Intimate Work Research Articles

Własny pokój – cztery ściany płaczu Milicy Janković

This paper is an analysis of the work Me đ u zidovima (1932) of Serbian writer from the modernist period – Milica Jankovic (1881–1939). The article focuses on presenting the innovative elements of her prose which opposed the Serbian literary tradition. The main subject of Me đ u zidovima is a physical disease that affects the mental condition. The article also shows the possibility to read the aforementioned work from an autobiographical perspective, as Milica Jankovic for many years suffered from bone tuberculosis. This work contains numerous references to her biography. The conclusion of the paper is that Milica Jankovic, drawing on her own experience, has created an intimate work, in which she described her life with the severe, incurable disease.

Music, Cosmology, and the Politics of Harmony in Early China by Erica Fox Brindley (review)

Reviewed by: Music, Cosmology, and the Politics of Harmony in Early China by Erica Fox Brindley Pauline C. Lee Music, Cosmology, and the Politics of Harmony in Early China. By Erica Fox Brindley. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 225. Hardcover $75.00, isbn 978-1-438-44313-3. Paper $24.95. eBook $24.95. In Music, Cosmology, and the Politics of Harmony in Early China, Erica Fox Brindley further illuminates our scholarly understanding of the spiritual-religious, political, moral, psychological, and medical worlds of early China by carefully tracking the complex and ever-changing relationship between “music” (yue 樂) and conceptions of the cosmos. Her central analytical category is the concept of “harmony” (he 和). She provides evidence that texts (e.g., the Book of Documents, the Zuozhuan, the Analects, and early Mohist writings) preceding the late fourth century b.c.e. on the whole describe harmony as a distinctly human achievement, such as rulers choosing to act virtuously so as to bring harmony to the lives of those they govern or a master chef picking and choosing the right ingredients to create a particularly delicious broth. Harmony is not discovered in the cosmos, but rather is a good created by sages and kings. In contrast, in early Chinese classical writings that can be dated to roughly after 325 b.c.e. (e.g., the Zhuangzi, the Daodejing, the Mengzi, the Lüshi chunqiu, later Mohist writings, the Huainanzi, and the Shiji), a century and a half before the unification of China, Brindley boldly argues that one finds a marked change in descriptions of harmony. Harmony is now described as inherent within the cosmos; countless competing methods are articulated for achieving or discovering harmony, but generally speaking all involve an intimate working with the larger cosmos. Through the course of six chapters, Brindley carefully shows how changes in the role and status of music parallel transformations in views of the cosmos—a cosmos that is in close dialectical relationship with human beings, who affect and are being affected by this transcendent force. Developing themes that were introduced in her first monograph, Individualism in Early China: Human Agency and the Self in Thought and Politics (University of Hawai’i Press, 2010), Brindley concludes: The common saying “Heaven and human come together to form one 天人和一” … is often understood in terms of how humans should alter their behavior to conform to Heaven’s natural and inevitable laws. My analysis shows that there is no single narrative or assumption that humans are to “fit in” in such a way. Indeed, in many texts, humans are presented as integral agents who … might add to and change the course of the cosmos itself.” (p. 158; italics mine) [End Page 326] The conception of the cosmos that emerged after the fourth century b.c.e. is “creative” and “engendering,” rather than “passive” and “conforming” (p. 158). Brindley notes that there exists a handful of articles, book chapters, and books in English, Chinese, and Japanese on music in China. Her linking of music with sweeping spiritual-religious transformations in particular makes this book a unique and excellent contribution to our understanding of not only early China but also theories of music in general. Brindley’s work is an example of detailed, careful, erudite, creative, and bold scholarship. Both Sinologically sound and theoretically sophisticated, she examines a breadth of texts—including both well-studied classics and newly excavated works. Her translations are clear and lucid. Throughout she argues for her views through careful scholarship and then tests her conclusions regarding early China against common sense. The subject—changing concepts of music and its role and status in our human lives—is fascinating and of significance and interest across a breadth of fields including religious studies, literature, and philosophy, as well as intellectual and sociocultural history. At least two other philosophers have studied the role of music and moral cultivation in early China, notably Philip J. Ivanhoe in “Music in and of Our Lives,” a chapter in his Confucian Reflections: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times (Routledge, 2013), and Kathleen M. Higgins in “Music in Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy,” a 1980 article for the International Philosophical Quarterly...

Psychosocial Factors Predicting Job Search Behaviour of Long-Term Welfare Recipients in the Netherlands

In spite of active labour market policies, a considerable number of welfare recipients in the Netherlands are long-term unemployed. In order to investigate the job search behaviour of this group, we developed a model of job search behaviour, inspired by the theory of planned behaviour, expectancy value theory and self-determination theory Survey data relating to 193 individuals receiving welfare benefits for at least one year were collected. A model, consisting of six social-demographic and eight social and psychosocial variables, was tested with hierarchical multiple regression. Seven factors were found to be positively related to job search behaviour: being a non-Western immigrant, having recently started receiving welfare benefits, receiving encouragement in searching for work from an intimate social network, having a job search requirement imposed, having an expectation of finding a job, individual work valence and job search attitudes. Of these, duration of welfare assistance, the encouragement of an intimate social network, work valence and job search attitude appeared to be mediating factors. The article concludes that activation policy might benefit from a combination of improving job searching attitudes, for instance by discussing ideas about the valence of employment and expectations of success or by considering potential barriers to finding employment within social networks, and introducing a clear requirement to search for jobs, in particular for native Dutch, single mothers and people who have been in receipt of benefits for a long period of time. Such policies have been absent in the Netherlands for a long time, priority being given to those with better chances in the labour market.

Book Review: Asian Women and Intimate Work

Book Review: Asian Women and Intimate Work

Asian women and intimate work

List of Figures, Photographs and Tables ... vii Introduction: Intimate Work and the Construction of Asian ... 1 OCHIAI Emiko PART ONE IMAGINING INTIMATE WORK 1. Housewives' Work / Mothers' Work: The Changing Position of Housework in Dutch Society ... 37 NAKATANI Ayami 2. The Housewife and Housework in the Indian Urban Middle Classes ... 63 OSHIKAWA Fumiko PART TWO MULTIPLE FACES OF THE GOOD WIFE/WISE MOTHER 3. Troubles of the New Women in the Emergence of Korea: Focusing on the Interrelationship between Women's Liberation and the Image of Wise Mother and Good Wife ... 93 SUH Ji Young 4. Selling Modernity: Housewives as Portrayed in Yuefenpai (Calendar Posters) and Magazine Advertisements in Shanghai of the 1920s and 1930s ... 107 WU Yongmei 5. The Gender Norms of Chinese in the Transitional Market Economy: Research Interviews with Wives in Three Urban Centers ... 139 ZHENG Yang 6. To be Good at Public and Domestic Work, I Need Three Heads and Six Hands: The Dilemma of Vietnamese Modern ... 167 KHUAT Thu Hong, BUI Thu Huong and LE Bach Duong PART THREE WIVES AND WORKERS CROSSING BORDERS 7. From Farmers' Daughters to Foreign Wives: Marriage, Migration and Gender in the Sending Communities of Vietnam ... 191 Daniele BELANGER and TRAN Giang Linh, with LE Bach Duong and KHUAT Thu Hong 8. Commercially Arranged Marriage Migration: The Agency and Inner Struggle of Chinese ... 217 HAO Hongfang 9. Strategies of Resistance among Filipina and Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore ... 239 UENO Kayoko 10. Moving from Modernisation to Globalisation: Migrant Sex Workers in Japan ... 263 AOYAMA Kaoru 11. The Role of Multicultural Families in South Korean Immigration Policy ... 289 LEE Hye-kyung Index ... 313

Framing of intimate care in home care services

Provision of intimate care is a challenge for the care worker, as well as for the recipient of care, in terms both of how this care is to be performed and of how to manage feelings such as anxiety and embarrassment. In home care services, most intimate care work is performed by non-professionals who have received little or no formal or in-house training, and who are at risk of being left to devise their own methods or coping strategies. This article reports on a participant observation study of intimate care in home care services in Sweden. The strategies used to handle intimacy in care work displayed similarities, as well as dissimilarities, to those of professional framing identified in earlier studies of medical and nursing practice. There are similarities in terms of how framing was accomplished in a balance between a distanced matter-of-fact stance and one of personal acknowledgement created in interplay between care workers and care recipient. There are dissimilarities in terms of the challenges presented by the home care setting. As the relationship between care worker and care recipient in intimate care is a particularly precarious one, lack of guidance and formal training may hamper care and lead to neglect.

Making better use of older people’s narratives

For some nurses, conversations with an older patient are simply the backdrop to caregiving; they represent social pleasantries that help to dignify the sometimes intimate work of the nurse. However, the narratives that patients share through conversations, the way in which incidents or feelings are expressed, can provide valuable additional information that can be used to improve care. This article explores what analysis of narratives has to offer the care of older people and a way of nursing that works more closely with patients' experience of illness, treatment and support. Narrative analysis is portrayed as one means to make nursing care more patient centred.

Evaluation of a Domain-Specific Anger Expression Assessment Strategy

Previous studies have shown that self-reports of an individual's anger expression vary between the home and the work domain. The aim of this study was to investigate the validity of such self-reports by comparing them with reports of intimate partners and work colleagues in the respective domain. Participants (N= 86) rated their anger expression on the general and on domain-specific versions of the State–Trait–Anger Expression Inventory (Spielberger, 1988). The self-rated anger-out-home scores correlated highly with partner ratings of anger-out-home scores (r= .61) and colleague ratings of anger-out-work scores correlated substantially with self-rated anger-out-work scores (r= .54). A similar but weaker correlation pattern emerged for anger control but not for anger-in. Self–other correspondence was higher for the domain-specific anger expression assessment than for the general anger expression assessment. These results demonstrate that the domain-specific strategy for the assessment of self-reported anger expression can validly measure differences in anger expression in different domains.

Does Police Intervention in Intimate Partner Violence Work? Estimating the Impact of Batterer Arrest in Reducing Revictimization

A variety of societal interventions in intimate partner violence have been established for decades, including the police actively arresting perpetrators. However, it is difficult to find consistent study results to show if arrest is effective. Moreover, there are far fewer studies on victims than on perpetrators. This study utilized the National Crime Victimization Survey to examine if victims whose partners were arrested were less revictimized than those whose partners were not arrested. Results clearly showed that arrest of perpetrators was effective in reducing revictimization, controlling for victims’ characteristics and the nature of violence incidents. Also, separated or divorced women showed the highest risk of revictimization. Comparisons with previous studies and implications on police policies are discussed.

The emotional labour of caring about looked-after children

Quality relationships form the backbone of social work with children and their families. They are particularly relevant in the close, intimate work with looked-after children who have identified how important it is to them that their relationship with their social worker is positive, warm and meaningful. It is accepted that in order to achieve and maintain successful and meaningful relationships, practitioners need to engage at an emotional as well as a professional level. All too often this requires a trade-off between organizational efficiency and the emotional work of caring for looked-after children. Therefore, it would appear the role of corporate parent is increasingly difficult, involving complex decisions about how practitioners might best spend their time, where their loyalties lie and the quality and direction of the final output. Using data from a series of interviews with practitioners, this paper explores the difficulties of maintaining active emotional engagement with children using the sociological concept of emotional labour.

Deer in the Headlights: The Sites and Sights of Noémie Lafrance's Home

Noémie Lafrance's newest site-specific work Home uses the body as both the performance site and the subject in question. This intimate work invites spectators to participate on a tactile level as we become aware of how the body creates spaces between life and death.

Kutuzov's Victory, Prokofiev's Defeat: The Revisions of 'War and Peace'

Prokofiev began his opera on Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace (1941–52) soon after the outbreak of the Second World War in the Soviet Union. The completed work was found by the authorities to be incommensurate with the requirements of wartime mobilization, and under supervision the composer began what would become a long process of revision. This article traces the genesis of Prokofiev’s opera within contemporary history, politics, and aesthetics, showing how developments in ideology and subsequent demands on the mass arts made a direct impact on the evolution of the opera. What was originally an intimate work, closely tied to Tolstoy, ended as a grand opera to suit Stalinist taste. Particular attention is given to the presentation of Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov, a role that was measured—in the opera as in parallel media and propaganda—against the Stalin cult. The article concludes with the suggestion that Prokofiev’s original opera, which exists in manuscript form, may be due for reevaluation.

Faulkner and Welty and the southern literary tradition

Generations of southern writers and readers after William Faulkner have adopted his vision, seeing “The South” through his eyes rather than through their own or struggling against that vision. Writers such as Walker Percy and Barry Hannah, who deal with a more urban world than Faulkner does, have occasionally had a hard time with many traditional critics who believe that they represent a decline in “southern literature.” These are the same critics who have too often lumped Eudora Welty and Faulkner together, who have argued that their literary strengths lie directly in their roots in the South. One of Faulkner’s most intimate works, the quasi-autobiographical “Mississippi” (1953), depicts his attempts to grapple with the problems and pressures his native land had caused for him, as well as his reconciliation with past and present Mississippi. The questions of how and why love is better than hate, reconciliation better than alienation, are also present in Welty in general, and in her novel The Golden Apples in particular. However, Welty’s responses to such questions are quite different from those of Faulkner.

To prevent them from entering, provide the keys

Open Source Software (OSS) often makes its intimate workings public. By doing this, OSS seems to demand users to run a major risk in security. However, public organisations related to the French National Defence promote and adopt such OSS software packages. This apparent incongruity deserves a thorough study of the relations between OSS and security. After having specified and positioned the notion of Information System Security (ISS), this paper states the arguments given by both Closed Source Software (CSS) editors and free software holders. The second reading of these arguments through three examples leads us to propose a strategy of security based on the heterogeneity of the computers owned by a company.

Children's world: growing up in Russia, 1890-1991

A pioneering history of the experiences of children during Russia's most disrupted century How a country views its children reveals a great deal about that country. This landmark history of childhood in twentieth-century Russia presents an enthralling and detailed picture of a society where childhood was celebrated everywhere but children's real needs were often neglected by the state. Catriona Kelly, one of the foremost cultural historians of modern Russia, explores every aspect of children's lives, including the stresses and joys of ordinary family life, friendships, sports and games, first love, clothing, and schools. She examines the experiences of children in institutions, orphanages, and Stalin's camps, as well as the impact on their lives of such historical tragedies as revolution, civil and world war, and political purges. Based on unprecedented research in archives, hundreds of interviews, and the study of a huge range of newspapers, books, and pamphlets, the book has an immediacy which is startling. Over 100 illustrations sharpen the focus still more. Kelly weaves together information about the relationships between children and adults, prevailing ideas about childhood, and the actual experiences of children to create an unforgettable account of the intimate workings of Russian and Soviet society.

Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis III: Clinical Perspectives

ABSTRACT On May 1, 2004, the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists (AGLP), with co-sponsorship from St. Luke's–Roosevelt Medical Center, The Haworth Press, and the William Alanson White Institute, organized an all-day conference in New York City entitled Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis: New Directions. The proceedings of the third panel focused on “Clinical Perspectives.” The first contributor is Deborah F. Glazer, PhD, who discusses the impact of homoerotic desire and same-sex object choice on the intrapsychic world and the experience of one's self, including one's sense of adequacy in one's body based, gendered self, and the ability to feel sexual desire. In working with a largely gay and lesbian patient population, Glazer finds that many patients enter treatment organizing their self-experience around themes of gender and sexual orientation. These organizing self-identifications can interact in inhibitory ways that need to be addressed in the analytic work. While these kinds of identifications may not be unique to lesbian patients, the heterosexual bias in society at large, and within psychoanalysis, results in some lesbian patients entering treatment with a more powerful need to address these themes. Jeffrey R. Guss, MD, asks, “What does psychoanalysis have to say about homosexuality?” He acknowledges that gay and lesbian therapists have much to say about gay life and therapy with gay and lesbian patients. They share profound life experiences with their patients, including internalized homophobia, stigmatization, denial of sexuality, denial of relationships, and a fierce expertise in conducting fictive or hidden lives. However such knowledge, even if acquired in an analytic therapy, is not analytic knowledge about homosexuality. Guss, in discussing a clinical example, explores what psychoanalysis has revealed about itself in its long relationship to homosexuality, particularly the field's need to regulate gender and sexual desire. Ann D'Ercole, PhD, shifts the focus to clinical work with same sex couples. She underscores the importance in the clinical work with same sex couples of attending closely to expressions of feeling “different” as such feelings can often obscure shameful feelings that can infiltrate and contaminate a relationship. She further notes that it takes courage to invite a stranger, albeit a good-intentioned one, into the intimate workings of a couple's private life. For lesbian and gay couples seeking treatment, this invitation may invite greater risks than those taken by their heterosexual cohorts. Historically, psychoanalytic practitioners obscured the lives of lesbian and gay individuals in the language of pathology, immaturity and immorality, and psychoanalytic theorizing about same-sex couples rarely went beyond judging them as unworkable. While gay-affirmative clinicians have illustrated how cultural messages can hinder intimacy for couples by creating barriers in an otherwise functioning relationship, mainstream psychoanalysis still lacks normative models for understanding the interpersonal dynamics of gay and lesbian couples. D'Ercole's aim is to begin a process of correcting that omission. Towards that end, she presents a clinical example of a lesbian couple that entered treatment after one of the partners discovered the other in an act of infidelity. Scott Masters, MD, concludes the panel with clinical material from an ongoing treatment. In the process, he puts forth some contrasting ideas about the concept of “hypersexuality” as being either a defense or an addiction. During treatment, gay patients describing their sexual activities can create a host of countertransferences, regardless of the gender or sexual orientation of the therapist. At times therapists may find themselves intrigued, disgusted, envious, or even sexually excited. Therapists are forced to examine the value judgments about certain sexual acts that constitute their own sexual hierarchies. Masters presents a complex case in which because of the patient's potentially self-injurious sexual behavior, it became difficult to stay the course and manage his countertransference.

Lighting the Cavern: ‘Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban’

AbstractMichael Spens has an intimate working knowledge of the buildings of Alvar Aalto having supported a restoration programme for Aalto's Viipuri Library in Russia between 1993 and 1997, which involved professionals from Russia and Finland. Here he offers his thoughts on the recent Aalto exhibition at the Barbican. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

The Art of Native Life: Exhibiting Culture and Identity at the National Museum of the American Indian

Within its short history as an institution and as a site of multilayered display and examination, the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) has presented critical opportunities for the consideration of Native American art and material culture. Because NMAI is located at an important intersection between its audience of Native and non-Native individuals; its responsibility to Native communities and Native history; and its place within the Smithsonian Institution, it must strive toward complex, multifaceted goals and acknowledge Native and non-Native interests. To demonstrate these complexities, I examine one of NMAI’s recent exhibit projects, Listening to Our Ancestors: The Art of Native Life along the North Pacific Coast, in an effort to tease out the aesthetic and cultural composition of Native objects as perceived and promoted by Native and non-Native museum staff and Native community consultants. I review the operating philosophy and mission of NMAI and follow with a discussion of the object selection and presentation involved in Listening to Our Ancestors, an exhibit of which I was a museumbased cocurator and on which I have an intimate working perspective. I aim to add to our understanding of the different approaches to visualizing and displaying culture through this firsthand account of exhibit development and display at NMAI.

Jovellanos en sus escritos íntimos: el paisaje y la emoción estética de lo sublime

The Diario (Diary) foregrounds Jovellanos’s interest in recording Spain and its geography in a historical, statistical, economic and political sense. Like his celebrated report on political economy, the Informe sobre la ley agraria (Report on Agricultural Law), the Diario creates a moral and civil conscience that is profoundly oriented toward the social reform of Spain. Even so, the circumstance of his exile causes his gaze to acquire in this intimate work a quality unlike that of the Report. Jovellanos describes the disturbing beauty of wild landscapes and experiences in his Diary the emotional commotion that Burke (Philosophical Enquiry, 1757) and Kant (Critique of Judgment, 1790) recorded as the sublime. The pages of his Diary on which the word “sublime” and its accompanying emotions appear reveal an anxiety that threatens to undermine Jovellanos’s commitment to societal progress and the power of reason; that is, the suppositions of rational subjectivity that underlay his work as politician and writer. The concept of the sublime introduces narrative spaces of great emotion that reveal an important turn toward an epiphanic subjectivity that in successive decades would come to the fore in Romanticism. However, Jovellanos tempers his enthusiasm. On the threshold of the sublime he takes a step back. His self-alienation appears to prohibit the reader entry into zones of his private person and to frustrate the expectation of the reader of such intimate literature that he will come to know the man. And yet, it is precisely in these moments of hesitation where the reader is allowed access to the diarist´s inner struggle and to his negotiations between his private self and his social persona.

Agreements, Allusions, and Constructive Misunderstandings

Agreements, Allusions, and Constructive Misunderstandings