Input Paper 2 & 3 (emailed but, mistakingly, not posted until now)

Input Paper 2
My research, particularly the authors, Eslen-Ziya (2007), Hoskyns (1996), and Kardam (2005), has led me to a preliminary idea to use in my final paper. I contend that women’s agency and activism has driven progress on women’s rights in Turkey and the EU, combined with the EU accession process, has been a useful [...]

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Turkey Input Paper 3

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.  [...]

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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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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 #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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Input Paper #2: Turkey

Input Paper #2: Turkey
By Kevin Duong
 
In the past few decades after the ratification of Turkey’s new constitution in 1982, their project of nation building has re-oriented itself due to external circumstances.  Primarily, the possibility of Turkey’s EU ascension has shifted the terms of political transformation in Turkey’s domestic politics.  There are several elements of nation [...]

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Input Paper 1

Susan Miller
PSCI 264
Input Paper on Mexico
Since Mexico gained its independence in the Revolution of 1910, the state has undergone several periods of important societal change. At different points in time, Mexican women have played both peripheral and integral roles to alter state practices. In this paper, I focus specifically on the activity in the Chiapas [...]

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