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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Feminism and Fundamentalism

I found the Rothschild,Long, and Fried very interesting. I have always found the link between fundamentalism and feminism fascinating ever since i wrote my senior term paper in high school on evangelicalism and fundamentalism. In this posting, i want to give a more sympathetic view of anti feminist fundamentalists and Conservatives and try to explain [...]

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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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Gender Violence and Political Repression.

When I was reading articles by Henderson and Bunch, I noticed a connection between Gender Violence and Political Repression. I think that gendered violence against women are a lot of times the result of political repressions. Henderson states that women are born in a culture of violence against themselves. This repression occurs even more in [...]

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Presentation Questions

South Africa
I wonder how the resignation of President Mbeki will effect the AIDS fight in South Africa?
Turkey?
I wonder how being a secular Islamic state effects how women are treated in Turkey?
Mexico
I wonder how NAFTA has effected farmers in Mexico?
Mali
I wonder the percentage of women working outside the home is since the country is so poor?
Comments
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Reading Summaries

The first reading by Harding and Norberg is how to do social research. Social research is supposed to help people understand the world around them, but that is always not the case. Oppressors usually do not understand why they are oppressing, McIntosh in her white privilege article states that dominant groups usually do not understand [...]

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Summanry on the reading

There were three readings we were assigned this week. One was by Ross and deals with the intersectionality of race and gender during and after Katrina. The second reading was by Kapasalis and was about the female reproductive system and how Dr. Sims, the father of gynecology was a misogynist and abused women, especially slave [...]

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Hancock and other readings

The readings dealt with intersectionality and how intersectionaity can help researchers and other people understand problems and issues such as welfare. I think that intersectionality is an excellent tool that uses aspects such as gender and race in order to gather a fuller picture of the situationaor problem. Enloe writes that [...]

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Wheelchair excercise

I decided to go to the Munchie Mart in Towers from my room in McGill. I wanted to buy some chips and soda for the Vanderbilt football game I was watching on television. Since the Muchie Mart in Towers is close to my dorm, I decided to go that one. Since it was close, I [...]

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