Archive for 'dependence'
Depression, Oppression, Gender Socialization, Other Pressing Things
It has come to my attention that about twice as many women are depressed as men. So let’s read about it. Here’s an excerpt from an essay by Marwan M. Kazimi on the link between gender and depression (or you can read the whole essay). Personality attributes of girls and boys have been linked to [...]
Posted: July 31st, 2007 under Research, Western, achievement, adolescent, anxiety, biological, child, children, cultural lens, dependence, depression, eating disorder, emotionality, fear, gender, gender differences, gender socialization, helplessness, hormone, intelligence, mental health, parental, passivity, peer, personality, psychology, rejection, risk, self-esteem, sex difference, sexual abuse, social, social stigma, societal factors, stereotype, stereotypes, symptom, women, women's studies.
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Remind My Soul: Love, Shamans, In/Dependency, Planets
A few airports and bad plane meals ago, I was in Cuzco, Peru, with two friends, and we stumbled upon a shaman. Well, that’s not actually what happened. What happened was that we were playing the souvenir-hungry tourists and walking into every door with shiny things on the other side, and we walked into this [...]
Posted: July 27th, 2007 under Akrobatik, American, Angel Herrera, Cusco, Cuzco, Gloria Steinem, Incan, John Gray, Men are From Mars, Peru, Ph.D., Shamanic, Women are From Venus, addiction, airport, akka'ala, ancestor, antepasados, aya'ala, bell hooks, bicycle, bisexual, boa, buddhism, buddhist, catholic, ceremonial, chakra, chemistry, clothing, co-dependence, coca, coca leaf, coca leaves, communion, condor, dependence, dependency, dichotomy, earrings, fish, food, forgiveness, gender, gender dynamics, growth, handmade, heart, heterosexual, higher world, homosexual, honesty, indigenous, intimacy, love, makka'ala, mars, matrimonial, monogamy, mysticism, one night stand, partnership, physical love, pipe, plane, polyamory, pre-Christian, pre-Incan, puma, relationship, relationships, remind my soul, romance, romantic, rubber bands, self awareness, self-advocacy, self-identification, serial monogamist, serial monogamy, sex, sex positive, sexual, sexual communion, shaman, shamans, shame, shameless, single, skepticism, soul, souvenir, space, spiritual, spirituality, sweater, theology, tourist, tourists, underworld, universe, venus, virgin, virgin/whore dichotomy, whore, wiphala, world.
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