Presentation 3 Bibliography

Like last time, you can see our works cited for today as a Google document (since I basically don’t know how to publish it to Blackboard as we’re instructed in the syllabus).

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New Blog – Hey All

Hey everyone, 
So, as you may have noticed, the new blog has imported all of our old posts from blogspot over here, along with the comments.  Unfortunately, since I imported the posts through my wordpress account, I am the current author of all of the previous posts.  However, once everyone joins, posts from now on will [...]

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Sex Equality

The meaning of equality that derives from Aristotle is that equality means treating alikes alike, unalikes unalike. Such a framework does not take account of the fact that women are men’s equals but have been kept unequal by social orderings. Across cultures, women are abused, exploited and violated. They are often paid less for their [...]

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Democratizing Bangladesh

Karim points out the shocking violations of women’s rights in Bangladesh as NGO’s and the clergy fight an ideological battle quite literally on the lives and bodies of women. All this while the government two-facedly watches. On the one hand the state is supposed to be ‘tolerant’ and supports women’s full citizenship and economic and [...]

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Nationalism, Gender and Race

Nationalism is a construct, as Ernest Gellner tells us. It refers to a set of practices through which social difference is invented and performed. However, in constructions of nationalisms, national power depends on the prior construction of gender differences and men and women do not receive the same access to the rights and resources of [...]

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“Feminist Contestations in Iran” Summary and Comment

Povey challenges the idea that the process of Islamization has marginalized women and the idea that the dynamic form of Sharia interpretation has shaped Iranian feminist consciousness, feminisms, and women’s involvement in change. Povery argues that the contradictions of the Islamic state led to the process of feminist consciousness. Povey believes that the alliance between [...]

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Marginalized Identity: Summary and Commentary

History: With the partitioning of India and Pakistan in 1947, Bengal was partitioned, with East Bengal becoming East Pakistan and West Bengal remaining with India. In the 1971 civil war that broke out between West and East Pakistan, mass rape was used as a genocide tactic.
When research takes the suffering of a fellow human [...]

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Reading Response, Human Security

I sense that our course readings and methodological tools have led us to the ideas we can find in this week’s materials. If we want to be curious feminists, be attentive to contexts, tensions at intersections, cultures, and women’s rights, then we would consider some of Enloe’s and Sjoberg’s ideas: that significant players [...]

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Human Security and Peace

Bunch: “Feminism, Peace, Human Rights”
Bunch argues that the relationship between peace and women is characterized by the local circumstances, but cross-cultural comparisons give rise to a universal feminist conception of peace. Bunch defines peace as being constructed by international structures, such as the UN, which are founded on a male perception of security. In particular, [...]

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NYT: Pole Dancing in China

I found an article that seems more appropriate to Song than to what we’re reading now, but it’s an interesting read anyway. A Chinese woman has created a business giving lessons in China’s most controversial new fitness activity: pole dancing. This woman saw pole dancing in Paris, thought it was beautiful, and decided [...]

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