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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Sexual Rights Link

This is a dark example of how economic considerations violate sexual rights, in this case the right of children not to be sold into what I believe is sexual slavery. Please post this for me.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7711554.stm

Cheers,
Farhana

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Rhetoric criminalizes, excludes

Written Out studies the rhetorical strategies used to target sexuality in situations wherein women’s and human rights are contested; these include UN committees, international treaty agreements, women’s and human rights conferences, and controversies within states.  Much of Written Out discusses language which targets those whose sexualities differ even slightly from the norm, including women who’ve chosen to [...]

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Thinking Scandalously…

So, everyone is familiar with the literary goddess that is Cosmopolitan. Well, surprisingly, one of their recent articles ties directly to this week’s reading, albeit, the latter was far more academic. This magazine has a lot to say about women’s sexual rights within the framework of traditional sexual norms – if you look at it [...]

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Thinking Through Petchesky’s Challenge

If reproductive rights include the right not to reproduce, then doesn’t this include all forms of non-procreative sex, and why then should any one form have the status of normativity or moral virtue? That is, [...]

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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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The Media’s Impact on Sexuality Rights

“Nationalism defends the ideal identity of a state. Yet its most powerful enforcers are often not directly connected to government or politics. The media can play a major role in dividing sexual behaviors into the nationally approved on the one hand, and the collectively abhorrent on the other”. – Rothschild 2005, 46
Ideally, according [...]

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Sexuality

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Petchesky talks of a feminist movement that she [...]

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