Some Approaches of the Body and its Gendered Difference

Some Approaches of the Body and its Gendered Difference

Author(s): Andrea Balogh / Language(s): English / Issue: 03/2004

Bodies have been classified by modern theories of sexual and racial difference according to anatomical, biological and phenotypic characteristics. Today much mainstream and commonsense thinking still assumes that the body is the obvious and transparent sign of a person’s gender and race, guaranteeing the meanings and values attributed to them. Bodies are seen as the source of the sexually and racially specific characteristics of the individual.

Gendered Discourses In Children’s Literature

Gendered Discourses In Children’s Literature

Author(s): Jane Sunderland / Language(s): English / Issue: 03/2004

Children’s literature has been a focus of the modern women’s movement since its inception, with ‘sexist’ children’s stories being critiqued, advice provided for teachers, and non-sexist/anti-sexist/feminist stories (Adler, 1993) identified, welcomed and produced.

Mother – Daughter Relationship in British Feminist Drama from a Psychoanalytical Perspective

Mother – Daughter Relationship in British Feminist Drama from a Psychoanalytical Perspective

Author(s): Hildegard Klein / Language(s): English / Issue: 03/2004

In the quotation above Marsha Norman refers to the situation in American theatre, but her statement can also be applied to Great Britain. In this study we are concerned with the mother-daughter relationship in British drama, which has become an important theme in the dramatic work of feminist playwrights such as Shelagh Delaney, Ann Jellicoe, Jill Fleming, Sarah Daniels, Louise Page and Sharman Macdonald, among others.

Canadian Non-Fiction Writer Myrna Kostash and Feminism

Canadian Non-Fiction Writer Myrna Kostash and Feminism

Author(s): Ana Olos / Language(s): English / Issue: 03/2004

An approach to Myrna Kostash’s work has to take into consideration that she is an intellectually challenging non-fiction writer. On the one hand, one can follow the writer’s construction of her own identity; on the other hand, learn about issues like ethnicity, multiculturalism, counter-culture, teen-age cultures, feminism in Canada and, in her writings dedicated to the Slavic countries of Europe, about the “bloodlines” of ethnic and cultural encounters.

Feminine “Roles” in Dracula by Bram Stoker

Feminine “Roles” in Dracula by Bram Stoker

Author(s): Elena Maria Rusu / Language(s): English / Issue: 03/2004

A polyphonic novel, Dracula can be read from a number of perspectives, bringing together a multiplicity of discursive fields - ethnography, imperialist ideologies, medicine, criminality, discourses of degeneration, physiognomy, feminism, occultism and so on. The productive nature of this novel may lie in the easy cohabitation of various discursive fields, in the fact that it seems to generate readings rather than closing them down.

Toward a New Feminist Theory of Rape

Toward a New Feminist Theory of Rape

Author(s): Carine M. Mardorossian / Language(s): English / Issue: 03/2004

Sexual violence has become the taboo subject of feminist theory today. The topic has been relegated to introductory women’s studies courses, where it is predominantly subjected to issue-oriented and experiential analyses. Its discussion in that context typically follows a predictable pattern, namely, that of identifying the source of violence (gendered power relations) and its effects (trauma). Contemporary feminist theory, by contrast, tends to ignore the topic of rape in favour of more ambivalent expressions of male domination such as pornography and sexual harassment.

The American International Adoptee as a Subaltern Subject

The American International Adoptee as a Subaltern Subject

Author(s): Evelyn Navarre / Language(s): English / Issue: 03/2004

Adoption has been a flashpoint for conflicting political agendas regarding the American family since its beginning formalizations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Informal adoption has existed, perhaps, since parenting has existed; in colonial white America, for example, one finds instead of formalized, legal adoptions the “putting out system,” in which girls and boys were boarded with neighbours and kin to apprentice as workers in childcare, farming, and so on.

Risk as part of the accounting profession

Risk as part of the accounting profession

Author(s): Ralitsa Dancheva / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2013

Keywords: accounting; accountant; risk; accounting risk; professional risk

This study characterises accounting occupational risk by examining its sources. It describes the effects and seeks opportunities to minimise them. Risk is an integral part of the accounting profession. It has been quite ex­haustively discussed in literature, but in terms of accounting it has not been studied enough – it has not been given enough attention, which makes the topic relevant and significant. Emphasis is placed on the fact that the activities of an accountant must be in accor­dance with legislation, while accounting for the specificities of the entity. Whence it follows that they are not only responsible for keeping accounts in accordance with regulatory requirements, but also for the decisions made and the accompanying risk.

The evolution of the marketing paradigm

The evolution of the marketing paradigm

Author(s): Petar Banchev / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2013

Keywords: marketing; marketing paradigm; values-based marketing; collabora­tive marketing; cultural commitment marketing; spiritual marketing

Over the last decade, mar­ket­ing has started to develop new content in its paradigm, based on rethinking existing mar­keting hypotheses for identifying, studying and solving the problems of economic life. Un­der the influence of revolutionary changes in business and of so­cie­ty in general, the interest of business in human values and public welfare has increasingly become a topical issue. The article reveals the logic of the evolution of the marketing paradigm of business from products and their sale (product-centric), through to the market represented by buyers (market-centric) to people, their values and spirit (human-centric). It discusses the main points of historical and logical developments in the conceptual aspects of the marketing paradigm. It also examines the new content of the modern marketing paradigm - oriented towards taking into account human values and spirit to enhance public welfare and safety. This article also presents new directions in the development of the marketing concept and of the mar­keting system. Thus the marketing approach to business management acquires new conceptual, problem and instrumental dimensions.

The issue of the number of hospitals and their capacity and effectiveness in Bulgaria

The issue of the number of hospitals and their capacity and effectiveness in Bulgaria

Author(s): Margarita Nikolova / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2013

Keywords: health care; hospitals; sustainability; effectiveness; capacity

Over the last decade in Bulgaria medical institutions for health care have functioned in an unsustainable and unfavorable environment. This is particularly true for hospitals in towns or villages as some of them have gone bankrupt, while many of them have terminated their activities. As regards the number of hospitals per 100,000 people, Bulgaria is among the countries of the EU-27 with a relatively large number of hospitals – over 4.44 per 100,000 people. This is a third more than the average ratio of the EU-27 member states and 50% more than the new EU member states from Eastern Europe. This is why research into hospitals takes into account a problem which is very serious for Bulgaria, namely, the activities undertaken and their effectiveness. This article argues for the thesis that the government must stop the uncontrolled growth of medical institu­tions for health care and introduce a new system of funding according to which the patient must be treated in a complex way, not according to a clinical pathway, because costs do not meet the real expenses of the treatment of a patient with a particular diag­nosis.

Research on the correlation between innovative activities and competitiveness in Bulgarian companies

Research on the correlation between innovative activities and competitiveness in Bulgarian companies

Author(s): Svetlana Nikolova / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2013

Keywords: innovative activity; innovation activeness; company competitive­ness; organization; correlation

This article throws light on the theoretical and practical aspects of the existing bilateral correlation between innovative activity, innovative activities and company competitiveness. In the course of this analysis it is emphasised that, on the one hand, the level of company competitiveness in organisations which determines the intensity of innovative activities is the result of the state of the competitive environment. On the other hand, the innovative activities of companies which determines the degree of their company competitiveness is also the result of the state of this external compet­itive environment. This means that a bilateral correlation exists between the innovative activities of organisations and their company competitiveness, and it is dependent on the state of the external competitive environment (i.e. it is the uniting link in this correlation).

Engines for searching the Internet

Engines for searching the Internet

Author(s): Bogomil Traykov / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2013

Keywords: Internet; search engines; engines for searching for information; index of search engines; statistical data; SEO

After a fifteen-year period of increasing interest on the part of the author in engines used for searching for information on the Internet, this article discusses the changes which have taken place throughout this period of their development. The aim of this article is to note the major features of the most popular search engines around at the moment. Using the data presented in the article, the author draws con­clusions about the current state of affairs and at the same time delineates perspectives for the development of search engines in the next few years. A special section has been included for comment on the principal recommendations of specialists regarding the optimi­sation of Internet sites which directly influences their indexing by search engines. On the basis of this, the author delineates the trends which have characterised search engines dur­ing this relatively long period of their life cycle.

Romania: One More Chance

Romania: One More Chance

Author(s): Sinziana Demian / Language(s): English / Issue: 04/29/2008

Keywords: Nicolae Iorga School; formal education; Second Chance; European Union; PHARE; Romani youth; Romani students; education

A Romanian initiative to bring high-school dropouts back to class gains pace despite social stigma.

Our Take: Sofia’s Mean Streets

Our Take: Sofia’s Mean Streets

Author(s): Jeremy Druker / Language(s): English / Issue: 04/29/2008

Keywords: Georgi Stoev; organized crime; novels; corruption; victim; sex workers; European Union; human trafficking; prostitution; Transparency International; fighting corruption

The killing of a popular author may spark the housekeeping that Bulgaria badly needs.

Prisons: Where the Sun Doesn't Shine

Prisons: Where the Sun Doesn't Shine

Author(s): Galina Stolyarova / Language(s): English / Issue: 04/29/2008

Keywords: farmers; protests; demonstration; assault; Sergei Gulyaev; police attacks; police violence; Vladimir Putin; Russia; human rights; Russian jails

Human rights campaigners need access to Russia’s increasingly brutal jails.

Macedonia: Learn to Forget

Macedonia: Learn to Forget

Author(s): Ljubica Grozdanovska Dimishkovska / Language(s): English / Issue: 04/29/2008

Keywords: Nikola Karev High School; memorizing; practice work; Ministry of Education and Science; Pupils; Macedonian students

Reformers say rote learning is holding Macedonian students down.

Art Religion or Business: Or Art in the Age of Relative Prosperity, Leisure, and Consumerism An Interview with Wolfgang Ullrich

Art Religion or Business: Or Art in the Age of Relative Prosperity, Leisure, and Consumerism An Interview with Wolfgang Ullrich

Author(s): Wolfgang Ullrich,Karolina Fabelová / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2010

Philosophers and art theorists have been asking questions about contemporary art for the last two hundred years, and they are still searching for answers. Wolfgang Ullrich is one of them. He is a professor of art and media theory at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Germany, and has authored numerous publications investigating art as a new symbol of social status and as a means to criticize globalization, the culture of consumerism, and the prosperity phenomenon. He specializes in the history and critique of defining the arts.

The Past as Philosophical Problem

The Past as Philosophical Problem

Author(s): Petr Fleischmann / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2010

“Reconciliation with the past.” We often repeat this phrase in Czech society, but what does reconciliation really mean? Accepting the past? Explaining the past? Understanding? Condemnation? Or perhaps coming to terms with the past as the phrase suggests? Forgiving? Drawing a line? If so, where and when should we draw the line? Or, God forbid, does reconciliation mean hiding the past in preselected compartments on the basis of contemporary standards so that it doesn’t haunt us, so we can “get on with it?”

The Crisis of Czech Society

The Crisis of Czech Society

Author(s): Jan Hartl / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2010

Our hollow and mushy political system has created resentment among our people. It is a disease-ridden system which, according to the Czech people, has simply become a means to gain power and maintain it.

The Brits Should Accept the Euro: An Interview with Economist Robert Mundell

The Brits Should Accept the Euro: An Interview with Economist Robert Mundell

Author(s): Lukáš Kovanda,Robert Mundell / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2010

“The EU budget is only a tiny part of the Union’s GDP. As such, there is good reason to centralize more power, but certainly not at a higher cost! Rather, power should be centralized at the European government level,” says Robert Mundell, a Nobel Prize laureate in Economics and the mastermind behind the euro.