Masculine Crab & Mosquitoes: Two Chontal Texts

Texts and Politics: Postcolonial Revaluations of two British Classics

The major argument of this essay is that Kipling treats the colonial subject as the "other," and Forster proves to be almost as pro-Empire as writers like Kipling. Nevertheless, A Passage to India is eloquent in rejecting British values and introducing Indian voices. This novel records a shift in attitude in terms of exposing the bitter realities about and attitudes of British imperialists. Des...

Masculine Law Firms

Creating the Masculine Self

We create our masculine selves by self-reflection in which other people, predominantly our partners, peers, and friends, play a central part. Masculinity has two factors: strength and quality. Strength is determined by a person’s self-reflection: the effectiveness and effort to invest time in his search for cultural resources of masculinity, and his ability to employ conductive resources in his...

Making Programming Masculine

In the April 1967 issue of Cosmopolitanmagazine, sandwiched between such conventional women’s magazine fare as “ e Bachelor Girls of Japan” and “A Dog Speaks: Why a Girl Should Own a Pooch,” appeared a curious little essay entitled simply “ e Computer Girls.” e “computer girls,” as the article explained, were the female “computer programmers” who taught the dazzling new “miracle machines” calle...

Classifying Chinese Texts in Two Steps

This paper proposes a two-step method for Chinese text categorization (TC). In the first step, a Naïve Bayesian classifier is used to fix the fuzzy area between two categories, and, in the second step, the classifier with more subtle and powerful features is used to deal with documents in the fuzzy area, which are thought of being unreliable in the first step. The preliminary experiment validat...