To develop a perspective that encourages Muslim women to see literacy as meaningful, both women and Islam need to be envisioned differently. Orthodox interpretations of Islam have obscured its most fundamental principle of the equality of all human beings. (SK)

Examples from a variety of sources (history texts, newspaper reporting, courts) are used to show that truth telling is commonly subordinated to other goals, especially the self-justification or the profits, power, and prestige of those promoting the lies. (24 references) (Author/LB)

Successful leadership calls for a skillful interplay of power, politics, and ethics, qualities commonly thought to be incompatible. For the future of higher education, colleges and universities must learn how to recruit leaders with this combination of attributes and restructure the reward system to help them maintain their leadership. (MSE)

Discusses beliefs about knowledge, power, authority, and responsibility. Considers the difficulties these formulations create for women writers and how they are similar for student writers. Suggests strategies for infusing personal understandings with professional/academic writings. (SR)

Examined within-session interactional behavior in four brief-therapy cases, two characterized by high alliance and two by low alliance. Coded message units along dimensions of power and involvement. In all cases, there was general pattern of high power for therapists and low power for clients. High-alliance clients evidenced larger proportions of…

Offers a feminist critique of civil society, especially as it is constituted in cyberspace. Uses the International Kurdish Women's Studies Network to illustrate how cyberspace reproduces the unequal divisions of power existing in "realspace." (SK)

This article introduces the topic of this special issue of the journal. Explains the separate worlds hypothesis, discusses feminist critiques of separate worlds, and introduces children's gender indexing and considerations of culture, context, and power. (Author/VWL)

Refers to Bourdieu's publication "Language and Symbolic Power," to explain the unwillingness of member states of the European Union to grant another language (other than English, French, and to a lesser degree German) recognition: an official language can be considered as linguistic capital that affords holders symbolic power.…

Examined a teachers' relations with his students when he returned to the elementary classroom during a sabbatical from the university. Data from journal entries and reflections suggest that teacher-student relations are characterized by a negotiative process reflecting the situational nature of the relationship in the context of the larger…

Demonstrates that forms of address clearly distinguished between the ranks of patrons of the Kit Cat Club--founded in 1700 by Jacob Tonson to bring together men of the new professions--and the broker (Tonson), and that certain poets accorded Tonson the same linguistic terms of politeness they used to address their patrons. Pragmatic analysis of…

Nurses must develop political acumen, understand how power relations operate in a diverse society, and consider how various forms of power can strengthen the position of nursing in health care. (Commentaries by Martin Johnson, Mary Burchenall, and Eamonn Slevin follow.) (SK)

Learner centeredness is a naive position that does not account for political and ethical dilemmas arising from the newly central position of adult education in social and economic life. Adult education must be seen as a struggle for the distribution of knowledge and power in society. (SK)

The integration of feminist and multicultural approaches to psychotherapy, called for many times, has not yet materialized. This article reviews possible reasons this integration has not taken place and offers an approach to integration based on the guiding principles of power and responsibility, which builds on previous theories and approaches.

An evolutionary analysis of the dynamics of one-on-one and coalitional male-male competition provides a theoretical frame for conceptualizing the evolved functions and proximate developmental forms of the social behavior of boys, and for appreciating why the behavior of boys differs from that of girls. We propose the accompanying selection…

Instructors teaching students about social inequality, especially sexism and racism, often face some degree of student resistance. Opposition is particularly strong when students are from a white, middle to upper class background. As Haddad and Lieberman (2002) remark, "Students from privileged backgrounds lack personal experience with structures…