Oren Renick and Lea Robin Velez
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617038136
- eISBN:
- 9781621039617
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617038136.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
This chapter discusses the struggles of women to achieve gender equality, focusing on two women in distance running: Roberta Gibb and Kathrine Switzer. Gibb and Switzer both struggled to gain access ...
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This chapter discusses the struggles of women to achieve gender equality, focusing on two women in distance running: Roberta Gibb and Kathrine Switzer. Gibb and Switzer both struggled to gain access to the Boston Marathon, a traditionally all-male distance running competition. Both Gibbs and Switzer ran unofficially at the competition, but Switzer was caught in 1967. It adds that their struggles for gender equality were contrary to the accepted gender role of women as the weaker sex, making their fight a fight for all women who, just like them, wanted to compete in distance running.Less
This chapter discusses the struggles of women to achieve gender equality, focusing on two women in distance running: Roberta Gibb and Kathrine Switzer. Gibb and Switzer both struggled to gain access to the Boston Marathon, a traditionally all-male distance running competition. Both Gibbs and Switzer ran unofficially at the competition, but Switzer was caught in 1967. It adds that their struggles for gender equality were contrary to the accepted gender role of women as the weaker sex, making their fight a fight for all women who, just like them, wanted to compete in distance running.
Candi K. Cann
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780813145419
- eISBN:
- 9780813145495
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813145419.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Nearly all the newly emerging rituals for memorialization use a particular grammar and syntax for mourning. This new language of mourning follows a particular framework that is defined by the ritual, ...
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Nearly all the newly emerging rituals for memorialization use a particular grammar and syntax for mourning. This new language of mourning follows a particular framework that is defined by the ritual, rather than being delineated or limited by culture. These new rituals are emerging at the grassroots level in response to a popular need to express grief.Less
Nearly all the newly emerging rituals for memorialization use a particular grammar and syntax for mourning. This new language of mourning follows a particular framework that is defined by the ritual, rather than being delineated or limited by culture. These new rituals are emerging at the grassroots level in response to a popular need to express grief.
Candi K. Cann
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780813145419
- eISBN:
- 9780813145495
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813145419.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Internet memorials, including tombstone Internet links with virtual memorials, funeral home memorials, Internet grieving websites, and social network sites of deceased persons, illustrate that the ...
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Internet memorials, including tombstone Internet links with virtual memorials, funeral home memorials, Internet grieving websites, and social network sites of deceased persons, illustrate that the language of grief is both popular and spontaneous. Internet grieving allows for marginal discourse to circumvent traditional modes of bereavement by reclaiming mourning discourse and the ways we talk about (and think about) the dead.Less
Internet memorials, including tombstone Internet links with virtual memorials, funeral home memorials, Internet grieving websites, and social network sites of deceased persons, illustrate that the language of grief is both popular and spontaneous. Internet grieving allows for marginal discourse to circumvent traditional modes of bereavement by reclaiming mourning discourse and the ways we talk about (and think about) the dead.
Amanda L. Tyler
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- November 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199856664
- eISBN:
- 9780199366668
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199856664.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law
The Introduction begins by exploring modern examples sanctioning the concept of the citizen enemy combatant, such as the War on Terror cases of José Padilla and Yaser Hamdi. It then suggests that the ...
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The Introduction begins by exploring modern examples sanctioning the concept of the citizen enemy combatant, such as the War on Terror cases of José Padilla and Yaser Hamdi. It then suggests that the roots of this concept may be found in the World War II detention of Japanese Americans, including over 70,000 U.S. citizens. The Introduction continues by arguing that this modern conception of the citizen enemy combatant is impossible to reconcile with the historic understanding of the Suspension Clause and the habeas privilege that trace their origins to English legal tradition, an understanding that remained consistent well through Reconstruction. The Introduction concludes with an overview of the book.Less
The Introduction begins by exploring modern examples sanctioning the concept of the citizen enemy combatant, such as the War on Terror cases of José Padilla and Yaser Hamdi. It then suggests that the roots of this concept may be found in the World War II detention of Japanese Americans, including over 70,000 U.S. citizens. The Introduction continues by arguing that this modern conception of the citizen enemy combatant is impossible to reconcile with the historic understanding of the Suspension Clause and the habeas privilege that trace their origins to English legal tradition, an understanding that remained consistent well through Reconstruction. The Introduction concludes with an overview of the book.
