Arlene Kaplan Daniels

When ladies go a-thieving : middle-class shoplifters in the Victorian department store

This book focuses on middle-class urban women as participants in new forms of consumer culture. Within the special world of the department store, women found themselves challenged to resist the enticements of consumption. Many succumbed, buying both what they needed and what they desired, but also stealing what seemed so readily available. Pitted against these middle-class women were the management, detectives, and clerks of the department stores. Abelson argues that in the interest of concealing this darker side of consumerism, women of the middle class, but not those of the working class, were allowed to shoplift and plead incapacitating illness-kleptomania. The invention of kleptomania by psychiatrists and the adoption of this ideology of feminine weakness by retailers, newspapers, the general public, the accused women themselves, and even the courts reveals the way in which a gender analysis allowed proponents of consumer capitalism to mask its contradictions.

Invisible careers : women civic leaders from the volunteer world

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Self-deception and self-discovery in fieldwork

This paper shows how fieldwork experiences create a situation in which the researcher and the native reveal their characters in the course of requesting and offering information about the study. The personalities of the fieldworker and the natives help to color and may even define the nature of the interaction. It would be a mistake to ignore the effect of character on the content of studies. Researchers learn about their own strengths and weaknesses as fieldworkers by examining that effect.

Women and work : problems and perspectives

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Advisory and Coercive Functions in Psychiatry

Two questions about professional practice rarely arise: the use of control in expert-client relations and the effect of different settings on the styles of practice. This paper presents the historical development of the mandates, for both control and advice, which pervade psychiatric practice. Though the presence of expertise always implies an element of control, usage varies according to opportunities and constraints provided by each setting. An analysis of control functions exercised by psychiatrists in coercive settings-institutions-leads to recognition of the application of control elements in the supposedly advisory setting of private practice. Patients meeting psychiatrists in different settings require differing kinds of protection against misuse of professional expertise.

CAREERS IN FEMINISM

In the early days of the second wave of the womens movement, women on the liberal end of the feminist spectrum began to work together on issues of equity in economics and education. They developed strategies for lobbying for legislation and administrative regulations affecting women and began to build political networks through which they could accomplish reforms. Women associated with the Womens Equity Action League played an important part in this process and, in so doing, shaped or even transformed their own careers.

The Fine Points of Giving Money Away—and Trying to Do It Right

Books like those of Ostrander and Himmelstein offer opportunities for considering how and why people give money away and with what effect. But they also offer us the glimpse of larger issues: possibilities for social change; resistance to and support for the status quo and, for students of work and occupations, the development of new careers. Ostrander focuses, as her subtitle indicates, on how progressive and social reform ideas have emerged in social movement philanthropy at one location. The Haymarket Peoples Fund. Through a close observation of Haymarkets granting practice, she describes the interactions of funders and community activists—and grantees who may become grantors—on the funding board. Ostrander considers the influence of funders who are men and women of good will, but movement outsiders, on the way movement philanthropy is socially organized. She argues that the way funders affect movement activity depends on the type and range of power that the different people in the funding organization have over grant making and fund raising. She shows that who these people are, and the interactions between them, create the social relations of philanthropy out of which decisions are generated and the direction of the funding evolves. What is of particular importance and great interest in this book is the finely grained, intimate picture it offers of the