Sites of attractiveness: Japanese women and westernized representations of feminine beauty

Ever since Japan's entry into global geopolitics, scholars have identified Japanese popular cultural texts as a terrain on which this country's complex relationship to the West is negotiated. Few studies, however, have adequately addressed how such texts—and Western influence in general—might be experienced differently by different groups and/or strata of Japanese society. Inspired by the work of postcolonial feminist scholars who argue that gender, race, class, and cultural identity must be examined in relationship to each other, this study focuses on a group of 29 women with whom the author conducted interviews and extensive participant observation during eight months of fieldwork in a small Japanese community. It examines, in particular, how these women negotiated Westernized representations of feminine beauty omnipresent in the Japanese media. This article argues that even though informants assertively critiqued and actively negotiated media representations, their own conceptions of attractiveness—and their daily relationships to their physical selves—matched those of the Westernized media‐defined ideals. In view of these findings, it concludes with a call for a more systematic and critical assessment of gender in transcultural relations.     

In search of market niches

This article explores marketing issues in the development of new print media products, reviewing factors that contribute to the success and failure of new publications in Europe. The author then suggests eight principles that characterize the successful launch of a new newspaper or magazine.     

期刊影响因子的偏差分析

从影响因子的定义出发,对各种能对影响因子产生不利影响的因素进行了分析.引证行为的不确定性、学科、源期刊库等的差异都给影响因子带来较大的偏差.在充分肯定影响因子的积极作用的前提下,也不容忽视其不利因素.     

高校体育竞赛改革探析

运用“健康第一”的思想探究了目前我国普通高校体育竞赛中存在的问题 ,并提出了改革的措施 ,即要充分挖掘体育竞赛的思想性 ,体育竞赛要面向全体学生 ,培养学生的自我锻炼能力和体育欣赏能力     

What time may tell: Towards a new conceptualization of developmental dyslexia

This paper is a written version of the Norman Geschwind Lecture delivered to the International Dyslexia Association on November 13, 1998. The first purpose is a theoretical one: to describe a new conceptualization of reading disabilities, the double-deficit hypothesis, that depicts and integrates work on two core deficits in the phonological system and in processes underlying naming speed. Implications for subtyping, diagnosis, and, in particular, intervention are described. The second purpose is to thank the women and men whose commitment to children with reading disabilities has transformed our field over the last century. Within that double set of purposes, I wish to dedicate this paper to five research teachers whose insights have been the foundation for my work and the efforts of many of us in the field of reading disabilities research: Jeanne Chall, Carol Chomsky, Martha Bridge Denckla, Helen Popp, and especially, Norman Geschwind.     

阳光体育之特征与发展

本文运用文献资料、调查访问法对＂阳光体育＂的特征与发展进行研究,以＂阳光体育＂促进学校体育和增强我国国民体质的作用为研究重点,对现阶段我国各级学校中开展的＂阳光体育＂进行研究,旨在深入剖析＂阳光体育＂的深刻含义与特征、以及发展中存在的问题,在此研究基础上提出＂阳光体育＂的发展建议。     

中国职业体育发展研究

采用文献资料调研、宏观环境(PEST)模型分析、波特(PORTER)模型分析和比较分析等研究方法,从社会学、经济学、管理学和体育营销学的角度,研究西方职业体育和中国职业体育的发展规律.探讨西方职业体育的本质属性、职业体育基本概念、职业体育发展阶段及特征,在分析中国职业体育的发展现状,剖析影响中国职业体育发展的影响因素的基础上,对中国发展职业体育提出对策建议.     

2008年的世界

2008年,世界会怎样?经济、军事、政治、环境等,无一不关系到整个世界的生存环境与发展.著名报纸<金融时报>近期推出了特别报道--2008年的世界,我们特意选取部分具有代表性的文章,其中对中国在未来世界的地位和作用也有所涉及,在此与大家一起分享.