In 1993 the subject Care was introduced as a compulsory subject in Dutch secondary schools. This article analyzes the heated discussion preceding this decision which raised fundamental issues concerning “citizenship” and the objectives of education. Both opponents and proponents used the same oppositions in the debate, namely, the private sphere versus the public sphere, and cognitive education...

Earlier research shows that mothers and children often provide a justification when opposing their partner's intentions, statements or actions. The analysis of 32 hours of videorecording of natural interaction from 4 dyads at 2 time periods (20-22 and 24-27 months) and 18 hours from 18 children interacting with their familiar partners, 6 at 2, 4 and 6 years of age, shows that middle-class mothe...

The modern American poet Elizabeth Bishop’s craftsmanship is fully shown in the keen, delicate observation, ingenious musicality, pure and accurate poetic diction, rich and vivid images in her poems. Filling Station is a poem depicting a decayed family-run station, unified by the pervasive presence of oil, and complete with filth and beauty, disorder and order, hope and decay, masculine and fem...

Confronted with the centrality of body for trans-masculine individuals interviewed in United Kingdom and Portugal, we explore how bodily-reflexive practices are central doing masculinity. Following Connell’s early insight that bodies needed to come back political sociological agendas, propose practice is a concept suited account production trans-masculinities. Although multiple, journeys demons...