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Women in Transition From Post Feminism to Past Femininity – Part I
“[In]… the brothels off Wenceslas Square, in central Prague,[where] sexual intercourse can be bought for USD 25 – about halfthe price charged at a German brothel… Slav women havesupplanted Filipinos and Thais as the most common foreignoffering in [Europe].” (The Economist, August 2000, p.18)”I’m also wary of the revolutionary ambition of some feministtexts, with their ideas about changing present conditions,having seen enough attempted utopia’s for one lifetime” (PetrPrÃhoda, The New Presence, 2000, p. 35).”As probably every country has its Amazons, if we go far back inCzech mythology, to a collection of Old Czech Legends, we comeacross a very interesting legend about the DévÃn castle (whichliterally means ‘The Girls’ Castle’). It describes a bloodystory about a rebellion of women, who started a vengeful waragainst men. As the story goes, they were not only capablewarriors, they had no mercy and would not hesitate to kill theirfathers and brothers. Under the leadership of …
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Women in Transition From Post Feminism to Past Femininity – Part II
Women witnessed the resurgence of nostalgic nationalism, neotraditionalism and religious revival – social forces whichsought to confine them to home, hearth, spouse and children andto “liberate” them from the “forced labour” of communism.Negative demographic trends (declining life expectancy and birthrate, numerous abortions, late marriage, a high divorce rate,increasing suicide rate) conspired to provoke a “we are a dyingnation” outcry and the inevitable re-emphasis of the woman’sreproductive functions.Fierce debates about the morality of abortion erupted inbastions of Catholic fundamentalism (such as Poland and, to alesser degree, Lithuania) as well as in citadels of rationalagnosticism, such as the Czech Republic. Curiously, prostitutionand women trafficking were accepted as inevitable. Perhapsbecause they catered to masculine needs.Indeed, in feminist lore and theory, both nationalism andcapitalism are “patriarchal”. Nationalism allocates distinct andmutually exclusive roles to men and women. The latter aresupposed to act as homemakers and have babies. Capitalismencourages the formation of impregnable male elites,disseminates new …
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Relationships with Abusive Narcissists – Part I
Question:What kind of a spouse/mate/partner is likely to be attracted toa narcissist?Answer:The VictimsOn the face of it, there is no (emotional) partner or mate, whotypically “binds” with a narcissist. They come in all shapes andsizes. The initial phases of attraction, infatuation and fallingin love are pretty normal. The narcissist puts on his best face– the other party is blinded by budding love. A naturalselection process occurs only much later, as the relationshipdevelops and is put to the test.Living with a narcissist can be exhilarating, is always onerous,often harrowing. Surviving a relationship with a narcissistindicates, therefore, the parameters of the personality of thesurvivor. She (or, more rarely, he) is moulded by therelationship into The Typical Narcissistic Mate/Partner/Spouse.First and foremost, the narcissist’s partner must have adeficient or a distorted grasp of her self and of reality.Otherwise, she (or he) is bound to abandon the narcissist’s shipearly on. The cognitive distortion is likely …
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Relationships with Abusive Narcissists – Part II
Moreover, the narcissist is a man for all seasons, foreveradaptable, constantly imitating and emulating, a human sponge, aperfect mirror, a chameleon, a non-entity that is, at the sametime, all entities combined. The narcissist is best described byHeidegger’s phrase: “Being and Nothingness”. Into thisreflective vacuum, this sucking black hole, the narcissistattracts the Sources of his Narcissistic Supply.To an observer, the narcissist appears to be fractured ordiscontinuous.Pathological narcissism has been compared to the DissociativeIdentity Disorder (formerly the Multiple Personality Disorder).By definition, the narcissist has at least two selves, the Trueand False ones. His personality is very primitive anddisorganised. Living with a narcissist is a nauseatingexperience not only because of what he is – but because of whathe is NOT. He is not a fully formed human – but a dizzyinglykaleidoscopic gallery of ephemeral images, which melt into eachother seamlessly. It is incredibly disorienting.It is also exceedingly problematic. Promises made by thenarcissist are …
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Online Resources for Working Women who Juggle Family, Career and Home
Working mothers work longer hours Approximately 47% of the UKworkforce is now made up of women, with 12 million employed,according to the Labour Force Survey from the Office of NationalStatistics. And the employment figure is rising by approximately20,000 every two months. 41% of these women are working motherswith dependant children (4.9 million), and it is these womenthat increasingly have to juggle work and home, career andfamily.According to a recent government-backed research programme intothe future of work, working mums work longer hours than they didten years ago; on average an additional 2.5 hours a week arespent working compared to the early 1990s. These findings havecaused Shirley Conran, author of Superwoman, to advise women togo on a baby strike and stop having children for ten yearsbecause there’s not enough support for mothers.Fortunately, women needn’t take such evasive action as there areplenty of resources on the Net that can help working mothers andfemale …
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Success Begins Within
Incorporating bodybuilding into my lifestyle has been one of thebest decisions I ever made. My early childhood was marred by thetrauma of sexual abuse. Although these memories were represseduntil just a few years ago, I spent most of my life sufferingfrom all the classical symptoms of abuse: low self-esteem, lowself-confidence, phobias, obsessive-compulsive behavior, anddepression. The cycle of abuse continued through my adolescence when, at age16, I entered into an eight year abusive marriage. I endureddaily emotional and verbal abuse, threats, and intimidation. Myself-esteem continued to plummet and at age 24, when I finallydivorced my husband, I was a physical and emotional wreck. I hadnever practiced a healthy lifestyle, had no self-respect, andthe stress of my lifelong abuse had taken its toll. At 24 yearsold I weighed 97 pounds, was having daily chest pains, heartpalpitations, panic attacks, and insomnia. I also suffered fromTMJ Syndrome due to stress. My doctors advised me …
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