Furthermore, identifying as a lesbian entails the adoption of Swiss homonormativevalues for the advantages that accrue to ‘Swiss’ lesbians to be realized. This process ofbecoming a‘good lesbian’is broadly and contradictorily conceived and calls for multiplereadings. On the one hand, it is a...
So, better to be present and choose from a few good options. Though it still takes discipline for me to sit down with a book and focus, I now have time to read, to watch interesting documentaries and to spend more time outside – and I’m doing all of those things. Third, it ...
1 strengthen coordination efforts with the site, the spirit of "equality and mutual benefit, mutual respect, timely communication" principle, to ensure the concrete pouring smoothly, the attacking foreman to deep to be fine, do a good job arrangements in advance, pay attention to each link, ens...
Mitsubishi until recently, when it outstripped its rival to become Japan’s biggest trader1—the company still proudly claims to be “descended from an Ohmi merchant” and “values the spirit of ‘sampo yoshi.’”2 That merchant was Itō Chūbē, a peddler of textiles from Toyosato Village....
Botoxrescuesthese others from having to negotiate interactive facework with their irritated wives, mothers, and bosses. As themimeticfacultyof facework can be tiring, part of the attractiveness of Botox lies in the fact that these others can sit back and enjoy a woman’s company without the perf...
These social and political implications amount to a dominant normative cul-tural discourse of probability and contingency–dominant in the sense that“a cri-tique of discourse is no longer able to affect the premises or the functioning of thatdiscourse”(Reiss 1982a, 351). Avoiding excess and ...