It should also be noted that certain fantasy elements in Jarmusch's universe were by this time becoming more pronounced, partly because his use of Hollywood genres - westerns and hitman thrillers - were only emphasising his distance from certain mainstream assumptions.
Carrigan disagrees with David Jay's theory that we are in the third phase of the asexuality movement: "I don't see how it's possible to say we're now at a stage where mainstream assumptions about asexuality are being changed while most of the population are only dimly aware of its existence".
In this article, four alternative future scenarios generate implications that challenge mainstream assumptions about the future of parenting and reveal possibilities for future male and female roles.
Accounting researchers adopting structural and post-structural interpretive approaches have long criticized mainstream assumptions about the enduring economic aspects of accounting systems, highlighting their roles in reflecting and shaping social realities that are contradictory, diverse, and changing.
The pose conjures the Afro surreal, familiar in its tenderness yet alien to mainstream assumptions of how black men and boys are suppose to be.
Most importantly, she makes the critical connections between gender-based violence and racism, our flawed legal systems, and religiously-grounded, mainstream assumptions about gender, sex and power.
In the US, social activism surrounding race relations and disease dramatically altered the issues of race and health because affected minority groups came together themselves to challenge many mainstream assumptions (Wailoo 2006).
A WHILE back I noted a post by a major tea-party figure eagerly supporting the bog-standard mainstream economic assumption that higher government spending creates higher economic output...provided it was military spending.
