Beyond anti-welfarism and feminist social media mud-slinging: Jo Littler interviews Angela McRobbie

Anti-Jo-1 antisynthetase syndrome.

OBJECTIVE Given a lack of population-based studies, we report an epidemiological-clinic study of anti-Jo-1 antisynthetase syndrome (ASS). PATIENTS AND METHODS To study a retrospective cohort of a single-center from 1980 to 2010. Clinical-laboratory and demographic data were obtained from medical files. All patients fulfilled the Bohan and Peter criteria (1975) and presented anti-Jo-1, articul...

Feminist Media Perspectives

Welfarism vs. extra-welfarism.

'Extra-welfarism' has received some attention in health economics, yet there is little consensus on what distinguishes it from more conventional 'welfarist economics'. In this paper, we seek to identify the characteristics of each in order to make a systematic comparison of the ways in which they evaluate alternative social states. The focus, though this is not intended to be exclusive, is on h...

Feminist theory, feminist and anti-racist politics, and restorative justice

Running head: THE SOCIAL SITUATION IN EMPLOYMENT INTERVIEWS 1 Beyond validity: Shedding light on the social situation in employment interviews

For a long time, interview research mainly focused on ways to improve the psychometric properties of employment interviews. Thus, a large body of research has been accumulated concerning ways to improve the reliability and validity of interviews (Campion, 2009). However, even structured interviews are not verbally administered selection tests but represent a very specific social interaction for...