Ethnopsychiatry comprises a large field of literature written from diverse perspectives, disciplines and orientations. Its status as an interdiscipinary activity presents formidable obstacles to researchers interested in comparative problems and the development of generalizations. These difficulties can be demonstrated by even a cursory examination of the material written on what has come to be...

Catherine MacKinnon, perhaps the dominant voice of North American feminist legal theory over the last two decades, developed her feminist theory of law through an extended metaphor with Marxism. Marxist thought thus became thoroughly intertwined with MacKinnon’s particular brand of radical feminism in the minds of many feminist legal scholars and activists. As MacKinnon’s work has fallen out of...

+ main text word count: 2498 References: 39 Address correspondence to: Elliot T. Berkman Department of Psychology 1227 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1227 Ph: 541-346-4909 [email protected] SELF-CONTROL AS VALUATION 2 Abstract Self-control is often conceived as a battle between “hot” impulsive processes and “cold” deliberative ones. Heeding the angel on one shoulder leads to success; f...

THISSELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY concentrates on the Library Bill of Rights but also deals more broadly with intellectual freedom. The cited items are not intended to be comprehensive but rather a starting point for those interested in further reading on the topic. The title American Library Association Bulletin is used consistently to refer to all variants of the title of the periodical which it rep...

This chapter addresses the differences between the perception of encountering objectionable material on the World Wide Web and the actual percentage of such material. The authors outline the interconnected history of new communication technologies and potentially offensive material and then discuss current public perceptions of such material on the Web. They present the results from a content a...

During the 19 century, the US birthrate fell by half. While previous economic literature has emphasized demand-side explanations for this decline—that rising land prices and literacy caused a decrease in demand for children—historians and others have emphasized changes in the supply of technologies to control fertility, including abortion and birth control. In this paper we exploit the introduc...

Adolf Hitler’s personality was investigated posthumously through the use of an informant version of the Coolidge Axis II Inventory (CATI), which is designed for the assessment of personality, clinical, and neuropsychological disorders. Five academic Hitler historians completed the CATI. The overall mean inter-rater correlation was moderately high for all 38 CATI scales’ T scores (median r = .72...

In this paper, we offer some observations regarding the sex industry, in particular the pornography and erotica sectors. Marketing literature observing pornography and erotica is scant. We find that following exponential growth of the sex industry (given use of the Internet) an evaluation of consumer behaviour and marketing practices is justified. In order to begin a study of these industry sec...

Historically, in both Australia and the United States, the issue of film censorship has been a source of conflict between the film industry, community groups and the government. This paper compares the methods used to regulate film content in each jurisdiction between 1900 and 1940. It argues that whilst the legal structure and community pressure groups played an important part in the form of c...

-1Media freedom has been viewed as a characteristic of the nation state, linked in much of the western literature to other state characteristics such as level of democratization, extent of civil liberties, government transparency and even economic liberalization. On close examination, media freedom has revealed itself to be a rather complex and even contentious concept. For some, at least, it i...