Here is a link to a video and article about “Sweetie,” the CGI that is being used to catch and track online sex offenders who use chat rooms to pay young girls money to perform sex acts via web cam. Thinking back our last class about the anonymity of going to another country to find … Read more
The actress, Deborfah Lee-Furness, is working on the Global Project, which addresses the question: what does it take for women to truly be empowered? She points out that we are still asking this question in 2014 when UN Millenium goals were supposed to be met yet women worldwide still comprise 70% of the worlds poor; … Read more
This video creatively protrays the history of women’s suffrage. It won the emmy for best instructional video. What do you think of it? Is it effective or not? How do you like the way it is done? http://youtu.be/IYQhRCs9IHM/ Holly Mathews
This was released yesterday by the New York Times. It examines the way the Chinese define internet addiction and how they treat it. While it does not address gender per se, it is being define as a particular problem of young men. This is also an example of how you can do an op-ed by … Read more
http://http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kate-fridkis/tproblem-with-dove-real-beauty-sketches-campaign_b_3104450.html?utm_hp_ref=women&ir=Women The gist of this HuffPost blog is about self-perception, and who decides such perception. One would assume the term “self” implies the inner being as the central giver of affirmation. But, in fact, no matter how much confidence or assurance a woman might possess, her perception comes from and is reinforced by peers, strangers, … Read more
In this article, Eline Gordits discussing how 19 year old Amina Tyler has created widespread controversy in her home country of Tunisia by posting topless pictures on Facebook. The photos were part of a topless campaign by FEMEN and showed Tyler with “Fuck your morals” and ” My body belongs to me, and is not the … Read more
https://sites.ecu.edu/genderpoliticsculture/wp-admin/post-new.php This Huffington Post blog caught my attention less for the implications of Communism and more for the practicing of gender in the political sphere. First lady of China, Peng Liyuan Tiananmen, who is often compared to First Lady Michelle Obama for her good looks and savvy fashion sense, is highlighted in this article for … Read more
Doris Weatherfield, an historian, writes that state’s rights have long been used as a code for racism, and now they are being used to deny women reproductive rights like health care and privacy concerns. They are also at the front of the argument for Justice Kennedy that DOMA violates states rights. Just as the past … Read more
The book Paradise Beneath her Feet argues that the divisions today are within Islam, not between secularists and religious citizens. Our class saw this firsthand.
https://sn2prd0106.outlook.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=NzvqRh7o5kKwB8ZF5yuup7izyL_h_s8ITf8srA3Wwml8eRioJtBQEHy8I3IuouPjLYZBC7HnIuE.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fus.lrd.yahoo.com%2f%3b_ylc%3dX1MDMjE0Mzc5NzU2OQRhbgNvcGVuTGluawRjaANlbWFpbARjbQMyMTQ1ODkyMzAxIyNtYWlsX2NiIyNhIyN1cyMjZW4tVVMjI2UxZTI1OTk1LWU1OTMtMzU1OS1iM2MzLTA0ZTdhNzIyYmU5NyMjbWl0X3NoYXJlIyNtYWlsIyMEZXQDbXRmBGdkA21vb3JldDk4QHN0dWRlbnRzLmVjdS5lZHUEcGxhdGZvcm0DWUhPTy1VTlAEdHADZW1haWxUb0ZyaWVuZFRlbXBsYXRlLmh0bWwEdHMDMjAxMzAzMjc-%3f904039975245715600%2fSIG%3d130qcjdbs%2f**http%253A%252F%252Fnews.yahoo.com%252Fobama-gives-secret-1st-female-director-200139194–politics.html I thought that this article was important and intesting to gender studies. It relates back to the article that we read in the “Feminist Reader” regarding women’s inability to be involved in politics in countries such as Egypt. This is a significant benchmark in US history as was the election of the first black president. The profounding … Read more