A postwar sexual liberation?

Ushahidi as a Liberation technoLogy

Liberation Theology

The liberation-theology movement was partly inspired by the Second Vatican Council and the 1967 papal encyclical Populorum progressio. Its leading exponents include Gutierrez, Leonardo Boff of Brazil, and Juan Luis Segundo of Uruguay. The liberationists have received encouragement from the Latin American bishops, especially in resolutions adopted at a 1968 conference in Medellin, Colombia; othe...

Rochester Engines of Liberation Engines of Liberation 1

Electricity was born at the dawn of the last century. Households were inundated with a ßood of new consumer durables. What was the impact of this consumer durable goods revolution? It is argued here that the consumer goods revolution was conducive to liberating women from the home. To analyze this hypothesis, a Beckerian model of household production is developed. Households must decide whether...

Postwar Russian Economic Growth: Not a Riddle*

In a recent article Steven Rosefielde has argued that (1) according to the best available statistics the postwar growth of Russia under the command system was surprisingly good (2) economic theory requires that nonmarket systems must fail by comparison with market economies (3) the statistics are therefore at fault: they “lied and were misconstrued” by western “statistically oriented comparativ...

Decolonizing Liberation: Toward a Transnational Feminist Psychology

This paper engages the theme of “decolonizing psychological science” in the context of a perspective on psychological theory and research—namely, feminist psychology—that shares an emphasis on broad liberation. Although conceived as a universal theory and practice of liberation, scholars across diverse sites have suggested that feminism—perhaps especially as it manifests in psychological scienc...