Input Paper #3 for Turkey
By Kevin Duong
The Gender/Sexuality Narrative in Turkey
In my previous input paper, I had attempted to map out the terrain with which an analysis of cultural narratives and the way that the politics of writing and rewriting narratives sustained and precluded the Kurdish population in Turkey in asserting stories about their lives. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Desai’
Turkey Input Paper 3
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Desai, globalization, Input Paper, kevin duong, narrative, sexuality, turkey on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thinking feminist activism
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chan-Tiberghien, Desai, Janis, petchesky on November 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I decided on the spur of the moment to use that particular title for my post, in part because I think this week’s readings problematize the relationship(s) between theory and activism, and because they ask us to rethink how feminist activism has developed in light of critical discussions of the subject of feminist theorizing.
Returning to [...]
Transnational Social Movements and GITMO
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged kevin duong, Guantanamo Bay, Transnational Feminism, Desai, Joachim on November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished Desai, and I was really impressed with her article. Something I thought of while reading her:
She writes about the rise of the human rights framework as something that feminists around the world, and especially during the Vienna convention, could rally around. They could create a “solidarity of difference” rather than one based [...]
