Word: notionalism
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...really say, for example, that women’s suffrage has “little, if anything” to do with sexuality when arguments both for and against women’s suffrage implicated Victorian images of “womanly virtue,” derived from the notion that women were “passionless,” asexual beings? Conversely, can we really say that “same-sex marriage” is “well understood without discussion of gender issues” when arguments against same-sex marriage constantly invoke gender norms...
...That's the other thing that I'd mention, too, and separate and apart from that, and not really in response to your question. I'm struck by the fact, as well, to come back to this notion that what's being attempted here is to break our will. Friedman has got an interesting piece today on it, if you saw Tom Friedman this morning talking about the extent to which the enemy in this stage in Iraq aim very much at the American people, and public opinion in the United States very sensitive to how to use the media...
...temper their faith with reason. We wonder if the study of religion on its own terms might not be more helpful in assisting us to understand our “global society,” as the Task Force is fond of calling it, than the particularly Western notion of faith’s interaction with reason. Yesterday, Congressional Quarterly’s Jeff Stein published an excellent piece in The New York Times relating his troubling experience asking every government employee he could—FBI agents, congressmen, and State Department employees alike—if they understood...
...Backlash Against Iran's Role in Lebanon The notion that Iranian dollars are going to Lebanese Shi`ites is fueling animosity between the Persian community and the Arab world
...fought valiantly, endured the pain and chemotherapy with grace and good humor to the very end, more than once I saw fear flash across her eyes. More than fear of pain or fear of the unknown, it was the sheer loneliness of death that frightened her, I think - the notion that on this final journey, on this last adventure, she would have no one to fully share her experiences with...