Over the past 60 years, Female genital mutilation (FGM), the process of altering female genitalia, has been condemned by the Western world for a being an inhuman and oppressive tradition in need of abolishment. At the age of puberty, women living in communities that practice FGM are subject to a forced circumcision procedure that often leads to lifelong physical and psychological implications. As such, anti-FGM discourse universalises the image of the ‘normal” female body by framing female circumcision
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Discourse Animal rights, being dependent on a rights-base discourse, also have a habit of ignoring other issues. Intersectionality doesn’t even enter the discourse, because when you are fighting for a new law or rule, one has to be specific. This specificity in discourse means you can care a huge lot about animals, but be sexist or racist Using old ideas of ‘tradition’ to promote healthy foods could thus be potentially problematic, but in recent years it seems that our public discourse about heritage
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status. The third part illustrates, using British examples, some of the ways particular political projects of belonging select specific levels of belonging in order to construct their projects. KEYWORDS belonging, citizenship, identities, intersectionality, politics of belonging, social locations Belonging and the politics of belonging y aim in this article is to outline an analytical framework for the study of belonging and the politics of belonging. It is important to differentiate between
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highlights of the second wave consisted of legislative victories over sexism in education and the right to an abortion. The second wave, however, consequently noted the interaction between race oppression and gender oppression, also known as ‘intersectionality’ (Ritzer and Ryan, 225). The third wave of feminism was influenced by the first and second, with it’s existence being debatable. Scholars argue that the movement has changed forms and has indeed continued into the twenty-first century. In
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Background/History: Women of color have always been in a subordinate position in society; due to the patterns of hierarchy, domination, and oppression based on race and gender. This inequality is built into the structure of our society. Inequality, in other words is structural or socially patterned. In the past inequality often was justified through biology, it was argued that biological traits such as race and gender were relevant. But, this was only relevant because these traits are socially ranked
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The Suite Case Clinic presentation enlightened me to the intersectionality of homelessness and how people experience marginalization in different ways. The presenters were very effective in breaking down the stigma of homelessness and helped me understand the systematic problems that cause homeliness, starting with the difficulties many people face in finding and obtaining affordable housing in many bay area cities which I feel is a major contributing factor to why many poor and working-class people
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denied. The author claims that although there are privileges associated with being born white, his skin color did not prevent his suffering from poverty. This author claims that race is just one factor that could lend to privileges at birth. Intersectionality is the concept that “recognizes
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Too many experiences have contributed to my interest in civil rights to identify in a short statement. With that disclaimer, practicing restorative justice for over two years certainly stoked my passion for social justice and civil rights protections. In two cases that our restorative council facilitated, the youth offenders' parents had been treated disrespectfully and unfairly by police, and these young men were evidently victims of the police's racial profiling. In both cases, we addressed the
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Feminist Theories and Uttar Predash Sociology 100 McLaughlin Thesis In the world, men and women are treated differently. Men and women have different roles and responsibilities, relations, and identities. Men are perceived as the dominant and in-charge person of the two. Men are usually the head of household and make the important decisions for the family. Women are perceived as the submissive person and are under-appreciated. Many women realized this and began to stand and fight against
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Ohio Women’s Rights Convention was originally an answer to White men doubting the ability of women to partake in politics due to stereotypical images of White womanhood (Crenshaw, 1989, p. 153). The speech perfect-ly introduces the problem of intersectionality as early as in 1851. Since then changes have been made, the situation of Black people in the United States now differs greatly from the Post-civil war period of the 19th century and even from the 1950s, which were marked by Jim Crow and wildly
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