NAFTA and the Murders of Mexican Women Along the Border

Jillian Richmond
Input Paper 2
 
Although 300 to 400 women and girls have been found brutally murdered at the Mexican border town of Ciduad Juarez since the signing of the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, no one has been found responsible for these horrible crimes, nor has there been a great effort by the Mexican [...]

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Domestic Violence in Mexico

Jillian Richmond
PSCI 264
11-17-08
 
        Mexican men’s violence against their intimate partners has often been attributed to “machismo,” which has an emphasis on violence, aggression, and wife beating.  When an abusive man was asked why he committed a violent act against his wife, he justified his gender-based violence in terms of “machismo,” stating, “I am [...]

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Susan Miller “The Invisible Actors in Mexico’s Nation-Building”

Susan Miller
PSCI 264
Input Paper 2
In my last paper I proposed the question: which do we value more; cultural relativism or universal human rights? In answering this question, there is a danger of implying that traditions of the dominator are always wrong, while the traditions of the dominated are always right. Related to this idea, Castillo [...]

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Government Inaction and the Spread of AIDS in South Africa

Government Inaction and the Spread of AIDS in South Africa

“South Africa has the largest absolute number of HIV-positive people in the world. In KwaZulu-Natal, studies suggest that over a third of all adults may be infected. Yet, from the president down, there is a failure to talk publicly about the [...]

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A Gendered Analysis of Migration, Development, and AIDS in South Africa

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China and sexual rights

Sexuality and China
Reproductive, sexual, and bodily integrity are two important human rights and they are usually linked. A reproductive right usually deals with the right of a women to control when she reproduces. (Rothschild 37). These rights include rights to birth control, sexual health education, and the right to an abortion.  (Petchesky 9). Sexual Rights [...]

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Input paper on China and human development by Andrew Duncan

Economic Development and Human Rights/Democracy in China
Development is an important concept in international relations. Development according to Sen is expanding freedom to people (Sen 2).  Development and freedom can come in many forms such as economic and social. A main focus of many political theorists is economic development and freedom. Economic development deals with countries [...]

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Input Paper #2- South Africa

South Africa and Gendered Nation-Building
Loretta Ross, in A Feminist Perspective on Katrina, expresses her belief that, “The hurricane and the subsequent flooding exposed the special vulnerability of women, children, the elderly and the disabled by revealing the harsh intersections of race, class, gender, ability and life expectancy” (Ross 2).  She found that Katrina made visible [...]

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Input Paper #1- South Africa

 
South Africa: Women’s Role in Society during the Apartheid
In The Curious Feminist, by Cynthia Enloe, in the chapter on war and women in Tokyo, she describes how war-waging relies on woman, but they are forced to play a role that the military wants them to play (the role of appearing as a supportive wife or [...]

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Strategies for Global Feminism

The articles this week come together to create an interesting blueprint for a global feminist strategy to obtain the movement’s desired goals.  Petchesky begins with a good starting point for a feminist strategy :  for now, there is no global mechanism for gender reforms so the transnational fight for women’s rights must be both universal [...]

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