly, are remarkable for their shaping of the...

Domesticating Imperialism: Sexual Politics and the Archaeology of Empire

ABSTRACT The archaeology of empire is permeated by sexual narratives. This has been especially true of archaeological research on the Spanish Americas, where the material remains of colonial settlements have often been interpreted as products of a literal and figurative marriage between two cultures. However, investigating colonization as a consensual domestic arrangement has masked the ways in which imperial projects relied on the exercise of power, including sexual regulations and sexual coercion. Recent archaeological and ethnohistoric research at the Spanish‐colonial military settlement of El Presidio de San Francisco affords a different perspective, one in which the public and institutional exercise of sexual control was central to the imperial project.

The Technological Gaze

The Technological Gaze

Pflegeorganisation und Selbstbestimmung in häuslichen Pflegearrangements

For provision of care to be successful, receivers of care have to be involved in the decisions concerning their domestic care arrangement. Focused interviews of 27 people receiving care, as well as their domestic carers and, where applicable, professional nursing staff were used to investigate how the specific attitudes and resources of economic, social and cultural capital in the different social milieus influence self-determination and organisation of domestic care. Interviews were conducted in both eastern and western Germany. The results show milieu-specific strengths and weaknesses which should be taken into account when considering measures to stabilise domestic care.

LUSTER’S LOST QUARTER

It is ten years since South Africa, emerging out of the darkness of 340 years of colonial conflict, became a new democratic republic. At the swearing in of the new National Assembly in 1994 Desmond Tutu declared: “We are of many cultures, languages, and races have become one nation. We are the rainbow people of God.” Subsequently at his own inauguration President Mandela resorted to the same affective rhetoric: “We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity—a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.” In the circumstances it is little wonder that reconciliation has achieved the status of a new state doctrine and religion. It is also highly unlikely that cultural works that question the veracity of the evidence could ever win a prize in our post‐apartheid republic. In this article, I read South African identities through the prism of works of literature, as products of two societies which uncannily resemble each other: Faulkner’s American South and Coetzee’s South Africa. I explore the notion that identities are constructed by, among other things, an attachment to a particular space, to land; by our relation to each other through race and class, and through access to an inner psychic space available in our domestic arrangement. In this manner our identities are formed, confirmed, or jettisoned in favour of more suitable constructions.

Domestic Space Arrangement of the Private Rental Housing: A Case of Urban Village Housings of Yogyakarta, Indonesia

It is the purpose of this study to examine the domestic space arrangement of the private rental housings in kampung (urban village) settlement. Kampung Ngentak Sapen, an urban periphery settlement at Yogyakarta, Indonesia was selected as a case study due to the occurrence of a lot of its houses, which were gradually expanded to be a private rental housing. This study focused on how the households re-arrange their domestic space to be shared with the tenants. Besides, the implication of this change on spatial occupation within a private rental housing will be discussed. Investigations found that the occupation adjustment, spatial adjustment and extension of the original housing processes have developed the private rental housings. The domestic space arrangement of the private rental housing could be categorized into maximum separation, moderate separation, and minimum separation based on the number of spaces which might be interchangeably used by both the household and the tenants.

IMPLEMENTASI KEWENANGAN PEMERINTAH DAERAH BERDASAR UNDANG-UNDANG NOMOR 22 TAHUN 1999

acquired by means of attribution, delegation and mandate, emphasized on accomplishment of decentralization principles by means of domestic arrangement system that is materially, formally and tangibly implemented. Practically the authority rest on factor of human resources supported by natural resources and availability of sufficient equipment as well as organizations and management that have a satisfactory quality.

The nurse of parasites: gender concepts in Patrick Manson's parasitological research.

Patrick Manson (1844-1922), the so-called father of tropical medicine, played a pivotal role in making that discipline into a specialty. During his early career in China he discovered that the mosquito was the intermediate host of the filarial parasite and he somewhat peculiarly called the mosquito the "nurse" of the filarial worm. The discovery contributed greatly to the intellectual foundation of modern parasitology. In this paper I situate Manson's nomenclature in the context of nineteenth-century biological research on reproductive mech-anisms and argue that Manson's concept of the "nurse" was derived from nineteenth-century theories of sexual division of labor in nature's economy. The way he framed the relation between the mosquito and the parasite, moreover, can be understood in the terms of the domestic arrangement of the colonial European household. Manson's research demonstrates the significant exchange between medical concerns over European women's procreative role in the tropics and biological studies of parasitic reproduction.

Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in (Post) Colonial Studies

This essay takes as its subject how intimate domains - sex, sentiment, domestic arrangement and child rearing - figure in the making of racial categories and in the management of imperial rule. For some two decades my work on Indonesia's Dutch colonial history has addressed patterns of governance that were particular to that time and place but resonant with practices in a wider global field. My perspective thus is that of an outsider to, but an acquisitive consumer of comparative historical studies, one long struck with the disparate and congruent imperial projects in Asia, Africa and the Americas. This essay invites reflection on those domains of overlap and difference. My interest is more specifically in what Albert Hurtado refers to as ‘the intimate frontiers’ of empire, a social and cultural space where racial classifications were defined and defied, where relations between coloniser and colonised could powerfully confound or confirm the strictures of governance and the categories of rule. Some two decades ago, Sylvia van Kirk urged a focus on such ‘tender ties’ as a way to explore the ‘human dimension’ of the colonial encounter.’ As she showed so well, what Michel Foucault has called these ‘dense transfer point[s]’ of power that generate such ties were sites of production of colonial inequities and, therefore, of tense ties as well. Among students of colonialisms in the last decade, the intimacies of empire have been a rich and well-articulated research domain. A more sustained focus on the relationship between what Foucault refers to as ‘the regimes of truth’ of imperial systems (the ways of knowing and establishing truth claims about race and difference on which macro polities rely) and those micro sites of governance may reveal how these colonial empires compare and converge.

Hispanas de Queens: Latino Panethnicity in a New York City Neighborhood

Milagros Ricourt and Ruby Danta, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003, xii + 168 pages (paper).Reviewer: Marilyn Gates Simon Fraser UniversityLiving to most North Americans means some form of co-habitation, especially as sexual partners, without being married to each other. As such, it is a private, domestic arrangement, although it may be widely known among family and friends and even to more casual acquaintances in the public sphere. Ultimately, though, it is no one's business other than the consenting adults involved how and with whom they live within the confines of their own four walls. It is a personal decision undertaken by individuals in dyadic contracts.The equivalent Latino term convivencia, on the other hand, involves both broader and deeper connotations of as interactions and mutual involvement in the course of occupation of a common space in everyday lives. Not confined to the home and family, permeates the public places where social life is conducted as diverse individuals often previously unknown to each other actively construct community as part of the working out of identity politics. In this way, can cannote a level of intimacy and shared experience far beyond the narrow confines of the non-Latino urban experience. It is an ongoing, collective, polyadic process of negotiating multiple sites of cultural-meaning construction.In Hispanas de Queens: Latino Panethnicity in a New York City Neighborhood, Milagros Ricourt and Ruby Danta ask what happens when women of diverse Latin American nationalities reside in the same neighbourhood? Focussing on convivencia diaria, or daily-life interaction, Ricourt and Danta show how immigrant women--Columbian, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Uruguayan, and others--who live together in Corona, a working-class neighborhood in Queens, have constructed a new pan-Latino identity from these mundane encounters. This new overarching identity does not simply replace one's self-identification as an immigrant from a particular country. Rather, these repeated intersections between individuals from various nations may foster cultural exchange, syncretisms and other selective adaptations and resistances and forge an additional identity that can be mobilized by Latino panethnic leaders and organizations. This book analyzes the social forces that structure this identity-creation process in both the everyday interactions and the organizational and institutional life of immigrants currently residing in Corona and elsewhere in Queens, emphasizing four critical factors--Spanish language, geographic propinquity, class and gender.The book is organized in two parts. Part 1 deals with the roots of experiential Latino panethnicity as it is constructed from convivencia diaria, the routine exchanges and associations of everyday living in apartments and houses, on the streets, in stores, in workplaces, in playgrounds, at fiestas, in hospitals, in parks, at sporting events and in both Catholic and Protestant churches. Part 2 examines how Latino leaders, often middle-class and female, have built on these grassroots foundations emergent Latino panethnic organizations and an embryonic Latino political voice in Corona and Queens, within social service organizations, in cultural activities and in formal politics. First, from the bottom up, experientially, then, subsequently, from the top down, institutionally, a new, pan-Latino presence gains momentum as a force to be reckoned with both in local and national political arenas. The concluding chapter reflects on the roles of women in the creation of Latino panethnicity as experiential forms of identity construction extend to organizational expressions of community self-designation via a female consciousness centred in their obligations to nurture, and to preserve and protect their families and neighborhoods.Hispanas de Queens is a richly textured ethnography, the product of fieldwork spanning almost 20 years beginning in the mid-1980s. …

Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American History and (Post) Colonial Studies

This essay takes as its subject two distinctive historiographies, one in and the other in North American history, that both address how intimate domains-sex, sentiment, domestic arrangement, and child rearing-figure in the making of racial categories and in the management of imperial rule. It examines two prevailing trends: on the one hand, an analytic convergence in treatments of, and increasing attention to, intimacy in the making of empire; on the other, recognition of the distinctive conceptual commitments and political investments that shape the fields as separate disciplinary ventures and historiographic domains. I use the terms studies and studies interchangeably, although those who identify themselves with one do not always identify with the other. Some scholars use the term postcolonial to signal a cross-disciplinary political project, analytically akin to cultural studies, that rejects colonial categories and scholarship that takes them for granted. Others retain the term studies to underscore more concern for the local and labor history of colonial societies while similarly acknowledging the continuing political, economic, and cultural landscape in which populations who have been colonized are subjugated and now live. The