Grounding Cosmopolitanism: Theory and practice through the prism of women’s rights Bahçeşehir University, March 18-19, 2013 Çırağan Caddesi, Beşiktaş Conference Program March 18: 12:45-13:15 Welcome (Fazıl Say Conference room) Nora Fisher Onar and Hande Paker 13:15-14:45 Panel 1: Cosmopolitan and Colonial I: Between European and local readings of women’s rights (Fazıl Say Conference room) Susan C. Pearce, … Read more
I am going to be giving a paper at a fascinating conference tomorrow. Here is the call for papers, and I will post the program next: Grounding cosmopolitanism: Theory and practice through the prism of women’s rights The project will explore the outstanding question – both theoretical and practical – of how to live together … Read more
In this article, a sociology student (!) in Liberia is organizing to stop a common practices: young women pressured to exchange sex for grades. Yes, this happens in the United States as well, as we discussed in class this week. It appears that it has not been publicized as a problem in sub-Saharan Africa until … Read more
This issue is in the news for both countries, causing a huge stir, and pitting gender activists and academics against ultranationalists: Poland Russia
Why Gender Equality Stalled This is a fascinating look back at what has happened since Betty Friedan’s book was published. Several sociologists are quoted. And the comments look very interesting. Susan Pearce
This Cuban Hip Hop group is interesting: Remember the critique that many black women in the US have of white feminists, and so they prefer the term “womanist” to “feminist”? Check out this group’s discussion of this issue and how they are framing themselves: Black Cuban Feminist Hip Hop Band Also a reminder of … Read more
An organization called Political Research Associates sent someone undercover to find out about this movement in Uganda, and found out that it was an American evangelical organization that helped get this moving: http://www.politicalresearch.org/pra-condemns-uganda-anti-homosexuality-bill/
See this satirical piece in “The Onion” today: http://www.theonion.com/articles/teenage-girl-blossoming-into-beautiful-object,31061/
If you have followed news reports about the brutal rape and murder of the young woman in New Delhi, India, much of it “others” Indians as somehow behind the curve, culturally backward, patriarchically brutal. This week, Kristof uses the case to hold a mirror to the United States:
Caroline Lindberg Female circumcision, female genital cutting (FGC), or female genital mutilation (FGM), is the partial or total removal or cutting away of a woman’s external genitalia is still practiced widely today. It is performed ritually in 28 countries all over the content of Africa as well as several Middle Eastern countries such as Egypt, … Read more