Sentences with phrase «cultural anxieties about»

The missing footage was deemed too extreme and too provocative in its depiction of gay S&M subculture for mainstream audiences, and so this bid at reenactment is ostensibly meant to confront that controversy head on and, in doing so, upend deeply held cultural anxieties about gay male sexuality and sex.

As Eric Klinenberg, Sociologist at NYU and author of the book Going Solo, says, «There's so much cultural anxiety about isolation in our country that we often fail to appreciate the benefits of solitude.»

A lot of our cultural anxiety about masturbation stems from 18th century theories, when the myths about illness and degeneration were first inscribed in advertising pamphlets parading as medical studies.

This recalls romantic and transcendental themes while also nodding to cultural anxiety about the «disappearance» of religion in America.

Not exact matches

Like fairy tales and fables that dramatize cultural phobias or anxieties, the movie may be resonating with audiences because something about it rings true.

These include: cultural beliefs and pressures (e.g. anxiety about breastfeeding in public, beliefs about adequacy of milk supply); lack of availability of trained support; legislation to protect women who are breastfeeding; and commercial pressures from marketing and advertising of formula by manufacturers (Save the Children 2013).

I remember myself at the beginning of this journey — the «need» for control in my parent - child relationship, the anger when my child didn't do as I thought she should have, the overwhelm of realizing how much I didn't know about parenting, the anxiety about whether I was doing it right or not, the complete lack of knowledge about healthy child development expectations, the frustration of realizing that I didn't know myself and how to handle my own emotions as much as I thought I did, the conflict between my mothering instincts and cultural advice promoting detachment and emotional distance.

«We need to think deeper about why we seem out of touch to so many and understand the demands of cultural anxiety as well as economic prosperity.»

These cultural anxieties are the best way into a debate about who is running this world, and in whose interests.»

Lawson is also delighted that the new Labour leader is thinking about cultural and moral anxieties.

One source of anxiety for students has to do with negative cultural stereotypes, which can be made salient to the learner when a negative cultural stereotype about one's group applies to the testing situation (Steele & Aronson, 1995).

His work contains some of the early provenances of modernism — pictorial compression of space and a nagging anxiety about a shifting cultural identity — despite the perception of his Fauvist, bourgeois complacency.

As a cultural expression, is collecting about fame and fortune, or anxiety and mortality?

Oftentimes cultural messages about masculinity and femininity enter into the bedroom and give us performance anxiety about not living up to what we think is normal or expected of us.

It is possible that this pattern of results reflects the underlying nature of the subscales and represent a greater cross cultural acceptance and consistency of what should be regarded as a prosocial behaviour, and as a behaviour indicative of hyperactivity / impulsivity disorders (i.e. ADHD) and emotional disorders (i.e. anxiety and depression), than there is about what types of behaviours indicate the presence of oppositionality and conduct problems and positive peer relationships.