When worlds collide: The war between gays and god
In: New political science: official journal of the New Political Science Caucus with APSA, Band 18, Heft 2-3, S. 89-110
ISSN: 1469-9931
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In: New political science: official journal of the New Political Science Caucus with APSA, Band 18, Heft 2-3, S. 89-110
ISSN: 1469-9931
In: New political science: a journal of politics & culture, Heft 36-37, S. 89-110
ISSN: 0739-3148
Contemporary religious movements attempting to reestablish moral supremacy have constructed homosexual & queer groups as outsiders that must be marginalized & annihilated. Current discursive practices that present homosexuality as a perversion of heteronormativity are predicted on a notion of compulsory heterosexuality that ultimately governs permissible & deviant sexuality & gender roles. Tension between the first Bill Clinton Administration & conservative religious groups over the participation of gays & lesbians in the US military is reviewed; although religious groups cited gay & lesbian inclusion as an infraction of moral responsibility, gay & lesbian activist groups suggested that the issue concerned the acquisition of certain civil rights. It is concluded that the military remains the last bastion of white, middle-class, heterosexual, & masculine hegemonic control over minority groups; a narrow & exclusivist interpretation of what defines a true American ironically dominates current discursive practices. 45 References. J. W. Parker
In: Public personnel management, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 115-125
ISSN: 1945-7421
In November 1981, the Utah Division of Personnel Management began an intervention into the Utah Department of Public Safety which continued for a year. This article discusses the data obtained from a 1984 evaluation of this intervention, which was designed to assess long-term outcomes. The findings provide encouragement for continuing organization development efforts and point to ways in which greater successes can be gained in future interventions.
In: Public personnel management, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 115
ISSN: 0091-0260
In: Public personnel management, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 139-151
ISSN: 1945-7421
In: Public personnel management, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 139
ISSN: 0091-0260
In: Public personnel management, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 55-60
ISSN: 1945-7421
In: Women & politics, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 1-37
ISSN: 0195-7732
The Seneca (NY) "Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace & Justice" is discussed as an example of women organizing to pursue feminist causes & employing feminist process (eg, voluntarism, shared leadership, consensus decision making) as a means of empowering organizational participants. The Encampment is described using documents, survey evidence, & participant observation. Analysis reveals that voluntarism (especially in combination with shared leadership & open, fluctuating participation) created a "free-rider" problem, meaning that the burden of organizational maintenance was unequally shared: free riders did less maintenance work but still enjoyed organizational benefits; "suckers" did more of this work, compensating for free riders & experiencing burnout & resentment. It is concluded that the cultural feminist tendencies of the radical Encampment organizers worsened the free-rider problem; they assumed that women would not free-ride because women are "naturally" cooperative. Indeed, glorification of women's caring encouraged women to play the sucker role. It is argued that an effective response to free-riders requires rejecting the view of caring as attending first to others' needs & redefining it in terms of empowerment -- requiring, & assisting, others to empower themselves. At the community level, an effective response requires making & enforcing judgments about which differences to suppress in support of a feminist, egalitarian community. 2 Tables, 55 References. Adapted from the source document.